08-17-2017, 05:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-17-2017, 05:23 AM by Eric the Green.)
(08-16-2017, 03:02 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(08-16-2017, 02:02 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-16-2017, 09:22 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:pbower Wrote:When someone from Antifa drives his car into a crowd of right-wingers in a peaceful demonstration, then let me know.
How about when they kill several policement trying to assassinate a congressman?
How about Timothy McVeigh? Come on, these are both lone-wolf cases, just like Dylan Roof. What made Charlottesville different was the context. The violence at Berkley in opposition to Milo Yiannopoulos is more similar.
The guy who killed someone with his car was at that point acting on his own, away from the protest location. His connection was political motivation, but the Congressional baseball assassin was clearly politically motivated too. The parallels are accurate.
Timothy McVeigh was way back in the middle of the third turning, and his target was not an opposing political faction.
Both were politically-motivated killings. But I don't know what you mean by "away from the protest location;" he drove right into it.
McVeigh's motivation was political as well. He was motivated by some of the same sorts of right-wing sentiments as those right-wingers who demonstrated and hurt people at Charlottesville.
"McVeigh’s sub cultural values were also heavily influenced by right wing militia ideologies. McVeigh was found to have a copy of The Turner Diaries in his car. The book written by William Pierce, founder of the Neo-Nazi National Alliance is often cited as the manual for the bombing."
https://blindtohear.wordpress.com/university-essays/timothy-mcveighs-terrorist-motivations-drifting-towards-and-neutralising-mass-murder/
His opponent was the federal government of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.