Tim is guilty of statistics abuse, because it never happens to Tim he assumes it can never happen to anyone who is passing the local Nazi encampment.
What Tim does not explain is why sending a truck full of thugs off to beat up someone carrying a loaded, recently fired weapon is a reasonable or even a sensible response.
Generally speaking, a militant organization, be it the Marine Corps or the Aryan Nation does not put it's best and brightest on security details. They realize that yes, sometimes you *do* need to have that bunker charged, or that hill taken, and you need people who are bright enough to do that, and dumb enough not to think about it. In some cases putting yourself in front of the bullet, or charging the machine gun nest *is* the best thing to do for your cause. I'm not saying that only stupid people join these kinds of groups, but that of the people who join these groups, the stupid ones will wind up in the "bullet stopper" positions.
In any case, if she was roughed up, without provocation, then those who roughed her up are solely to blame. Suing AN was merely an example of "deep pockets" and "joint and several liability" doctrines, motivated by PC sentiments. The Southern Law Poverty Center routinely uses this tactic to silence those it doesn't like.
The problem with the KKK, AN and other groups of thugs isn't what they say, it is what they do - beat people up.
As for being PC, can anyone explain how an organization could be less tollerant of opposing views than the AN?
The AN doesn't have the majority of the mainstream media hanging on it's every word, like the Democrats (and to a lesser extent the Republicans) do. They don't pretend to be fair and honest, and then bleed you to death with a thousand little cuts (metaphorically speaking). They are pretty much nasty creatures, but in a way honest. If they don't like you, they make it very plain they don't like you. The AN is no more and no less intolerant than most other political parties. The scope of what they tolerate is smaller, but they are no more vicious and nasty to those outside their lines than most other groups. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural