Obviously I have only your edited extracts to react to, but in that context I find the 'disclaimer' weak and somewhat laughable. Ingersoll clearly wants violence:
I know which side I’m on, and I’m more than ready to start putting people in the shed.
That is not a defencive statement - it's aggressive.
@FreddieUK Feel free to read the entire thing... there are a lot of grievances here.
This person has a binairy view of the world. It's a homgenous "us" and an homogenous "them". If any individual in the "them" bracket, does something... ALL are in collaboration on opressing "us".
Also the "us" group, can't do anything wrong. And if there is a judicial process looking into any of "us", it's an attack on all of "us".
It's all pretty simplistic and radical... and in his interpretation of what is going on, violence is the logical next step.
Although there are probably few people that will go as far as the original writer, there are many who seem to take the 'us' and 'them' approach to life. Tribalism is deeply ingrained in some parts of the population. In the UK, we have a political party working very hard to persuade the population that 'they' are responsible for all the problems that we experience and 'we' need to be frightened and take action against 'them'. It's nasty.
