Current location:	hiding
Current mood:	uncomfortable

ENOUGH!
I'm done with Sibby. It has been a growing problem with what he chooses to repost and his rhetorical non-replies to my pointed comments. He says he's in search of the truth, but by only reposting from Limbaugh and the WorldNetDaily wingnuts he's hardly in search of anything other than far-right talking points. And many of those articles carry such hate-laden words for people like me that it was getting stressful. As I posted once before, name calling is getting out of hand. According to the reposts by Sibby, people who think like me are; socialists, maoists, communists, fascists, unAmerican, anti-American, racists, reverse-racists, etc. When called on to actually post an original thought on these, he usually falls back on repetition of the talking points and the "can't disprove a universal negative" approach. Actually, when he does blog (rarely) an original post of his own, his writing is not bad, even if I do disagree.

But he just doesn't get that hateful speech can give rise to violent actions. Case in point; the shooting of Dr. Tiller this past weekend. Tiller has been attacked by the anti-choice crowd for years. O'Reilly on FauxNews has been on his case for four years, calling him "Tiller the baby killer" and accusing him of "Nazi stuff" and performing late term abortions for no reason at all as long as the woman had $5000. Tiller's recent acquittal on charges of performing illegal abortions only served to confirm his guilt in O'Reilly's mind. These terms are common in KS anti-choice circles, too. They hammered at the dubious claim that he had "killed" 60,000 "babies" over his career (which means he must have been doing 6 to 7 abortions per working day for the last 38 years, which is a bit much; that's a little trick we liberals call math), and talked about how he must be stopped. Tiller got shot in the arms in '93, his clinic had been bombed, and he had to wear a armor vest to go anywhere.

And Sunday, a man walked into Tiller's church where Tiller was ushering and shot him dead. Of course the anti-choice crowd rushed to say that they didn't approve of this and they revere all life and this man was obviously not part of their "pro-life" movement. They then went on to point out that we should remember though, that Tiller was a mass murderer and reaped what he sowed. Yeah, great distancing, guys. It's rhetoric like that that leads fanatics, like this anti-choice terrorist, to believe that they are justified in violence. The fanatic Islamic terrorists use the same language about us.

And the far-right uses language like that about people like me.