The left frequently attempts to blame the right's speech for specific acts of violence committed by other people. Again these are just thinly veiled attempts to restrict the speech of the right, while the left carries on as normal. The irony is that falsely blaming peaceful right-wingers for violence they had nothing to do with is itself an example of incivil speech.
As if all that hypocrisy wasn't enough, everyone on the right knows that a constant flood of hatred and death threats issues against figures on the right. "Civility" is not something the left believes in for itself.
Irish President Michael D. Higgins
at a march in
2006
portraying Bush as a monster with blood dripping from his hands.
Thatcher was a strong leader and a great intellect. She never gave a toss what leftists said about her. She drove the left insane until the day she died, and even after.
Morrissey
released
"Margaret on the Guillotine"
in 1988.
He dreams of seeing Thatcher dead:
"The kind people;
Have a wonderful dream;
Margaret On The Guillotine;
Cause people like you;
Make me feel so tired;
When will you die?
When will you die?"
Morrissey, Mar 2012, declares
"We Hate William and Kate"
to Argentinians.
Sense has not visited him, though he is now in his 50s.
What a tosser.
"The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies" (2009)
by
Pete Wylie.
See lyrics:
"WHEN MARGARET THATCHER DIES;
THERE WILL BE NO TEARS.
SAVE YOUR SORROW FOR THE PEOPLE THAT SHE STOMPED FOR YEARS.
SHE TORTURED NORTH OF WATFORD WITH A VICIOUS HATE.
SO WHEN MARGARET THATCHER DIES;
LET'S CELEBRATE"
"SO DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE DIE;
DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE DIE;
YEAH DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE DIE;
DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE,DIE DIE"
Here he sings it in concert in 2012.
T-shirt looks forward to dancing on Thatcher's grave.
On sale as at 2011 at official
Sinn Fein shop.
Formerly here.
Gravestone reads: "Margaret Thatcher - Tyrant and Murderer".
Sign reads: "Dancers - Please form an orderly queue".
T-shirt on sale at
TUC Congress, Sept 2012.
Tory MP Conor Burns says:
"It shows an ugly side to the hard left who cannot move on from their utter defeat
at the hands of this remarkable, but now frail, lady.
Not for the first time Lady T shows why she amounts to so much more than her opponents."
The group selling the t-shirt is
taxpayer-funded.
Labour leader
Ed Miliband
poses in
2011
with a Labour council candidate
wearing the above shirt.
In 2013,
Ed Miliband (yes, the same guy) got offended by the Daily Mail
criticising his Marxist father and influence
Ralph Miliband.
Civility!
The people of the
Falkland Islands
view Thatcher very differently to the left or the IRA.
They celebrate
"Margaret Thatcher Day"
every year on 10 January (the anniversary of her visit to the Falklands on
10 Jan 1983).
The song
Black Boys On Mopeds
by
Sinéad O'Connor
in 1990.
She compares Margaret Thatcher to the communist butchers of Tiananmen!
"Margaret Thatcher on TV;
Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing;
It seems strange that she should be offended;
The same orders are given by her".
Pathetic.
But in a democracy, no one should celebrate the death of your democratic political opponents. To do so betrays a latent desire for non-democratic rule. It is no surprise that this desire is strongest on the left.
Margaret Thatcher's death in Apr 2013 was a perfect moment for the left to disgrace itself in front of all reasonable people.
A pro-jihad terrorist supporter
and traitor
tells us what he thinks.
George Galloway of the "Respect" party (what a joke) celebrates Margaret Thatcher's death, 8 Apr 2013.
The reference is to Elvis Costello's disgusting song.
Radical Islamic convert
George Galloway, 8 Apr 2013, hopes the infidel Thatcher is burning in hell.
Somehow I don't think Thatcher would be interested in what this British traitor thinks.
A pro-jihad
American traitor
doesn't like Thatcher.
Ted Rall, 8 Apr 2013.
Michael C. Moynihan
captions this as follows:
"Really surprised that, 35 years after its founding, the SWP hasn't yet broken into the mainstream".
Trevor Allman,
who claims to be
a Green Party
local candidate in Greenwich, London,
says on 10 Apr 2013 that he wishes the British Prime Minister had been killed by terrorists.
The Green Party
looked into it and replied:
"Not candidate or Green Party member (records show lapsed 2010)."
Allman's twitter account
was taken down.
Left-wing comedian
Frankie Boyle
cracks a joke at Thatcher's funeral,
17 Apr 2013.
Viewing all the
1980s-era Tories
at the funeral,
the Chomsky-loving
Boyle
jokingly regrets that the IRA didn't kill
more of the Tory party.
Civility!
Leftists laugh
on Twitter at the tragic death age 43 of
Andrew Breitbart, Mar 2012.
He left behind four children age 4 to 12.
Matt Taibbi
of Rolling Stone
said on
1 Mar 2012:
"So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here's what I have to say to that, and I'm sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction:
Good!
Fuck him. I couldn't be happier that he's dead."
Twitter death threats in June 2012 to the Republican
Governor of Wisconsin
Scott Walker.
