Do you approve of or oppose the DOJ’s crackdown on violent left wing political rhetoric targeting conservatives like Benny Johnson?

[SolitarySolace]

Do you approve or oppose of the DOJ’s crackdown on violent left wing political rhetoric targeting conservatives like Benny Johnson after the assassination of Charlie Kirk? - nypost.com/.../

Charlie Kirk was just the beginning - https://youtu.be/8OBHDfBFl6E?si=dsHT5RDzLoSZTTns

Approve

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According to the NewYorkTimes Article, The leftist who threatened Benny Johnson and his family said he wanted him dead because he is a white, cis, Christian Trump supporter and described in great detail how

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would be killed in an open field just like Charlie. How much blood would come out of my head and neck when it would come off. This leftist also described orphaning Benny Johnson’s four children and widowing his wife with great joy.

[exitseven]

These assholes are getting people killed. The democrats fear people like Charlie Kirk and Benny Johnson. They are undoing years of indoctrination of young people. They have been asked several times to stop with the hate speech. It has only gotten worse. Instead of waiting for more assassinations, President Trump is taking action to put a stop to it.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Curmudgeon]

After years of Leftists pulling this in the Obamunist and Commielah Administrations, finally there is pushing back. We have learned to "stop worrying and love the Cancel Culture":

https://www.youtube.com/embed/eWl8MncpdE0

[DrPepper12]

You mean the Kremlin puppet? Funny how you omit that part...

https://www. google. com/amp/s/www. foxnews. com/media/conservative-influencers-linked-company-russian-election-influence-case-speak-out-say-theyre-victims. amp


"Company-1 was later identified as Tenet Media , which describes itself as "a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues." It employs widely followed conservative commentators Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, Taylor Hansen and Matt Christiansen. Supporters of former President Trump, they are not accused of any wrongdoing and several spoke out after the indictment was announced."

[purplepoppy]

Why not just crack down on all violent rhetoric regardless of who it comes from? Anyone encouraging violence or hatred towards any person or group should be at risk of prosecution. It shouldn't matter if it's Muslim screaming death to Jews, if it's the far right stirring up racial hatred, or some left winger wanting to kill Trump. It's all wrong so let's not cherry pick.

[zagor]

Because we might end up like the UK and start arresting people for hurting people's feelings.

[Chazmatazz269]

Policies have long been in place that afford our government the right and responsibility to curb radical rightwing behavior. It’s not new at all. It’s fairly new for the radical left to be targeted by law enforcement though. I also haven’t seen any reason to believe cracking down on the left means that they will be short resources to continue to mitigate the right. So your question practically reads ‘Why not continue to do what they’ve always done and include the radical left for a change?’
Yes. That’s exactly what they are doing. The only difference is that the democrats are mad that corruption, lawlessness and violence are being mitigated. Conservative voices have long promoted law and order as a fundamental principle.

[zagor]

@Chazmatazz269 Uh, who do you think J. Edgar Hoover had under surveillance back in the day? The radical left was very intensely watched, and with good reason, as it was actually much more radical then. Most of the "radical left" nowadays are creampuffs compared to the murderous groups of the 60's and 70's.

[jshm2]

There is no "left wing violence" to crack down on.

95% of political violence is from the Right.

Dipshits like Benny "Russian" Johnson think they are "special" and even extraterrestrials are coming for them...

[Cidknee]

You are either attempting comedy over a very serious topic or are just plain uninformed.

[blackeagle007]

@Cidknee let’s not go there ok

[Chazmatazz269]

Do you even believe your own BS at this point? You are so wrong so often that it’s clear that you have an agenda with zero use for facts.

[Cidknee]

Well said Chaz! And the black eagle, what's your problem, boy?

[Bricealan]

@SolitarySolace See if this fits your and my views: "Inciting to riot" is a crime punishable by arrest and confinement.

How about 'inciting to kill"?

[SolitarySolace]

Exactly. If ‘inciting to riot’ is criminal, then ‘inciting to kill’ should be treated just as seriously — which is why I fully support the DOJ’s decision to arrest the man who threatened Benny Johnson and his family.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

approve all the way. the left can't be fucking trusted and their action speaks louder than their words

[chrissykerdock]

i ask why the roofs nearby not covered by security

[FunkyMonkee]

That guy and those who oppose the DOJ doing their job MUST be a nazi!!

[RedInnocent69]

Oppose, only because it’s so blatantly partisan and the administration has done so little to crack down on violent right wing political rhetoric

[Twalli]

If they were cracking down on violent political rhetoric, I would find it great, they aren't, because Trump and his ilk spread it any chance they get. If they were also targeted by the DOJ, we'd have President Vance (who hasn't done that much).

