DC Tea Party Attracts Glenn Beck Fans & Fellow Art Critic Hobbiest

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The sight of tens of thousands of people showing up in Washington to protest anything is a healthy sign that democracy is alive and well in America. Weather it's a fight for civil rights and the moving "I Have A Dream" speech delivered by Dr. King or the protest against the Viet Nam War, which brought thousands to Washington in protest. Everyone has a right to support or oppose any cause and many will have different reasons for doing so.

This weekend thousands decended on Washington in a protest against "Big Government" and "Higher Taxes." or at least that's how it was reported. However, as you start to read the signs being held and hear some of these "regular Americans" in their own words, it's hard to overlook the fact that higher taxes and big government are only symbols of thier opposition. They are reasons to assemble with like minded thinkers where they can energize eact other and in many cases, introduce eact other into even more extreme rhetoric.

Think Progress posted an eyeopening video of a man interviewed not just about his reasons for taking part in the protest, but also about the content of the sign that he was holding. I would assume that he created the sign, although it's not confirmed that he did. However, the man seemed to articulate it's meaning in a way that would lead most people to assume that he made the sign. Particularly since the man supported and echoed Glenn Beck's belief that President Obama is a racist.

Beck, who helped initiate the idea for the rally, has come under fire for stating Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.” Take a look at the video below as an attendee offers an whacky art critique like the one that Glenn Beck gave during a segment last week where he tried to paint the artwork at Rockeller Plaza as communist propaganda and that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was a comminust sympathizer.


John D. Rockerfeller Jr. dedicated his life to pholanthropy. Infact, the constuction of Rockerfeller Center took place during the worst years of the Great Depression and where responsible for putting some 40,000 New Yorkers to work during one of the darkest periods in American history.
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There were several hate groups among the various corporate and Republican organizations paying FreedomWorks to help finance the rally. The National Association for Rural Landowners, a bronze sponsor, references the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge to call for attacks on “government entities” and liberals.

In a YouTube video posted in July, the group makes the case for a secession, followed by a violent civil war. Another 9/12 cosponsor, FreeRepublic, is a forum for various radical right causes and as ThinkProgress reported, the shooter at the Holocaust museum found a welcome audience for his writings on the website.

Tea Party and Birthers Join Forces To Disrupt and More

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What began as annoying disruptions at democratic town hall meetings by factions of the tea party and birther movments combined, have now gone violent. Last week, a protester hung an effigy of freshman Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-MD) outside his district office, and after a June 22 town hall meeting was disrupted by an "unruly mob" of tea party activists, Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) had to be escorted to his car by police.

But now according to Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the president of the freshman Democratic class has revealed that "at least one freshman Democrat" has already been "physically assaulted at a local event." Connolly warned that conservative groups had taken things to a "dangerous level":

"When you look at the fervor of some of these people who are all being whipped up by the right-wing talking heads on Fox, to me, you’re crossing a line,’ Connolly said. ‘They’re inciting people to riot with just total distortions of facts. They think we’re going to euthanize Grandma and the government is going to take over."

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was invited to a preperation meeting for one of these protest by a co-worker who mistook some of my right leaning positions to mean that I was a raging righty. Needless to say, I was shocked by the rampent racism within the group and how the

N WORD was used in reference to the President and the Attorney General.

House Democratic leaders have a strategy for countering protesters attempting to disrupt Members’ town-hall meetings on health care over the August recess: Do nothing. In light of how ugly these events are getting, I think that may be the best course of action. I could never imagine going to a Republican town hall meeting to dispupt it, and God only knows that during the Bush years, there was ample reason to do so. If anything, perhaps it's time for legislation that will still allow for protest outside, but if you want to go inside the meeting, you must live in the voting district of that meeting.

I have seen the same man protesting a three different townhall in three different states. He is not there to protest, but to prevent the people who live in that district from even having a meeting. There are always 3 or 4 protestors who sit in different corners of the room to give the appearance that they do not know each other, and are just concerned locals.

During my frightening experience at a preperation meeting, one man in attendance suggested that people follow counter protesters (Lefty's) back to their cars and try to snap a picture of thier license plate. He cliamed to have a friend at the DMV and that "we can find out where these

"fuckers" live."

This guy was most likely bullshit, but I can feel something growing as the days go by. As I surf the net, I stumble across the most rediculous websites and blogs that are made to look like local TV satations or Newspapers.

They give them headers like Local Action 9 News. or Live At 5 On 5. The stories are so rediculous, but you have to wonder if there are actually people who might believe them. Stories such as:

President Leads Police on Drunken Vehicle Chase after White House Beer Party

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama was arrested for DUI this afternoon after taking a Harvard professor and a Cambridge police officer on a harrowing barhopping tour and subsequent high-speed police chase through the city. What started as a beer picnic outside the Oval Office to clear the air over the president’s embarrassing comments last last week after the arrest of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates turned ugly, when Obama, having quaffed one Bud Light and four plastic bottles of water in 15 minutes, stole a Secret Service SUV and demanded Gates and Sgt. James Crowley continue their party throughout the District of Columbia.

Smells Like Revolution Folks!

Tea Baggers And Child Abuse

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The tax day tea party in West Covina, California was dismal for a city with a population in excess of 100,000. When I arrived there were 18 people gathered around at the corner of Vincent Avenue and Plaza Drive, all holding signs about government greed, socialism, and claims of being taxed enough already. At the high point of the tax day protest, I counted 51 Anti-Government protestors although the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported in this mornings news paper that there were 60 protestors.

One of the most disturbing signs said. “I’m thousands of dollars in debt and I’m only 10. The sign was held by 10-year old Christian Gosney who should have been
in school, but his mother Debbie thought otherwise.

I find this use of children as despicable as parents who drag their children to KKK rallies. The bottom line is that child abuse is child abuse no matter how you wrap it. Way to go Debbie Gosney! – One has to wonder where Mr. Gosney is in this family picture.