I’ve been kinda wondering what the point of all the left-wing hand-wringing about the right’s rhetoric. The left can be pretty mindless, so maybe there is no point, but still perhaps they see some end of the tunnel. The goal certainly isn’t to influence the right who correctly see it all as pretty opportunistic (“You know that rhetoric you’re using that’s devastating us in the polls; you have to stop it before it leads to violence!”), so the only other option is they plan to use legal force to stop it.
Enter Joe Klein saying that maybe Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are seditious. It’s just one leftie now, but if they consider salt dangerous and in need of banning, they could feel the same of right-wing rhetoric. I don’t seem much political will for that, but you know they’re all hoping and praying for some big violence from the right so they have an excuse for another “Hush Rush” bill or something.
The way things are going, the left is going to get increasing desperate as November approaches. Don’t be surprised what they do, though most of it will probably backfire. My guess is the only extreme thing they won’t resort to doing is trying to debate the Tea Parties on the issues. Even they know how bad that would backfire.
In the words of our current Secretary of State:
Here comes the Neo-House Un-American Activities Committee! I can hardly wait!
“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of a Tea Party?”
Santayana was right!
How dare the Teaparty question Dear Leader??!! Moveon, Shehan ,Moore, Penn, almost anyone in Hollywood, ACLU, or any democrats in general EVER question, call for the impeachment, jailing, and hanging of the Bush administration, stalk the familys of the administration, or ever interfere with the war effort. Ever. No way no how.
Liberal wimps can’t take their own medicine.
I predict Obama will say, “Tea parties aren’t seditious! America is seditious! Against me!”
No. Sedition would involve ACTUALLY changing the government back to a Constitutional Republic, which will never happen.
I am not a SADIST!! Isnt that what you call a practioner of sedition?
The left can produce violence if it wants. It’s simply a matter of massively over-reacting to some perceived threat of violence (as in Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.).
As for a literal “Trip Down Memory Lane” with regard to sedition by liberals, some kind soul has put together this video from the Bush era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6b1VOAATNk
The payoff comes at the end, “We’ll have to come out and kill somebody, I guess.”
I’m just full ‘o links today, aren’t I?
Either the federal government gives the states back their dollars and authority or the states should start taking them back.
For those who may remain instrested, I read this article after making my post above:
http://townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2010/04/21/there_bill_clinton_goes_again?page=full&comments=true
A former advisor to Gingrich traces the scare tactic back to Hamilton and the Whiskey Rebellion. Hamilton stirred a panic and created a threat, but when the army went looking, the rebellion just wasn’t there:
After the fact, Hamilton wasn’t too put out:
The author also points out that on his deathbed, McVeigh stated that he wouldn’t have bombed the Murrah building if Waco had never happened. Klein, Clinton, et al are playing a dangerous game for which conservatives may ultimately be blamed.
James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, explained in Federalist Paper No. 45: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”
My views are aligned with James Madison. Those of you with views aligned with Karl Marx or Jim Crowe (two sides of the same coin) Get off my Lawn! …On second thought stand real still , I am not a very good shot.
It’s not called sedition if our side wins.
I’m just sayin’…
Its funny how all the conspiracy nuts never say OK CITY WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!! Oh yeah, they tend to be liberals but
it seems far more plausible to me…..
With Obozo keeping so busy making up fake crisiseseses, wtf is he going to do if there’s a real one?
LOL
This is bogus left wing bulls**t, if the TEA Party, Beck, and Palin were actually preaching sedation you can bet your ass Eric Holder would be on them like white on rice. He’d be on them faster than Janet Reno and her goons massacred dissidents at Mt. Carmel or Ruby Ridge. Granted he’d have to transfer manpower from his various and assorted investigations of the CIA but no doubt he’d justify it to the left by stating that it was worth the effort to bring these seditious miscreants to swift justice.
Soon we will have the authorative judgement on this. Today, I was reading that Sarah Palin has been served a subpoena to appear in a Tennessee (Home of the puppy blender) Court. The article also mentioned that the max sentence is 50 years, so I guess they aren’t going for the firing squad.
FIFY
@16, and just what are those pansies going to do? swat us with their limp wristed homosexual bullies? Have the blech panthers come at us witha club? have the doper in the medical marijuana shop mellow us to death? We rednecks have a response for them.
Directions for taking care of violent hippies (wait while I catch my breath from laughter) ‘Empty magazine, reload, repeat’, it a simple a washing your hair. Something else hippies cannot comprehend.
Gov. Palin was in Tennessee to testify against the snotty little punk who hacked into her facebook account during the campaign.
If convicted, will this disqualify him from getting a job with the S.E.C.?