Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

David Neiwert has another post on the eliminationist tendencies of the right wing in this country.

Len at Blogesque had a noteworthy post the other week about a bizarre incident in Fairfield, Ohio, in which a car belonging to the mother of a soldier recently killed in the Iraq war was set on fire by vandals who lit 20 small American flags, gathered from the lawn in front of their house, under it.

Predictably, the right was all afroth over the case, assuming the fires had been set by America-hating libruls, and even suggesting that it represented a "hate crime."

Quickly jumping ahead of events and without knowing the facts, the loony right wants to kill again. Niewert finds at least one poster at Free Republic calling for vilgilante action:

Actually, I think lynching should be brought back. And now I'm not being sarcastic. I hope I don't get in trouble for writing this. But I think people who do things like this should just go away, if you know what I mean? Find them and make them disappear.

That's a true Ameican. And you can bet this guy thinks he is a true American too.

Neiwert completes the tale:

Then it turned out that a couple of local teenagers were charged with the crime: ages 15 and 13. There's no evidence at all that it was a political act; as far as anyone can tell, they just wanted to set something on fire and the flags were handy as a firestarter.

But the wingnuts were ready to go out and kill liberals over the incident, the facts be damed.