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'I Quit the Evangelical Movement in Disgust': Former Evangelist Fears Right-Wing Lunacy Will Lead to More Murder
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What are the Republicans in Congress and the other "respectable" leaders on the far right -- from Focus on the Family's James Dobson to Rush Limbaugh, from Laura Ingraham to the leaders of the NRA -- doing to stop the right-wing domestic wave of terrorism exploding in the aftermath of President Barack Obama's election? I ask this as a former evangelical right-wing and "pro-life" leader who quit the right and the Republicans in disgust over their extremism.
In the wake of the election of our first black president, we've seen rage -- an abortion doctor gunned down; three police officers in Pittsburgh shot by a man who feared "they" would take his guns; and a black security guard at the National Holocaust Museum slain.
The FBI just arrested a well-known white supremacist and the host of an Internet talk show and Web site for saying that three judges should be killed. (Hal Turner, was arrested in North Bergen, N.J., and accused of posting statements on his Web site calling for the killing of three federal appeals court judges in Chicago who recently ruled on a gun-rights case.)
On June 26, another domestic terrorism story exploded: The gunning down of a father, mother and child by a self-appointed "border patrol" keeping America "safe" from Mexican immigrants. Here is what happened, according to the New York Times:
Arivaca, Ariz. -- "Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband!" the woman shouted to the 911 dispatcher. "They're coming back in! They're coming back in!"Multiple gunshots are then heard on a tape of the call.
The woman, Gina Gonzalez, survived the attack after arming herself with her husband's handgun, but both he and their 10-year-old daughter died.
The killings, last month, have terrified this small town near the Mexican border, in part because the authorities have now tied them to what they describe as a rogue group engaged in citizen border patrols.The three people arrested in the crime include the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a Washington state-based offshoot of the Minutemen movement, in which citizens roam the border looking for people crossing into the country illegally. Former members describe the group's leader, Shawna Forde, 41, as having anti-immigrant sentiments that are extreme, at times frightening, even to people accustomed to hard-line views on border policing.
There's a biblical story about the stoning to death of St. Stephen, where the yet-to-be-converted-apostle Paul didn't throw the deadly stones himself but stood holding the coats of the people doing the killing. Similarly, the right-wing leadership, are "holding the coats" of present and future violent actors. These coat-holders sow the seeds of hate with their words, then pretend horror when those words are taken seriously.
Who has been beating the anti-immigrant drum? Who has been calling abortion doctors "murderers"? Who has been saying that Obama will take away our guns? Who is ratcheting up the anti-Obama hysteria?
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Posted by: Prairie Waif on Jul 1, 2009 1:42 AM
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And he takes so much heat for all the killing that went on? Why he was the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Laura Ingrahm of his age! He missed the radio show for stadium "altar calls."
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» "Why he only spoke his "opinion.""
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» Hitler also made sure the German sheeple remained unarmed & helpless...
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» RE: He never killed anyone. . .
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Posted by: Walker on Jul 1, 2009 1:44 AM
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» RE: Remember The Christian Activist?
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Posted by: billslm on Jul 1, 2009 3:08 AM
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NLP (Neuro-linguistic practitioners) know all about mind control and word imagery and suggestion.
A thing need not be 'against the law' for it to be wrong. O'Reilly jolly well got away with murder.
T.S. Elliot's remarkable play Murder In The Cathedral, shows the moment when the king (Henry II?) in a mad moment says in the presence of his knights, "Will no one rid me of this priest?"
That was all the king had to say. Beckett was subsequently murdered, posthaste, his blood spilt on the holy alter of the Sanctuary, no less.
Such messages are always tacit. O'Reilly didn't have to say "Hey, you mentally defectives, go murder this man." All he had to do was imply it. He knew that. All the leaders of the Religious Right know that their congregation are borderline.
Scheaffer is asking them to stand up for Christian principles. The leaders do not stand up for the Good because they are not actually Christians. They have created God and Jesus Christ in their own image. They are idolators and politicos.
Power leads inevitably to corruption.
