Decius wrote:

Mike the Usurper wrote:
How many lefty attacks have there been? Oh that's right, none.

Well, there was the Weathermen:

Harvey Klehr, the Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history at Emory University in Atlanta, said in 2003, "The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."

The UnaBomber

Injured 23 people and killed three...

Olde Time Anarchist Bombings which may still be an issue.

Also one cannot avoid mentioning the cache that the ruthless Che Guevara has developed on the left. I recently had a difficult time trying to explain to a Russian emigre that American teenagers who walked around with pictures of "that murderer" on their t-shirts where not necessarily advocating violence.

People kill for all kinds of ideological reasons.

With the exception of Teddy K, this one doesn't go very far anymore. First, let's talk about the Weathermen, who gave warnings. That's not incompetence, that's trying to avoid killing people. And they've been gone since the early 70's.

Ted is the weirdo lefty Luddite, and I'm in full agreement with the fringe groups of the left being checked out too, I just can't think of one of the top of my head still in existence that thinks of everyone else as sub-human.

If you want to go old school, groups like Red Army and Bader are gone because their backing (the KGB) is toast, and the abuses of most modern governments aren't anything like the abuses of old to create more of them.

If you want to talk Che, that one is a different story. He's viewed as more a romance-tragic figure rather than what his history would normally lead to. Look at people who have Mao shirts, or Lenin shirts. Had Che taken control of Cuba and Castro been the one killed, I have a feeling they'd be Castro shirts, not Che.

In any case, domestic lefty terrorism, with the exception of Ted K (and even his exception doesn't go anywhere because he wasn't part of any group) has turned "violence" into "You ruined my coat!" And that's been true for quite some time in this country.

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