A snivelling douchebag. Or what passes for a journalist on Faux Noise in the form of Glenn Beck. And of course World NutsNet Daily is a good go to rag for the most insane drivel that passes for news. There are a host of other blithering idiots, racist ass hats and drooling dittotards throwing their bile and nonsense into the ring as well. It is interesting that their bizarre and ludicrous reactions to this administration are at such a fever pitch less than a year into Obama’s first term. After all they were silent while GW Bush used the Constitution for toilette paper as he held an American citizen in prison for five years with no due process, operated secret prisons and tortured people-in some cases to death-spied on us without warrants, pushed citizens attempting to exercise their First Amendment rights of protest into cages called, ironically, “Free Speech Zones” and used political Red Squads to infiltrate and compile dossiers on non-violent law abiding groups. That and more. None of which seemed to bother these defenders of the American Way. It leads one to believe they just can’t stand having a black man as president. It is rather humorous observing their antics, but unfortunately the humor is tinged with a sense of trepidation as it makes me wonder how far some of these selectively patriotic radicals will go.
McClatchy takes note of the insanity that has taken over a sizeable portion of the GOP base:
Secret Camps And Guillotines? Groups Make Birthers Look Sane
Is the federal government building secret camps to lock up people who criticize President Barack Obama?
Will it truck off young people to camps to brainwash them into liking Obama’s agenda? Are government officials planning to replicate the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, using the guillotine to silence their domestic enemies?
One can only hope. I am reminded of a quote by Right Wing spokesskank mAnn Coutler:
“We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.”
And that got some hearty guffaws and “10-4s” from the Republicans. Ha-ha! Intimidate liberals! Those damn America haters!
No. The charges, of course, are not true.
Darn.
However, the accusations are out there, a series of fantastic claims fed by paranoia about the government. They’re spread and sometimes cross-pollinated via the Internet. They feed a fringe subset of the anger at the government percolating through the country, one that ignites passion, but also helps Obama’s allies to discount broader anger at the president’s agenda.
In one, retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson says the government has prepared 1,000 camps for its own citizens. He also says the government has stored 30,000 guillotines to murder its critics, and has stashed 500,000 caskets in Georgia and Montana for the remains.
Why guillotines? “Because,” he wrote in a report obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, “beheading is the most efficient means of harvesting body parts.”
I wonder why hospitals don’t utilize the guillotine as they work with the organ donor programs in most states?
In a second warning, the Web site Worldnetdaily.com says that the government is considering Nazi-like concentration camps for dissidents.
But of course, they would have to hire the Nazi-like Republicans to run them…
In another ominous warning, a group called the Oathkeepers boasts that it wouldn’t cooperate if the government orders dissidents locked up.
“We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext,” the group says in its list of top principles.
Oathkeepers is built around the idea that its members — active and retired military, police and firefighters — all have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, not the federal government.
And as I said, where were these selectively patriotic people while the Constitution was ignored and abused by the last administration? Oh yeah. They were his supporters.
Whether inspired by the group or not, the message of loyalty to the Constitution has been heard in many of the angry protests in town hall meetings this summer against a proposed health care overhaul — often side by side with the suggestion that the health care proposal is unconstitutional.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., also is worried about the federal government and children, saying a bill expanding the AmeriCorps volunteer service could lead to mandatory camps for young people.
Of course Moon Bat Bachmann is such a reliable source of information.
“And the real concern is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
Yes, they would have to wear lederhosen, learn to goose step and wear their Obama Kinder patches proudly.
We are not even a year into this administration and we are already diving the Mariana Trench depths of insanity. They have nothing to propose, no constructive alternatives, no positive plans or anything constructive to promote. Hate, paranoia, lunacy…in other words S.O.P for the G.O.P.
I find it interesting that believers in the Christ myth are so upset at being presented with something as simple as this billboard:
I had some interesting conversations yesterday about the Dems’ inability to close the deal on health care reform while having an overwhelming majority. The GOP is in complete disarray and the only thing they have managed to do is work their base into a frenzy of hate and confusion as the Party presents no viable alternative to our current health care paradigm. Rachel Maddow has a very good piece on the state of affairs with the Republican Party and their antics:
