Growing Treasonous Right Wing Mob Militia Movement that Threatens Our Nation.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/opinion/04blow.html?th&emc=th

April 3, 2009

Pitchforks and Pistols

By CHARLES M. BLOW

Lately I?ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible
(interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the
mind and mood of the right.

My read: They?re apocalyptic.

They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged.

And some of their ?leaders? seem to be trying to mold them into
militias.

At first, it was entertaining ? just harmless, hotheaded
expostulation.

Of course, there were the garbled facts, twisted logic and veiled hate
speech.

But what did I expect, fair and balanced?

It was like walking through an ideological house of mirrors.

The distortions can be mildly amusing at first, but if I stay too long
it makes me sick.

But, it?s not all just harmless talk.

For some, their disaffection has hardened into something more dark and
dangerous.

They?re talking about a revolution.

Some simply lace their unscrupulous screeds with loaded language about
the fall of the Republic.

We have to ?rise up? and ?take back our country.?

Others have been much more explicit.

For example, Chuck Norris, the preeminent black belt and prospective
Red Shirt, wrote earlier this month on the conservative blog
WorldNetDaily:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103

?How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And,
when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history
need to record a second American Revolution??

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, imagining herself as
some sort of Delacroixian Liberty from the Land of the Lakes, urged
her fellow Minnesotans to be ?armed and dangerous,? ready to bust caps
over cap-and-trade, I presume.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html

And between his tears, Glenn Beck, the self-professed ?rodeo clown,?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?scp=2&sq=glenn%20beck&st=cse
keeps warning of an impending insurrection by saying that he believes
that we are heading for ?depression? and ?revolution?
http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/glenn-beck-predicts-armed-revolution/
and then gaming out that revolution on his show last month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8La5xLYo2-s

?Think the unthinkable? he said.

Indeed.

All this talk of revolution is revolting, and it hasn?t gone
unnoticed.

As the comedian Bill Maher pointed out, strong language can poison
weak minds, as it did in the case of Timothy McVeigh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocG5u9r3oo4

(We sometimes forget that not all dangerous men are trained by Al
Qaeda.)

At the same time, the unrelenting meme being pushed by the right that
Obama will mount an assault on the Second Amendment has helped fuel
the panic buying of firearms.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html

According to the F.B.I., there have been 1.2 million more requests for
background checks of potential gun buyers from November to February
than there were in the same four months last year.
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics/nics_checks_total.htm

That?s 5.5 million requests altogether over that period; more than the
number of people living in Bachmann?s Minnesota.

Coincidence?

Maybe.

Just posturing?

Hopefully.

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Harry
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