CNN's Erick Erickson Suggests "Mass Bloodshed" May Be Necessary If Roe Isn't Overturned
January 24, 2011 10:15 am ET by Jamison Foser
CNN's Erick Erickson is also Editor-in-Chief and "Dear Leader" of the conservative blog Red State, so this charming passage posted by "The Directors" is presumably his doing:
Here at RedState, we too have drawn a line. We will not endorse any candidate who will not reject the judicial usurpation of Roe v. Wade and affirm that the unborn are no less entitled to a right to live simply because of their size or their physical location. Those who wish to write on the front page of RedState must make the same pledge. The reason for this is simple: once before, our nation was forced to repudiate the Supreme Court with mass bloodshed. We remain steadfast in our belief that this will not be necessary again, but only if those committed to justice do not waiver or compromise, and send a clear and unmistakable signal to their elected officials of what must be necessary to earn our support.
That "only if" construct means that -- according to Erick Erickson's Red State -- "mass bloodshed" will be "necessary" if elected officials don't overturn Roe v. Wade. Again: Red State doesn't say "mass bloodshed" may occur if elected officials don't do what is "necessary to earn our support" -- it says such bloodshed will be "necessary." Erickson and his Red State colleagues didn't indicate how much time elected officials have to earn their support before mass bloodshed becomes necessary.
This certainly is not the first time CNN's Erick Erickson has used violent rhetoric in discussing elected officials. This kind of talk must have some fans at CNN, though: Erickson has been chosen to provide "insight and analysis" for CNN's State of the Union coverage.

















At comment time, there are the twitter names of some people you can contact about him in a block on that page.
Who exactly is are these people threatening with "mass bloodshed"?
Speaking of another failed CNN hire.
Bizarre in a few ways. First, this same poster has been known to openly advocate killing people he's been told to hate .Second, because this sort of unhinged violent reaction, and general insecurity among right wing males regarding their masculinity, makes it obvious projection.
The more I see of Erickson, Glenn Beck, and some of the wingnuts who post here, the more I think the perfect embodiment of today's teabagger patriot is Doyle, Dwight Yoakam's character in Sling Blade.
Blame the victim, then justify your own violent thoughts by playing the victim.
Bingo!
" Nobody tells me to tone down the violent rhetoric!"
I guess he didn't sign Glenn Beck's little pledge.
If it were just the "bloodshed" lines alone, I'd might be willing to leave it be. But prior to that we are offered the idea that Roe v. Wade was an act of "judicial usurpation."
That is the kind of language that I believes offers inspiration, motivation, and justification to the nutcases. Oh, sure, of course, we have the very Beckian, "gee, we sure hope violence won't be necessary again," qualification, but that doesn't change their calling a Supreme Court decision an act of illegal seizer--an uprising against the rightful sovereign.
Those are the arguments that inspire the lunatics who embrace a paranoid fantasy of a world where there is only good and evil. If Erickson wishes to stand by those words CNN should fire him immediately.
Apparently the right is fine with fully corporate-owned politicians, but letting a woman choose what happens inside her body is off the wall.
I have an idea! How about we line up all of the women who are anti-choice, and when a woman wants an abortion, we instead just transplant the embryo? Any female who is anti-choice can be put into a pool, and they can just draw names, winner gets a new pregnancy, whether she wants it or not!
Win-win!
Because in Republican-Land, white males know best.
NOT A DAMNED THING!
But unfortunately, many people still seem baffled by the concept - not to mention incapable of controlling their sexual urges for two minutes until someone puts on a condom.
They simply don't work.
Birth control is not the answer. The anti-choice side will have to be told to sit down and shut up and leave the adults alone.
It's the way things were done in the ancient world, and it's the way that they would have it done today.
An aquaintance almost got his face smashed in when he suggested that I shouldn't have been having sex with my wife unless we were trying to get pregnant.
As far as Republicans seem to be concerned, even though we used protection, we shouldn't have had a choice after that. Fortunately we have the resources to raise and care for that child. What about people who don't? The thinking seems to be: so?
