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Since the left has been finding “violent”, “hateful” and “racist”\u00a0conservatives under every rock<\/a> lately (as this is written, in April of 2010), while consigning the deranged activities of the loony left to the memory hole, it’s time we built a monument to the left’s long legacy of violent lunacy.<\/p>\n

Got any candidates for inclusion on this page? \u00a0Leave them in the comment section. \u00a0Comments will be removed if off-topic,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>when I’ve decided if the episodes should be included or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
2024<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nWest Palm Beach, FL<\/strong> – Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested after trading fire with Secret Service agents<\/a> while apparently lying in wait for Donald Trump while golfing at his West Palm course.\u00a0
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\"\"<\/td>\nButler, PA<\/strong> – As this is written, not much is known about 20-year-old Matthew Crooks’ shooting spree at a Trump rally on July 13, 2024.But I’d be really amazed if it weren’t spawned by years of “Orange HItler”, and “Republicans are a threat to democracy” talk from the left and media (ptr).<\/p>\n

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2022<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Cayler Ellingson<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n

McHenry, ND<\/strong> – 41 year old Shannon Brandt figured 18 year old Cayler Ellingson was a “part of a Republican extremist group” – which allegedly prompted him to run the boy down, killing him.<\/a>The episode happened\u00a0 mere weeks after President Biden referred to Republicans as ‘Fascists’ and “threats to Democracy”.No connection, of course not, perish the thought.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
2019-2021<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYep, I’ve got some catching up to do.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2018<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
News Story<\/a><\/td>\nVolusia County, FL<\/strong> – At least four shots were fired into a GOP headquarters building.\u00a0 Although as this is written there is no suspect, we know who did it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nPittsburgh<\/strong> – Robert Bowers, a deeply antisemitic man who also harbored a deep hatred of Donald Truimp killed 11 at a synogogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittzburgh<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 As this is written, Bowers is under arrest but no trial-level details have come out.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
News story<\/a><\/td>\nNevada – <\/strong>Mike Stark – an employee of “American Bridge –\u00a0 a Soros-funded attack PR firm – was fired after his affest for assaulting a female Republican operative.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nPlymouth and Becker, MN<\/strong> – Two GOP House candidates – incumbent Sarah Anderson and Shane Mekeland, running for an open seat in exurban Becker – were attacked while on the campaign trail<\/a>.\u00a0 Anderson was punched by a man whom she caught vandalizing one of her campaign signs.\u00a0 Mekeland was “cold-cocked” while sitting in a restaurant, and suffered a mild concussion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
News Story<\/a><\/td>\nSaint Paul<\/strong> – William “Wilhelm” Davis, a DFL operative of long standing, was (eventually) suspended from his “duties” after “Joking” that Republicans should be hauled to guillotines after the election (surprising precisely nobody who was aware of Davis’s wannabe-thuggish social media presence).\u00a0 \u00a0He rationalized it by saying it was an “inside joke” among DFL staffers, which, to the sentient, was even less reassuring.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
List<\/a><\/td>\nNationwide<\/strong>:\u00a0 I fell a little behind during a very busy election season, but the level of left-on-right violence skyrocketed.\u00a0 A partial list is included (link to the left).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2017<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBowling Green, KY (10\/4\/17)<\/strong> – Rene Boucher, a trump-hating Democrat, assaulted Rand Paul at his Bowling Green home, breaking a rib.\u00a0 It could have been worse.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nWest Goshen, PA (8\/9\/17)<\/strong> – Clayton Carter – a man known as an, er, “expressive” Trump detractor – allegedly shot G Brooks Jennings – a Chester County PA GOP committeeman – \u00a0once in the head, knocking him to the ground. \u00a0He then allegedly finished him off with another shot to the head.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWesterville, OH (7\/7) –\u00a0<\/b>E. Stanley Hoff was indicted by a federal grand jury<\/a> for threatening the family of Ohio Republican congressman Steve Stivers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nArlington, VA (June 14)<\/b> – Six people including House majority whip Steve Scalise, were shot by James Hodgkinson, a (apparently) demented Sanders supporter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOrlando FL (February 6)<\/strong> – Young Brownshirts (knowln locally as the “Knights of Socialism”) at the University of Central Florida opened a ‘fight club” “open to anyone but Republicans, with the express purpose of teaching inept millennial snowflakes how to beat up anyone who they disagree with<\/a> (i.e., Republicans).