Over the past few months we’ve seen repeated attacks against violence enabling rhetoric. People have stood up against politicians who, they argue, have cowed those who seek to protect and serve the public while emboldening those who seek to intimidate, kill and terrorize the us all.
The sad irony of this has been that most of the people have been Republicans who will literally make up phony statements of President Obama “attacking Police”, or ignore the actual statements he did make in support of Police, or exaggerate one-time chants by crowds who don’t include senior members of Black Lives Matter, accusing them of being “domestic terrorists” and a “murder movement” while ignoring their stated non-violent policy objectives arguing they should instead be focused on grossly exaggerated “black on black crime” when in fact the rate of violence experienced by black people based on economic status is exactly same as the rate as violence experienced by white people.
All during that time they scream to the hills about “liberal attacks on an entire religion” when they themselves are called out for ginning up phony outrage based on phony videos, and that it’s all just so unfair to associate any of their rhetoric with people who beat up and shoot at black lives matter protestors, or beat up suspected “illegal immigrants” and those who wage a war of political intimidation on women’s health clinics including multiple incidents of arson and ultimately mass murder — including the wounding and killing of police officers -- all of them exactly quoting the same vicious deluded rhetoric GOP candidates have been spouting.
They have become masters at stochastic terrorism.
Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.”