This is an excellent piece, emphasizing the existence of real violence over the past two years. Frank Rich argues that you don’t have to look to rhetoric, but to actual acts. Though violent rhetoric and threats of violence are likely to encourage and foment actual violence, Rich has a point when he argues that we should pay particular attention to violent incidents. Even when they cause minimal damage, they are precursors to larger scale bloodshed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/opinion/16rich.html
On rhetoric, see my piece: http://mysticscholar.org/2011/01/10/violent-rhetoric-and-tucson-again/
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