This is an odd statement from a Scott. Have you been totally ignorant of the cause of the IRA? Did you miss the trouble in Chechnya or Bosnia? Is the example of the cultural hatred known and killing for generations in the middle-east something that you missed? The trouble with the US is that we not only have our own heritage of racial sepratism, exploitation and suppression that is similar to the Chechnyan / bosnian issue but we also have all of the worlds bigotted isolationist volunteer resentment factories from the jews & muslims to the English and the Irish to the Religious persecutors / persecuted to the political / economic / environmentalist wackos and we welcome them, encourage them to practice their philosophies and preach their gospel. We do nothing effective to prevent them from espousing the overthrow of the government and genocide or the like. We pretend that they can talk about this and preach about this and as long as they don't actually do these things we will be safe.

In my experience I becomre very uncomfortable when someone talks about killing me. I usually take it as a sign that they intend to do so. in America it is the act not the statement that is the crime.