Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.1243bbbbc4f0
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...Qzrx51Z47cVoXA
One TWC's refusal to acknowledge a Trump supporter's alleged bombing campaign reminded me of this example of the depths to which US conservative politics has sunk.
Three ultra right-wing militiamen found guilty in April of a conspiracy to kill Muslim refugees living in rural Kansas. Ahead of the 2016 election, Stein and two others plotted with an FBI informant and an undercover agent to bomb an apartment complex that housed Muslims in Garden City. Muslims were referred to as “cockroaches” that had to be exterminated. As usual, these losers were indoctrinated andradicalised by racist media on the web and via Fox News.They face life sentences.
During this week's sentencing hearing, the attorney for one of the convicted(Patrick Stein) argued that that sending him to prison for life was unwarranted and that a sentence of 15 years would be appropriate. Ther reason? Puting aside a drink and drug problem and the quantity of anti-muslim material he read online, the murder plot would only have occured because of Donald Trump's behaviour. The defence sentencing statement said:
“2016 was ‘lit.’ The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mould-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president,”
Does the forum beleive that terrorist plots or attacks can be excused, just because the POTUS is a racist arse?
Shouldn't more work be done on the causes of radicalisation instead, ( I know one constitutional amendnment hampers work on this) rather than shaking fists at Trump, who may merely be the symptom?