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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Sun May 23, 2010 at 13:20:34 PM MST
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If you haven't followed the Missoulian's coverage of the Liberty Convention in Missoula that just wrapped, you're missing out. It is true, as Pogie notes, that one of the big stories is that the event hit 5% of its turnout goal. That's not funny. It's relieving given the tone of the event:To fix that, Beckman called on the audience to take back power in the example of the Montana Vigilantes who hung a crooked sheriff in 1864 or the Romanian soldiers who executed their own dictator in 1989. That reads like a pretty open call for political violence. Beckman received some attention from the Missoulian pre-convention for having "once claimed the Holocaust was God's judgment on Jews for worshipping Satan."
Look, there's a right and a wrong way to engage in the political process. Threats of violence are the wrong way. Go persuade people, change minds, win hearts, kiss babies, shake hands, rinse, repeat.
There's a startling history of right-wing rejection of unfavorable electoral outcomes in this country. We're seeing it now. We saw it in the Clinton years. We saw it in the secession following Lincoln's election. It comes with a level of paranoia and violence simply unmatched on the American left. The heartening message is that full force in Western Montana, it can only must a crowd of a couple hundred. |
| Matt Singer :: Liberty Convention Speaker Calls for Vigilante Justice |
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