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Saturday, April 03, 2010

"All these Tim McVeigh wannabes here"
Posted by Jill | 6:24 AM
Watch as Sean Hannity's audience applauds him calling them "Tim McVeigh wannabes" -- as if that's a GOOD thing.




In case you've forgotten, or are too young to remember, this is what Tim McVeigh, the angry punk that the teabaggers who now control the Republican Party regard as a hero did:


But wingnuts don't want to see this photo, nor do they want to think about the outgrowth of their racist white supremacist insanity. Instead, they come up with this:

Catherine Crabill, a homeschooling mom and realtor who says "our Second Amendment rights were to guard against tyranny" and believes that the U.S. government was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing,  is challenging incumbent Republican U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman.

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When contacted by the Washington Post in 2009, Crabill also defended remarks she made 15 years ago about the Oklahoma City bombing being orchestrated by the U.S. Federal government. Crabill was a member of "a militia known as the New Mexico Citizens Action Association", and had told the Washington Times "this heinous act of violence was the work of our government," which will "use it as an excuse to aggressively attack the growing militia movement across the country."

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"But Crabill also reiterated her view yesterday that the U.S. government was behind the Oklahoma City bombing, saying her views found support in a report by retired Brig. General Benton K. Pardin arguing that on the April 1995 bombing could not have happened without the assistance of internally placed demolition charges. She said the idea of her own government deliberately killing its citizens seemed farfetched even to her until the tragedy at Waco and the violent confrontation with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge in the 1990s."It would have been unbelievable if we hadn't seen [former Attorney General] Janet Reno destroy all those innocent people in Waco," Crabill said."

Gun control has been taken completely off the Democratic Party's list of issues. Barack Obama has said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about wanting to take people's guns. But every time there is a Democratic president, these people go absolutely bonkers, even though it was George W. Bush, after the 9/11 attacks, who presented the greatest threat to Americans' freedom to say what they want, do what they want, go where they want.

When the Oklahoma City bombings occurred, the militia movement was regarded as fringe. Now it has taken over the Democratic Party and a good chunk of the mainstream media. Fox News is essentially the network of the Aryan Nation and the militias. A man who was once regarded as a domestic terrorist is now held up as a hero by a television talking head.

We are in serious trouble.

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Monday, December 01, 2008

Isn't this what the National Guard is for?
Posted by Jill | 6:05 AM
Funny how the black helicopter crowd (which is sure to crawl back out from the rocks under which they've been hiding during the entire time George W. Bush has eviscerated the Constitution), never mind the "less government" pseudo-libertarian crowd, is utterly silent about this:
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.

But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response -- a nearly sevenfold increase in five years -- "would have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable," Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But the realization that civilian authorities may be overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted "a fundamental change in military culture," he said.


Funny how civilian authorities in New York weren't overwhelmed during the catastrophe that precipitated moves like this. Authorities in New Orleans were overwhelmed, but I can't imagine that this plan is designed to eliminate Blackwater goons from filling a law enforcement role in another attack the way they were sent to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In fact, I can imagine a disaster response in which people die because civilian and military authorities are playing "Mine's Bigger" over who exactly is running things.

Isn't the National Guard designed to help out during disasters? Perhaps if George W. Bush hadn't decimated the Guard by sending it to combat in Iraq -- a role the Guard was never designed to play -- this would all be moot. This domestic troop deployment looks at best to be part of the Bush Administration's last-minute plans to leave its fascist mark on this country in perpetuity before leaving. At worst it's a sign that the current Administration has no intention of leaving at all.

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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Dogwhistling to Secessionists?
Posted by Jill | 6:13 AM
An integral part of the extreme right-wing, black helicopter crowd has always been tax resistance -- or at least it was until a Republican took the White House in 2001. Funny how the militia types largely disappeared after that, isn't it? Funny how their objection to taxes only exists when there's a Democrat in the White House, eh?

We already know about Sarah Palin's connection to the Alaska Independence Party:




"I share your party's vision of upholding the Constitution of our great state."


Even more so than the Constitution of the United States, right, Governor?

I hate to find myself agreeing with Thomas Friedman on anything, but I think he's on to something here, something I'm not sure he intended:
Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can’t just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden that really sticks in my craw. It was when she turned to Biden and declared: “You said recently that higher taxes or asking for higher taxes or paying higher taxes is patriotic. In the middle class of America, which is where Todd and I have been all of our lives, that’s not patriotic.”

What an awful statement. Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led endeavors should not be considered patriotic.


Of course, if you're dog-whistling to the black helicopter crowd, saying that paying taxes is unpatriotic is no accident -- it's what you actually believe.

Sarah Palin: Militia Mom.

Kind of makes you wonder why someone who regards the government as so evil wants to be such an integral part of it.

More on the AIP and its resemblance to the militia movement here.

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