Shhhh

by digby

I know we’re not supposed to bring up this topic, but it’s becoming so common that I think we probably need to have a little public chat about it.

From Rick Perlstein:

Stop it, stop it right now. Stop pretending Islamicists – or environmentalists or animal rights activists (which are, ridiculously, federal law enforcement and non-governmental terrorism-watchers’ next most obsessive concern) – are the only imminent terrorist threats to our nation. We now know that students at Liberty University were ready to napalm protesters at Jerry Falwell’s funeral. One of the suspects is a soldier at Fort Benning. [UPDATE: Falwell gave the kid a scholarship.] If the media does not start connecting some dots, they will have abdicated their citizenzship duties. How many times has the nation potentially come within a hair’s breadth of suffering a right-wing terrorist attack this spring? As of today, three, or possibly six times – at least that we know about.

Read the rest to get the full rundown.

I predict that we are going to see a remarkable resurgence of rightwing violence if the Democrats take full control of the government. These people are always surprisingly cooperative when the government is run by Republicans and then rediscover their “anti-government” beliefs when Democrats share or dominate the government. I can’t imagine why that would be.

We will also, sadly, see veterans involved in this. Aside from the PTSD they will come home to a world that isn’t very understanding. How could we be? They’ve been in hell. I suspect that some of them will be attracted to the rightwing militia (or worse) unless the government makes some very aggressive moves to help these people out and provide every kind of counselling and support they can think of. The last thing we need are hardened Iraq veterans finding solace with the rightwing terrorists.

Meanwhile, there is the usual wingnut freakshow who’ve been out of commission for a while. I’m sure they’re going to be looking for some action. As perlstein points out, they already are.

Update: Here’s another story about the “environmental terrorists.” If the government continues on this path, Mitt could double Gitmo by locking up the leadership of the Sierra Club. That would really make the GOP neanderthals cheer lustily.

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