I have been chastised for stating my belief that even bloggers on this site through their posts are in a way contributors to the recent violence in our country and the climate of hate pervasive in right wing politics, as many say it's me just picking on my fellow bloggers. Well, I'm not alone.
Wade Michael Page Had Plenty of Accomplices
Submitted by Carol Morgan on August 8, 2012 - 7:45pm
It’s hard to believe America has experienced two mass shootings in less than two weeks. Yes, of course, everyone blames guns, but the motive for violence runs much deeper than the issue of easy access to firearms. Guns are merely the symptom of an acute infirmity; a gradual plague that’s sickened the national conversation.
Americans are gradually learning that Wade Michael Page was a White Supremist and Neo-Nazi musician who, according to his former employer, had “a problem with authority figures and women”. It was theorized that he mistook the defenseless Sikhs for Muslims because of their turbans and beards (as if his Islamophobia somehow understandably justified the heinous act).
The media reported that Wade Michael Page was the lone gunman in the Sikh temple massacre, but the media is incorrect.
Wade Michael Page had plenty of accomplices in his hateful acts on Sunday. His accomplices may not be legally responsible, but they are morally implicated. They proudly label themselves as Patriots. That word has evolved from a noble tag into one that is cringe-worthy. Almost overnight, it’s become code-speak for every tin-hatted, gunned-up, birther buddy, conspiracy-theory-paranoia about golf courses and the United Nations, with a few vulture capitalists thrown in for good measure. In reality, the Tea Party Patriots are evolving into a ranting fundamentalist faction with the irrational belief that losing a policy debate over health care, economic recovery or immigration is an apocalyptic end to freedom as we know it. They speak in hyperbole and histrionics and their eager audience is a crowd of weak-minded individuals with tenuous control over their impulses. These faithful followers act on their hate and fears because of imaginary enemies, straight out of Orwell’s 1984.
The North American Interpress Service offered an article on Monday, claiming the Tea Party has close ties with hate groups. You may read the article in its entirety here: http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=3340 . It encouraged the Tea Party to examine its ranks to ensure that racists and bigots do not corrupt the movement's credibility.
It’s a legitimate request, but it’s a little too late.
The Intelligence Report has compiled an accounting of 22 men and one woman with extreme right-wing views who sought public office during the 2010 election season; five of those were elected to office. All of the 23 Tea Party candidates readily and openly identify themselves as Neo-Nazi, White Supremists, or "Patriots" and they are all supported by the Tea Party. While the Tea Party may have started out as a group who was protesting spending and government waste, they have been swept up by hate, racism and the Neo Nazism, through their own arrogance and inattention.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, hate crimes have exponentially increased in recent years. You can view the hate map here: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map The majority of states with the greatest number of hate groups have a common thread, their state education system is virtually broken, strangled to death by cuts to public education, initiated by Conservative Tea Party state legislatures.
It’s not only anonymous minor players fanning the conflagration of hatred, but nationally profiled members as well. The list of tactless and insensitive remarks is long: Michele Bachmann’s claim that the U.S. State Department is being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, Louie Gohmert’s claim that the Colorado theatre shooting was the result of "ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs" and his moronic question of why nobody else in the theater had a gun to take down the shooter, Allen West’s claims that religious tolerance would “give away our country” and who could forget Sarah Palin’s infamous statement: “Don’t retreat, reload.”?
“We want our country back!” is a constant refrain of the Extreme Right. Well, you know what?
I want my country back too, but I want it back from the people who actually stole it from us--the Corporateurs of America, the Wall Street criminals, and the hate-filled Right Wing who consistently out screams the rest of us.
Ever since Man’s original fall from grace, we all have a choice to do good or evil. And that includes our words.
In America, speech may be free, but it isn’t cheap. In the age of social media and 24/7 news cycles, words are powerful weapons. Words have consequences. Words have costs. Sometimes the consequences and costs are more than we could have ever envisioned.
Certain political personalities, bloggers and media individuals need to account for their contribution to the high price innocent victims had to pay
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How Todd Akin And Paul Ryan Partnered To Redefine Rape
"Under H.R. 3, only victims of “forcible rape” would qualify for federally funded abortions. Victims of statutory rape—say, a 13-year-old girl impregnated by a 30-year-old man—would be on their own. So would victims of incest if they’re over 18. And while “forcible rape” isn’t defined in the criminal code, the addition of the adjective seems certain to exclude acts of rape that don’t involve overt violence—say, cases where a woman is drugged or has a limited mental capacity. “It’s basically putting more restrictions on what was defined historically as rape,” says Keenan."
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Dem Representative Investigated For Having Sex at Rest Stop With 17 Year-Old Boy (Updated)
Minnesota district 7B Representative Kerry Gauthier is at the center of a criminal investigation by Duluth police. This is a particularly sensitive situation right now as incumbent lawmaker Gauthier will face Republican challenger Travis Silvers in November.
Police will only confirm that Representative Gauthier involved in an incident the Thompson Hill rest stop last month.
State Patrol will confirm that one witness approached a trooper around 11 at night on July 22nd to report an incident.
The State Patrol turned the investigation over to the Duluth Police Department. Police spokespeople say they are conducting a criminal investigation but they refuse to say why Gauthier was arrested.
However well placed sources today told the Northland’s NewsCenter, the incident involved a 17 year old boy with whom Gauthier was reportedly engaged in a sexual act.
UPDATE: Dem Representative won’t face charges. The sex with the teen was consensual
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Rush Limbaugh Claims Hurricane Is an Obama Conspiracy to Cancel GOP Convention
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Veterans Today
TEA PARTY BACKERS: Organized Crime, Oil Theft
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Koch And Native-American Reservation Oil Theft
By Dave Johnson
Created 03/20/2011 %u2013 8:00pm
Koch money is a key driver of the conservative movement.
I ROTFL when I saw it..
The New New Deal
The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama
While that message, built off a misquote of one of the president’s speeches, was already hampered by the RNC being held in a structure built with government funds, the RNC’s selection of small business owner Phil Archuletta made their duplicity even more apparent.
“When President Obama came on board and pushed the stimulus, I believed my business was going to explode with work,” Archuletta, owner of New Mexico-based P&M Signs, said Tuesday. “Unfortunately, it never happened. The Democratic Congress and the Obama administration created a new procurement process that harmed existing small business contracts, which devastated my business.”
“President Obama talks like he supports small businesses, but his actions are destroying us,” he added. “His administration is putting us out of business. It is our turn to put them out of office!”
The problem with Archuletta’s rhetorical attack is that he’s one of the longest standing clients of the Minority Business Development Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The agency’s New Mexico Business Enterprise Center even helped his company secure a $850,000 small business loan to build an 11,700 square-foot structure.
For Griffin, fascism is "a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti-conservative nationalism" built on a complex range of theoretical and cultural influences. He distinguishes an inter-war period in which it manifested itself in elite-led but populist "armed party" politics opposing socialism and liberalism and promising radical politics to rescue the nation from decadence.[30] Mussolini said that Fascism is revolutionary against liberalism "since it wants to reduce the size of the State to its necessary functions."[31]
Paxton sees fascism as "a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."[32]
One common definition of fascism focuses on three groups of ideas:
The Fascist Negations of anti-liberalism, anti-communism and anti-conservatism.
Nationalist, authoritarian goals for the creation of a regulated economic structure to transform social relations within a modern, self-determined culture.
A political aesthetic using romantic symbolism, mass mobilisation, a positive view of violence, promotion of masculinity and youth and charismatic leadership.
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