Insanity Rising: Author Advocates Violent Revolution on MSNBC

Author and cartoonist Ted Rall argues here and in his book that the revolution is coming and it’s a good thing. He admits that violence is “the last case scenario. The worst case. Nobody wants it.”

But then he goes on to say that the peaceful options have been exhausted, thereby implying that the time for increasingly hostile measures has come. Rall said, “But we’ve seen for the last two years since the economy melted down that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats nor any possible third party is poised to step in.” He continues—“The American left has been very peaceful since the early 70s, since the Kent State shootings, and where has it gotten us?”

Reading brief passages of Rall’s book, it becomes apparent that his complexity of thought is highly questionable. He goes even further to warn his comrades on the left that the right wing zealots will have “minorities and liberals taken away and massacred.”

Good God almighty! That MSNBC put this guy on the air is nothing short of astonishing and to not even challenge Rall on his obvious advocacy for violence is so appalling, I can hardly believe it.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow rightly criticized Tea Party Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle for making a similar statement about using “second amendment amenities” but this is tolerated by interviewer Dylan Ratigan, even promoted?  Under what reasoning?

Now, if your personal political bias is telling you that there might be some validity to one of these arguments, then I think you're missing the point. I agree that there are substantive problems with the government many of which can only be changed through more fundamental changes, but to suggest that we are at a point where violence is justified is outrageous.