Remember when liberals reached beyond reason to connect a Sarah Palin map to the Tucson shooting? Let’s see what they do with this.
The Family Research Council shooter, who pleaded guilty today to a terrorism charge, picked his target off a “hate map” on the website of the ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center which is upset with the conservative group’s opposition to gay rights.
Floyd Lee Corkins II pleaded guilty to three charges including a charge of committing an act of terrorism related to the August 15, 2012 injuring of FRC’s guard. He told the FBI that he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went to the law center’s website for ideas.
At a court hearing where his comments to the FBI were revealed, he said that he intended to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.” The shooting occurred after an executive with Chick-Fil-A announced his opposition to same-sex marriage.
This crime presents the militant left with a couple of problems. One, by their definition, it’s a hate crime. Two, rhetoric such as Spencer Ackerman threatening to smash conservatives’ faces through plate glass windows may be relevant to the intended killer’s inspiration. Third, the Southern Poverty Law Center targeted the Family Research Council as a “hate group” for holding a mainstream position on a cultural issue. The shooter explicitly admits that he used the SPLC’s map to choose his target for a mass killing.
Whatever will the likes of Media Matters, Think Progress et al do with this?
A leading question if ever there was.
The standard fare. Pretend it doesn’t exist, followed by ignoring it if it knowledge of it becomes available outside the PJMedia family.
If by chance this event goes mainstream and somebody points out what the author did, invoke the double standard like they do with black, excuse me African-American, crime statistics.
Predictable as the sun rising.
It seems the term ‘shooter’ has suddenly come in vogue whereas for all of my 60 years, the term ‘gunman’ was used. Is this another subtle shift in lingo to paint all with the same ‘evil’ connotation? I know every Marine on the rifle qualification firing line was referred to as a ‘shooter’ during the quals. I think those of us in support of Amendment II should make it a point to refer to criminals/suspects who use a firearm to be referred to as a/the ‘GUNMAN’ or gunmen.
Sounds like the SPLC should be the target of a lawsuit.
My prediction for the reaction of the Southern Poverty Law Center is: privately, jubilation; publicly, silence.
Hahaha. And they actually do call it a “hate map.” Kinda George Orwell there.
But to their credit, they do call the Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party hate groups and have them on their maps. I don’t know how long that’s been true, but maybe they’re starting to wake up.
The problem is that the world view that informs the SPLC’s sense of justice is still skewed if not delusional. The Nation of Islam is far more mainstream than any comparable white hate group, and with tentacles that reach right into the White House, since Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor, gave his racist cult’s highest award to Louis Farrakhan.
Considering how Obama squatted in a hate group’s church for 20 years and asked us to be inspired by whitey-hating Derrick Bell, he is a troubling man, elected by naive rubes. The actions of the DOJ and another racist, Eric Holder, are a sign of this.
Thank you, Fail Burton, for calling Wright, Holder and Bell what they really are, which is racists. I’m sick of pundits who are supposedly on our side using weasel words like “racialists,” etc.
SPLC is a clown group anymore.
Funnier AND scarier than most clowns.
– should sue itself out of business.
So… between this and the guy who admitted his shooting spree was inspired by his college curriculum telling him white people were “evil”, isn’t it time for the left to start asking themselves why they’re inspiring so much violence? Shouldn’t they tone down their hatred? Maybe spend a few years silent, searching their souls?
Is it just me or do so many of these groups believe they are the ELITE and ALWAYS right and all the others are wrong in the way they think. I read over and over that many of them say and think that their opinion is right and not yours.
And we all know the saying about OPINIONS. I an a very very firm believer in the fact that my opinion is mine and you’ll not change it no matter how strongly you feel about yours. And I will believe mine until I change it….it’s MINE no matter what you say to me. If I don’t like someone that’s MY right and if YOU lie that group more power to you for your opinion. But NEVER Ever get in my face and tell me I’m Wrong! You have a fight on your hands in a heartbeat.