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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (153730)1/10/2011 10:57:51 AM
From: Katelew  Read Replies (2) of 542590
 
According to FOX yesterday, the only network that was interesting and informative, the last assassination attempt was in I think 1978....also on a house rep.

So there's a dearth of data to reach any conclusions about all these blowhard anti-something groups re attacks on political figures.

The abortion clinic bombings are the only thing that comes to my mind that has a quasi religious-political foundation to it.
Timothy McVeigh was, to me, clearly influenced by the anti-government militia group rhetoric that filled my airwaves at the time. And he was legally sane, fully responsible for his actions. It would take a real stretch though to lay the responsiblity for how he became so angry and neurotic on the Republican Party, imo.
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