With the recent two incidents involving right wing Christian terrorists in this country*, and the total suppression, as usual, of their political affiliations by the mainstream press, I thought it would be beneficial to take a few minutes to consider briefly the history of these two groups, the Sovereign Citizen movement and the Christian Identity "religion." This is not a complete story- the Christian Identity movement is an outgrowth of the British Israelite movement, which since the 1870's was based on the absurd claim that Northern Europeans were the real descendants of the Jews in the bible. Various explanations have been given about where today's Jews came from, some going so far as to claim that Jews (and black people too, of course) are actually not human beings at all, but spawns of an affair which Satan supposedly had with Eve, which is why God ejected Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Well, enough of this idiocy, on with the story. First, with Chri...
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After all, “stuff happens” an awful fucking lot in America, eh Jeb?
This shooter had a lot in common with the 15 year old who just executed a policeman in Australia
Just like the Sympathizing Australian PM
In point of fact it wasn’t a policeman but a civilian employee of the police, shot by a radicalised Muslim youth. Terrorism. Being the current understanding.
We haven’t, however, had a US-style mass shooting in 19 years. Not to say that it won’t happen again, it probably will, but that’s an entire generation who have grown up without one.
Maybe the parents of those American kids who never got to grow up would wish for a statistic like that, even as simple numbers are a little bit... well... ‘factual’ for the average gun fetishist to grasp.
And I don’t know what you’re talking about by “Sympathising Australian PM”, but then I suspect you know what you’re talking about either, so it probably doesn’t matter.