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Posted by: Tom Degan on Jul 1, 2009 3:42 AM
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The people who make their livings promoting this climate of hate and hear - the Rush Limbaugh's, the Sean Hannitys, the Ann Coulters, the Michael Weiners, the Glenn Becks - that crowd - already have enough blood on their hands. When will their thirst be quenched?
On that happy note....
The Real Tragedy of Michael Jackson
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
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Posted by: Moonray on Jul 1, 2009 4:05 AM
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No wonder the fundamentalists view themselves as heroes. If you buy into the primitive ideas that form the basis of Christianity and some other religions -- such as that a soul is magically inserted into a fertilized egg at the moment of conception -- then it makes sense to defend these babies against the evildoers who would terminate their lives prematurely. Similarly, if you believe in angels, devils, sin and all the other wacky trappings of religion, it isn't surprising that you would often behave in ways that would most kindly be described as bizarre.
No, the real culprits behind this ugly trend are the religious "moderates" who want to perpetuate religion because it makes them feel better and serves their social needs. Or because it brings them votes on election day. You can't advocate or condone "a little craziness" -- belief in supernatural beings and magical processes with no evidence to substantiate those beliefs -- and then claim to be shocked when some people act predictably based on those same assertions.
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Posted by: keepleft on Jul 1, 2009 5:26 AM
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By framing this issue as a matter of "patriotism", the author falls into the ideological trap created by right-wingers, and conservatives of all stipes (democratic & republican). When will liberals get it through their heads that "patriotism" is just another word for nationalism and chauvinism. STOP TURNING THESE ISSUES INTO A CONTEST OF WHO IS MORE PATRIOTOC. REJECT PATRIOTISM ALL TOGETHER!!!
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» RE: PATRIOTISM? GIMME A BREAK.
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» RE: Of Course They Don't Care!
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» RE: Some actually do if you will only see!
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» RE: Of Course They Don't Care!
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Posted by: cberkland on Jul 1, 2009 5:55 AM
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» We Need To Take Our Country Back From Them!
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Posted by: AZLBRAX07 on Jul 1, 2009 6:08 AM
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My own mother was a LEGAL immigrant. So was one of my great-grandmothers.
What I AM against is illegal aliens sneaking into the US, stealing jobs, driving without licenses or insurance, sucking up "benefits" they're not even entitled to...and, then, DEMANDING rights and priviledges only meant for citizens and DEMANDING they we learn to speak their language.
In a pig's eye!!!
It's time to clamp down on these parasites and to send them back to wherever they came from, rather than offering them the "keys to the kingdom"!
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» RE: It's time to clamp down on these parasites and to send them back to wherever they came from
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» no illegal immigrant has ever stolen a job
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» Stealing jobs? Who gave them the job?
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Posted by: TimV on Jul 1, 2009 6:13 AM
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1. "Illegal Immigrants must be stopped."
2. "Right-wing domestic terrorism committed by a few unhinged people who take the crazy talk (and nutty "open-carry" church services) seriously..."
3. "...but, after all, he [Tiller] murdered 60,000 babies."
4. "O'Reilly didnt have to say 'Hey, all you mentally defectives,[sic] go murder this man'."
5. "Obama is making America less safe."
The odd-numbered statements are directed against various left-of-center people, groups, etc. The even-numbered ones (sweeping generalizations) are directed against people W/psychiatric histories, who are on all parts of the political spectrum and the good-versus-bad spectrum.. (I'll give the author of the above article some credit for talking about "curing" the right-wing "lunacy" instead of suggesting witch hunts against the mentally ill.)
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» This just in: John Wilkes Booth was NOT mentally ill.
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Posted by: Spiritgirl on Jul 1, 2009 7:25 AM
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That you all (the Minutemen & other groups like it) tend to not remember that inconvenient fact in your pursuit of "illegals" is an oxymoron that I cannot understand! That you all refuse to see that the very people that cater to and incite your ignorant beliefs, yet care not one whit for you - as they drive up to their gated Mcmansions is another anathema to thinking people everywhere!
