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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 11:55 AM
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RFK, MLK, Huey Long. Has a right-wing leader in this country ever been

assassinated in the 20th or 21st Century?
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 11:57 AM
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1. Does George Rockwell count?
Edited on Wed Feb-17-10 12:02 PM by ck4829
Of course, it was done by one of his own guys, though.
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:03 PM
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5. Exactly.
Wallace got shot when he began to turn away from his racist segregationist crap, by one of his own. Probably called him a "race traitor" when he shot him too.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 01:28 PM
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14. Rockwell was shot outside of a laundromat. His last words were
reported to be, "I forgot my bleach."

I remembered tis all these years because I thought it was hilarious.

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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 02:23 PM
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16. He was shot while doing his laundry?
What did he do, mix the whites with the colors? :rofl:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 02:43 PM
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18. It's hard to get the cinder stains off the white hoods without Clorox
:)
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:43 PM
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19. There is a certain humerous symbolism there, isn't there?
Edited on Thu Feb-18-10 01:43 PM by old mark
He may have been a Nazi, but he was clean....


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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 01:46 PM
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15. I'm not familiar with him. thanks for the post. nt
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:44 PM
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20. He was a "leading light" of the American Nazi Party, which he made more
"popular" by gaining national publicity.


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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 11:58 AM
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2. They have been shot at before.
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MUAD_DIB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:08 PM
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9. Reagan, Ford were attempted.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 02:23 PM
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17. Wallace. n/t
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kudzu22 Donating Member (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 06:01 PM
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23. I guess that means that RWers are better shots
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:01 PM
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3. George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party..
of course the person convicted of the crime was a former party member, I'm sure there are more, but it does seem to be a tool of the right, at least in this country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell#Assassination
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:01 PM
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4. Attempts on Ford and Reagan
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:05 PM
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6. Yeah, but the attempt on Reagan was "in house".
Just like Hitler and Bin Laden - John Hinkley was one of those convenient friends of the Bush Crime Family.
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:08 PM
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8. Do tell.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:08 PM
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7. In pre-Hitler Weimar Germany, only "the Left" got assassinated there, too.
Assassinations of the right-wingers? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hah

Where do you think you're living? Don't you understand yet what's coming for you? Tee hee hee

Don't leave the U.S., "stay and fight"! Hee hee hee hee hee
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:13 PM
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10. I worry all the time about the parallels between our country today and Weimar Germany
The right is using exactly the same tactics and, from my perspective, it's working just as it did, there.
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 09:33 PM
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24. Ha ha -- Right wingers assassinated 356 liberals! Don't look here for links!
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=149999

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/weimarproblemsrev1.shtml

And whatever you do, don't make associations between September 11, 1973 or Pinochet and September 11, 2001 or Gen Hayden/Gen Myers. That would be just wrong.

And whatever you do, don't leave the U.S. Stay and fight!

Especially when the April 4 Capitol Dome attack comes!
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tuckessee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:16 PM
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11. Wallace, Rockwell, Ford, Reagan. n/t
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Cetacea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:17 PM
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12. Don't forget Lennon.
His political power was greater than many politicians.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-17-10 12:23 PM
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13. Speaks more of the fanaticism of the right-wing, if anything.
They're the ones that get to a point where all hope is lost, yet instead of diplomacy, they go "wild West".
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:46 PM
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21. George Wallace. But he was probably set up by Nixon. And he did not die.
Just got paralyzed.
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 01:47 PM
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22. Ronald Reagan, but he was probably set up by the Bush family.
Still trying to think of a right winger who was not targeted by another right winger.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-18-10 09:47 PM
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25. There was a great Bill Hicks line:
"Jesus - murdered, JFK - murdered, RFK - murdered, Ghandi - murdered, Martin Luther King - murdered, Lennon - murdered. Reagan - wounded."
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