Via LGF, The Washington Post published a lengthy story earlier this week on Andrew Mickel, the leftist who shot and killed a police officer in Red Bluff California last November. According to CJ, Mickel is a frequent commenter at Indymedia, which is a hate-filled, anti-American website.
For context, Indymedia ran a story during the most recent Fallujah offensive openly wondering if it was time to start actively supporting the Iraqi insugency. It was remarked by many visitors that the time had come to take up arms against the "Bush regime." Mickel's slaughter of a police officer is no less than the fulfillment of a prophecy that I often worried, in my days of trolling Indymedia, would come to fruition.
Following the murder, Mickel left this manifesto at more than a dozen sites operated by Indymedia:
"Hello Everyone, my name's Andy. I killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, California in a motion to bring attention to, and halt, the police-state tactics that have come to be used throughout our country. Now I'm coming forward, to explain that this killing was also an action against corporate irresponsibility."
Andrew Mickel is a disturbing example of the end result of politics designed for the lowest common demoninator. The far left loves to play word-games with American foreign policy and the Bush administration, using terms like "terrorists," regime change," "killers," war mongerers," corporate whores," "Nazi's," etc..., without regard for truth or consequence.
It appears that the chickens have finally come home to roost. Indymedia and other far-left hate sites and personalities are indirectly responsible for Mickel's actions, in that their hysterical hatred for their own country finally caused someone to crack.
So much for the "harmless" rhetoric of the left.
UPDATE: Horowitz joins Buchanen and Kristol as the latest victims of what The American Thinker calls "left wing thuggery," the food-assault. Kristol had the best reaction to the thuggery, when he said, "Just let me finish this point..." Man, he's cool.
The AOL Alliance's RepublicanJen has a complete list of food assaults against conservatives, and Poor Robert has the story on another open-minded leftist's murderous rampage.
Degree by degree, the erosion continues.
6 comments:
Hey Pat,
I would argue that, in the tenor of personal responsibility, the only person to blame for Mickel's actions is Mickel himself.
I don't spend any time on the Indymedia site (I did once, and read something that was nothing like what you described, and provided a link which I later removed due to highly irresponsible content I saw there), so I can't speak well to its content or its supporters.
Murdering a police officer is personally reprehensible to me (my partner is a police officer in training), as would be the murder of any other individual.
Your characterization of the left, due to the actions of one clearly unstable individual, is way off-base.
In my experience, most people who consider themselves "left" are non-violent and use non-violent means to accomplish their goals.
This guy is just a nut-plain and simple.
Katie
Hey Pat,
First off- let me apologize for my comments on the illegal aliens...
Next, a man should be responsible for himself. The same goes for any school shooting, murderer, etc.- you can't blame media, music, or websites!! It is ones personal choice to veiw those or listen to those forms of entertainment! Now I'm not saying there's not something there that could have helped him along, just that you can't place all the blame on the media...
Richardrepub
How awful! I hope he gets the worst punishment the law can give him. These kinds of people are Nazis before the Nazis took over Germany.
Of course, Katie and Richard are both correct when they state that a person is responsible for their own actions.
But is it so ludicruous to suggest that people can be incited to violence? There are countless examples of it. How about the New York draft riots in 1863? The irish (primarily) were incited into buring black orphanages and hanging black people because newly freed ex-slaves were taking their jobs.
Patron saint of the far left, Paul Krugman, just last week, warned that the rhetoric of the "religious right" could lead to violence when he said this:
"America isn't yet a place where liberal positions, and even conservatives who are aren't sufficiently hard-line, fear assasintion. But unless moderates take a stand against the growing power of domestic extremists, it can happen here."
In this case, I would argue that "domestic extremists" have turned a "it can happen here" into a "it did happen here."
Krugman just had the wrong extremists.
Teap-
Using your own analogy, many of the anti-choice groups should also be brought to trial for Eric Rudolph's actions. Maybe we can tag some of the notorious assasination attempts from history on the Right, or Left, or whomever was an enemy of the victim.
Maybe we should start to keep better track of what is said on Rush and Hannitoad - and Air America as well - for future references on any possible "hate" crimes. If what they say isn't "inciting," then nothing is.
Perhaps you have forgotten that right-wing radio was blamed for Timothy McVeigh's actions.
I Listen to both sides and NOBODY on the right is saying things nearly as hateful as those on the left. If you read subsequent posts here there are many good examples of the left's debate style.
Equating what happens at Indymedia with Rush or Sean could only come from someone who hasn't spent any time at Indymedia.
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