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0Berkeley, CA<\/strong>\u00a0(February 4)<\/strong> – Groups of Blackshirt Youth threw firebombs and physically assaulted spectators at a Milo Yiannopoulis event at UC Berkeley. \u00a0Like the Brownshirts of old, they operated with the tacit approval of the authorities at reliably leftist Berkeley.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0Seattle, WA (January 21)<\/strong> – “Violence at a Milo Yiannopoulis event” wasn’t exactly unique. \u00a0This one ended in a shooting – of someone who “looked like a ‘white supremacist'”. \u00a0 \u00a0As it turns out, the victim, who suffered life-threatening injuries, appeared to be a fellow anti-Milo demonstrator. \u00a0As this is written, the incident is under investigation – but I’m going to suspect left-on-left violence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2016<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"nc-firebomb\"<\/a><\/td>\nOrange County, NC (October 16)<\/strong> – In what Governor Pat McCrory called an act of political terrorism, a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of the GOP headquarters in HIllsborough, NC – a heavily Democrat suburb of Durham. \u00a0The building was also vandalized with a swastika and graffiti telling Republicans to “leave town or else”. \u00a0Democrat officials condemned the attack; as this is written, there are no suspects – but you know as well as I do it was Democrat university students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"\"<\/td>\nMount Vernon, WA (September 23)<\/strong> – Arcan Cetin, a 20-year old immigrant from Turkey, allegedly (as this is written) killed five people at a mall. \u00a0While as this is written the FBI has not ruled out terrorism, Cetin’s Twitter feed indicated he was supporting Hillary Clinton.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
News Story<\/a><\/td>\nBloomfield, NJ (August 9) –\u00a0<\/strong> Trump opponent attacks Trump supporter with a crowbar.IN a classic example of Berg’s Seventh Law – while the media warned about Trumpkin violence through the entire cycle, as this is written\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>the serious violence came from the anti-Trump side.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\nJames Pearce<\/strong>, an obscure professor, called for liberals to arm themselves and kill every living thing in the NRA’s headquarters<\/a>, as well as their lobbyists around the country. \u00a0 \u00a0As this is written, his Facebook page still carries his call to action<\/a>. \u00a0 He claimed it was a joke, later. \u00a0Because jokes about mass murder play so well…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0Michael Steven Sandford<\/strong>, an illegal immigrant\u00a0from the UK, allegedly (as this is written) tried to steal a policeman’s gun to kill Donald Trump at a rally on June 18, 2016. \u00a0 He appeared to be inspired<\/a> by the “climate of hate”<\/a> the left has engendered against Trump.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\nOmar Mateen<\/strong>, the American-born son of Afghan immigrants who killed 49 in a gay nightclub on June 11\u00a0after pledging allegiance to ISIS\u00a0– in an attack that the Obama Administration will no doubt try to classify as “workplace violence” rather than a terror attack – was a registered Democrat<\/a> and a Hillary Clinton supporter<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\nMaybe Violence Isn’t So Bad After All<\/strong>: \u00a0The Huffington Post’s Jesse Benn says “a violent response to Trump makes sense<\/a>“<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\nJune 7 2016 Detroit Free Press<\/strong>: \u00a0Editorial page writer called for the murder of Michigan Republican legislators<\/a>……for supporting charter schools.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a02016 Trump Rallies:<\/strong> \u00a0Mobs of thugs attacked – “hunted like dogs” was one description – Donald Trump supporters at events in\u00a0San Jose<\/a>\u00a0and Albuquerque<\/a>\u00a0and Minneapolis<\/a> and (LEAVE SPACE FOR MORE DURING CAMPAIGN)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\nLarry Russell Dawson<\/strong>: \u00a0The Tennessee preacher went to the Capitol in March of 2016, bellowing about raising the minimum wage as he drew his pistol<\/a>. \u00a0He was shot by capitol guards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"\"<\/td>\nRoland Windsor<\/strong>: \u00a0Former Jimmy Carter staffer says “Republicans and conservatives are the enemy. They are expendable<\/em>. They will be targets in the Revolution when it comes<\/em>\u201d, calls for people to shoot the right. \u00a0One hesitates to give the old duffer too much publicity – but the left, being a herd of suggestible followers, is likely as not to spawn someone younger and even less balanced and rational and perfectly willing to start the job now.