Into the Abyss

[gary webb]

Terrorism is tool used by different ideologies. I agree there are big
similarities between our home grown extremists and those from the Middle
East. What is weirder now, at least in US, is instead of the paramilitary
backwoods extremist, a la Timothy McVeigh, where most everyone was
universal in condemnation, now from certain administration officials on
down, you have silence. There is no vigorous condemnation or disavowal.

This event seems more organized and more media based. These guys aren't
desperate. They want images to illustrate the intolerance and violence of
protesters. I don't think they wanted any suicide bombers, or drivers. They
wanted a fight. Then, say no one was injured or hurt, we would be bombarded
of images of protesters of the left attacking these doe eyed college
republicans... And I don't think it's a coincidence that these "riots" are
taking place in college campuses... The have been on the Right's target
list for a long time...

There is something weirder going on here in the US...

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 4:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Umm, how does Alt-Reich murder by car differ from those recently also
> murders by car by Muslims in Paris?
> Nuance ain't necessary here.  White fear is just our US flavor.  They are
> equally terrorists.
>
> These terrorists all fear extinction.  They know they are dying, and that
> makes them frantic!
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:36 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, Drudge IS Jewish, after all. So there must be at least a tiny
>> speck of consciousness about this kind of stuff... race memory, if you
>> will. At least enough to give him a frisson of uncanny, generational
>> recognition.
>>
>> Re: the look and attire of the right-wing mob this time... on Twitter
>> the self-described "scumbag left" (like the Chapo Trap House gang) are
>> calling this "the Pussy Riot" and comedian Doug Stanhope has stepped
>> up with a great solution for the next time there's a tiki
>> torch-wielding bunch of Nazis marching through your town: water
>> balloons filled with gasoline.
>>
>> The footage of that Nazi plowing through the crowd of peaceful
>> protesters is harrowing and disgusting in its blatant, brazen
>> cowardice.
>>
>> But I have to agree with you, Gary. Positive (by which I mean
>> negative) reactions to this affront set aside for the moment, I do
>> believe that the waters of the Rubicon are lapping at our collective
>> toes. It's like the Powers That Be (or, in this case, the rogue Deep
>> State faction that I've been calling the New Fascist International)
>> have perfected some new form of brainwashing - a technique that leaves
>> the subject/victim's mind not only altered, but booby-trapped against
>> any and all attempts at reasoning with it.
>>
>> Real journalism is "Fake News". Lies in the service of the Far Right
>> agenda are Truth. BLM = KKK. Immigration = White Genocide.
>>
>> Booby-trapped brains. Impervious to reason, logic, or empirical
>> evidence that contradicts their erroneous beliefs. And with every
>> passing day, everywhere you look, there's more of these fuckers. For
>> fuck's sake, they're working in the WHITE HOUSE.
>>
>> We are so royally screwed.
>>
>> Jerky
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 4:02 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I don't know about the rest of the list but I've been unnaturally
>> disturbed
>> > about the events of Charlottesville. As an American, I suppose I should
>> be
>> > more cynical, and actually come to expect this sort of violence, but
>> there
>> > is something off. Looking at the pictures, these Unite the Right guys
>> look
>> > pretty unremarkable, like VCR repairman,not what I'd associate with
>> > storm-trooper, AKA Puck Beaverton, the resemble Arendt's depiction of
>> > Eichmann, not paramilitary types, which I've come to expect, but its
>> > nonetheless remarkable in 2017, that the "Blood and Soil" movement
>> nonsense
>> > feels it can make a big PR-push into the mainstream.
>> >
>> > I found the President's silence to be remarkable, and David Duke's
>> tweet,
>> > and this all goes back to that NRA video Jerky posted a while back, a
>> > campaign is afoot to provoke and demonize the left, and that's what
>> these
>> > Alt-Right Nazis do, then the right has images which they spin to scare
>> the
>> > hell out of paranoid suburbanites...
>> >
>> > It looks like the plan backfired, and an innocent woman was killed
>> > protesting, and others injured by some kamikaze white nationalist from
>> Ohio.
>> > But I'm sure in the coming months or years, they will have their Horst
>> > Wessel... and the Right will continue to use these assholes as blunt
>> > instruments, just like the Weimar right did, thinking that they can
>> control
>> > them, until its too late...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
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