Militia Group Plotted to Kill Police Officer

Urban myth. I don't know a single Nam-Vet who ever experienced this.

No, right-wing crazies march in the streets to advocate putting the government in charge of a woman's medical treatment, interfering in the personal family and religious convistions of private people and their relations with their own doctors.

Get real. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was a left-wing radical. It has nothing to do with his "roots". He met Ayers in the 90's when he was another Chicago professor involved in local politics.

 

Hey, I called them right-wing radicals, which distinguishes them from other conservatives. And I compared them to left-wing radicals, not other conservatives.

My point, which you missed, is that radicals on both sides have a lot of kooks and from time to time they think they can start a revolution and influence people with terror. It happened to the left in the sixties and it happened to the right in the nineties. It has never been effective for anybody.

 

The Unabomber is a tough call, his politics were all over the place. But his mission was against computer technology mostly, not to overthrow the government. Hard to place him at extreme left or right. Just a generic Kook, I'd say.

I don't now about Ivans politics, but he was trying to get the government to fund more anthrax research, not to overthrow it. I don't think his mission was political, really.

John Wayne Gacy? He was just a mass murderer and pervert. He was not exercising political terror.

JIm Jones? Religious kook. Not a political terrorist either.

About the worst violence from the radical left recently has been Greenpeace and their silly environmental protests which have damaged some property but never risen to the level of terrorism. Some Peta protesters have thrown blood at women wearing furs. Not exactly anarchy.

 

The 60's. Sure, the Weathermen, the SDS, the Yippies all were terrorists. But that's half a century ago versus what is happening now. The radical left dropped the terrorism tactic 40 years ago. You are trying to compare apples and oranges.

And look, "environmental terrorism" is the unlawful use of force against environmental resources so as to deprive populations of their benefits.More concisely, environmental terrorism involves targeting natural resources. What you are trying to speak about is eco-terrorism, which is the destruction of property in the interest of saving the environment from human encroachment and destruction. Eco-terrorism involves targeting the built environment such as roads, buildings and trucks, ostensibly in defense of natural resources.

What eco-terrorism has involved blowing up federal buildings, Olympic bombings, assassinations of doctors, killing policemen, and advocating violent revolution against the government?

None that I know of. It's mostly Greenpeace damaging power plants and road construction equipment.