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Posted by: JohnTruth2001 on Jul 1, 2009 7:30 AM
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But our real problem is a few extremist rightwing kooks???? I don't think so!!!!
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» RE: One hand is profit, the other is psychological operations, the third rail is eugenics
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» RE: Let's see: +1 million murdered Iraqis & Afghans; economy & healthcare imploding; our Constitution
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» RE:Let's see: +4million murdered Iraqis & Afghans; economy & healthcare imploding; our Constitution
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» 9/11 on purpose?
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Posted by: popeurbanxxiii on Jul 1, 2009 7:30 AM
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All these wolves in sheeps clothing, who deem to speak for God, seem to forget that judgement is God's alone. They are so damned quick to pass judgement on "God's" enemies. You know what? Unless I hear it from God's mouth, these jerks can go to hell. (Perhaps they already live in their own private hell. Why else would they be so fearful and hateful?)
Just as we will always have "the poor" among us, so too shall we always have the crazed and those of diminished capacity among us as well. Anyone who would manipulate these unfortunates for politics or personal gain is committing a doubly heinous act. God will deal with them fully in the fullness of time.
I wish people would stop being sheep. They do not need a shepherd to guide them to God. The only place you will ever encounter God is in your own heart. He/she does not inhabit any temple, mosque, synagogue, tent, cave, or grove. And hey, if you want to be an atheist, that's cool too...
Peace,
Pope Urban xxiii
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» My Sentiments, Exactly...
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on Jul 1, 2009 8:24 AM
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» Half-assed definition of 'psychosis'
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» Spirituality is just New Age lingo for superstitious belief.
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Posted by: Quannah on Jul 1, 2009 9:17 AM
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The only thing that will stop these people will be criminal prosecutions.
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Posted by: willymack on Jul 1, 2009 10:09 AM
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This sorry situation won't improve if our public education systems continue to be neglected. Ignorance, fear, and violence go hand in hand, and there's plenty of all that to go around here, in the USA.
Like it or not, the rest of the world is watching us and listening to what the morons say. Those watching us are better educated and less violence-prone than us, and are doubtless appalled at our mindless violence.
We're a showcase for what can go wrong in a formerly great nation.
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Posted by: dudelette on Jul 1, 2009 10:24 AM
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They lie and lie and lie. Why isn't this decision being applied to them?
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» Brandenburg v. Ohio
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Posted by: skepticgod on Jul 1, 2009 11:03 AM
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I AM IN FAVOR OF TOTAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH !!
THE US GOVERNMENT IS A DICTATORSHIP: WHAT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT GIVES THE FBI FOR ARRESTING A PERSON FOR SAYING SOMETHING? THAT'S PURE DICTATORSHIP !!
"The FBI just arrested a well-known white supremacist and the host of an Internet talk show and Web site for saying that three judges should be killed."
I am not against the ultra-right. I am against the US government, the FBI, CIA and the whole monopoly of armed forces for banning freedom of speech.
I believe that Americans are allowed to say what ever the hell they want even wanting to kill somebody if they want. Saying you are going to kill somebody is no proof for killing a person.
What the hell, what the f*ck?
HAS THE US GOVERNMENT POLICE SYSTEM TURNED INTO A PRE-CRIME SYSTEM LIKE TOM CRUISE'S MOVIE "MINORITY REPORTS"
Arresting people for saying any thing is INCONSTITUTIONAL !!
RELEASE THE NAZIS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS RIGHT NOW !!
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» RELEASE THE BLACK-SUPREMACISTS OUT OF JAIL NOW !! DRUG DEALERS TOO, FREEDOM!
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Posted by: ProgressiveManiac on Jul 1, 2009 11:08 AM
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I don't necessarily buy into the idea that the answer is the same for all of these questions. It does seem likely that it is the GOP that has latched onto the anti-immigrant concept as a wedge issue, though probably one that will backfire on them in the long run. I'd generally place much of the blame for anti-Obama hysteria on the GOP.
However, this notion that Obama will take people's guns away would seem to have a commercial source. I'd guess that this idea comes from the NRA, acting in their role as a propaganda organ of the firearms industry. This mime has sure been a boon for the gun industry.
Incidentally, it would make an interesting study in a few years for some graduate student to see whether this bubble in gun ownership has any correlation with crime or accident statistics.
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Posted by: JSquercia on Jul 1, 2009 1:18 PM
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Remember in the early days of Unions it was common for the Governors to use the National Guard against the strikers . Don't forget the Army was used against the Bonus Army encamped on the Mall . I believe MacArthur was in command .
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Posted by: Belegandir on Jul 1, 2009 2:18 PM
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So in short: If god will not come to you- You make god come to you, by setting in motion the hideous carnage upon the unbelievers. and mindlessly having faith that you are doing gods will.
The radicalism in this country is Christian based. I don't see Baha'ists in the throng. ANd most who are of the evangelical persuasion are in fact literalists when it comes to the interpretation of the Bible. And when you hear of intelligent design, pure PR Brotha.
If the literalist does not find the burning bush, He or she will simply find one, burn it and call it God. Nihilism knows no religion, race or creed,
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» Apparently Gods a Slacker in Their eyes
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Posted by: kelethian on Jul 1, 2009 4:41 PM
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Are you autistic? your black and white thinking and insistence on pure logic is quite symptomatic of Asperger's.
Maybe its you who need the treatment.
Or just maybe, you havent talked to one such as I, who was abused by his father with the full blessing of the school and psychiatric systems simply for believing in God. All because he had the same boneheaded insistence on pure logic you do.
Pure logic is a sword without a hilt or handle.
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Posted by: gradioc on Jul 1, 2009 4:44 PM
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Posted by: CovertRage on Jul 1, 2009 5:05 PM
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Schaffer and that entire lot of mislead ill-informed fanatical neo-conniving zealots and fanatics are tools being used in a greater religio-fascist corporacratic ruse. They've all taken the mark of that beast, doing its will with a culturally repressed steadfast mind that unifies them in a cause that is anything but godly. I can't beleive Schaffer has the temerity to think that anything he has personally done for this cause has meant that much to the right wing movement. The truth is Schaffer is seen as more a moderate voice than the ultra-Jesusy Palinesque officer in God's army among most Jesus Campers proclaiming George Dumya to be the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. This guy has a really overinflated sense of self importance to inner courts of right wing institutions of religion that borders on psychotic narcissism.
For the record, though, what's Schaeffer done beyond separate himself from their numbers, like a rat fleeing a sinking ship, now that the shame of Christendom is greater than the true followers of Jesus can ever hope to bear? Where was Schaeffer during the Bush administration when the damage to the real church of believers was suffering its worst and most blasphemous attrocities? No one is really impressed with this rascal's sanctimonious selfrighteousness now that the Church is mocked and derrided from hell to breakfast. We're not moved by his human and civil rights epiphany now, when he could have publicly brought these same allegations, judiciously and expeditiously chastising these deceitful Pharisees for their willful perpetuation of Amerika's religio-fascist bigotry and inhumanity. A public rebuke then would have meant so much more to the overall dioscourse back when war was declared based on lies, back when people of color in a so-called free society were first being punitively profiled for no other reason than an olive complexion. Those real followers of Jesus cried out then that the teachings and practices of the likes of Falwell, Dobson, and Robertson were nowhere near what the Savior Jesus would have ever done. As a matter of fact, everything that Jesus represents is everything that herd of lobotomized idiots HATES, a reality I dare say Schaeffer knew to be true, yet still failed to publicly acknowledge out of nothing but his own fearful cowardice.
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Jul 2, 2009 6:30 AM
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As the 'End of Dayers' stoke the fires of Armegeddon and inciting events to bring on the Apocalypse- more people will begin to leave the Megachurches and their sociopathic ideologies.
As Pro-Lifers take more lives, more followers will begin to question their adherence to the 10 Commandments, and their calim to being "Pro Life'.
