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Sept 2009: An American Lynching
Author: Raine
Date: 09/24/2009 13:05:18
Back in June, I wrote a blog about how the right wing was upping the ante. It pissed a good many people off. It was after we saw the assassination of a security guard in Washington DC. It was after the assassination of Dr. Tiller. It was 2 months after the DHS report came out that people went ballistic over. I almost could have reposted it word for word regarding the events that have unfolded over the past 24 hours. Here is part of what was written:
Well I have to give it to Glenn beck. He was right. Another person has been murdered in his culture war.
Yesterday, we found out that William Sparkman was found hanged in a remote area of Kentucky with the word 'Fed" scrawled across his chest. He was working for the Census. He was an Eagle Scout. He had just beaten cancer. Word has it they found his body on September 12. You can read about the man who was killed here. He was a decent person who had just made a career change. He was a father. Now he is dead, killed because he worked for the evil census.
Hanged. A man was lynched for working for the Census. Yes, I am making that leap. The word fed said it all. This was done by someone who was told to hate the government -- most likely it was FOX News. We have written about it many times on this blog. When one keeps fanning the flames of hate, it should come as no surprise that someone might actually kill another person.
Glenn Beck and the Right wing fanatics must be so proud today. After all they predicted more people would be murdered.
This is yet another casualty in the deadly culture war that has been waged by the right wing. How many more people need to be killed before America wakes up to what is happening? Hate speech is not free speech. Words matter. I am deadly serious.
and 
Raine
[..] Glenn Beck is out there actually telling people to not kill the messenger and that there will be more incidents like this. I kid you not - he's been doing it for a while. Yesterday, he went over the top.[...]This afternoon Glenn Beck and two of his guests argued that Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party were "leftwing"; that "political correctness" led the committed white supramacist, James Von Brunn, to shoot a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC; and that ultimately President Barack Obama is the one responsible for the violence because his "bailouts" and "Socialistic" policies are engendering widespread anger. Beck denounced those who claim he is "churning the pot" because, he says, "the pot is already boiling." Seeing this spectacle with subtitles at the gym today led me to wonder if there are any laws on the books against using the public airwaves to incite violence. Because that is clearly what Beck is doing. I only caught about ten minutes of the show (about all I can stand) and it was a white reactionary tour de force -- incendiary, stupid, and racist.
Things are getting dangerous out there. That DHS report was correct. There ARE those who would undermine this great nation and make it less secure by justifying their own violent agenda by whatever means necessary. They would seek to create terror in the hearts and minds of those they find disagreements with. I have said it before, and I will say it again, it is Domestic Terror. Those that are complicit in fanning the flames of hatred regarding this terror must stop denying culpability. Words matter.
Yesterday, we found out that William Sparkman was found hanged in a remote area of Kentucky with the word 'Fed" scrawled across his chest. He was working for the Census. He was an Eagle Scout. He had just beaten cancer. Word has it they found his body on September 12. You can read about the man who was killed here. He was a decent person who had just made a career change. He was a father. Now he is dead, killed because he worked for the evil census.
Hanged. A man was lynched for working for the Census. Yes, I am making that leap. The word fed said it all. This was done by someone who was told to hate the government -- most likely it was FOX News. We have written about it many times on this blog. When one keeps fanning the flames of hate, it should come as no surprise that someone might actually kill another person.
Glenn Beck and the Right wing fanatics must be so proud today. After all they predicted more people would be murdered.
This is yet another casualty in the deadly culture war that has been waged by the right wing. How many more people need to be killed before America wakes up to what is happening? Hate speech is not free speech. Words matter. I am deadly serious.
and Raine
