posted by MRFred
Adkisson
claimed he couldn't find a job and expressing a profound "hatred for the liberal movement" and further ranting that "liberals and gays" were taking jobs and had prevented him from finding work. Adkisson acted on what the conservative talk radio has been advocating for years.
There is no dissent if you kill the dissenters.
Figuratively, by character assassination, misinformation and outright lies and now...literally. We've all heard it. Coulter's "satire" about murdering liberals, G Gordon Liddys "head shot" show, Limbaugh's disinformation and veiled threats and invocations of political violence against all those who disagree with him, O Reilly, Savage, the list goes on.
Even on these pages we have "conservatives" who relish violence against any diversity of opinion, in all its forms. We have all read the misogynistic hate and misguided machismo of these posts. One even advocated the "hanging" of Cenk , myself and others who opposed the Iraq war. Other "conservatives" have advocated violence in various forms against, among others, homeless, gays and the poor. Consider this gem of tolerence from conservative "pastor" Jerry Falwell:
But these things speak evil of those things, verse 10 [reading from Jude] which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.
Adkisson as it turns out was an out-of-work mechanical engineer. Obviously not an uneducated man, he left a four-page letter in his car that was abandoned in the church parking lot in which he railed against liberals and the fact that he had been unable to get a job since 2006.
Adkisson was also angry that his food stamps were about to be reduced or eliminated.
Like most "conservatives" he was clueless about who was really impacting his life, namely his job being outsourced and the anger at his cut in benefits and the disappearance of those conservative boot straps we hear so much about.
As it turns out the cuts were at the hands of Republican "conservatives" being more "fiscally responsible" to pay for additional state tax cuts and Bush Administration's compassionate plan to cut food stamp benefits to about 185,000 people in the U.S. for 2007-2008.
Well buck up Ditto-heads ,things arent all bad. The consevatives can look on the bright side, if the parishioners had been packing heat...
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