It has become perfectly clear that the right-wing push against Health Care Reform and the President in general has devolved from conservative disagreement with policy into sheer insanity and hatred.
The direct statements that Obama is Hitler and Stalin and Mao, the shouts of “Socialism!” and “Marxist!”, the waving of signs with blatantly racism imagery and text threatening to overthrow the government – treason at the very least. It boggles the mind.
One interesting occurrence today was that as the 30,000 or so teabaggers descended on Washington, another event was taking place on the mall: the Black Family Reunion Celebration. There was visible tension as the teabaggers streamed past the BFRC attendees, as it was hard to miss that the vast, vast majority of teabaggers were white (I can’t see a single non-caucasian protester in the hundreds of photos of this event through which I’ve searched). Seattle newspaper The Stranger had a man on the ground in Washington:
“There is someone on the Capitol lawn who I can’t see and they’re mainly shouting bad puns like ‘It’s time for Pelosi to Go-si.’ The crowd’s signs are all over the right-wing map, but there are some recurrent themes: Obama is a socialist—like Hitler and Stalin. The Government is terrible and can’t do anything right but America is the greatest country in the world. We have the best health care in the world already. Pray to Jesus. The crowd marching up from Metro Center also had the oh so clever shout, ‘Throw him out, yes we can!’ Hahaha! I get it! (I heard a guy refer to three black cops who rode through the crowd as Gestapo. Nice to see their respect for those charged to serve and protect.) I used to think the left’s anti-Bush messages were a little too rancorous at times. After seeing the Tea-baggers out today, the Bush-haters seem really mild in comparison.”
The same teabagging protesters who are now in a hate-spewing uproar about personal freedoms were completely silent when the Bush administration perpetrated some of the most flagrant violations of our civil liberties, including the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, torture, extreme rendition, political persecutions and firings, and a general disregard for legality and the concept of checks and balances.
The Stranger but it best in a quote from a BFRC atendee : “That’s how you know it’s not about politics, it’s about race.’”
Hey protester – the majority of Socialized countries are wealthy and in Europe. Did these people even go to school?!?!
I think the “we don’t trust you” sign is particularly poignant. The protesters seriously can’t handle having a black President. And the signs thanking Glenn Beck and Fox News – two of literally dozens on the Flicker Feed – just puts the nail in the coffin of the already well-sealed idea that Fox News is a real instigator of these protests. Produce a protest/conflict, cover it, generate a wider audience, repeat.
Enough is Enough, people. Seriously. How can we allow such blatant racism and treason to go unchallenged?
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