Start calling it exactly what it is. Rinse and repeat - BECAUSE it's necessary.

This framing needs to be said, read, and SPREAD. 'Cause that is exactly what it is. These are nothing but domestic terrorists. They're no different from those behind the upheavals anywhere in the Islamic world. Except for skin color, shaven-versus-bearded, and style of dress. And sometimes even the style of dress is much the same.

This IS domestic terrorism, pure & simple. These individuals and groups that perpetrate it ARE domestic terrorists. They are fomenting TERRORISM, scaring and intimidating and attempting to manipulate the people around them through fear. Let me ask here - is that any different from what we've seen in any Israeli bus bombing, any shoot-em-ups in and around the Green Zone, any snipers and stealth bombers in Afghanistan? ANY difference from what we've got going on here? And it IS lain at the feet of the tea baggers. AND the NRA.

For all those dingdongs out there who yammer - "meh, they're both the same. Both parties are the same. There's no difference between them! All of 'em bad! Pox on BOTH their houses!" Just consider THIS. Do we see ANY Democrats or liberals or progressives among these ranks? Any confirmed, resolute blue-staters out there with that stupid YELLOW snake flag and the stupid three-cornered hats with teabags hanging from the rim? Any of OURS out there parading around with the flag and the "Don't Tread On Me" crap? Any of ours shoving our big-ass guns and ammo and massacre machines in everyone's faces and hanging down our backs and strapped across our chests? Any of ours doing the IN-YER-FACE force-feeding of guns everywhere - like in fast-food joints and the toy aisles of general-interest or big-box department stores? Any of ours championing that shit in any state legislatures? ANY? ANYONE?

Indeed. I didn't think so.

These are nothing more and nothing less than domestic TERRORIST groups. Remember when sharron angle in Nevada whined that if the wrong-wing didn't get their way in yet another election, they might have to consider "second amendment remedies"? Remember that? That's what she called it. Which should provoke the challenges: "whaddya mean, lady? What do you mean by that? That you and yours are gonna start shooting us because we disagree with you and don't vote the way YOU say we're supposed to vote? Is THAT it?" I think, deep down, that's what she did mean. And I think WAY deep-down, that's what she wishes they could get away with doing in order to FORCE their minority will upon the majority - which is annoyingly uncooperative on this issue. It was a silky, under-stated attempt to threaten and terrorize, and manipulate behavior. AND THAT ACTUALLY IS TERRORISM. It's the very definition of terrorism. And I don't mind calling it that, openly. It's the TRUTH. That is exactly what it IS. And hell, they ARE getting away with it. And they're NOT being openly challenged in this way - the way they SHOULD be openly challenged. EVERYONE should be calling them what they are: DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. I've already started with that framing, myself. And I'm hoping it spreads.

Who's with me?