| The politics of hatred are getting out of hand. The right wing noise machine is overheated with calls for violence and now that idiots are heeding those calls the perpetrators are scurrying back into their holes to avoid accountability. Glenn Beck and his ilk are responsible for this and Sarah Palin leads the way. As bricks get tossed through windows, Members of Congress and their families threatened and liberals who dare attend Tea Party events roughed up we must hold accountable everyone responsible for such hate speech. Not all speech is free and not all speech is protected. When one calls for violence, when one irresponsibly says someone else is African, not eligible to be President, someone is going to come and remove your guns, etc. the resulting violence has real human costs. The Becks, Palins, Rushes and Michael Savages of the media must be arrested and prosecuted as accomplices to the violence.
Blogger Mike Vanderboegh called for people to throw bricks through the windows of Democratic Party offices and, as surely as night follows day, some morons did so. The militiaman from Alabama should be arrested for each one of the incidents which followed. He should be prosecuted and made to pay for repairs for every office so vandalized. This isn't yet another Kristallnacht it surely could turn into one if authorities don't do the responsible thing and hold people accountable for the results of their words. |
