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How To Make A Liberal-Hunter | 24 comments (24 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Checking in from the culture wars' front lines (4.00 / 6)

A well-respected - many would say "revered" local columnist of many years for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Sam Venable, called the attack "a domestic terrorist attack" in his column today. Sounds obvious to us around here, but this is a big step for Knoxville. It occurs on the same morning that the local AM drive-time talk radio is fielding calls from irate yahoos who are upset that the shootings are being investigated as a "hate crime," because "there shouldn't be hate crime laws", because "every crime is a hate crime, because the Bible tells us to love one another," and because "every crime should be prosecuted equally under the law; some victims shouldn't get special treatment." I kid you not. Almost had to pull the car over and vomit.

Go read Venable's commentary; I'd quote it but it's short and so to the point I'd have to quote the whole thing. He connects the dots between this tragedy, a manichaean worldview, and certain people in "Pakistani caves."

Back so soon?

Dr./Mrs. K.P. thinks this could be a very interesting time in the next few months around Knoxville, seeing whether the cognitive dissonance reaches critical mass for the conservative Christians in the pews. Anyone know if or how Laramie was changed by the Matthew Shepard killing and aftermath?

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 11:58:26 AM EST

Re: Checking in from the culture wars' front lines (4.00 / 3)

every crime should be prosecuted equally under the law

Is this why you stand to do more hard time for camcording a movie or smoking a joint then you do for assault?

Seriously, I can't follow the topology of these people's logic. It's like a hyperdimentional pretzel.

We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

Now the real work begins.

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 12:17:47 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Wait a minute?????????? (4.00 / 2)

From Venable's column:

In a delusional, paranoid mind, there is no room for debate or compromise on any issue. Instead, everything boils down to three elemental "truths":
(1) I, and people who believe exactly as I do, are 100 percent right.
(2) You and all others are 100 percent wrong.
(3) The only logical way to make my point is to kill as many of you, my sworn enemy, as possible.

Haven't I seen this somewhere before?

Dammit, this is nothing more than "The Bush Doctrine" applied domestically.

No "six degrees of separation" required here. They're punched out of the exact same mold. They both suffer from a "delusional, paranoid mind".

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 12:19:59 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Wait a minute?????????? (none / 0)

The point isn't that this is news to us, but that it's being said by a respected mainstream figure in the local mainstream press newspaper deep in the Bible Belt. That's a hopeful development, I'd say.

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 12:40:14 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Wait a minute?????????? (none / 1)

Yes, it is a hopeful development. It is not often in many parts of the country that such a stark observation in a widely viewed public forum is laid out so distinctly.

It is surely an upsetting thing for many there to contemplate.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 01:03:41 PM EST
[ Parent ]

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