POLL: the rhetoric from the right DEMANDED this from their listeners and supporters?

[purrFect]

or at the least, ENCOURAGED this kinda behavior?

Re: Yesterday's Arizona assassination, attempt.

please post....

"I agree."

"I disagree."

"I don't know."

In the subject line.

[ingac70]

1. absolutely.

They can't wait to see more of it.

[golddigger]

2. I agree.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

3. Agree... altho this rhetoric HAS been around forever... usually in

... the fringe hate groups that get monitored by the SPLC and others....

It's very sad that the TPr took this Manifest to the National Stage.

[purrFect]

4. in the fringe, true, but NOT emanating from high level Officials and Media before - NEVER

I am 45 years old, and i have made sure to point out to my children over the past decade that is hasn't always been like this in our country, so that they RESIST the new 'normal'.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

5. well.. George Wallace circa 1973... but that was a long time ago.

[purrFect]

6. let's stay on topic, please

thanks :hi:

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

8. Okay, today... yes, it's almost as if Sarah P took the manifest

from some Aryan Nation militia and started reading it from the Podium.

And you know what?

NOBODY BLINKED!!!!!!!!!!
(okay, they did... there has been a LOT of discussion on her diatribes... but deaf ears to Fox News and the MSM who 'control the lowest common denominators'.

Sigh

[purrFect]

10. the MSM makes me sick, that they like to pretend that fox news is a real news org, its unreal

or that the rhetoric from the left is just as hateful and out right threatening of the right, is simply false.

i guess the big question is, will this change anything?

[Ozymanithrax]

7. Changed "demanded" for "encouraged" or "incited."

No, I'm not the government Grammar Cop, I just think that one or another of the two words would be more accurate.

[purrFect]

9. that's what i am asking demanded or encouraged

i personally think it could be interpreted either way, so i would agree with both.

[Ozymanithrax]

12. No one demanded that their followers assassinate a Democratic Congressman..

as I understand the definition of he word Demand. Repeated use of violent language and imagery, demonizing opponents as Socialists, communists, Nazis, or unAmerican developed a atmosphere of hate. And, finally, calling for "second Amendment solutions" encouraged extreme actions and incited extreme acts. But there was never an explicit demand. If that existed, then they would be culpable under law.

[purrFect]

13. 'don't retreat, reload' - if the ballot doesn't work, bullets will', '2nd amendment remedies'

signs with targets on dem reps.

i would say it is debatable.

[27inCali]

11. I agree strongly. Liberals warned against this no one listened!