Teabagging Alan Grayson

The GOP here in Central Florida has sought out several candidates to run against Grayson. All of them have considered their prospects and then cut and run.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-locgrayson-seat-mike-thomas-101101309...

spelt: "sycophant"
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I think that we should tea bag the teabaggers.....those of us with testicles of course...

thank you for your perspective. I too fear the fetid nature of this "teabagger" movement and am all too certain that it's end will not happen soon enough to save those of us who think for a living from it's ugly reign of power. Surely enough will wake up and recognize this beast from within, but your family's story shows us otherwise. Mankind sure has an ugly side.

It is often those who do not learn from the past that doom us all to repeat it. This article points out one important point: many tea party patriots are not truly aware of how their loose organization has been infiltrated by those whose plans have nothing to do with what they are trying to get the government to understand. I spoke yesterday with a woman who is part of this movement. She describe the 9/12 event in DC as "like a large family picnic event" and that she only saw signs that addressed policy issues, not attacks on Obama or threats against his life. I suspect that many legitimate tea party patriots are surprised by the hatred they seem to now engender, but I also suspect that they are not totally rejecting this attention as it gives them a platform.

In Germany, as I tried to point out in my conversation yesterday, most Germans were totally unaware of what was happening within their country because of a controlled press. I have cousins who lived through that era and they opposed the rise of National Socialism, but could not stop it. I have talked with an Hungarian woman who lived through the death camps and later the communist takeover of Hungary from which she escaped. She said something I will never forget: You Americans give up your freedom so quietly. She is right - the tea party patriots sat by quietly while we lost so many of our rights. Because the rest of us have also been quiet, we have lost far too much over the last decades. So, I am going to stop being silent.

I have invited this woman to meet me in Philadelphia and join me on one of the videos I am going to make there. Since I believe that public discourse means that both sides must be heard, I am not going to stop her and others from the Tea Party Patriots to have their say. That is free speech in practice, and then I will have mine. If those who are spewing hate and ignorance try to shout us out, then they will be shown for what they are. They claim to be the Majority, but like their historical predecessors they do not speak for America, and I hope that my Drive to DC across this nation will help to show those in DC that we want our government back from corporations and that we will hold them accountable at the polls in 2010 if they do not produce policies that serve the American public good. I will show that we can make our presence known without violence and without threats, and that if our government wants to pander to corporations and give hate a place in America, that we will outnumber their special interests and we will stem the tide of violence by our sheer numbers (or at least that is the objective, anyway!)

Please go to Let Freedom Ring.Community. Then plan on joining me across the nation and in DC, not to protest, but to be seen in vast numbers, to make videos expressing all our views, and showing those who would overthrow our government and its freedoms that in a true democracy, the Majority of the People take part without shouting, without violence, and in a manner that will meet the needs of the Majority, not a select minority who need to use force to make their point. I will look forward to meeting them and letting them have their say. I will be curious to see if they let me have mine!

"Like the Nazi's, the Obama administration and his compatriots in Congress share a disdain for capitalism and profit seeking in general."

There is no reason to believe that the nazis or the Obama Administration or congressional Democrats have a disdain for capitalism and profit seeking in general. Naziism is essentially a corporate oligarchy, where profit seeking justifies any policy, no matter how brutal. True, the DLC seems to agree with the nazis on this point, but the GOP does so to an even greater extent.

"Obama's cadre of so-called 'czars' constitutes a small cabal of far left radicals"

"Czar" making is more typical of the last administration, though, regrettably, this is one of the harmful rightist tactics that Obama has failed to discontinue. Speaking as a leftist radical, I can assure you that there are no leftist radicals in influential positions in the Obama Administration. To assert that there are is to walk in the steps of the fascists. Don't you realize that the nazi mob was convinced, as they were told, that they were preserving their traditional values against the exploits of communists, terrorists and Jews? Don't you realize that they were convinced of their own patriotism as they dragged their country and the rest of the world down into the darkness of world war? Tea baggers may think of themsleves as patriotic defenders of the American way from foreign ideas, but they are really just fascist stooges.

"The Department of Homeland Security has taken steps to those with dissenting viewpoints as terrorists to be watched and monitored for the Safety of the Fatherland."

It's funny how you guys didn't have a problem with this when it was a white Republican in the White House and his targets were muslims and leftists.

"SEIU and ACORN thugs were quickly deployed to squash the peaceful protesters at tea parties and town hall meetings."

Show us one instance of "squashing," and then we will address your ridiculous assertion of "thugs." Squashing is what happens when a protest occurs which does not coincide with the agenda of the corporate media: numbers are downplayed, messages are distorted, protestors are ridiculed. This is what happens to a real protest movement. The tea baggers enjoyed exaggerated numbers, messages helpfully organized and transmitted by broadcast pundits, and critics who pointed out that protesting in favor of the rich and powerful is not really protesting were the ones who were ridiculed.

"...children being taught Christian hymns with Obama replacing Jesus Christ for worship. Obama openly calls for a massive "Civilian National Security Force just as strong and just as well funded as the military" to crush the American people. Dissent will not be tolerated."

Seriously, where do you get this crap? The hyperpatriotic hyperloyalty pushed on the American people by the previous regime, the unecessary nationalization of Guard units, the detention camps set up by Halliburton, torture, wiretapping---none of this made any impression on you people who now say that you are all for preserving liberty. What has changed is that there is no longer a White Republican in the White House.

"...some of the things Obama has done would have done would have sparked outrage (raising troop levels in Afghanistan, increasing raids into Pakistan, raids in Africa) from the left."

Anyone who has been paying attention to the left will know that such things are sparking outrage. What they are not sparking is a desire to protest in favor of Fox News and the medical insurance industry. Anyone who is paying attention to the Tea Baggers notes that their primary effect has been to give Obama an excuse to continue neoconservative policies; they give the impression that the agenda of corporate powers is supported by grass roots activism.

"What's really sad is all the useful idiots who are complicate in marginalizing the American patriots protesting to preserve justice and liberty in America. "

Well. duh! You should take your own advice.

Yes, they do, when in fact it is the Teabaggers who threaten violence against people with whom they disagree. ("We can use him for target practice," said a Teabagger.) Teabaggers bring guns to political events. Right wingers have gone seriously off the rails. And please don't give me the Jonah Goldberg crap. You bet Nazism can happen here, but it isn't Obama who is fomenting it.