Christian extremists promise bloodshed and terrorism and somehow nobody cares.

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/republicans-attend-rally-to-carve-out-new-christian-state-its-either-going-to-be-bloodshed-or-liberty-state/

The far-right gathered in Spokane Valley to push for the creation of Liberty State, a 51st US state that is intended to be something of a wildlife sanctuary for Christian conservatives, the Spokesman-Review reported Friday.

“The Liberty State Gala drew about 200 people to the CenterPlace Regional Event Center in Spokane Valley. Supporters of the new Christian conservative state – which would span parts of Washington and Oregon as well as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming – raised money by auctioning pies and other desserts,” the newspaper reported.

...

Shea’s legislative assistant, Rene’ Holaday, warned of violence if people did not go along with the idea to state the new state.

“It’s either going to be bloodshed or Liberty State,” Holaday said ominously.

[guillaumeb]

1. Right wing extremism is generally ignored by the media.

This is only one such right wing separatist group.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. exactly...

Dominionists
Reconstructionists
Army of God
Gold Bugs
Randian Acolytes
John Birch
Nativists
KKK
Neo-Nazis
Neo-confederates
Anti Tax grifters and protesters
Militia
Survivalists
End Timers
Patriot Movement
Constitutionalists/sovereigns
Christian Identity

to name a few.

[Initech]

13. And we're the insane, unhinged lunatics.

We're not the ones swindling businesses, stockpiling weapons, bringing about the apocalypse, giving love to dictators, resurrecting the Nazi party, or getting the public to vote against their best interests.

The next time they call us unhinged and insane, we need to throw that list back in their faces.

[abqtommy]

8. Why do we here in the US have to rely

on foreign news sources like The Guardian and Reuters and the BBC to inform us of these outrages perpetrated by the Reich Wing, including tRump's call for death to persons he labels traitors? I am personally outraged! I want tRump and his minions/supporters to be tried, convicted and incarcerated.
Yesterday would not be soon enough!

[guillaumeb]

11. Because the US media is right wing owned.

And, in true irony, the right wing insists that the media is actually far left.

[sandensea]

2. Which goes to show that to many voters, it's not a national security issue - but an issue of hatred.

Those they hate, our GOP friends and neighbors would gladly have hauled off to "FEMA camps" even if they did nothing wrong.

"Because they might."

But those they approve of, are to be "left alone" - even when they become a real threat.

"Because they remind me of my cousin Bubba."

[rockfordfile]

3. They should be arrested. They sound like terrorist to me.

[True Blue American]

5. We have the KKK

Tomorrow.

[ProudLib72]

6. This makes zero sense. Why would they want to be a 51st state under the same laws?

I mean, they want a theocracy. That's not going to happen if they are a simply another state of the union.

[procon]

7. Why don't they just leave the country if

they hate it so much? There are islands for sale where they can do a reenactment of the Jim Jones cult finale, or live like oriental potentates with scantily clad young women kept in private harems. Just go, and take their hate and bigotry, the misogyny, con game, scam, racism and greed with them.

[ooky]

14. That was my first thought too. I certainly don't want them as another state.

Sell them an island where they can start their own country, and wall themselves in with their guns and wait to be raptured into the sky.

[Initech]

9. Why don't they just move to another country?

I'm sure that a country that puts up with their hatred, racism, and misogyny would love to have them, like Hungary or Poland for instance. If not, put up or shut up.

[njhoneybadger]

10. A Christain Galt's Gulch

Might not be a bad idea put them all in there and let them tear each other to pieces

It would eventually turn into a giant Salem Massachusetts

[Haggis for Breakfast]

12. Matt Shea is a disgrace to the State of Washington

He is NOT representative of Washingtonians.

[roamer65]

15. I have no problem with eliminating these terrorists.

The threat should be neutralized.