On 18/10/2011 10:47 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> There have been a "few" cases, someone dead by the road, a few days
> after raising a stink about something being done in a town meeting, or
> government event, that was purely sectarian. Whole families having to
> move, because while no one had died *yet* it was fairly obvious that
> staying was likely to end up with a corpse, even if it wasn't entirely
> clear if one of the family would be on the slab, or some idiot that went
> one step farther over the edge, and tried to rape/beat up one of them
> was there instead... They are not common, but they do happen, as much as
> we actually hear about it, in some parts of the south.
>
> For the most part though, they know they are a small minority, they have
> a very insane idea about what is needed to "solve" the countries
> problems (in that it involves pretty much violating the rights of the
> other 99.9% of the US), a lot of it is small time BS, by people that
> wouldn't, themselves, lift of finger to hurt anyone, but never the less
> are *greatly* offended when someone suggests their sectarian behaviors,
> and even some ordinances/laws they have locally, are illegal under the
> US constitution, etc. The biggest problem is that the truly crazy are
> able to listen to the ranting, whining, idiocy, of such people, over the
> net, and you get the, "No one among the Christians For a Theocratic
> Constitution ***actually*** said to shoot at X person, its purely
> coincidence that we hinted at it for months over the local radio, and
> the internet, during which the person that did it happened to a) listen
> to the radio, and read our website!". I personally, in the case of some
> of the "pro-life" movement, and some others, this shouldn't be a valid
> defense of their actions. How often do you hear from "some" of the
> middle eastern wackos that they, "Talk about the west, and what someone
> should do about it, or blow up, or shoot, but they never *ordered*, or
> *payed* anyone to do so, personally!"? Too damn many of them. But, its
> the same defense by radical pro-life sites, to why its not their fault
> that certain clinics get fire bombed, or doctors shot and killed.
>
> And, its the same "defense" from the radical, "Anti-everything that
> isn't Evangelical, often Biblical Literalist, Christian". Any
> inexplicable, oddly not well investigated, and, as far as we know,
> without looking at every local paper in the region, rare, case, is
> completely unrelated, according to these sorts of groups. After all,
> they never ordered, or paid, anyone to do it.

You make America sound like how Europe was four centuries ago.

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