Sons of Liberty indeed. More like sons of insanity.

http://www.suzieduke.com/TeapartywithJesus.html

And it occurs to me that the confusion might be in the metrics. I am not talking about terrorism in hard numbers, but rather rates per capita. I would have thought that was rater obvious, but maybe it isn’t…

That would be exactly what I mean. And the incompetence of another terrorist group does not somehow make them benign, it makes them incompetent.

If you are refering to those and were to aply the same standards to the US,you’d find that your rate of domestic terrorismis actually higher.

Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.

Germany has never had an Oklahoma City. Germany has never had a DC Sniper.

Again, incompetent terrorists are still terrorists. And the DC Sniper was not a terrorist, he was a common fucking criminal.

Germany has never had a Scott Roeder or Eric Rudolph.

Again, Bullshit. There were different motivations to be sure, but Germany has had it’s politically motivated terrorists. Hell, you had a thirty year run with BM/RAF – are you honestly going to try to claim they never bombed anything, never shot anyone? You also have the neo-natzi loons, hurting and sometimes killing people.

And Germany doesn’t have “rather draconian restrictions on speech” either.We have a law against holocaust denial,since this constitutes a form of libel and hate speech (“lying Jews”,ya know?) and we have a law against “Volksverhetzung”(roughly equivalent to “hate speech”)both of which are frequently and easily circumvented by hate groups via teh internetz .

You have put people in fucking jail and given people huge fines for fucking words. Libel is an act you commit against another person or a business. Hate speech is just so much fucking bullshit.

Who gets to decide what is hate speech? Can you tell me what hate speech is? If I accuse someone of being a fucking waste of oxygen, would that be hate speech? What exactly is this hate speech you speak of?

We don’t ban books either,contrary to popular belief,if a book is “indiziert” (“indicated”),that merely means that it cannot be sold a)openly and b)to a minor and it cannot be advertised.

You know what is funny? I didn’t say anything about banning books. But I have to say, I am unimpressed with what you actually do with them. Not being allowed to advertise that you have something for sale, makes it rather a challenge to sell. While it may not equal an outright ban, it might as well.

And while I am all about keeping particularly graphic representations of sex and violence out of childrens hands, I do not believe in restricting political speech – bullshit or otherwise – away from children. Rather than just assume that they will be capable of dealing with dangerous or evil ideas when they come across them as an adult, I would like to be able to talk about them. If it is my responsibility as a parent, to prepare my child for the wide world, then part of that responsibility must include making sure they can pick the vileness out of what often is a very attractive presentation.

The reason we don’t have a Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly is not that we draconianly (?) ban them but because people would be embarrassed to watch such vileness and stupidity.

More hilarity, as I said absolutely nothing about this almost uniquely U.S. American phenom, wingnut talking heads. Remarkably, I am well aware of why most countries do not have this in common with the U.S. But please, don’t let that stop you from pretending I was making arguments I was most certainly not.

These folks are a decent reason why I stay armed.

They force me to be a liberal gun nut, in effect.

Even though my collection is more of a memento from my grandfather.

These folks creep me out.