[Chazmatazz269]

Nonsense. The government has been tracking and mitigating radical rightwing groups for decades. That’s the primary reason the abortion clinic attacks are so few and far between now. The problem is that you accept your own cult leaders’ lies about what is radical left versus radical right. A decade ago, an attack on a Synagogue was supposed to be radical right, typically Christian nationalist, until further evidence suggested otherwise. Now the radical left in support of Hamas is attacking Jewish people and their places of worship. But the news continues to suggest Christian nationalists, even when the evidence points to the left. There is also a wildly ignorant belief that all gun violence is intrinsically rightwing just because conservatives favor the second amendment to the US Constitution. Being pro-firearms isn’t the same as being pro-crime. The latter is a 100% leftist ideal. You started it, perfected it and monopolize that belief entirely on the left.

[Twalli]

@Chazmatazz269 The largest terrorist attacks in the US were done by conservatives. OKC bombing, McVeigh was right wing. Muslims are primarily conservative, so 9-11 was perpetrated by conservatives.

[shortster]

If you threaten to kill someone that is illegal and you should be arrested.

[Chazmatazz269]

Threatening to kill someone actually isn’t a crime unless acted upon. You can say or write that you’re going to kill someone and you might not even be investigated, let alone arrested. Assessing the credibility of the threat is the first step in the investigation. So as to not invest a great deal of resources on empty rhetoric.

[shortster]

General threats aren't illegal; but once you name a victim that crosses into illegality.

[zagor]

Are they also cracking down on right wing nuts like the guy who thought Hilary Clinton was sex-trafficking kids in a pizza parlor?

[Twalli]

No, because that would be counterproductive to their goal.

[Chazmatazz269]

Yep. They always have, and that hasn’t changed.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Does it stop violent rightist rhetoric about POC, gays, immigrants, etc?

[Cidknee]

Do you EVER actually hear any? Honest?

[Twalli]

No, it was very targeted.

[beefcakebradybatson]

@Cidknee LOTS of times, pardner.

[Cidknee]

Gee, you must live where a lot of those people are. But don't smear a right of center as such. We're the only sane ones around. Slightly left of center doesn't exist anymore. It's all far left or right in varying degrees.

[Twalli]

They don't really care about violent political rhetoric. Their orange leader and his sycophants won't stop spouting it from the right. It's weaponizing the justice system, as Trump threatened to do.

[SolitarySolace]

The left are calling conservatives fascists and Nazis. Instigating their own base of unhinged mentally ill individuals to take matters into their own hands. I have not heard of any damning rhetoric coming from the right. If any at all it isn’t as damning as calling your opposition fascists and Nazis and threats to their democracy. If there were an equal number of mentally ill individuals on both the right and the left, we would already be in a bloody civil war instead of civil strife.

[Twalli]

You must never listen to Trump then.

[SolitarySolace]

I listen to him far more than I listened to Biden the last 4 years and I have never heard anything come out of his mouth that is equally as damning as anything spewed out of the mouth of democrats and leftist politicians. Like I said, even if there were something Trump or any Republican says that is equal to the rhetoric said by democrats (fascist, Nazi, threat to our democracy, etc) there are far less mentally ill individuals on the right compared to on the left who have and will act on said rhetoric. Otherwise we would have already been in a bloody civil war instead of civil strife

[Twalli]

Trump has called everyone who opposes him vermin, scum, fascists, and nazis.

[SolitarySolace]

And yet none of his supporters acted on any of that rhetoric like the democrats supporters have.

[Twalli]

Because January 6, 2021 didn't really exist?

[SolitarySolace]

Sure, it existed. But so did the George Floyd riots — when cities burned, businesses were looted, and innocent people were beaten or killed in the streets while the media called it ‘mostly peaceful.’ So did the St. John’s Church fire, which forced the Secret Service to move the sitting President into a secure bunker as mobs raged outside the White House. So did the multiple attempted assassinations of President Trump, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk — a bold christian conservative voice gunned down for his beliefs, while liberals and leftists flooded social media with mockery and celebration. If we’re being honest, January 6 pales in comparison.

[Twalli]

I haven't heard a confirmation of the motives behind Kirk's assassination. His killer grew up in a conservative family. We also know that the person who shot at Trump (not the one who was caught before shooting), was also a registered republican. Most single person violent acts are perpetrated by people who are, or who are considered republicans. January 6 was an attempt to ensure an egotistical narcissist who couldn't accept that people didn't like him as much as he liked himself could remain in power.

[SolitarySolace]

It’s clear we see the world through very different lenses. I’m content to leave it at that — there’s no reason to try convincing you otherwise.

[Twalli]

I am not saying that liberals have nevet used those words against conservatives and there have been riots.
Trump has called anyone who disagrees with him: scum, vermin, fascist and Nazi. I'm pretty sure nobody buy Trump has called their opponents scum and vermin.
As for January 6, that was a deliberate attempt to overthrow the government. No liberals have done that in American history.

[Cidknee]

Yeah, its open season on those radical freaks.

[IamRight]

I approve