violence

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Aug. 21, 2013.
In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them,” declared U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican. “Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.”

If crime continues to increase, the existing political system will be broken and replaced by one that is sufficiently powerful and brutal to quell all resistance. That is the planned end-game of the current global-migration frenzy. [...]

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Antonio Foremen, a Trump supporter and conservative activist was stabbed nine times following a Trump rally. Two Armenian men crashed through a parking barrier and hit Foreman's vehicle and then yelled “You’re getting the shank, white boy.” [...]

Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
Legally owning a gun in America could get you killed by a government agent.

-by NoahDonald J. Trump has run his life as a bully. He shoots off his mouth as a bully. He sues as a bully. He refuses to pay contractors agreed amounts for work and threatens them if they don’t take less. He bullied his way through the 2016 campaign season. He encourages violence at his rallies. He hangs up on prime ministers. He shoves them aside.

Today's political climate is verging dangerously toward using force as a means of silencing opponents. Civil discourse is at a crossroads. We can either accept that violence will rule how we interact with others behind the protection of our computer screens (or openly in the public square) or we can decide to reign in intolerance in the name of tolerance.

An SUV, with a bullet hole in the windshield and a flat tire, sits in the parking lot at the scene of a multiple shooting in Alexandria, Va, June 14, 2017, during a congressional baseball practice. (AP/Cliff Owen)
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The shooting yesterday of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, several aides and capitol police officers serves as a chilling reminder as to the state of American politics. We are no longer a nation of civil public discourse. Perhaps it’s time we realized that the use of force to achieve political ends is inherently evil.

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) There were two mass shootings in the United States today, and I’m really not surprised by them. Mass shootings have become commonplace in America as of late, and after every one of them, the political blame game spins round and round, even before we send out our redundant “thoughts and prayers.”