Alright, somebody do me a huge favor here.  Throw me a bone, and give me one example of how the Bob Jone’s Conservatives are not the same as the Taliban and Al Queda.  Because I would really like to be convinced.  It would help me sleep a LOT easier.

     Lessee…they got the whole “We got the only truth, and we know ‘cause God told us” thing going on.  They got the hostility to knowledge and education thing.  They got the “Persecuted people of God acting preemptively in self-defense” thing going on.  Oppression of women, check.  Blowing shit up (like, oh…say, abortion clinics) check.  Assassination attempts, check... (link found via Oliver Willis)

     It will be interesting to see if the Bush brothers comment on this at all…and if they do, just how far will they go to distance themselves from it.  And just how convincing will they be as they act as though their actions and rhetoric could never have been construed to encourage this sort of behavior.

     And DeLay, and all of the others who described Michael Schaivo as an evil murderer, compared him to Scott Peterson…assassinated his character, and publicly and repeatedly denied his humanity.  Pro-life my ass.  They are about as pro-life as a hand grenade.

     I believe that Sophocles said it best in his play “Oedipus Rex”:  “Oh sir, if you think this is mercy, may you never be in need of it.”

     Here are some more links that Oliver Willis has gathered together under the headings of “Armed Insurrection”  So far, he has five entries on the topic.

Priests for life urge right-to-lifers to “rise up” and deny the authority of the courts.

A man is arrested for stealing a gun, and states that he is doing it so he can “take action” to rescue Terri Schaivo.

Quote from Faux News about how Jeb should just get a bunch of his cops together and seize Terri and put the feeding tube back in.

Quote from Pat Buchanan urging Bush to send in Federal Marshals.

Oh yeah, they’re all about freedom, and life and American decency.