The Violence Is Not New
https://townhall.com/columnists/erickerickson/2020/09/04/the-violence-is-not-new-n2575636In 2008, around the time of the Republican National Convention, a white 20-something male approached the Texas Governor's Mansion and threw a Molotov cocktail at it. The mansion burned down. The case remains unsolved, though federal and state authorities have long presumed it was a left-leaning anarchist. In fact, around the same time, left-wing anarchists were fighting police in the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota, during the GOP's convention, and some plotted to go back to Texas to commit acts of violence.
In 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack crashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Members of the media immediately concluded he must have been a deranged tea party activist. In fact, Stack was both a nut and a Marxist whose suicide note attacked corporations and the Catholic Church.
Also in 2010, John Patrick Bedell opened fire at the Pentagon. Some in the media jumped to the conclusion the shooter was of the tea party. But the Christian Science Monitor noted Bedell was an "anti-Bush registered Democrat who believed 9/11 was planned and carried out by the US government."
The unrest and violence today is the same as it has been in the past.
In 2012, during the Republican National Convention, left-wing protestors stockpiled 300 tiles, bricks, pipes and even riot gear to violently disrupt the RNC. Over and over, the media rushed to blame the tea party, and over and over, it turned out the violent extremists were on the left.
Even James Hodgkinson quickly disappeared from the headlines the moment it turned out he was a "Bernie bro" after his mass assassination attempt on Republican members of Congress. Today, the Democrats and their friends in the media claim political violence only began with the rise of President Donald Trump, but history shows otherwise.
On Aug. 15, 2012, inspired by the Southern Poverty Law Center's website, much like James Hodgkinson, Floyd Lee Corkins walked into the Christian conservative Family Research Council with a gun and a bag of 15 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. He intended to murder the employees of the Family Research Council and smear their faces with the sandwiches. "They endorse Chick-fil-A and also Chick-fil-A came out against gay marriage, so I was going to use that as a statement," Corkins told investigators. Thankfully, Corkins never got past the guard.
Leftists have a long history of violence ranging from assassination, terrorism, and genocide in America and worldwide.
