"So now we can add liberals to the list of enemy combatants in America's culture war.

According to the News-Sentinel, Knoxville police department investigator Steve Still wrote in the search warrant that Jim David Adkisson, the man who was arrested in the rampage, went to the church "because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets."

Adkisson, who had served in the military, said "that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement he would then target those that had voted them in office," the search warrant states. Among the items seized from Adkisson's house were three books: "The O'Reilly Factor," by television commentator Bill O'Reilly; "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder," by radio personality Michael Savage; and "Let Freedom Ring," by political pundit Sean Hannity.

The Unitarian Universalist Association might be the most liberal denomination in the country. Most members consider themselves part of a post-Christian religion that draws wisdom from all religions and philosophies. There is no central creed, but the denomination promotes a set of principles that includes a belief in "the inherent worth and dignity of every person.""

Under God: "A Whole Lotta Ugly" in Church Shooting - On Faith at washingtonpost.com

Are you suggesting that Bill Oreilly's books are the new Catcher in the Rye?

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He's like a maniac with a shotgun that doesn't run out of ammo.

Liberals are now hinting at bringing back book burning? Next they will want to ban smoking.

I suggest you start arming yourself Midcan5.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Liberals have always been for book burning.

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Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry

Watch for the ACLU types to start pushing for the FBI to maintain a database of everyone who owns a Sean Hannity book

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Who's calling for book burnings? It sounds like the writer is asking people to take responsibility for their words.

A concept lost on those that pretend to be conservatives, apparently.

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You mean like how all you Liberals constantly claiming everyone that doesn't vote for Obama will be a racist and a moron? Or how you insist that anyone that voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 are idiots and morons? You mean those kind of words? Perhaps you mean all the words where you keep claiming Bush lied and you are going to get him after he gets out of Office? Those words?

How about the words were you keep claim Conservatives in general are ignorant people?

Excuse me if I ignore YOUR advice on hateful words, ok?

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

I've never said most of those things.

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what responsibility, EXACTLY, is that?


I see you totally missed my Salinger reference.


Tell me, what should have happened to Ward Churchill when he wrote HIS book?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill

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He's like a maniac with a shotgun that doesn't run out of ammo.

You obviously have not been to California? There are several cities here that have!

Now instead of people smoking in the bars and restrauants .... they smoke in their cars and throw burning cigarettes out the window! Creating ------> ALL THE DAMN FORREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA!!!


I quit smoking years ago - but not becase some smart a$$ sitting in a city Mayor's office or city council meeting - told me to!

Provide a bit of proof. Meanwhile you cons - aka fascist types - have been into this since, jeez, probably forever.

“When we started Banned Books Week [in 1982], hundreds of books annually were removed from libraries and occasionally bookstores. Last year, we had 40 removed.”

Tangoing with the Truth - HUMAN EVENTS

Banned books [OCLC - Complete list - 2005]

Midcan, don't you know that Hitler was a liberal and a vegetarian and a book burner? /sarcasm

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I doubt it can be much worse than that overrated pile of shit.

I was disappointed with that book too. Hell, the things that make it so socially taboo then wouldn't be a scratch on the surface now. But a kid SMOKING?@!?!

This book would have gone the way of joe camel if it were released these days.


Anyway, my point stands. I don't think talk radio or conservtive books are to blame when some individual sick fuck does something stupid. The same with video games and school shootings. The same with heavy metal and suicide. The same with Beatnik poems and homosexuality. The same with hippy music and drugs. etc etc.

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He's like a maniac with a shotgun that doesn't run out of ammo.