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JHB

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12. The uproar about that was another exercise in anti-Obama scaremongering

Reply to zaj (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 10:34 AM

Oct 2018

Glenn Beck and others ranted, claiming the Obama administration was trying to paint their mundane viewers and listeners as "violent right wing extremists", so call your congressman! Stop this power-grab by Saul Alinsky-disciple radical leftists, or the New Black Panther Party is sure to come and take you away to a gulag (but not GITMO, because that holds moooooslim terrorists so it can't be a gulag).

It was nuts, believed by people who ... believed what the salesman told them.

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I warned of right-wing violence in 2009. Republicans objected. I was right. [View all] zaj Oct 2018 OP

K&R ck4829 Oct 2018 #1

Excellent Must-Read. Thanks for this OP Bfd Oct 2018 #2

The bomb maker must be incompetent. at140 Oct 2018 #3

Except the bombs are real on the inside lunatica Oct 2018 #6

We got lucky this time marylandblue Oct 2018 #7

Meh, if he was truly incompetent he would have blown himself up ck4829 Oct 2018 #8

There are a lot of reasons for that. The prime one is that they the packages were flagged by still_one Oct 2018 #10

this is what I think, too ProfessorPlum Oct 2018 #13

I think we have just been luckey Professor that no one was injured still_one Oct 2018 #15

yes, but not so lucky that we don't have a President who stirs up right wing violence. ProfessorPlum Oct 2018 #16

+++++++++++++++++++++++++ still_one Oct 2018 #20

Yeah. That's what worries me too, ProfessorPlum. calimary Oct 2018 #22

Nah, not particularly worried. Crazy MAGA people are at140 Oct 2018 #25

seems strange that he would risk years in prison NewJeffCT Oct 2018 #18

Not if you A) believe you won't get caught; calimary Oct 2018 #23

Stupid people do stupid things at140 Oct 2018 #24

It was reported that there was an explosion type sound when he was apprehended. LiberalFighter Oct 2018 #21

No if your read anything about this guy he wasn't very bright TNLib Oct 2018 #26

He has a long list of mis-behavior at140 Oct 2018 #27

He does semi to have a long wrap sheet TNLib Oct 2018 #28

K&R 2naSalit Oct 2018 #4

Keith Olbermann used to have lots of segments on this topic. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2018 #5

We actually were tracking RWNJ since Timothy McVeigh marylandblue Oct 2018 #9

This is important AllyCat Oct 2018 #11

The uproar about that was another exercise in anti-Obama scaremongering JHB Oct 2018 #12

Call your congressmen... PeeJ52 Oct 2018 #14

I remember the faux outrage at the time NewJeffCT Oct 2018 #19

Let this sink in MagickMuffin Oct 2018 #17