saz
08-01-2008, 11:58 AM
a short but great read (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/93126/did_right-wing_shock_jocks_motivate_knoxville_killer/) about how traditional, centrist, rational conservative ideology - fiscal responsibility, small central government, humble foreign policy - morphed into outright far right-wing, hate spewing fundamentalist neo-con warmongering.
Knoxville police Sunday evening searched the Levy Drive home of Jim David Adkisson after he allegedly entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and killed two people and wounded six others during the presentation of a children’s musical.
Adkisson targeted the church … “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country’s hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets.
Inside the house, officers found “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” by radio talk show host Michael Savage, “Let Freedom Ring” by talk show host Sean Hannity, and “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television talk show host Bill O’Reilly.
AlterNet’s Josh Holland examines whether or not hate-speech from America’s right wing commentators caused Adkisson’s violent outburst, and if we should hold them accountable for what they say. His conclusions are damning.
In Rwanda, the genocide of 800,000 people was spurred on by extremists on the radio — Rwanda’s Shock-Jocks — who said that it was every loyal Hutu’s duty to wipe out the “cockroaches” who were destroying the country, and that speech was condemned as a crime against humanity.
Knoxville police Sunday evening searched the Levy Drive home of Jim David Adkisson after he allegedly entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and killed two people and wounded six others during the presentation of a children’s musical.
Adkisson targeted the church … “because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country’s hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of media outlets.
Inside the house, officers found “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” by radio talk show host Michael Savage, “Let Freedom Ring” by talk show host Sean Hannity, and “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television talk show host Bill O’Reilly.
AlterNet’s Josh Holland examines whether or not hate-speech from America’s right wing commentators caused Adkisson’s violent outburst, and if we should hold them accountable for what they say. His conclusions are damning.
In Rwanda, the genocide of 800,000 people was spurred on by extremists on the radio — Rwanda’s Shock-Jocks — who said that it was every loyal Hutu’s duty to wipe out the “cockroaches” who were destroying the country, and that speech was condemned as a crime against humanity.