The fanatical Right wing is beginning to expose it's hypocracy and it's Heresy in it's hyterical attempt to maintain the staus quo of the last few decades.
They can't live up to their claims, they can't follow their doctrines, and they can't stop proving the Left has been Right about them all along.
We may not be in the streets protesting the Theocracy which has undermined this Country since the emergence of the 'Moral Majority' in the '80's, But just like the Religious leaders of Iran, they brought this on themselves.
Americans see the correlation of 'Guns and God' which not only inspires the violence by Islamic radicals, but also our so called 'Christian' radicals. Even though they follow and worship different Idols/'sacred Cows' and their symbols- their doctrines and their methods are exactly the same.
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Posted by: skepticgod on Jul 2, 2009 8:39 AM
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ENSLAVED BY THE US GOVERNMENT, BY CIA, BY FBI, WHO CAN SILENCE YOU AND YOU ARE ALL SCARED LIKE LITTLE WIMPS AND SISSIES YOU ARE !!
NO WONDER THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER HAVE A SOCIALIST SYSTEM !!
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Posted by: LeaderofMen on Jul 2, 2009 9:01 AM
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1. Their god is all powerful and knows everything.
2. We have free will that overrides their god.
3. They also tell us we're powerless in the face of god's awesome powers and that we should fear 'him'.
Really? Then why is it so easy for YOU PEOPLE to override his so-called powers.
Here's the secret answer: your god doesn't exist anywhere except in your minds.
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Posted by: Philip Newton on Jul 2, 2009 4:05 PM
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This, um, opinion piece (and many subsequent posts) are exemplary of the sort of willful ignorance about things religious that is an AlterNet specialty.
These stupidly incoherent mutterings are more responsible for marginalizing the Left than anything Rush and Co. could attempt to do.
Congrats.
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Posted by: Bezukhov on Jul 4, 2009 2:43 PM
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You imply that anyone who thinks our country should limit immigration (as any country with responsible leadership does) would applaud the murder of, among others, immigrant children. It’s bad enough to endure ad hominem attacks of “racist;” now we are to be labeled child murderers by proxy.
In fact, one of the major groups opposing uncontrolled immigration, NumbersUSA, has ALWAYS had a policy against attacking immigrants physically or verbally. From their site’s long-standing page, “No to Immigrant Bashing":
“Nothing about this website should be construed as advocating hostile actions or feelings toward immigrant Americans; illegal aliens deserve humane treatment even as they are detected, detained and deported. Unfortunately, to write about problems of immigration is to risk seeming to attack immigrants themselves. Even worse is the risk of inadvertently encouraging somebody else to show hostility toward the foreign-born as a group.“
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Posted by: Prairie Waif on Jul 1, 2009 1:42 AM
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And he takes so much heat for all the killing that went on? Why he was the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Laura Ingrahm of his age! He missed the radio show for stadium "altar calls."
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Posted by: billslm on Jul 1, 2009 3:08 AM
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NLP (Neuro-linguistic practitioners) know all about mind control and word imagery and suggestion.
A thing need not be 'against the law' for it to be wrong. O'Reilly jolly well got away with murder.
T.S. Elliot's remarkable play Murder In The Cathedral, shows the moment when the king (Henry II?) in a mad moment says in the presence of his knights, "Will no one rid me of this priest?"
That was all the king had to say. Beckett was subsequently murdered, posthaste, his blood spilt on the holy alter of the Sanctuary, no less.
Such messages are always tacit. O'Reilly didn't have to say "Hey, you mentally defectives, go murder this man." All he had to do was imply it. He knew that. All the leaders of the Religious Right know that their congregation are borderline.
Scheaffer is asking them to stand up for Christian principles. The leaders do not stand up for the Good because they are not actually Christians. They have created God and Jesus Christ in their own image. They are idolators and politicos.
Power leads inevitably to corruption.
