[R-G] (USA) The far-right's violent return

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

There are those of us who have become targets, many more than you might
think.  You know who you are, if you are lucky.   Suzanne
   suzannedk at gmail.com

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Intense Red <intnsred at golgotha.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Sid Shniad wrote:
>  > The murder of George Tiller is an chilling reminder that the violent
>  > extremism of America's far-right hasn't gone away
>
>    From a strictly revolutionary standpoint, you've got to admire the
> right-wing in the US.
>
>   Since Bush was put out of office, have the neo-cons backed off? Not in
> the
> least -- they're still in attack mode and are as uncompromising as ever.
> And
> Cheney's antics are playing well and he's successfully rewriting history.
>
>   The population seems somewhat turned off by the religious right after 8
> years of gov't funding and Bush's gospel act. But yet this one nut case
> goes
> out and shoots a doctor and it has fired up the anti-abortion movement and
> caused all of the corporate mass media to "debate" the issue in a "he said,
> she said" manner -- tons of free publicity with surprisingly little
> negative
> commentary.
>
>   Uncompromising militancy like that has not been seen in the American left
> since the 1960s. Is it any wonder the American left is an afterthought?
>
>   It pains me to say, but I predict that the US right-wing will make huge
> future electoral gains -- militancy on such a scale usually pays off.
>
>  .
>  Randy
>
> --
> "My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm
> going
> to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no
> fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?" --
> Singer Paul Robeson addressing the US Congress' House Un-American
> Activities
> Committee anti-communist witchhunt in 1956.
>
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