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Media Silent on Pipe Bomber's Leftism
Josey1
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Media Silent on Pipe Bomber's Leftism
The same media establishment that is quick to label right-wing extremists refuses to call admitted pipe bomber Luke John Helder a left-wing extremist.
Helder, an art student from Minneosta who plays in a punk rock band, sent a rambling letter to the University of Wisconsin student newspaper expressing his radical environmental views and wish to legalize marijuana. Sounding like Al Gore or John Kerry, he whines that "the icebergs are melting, and precious earth is heating up."
Somehow his fear of "global warming" didn't prevent him from using one of those awful internal-combusion engines to drive hundreds of miles (alone! without car pooling! never once taking the bus!) on his reign of terror.
In the letter he placed with his pipe bombs, which injured six innocent people, including elderly women, he claimed that "1% of the nation controls 99% of the nations [sic] total wealth." Move over, Dick Gephardt.
Yet the New York Times, CNN and all the usual suspects fail to point out Helder's views as left-wing. Of course, these are the same media that quickly branded Oklahoma City terrorist Timothy McVeigh, the Branch Davidians, Randy Weaver, etc., as right-wing extremists - but seldom or never referred to Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski or the violent anti-globalization marchers, etc., as left-wing extremists.
Oh, by the way, the Associated Press is describing the far-left maniac accused of assassinating Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn (widely denounced by the media as a right-wing extremist, even though he was a homosexual) as an "environmentalist and animal rights activist." http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/5/8/143603
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
The same media establishment that is quick to label right-wing extremists refuses to call admitted pipe bomber Luke John Helder a left-wing extremist.
Helder, an art student from Minneosta who plays in a punk rock band, sent a rambling letter to the University of Wisconsin student newspaper expressing his radical environmental views and wish to legalize marijuana. Sounding like Al Gore or John Kerry, he whines that "the icebergs are melting, and precious earth is heating up."
Somehow his fear of "global warming" didn't prevent him from using one of those awful internal-combusion engines to drive hundreds of miles (alone! without car pooling! never once taking the bus!) on his reign of terror.
In the letter he placed with his pipe bombs, which injured six innocent people, including elderly women, he claimed that "1% of the nation controls 99% of the nations [sic] total wealth." Move over, Dick Gephardt.
Yet the New York Times, CNN and all the usual suspects fail to point out Helder's views as left-wing. Of course, these are the same media that quickly branded Oklahoma City terrorist Timothy McVeigh, the Branch Davidians, Randy Weaver, etc., as right-wing extremists - but seldom or never referred to Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski or the violent anti-globalization marchers, etc., as left-wing extremists.
Oh, by the way, the Associated Press is describing the far-left maniac accused of assassinating Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn (widely denounced by the media as a right-wing extremist, even though he was a homosexual) as an "environmentalist and animal rights activist." http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/5/8/143603
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Happiness is a warm gun
Years ago, "bad" kids used to knock down mailboxes at night with a ball bat, or blow them up with firecrackers. Pranks maybe, but vandalism nonetheless, and it made the homeowners mad enough to consider sitting up with a gun to pick them off as they rolled by. Ever hear of the farmer with a shotgun load of salt to discourage melon pickers?
This kid plants pipe bombs that detonate in people's faces with the same prankster attitude. Guess he'll find out what's not funny the hard way.
- Life NRA Member
If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
stinks and they set the pace for the rest of us. May God help us.
SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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