It’s also remarkably similar to the gesture that His Orangeness would make with both hands — alternating with a pointing index finger — overandoverandoverandoverandover during his campaign rallies (and probably still does, but my gag reflex is too sensitive to watch him much). While IANAPsychiatrist, I do remember from my student days that constant repetition of “ritual” gestures tends to suggest some deep-seated psychological problem. If so, it would, of course, be the best psychological problem.
This is an official warning. I know you acknowledged your error an apologized but this is so over the top it must be addressed. Compounded by the fact you felt it necessary to go back and edit your post to include the insult. Warning issued.
Moderating:
To everyone else, this is a breaking news thread where people will seek out information as to what is happening. Also it is obviously an issue that involves posters personally. Stick to the rules of MPSIMS and if you feel the need to vent take it to the Pit.
How horrible ! My thoughts are with you your wife and family . 
Governor McAuliffe to speak soon. Hopefully an update on the arrest of the terrorist and on the Virginia State Police helicopter that crashed.
The orange ass-clown in chief has become a farcical caricature for the alt-right. It’s a mistake to look to him for leadership or inspiration. He’s not about to alienate the core group of deplorables that put his dumb fat useless ass in the oval office.
Welcome to a new kind of tension…
These rallies are getting bigger, though they’re still not that big. The biggest change I’ve noted is that the counter protest movement is much bigger and a lot more violent than it used to be
That is for damn sure !
Well, it’s not like the Confederate flag, which is these people’s other go-to source of imagery, is much better.
I know, today they just murdered a protester! Oh wait…
We definitely need a Pit thread on this, so I made one.
As I remarked in the Pit thread, this seems to be a theme among conservatives, even those who are anti-Trump.
It just reveals so much wrong with the mindset it’s astonishing.
Cite? Do you know how exceedingly rare “automatic weapons” are?
It appears that there’s at least a rear plate, at least. The only image I have right now is of some conspiracy theory about the driver being a leftist, so I’m not going to link to it, but seems quite clear that there’s a license plate. Of course, just because the license plate is still attached doesn’t mean it was not premeditated. I don’t have enough information one way or the other to comment about the driver’s motives or plans, but it certainly appeared deliberate.
Sailboat, I hope your wife is ok.
You can see the plates here. Warning: violent imagery.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/attack%20car_0.jpg
Those are apparently Ohio plates, according to random people on the internets.
Better image of the plate : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHDUjl0XoAUcBxl.jpg:large
Gee, I’m so sorry. I should have said that the right wing scum showed up with semi-automatic weapons.
Here is a pic of some fine, upstanding white trash Trump supporters.
I will, although I suspect that my post will be attacked by people reading it as my defense of the protester’s ideology as opposed to an answer to a clear request for an explanation of the law.
The thing that I ask readers of this post to remember is that the First Amendment protects truly vile, despicable speech. My defense of the speech mentioned here is legal, not moral.
That said, the law is this: generalized incitement to violence is perfectly legal – that is, protected by the First Amendment – as long as it does not constitute a clear and present danger of imminent lawless action.
This means that a writer on the Internet who urges the murder of all Jews does not satisfy this standard. People are not moved to immediate lawless action by this statement. It’s possible that someone might, days or weeks later, commit some violence influenced by the words, but that does not criminalize the words.
Now, if we imagine a man holding a loaded gun at the head of a Jewish captive, someone present at the scene screaming at him to murder THAT Jew, we’d then be describing a clear and present danger of imminent lawless action.
Yup, you should have.
shrug reason #43972 why I don’t attend protests / counter-protests anymore.
Hecklers veto is an illigetimate tactic. It’s not surprising when advocating violence on political opponents is finally met with violence. Here’s the tactic for dealing with points of view one dislikes. Ignore them. Problem solved. No need to bring M80s, bike locks, or muscle cars.
shrug Like it makes any fucking difference.