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Where are the left wing insurrectionist groups that terrorized Seattle and Portland last year? In Seattle they seceded from the US and shot six people with fully automatic weapons, in addition to thowing pipe bombs into occupied buildings.

Edit: Is it okay when we do it?

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"Seattle Antifascist Action" is on the list. What is the name of the missing group you're complaining about?

I did not see the PNW Youth Liberation Front and John Brown Gun Club (among others)

I think your original post would have been better received if you had been more specific and named the groups you'd like to see censored.

That's part of the problem though: there is nobody keeping track of left wing terrorist groups in the US. We only have a clear picture of the PNWYLF and JBGC because they went around bombing and shooting people all last summer. To say the problem is limited to just a few groups is difficult, because A.) they are numerous with varying objectives, and B.) we just don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

> We only have a clear picture of the PNWYLF and JBGC because they went around bombing and shooting people all last summer.

Can you link any additional information on the John Brown Gun Club "bombing and shooting people all last summer"?

> we just don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Hopefully not as deep as those mountain fortresses that Bin Laden was hiding in[1]!

[1]: http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/05...

Do we have any conclusive evidence that those acts were committed by particular groups rather than unaffiliated individuals?

In my limited experience, the grouped-up folks tend to take more measured actions, the lone wolves are more likely to cause trouble.

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