Conservative Terrorist Movement Corrupting The Moral Fabric of This Nation

How much has the deranged conservative movement corrupted this nation's social fabric that this kind of hatred could be fostered and nurtured by its perverse conservative political leaders in their movement, their unscrupulous conservative allies and their twisted conservative media mouthpieces?

"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement," Chief Owen said.

"It appears that the church had received some publicity in the recent past regarding its liberal stance on things and that is at least one of the issues we believe caused that church to be selected."

The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church describes itself on its website as working for social change since the 1950s, including desegregation, racial harmony, fair wages, women's rights and gay rights.

This terrorist is obviously a very deranged man.

But how do conservatives so corrupt a nation with their poisonous ideas that they can consistently cut back on liberal social safety nets like the food stamps that this man was about to lose, and that set this man off on his terrorist tirade, while simultaneously convincing the downtrodden citizens that their true allies, liberals that support safety nets, are to blame? A man who thinks that he is being discriminated against for his age, a man that would have had natural allies in today's left for this issue, taking it out on liberals when it is the conservatives and the GOP that have created the disposable employee society that favors corporations and makes many groups of employees obsolete by these conservative standards.

And just how perverse and immoral does today's conservative movement, the modern day GOP, have to be to foster and encourage this kind of hatred amongst America's citizens to begin with?

Here is just a small sample of recent holes conservatives have dug us into:

LATEST ECONOMIC NEWS

• Record deficit for next president
• US inflation quickest in 17 years
• US loses 62,000 jobs during June Consumer gloom deepens in June

THE HOUSING CRISIS

• US home foreclosures on the rise
• Housing rescue bill passed
• US mortgage rates increase again
• Giant mortgage lender in trouble

And, undoubtedly, conservatives will blame the evil liberals for all of the failed bush policies, conservative driven deregulation, and GOP created deficits that got us here. And, clearly, there are people that are crazy enough to buy their divisive propaganda and will act on it.

This is a worse problem than the simplified version of the GOP purposively creating a failed, bloated bureaucracy and then pointing to it when they are out of power and saying "government is bad" and blaming liberals for all of it as some vote getting tactic.

It is the very real terrorism that the conservative movement is fostering and unleashing upon this nation from within. And it is tearing apart the moral fabric of this nation.

[update] And sure enough, the twisted conservative terrorist alliance creates these monsters and tries to blame the Vast Liberal Conspiracy for it:

As with the church shootings in Colorado last December, the right will find some way to spin this story and turn Adkisson into an anti-Christian liberal whack job and blame it on the liberal media.

In response to the tragic church shootings in Colorado, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins naturally pointed the finger of blame at the “secular media.” The senseless massacre of several deeply religious people by one of their own reflected, he claimed, “hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media toward Christians.” Of course, Perkins has it almost exactly backwards. Whether concerning abortion, gay Americans, immigration or judicial appointments, the line connecting the rhetoric of the Republican Party and the mainstream conservative movement to right-wing terror is a very short one.

John Amato: I wrote this a while ago. Why isn’t the 24/7 cable News playing up the Rudolph conviction?

Who could've seen that one coming, eh?

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[update deux] Scholars & Rogues seems to be writing about the same thing today, and it is well worth the read:

It would be simplistic and wrong-headed of me to blame a particular person or institution for Adkisson’s actions. I don’t know what Rush had to say last week - although I’m sure it was hateful and stupid - but Rush didn’t load up the shotgun and pull the trigger.

However, Rush is one of the people who has helped poison the waters in the sea that is American culture. FOX “News” and its hatefuck parade of gleefully toxic talking heads have dumped billions of gallons of rhetorical bile into the streams feeding the ocean of public opinion. Karl Rove has taught a new generation of bright-eyed Typhoid Marys to bathe in the waters that the rest of us drink.

Jim Adkisson was an unbalanced man, and perhaps it was only a matter of time before he snapped. But two questions to ponder: first, who created the conditions that hastened the snap? And second, when the train jumped the tracks, who created the bogeyman that the diseased brain latched onto as the cause of all the pain?

We all know the answers to those questions....

[update trois] Two quick links to finish this out:

From MOUE Magazine:

Terrorism: The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.

and...

Inside the house, officers found “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” by radio talk show host Michael Savage, “Let Freedom Ring” by talk show host Sean Hannity, and “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television talk show host Bill O’Reilly.

All he is missing is some Beck and Coulter on that hate monger's reading list.