Left and Right and... Left?

When one looks at the radical left wing to find dangerous criminals or terrorists, only one name really comes up with any regularity: Bill Ayers. His name only comes up because he's met President Obama.

Bill was a member of the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground killed exactly three people. Those people were all members of the Weather Underground who died in an explosion by a bomb in their possession. All Weather Underground attacks were done to property during non-business hours, usually with the warning that they were coming.

My point is that the radical left doesn't seem to kill people.

The radical right seems a little less queasy about murder. Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City building in 1995 just after 9:00 AM, when people were there. Violence against abortion providers has killed a couple of handfuls of people (the most recent, of course, being George Tiller, the doctor in Kansas). And James von Brunn (allegedly) opened fire in the Holocaust museum.

Then you get dangerous Dickheads like Randall Terry (formerly of Operation Rescue) excusing the violence against abortion providers, while doing everything he can to separate himself from the von Brunn type of violence. Well, Mr. Terry, you're both part of a right-wing movement.

Unless you believe the right-wing media, which seems hell-bent on getting von Brunn lumped along with the left-wing radicals, and (also found via TPM)... lesbians?

Sorry, dudes, but neo-Nazi philosophies - whether coming from politicians, nutjobs, or murderers - are right-wing ideas. Von Brunn is yours.

So, yeah... Nice work bad-mouthing that report from the Department of Homeland Security that discussed the danger of right-wing violence a few weeks back.