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Posted by: Tom Degan on Jul 1, 2009 3:42 AM
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The people who make their livings promoting this climate of hate and hear - the Rush Limbaugh's, the Sean Hannitys, the Ann Coulters, the Michael Weiners, the Glenn Becks - that crowd - already have enough blood on their hands. When will their thirst be quenched?
On that happy note....
The Real Tragedy of Michael Jackson
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Posted by: Moonray on Jul 1, 2009 4:05 AM
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No wonder the fundamentalists view themselves as heroes. If you buy into the primitive ideas that form the basis of Christianity and some other religions -- such as that a soul is magically inserted into a fertilized egg at the moment of conception -- then it makes sense to defend these babies against the evildoers who would terminate their lives prematurely. Similarly, if you believe in angels, devils, sin and all the other wacky trappings of religion, it isn't surprising that you would often behave in ways that would most kindly be described as bizarre.
No, the real culprits behind this ugly trend are the religious "moderates" who want to perpetuate religion because it makes them feel better and serves their social needs. Or because it brings them votes on election day. You can't advocate or condone "a little craziness" -- belief in supernatural beings and magical processes with no evidence to substantiate those beliefs -- and then claim to be shocked when some people act predictably based on those same assertions.
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By framing this issue as a matter of "patriotism", the author falls into the ideological trap created by right-wingers, and conservatives of all stipes (democratic & republican). When will liberals get it through their heads that "patriotism" is just another word for nationalism and chauvinism. STOP TURNING THESE ISSUES INTO A CONTEST OF WHO IS MORE PATRIOTOC. REJECT PATRIOTISM ALL TOGETHER!!!
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My own mother was a LEGAL immigrant. So was one of my great-grandmothers.
What I AM against is illegal aliens sneaking into the US, stealing jobs, driving without licenses or insurance, sucking up "benefits" they're not even entitled to...and, then, DEMANDING rights and priviledges only meant for citizens and DEMANDING they we learn to speak their language.
In a pig's eye!!!
It's time to clamp down on these parasites and to send them back to wherever they came from, rather than offering them the "keys to the kingdom"!
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1. "Illegal Immigrants must be stopped."
2. "Right-wing domestic terrorism committed by a few unhinged people who take the crazy talk (and nutty "open-carry" church services) seriously..."
3. "...but, after all, he [Tiller] murdered 60,000 babies."
4. "O'Reilly didnt have to say 'Hey, all you mentally defectives,[sic] go murder this man'."
5. "Obama is making America less safe."
The odd-numbered statements are directed against various left-of-center people, groups, etc. The even-numbered ones (sweeping generalizations) are directed against people W/psychiatric histories, who are on all parts of the political spectrum and the good-versus-bad spectrum.. (I'll give the author of the above article some credit for talking about "curing" the right-wing "lunacy" instead of suggesting witch hunts against the mentally ill.)
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That you all (the Minutemen & other groups like it) tend to not remember that inconvenient fact in your pursuit of "illegals" is an oxymoron that I cannot understand! That you all refuse to see that the very people that cater to and incite your ignorant beliefs, yet care not one whit for you - as they drive up to their gated Mcmansions is another anathema to thinking people everywhere!
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But our real problem is a few extremist rightwing kooks???? I don't think so!!!!
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Posted by: popeurbanxxiii on Jul 1, 2009 7:30 AM
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All these wolves in sheeps clothing, who deem to speak for God, seem to forget that judgement is God's alone. They are so damned quick to pass judgement on "God's" enemies. You know what? Unless I hear it from God's mouth, these jerks can go to hell. (Perhaps they already live in their own private hell. Why else would they be so fearful and hateful?)
Just as we will always have "the poor" among us, so too shall we always have the crazed and those of diminished capacity among us as well. Anyone who would manipulate these unfortunates for politics or personal gain is committing a doubly heinous act. God will deal with them fully in the fullness of time.
I wish people would stop being sheep. They do not need a shepherd to guide them to God. The only place you will ever encounter God is in your own heart. He/she does not inhabit any temple, mosque, synagogue, tent, cave, or grove. And hey, if you want to be an atheist, that's cool too...
