The Charleston Shooter: Is He Or Isn't He?

[DirkGently]

29. Rightwing violence gets written off as anomalous "bad apple" behavior.

I'm not particularly wound up over whether "terrorism" is applied -- we've abused and tortured (ahem) that term so much that it doesn't carry much meaning at this point.

But what we're seeing isn't just a string of random criminal events either. And you can be sure that if leftwing extremists shot doctors and bombed clinics, murdered police and draped the bodies in Gadsden flags, or pointed rifles at BLM agents because they "don't recognize the authority of the U.S. government, " we'd have a national call to root out the leaders and organizations behind it in a heartbeat.