NC GOP Office FireBombed

[NOVA Green]

Obviously there is no place in America for targeted property destruction of political party HQs regardless of the political motivation or identity of the perps.

My suspicion is that this was the action of a disgruntled individual(s) that do not identify with either major political party, but are externalizing their own personal issues against a symbolic target that they view as responsible for some grand external evil plan of which they are somehow a victim.

Such actions are particularly dangerous in parts of the South, where there is a long and deep history of racist murders committed by White Supremacists, of which one of the more recent and infamous incidents was the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre

My fear is that we will see more such incidents, including random physical assaults on people-of-color from Right-Wing racists, pipe-bombs placed outside of Democratic Party HQs, windows smashed and graffiti of Republican Party HQs, not to mention an increase in to what we have already seen of property damage against owners of homes and cars that have Clinton and Trump respective bumperstickers and yard signs.

This is not good for Democracy folks....

[NOVA Green]

With the rhetoric of so many Democrats on here and all across the country, this was bound to happen.  When you call other Americans Nazis and "deplorable", crazy people are going to get crazy ideas.

I will always call Nazi's, Fascists, and White supremacists deplorable.

Personally, I don't believe Trump fits either of those three categories, nor do the vast majority of his supporters that are generally decent Americans, with whom I deeply and profoundly disagree with on so many issues.

What is dangerous is when you have a major party candidate in 2016 using racist dog whistles from the late '60s/early '70s, who talks about "mass deportations" as a realistic foreign policy position, who has never disavowed his extremely vocal alt.right and White Nationalist supporters, and even retweeted multiple times posts from some of these individuals.

There was a Black man recently murdered in the Portland Metro at the hands of White Supremacists...

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/10/larnell_bruce_family.html#incart_2box

Although this likely has nothing to do directly with the current election, there has been a significant increase in Hate Crimes, including murder, over the past year, as well as a significant surge of Right-Wing domestic terrorism, where for the first time in decades there is a major party candidate who appears to be turning a blind eye towards the racist extremist Right.

[NOVA Green]

Wow, my home county. Outrageous, regardless of who did it. It is a decent chance that it was done by a far-rightist, mad at the GOP and/or trying to make Democrats/liberals look bad.

Given all the violence and rhetoric coming from Trump this election, the GOP is at least partly to blame, either way.

Smfh, the GOP is not to blame for having one of their offices firebombed, what is wrong with you?

Of course all the lefties will label this as a reichstag fire. Anything to convince them that one of their own couldn't possibly be violent. Everything wrong in this election cycle must be because of the GOP.

Higgs---

I think you're a decent guy and I think my posts have been crystal clear on this.

This isn't the first time at all where we have seen political party offices, both Democrat and Republican targeted for property destruction.

When I was in High School the Democratic Party HQ in the small county I lived in back in Oregon had a pipe-bomb placed, that luckily never detonated.

The perp was a disturbed individual that I went to Middle School with and knew well in a small town, who became enchanted with a Neo-Nazi organization in High School, The "American Front", that was expanding their organization from Portland down all the way to Southern Oregon.

We beat down the Fascists and stopped their recruiting drive in the Mid-Valley and Southern Oregon, but there is absolutely no moral equivalency between murder committed at the hands of White Supremacists and some teenagers committing property destruction that could potentially have hurt someone, regardless of their political orientation.