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“I don’t really,” Donald said when asked if he saw white nationalism as a rising threat around the world on Friday March 15, 2019, in the wake of devastating Christian terrorist attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that left at least 49 people dead.

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Glenn Beck's Deadly Bullshit

Late on a Saturday night two weeks ago, an unemployed carpenter packed his mother's Toyota Tundra with guns and set off for San Francisco with a plan to kill progressives.

When California Highway Patrol officers stopped him on an interstate in Oakland for driving erratically, Byron Williams, wearing body armor, fired at police with a 9mm handgun, a shotgun and a .308-caliber rifle with armor-piercing bullets, Oakland police say. Shot and captured after injuring two officers, Williams, on parole for bank robbery, told investigators that he wanted "to start a revolution" by "killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU," according to a police affidavit. His mother, Janice, told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son had been watching television news and was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."

But what television news show could have directed the troubled man's ire toward the obscure Tides Foundation, which sounds as if it's dedicated to oceanography, or perhaps laundry detergent, but which is in fact a nonprofit that claims to support "sustainability, better education, solutions to the AIDS epidemic and human rights"?


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I was, uh, one of the authors of the Port Huron statement--the original Port Huron statement, not the compromised second draft. And then I, uh... ever hear of the Seattle Seven? That was me... six other guys. And then... let's see, I, uh, music business briefly. Yeah. Roadie for Metallica. 'Speed of Sound' tour. Bunch'a assholes. And then, you know, little of this, little of that. My career's, uh, slowed down a bit lately... Fortunately I've been adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug regimen to keep my mind, you know, limber..
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