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I agree but then I hear old people talk about political bombings and student groups with guns in the 60s and I think its still better then that.

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“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States. ” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.)

https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

"The 1970s underground wasn’t small. It was hundreds of people becoming urban guerrillas. Bombing buildings: the Pentagon, the Capitol, courthouses, restaurants, corporations. Robbing banks. Assassinating police. People really thought that revolution was imminent, and thought violence would bring it about."

But wasn't that also an all out war on the far left as well as minority movements vs letting the right-wing militants fester over time? I recall the 90s, esp. after the OKC bombing, having a lot more talk about militias. The media also plays up cartel violence or, usually black/Latino, gang violence more than we've ever seen discussion of the Aryan Brotherhood or, at the very least, classifying abortion clinic attacks/bombings (typically done by white Christians) as terrorist attacks.

It's very easy to take what we have for granted, you soon accept it as the norm. I'm not sure what the answer is, perhaps some enforced hardship now and then to remind us how things were.

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