Speaking Of Crazies

by digby

I’m not the type who gets too exercized when people use metaphors that can be construed by someone, somewhere as condoning violence. When somebody says ‘string ’em up” or “they should be taken out and shot” I usually see it as colorful but unimaginative rhetoric that isn’t a literal threat.

But when there is a history of actual violence, I think it’s probably a mistake to go on television and speak in the terms that Dick Morris does below. From Oliver Willis:

“Those crazies in Montana who say, ‘we’re going to kill ATF agents because the UN’s going to take over’ – well, they’re beginning to have a case.”

I won’t even bring up the double standard about their behavior during the years of the Cheney police state. It is a waste of breath.