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Originally Posted by Willravel
The complaints against the G8 can generally be backed up with factual evidence. The protests against the G8 are true grassroots, not astroturf. The demands of the people protesting are not "do what we say or we'll shoot you" or anything of the sort. Acts of violence in those protests, which were relatively rare, were in self-defense. No acts of terrorism or murders can be associated in any way with the G8 protests.
It's not the same thing, and I can explain precisely why. I welcome someone to explain why an anti-government whacko pulling a gun at a Democratic congresswoman's public event intending to assassinate her has nothing at all to do with voice on the right calling for armed resistance against Democrats. I welcome a salient argument on how these are in no way related. Until that argument appears, I make no apologies for asking the right to turn on the individuals in their ranks calling for violence in this thread.
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I'm sure the average tea party member would tell you it's a real grassroots movement too. And I bet most people buying up the guns are in fact probably saying they're solely doing so to protect themselves and their families. In fact almost all of your arguments sound like "yeah, but we're right." Umm, ok, if you say so.
As for calling on people to prove it doesn't have a correlation, why not wait until we have all the facts. People were flat out calling the right responsible for the killing of the census worker too. Didn't quite turn out that way.