This is one for those who have their eye on the far Right around the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing... published in The Age yesterday (as I post this just past midnight):
"...at its core, the Tea Party is essentially a movement of disaffected, white, middle-class Republicans re-energised by the Democrats' control of Congress and the White House, and who can be expected to influence the choice of Republican candidates in the lead-up to November's mid-term Congressional elections.
Yet the Tea Party's public dissent has resonated with a more extreme fringe - racist and white supremacist groups, anarchists and the like - eager to foment rebellion, and with their number rising across the landscape.
According to the non-profit civil rights organisation Southern Poverty Law Centre, 360 new "patriot" groups emerged in 2009, taking the total beyond 500, including 127 militias."
The rest of it is here.
disturbing stuff
The "Tea Party" and the "Birthers!" Just a few of the nutcases showing up like half of a worm where you last bit the apple - just wants to make you empty your guts.
ReplyDeleteI read a posting by one of the older students in my daughter's communications course. The posting was **supposed** to be a critique of Obama's State of the Union address in January as a public speech, not a political soapbox. Here's part of her response:
"Personally, I do not like Obama in any way. I do not believe he should have been able to run for President of the United States according to our Constitution. He has yet to supply an official record (i.e. an official birth certificate...not a photocopy, which could have been doctored) of his birth in the United States. If that is not enough our Constitution states in Article II that only a "natural born" citizen of the United States shall be President of this great country of ours. "Natural born" is defined as not only being born here, but also having parents who are U.S. born and have U.S. citizenship. Obama's father was neither born here nor has he ever been a citizen of these United States. Even though he should not have been able to run, according to our Constitution, the will of the people prevailed and he is our president.
Like all disenfranchised idiots, this student merely parroted some shit she’d heard somewhere else and made an instantaneous, uneducated and certainly extremely erroneous remark regarding the U.S. Constitution and citizenship to support her poor, misguided beliefs.
It’s extremely disturbing how easily people link themselves to all this moronic horseshit, just because it sounds good to them. This behavior is how King George II bullied the world for 8 long years.
Interestingly enough, I was in the audience when this class was presenting one of their speech assignments. This same person said that she is preparing a "statement speech’, hers is “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People.” She said she’s going to give the speech in front of her family, during which she's going to take a loaded gun and place it on a table in front of her. At the end of the speech, she’s going to ask; "now how many people has this gun killed since I've been speaking?”
WOW! She’s got my attention. I sure as hell hope she’s not going to have any children there.
"Personally, I do not like Obama in any way."
ReplyDeleteYeah I wouldn't have sex with him myself either, but I'm glad he's the president.
"...the will of the people prevailed"
Translation: "democracy sucks"
“Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People.”
More often and faster with a gun.
"now how many people has this gun killed since I've been speaking?"
Would she shoot me if I said that was fucking stupid question?
"Would she shoot me if I said that was fucking stupid question?"
ReplyDeleteI'm certain she would. She seems the type to shoot birds then pump her arms crying "oh yea!! Got another sparrow with my AK47!"
But not to worry Magpie, she's not likely intelligent enough to know where Australia is.