Ed New Black Panthers threaten RNC

[Unabogie]

...but there won't be. You couldn't help from typing her name. How is the media supposed to stop. It's cheap thrills.

What does that say about John McCain's judgment that you are now stating that even mentioning the woman who almost became Vice-President of the United States is akin to talking about the Kardashians?

You're basically conceding that she has no relevance or important input on our politics.

Thank god we dodged that bullet!

 

[mhaze]

mhaze was the one comparing Palin to the New Black Panthers.

In response to an UNSUPPORTABLE statement of yours, which was "whackjob public statements NOT EQUAL to news", I replied "you'd like to say when they are and are not".

I'm comparing your behavior and liberal behavior actually.

 

[applecorped]

What does that say about John McCain's judgment that you are now stating that even mentioning the woman who almost became Vice-President of the United States is akin to talking about the Kardashians?

You're basically conceding that she has no relevance or important input on our politics.

Thank god we dodged that bullet!

We're only a bullet away from Biden being in charge, Y'all.

 

[Spindrift]

In response to an UNSUPPORTABLE statement of yours, which was "whackjob public statements NOT EQUAL to news", I replied "you'd like to say when they are and are not".

I'm comparing your behavior and liberal behavior actually.

Are you contending that anytime any whackjob makes a public statement that is it worthy of being news?

I contend it is the usually the reaction to the statement that makes it news, not the statement in and of itself.

 

[A'isha]

Are you contending that anytime any whackjob makes a public statement that is it worthy of being news?

Only if they're to the left of mhaze.

 

[WildCat]

Why are the only options available not taking someone seriously or arresting them? Because from your own link, those aren't the only options. Nugent's comments were taken seriously: "The Secret Service is investigating Nugent for the remarks he made Saturday at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis". He probably shouldn't be arrested, but an investigation is entirely appropriate.

When someone threatens violence, we should take that seriously. It's likely that nothing will come from the NBP's threats (he's clearly too cowardly to take his own advice, and we can hope that his followers are too), but given the severity of what could happen if something did, we shouldn't simply ignore them either. Even short of any official investigation, that sort of language deserves forceful denunciation, just as Nugent's comments did.

Maybe they heard from a Dem that the GOP wanted to enslave black people.

 

[mhaze]

Why are the only options available not taking someone seriously or arresting them? Because from your own link, those aren't the only options. Nugent's comments were taken seriously: "The Secret Service is investigating Nugent for the remarks he made Saturday at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis". He probably shouldn't be arrested, but an investigation is entirely appropriate.

When someone threatens violence, we should take that seriously. It's likely that nothing will come from the NBP's threats (he's clearly too cowardly to take his own advice, and we can hope that his followers are too), but given the severity of what could happen if something did, we shouldn't simply ignore them either. Even short of any official investigation, that sort of language deserves forceful denunciation, just as Nugent's comments did.

And I betcha there's no investigation or forceful denunciation.

Watch and see.

 

[Cleon]

...but there won't be. You couldn't help from typing her name.

...You say, knowing full well that mhaze brought her up. Out of curiosity, I did a search - the last time I even mentioned her name was in October. Yeah, I'm obsessed, all right.


That bit of chutzpah is worthy of Fox News. Utterly transparent, of course, but beautifully crafted.

 

[Spindrift]

And I betcha there's no investigation or forceful denunciation.

Watch and see.

Do you think that every lunatic ranting from every fringe whackjob group should be investigated or forcefully denounced?

 

[A'isha]

Do you think that every lunatic ranting from every fringe whackjob group should be investigated or forcefully denounced?

Only if they're to the left of mhaze.

 

[tyr_13]

Well those people said some stupid stuff, to use understatement.

Now that I'm aware they exist, I won't be in danger of supporting a group that wants me dead based on my race. I might have accidentally supported them otherwise.

 

[Eddie Dane]

The point appears to be that since the NBP are on the left (very broadly speaking), those of us who are also on the left (more or less) need to acknowledge that "our" side is just as "uncivil" as we (or some of us) accuse the right of being. Which makes about as much sense as holding conservatives responsible for the "incivilities" of neo-nazis and the KKK.

Not a bad point actually.

But I certainly don't see Republicans as the equivalent of the KKK.
And I don't think many here would.

As aside: couldn't we buy these NBP guys some tickets to to the next End Apathy gig? (As soon as they get a new guitarist) It would make for fun reality TV.

All those attending will be given claw-hammers and machetes.

Henry Rollins as 'sports commentator'?

Title: 'Last Bigot Standing'?

 

[mhaze]

Well those people said some stupid stuff, to use understatement.

Now that I'm aware they exist, I won't be in danger of supporting a group that wants me dead based on my race. I might have accidentally supported them otherwise.

NO THANKS to the mainstream media for that, this didn't rate as a story.

YOU got it from breitbart.com via me.

 

[Dancing David]

I think this is priceless, as it is news.

News which isn't allowed on this forum.

Because the news itself is against forum rules on words.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...t-Be-Tolerated-Our-Feet-Will-Be-On-Your-Necks

Now, let's have a little talk about who needs to be civil, shall we?

So where is this against the forums rules?

 

[Dancing David]

Not really. Since liberals have a Justice Department with a history of refusing to prosecute NBP members, and a Justice Department which has stated it will not prosecute racial issues with white defendants.

You mean the voter intimidation case?

The one the BUSH ADMINISTRATION did not prosecute, are you saying GWB was a liberal?

 

[Spindrift]

NO THANKS to the mainstream media for that, this didn't rate as a story.

YOU got it from breitbart.com via me.

So why did you consider this worthy to tell us? Are you the one deciding what is and what isn't news?

 

[varwoche]

Nope. Because the NBPP statements won't make major news, will they?

But Palin did, portrayed inaccurately and purposefully, as a whackjob.

Person #1: Member of a fringe group that's so fringe that you didn't even know who they were (understandably, due to the name confusion)

Person #2: Running for Vice President

And in your bizarre world view, these should be treated equally by the news media?

Ouch, I just injured my eyeball sockets.

 

[MaGZ]

I think this is priceless, as it is news.

News which isn't allowed on this forum.

Because the news itself is against forum rules on words.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-...t-Be-Tolerated-Our-Feet-Will-Be-On-Your-Necks

Now, let's have a little talk about who needs to be civil, shall we?

Rhetoric like this could start a new civil war.

 

[MaGZ]

Actually, it was the New Black Panther Party that made these outlandish comments. They are unrelated to the Black Panthers.

The Old Black Panther Party were revolutionary Maoists.

 

[Dancing David]

The Old Black Panther Party were revolutionary Maoists.

And the blatant violations of civil liberties and effects of racism were sanctioned by mainstream society. The main thrust of the Black Panthers was to be a forum to call out the obvious hypocrisy of US society.

And wow, Mao huh, maybe if the US State Department had listened to Stillwell, the Maoist government would not have had such a radical form. Of course the Chang Kai-shek Kuomintang government after the expulsion of Sun-yat Sen was a marvel of honesty, freedom and liberty, they were such purveyors of good government that the Maoists never stood a chance, until the space aliens secretly gave the Maoists ray guns that they secretly used to beat the Kuomintang.