08.13.12
Divining the future of the Ted Nugent vote
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War. — Ted Nugent, earlier this year
Charles Pierce, on the Romney campaign, at Esquire (hat tip to Pine View Farm):
There is nothing for it now but than to say, flat-out, that Willard Romney has decided that the only way he can become president is to become a racist and to appeal to the racist base of his party. This is the second ad in as many weeks centered on the general theme of The Negro President Wants To Give Your Money To The Black People Like Him…
Small Wars Journal, “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A Vision of the Future,” by Colonel Kevin Benson, retired:
The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers’ terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public’s fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.
In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party??? movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest …
When the leaders of the group hold a press conference to announce their goals, they invoke the Declaration of Independence and argue that the current form of the federal government is not deriving its “just powers from the consent of the governed??? but is actually “destructive to these ends.??? Therefore, they say, the people can alter or abolish the existing government and replace it with another that, in the words of the Declaration, “shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.??? While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party??? insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups. At the press conference the masked militia members’ uniforms sport a unit seal with a man wearing a tricorn hat and carrying a musket over the motto “Today’s Minutemen.???
While the rest doesn’t quite live up to the intro, it’s worth a full read. Don’t skip the comments, where the rage of the Tea Party is on full display:
I gave it a rating of one star. This is because there is no way to rate zero stars.
I am asking Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the US House Committe on Oversight and Government Operations to start a congressional investigation into Col. Kevin Benson and to the sort of unAmerican garbage being taught at the Command & Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. KS.
Dean Allen
www.RattlesnakeRevolution.com
Janet napolitano would be so proud. col Bensn is a traitor in waiting. Your oath is to the Constitution, Col. – not to your masters in the white house. it’s easy enough to see where your coauthor got her bile – Princeton is a well known home for all who hate our great nation – but to get such trash from the highest levels, of our military – even from one who is retired, is shocking indeed. You must be made of the same soft metal as those who serve under this traitorous regime without complaint. You watch as our sons are told not to defend themselves, not to kill those who seek their blood – the same regime that strips them of their right to vote, guts their pay, and sends them to battle without equipment or ammunition. The others who have posted here have covered your ill informed attack on today’s true patriots, the tea party. The one Thing we can all be thankful for is that traitors like yourself feel so free to expose yourselves, now that your fellow travelers have come to power.