Some friendless whack-job living in the apartment above his parents garage threatens House Minority Whip Eric Cantor in a rambling anti-Semitic Youtube video, and rightly gets his crazy ass arrested. Normally such an arrest would be a good thing, but one wonders why he wasn't arrested much earlier. After all the guy had posted over two thousand similar videos threatening most of the known universe. Including, but not limited to, virtually every Republican and Democratic politician in existence (including the President). What's wrong with the Fed's? They should have raided his folks garage immediately after he threatened the life of that adorable pig from the movie Babe…
Yet despite the plethora of video threats, somehow he is arrested only after a video of him threatening Cantor is discovered. Or shall we say – unearthed, most likely by Cantor's own staff. Cantor lost whatever remaining credibility he had when he claimed a random shooting was directed at his office. Although I am speculating here, I believe it's clear that he directed his staff to find something – anything to pin an extremist label on liberals. However, from even a cursory viewing of video posted by this deeply disturbed individual, it is painfully obvious that he is neither liberal nor conservative. He is quite simply a fucking nut-job with a god complex crying out for attention…
This incident, like the faux shooting story, is just another transparent attempt by Cantor to create false equivalence between the left and the current actions of the wingnut base of the Republican party. I'm sorry but it is no longer 1969, who are the Left's armed lunatic fringe? Please point out which Leftist group threatens politicians and plots to overthrow the federal government? Friends of the Earth? PETA? Code Pink? Despite what you hear in the media, such a fringe is virtually non-existent. The year is 2010, and in 2010 it is the Right that uses threats of violence, intimidation, and vandalism to achieve their political goals…
So here is the question of the day. Who is more likely to act on their threats? The obviously insane Norman Leboon, or the Hutaree militia whack-jobs?
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