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nCraig Hicks<\/strong>: Craig Hicks was arrested for shooting three Muslim neighbors over an altercation over a parking space. Although there’s no evidence the crime was political or religious in nature, President Obama and the left did their best to turn it into one<\/a> – notwithstanding that Hicks was an atheist who made left-of-center noises.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nJohn Lovitz<\/strong> – the former SNL star is a lefty with impeccable liberal credentials. But that didn’t save him from being overwhelmed with death threats when he did what every comic spent the entire stretch from 2000 through 2008 doing – mocking the president for comic effect.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0No Photo – yet<\/td>\n\u00a0Mr. X.<\/strong>– An Iowa man is under investigation for tweeting that he’d like to sodomize Michele Bachmann with a machete, among many (apparently worse) things. More as details become available.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nFloyd Corkins<\/strong> – Inflamed by a Southern Poverty Law Center “hit list”, Corkins went to the conservative Family Research Council, intending to kill as many people as possible. He was wrestled to the ground by a security guard, Leonardo Johnson, who was wounded in the arm.\u00a0In 2013, Corkins was sentence to 25 years in prison.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0No Photo – yet<\/td>\n\u00a0Sean Kedzie<\/strong> – the son of Wisconsin state Senator Neil Kedzie was beaten to a pulp<\/a> by Democrat thugs who were stealing a Romney sign from Kedzie’s lawn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0No Photo – yet<\/td>\nThe Thug Life Of Elizabeth Warren’s Driver<\/strong> – the driver of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth “I’m 1\/32 Cherokee in Spirit!” Warren smacked a GOP tracker, telling him “You’re messing with the wrong people”. Being Massachusetts, the tracker is probably lucky not to wind up drugged and drowned under the Chappaquiddick Bridge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"\"<\/td>\nMaine State Rep. Charles Kruger<\/strong>– Kruger tweeted about his desire to watch former Vice President Dick Cheney’s execution.The punch line; Kruger was the chair of the legislative “Moderate Caucus”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a02011<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\u00a0The “Occupy” Movement<\/strong> – While the “Occupy” movement was largely peaceful, there were plenty of problems – an alleged gang rape<\/a>\u00a0and an alleged statutory rape<\/a>\u00a0(eventually leading to the construction of a “no rape zone” tent<\/a> at OWS), a case of arson<\/a>, a brawl and death threats<\/a> in New York, sexual harassment<\/a> (with serious discouragement of bringing in the police) in Baltimore, protesters defecating on a police car<\/a> and in a US Bank lobby<\/a>, and a group snubbing<\/a> of civil rights legend Congressman John Lewis in Atlanta, fights in Zucotti Park<\/a>, threats<\/a>,babbling about killing police<\/a>, actually attacking them in Denver<\/a>, forcibly blockading people into a Tea Party meeting (with strong suggestions of violence), allegedly buffing the bishop<\/a> in public in Madison, a felony assault on a cop<\/a> in Atlanta, assault on a 78 year old woman<\/a> at a neighboring conservative event – oh, why keep listing them when John Nolte did it for us<\/a>?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No Photo – Yet<\/td>\nUnnamed Union Organizer <\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0John King, of Lambertvile, Ohio, who owns a successful non-union electrical busiiness in a town full of failing union shops, was shot by a unidentified assailant whom King interrupted as his tires were being slashed, and after “SCAB” had been scrawled on his vehicle. The incident follow months of vandalism and other attacks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nEric Leboon<\/strong> – After broadcasting videos threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor (among others), Leboon – an anti-semitic left-wing extremist – was sentenced<\/a>to two years of prison and three years’ probation for threatening the Congressman and his family.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nWisconsin Senate Vote<\/strong> – after three weeks of waiting for fugitive “Fleebagger” Senators to come out of hiding in Illiinois, Wisconsin Republicans managed to get the beef of the bill passed without a quorum on a rules technicality – causing thousands of demonstrators to bum-rush the Capitol, attack Republican legislators<\/a>, and email elaborate death threats<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Wisconsin Union Protests <\/strong>– In and among many racist, anti-semitic and sexist verbal assaults in Madison and at sympathetic Big Labor protests nationwide, a union member on a protest at Tea-Party-supporting PAC “Freedom Works” punched Tabitha Hale <\/a>– a young female staffer – and stole her camera.