Dear Is Mise,

While I am not lock step with the Greens on quite a few issues they have every right to raise the US shootings and say 'Not Here'. The Nationals are seemingly full of clowns with so little judgement that they are an utter embarrassment and 'Dirty Harry' is a fine example.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied was also judged to have acted with “a degree of insensitiveness” but nothing that was a veiled threat to shoot political opponents.

There are a number of examples where disturbed people have been potentially inspired to lethally follow through on verbal or visual attacks by politicians.

Gabrielle Giffords famously featured in the crosshairs map put out by Sarah Palin. Giffords expressed concerns about the map and was latter gunned down by a deranged man.

Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic put it well;

"No one is saying Sarah Palin should be viewed as an accomplice to murder. Many are merely saying that her recklessly violent and inflammatory rhetoric has poisoned the discourse and has long run the risk of empowering the deranged. We are saying it's about time someone took responsibility for this kind of rhetorical extremism, because it can and has led to violence and murder." He points out that Giffords herself had expressed concern about Palin's map.
https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2011/01/mr-kurtz-he-dead-wrong/177517/

And what about British MP Jo Cox, shot and stabbed by a rightwing nut job because he deemed her "one of 'the collaborators' [and] a traitor" to white people.” During his trial he shouted "My name is death to traitors, freedom for Britain".

That this mirrors the language even of our resident nutjobs here on OLO, even in this thread, should be of deep concern to anyone whose ideology doesn't prevent them from seeing the bleeding obvious.

For you to be supporting his actions over those of Yassmin Abdel-Magied just shows how morally bereft you have become on this issue. You are both dangerous people who threaten the safety of others. Him by his idiocy and you by your sycophantic support of him.

IM,

It's not surprising that the bed-wetting offenderattis would jump to her defense. The deflection to GC's bad joke is typical of their inability to deal with YAM's moronic statements and professional skill at being offended by everything.

Steele,

As I said "So do I and Christensen wins hands down, mug though he appears to be."

May I amend that to mug though he is?

The Greens have every right to bring up the US shootings for discussion but they usually don't let the blood dry before they are trying to score political points out of tragedy.

Christensen hasn't attacked human rights whereas Abdel-Magied has.

//Christensen hasn't attacked human rights whereas Abdel-Magied has.//

Has she? When? Where? What?

//But, what did she say?

Is she to be condemned without evidence (such as it might be)?//

"Is she to be condemned without evidence (such as it might be)?"

Of course she should be - The left do it all the time, but then somehow find morals when it's done to them.

They and the rest of the collaborators trying to piss all over the country can all go to hell.

Toni,

She advocates Islam and Sharia law, both of which attack human rights, particularly the rights of women.