Max Read points out that an Iowa school drill involving a pretend terrorist attack from anti-immigrant right-wing extremists that provoked a lot of anger in the conservative blogosphere was canceled due to threats from right-wing extremists. Puerto Rican Nationalist Mark Krikorian, whose "think tank" Center for Immigration Studies recently published anonymous pseudo-scholarship attempting to legitimize the threat of "terror babies" remarked, "Yet again, the leftists are filling in for the lack of genuine right-wing violent extremists by inventing them out of whole cloth." Unlike "terror babies" which Krikorian explains are like, totally real man!
Anyway, I'm sure all of us can sympathize with the idea that Republicans who believe in low taxes, small government everywhere but in your pants and if you're Hispanic or a defense contractor resent being associated with terrorism. After all, while examples of right-wing terrorism are fairly easy to find, the beliefs of the people who commit these acts aren't really comparable to those of your average Republican. There's nothing about thinking corporations and people making more than $250,000 a year should get tax cuts that makes you want to bomb an MLK Day parade.
What's really strange is that conservatives then fall over each other trying to justify something like Rep. Peter King's hearings suggesting that the American Muslim community as a whole is responsible for the actions of .006 percent to .007 percent of their population and are baffled by the idea that mainstream Muslims would resent being associated with terrorism and violence just as much as mainstream conservatives resent being associated with every nutter who tries to bomb an abortion clinic.
Of course, if you're Krikorian, you might get angry over something like the Iowa drill, because your "think tank" sometimes pals around with people who share extreme anti-immigrant beliefs even if they don't act violently on them.
