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- "Rightwing extremism is alive and well in America!" Emphasized in the title of this article and by cydygitt1 at 11:54 AM : Jun 11, 2009.
Right wing extremism is definitely alive and well. It is also growing at an alarming rate. It is no surprise, then, that the none-too-liberal Janet Napolitano is using her authority as head of DHS to attempt to get an assessment of how widespread and dangerous this faction is. If it turns out to be as bad as some of us contributing on this thread believe it already to be, then all those measures devised and implemented by the Bush Administration, including the "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive" His Bushness issued in May of 2007 can be applied here. The Supreme court bought in on all of it and it is now begining to look like we may actually have a real justification to put these measures to use. I wouldn't think of applying something as constitutionally questionable and morally ambiguous as the National Security Directive under any other circumstances but it's long past time to shut these neo-Fascist maniacs down hard and permanently.
But before we go too far down that road, I have a little information to share:
We have a neighbor, lives three or four houses down the street from me. He's an electrician by trade and works hard and dilligently. Supports a wife and thre children. He is also superficially the exemplar of every right-wing nastiness you can think of and lots that you don't. Yet he is firm and fair with his children and has raised them very well. He is a passionate opponent of gay rights but when he caught some deliquent defacing a sign on my front yard that supported a ballot measure supoporting g@y marriage, he ripped the kid a new a--hole, made him replace the sign and demanded he apologize to me. He has a definite nineteenth century attitude towards people of color but when a black apprentice was harrassed by another white journeyman, he threatened to have the white-boy fired. If you are familiar with union shops then you know that is an all but impossible task - yet he was willing to try. The man is well meaning and patriotic - and I mean that in every possible positive connotation. We don't visit much but when we do we have a good time. In spite of his politics, I like the guy.
I mention all this to point out that with few exceptions the right-wing underbelly of America are not necessarily one dimensional cartoon villians. Many are - too many, and they need to be dealt with in the harshes possible terms. But we also need to avoid over generalizing. Recognize the threat many pose but taking an overly broad brush approach to the problem puts us in danger of being the very thing we hate about our rightist whacks. - Reply to this comment
- David Koresh was a domestic terrorist? News to me! I was also unaware that David Koresh voted Republican? Sounds strange for a man that thought the U.S. government was a bunch of infidels. Also David Koresh's group had lots of black members. The groups spokesman was a black harvard law grad! I think you are very misinformed as to what transpired in Waco. sorry!
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- The constant idiot-rant chant by the neo-conned of "Socialism!" is comparable to a generic car parts store being picketed with chants of "Cadillac!"
Must be the fancy air freshener... - Reply to this comment
- ...Liberals LOVE Sanger! Hitler got his eugenics ideas from Sanger...stay away from the colleges and universities...
Posted by gvmelibertyorgvmedeath at 11:24 AM : Jun 11, 2009
Guess i'm not a liberal after all, because i barely know who she was. She's dead, right? Anyway, just like your messiah rush, EVERY sentence you use with the word liberal is lie.
Second point, and i barely care about all the other weirdness in your posts, you anti-education fox/rush fans need to look yourselves alot harder, and stop listening to those loons.
After all, mr intelligent, i'm NAUGHT an Actor... - Reply to this comment
- Question? If a white person disagrees with the political policies of .......
Posted by gvmelibertyorgvmedeath
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There's the convoluted "thinking" of a highly-partisan placater of rightwing extremism, since disagreeing with anyone over POLITICAL POLICIES has NOTHING to do with RACISM, only political ideology.
You would have learned that in polysci 101. - Reply to this comment
- Educate yourself, but stay away from the colleges and universities if you want to get to the real truth and not be brainwashed.....
Posted by gvmelibertyorgvmedeath
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More absolute PROOF of absurdity from an uneducated placater of rightwing extremism, railing against colleges and universities of higher learning.
I'm sure you'd advocate a solid diet of foxnewsus propagandus as well as conservitard talk radio of the likes of racists rush and savage to get your kind of "truth."
When a college professor gets you to THINK on your own for a change and not go along with group "think", it certainly isn't brainwashing as you wrongly stated, since there's many ways at looking at the same problem -- not just one.
Rightwing extremism is alive and well in America! - Reply to this comment
- Question? If a white person disagrees with the political policies of a half white, half black president, that white person is a racist, according to Jeanine G. Then, if a black person also disagrees with the political policies of the same half white, half black president, is he also a racist?
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- Your are right, I am confused.
Posted by gvmelibertyorgvmedeath
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No doubt, and your constant gibberish condoning rightwing extremism proves it! - Reply to this comment
- David Koresh was a domestic terrorist? News to me! I was also unaware that David Koresh voted Republican? Sounds strange for a man that thought the U.S. government was a bunch of infidels. Also David Koresh's group had lots of black members. The groups spokesman was a black harvard law grad! I think you are very misinformed as to what transpired in Waco. sorry!
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- Your are right, I am confused. It always confuses me when people speak out of both sides of their mouths. Right wing hate, but all of the hateful rhetoric comes from the left?? Very confusing. There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is when one hasn't been exposed to the truth or facts. Stupidity is when one has been exposed and chooses to ignore said thruth or facts. So, if I had to choose,I guess it is better to be ignorant than stupid!
You can read Sangers own words for yourself. Google "The Birth Control Review", Sangers newsletter. She and Hitler corisponded on a regular basis. She encouraged him regurarly on his eugenics "research and "medical research" he did on those in his camps. This is a matter of public record. Again, like I told actornaught, facts are no longer taught in the schools so you have to do research on your own.
I hate no one. I have taught my children to hate no one. I, on the other hand have been accused of hating by the "tollerent" who don't even know me. - Reply to this comment
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