An ugly truth

I don't ever want to shut Glen Beck, that fat drug addict Rush Limbaugh, Mike Malkin, Mann Coulter, or even that crazy Bachman woman up. I want them to keep talking and to keep on telling their lies and their crazy conspiracy theories.

What I would like them to do is to stop being so shocked that the people who follow them and who believe and hang on their every word actually commit murder because of what those right wing blowhards say. Oh they get pissed when people rightly make the connection between the domestic terrorists who murder and them but the ugly truth is there is a connection.

When a conservative gun nut hears that it's okay to start a revolution because Malkin or Bachman or Beck said it was fine by them, they take that to mean it's fine to kill people. Cases in point:

• the murderer who killed all those people in the Unitarian church in Knoxville, TN. He stated explicitly that he targeted that church because there were liberals there. He was a follower of right wing hate radio and he wanted to start a revolution against liberals and to kill everyone on Bernie Goldberg's list of liberals who are 'harming' America.
• Tim McVeigh, this murdering creep was a product of the far right militia groups who want to overthrow the US government because they think it's being run by Zionists and Communists.

• The KKK and skinheads. These guys aren't liberals or progressives or socialists, or fans of Obama. They are hard right wing haters who will kill and use violence to achieve their right wing aims.

These people and other easily influenced people get fed a steady diet of right wing hate radio and they either read books by their idols or someone reads them to them and then they actually go out and act on the hatred they are full of. They hear that it's because of Democrats, liberals, ball busting women, gays, Mexicans, blacks, and Jews that they can't get ahead or find work or get their slice of the American dream. When in reality it's the rigged system that was built by conservatives who were aided by their pals in corporate America that are holding them back.

These acts of political violence have been perpetrated, and will always be perpetrated, by true believers in the right wing's message of hate. No liberal in the USA ever committed mass murder, no liberal in the USA ever gunned down someone they disagreed with politically, no liberal in the USA ever plotted to overthrow the government by violent means, all those things have been done by easily duped people who have identified themselves or aligned themselves with right wing conservative political groups and right wing media icons.

If you keep poking a bee hive with a stick eventually the bees will get pissed off and take action. So Rush and Sean and crybaby Glen need to stop acting all innocent when people go out and kill to help bring about a world their idols so desperately want.

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And one more thing before I get off my soapbox, the reason so many right wing media people want to call President Obama a fascist/Nazi is because they want to confuse their followers and make them forget that Nazism and fascism are conservative right wing political movements.

Did we expect anything less?

The corporate police had the only non corporate media person arrested at the Republican Hate Gathering, I mean convention.

Free Amy Goodman!

Unacceptable

There was an anti gay hate crime in my fair city last night and you can read about it here.

This kind of shit sickens me beyond belief. And before any of you decide to leave me a comment that you're not surprised that this type of thing happened in TN, please don't waste your time because I'll just delete it. Let's be clear, this type of assault happens all over this country and it happens because of the climate of fear and anti gay hate that is stoked by the radical religious right and the Republican party.

Some in the radical religious right claim that they hate the "sin" of homosexuality but they love the homosexual. This of course is bullshit. People on the far right politically and religiously hate anyone who is not exactly like them. They need someone to demonize and and to try and "save" and who better to hate and despise than the people most unlike them in the world. It used to be they hated Jews, then blacks, then women's libbers, then hippies, then Communists, and now it's the gays turn to feel their wrath and unholy unchristian hatred.

Don't get me wrong people, not all religious people hate or fear gays. My friend Rev. Shuck is a huge advocate for gay, lesbian, and transgendered people. He's all for marriage equality and having gay people serve in the ministry. And he's a Presbyterian minister. And he started the local PFLAG chapter in our area. So not all men or women of the cloth are bad or "scum of the earth." Some actually believe in equality for all in all phases of life.

If people in the radical religious right stopped hating gays like James Dobson and Pat Robertson do and they started loving people the Jesus Christ said to then a lot of hate crimes against gay people would stop. But I'm not about to hold my breath waiting for the sanctimonious religious blowhards in this country to actually live as their messiah commanded them to.