The point is, Jim Jones and his cult was heavily involved with various liberal politicians and favored socialist policies. They helped liberal politicians get elected, busing people to polling stations and so forth. It’s also worth remembering, Jim Jones hope of a saving grace was fleeing to the Soviet Union.

So they were a violent left leaning group. and did intimidate political opponents with their “Red Brigade” guards. Of course, they were totally nuts, but that doesn’t change their clear political associations. That said, the fact that jones was a nutbar says nothing about the left as a whole, any more then the murder of George Tiller’s murder indicts the right.

Ulrike Meinhoff was an intelligent woman, who sadly was a myopic in her own views, failing to see that violent methods that she wanted to employ against the Vietnam war, west Germany and so on would only alienate the populace. If you want to learn more I recommend the movie: “The Bader-Meinhoff Komplex”

I don’t know how you got the impression they were far right, they are more like a German version of the Weather Underground.

Hot Air — Finally: Red Eye interviews the “queen of conservative media”
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/25/finally-red-eye-interviews-the-queen-of-conservative-media/