I have received emails from a few of my liberal relatives concerning the potential violence that could erupt due to criticism of government. They bring-up Timothy McVeigh and Harvey Milk as examples. This theme is promoted among liberal politicians like Obama (umm, umm, umm), Pelosi, Reid and the latest to weigh-in, Bill Clinton. The lame stream media amplifies this theme by re-running their comments over and over.
I personally find liberals hypocritical and opportunistic. When they were protesting Reaganomics, the Iraq war or the Bush administration liberal politicians considered it patriotic free speech. Now that liberal Democrats are in power government criticism is inciting potential violence.
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Hmmm, hypocritical and opportunistic. Sounds familiar.
When the liberals were protesting the Bush administration (on any number of things) those on the right said it was a national security threat. That any criticism of our president would show other countries that we were not united and hence leave us vulnerable to an attack. But now that they are the ones protesting (and doing some pretty intense--and at times ridiculous--criticizing of our president) their tune has changed to protesting as patriotic free speech.
Yep, there is plenty of hypocrisy to go around.
And BTW not all liberals are worried about violence as a result of the protesting rallies. There are going to be crazy people in all large gatherings. I respect your right to gather and protest, but the people in charge (who is in charge?) should expend some effort trying to keep the crazies at bay. Or at least denounce them when they threaten violence. Especially since, given the party they likely belong to, the crazies at these protests are way more likely to be carrying a lethal weapon than any of my liberal friends at any protest in any town.
Erika,
In regard to your last sentence: I was at a Tea Party and saw zero "crazies" the whole time I was there. In viewing videos of subsequent Tea Parties they were all like the one I attended. No one is violent, however they are angry. I am aware that some people believe that anger equates with violence, but, they are not thinking clearly - great difference between anger and violence.
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