More Wing-nuts going over the edge

[Nbadan]

Out of power and with no hope politicaly....another wing-nut calls for a rise to arms

Oath Keepers organizer sees need to sound an alarm

Rand Cardwell drums up support for an antigovernment group whose views illustrate the disconnect that has come to define popular political discourse in President Obama's first tumultuous year.


The first order of business was a recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which called the Oath Keepers -- which claims more than 1,000 members nationwide -- a "particularly worrisome example" of a "virulently antigovernment 'Patriot' movement" that has been reinvigorated, in part, by the fact that the president is black.

The center do ented angry videos that had been posted on the Oath Keepers website; in one of them, a man called Obama an "enemy of the state."

Cardwell betrayed only a hint of the exasperation that this line of criticism stirs in him. Nothing, he said, could be further from the truth. He served side by side in the Corps with African Americans. One of his best friends is a black guy.

"Our goal," he said, "is to support and defend the Cons ution, and that's where it begins and ends at. . . . We're not a hate group. We're not a racist group. We're not calling for armed revolt against the government."

Founded this year by Stewart Rhodes, a Yale-educated lawyer and former staffer of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the group calls itself nonpartisan and features on its website a 1776 quote from George Washington warning of an incipient moment that would determine whether Americans will be "Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed."

"Such a time," the site says, "is near at hand again."

That kind of sentiment helps explain the disconnect that has come to define popular political discourse in Obama's first tumultuous year.

A vociferous group of Americans is warning that the country is not just headed in the wrong direction -- but over a cliff. They are mainstream media commentators, like Fox News' Glenn Beck. They are religious leaders, like "Bible Answer Man" Hank Hanegraaff, who told radio listeners last month that "socialism and fascism" were "slipping quietly through the back door

LA Times

Is this anyway to treat a war-time president?

[Nbadan]

In 2012, these loud-mouth wing-nuts could probably acquire the Ron Paul blimp but only on alternate weekends and only if they're not doing community service, however, what they've lacked, thus far, is a theme song. Something for which Sarah Palin can swap out the Star Spangled Banner. Happily, they now have the tuneful stylings of Lloyd Marcus to work with, and his "American Tea Party Anthem," which inveighs against the socialist government who DARED to stimulate the economy....

[hope4dopes]

In 2012, these loud-mouth wing-nuts could probably acquire the Ron Paul blimp but only on alternate weekends and only if they're not doing community service, however, what they've lacked, thus far, is a theme song. Something for which Sarah Palin can swap out the Star Spangled Banner. Happily, they now have the tuneful stylings of Lloyd Marcus to work with, and his "American Tea Party Anthem," which inveighs against the socialist government who DARED to stimulate the economy....

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