"I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government...

[Rocknrule]

The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control."
- Timothy McVeigh on why he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building

Yes, teabaggers (or people with their mentality) are terrorists, and this is proof

[fascisthunter]

1. They Seem to All Think the Same Shit... now Where did those Thoughts COme From

gee.... I wonder

[zbdent]

2. come now ... be with us ... think like us ...

you will be assimilated ... resistance (to the 'baggers) is futile ...

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

3. Words will come directly from Loughner as well.

Time will settle all paradyms and theories.

[fascisthunter]

5. It Doesn't Matter what he says... the Political Climate is due to Right Wing Propaganda

this shit didn't happen out of the blue, and these tea bagging idiots didn't get their bullshit conspiracy theories from a liberal.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

8. Tim McVeigh wasn't exposed to the POLITICAL RW climate..

but defintely the RW climate of the para-military and hate groups at the time.

PERHAPS egged on by the talk against Clinton....

It's just TODAY we can't tell the difference in The Chicago Anarchists Revolutionaries (made up for expediency)
and Glen Beck!

So yea, put the fringe back in the fringe.. and let mainstream march on.

[Enrique]

4. how dare you!

you are politicizing that tragedy! :sarcasm:

[emulatorloo]

6. No. Teabaggers aren't terrorists.

A terrorist is someone who engages in political violence or conspires to commit acts of terrorism with others. Most teabaggers just go to a rally here and there, post hateful things on the internet, and say hateful things and make up signs with spelling errors and hateful photoshops.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

10. Who crazies can see and feel empowered by.

Possibly.

[emulatorloo]

12. Yes, they do need to tone down that stuff

More important the Republican Politicians need to come out against that stuff. Especially now. (but I am not holding my breath)

But yelling dumb shit at a rally isn't terrorism

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

22. Yelling dumb crap at a PROTEST isn't terrorism

.. but yelling Dumb shit at a POLITICAL RALLY being held by POLITICAL leaders/wannabes, SHOULD BE CURTAILED at the onset.
(still not terrorism... but you dont let an unruley gang of kids yell at the neighbors from your yard either)

[emulatorloo]

24. Agreed - DeMint et al should not tolerate those it. Instead they promote it.

[Cirque du So-What]

15. Yes, they fucking well are! The term “domestic terrorism” means activities that -

appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002331----000-.html

I haven't forgotten the 'town-hall' meetings in the run-up to elections in '08 and the intimidation perpetrated by the teabaggers who shout down all dissenting opinion, nor have I forgotten the numerous accounts of voter harassment against African American college students and others, and I sure as hell WON'T forget the instances where these thugs show up at political rallies with sidearms displayed along with signs that are open calls for political assassination. You can defend these brownshirts until you're blue in the face, but I'll keep calling them terrorists as long as they keep behaving like terrorists.

[emulatorloo]

16. "You can defend these brownshirts' Take a deep breath . . .

Take a deep breath before you start accusing me of "defending brownshirts"

[Cirque du So-What]

18. OK, that was too much

but I refuse to minimize the threat I perceive from this group. If you persist in portraying these rabble as harmless, however, it can only be construed as 'defense' - especially when concrete examples of intimidation and coercion are presented.

[emulatorloo]

25. Yes, I see your point. Those incidents indicate people on the edge with the

the potential to do greater violence. I'm still not ready to label every teabagger as a Tim McVeigh. Probably because my sister was a Hannity viewer. What she felt mostly was fear not anger.

.I appreciate you dialing back. And I do understand you completely and agree with much of what you said.

[undeterred]

7. How out of your mind do you have to be to think that.

[emulatorloo]

9. Seems like there is something in the DU water supply today

[yourout]

11. We are far closer to a Facist state than to Socialism.

And it isn't even close.

[undeterred]

14. Yup.

If we were turning socialist, some of us would be applauding.

[Skink]

13. Socialism works.

I love Socialism.

[BOG PERSON]

17. loughner could not have been a teabagger.

one of his favorite books is the communist manifesto.

[golddigger]

20. Aww, so was Mien Kampf.

[frylock]

21. but but but teh nazis were soshulists!!1

it's right there in their name!

[DCKit]

19. Great! Another line to use against them every time they mention it... "That socialism thing...

is exactly what Timothy McVeigh said. You know, the guy who blew up the Federal building in OK city and killed all those kids?"

[GeorgeGist]

23. Reagan said it better.

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"

[kctim]

26. That is nothing more than a quote

and bombing the OKC federal building was only 'proof' that McVeigh was a "terrorist."

Such ridiculous assumptions and opinions are only "proof" that opinion trumps facts.