I wrote a post about the heroic actions of Greg McKendry at the horrific murder scene in Knoxville.
Well it since turns out that the scumbag murderer had his fuse primed by the words of the right wing neo-con taking mouths at talk radio and Fox news.
Dawg’s Blog covers this issue in much more detail than I could and does so with clarity. Please go and read it. I disagree with Dawg on some stuff, but this is a great summary on how the linking of conservatism with US xtianity has lead to a new extremism that is using every deceit in the book to lead that country down the path to fascist / totalitarian statehood. (I do not ever use the term fascism lightly.)
Interesting developments by the xtians and the right are to try and spin the story so that they become the victims or somebody else the villans, just like Jonah Goldberg in his book Liberal Fascism. Another version of this “lying for the true faith” was found on Malkin’s site in the comments. Apparently the shooter was just trying to make conservatives look bad by killing xtians and might not have been a conservative at all. Also he was a liberal who hated conservatives because of this.
Wow are there really any people more derranged and frightened than neo-con xtians? They are constantly being frightened by the”news” that they choose to hear and don’t hear any outside views that might temper this fear.
Finally does anybody remember how Video games, Marilyn Manson, Black Sabbath and loads of other bands were accused of causing teens to turn to crime and commit suicide a few years back. The evidence was never quite there but that didn’t stop the derranged right from demanding their banning. (See Russia and Emo now.) Well my loopy right wing, religofanatic friends if you really think that those influences caused teen angst and action, then in order to be consistent you have got to say O’Reilly, Savage, Coulter et al are all as responsible as them. But consistency has never been a valued neo-con quality unless you count lieing and lining your own pocket at everyone else’s cost.
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Yep, it was just a matter of time before all that hatred resulted in a murder.