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/strong><\/td>\nRhonda Arkley<\/strong> – Former DFL candidate for state Senate, prominent in the Twin Cities radical-feminist and atheist communities, Ms. Arkley attempted to kill her husband on December 2<\/a>. He doused him in gasoline and twice tried to light him on fire, between bouts of attacking him with a steak knife. When police arrived, she torched the house (totalled), and tried to stab herself in the chest with a screwdriver before leading the police on a car chase. When they finally stopped her, she was pounding a screwdriver into her chest with a hammer. Her story is tragic, of course; her son had recently died of a heroin overdose. Still – had a fundamentalist conservative Republican done this – or anything – those facts would have led the story.\u00a0 Karma’s a bitch. \u00a0So was the five year prison sentence she eventually got.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nClay Duke<\/strong> – Leaving behind a Facebook page with links to Media Matters and various leftyblogs, Duke took the Panama City School Board hostage, firing a shot at the Superintendent (and missing from six feet) before being killed by a security guard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nJames McSomethingorother <\/strong>punches a blogger with his own video camera at a John Kitzhaber event, bruising his face.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nJames Jay Lee<\/strong> – On September 1, Lee – a Zero Population Growth advocate<\/a> armed with guns and explosives – allegedly\u00a0stormed the headquarters of the Discovery Channel<\/a> and demanded an end to the births of “parasitic humans” before being shot dead by the police. \u00a0Lee claimed to have been motivated by the teachings of Al Gore in his hatred of humanity and its ravages. \u00a0It seems almost as likely he may have been inspired by Obama “Science Czar” James Holdren<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nTyler Tirado<\/strong> – the Monterey, Califonia “man” was arrested for yelling “Baby Killer” at a bunch of Defense Language Institute students, and throwing a beer bottle at a 20 year old female student, giving her a one-inch cut to her head.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay Day Riots: <\/strong>Pro-illegal-immigration rioters destroyed businesses<\/a> in Santa Cruz, attacked secure-borders counterprotesters<\/a> in San Francisco<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n– An unidentified Houston woman, the wife of an oil industry executive, was critically injured by a shoe box bomb<\/a>. As this is written the incident is still under investigation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No photo currently available<\/td>\nLarry Piderman<\/strong>: In the wake of the healthcare vote, Piderman called Florida Republican congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite <\/a>claiming that he and “27 friends” “are going to make sure that this [expletive deleted] does not live to see her next term.”\u00a0 Arrested, he claimed to be a “blackout alcoholic” – but his actual sympathies were plain enough: “He added that he had not researched how congressional members voted on health care reform, but said, “It’s obvious. Brown-Waite is a Republican.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAllee Bautsch: <\/strong>On April 12, Allee Bautsch – a key staffer for Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal – and her boyfriend Joe Brown were ambushed and severely beaten<\/a> as they exited a political event.\u00a0 Although as this is written there has been no official motivation listed, it’s speculated that Bautsch and her boyfriend had argued with some Democrat protester<\/a>s. Bautch’s leg was broken in four places, and required orthopedic surgery and two months of recuperation.\u00a0 Brown suffered a broken nose and jaw and a concussion.\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nJohn Patrick Bedell<\/strong>: On March 5, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon police officers at a Metro station, before being killed in a hail of police gunfire.\u00a0 The media started to blame anti-Obama sentiment – it’s becoming a bit of a pattern, in fact – until it came out that Bedell was in fact another Bush-hating guy with mental health issues.So did the rhetoric of Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz and “ThinkProgress” send this poor fella over the edge?\u00a0 The way Michele Bachmann’s was supposed to have led to Bill Sparkman’s murder…that wasn’t?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJoseph Stack<\/strong>:\u00a0 When the 53 year old software engineer flew a light plane into a building housing an IRS office in Austin<\/a>, Texas, the media initially tried to play it as a crazed right-winger attacking the government.\u00a0Then, his manifesto <\/a>– full of anti-Bush rage – came out.\u00a0 The story quickly dropped, and was not mentioned during the Dems’ late-spring orgy of boogeyman-finding.\u00a0 Stack never again crossed a lefty’s lips.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nAmy Bishop <\/strong>– denied tenure at the University of Alabama, Bishop – a lifelong far-left liberal – pulled out a gun and killed five of her fellow Biology department staffers at a meeting. After the killing, investigation showed that she had also murdered her brother while a teenager. While the killings were not politically motivated (at least in terms of civil electoral politics; campus politics are both quite another thing and generaly take place in an overwhelmingly leftist context), it’s submitted as an example of “ends justifying the means” – a key tenet of the left worldwide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a02009<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"\"<\/td>\n\u00a0Harlan James Drake <\/strong>– Drake is accused of murdering\u00a0 pro-life activist Jim Poullion in front of the Owosso, Michigan high school because Poullion’s anti-abortion materials “offended” him.