Agggggh! Not all terrorists are tea-baggers or hippies

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Some guy with a political grievance goes on a rampage.

First we argue about whether it is terrorism. (Based to some degree on how we perceive the politics of it being considered terrorism)

Then we try to assign the rampager to one side in a partisan terms.

The guy who shot up the Pentagon yesterday was a 9/11 nut of some sort and considered the pentagon to be part of some conspiracy.

Does that make him right-wing or left-wing?

Beats me.

Not all domestic terrorists are members of an organized ideology. In fact, some of these lone-wolf types are probably lone-wolves because there is no club they can join that fits their scatter-shot ideologies.

(People banned by both DU and Free Republic would make a lively club.)

[Bicoastal]

1. I don't know if I can live in a world where all bad people aren't my ideological opposites.

:(

[Posteritatis]

10. Don't know if I could live in one where they were

"Disagree with me == evil person" leads down some very scary roads.

[upi402]

2. Even MSNBC anchor wants to call this guy a terrorist and whip up fear

and loathing in neoconland. And get folks all foamed up into a ratings boosting lather. He was an unstable man with a political gripe who acted out alone. Again. Not aligned with an organization or acting on behalf of a movement, I don't think.

[Webster Green]

3. A lot of people need to have everything pigeon-holed.

They don't do nuance at all. Everything goes into it's little slot and stays there.

It's symptomatic of being a dumb-ass. :silly:

*edited for dumb-ass spelling error.

[Echo In Light]

4. Some DESPERATELY WANT these various malcontents pigeon-holed to their cause

... and there are plenty whose cause is either 9/11 truth, or TBs...as in, they vehemently oppose either

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. You want some nuance?

Not everyone who wants the truth about 9/11 is a 9/11 Truther.

[Webster Green]

6. I'm one of them.

I think 9/11 was done by The Big Dick, probably with some help from Poppy. :tinfoilhat:

[Echo In Light]

7. +1

[progressoid]

8. What? The world isn't black and white?

Stop confusing me with nuance. I need to have a place to direct my hate and rage.

[Echo In Light]

9. _

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

11. Oh come on. What kind of fun would we have here if that was true?