I think that local police would be on their necks in a minute. Nobody in this nation has agreed, or will ever agree, that they are bound to obey even well-meaning gangs of unknown men.

I know that small groups of frustrated Nazi sympathizers and KKK members would be glad to join such groups to get their kind of sexist and racist messages into the mainstream. If that happened, then freedom in America, and everywhere else, would be dead for centuries and we would all be catapulted backward in time to the “Dark Ages.”

Be careful of what you wish for!

on August 12th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

If the hatred of the government is not racially motivated by the black president, then where were you and why were you not complaining when Bush was flushing your money down the toilet and lying to the American people. You bloggers that claim there is no racial motivation are flat out liars! You have done nothing but whine and complain since I helped elect him. It is so much fun to listen to your white noise i will gladly vote for him again. I am ashamed of the lack of vision that these writers have! Long live a diverse America and many of us caucasians will be fighting on the side of our brothers and sisters of color! You are not fooling anyone!

I got NEWS for you lady, these people WERE complaining about Bush’s policys and actions and STILL are. Get down off the race card its NOT a factor. I could care less what color someones skin is, I judge actions, agendas, policys, and I disagree with the actions as far back as 1964. How dare you accuse someone who doesnt agree with your opinions a racist. And THIS organization is a joke, crystal clear they are instigators and as far as militia goes I’m glad there are people who will stand for our rights when the government only seems to trample on them. Go back and read your history, the militias were the reason we won our freedom, the same freedom that gives your right to say the disgusting things you say. I am so sick of all the ignorance coming out of the mouths of the uninformed. Next time KNOW what you’re talking about before inserting your foot.

I daresay that the angry posters here saw that happening, yet have said nothing about their distress over the great numbers of Americans whose jobs were suddenly moved offshore. There have been many thousands of jobs lost every month for years, but suddenly Fox “news” viewers have just noticed that was happening?

I want to tell you that in the 1990s salespeople were having business conferences where they instructed their audiences in the ways they could be free of taxation on their profits, namely by moving their operations offshore. Those same techniques are often called money laundering and they are major crimes.

You can blame immigrants as Americans’ traditional fall guys, but we all know that the real thieves are wealthy businessmen who claim to be red-blooded patriots.

How we do pull the wool over our own eyes in our eagerness to blame a group of easy victims for the crimes of the powerful!

I think the only way to improve for the selection of a president and people’s representatives is to train every school child in our nation’s history. And I don’t mean the kind of history that the Texas textbook people promote!

But to solve your problem we need to hire a couple of brawny guards to accompany everyone in a wheelchair when they are in public places. We might also find ways to protect schoolchildren and the elderly and feeble wherever they are too.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………..

Because they actually want their slaves back, they will ruin their “businesses” and put their profits offshore raather than pay fair wages.

Al Capone couldn’t have done more damage to our economy and our nation than these unprincipled crybabies!

Here is a fundamental truth about America. The errant business owners have got rich by bending and breaking all the rules. So why would anyone look up to people who are crooks at heart?

It is a time-honored rule of every business interest to pay the least possible to their workers and to pay no taxes on their profits, if at all possible. Every other business rule has been trodden into the dirt by people who take the wages of the poor to support their businesses.

You would do well and get an education free, by listening to what Elizabeth Warren and other whistleblowers have to say about our current economic crisis and its causes.

But, a CEO – oh dear. He CANNOT be allowed to make more money than others. My uncle made MORE for a silicon valley company – why? Because he went to work at 6:00 AM and came home at 8:00. He was a genius who won many awards. And on top of that, he had been very poor as a child. No help from his immigrant parents.
Yes, they WANTED him – the top companies. He was a genius. He took risks and advanced the computer industry.

I think this nation is still in its rowdy teenager stage and I sometimes despair that its leaders will ever mature into adulthood. I am glad that our current president is an adult, but we all know that he may be one of very few we’ve seen in office presently.

What makes me very angry is that carrying guns is now seen as the only way to keep any sort of order among this rowdy group of elderly teenagers.

Article 6 says the United States is the SUPREME LAW of the land, not the states. Those who would secede from the Union had better go back in history and find out what happened at Appomattox. It was there that it was proven that no state had the right to secede from the Union.

Many are the non-readers and non-thinkers who shout that Obama is a socialist along with most of the rest of his cabinet. So what IS Socialism? It’s simple, really, in the Capitalist form of economics (and this is all about economics, not politics) capital tents to go to the top 1 or 2% of the population and the rest of the people gets what’s left, if any. Capitalists (true capitalists, that is) generally do not actually PRODUCE anything but give themselves huge chunks of money as a “reward” for doing…for doing…WHAT?
Originally, they produced the money that was required for building and manufacturing things; now they produce nothing and richly reward themselves for that while the actual workers, the people who produce everything, get a tiny fraction of any capital that is left.
That is neither right nor wrong; it just is.
Socialism, on the other hand, spreads out capital more evenly so there is a greater number of people who can buy what they want or need. Again, not right but not wrong; it just is.
However, the countries that are starting to kick our posteriors are a combination of capitalism and socialism. And like it or not, so are we! We must catch up in the world’s economy.
Talking heads who love to toss out words they don’t know splatter like so much fertilizer on the minds and hearts of the ignorant. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, et. al. instantly come into mind. They are the Republican Fear Squad. Whatever you do, do it so that it is aimed at the uneducated, not those with higher degrees, after all, they’re just EXPERTS who have spent years and years studying and learning. Non-degreed, non-experts like Beck and Limbaugh like to hear themselves “sound” like experts, but don’t have the foggiest concept of what they are talking about.
Some idiots do not believe that Hawaii can issue an American birth certificate because they do not understand that Hawaii IS A STATE and became one on August 21, 1959 so a birth certificate from Hawaii is a valid American birth certificate, no further proof is needed.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the right to bear arms is a right left to the PEOPLE, not the states. In Texas, if someone breaks into my house, they will be shot, period. It is legal, no certificate of ownership is required.
While I very seldom use my doctorate to wave in someone’s face, those initials represent over 30 years of study and work.
Penultimate Item: I am a proud supporter of President Obama and would have voted for the man had he been purple with green and yellow polka dots: I vote for the MAN, not his color. He has done what no other president has been able to accomplish and I applaud him for so doing!
Now go and read the Constitution and UNDERSTAND that anyone who is still grumping and groaning, grow up and become adults instead of “Rush Heads.”

Apparently you believe that American presidents have the same powers as dictators? If your History education was that deficient, perhaps you could correct that situation by asking your public librarian for advice on ways to get a quick brush-up. Every person who has gained American citizenship after immigrating to America has taken just such a course in American history and government.

It is true that presidents declare war. However, the wars are instigated by Pentagon officials, about whom the US Constitution says nothing.

Money is what runs our nation’s capitol. That situation has existed long before most of us were born.

What happened? Did none of you study American History? Don’t you know that our presidents can only sign or refuse to sign laws passed by congress?

Bad laws can be corrected with better and wiser legislation. Get busy and write your representatives
about your concerns and keep nagging until you get a response. We need to insist that Guantanamo be closed, that the always spreading wars be ended and that the Patriot Act be nullified. If you have time to practice with guns and dream of slaughtering neighbors, you have plenty of time to be a good and not a violent citizen. Do it for the next generation. That’s the only way to be a hero in this fight for fairness and decency in government.

In the last election I had a choice between a mulatto socialist and a white, half senile war mongering neocon. I had the good sense to vote for neither. I suspect the militia guys feel the same way I do. They’re just pissed off that their choice was no choice.

Kate De Braose, an excellent example of creeping facism is the Patriot Act. It was shoved down our throats by the neocons, passed by Democrats and Republicans both (without having read it, of course) and reauthorized by Obama. My man, Ron Paul, voted against it. And yes, that bill introduced by arch neocons McCain and Lieberman is indeed an example of tyranny in government (it’s basically Son of Patriot Act). Making it illegal for a person *not* to buy health insurance is also tyranny. That’s what the new health care bill does.

The kinds of tyranny I see going on are wholesale slaughter of innocents in Iraq and South Asia, the denial of health care access to the people who need it most in this country (the poor, self employed, etc.), and an abject refusal to govern but instead to grandstand for votes in Congress while America suffocates.

I see nothing wrong with studying Islam. Making it impossible to do so is tyranny and unconstitutional. Or does our Constitution mean so little to a gang of anti-government fanatics in GI Joe uniforms?

Please be specific about what you believe is tyranny.