The lefties are furious that he won the
recall election they managed to call on 5 June 2012.
More death threats
here.
Markos Moulitsas is famous for the above comment.
In Iraq in Mar 2004,
four US civilian contractors
were publicly killed and mutilated by jihadis.
All were US military veterans, with distinguished records.
Three of them were fathers.
On seeing their burnt and dismembered bodies hung up on a bridge,
Markos Moulitsas
said:
"I feel nothing ... Screw them."
The Guardian, 10 Jan 2011, rushes to link the Tucson shooting
to the right and Sarah Palin.
I think they would be happier in a world where opposition to Obama was not allowed.
The Guardian, 24 October 2004,
prints an article
calling for Bush to be assassinated.
Formerly here
and here.
Copy here.
The Guardian, 13 February 2007,
publishes the leader of Hamas.
The Guardian, 26 January 2011,
publishes another Hamas terrorist leader.
The Guardian, 8 June 2012, publishes the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
The "Guardian" of what? Anti-semitism? Islamic hatred and terror?
The Guardian has also printed many
articles supporting the killers of American troops in Iraq.
Bill Maher, Jan 2011, says the right incites violence (jump to 3:00).
He claims their message is:
"wouldn't it be fun to kill the people we disagree with".
But he is unable to quote anything other than the vague metaphors everyone uses in politics.
He makes a good point about stupid Hitler analogies, but these are of course
commonplace on the left.
Confronted with the fact that Obama himself
uses these metaphors,
Maher tries to weasel out of it
and say that is different.
Bill Maher, 2 Mar 2007,
thinks it is acceptable to regret
that the 27 Feb 2007
Afghan jihadi assassination attempt on Dick Cheney
failed.
He actually jokes about the suicide bombing
(which killed 23 people)
and pretty much says that if Cheney had died, it would have made the world a better place.
John Nolte:
"This is the mistake guys like Maher make when they start complaining about the speech of others ... The bipartisan use of crosshairs on a map doesn't even begin to compare to that ... Maher isn't using a metaphor here. In front of millions of rabid partisans, he's painting a picture of how much better the world be if that Cheney guy was dead."
(Note: Technically this wasn't an assassination attempt
because the jihadis probably did not know Cheney was there.)
Hilarious. On January 18, 2011, mere days after the "debate" on civility in politics, Democrat
Steve Cohen
compares the Republicans to the Nazis.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair of the Democrat National Committee, calls for more civility in public discourse, Jan 2012
- and then blames the Tea Party for the Tucson shooting!
She seems to have read nothing about the mental illness of the gunman.
No, it must be the Tea Party.
And as for lack of "civility" in general, she does not mention the years of
"Bush = Hitler".
Nor the current "Occupy" violence.
No, apparently it's the Tea Party again.
She says she "hesitates" to place blame ... and then blames the Tea Party!
In Aug 2012, Hurricane Isaac
threatened the Republican convention
in Florida, leading to a new outburst of "civility" from the left.
Here, actor
Samuel L. Jackson
complains that the hurricane will apparently hit New Orleans instead.
Actress
Ellen Barkin
also joins in, re-tweeting without any criticism the following:
"C'mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean!"
Democrat former governor of Michigan
Jennifer Granholm
also joins in,
as do
loads of other lefties.
Tweet
threatening Mitt Romney, from someone called Raymond Tapia, 3 Oct 2012.
The above guy,
Raymond Tapia,
claims it is his "right" to issue threats to presidential candidates he doesn't like.
In
Nov 2018, Matthew Yglesias defended a left-wing mob threatening the family home of Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson.
The mob attacked Carlson's home when his wife was alone in it.
They tried to break down the door.
They shouted:
"Tucker Carlson, we are outside your home.
We want you to know, we know where you sleep at night.
...
Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!
...
Racist scumbag, leave town!"
One protester said she wanted to "bring a pipe bomb" to the house.
Online they posted:
"Each night you remind us that we are not safe. Tonight, we remind you that you are not safe either."
See more
and more.
Now disliking any of these (or all three) is fine. I dislike Trump myself. But this page is not about dislike. That is normal politics. This page is about death threats, assaults and extreme levels of abuse.
I could listen to Boris Johnson all day, even in Ancient Greek.
That shouty young moron,
"slowthai", not so much.
Irish singer
Sinead O'Connor on the news that President Donald Trump has Covid, Oct 2020.
Comedy genius:
Froma Harrop
is the President of the
National Conference of Editorial Writers,
which claims its mission is:
"Restoring Civility to America's public discourse".
Froma Harrop
(yes, the same person),
August 2, 2011,
says the Tea Party are terrorists!
"Make no mistake: The tea party Republicans have engaged in economic terrorism against the United States -- threatening to blow up the economy if they don't get what they want. And like the al-Qaida bombers, what they want is delusional: the dream of restoring some fantasy caliphate in which no one pays taxes, while the country is magically protected from foreign attack and the elderly get government-paid hip replacements.
Americans are not supposed to negotiate with terrorists, but that's what Obama has been doing."
Above, John Oliver
of the Daily Show
mocks her hypocrisy, Jan 2012, in one of the funniest items you will ever see.
