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Originally Posted by Red_Mage
I just dislike the whole "right wingers v. left wingers: who's killed more" argument. It feels too much like pointing fingers at one "side" or the other, as though the psychos have anything to do with their mainstream counterparts. It's all done for political one-upsmanship, and it's a waste of time. Terrorism is terrorism.
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I was not making such an argument. I was making a argument that the claim "Has not killed anyone" was inaccurate
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And he's right, anyway. Or at least half right. He specifically said that the "Tea Party" never killed anyone. He was wrong in propagating this silly notion that the government can't fight terrorism and watch right wing extremist at the same time (and in the asserting that the Tea Party is who they were watching to begin with), but he was right that the Tea Party movement itself hasn't killed anyone. You said right wing extremists, not him.
Christian groups, on the other hand...that's a horse of a different color. But in any case, I don't see any value in finger pointing.
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I assumed he was refering to the types of groups that the government was watching when he said Tea party as he had said
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The FBI dropped the ball, in part because it was spending all its time training to watch the tea party
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groups who haven't killed anybody
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Either he is wrong on what he claimed the FBI was watching out of suspected terrorist tendencies or he misspoke and was wrong about their innocence.