Nugent hate rhetoric is a real danger

Ted Nugent, the Motor City Loud Mouth. This has-been deems his rhetoric as harmless metaphors and questions whether the readers are intellectual enough to understand the word.

Ted, let’s see if you are smart enough to draw upon history and see what effect your hate-filled rhetoric has upon the multitude of people who are your followers, the NRA and their ilk.

Glen Beck is an example. Beck for months railed to his Fox News audience that they had to do something about the nefarious cabal of Marxist/fascists led by Barack Obama, indicating that Obama will abolish the constitution, seize people’s guns and transfer white people’s wealth to blacks and Hispanics, blah, blah, blah. His irresponsible rhetoric created violence.

Ryan Williams, a government-hating, gun toting nut who was addicted to cable TV, stacked his pickup truck with weapons and set out to massacre employees at the Tides Foundation in San Francisco. Tides Foundation was a small, obscure nonprofit group Beck accused of being a central player in the left wing conspiracy.

It so happens that on his way to his killing spree, Williams was stopped for drunken driving and wounded two California policemen in a wild shootout. Beck, Nugent and their ilk, and all the anti-government hating radicals who indulge this kind of language are inciting the nuts to participate in that kind of conduct.

If that is not enough, the Motor City Loud Mouth was just sentenced to two years probation and fined $10,000. Why? He was illegally hunting black bears out-of-season in Alaska.

Joseph Mirabella

Wheaton