The same folks who would force a woman to carry out a pregnancy will not provide any financial aid at all. From conception to adulthood, the parents would be responsible, even if they couldn't afford the child and did everything to avoid the pregnancy, short of total abstinence.
No, it hasn't. That is part of what is so weird about this whole madness of removing the civil rights of half the population.
It was not until 1965 that abortion was finally made illegal in all 50 states.
The Comstock Law was used to suppress information about birth control and abortion until 1938. The Griswold decision permitted married couples to use contraception. Srsly!
The several states used to control their citizens in whatever way they wished. The Feds stepped in and said they had to stop breeding people for sale to the highest bidder.
That is why the Civil War reckons mightily in the discussions of abortion.
Controlling the means of production of human resources is about forced pregnancy and forced birth. Never for a moment think it is not.
The question remains the same as it has for many years. Are women human?
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97may/abortion.htm
I like this bit. I would say 'their physical location' is pretty f-ing important.
We're divided on it as a country, so we've gone the pro-choice route, which allows the most personal freedom, and the least government intrusion.
That is, if you're anti-choice,or just anti-abortion, nobody is going to make you have an abortion.
If you're pro-choice, nobody can stop you from having an abortion.
Why do right wingers hate freedom so much ?
It's about acknowledging that women are autonomous beings with a right to privacy and the right to control what happens to their own bodies.
...and that is the very idea these misogynistic troglodytes can't stand. At it's core, anti-abortion advocates HATE women. They hate women and they fear women. It's sick and sad and so ingrained in our culture that it will take generations to erase this backwards thinking from our society.
Wait a sec, that's not quite true. It doesn't matter whether a woman is pregnant or not, that's how they're seen by these idiots all the darn time.
We have to kill a lot of living people( ie bloodshed) in order to reject the Supreme Court allowing a choice to terminate early pregnancies to save newly developed fetuses without regard to the rights(constitutional?) or wishes of the human beings carrying the fetuses.Why is advocacy for preserving fetal life justified by bloodshed?
(facepalm with head shaking)
"End the murder or we will murder you."
This position is what they call 'pro-life.'
Pat Tillman died because of it.
Erick Erickson is a terrorist.
Translation: Unless this "smaller governement" we keep harping about is willing to FORCE every woman to carry every pregnancy to term, whether she wants to or not, whether she even consented to the sex or not, we've got to start KILLING PEOPLE. And we have to start killing people, becuase HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED, and if you don't agree with that, then someone who BELIEVES IT should KILL YOU.
Oh and uh... Contraception? No.
Social Welfare? No.
Pre-natal care? Post-natal day care? Are you kidding?
You know what? I think mass anal rapings may be necessary if conservtaives in the media don't start TELLING THE TRUTH and SPEAKING PLAINY and stop being HYPOCRITICAL, SELF CONTRADITORY PHONIES!
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God, I hate these bastards.
Either that exists, or the entire movement is a gang of hypocrites that want to reinstate fear of pregnancy as a deterrent to sex.
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!...
Yes, it's exactly that--it explains the apparently contradictory positions on abortion, contraception, and sex education. People educated in safe sexual practices, and who use contraception correctly, have very little risk of pregnancy or disease, and this fact drives the right wing absolutely wild with fury. They want any sex act outside of martial sex for the purpose of procreation to be so fraught with terror of unwanted pregnancy and/or disease that they'll do anything to bring that about. If that means keeping people stupid and disinformed, then they'll go with it...
... and all without apparently realizing they are causing more problems than they are solving.
When it breaks, it still feels like you aren't wearing one.
And I mean that if you, as a male, think that abortion is the answer and she does not, stfu. Conversely, if you, as a male, think that abortion is not the answer and she does, also stfu.
If the "all publicity is good" policy is really being pursued at CNN then why don't they just have some of their news readers have "wardrobe malfunctions" on air (both male and female) rather than have one of their commentators linked to talk about mass murder...
As a person of religious faith, I oppose abortion, except in the case of a mother's life a risk, pregnancy and a few other exceptions.
However, I would never, ever attempt to force any other person to live my religious faith, to believe as I do. The mother and father should make that decision, within the law, as they are allowed.
I don't listen to blowhards like this, but CNN should stop featuring this bombastic meathead. It gives us conservatives a really bad name.