Once again, Marcy Wheeler demonstrates how stupid she is.

In Afghanistan a violent mob, apparently incited over the idea that someone half a world away burned an allegedly ‘holy’ book, attacked a UN outpost and killed twelve actual human beings.

Their excuse for violence is being taken completely at face value by many on the Left, even though burning books, or other items, in protest in America is constitutionally protected free expression.

Naturally, Marcy Wheeler is one of those idiots:

Wingnut Pastor’s Koran-Burning Gets UN Staffers Killed
By: emptywheel Friday April 1, 2011 8:32 am

See, Marcy, let me explain to you how this works, since you seem to be unfamiliar with free expression or the fundamental underlying nature of reality. I do something, legal and nonviolent, to express myself. Someone else, in a fit of idiot rage, responds to that legal activity with violence.

I am not to blame. I did nothing wrong. *They* are responsible for their actions. To take any other position is to claim that the violent respondent is incapable of functioning as an adult; it’s paternalistic, infantilizing and offensive.

In other words, it’s fairly standard stuff for Wheeler. Only this time she’s riding her hobby horse over dead bodies. Fun times.