I think H2O Man wrote a satiric statement about the furor the Right set up and set off with Kennedy coming to Dallas. Handbills were distributed a couple days prior to Kennedy's visit. A newspaper article was laid out to indict Kennedy of treasonous charges. Then a gunman acting in concert with other people did the unthinkable. Our nation still mourns the result.

Why don't we (the citizen we) have a plan of acting to circumvent this kind of hateful rhetoric? On one hand, we have the wackos dehumanizing the Obamas by making them akin to beasts like monkeys. It is easier to attack that which is not human. On the other hand, there is the not my gun, can't do this to my country, and he is not really an American crowd moving forward.

How do you redirect this kind of animosity before it gets a head of steam?

There are non profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center. Who covers their reports to highlight what aspects of the militia/white supremacists are doing?

Who is going forward to their state/local law enforcement agencies to ask what is being done to halt their threats against people in the community?

It takes everyone working together to say not in my community, not on my block, and not in my schools.