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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:37 PM Aug 2017

About Christopher Cantwell (the one crying on the video in LBN)

This is long so I'll skip down a little bit.

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He claimed he seriously had considered going on a bloody rampage, “like one of these guys like Jerad Miller,” who in 2014, along with Jerad’s wife Amanda, killed two Las Vegas police officers and one civilian in an explosion of anti-government rage, with Jerad dying in a shootout with police and a wounded Amanda committing suicide.

“I was going to go out blasting,” Cantwell told his audience, “and take as many of them with me as I could.”

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Continuing, Cantwell took a philosophical libertarian argument against the state to what he insisted was its logical conclusion: The state is illegitimate, and uses force to obtain its objectives. So in applying “defensive force against The State,” it would be acceptable, say, for a driver to shoot a cop who is attempting to pull over the driver’s vehicle.

“It is my honest opinion that this driver would be morally justified in shooting that police officer at the moment the [police car’s] lights go on,” he explained.

Such views alienated local libertarians who adhere to what they refer to as the “non-aggression principle,” sometimes referred to as NAP, in which only defensive force is allowed. Also adhering to the NAP: the Free State Project (FSP), a New Hampshire-based non-profit organization with a goal of encouraging 20,000 people with libertarian ideals to move to New Hampshire.

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“So what to do?” asked Cantwell. “It’s a terribly unpopular thing to say, but the answer at some point is to kill government agents.”

As a result of this and other statements by Cantwell, the board of directors of the Free State Project unanimously voted to expel him from the FSP, declaring him unwelcome at FSP events.

Undeterred, Cantwell doubled down, writing essays such as “Gabby Giffords Begs for Another Bullet,” lambasting the former Arizona Congresswoman who was shot in the head by a deranged man during a meet-up with constituents and survived to become a gun-control advocate.

And in March 2014, he penned an essay titled “Violently Overthrow the Government,” in which he argued that it was “not impossible, impractical, or immoral” to do so.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/christopher-cantwell

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About Christopher Cantwell (the one crying on the video in LBN) (Original Post) JonLP24 Aug 2017 OP
"I Was Gonna. . ." ProfessorGAC Aug 2017 #1
Now he's crying worry about the cops killing him JonLP24 Aug 2017 #2
Guy has come a long way from harrassing Keene New Hampshire Meter Maids maxrandb Aug 2017 #3
Horrible human being. Justice Aug 2017 #4
Based on the looks of his eyes, Christopher Canwell. TheBlackAdder Aug 2017 #5

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
2. Now he's crying worry about the cops killing him
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:44 PM
Aug 2017

if he turns himself in where he is housed with all those weapons.

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
3. Guy has come a long way from harrassing Keene New Hampshire Meter Maids
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:45 PM
Aug 2017

Just goes to show you that if you had a monkey with an organ grinder, the monkey could get a show on AM radio as long as the organ played ReTrumplican propaganda

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