\u00a0 He is currently charged with the murder and awaiting trial.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nMaurice Schwenkler<\/strong>: After blaming vandalism at the Democratic Party HQ in Denver on Tea Partiers, the CODP was chagrinned to find out that the attack was actually carried out by one of their own, in an attempt to discredit the GOP. Maurice Schwenkler did $11,000 in damage<\/a>. He also earned his chops as a magician; the story disappeared once his identity and politicial affiliation were known.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nTown Hall Thuggery: <\/strong>Democrats linked to seven different assaults<\/a> against Obamacare critics and other protesters at the various Town Hall meetings over the summer. \u00a0The worst example was the beating of Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative beaten by white SEIU thugs who put him in the hospital <\/a>under a hail of kicks and racial epithets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nBill Sparkman:\u00a0 <\/strong>Initially, the left jumped up and down and hooted that Bill Sparkman – a part-time teacher and census worker found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky with anti-government rhetoric scrawled on his chest – was murdered by “anti-government activists” motivated by right-wing pundits (including Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann).It turned out that Sparkmann killed himself.\u00a0 Tragic, to be sure – but it introduces the question “why would a man choose to make his last act on this earth a frame-up of an entire political movement?”\u00a0 Doesn’t it at least make you wonder whose hateful rhetoric was having an affect, here?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/strong><\/td>\nBradley Neal Crowder: <\/strong>In May of 2009, Crowder, of Austin, TX, was sentenced to two years in prison <\/a>for building eight Molotov Cocktails.\u00a0 He’d been caught on a wiretap from a police informant, saying he planned to throw the firebombs at police vehicles, at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN.\u00a0 While the regional media and lefty-“alt” media focused to exclusion on a few cases of alleged police overreach in dealing with protesters, there was very little coverage of this act of domestic terrorism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nThe Republican National Convention – <\/strong>The RNC Convention, held in Saint Paul, was plagued by protesters smashing signs, grandiloquent plans for violence (see the scumbag Mr. Crowder, above), and – in confirmed incidents – throwing bleach at two delegates and attacking a bus full of delegates with sandbags.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nTimes Square Recruiting Station bombed: <\/strong>The bombing remains unsolved – but the MO (a lone caucasian on a bike leaving a rather amateurish bomb) and the pattern into which it fit (there were several other bombings of targets of anti-war whackdoodles around New York at the time) says “Climate of Lefty Hate” pretty clearly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/td>\nMatthew Murray<\/strong> – Ejected from a missionary program, Murray – reportedly motivated by hatred for conservative Christians – killed two people at a missionary school in Colorado Springs, then drove across town to a church service and started shooting, killing two before being gunned down by a civilian volunteer security guard with a legal handgun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nNavid Haq<\/strong> – Inflamed by the anti-Israel slogans he’d heard in ultraliberal Seattle, slogans he apparently mentioned as he was shooting – Mr. Haq murdered one and wounded five more at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle <\/a>in June of 2006.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
News Story<\/a><\/td>\nKnoxville, TN<\/strong> – Gunman\u00a0 riddled the Bush\/Cheney headquarters with gunfire during the (what we thought at the time was a) contentious presidential race that year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The Coleman Billboard<\/strong> – A billboard in Saint Paul for Norm Coleman – then just-elected to his term in the Senate – was defaced with Nazi graffiti<\/a>. The vandalism included a swastika painted on the forehead of Coleman – who is Jewish.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the left has been finding “violent”, “hateful” and “racist”\u00a0conservatives under every rock lately (as this is written, in April of 2010), while consigning the deranged activities of the loony left to the memory hole, it’s time we built a monument to the left’s long legacy of violent lunacy. Got any candidates for inclusion on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88358,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10054\/revisions\/88358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}