Media Already Claiming Holocaust Museum Shooting Justifies DHS Report About Extremist Right Wingers
Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge just announced that the shooting at the Holocaust Museum - allegedly by an 89-year old WWII veteran - confirms a recent DHS report regarding the threat posed by extremist veterans.
Shepard Smith adds “They [DHS] saw the signs, now it has begun”. Smith keeps hammering on that angle.
Here’s the video:
As far as I’m concerned, people who commit violence as a way to advance their religious/political/philosophical agenda don’t belong to the “right” or the “left” but rather to a group all their own. They’re terrorists. Extremists. Murderers. Criminals. It doesn’t matter what their idealogical beliefs are. If they’re willing to maim and murder for their cause, they’re in a league of their own.
Eco terrorists who blow up Hummer dealerships aren’t motivated to their crimes by liberalism. Animal rights terrorists who bomb testing clinics aren’t motivated to their crimes by liberalism. And morons who bomb abortion clinics, or shoot abortion doctors, aren’t motivated by conservatism. They’re motivated to those crimes because they’re criminals. The belief systems they use to rationalize their crimes are beside the point.
The partisan finger-pointing doesn’t do anyone any good. There are extremists, criminals, murders, terrorists and thugs on both sides of the ideological spectrum. They should be universally condemned, not used as fodder for a partisan pie-throwing contest.
And by the way, there’s nothing “right wing” about anti-semitism or Nazism. Conservatism is a limited government movement. And there’s nothing limited government about support for racism, genocide or authoritarian rule.
