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Holy crap. "hanged from a tree" is what we call 'lynching' here in the south. Anyone know the ethnicity of the deceased?
I for one think that yes, Fox news & co are partly responsible here, by whipping people into a frenzy. What I'm not sure of is what, if anything could or should be done about it. AFAIK, they aren't specifically inciting people to do things like this, but they are (very carefully) coming as close as possible without actually doing it. Fox gets freedom of speech, so I don't see any legal recourse so long as they don't cross the line into actually advocating this stuff. But when you tell people that 'the feds' are 'coming to get them'...some people are going to fall for it, and they have to know that.
Along these lines, I just want to point out that something like 95% of these 'anti-government' protesters were completely silent while Bush was in office, and the government was acting pretty much exactly as it is now. This is about a Democrat in office, and the anti-democrat machine whipping up a frenzy. Race probably helps for some of this as well, but I wouldn't say it's a 'deciding factor' for the majority of the tea-partiers.
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