Now the right-wingers want to blame military-recruiter slayings on liberals

[meegbear]

There was another horrible shooting yesterday, this time in Arkansas. And this time, the motive appears to have been a hatred of the American military for the Muslims who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A 23-year-old man upset about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan opened fire from his truck at two soldiers standing outside a military recruiting station here on Monday morning, killing one private and wounding another, the police said.

... In a lengthy interview with the police, Mr. Muhammad said he was angry about the killing of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chief Thomas said. Previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, Mr. Muhammad told investigators that he had converted to Islam as a teenager, Chief Thomas said.

Chief Thomas said investigators believe that Mr. Muhammad acted alone. He seemed to be familiar with the Army recruiting office because it was not far from his home, the chief said, but might have been on the prowl for anyone in uniform.

"I would say he was looking for any and all targets of opportunity that happened to be military," the chief said in a telephone interview. "That may have well been the first place he found."

This is, of course, a horrific case, and no one in their right minds would celebrate it.

Yet naturally, the right-wingers -- still feeling the sting from having been held culpable for their inspirational role in the assassination of Dr. George Tiller on Sunday -- have decided that this is all the fault of liberals. As usual, Michelle Malkin is leading that particular parade.

There's a significant difference, though, in this case and the Tiller murder: No one on the left is celebrating this or wishing that the recruiters had had a chance to make their peace with God before being shot. No one is trying to justify it by suggesting that the recruiters met a just fate.

And most of all, while there are smatterings of fringe leftists who hate the military and regularly demonize military recruiters, they exist entirely on the margins. There are no liberal commentators -- particularly not cable-news-show anchors -- who demonize soldiers as "mass murderers" or "baby killers," or suggest they should be "taken out", let alone suggesting that citizens might want to take violent action against them.

You certainly can't say that about right-wingers and their feelings about abortion-clinic operators.

And besides: Wasn't Malkin complaining Sunday about "Those who have jumped to score political points before Tiller is even buried"? Physician, heal thyself.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/now-right-wingers-want-blame-militar

[Puzzler]

1. As if "liberals" had hate sites promoting the murder of...

... army recruiters... with pictures, names and addresses of the recruiters.

Of course, many people may have objected to recruiters in schools and other places, but this is hardly the same thing as actively promoting the destruction of a doctor. However, in some wingnuts' minds, these two cases will be equivalent.

[zbdent]

5. and liberals are not normally advocating the violence against people they

disagree with ... especially with GUNS ...

oh, and who has been profiting from the scaring up of the populace? The guns and ammunition manufacturers and dealers ...

[one-eyed fat man]

12. you are right,

Left wing radicals prefer arson and bombs.

Bill Ayers - Pentagon Bomber and Capital Bomber, the SDS, the Weather Underground, Code Pink, Animal Liberation Front all gleaming examples of "progressive" extremists we pretend don't exist.

The fact that Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, was already under investigation by the FBI and had been arrested on his return from Yemen with a fake Somali passport. Extremist, regardless of their stripe, all rationalize their use of violence as either "doing God's, Allah's, etc work" or as necessary to achieve a greater good


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7732467&page=1

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[Dogtown]

2. I'll add

that I doubt seriously that this Mr. Muhammad can be linked to any violent left-wing group calling for the murder of soldiers or recruiters. We have *no* analogs to "Operation Rescue".

[Cha]

3. michelle malkin is too drooling dumbdowned

to know or care.

Go fuck yourself a la dick cheney, malkin.

[WeDidIt]

8. Malkin isn't stupid

She understands that the Tiller asassination will not easily rub off the radical right.

She's showing desperation here, not stupidity.

[Cha]

10. And, I say her whole persona

is drooling stupidity.:silly:

[Johonny]

14. Nah she's can be both desperate and stupid

I've never read anything from her that didn't sound like moronic paranoid pandering to the insane conservative.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. My brother is a recruiter and I certainly

wouldn't want anything to happen to him. My sympathies are with the families of those men.

[DBoon]

6. no liberal has EVER advocated this violence

Not Randi Rhoads. Not Keith Olbermann. Not Rachel Maddow.

Not MoveOn. Not even ANSWER.

The clinic killer had full and public support of highly visible right wing talking heads and organizations that openly organized and advocated clinic killings.

The recruiter killers had - what a jihadist splinter group?

[drm604]

7. Where do they get the idea that Mr. Muhammad is a liberal?

It sounds like they're just sticking a label on him in order to score some political points. You could just as easily label him as a radical Islamic terrorist.

[sufrommich]

11. That's what cracks me up about their reasoning. If liberals

really "admired" religious extremist muslims then they would also have to believe that when we call them the christian taliban we're actually complimenting them. There is nothing liberal about religious extremism.

[Johonny]

13. I agree

The other guy was posting to Fox websites with hate filled messages. It's pretty clear what his political views were. There is nothing to show this mans world view other than he was against the war, like the vast majority of Americans.

[gratuitous]

9. There's a world of difference

Between the "shadowy" world of the anti-choice movement that celebrates the killing of their opponents and the actions of a truly lone gunman, there's a gulf slightly wider than the Grand Canyon. This is not, however, to say that any number of people who objected to the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq did so in part because the possibility of unfocused retaliation was so apparent.

We've been called traitors and terrorist sympathizers, most charitably we've been called deluded or naive. But some of us have warned of a violent backlash from our victims, their surviors and relatives. If you don't mind these recruiters getting gunned down in Arkansas for the sins of the Bush administration, keep working against bringing those criminals to justice. Because after all, sometimes people who have been wronged strike out at targets they can hit, no matter how peripherally attached to actual people who did them wrong. But none of us should mind paying with our lives for the crimes of the Bush administration, should we?

[Ganja Ninja]

15. Didn't see this coming.

:sarcasm: What took them so long?