I can't answer for number 1, but as for number 2?

It's because they are idiots trying to build ratings.  Sorry, i just refuse to take a fat closet-case with a bad haircut and a walking piece of beef jerky seriously.  I just can't do it.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

...adding "we surround them"?

Has beck looked at a map lately? does he understand the meaning of "surround"

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

Political conservatives were repudiated by the voters and they just can't take it! The calls for violence are mind-numbing. I mean-Wow! Talk about a total inability to handle rejection. You really gotta wonder-are these people dangerous? And if so, how dangerous?

On political conservatives: "I was so shocked I nearly dropped the Bible I was using to help me masturbate into my gun." Bill Maher

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If you can stomach them ... read the comments.

Bunch of bigoted morons running scared. I guess 'cause school is for librals, the reds missed some education. Live by the gun, die by the gun. I will never accept religion or church teachings that do not uphold the fifth commandment: "thou shall not kill".

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

Norris says that Texas will be the state to lead the next secession.  I say if that happens, let the damned state go. The rest of the union will divide up the monies that Texas would have receive from the national government in various forms of financial assistance.

Maybe, a number of the other red states will go with them and the blue states can divvy up their federal aid grants.  Also, the many military bases in the various red states would have to be paid for by those same red states. As far as I know, all or most all red states get more in aid than they pay in taxes.  It is the reverse in the blue states.  

I'm sick and tired of this situation so if the conservatives want to rectify it, they have my blessing. I'll cry all the way to the bank.

(I realize this is just my fantasy, but it's kind of fun.)


Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

If your candidate doesn't take office, that whole unity thing goes out the window.  Great patriots they are.  < cough, cough >

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

Chuck Norris stars in perhaps the greatest paranoid cheesy celluloid agitprop of all time, "Invasion USA." The advertising tagline was: "No one thought it could ever happen here..."

It is fantastic, merging all the fears of mid-Reagan era reactionaries, where truckloads of Cubans and Vietnamese join together with Russian mad geniuses to capture Florida and attach magnetic bombs to school buses and only one man who can dropkick his way through a crowd can save America. Of course, the federal law enforcement is powerless against the invasion, and only Chuck, allied with the American military, can bring the Godless to their knees.

A great Netflix rental. The world is alive with the sound of feet hitting skulls.

[Also consider that Wesley Snipes, who was selling those exercise machines with Norris on those infomercials, is doing time for tax evasion, yet another right-wing theme.]

You're confusing two different things here.

One is that the "non-violent movements" (to which I would include such non-Leftist things as the ballot in California to ban homosexual marriage) are democratic in nature.  That's why they are largely non-violent.

A democratic movement, whether to advocate FOR or AGAINST homosexual rights, voting for women, you name it is seeking change within the system.  That is to say, via the ballot box, signing petitions, marching, etc.

The state has a complete monopoly on any force not deemed to be immediately for self-defense.  Therefore any advocacy or use of violence is inherently not seeking change from within the system and is therefore undemocratic.

Therefore you're mixing two things together, one is advocacy for change within the system (democratic) and one without (revolution, succession).

That being said, there were non-democratic movements, such as the KKK, which had little to do with either property or taxes.  Or the Weather Underground or the SLA or you name it.

And there were peaceful, democratic movements for RESTRICTING human rights, such the anti-gay marriage advocates in the recent election.

Pax

Night and day you can find me Flogging the Simian

Why have all the violent calls for revolution or secession in America always had something to do with taxes and/or property* while the non-violent movements have all been about expanding individual liberty and human rights*?

The two are not mutually exclusive, particularly in the eyes of clownservatives like gingrinch (misspellings intentional) norris, and the rest:

taxes and property- which is to say wealth, are totally intertwined with liberty and human rights-- of the Wealthy Class. THAT is where progressives part with the clownservatives.

the wealthy class believe (yes, they do) they are entitled to wealth and privilege, and they are entitled to low taxes, zero or low gov't regulations, etc. which serve to protect/extend their wealth.

go further than your asterisked items; i.e. wealth and property were required at the start of our nation for anyone wanting the "right" to run for office and vote for representatives.

women, blacks, and indigenous peoples had ZERO rights.

there are plenty of people in the U.S. who believe that is a good and just system.

Too bad... They have their comments set to be approved. I tried to mention that it was a great comedy.

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