This is Why Incitement is a Crime

Attempted murder of a federal official. for wanting to make health care more affordable and accessible.

Terroristic threats with unknown white powder sent to another federal official for outspokenness in favor of progress.

Trying to kill a 10-year-old girl and her father for displaying a bumper sticker supporting the majority-elected government.

It's not random, it's not coincidental, it's not mysterious. It's the obvious consequence of repug eliminationist rhetoric and encouragement of treasonous militias.

NPR has the story:

Last May, about 30 people gathered at a resort in Jekyll Island, Ga., for a series of discussions about "increasing national instability" and President Obama's "socialized" policies.

The island was chosen for symbolic reasons — the initial discussions about creating a Federal Reserve were held there in 1910 — and the attendees met to formulate a plan for bringing their own radical organizations together.

"One of the interesting things about the meeting is how nondenominational it was," says Mark Potok. "There were Holocaust deniers there. There were anti-Semites. There were also people who have none of those feelings, who are all about the idea that the federal income tax is unconstitutional — people from the old[er] militia movements and so on."

Potok is the director of publications and information for the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group's latest Intelligence Report, "Rage on the Right," documents the growth in the number of hate and extremist groups — and how their rhetoric is increasingly entering the mainstream.

Read the whole thing.

Yes, they're pathetic losers. Desperate pathetic losers full of rage, with nothing left to lose.