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The only thing that will stop these people will be criminal prosecutions.
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This sorry situation won't improve if our public education systems continue to be neglected. Ignorance, fear, and violence go hand in hand, and there's plenty of all that to go around here, in the USA.
Like it or not, the rest of the world is watching us and listening to what the morons say. Those watching us are better educated and less violence-prone than us, and are doubtless appalled at our mindless violence.
We're a showcase for what can go wrong in a formerly great nation.
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They lie and lie and lie. Why isn't this decision being applied to them?
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Posted by: skepticgod on Jul 1, 2009 11:03 AM
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I AM IN FAVOR OF TOTAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH !!
THE US GOVERNMENT IS A DICTATORSHIP: WHAT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT GIVES THE FBI FOR ARRESTING A PERSON FOR SAYING SOMETHING? THAT'S PURE DICTATORSHIP !!
"The FBI just arrested a well-known white supremacist and the host of an Internet talk show and Web site for saying that three judges should be killed."
I am not against the ultra-right. I am against the US government, the FBI, CIA and the whole monopoly of armed forces for banning freedom of speech.
I believe that Americans are allowed to say what ever the hell they want even wanting to kill somebody if they want. Saying you are going to kill somebody is no proof for killing a person.
What the hell, what the f*ck?
HAS THE US GOVERNMENT POLICE SYSTEM TURNED INTO A PRE-CRIME SYSTEM LIKE TOM CRUISE'S MOVIE "MINORITY REPORTS"
Arresting people for saying any thing is INCONSTITUTIONAL !!
RELEASE THE NAZIS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS RIGHT NOW !!
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I don't necessarily buy into the idea that the answer is the same for all of these questions. It does seem likely that it is the GOP that has latched onto the anti-immigrant concept as a wedge issue, though probably one that will backfire on them in the long run. I'd generally place much of the blame for anti-Obama hysteria on the GOP.
However, this notion that Obama will take people's guns away would seem to have a commercial source. I'd guess that this idea comes from the NRA, acting in their role as a propaganda organ of the firearms industry. This mime has sure been a boon for the gun industry.
Incidentally, it would make an interesting study in a few years for some graduate student to see whether this bubble in gun ownership has any correlation with crime or accident statistics.
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Remember in the early days of Unions it was common for the Governors to use the National Guard against the strikers . Don't forget the Army was used against the Bonus Army encamped on the Mall . I believe MacArthur was in command .
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Posted by: Belegandir on Jul 1, 2009 2:18 PM
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So in short: If god will not come to you- You make god come to you, by setting in motion the hideous carnage upon the unbelievers. and mindlessly having faith that you are doing gods will.
The radicalism in this country is Christian based. I don't see Baha'ists in the throng. ANd most who are of the evangelical persuasion are in fact literalists when it comes to the interpretation of the Bible. And when you hear of intelligent design, pure PR Brotha.
If the literalist does not find the burning bush, He or she will simply find one, burn it and call it God. Nihilism knows no religion, race or creed,
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Are you autistic? your black and white thinking and insistence on pure logic is quite symptomatic of Asperger's.
Maybe its you who need the treatment.
Or just maybe, you havent talked to one such as I, who was abused by his father with the full blessing of the school and psychiatric systems simply for believing in God. All because he had the same boneheaded insistence on pure logic you do.
Pure logic is a sword without a hilt or handle.
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Schaffer and that entire lot of mislead ill-informed fanatical neo-conniving zealots and fanatics are tools being used in a greater religio-fascist corporacratic ruse. They've all taken the mark of that beast, doing its will with a culturally repressed steadfast mind that unifies them in a cause that is anything but godly. I can't beleive Schaffer has the temerity to think that anything he has personally done for this cause has meant that much to the right wing movement. The truth is Schaffer is seen as more a moderate voice than the ultra-Jesusy Palinesque officer in God's army among most Jesus Campers proclaiming George Dumya to be the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. This guy has a really overinflated sense of self importance to inner courts of right wing institutions of religion that borders on psychotic narcissism.
