Leftist Terrorism

The nexus of the far left and Islamofascist interests has been noted many times, but the MSM has largely ignored or downplayed  terrorism in general. There are advantages to ignoring small-time terrorists, one of the primary goals of many of these groups is to gain attention to their cause, and overplaying the effect of terror could encourage other fringe groups to follow suit.

But a media blackout of many of these terroroist acts, and more impotantly, their goals, suggests that major news outlets can't be trusted for this kind of information. Many on the left are more concerned with anti-Communists than with the actual threat of Communism. This has been the modus operandi of the left since the Mc Carthy era, and this same mentality has transferred to radical Islam.

The left seems to say, "sure,  we're against terrorism and sharia law, but we're more concerned with Republicans".

Strategypage: While most of the terrorism committed these days is carried out by Islamic radicals, they have found allies in existing radical leftist groups.

For example, in  Okinawa, a group calling itself the "Revolutionary Army" set off three pipe bombs in the last week. The same group claimed responsibility for similar attacks in 2002. Leftist radicals have been around for over a century. The most successful were the anarchists, a 19th century movement that killed several heads of state, and hundreds of other officials, before being wiped out by the more bloody minded communists before World War II.

The communists were radical leftists, until they established the Soviet Union in 1923. After that, communism was noted chiefly for its highly effective police state methods, and support of terrorism by other groups. The Soviet Union was a major supplier of training, weapons and money to leftist terrorists. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, that support went away, but the leftist, and even Islamic, groups the Soviets had supported, did not. While there are few Soviet trained terrorists out there any more, there are still plenty of radical groups.

The Japanese ones support a number of causes, from the establishment of communist dictatorships, to the destruction of the United States, protectionism (no "economic globalism"), the status quo in general and  and so on. The groups operating in Okinawa want U.S. troops out of Japan. The United States is a convenient enemy for leftists, many of whom oppose free markets, democracy (and a lot more besides) and anything that will get a mention in the mass media.

Related: Athens: Rocket hits US Embassy

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