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[meegbear]

with a Northern Lights Beer



Monday was a beautiful morning in Spokane, Washington, for the annual Unity March that occurs on Martin Luther King Day. According to local news station KXLY, there were 3000 people who marched from the INB Performing Arts Center to River Park Square. If you can make it out in that screenshot up there, there's people in wheelchairs and children out to celebrate King's life. In case that's not clear, there's always this:



These are the people who would have been killed or maimed if a remote-detonation bomb, an IED, if you will, had gone off where it had been planted along the march route, just outside Auntie's Bookstore.

Is it okay, dear right-wingers, if we jump to conclusions here? The FBI already has. Said the special agent in charge, "Clearly, the timing and placement of a device – secreted in a backpack – with the Martin Luther King parade is not coincidental." Now, unless someone wants to psychotically contort this to somehow be a leftist plot to discredit conservatives by attempting to blow up kids, chances are this was done by someone who is a far right, racist piece of shit.

When it comes to harming real and actual people, both sides aren't equal. Conservatives have to go back to the 1960s for some kind of parity of violence. We're talking two generations ago, so, really, equating current right-wing nutjobs of today with leftist Vietnam War protesters is like saying that The Beverly Hillbillies is still a fresh and delightfully new show. It ain't. It's only in reruns. But conservatives who roll their eyes if you bring up Timothy McVeigh will still talk about the Weather Underground as if your local Marine recruiter is about to be attacked by hippies.

Besides, most violence by the left in America for the last few decades has been primarily against property. Eco-terrorists, for instance, blow up cars and labs. It's the right-wing bags of fuck who wanna kill people. But, of course, the right does value property more than people.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. " But, of course, the right does value property more than people. " Soooo true.

and this disease is spreading to some of the Dems as well.

[uppityperson]

2. k&r

[rfranklin]

3. Probably just an "isolated incident" perpetrated by...

a "mentally unstable loner...with possible left wing leanings."

[Jackpine Radical]

4. It was a leftist plot to make the Right Wing look bad.

Or maybe a right wing plot to make people think it was a left wing plot to make the right wing look bad.

Or…

[gratuitous]

5. Is the FBI sore that they didn't have a hand in this?

They apparently hate free-lancers. It'll be fascinating to see what kind of priority this real-live bomb takes with the feds as opposed to the fake bomb they supplied a 19-year-old with in Portland.

[spanone]

6. K&r - THANK GOD IT FAILED

[Swamp Rat]

7. I hope they catch the GOP/FUX Noise/Conservative right wing nutjob terrorist who did this.

I'd bet anyone a brazillion dollars it was a white male(s), right wing, teabagging conservative, GOP-voting bigot who did this.

[mistertrickster]

8. Wow, this was all over the news . . . not. nt