For the record, though, what's Schaeffer done beyond separate himself from their numbers, like a rat fleeing a sinking ship, now that the shame of Christendom is greater than the true followers of Jesus can ever hope to bear? Where was Schaeffer during the Bush administration when the damage to the real church of believers was suffering its worst and most blasphemous attrocities? No one is really impressed with this rascal's sanctimonious selfrighteousness now that the Church is mocked and derrided from hell to breakfast. We're not moved by his human and civil rights epiphany now, when he could have publicly brought these same allegations, judiciously and expeditiously chastising these deceitful Pharisees for their willful perpetuation of Amerika's religio-fascist bigotry and inhumanity. A public rebuke then would have meant so much more to the overall dioscourse back when war was declared based on lies, back when people of color in a so-called free society were first being punitively profiled for no other reason than an olive complexion. Those real followers of Jesus cried out then that the teachings and practices of the likes of Falwell, Dobson, and Robertson were nowhere near what the Savior Jesus would have ever done. As a matter of fact, everything that Jesus represents is everything that herd of lobotomized idiots HATES, a reality I dare say Schaeffer knew to be true, yet still failed to publicly acknowledge out of nothing but his own fearful cowardice.
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As the 'End of Dayers' stoke the fires of Armegeddon and inciting events to bring on the Apocalypse- more people will begin to leave the Megachurches and their sociopathic ideologies.
As Pro-Lifers take more lives, more followers will begin to question their adherence to the 10 Commandments, and their calim to being "Pro Life'.
The fanatical Right wing is beginning to expose it's hypocracy and it's Heresy in it's hyterical attempt to maintain the staus quo of the last few decades.
They can't live up to their claims, they can't follow their doctrines, and they can't stop proving the Left has been Right about them all along.
We may not be in the streets protesting the Theocracy which has undermined this Country since the emergence of the 'Moral Majority' in the '80's, But just like the Religious leaders of Iran, they brought this on themselves.
Americans see the correlation of 'Guns and God' which not only inspires the violence by Islamic radicals, but also our so called 'Christian' radicals. Even though they follow and worship different Idols/'sacred Cows' and their symbols- their doctrines and their methods are exactly the same.
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ENSLAVED BY THE US GOVERNMENT, BY CIA, BY FBI, WHO CAN SILENCE YOU AND YOU ARE ALL SCARED LIKE LITTLE WIMPS AND SISSIES YOU ARE !!
NO WONDER THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER HAVE A SOCIALIST SYSTEM !!
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Posted by: LeaderofMen on Jul 2, 2009 9:01 AM
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1. Their god is all powerful and knows everything.
2. We have free will that overrides their god.
3. They also tell us we're powerless in the face of god's awesome powers and that we should fear 'him'.
Really? Then why is it so easy for YOU PEOPLE to override his so-called powers.
Here's the secret answer: your god doesn't exist anywhere except in your minds.
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Posted by: Philip Newton on Jul 2, 2009 4:05 PM
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This, um, opinion piece (and many subsequent posts) are exemplary of the sort of willful ignorance about things religious that is an AlterNet specialty.
These stupidly incoherent mutterings are more responsible for marginalizing the Left than anything Rush and Co. could attempt to do.
Congrats.
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You imply that anyone who thinks our country should limit immigration (as any country with responsible leadership does) would applaud the murder of, among others, immigrant children. It’s bad enough to endure ad hominem attacks of “racist;” now we are to be labeled child murderers by proxy.
In fact, one of the major groups opposing uncontrolled immigration, NumbersUSA, has ALWAYS had a policy against attacking immigrants physically or verbally. From their site’s long-standing page, “No to Immigrant Bashing":
“Nothing about this website should be construed as advocating hostile actions or feelings toward immigrant Americans; illegal aliens deserve humane treatment even as they are detected, detained and deported. Unfortunately, to write about problems of immigration is to risk seeming to attack immigrants themselves. Even worse is the risk of inadvertently encouraging somebody else to show hostility toward the foreign-born as a group.“
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