I spend many hours reading, researching and writing…..and from time to time I get out of the bat cave and venture out into this big wide world…..I stop by a cafe shop owned by a friend, Gail……she has blue mountain coffee and I have a great desire to drink good coffee. Awhile back I was sitting reading the news when I overheard a group next to y table talking about my state’s new open carry law……as listened I realized that these guys were part of a local militia group….I will call them Southern Guard…….
They talked and argued and seem to want to boycott or protest the business that had posted signs that called for NO guns on their premises…..remember I was eavesdropping a bit……well after a bit the loudest voice and I guessed he would be the leader of this group, went for a coffee refill…..
On his way back I stopped him and asked if I could have a word with him……he agreed and sat down at my little table…….Rambo (not his real name but for the sake of this post it is)……”What can I do for you?”
ME: “I am sorry but I couldn’t help but overhear your talk about the open carry law……”
R: “So?”
ME: “Are you guys part of the Southern Guard”?
R: Yep
ME: “Do you guys support the tea Party”?
R: Yep and we will make sure that McDaniel is elected (McDaniel is the TP candidate running against Cochran in Mississippi)
ME: Do all of you feel the same way?
R: Yep….but why all the question, chief?
I explained to him that I was a blogger and write a lot about politics…….
R: What about you…..Tea Partyer?
ME: In some ways yes….but I am trying to inform myself about the Party and what they are standing for and how they will help the country.
ME: Are most militias supporters of the Tea Party?
R: Most of the ones that I know are supporters of Tea Party candidates.
ME: So you guys are kinda like the military arm of the Party?
R: I may not go that far but to my thinking the answer is yes…..
ME: Do you support all the ideals of the party?
R: As long as it is pro-gun, pro-life, socially conservative and small government….America for Americans….we will protect our country against all foes.
ME: So most of you guys are on board with these ideals?
R: Every damn one of us….we want to protect America for REAL Americans……
(I wanted to ask him just what he had meant by America for Americans but I had already promised Gail, the owner, that I would never start a political debate in her place again………and then real Americans….. pretty sure I know what that means….but I had given my word….so I had to let it go…..)
ME: Thanks for letting me pick your brain and hope to see you at the polls…..
R: right on brother
After my encounter with Rambo I got to thinking that just about everything he had said I had heard all before….in history books.
It was sounding like the “Southern Guard” was a present day remake of the old Brown Shirts….that thuggish group in 1930’s Germany…..
I have tried to give the Tea party the benefit of the doubt but as time has gone by, since the election of Obama, this party is sounding more and more like a racist group that thinks that there are sub-humans in this country and they need to be purged.
The comments from the extreme Right….the attitude of the people who claim to be party members towards the different races and religions….smacks of racism.
I have tried to be fair to the Party but as time goes by I cannot any more…….to me they are just a re-make of the racists from the 1950’s……..the sooner the Party gets put away the better……they try to hide behind these cool sounding memes…..they are NO better than the racists I fought against so many years ago…..
Just my thoughts……take them or leave them…….matters not……..
You can’t paint a whole group of people the same brush. If I ran into a Dem. and asked if he was gay, would that make all Dem. gay NO!
The following links are all about racism.
http://wpworldwide.blogspot.com/
http://www.cbpm.org/index.html
I have seen nothing these people do that would lead me to think otherwise….most act like bullies and thugs…..look at the Bundy thing…..they rushed to defend a freeloader and they hate others for freeloading….what made Bundy the exception?
All I ever heard about the KKK was they were a racist group, started by Dems. Does this mean that all Dems. are racist or murderers? If I see Muslim, should my first thought be is she/he a radical Islamist an is about to cut off my head? We, all colors, can be racist for one reason of another because it all depends how you were brought up or where you lived.
You keep bringing up the head thing……..so it sounds like you might already think that….and according to most Tea Partyers Dems are all that and a lot more…I agree with the how you were raised thing….and most of what I read and hear coming from the radical right is not encouraging…
The head thing has always been in my mind since Pearles beheading. It just so barbaric. In reality all murder is horrific.
But that is what we humans do so well….sadly…..
Sad state of affairs we are in.
Yep, and it will only get worse…..I wish I could work up some optimism but alas no such luck…
I have a hard time trying to figure out where we will be next week.
I would guess worse off than last week….
I’ve wondered where will the Brown Shirts come from in the U.S. and I’m convinced it will be from the liberals.
You make the argument that it will be from the Tea Party but you argument doesn’t quite connect the dots. You use the example of the Bundy standoff. The people were defending Bundy (right or wrong I don’t much care), the Brown shirts were not about “defending” anyone. The Brown shirts were all about forcing their belief down your throat like it or not. If you didn’t like it you were usually purged from society.
The Conservatives have their religious right, but I do not fear them like what I see from the left. The militant environmentalist. You must believe what they believe and live as they say. They don’t use persuasion, but the force of government.
Liberals will shout you down and are the most closed minded people I know. From you own post:
“I have tried to give the Tea party the benefit of the doubt but as time has gone by, since the election of Obama, this party is sounding more and more like a racist group that thinks that there are sub-humans in this country and they need to be purged.” Really? Purged? How do you want to purge this part of society? Hanging? Burning at the stake? Gas chambers?
Someone exercising their first amendment right never gives you the right to harm them.
Another liberal blog I visit posted the following:
“You fucking Republicans are all to blame. Your advocacy of deregulation for the last 30 years is responsible. The greed that underlies your policies and that invades your supporters was your motivation. You put yourselves and your wallets first, and our country last. You should all be round up and shot. Seriously.”
http://www.delawareliberal.net/2008/09/19/the-great-depression-is-here/
Are you kidding…if say a communist had showed up to a protest with a machine gun the press would have gone ballistic…and what would the right wing radio people have had to say?
Brown shirts were about intimidation and that is exactly what the militias were doing over that freeloader…these are the same people that bitch the loudest about those ‘welfare’ freeloader yet they were defending a freeloader…..why do you think that was?
As everyone I drew my conclusion fro m what the man had to say….granted he may not be a good example of all of them but from what I see I kinda think he was….
That liberal was no better than the “righties” that he was railing against……you have been here enough to know that my use of the word purge had no such connotation…apparently it was an unfortunate use of a word on my part…..