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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPardon my cynicism and suspicions
but we're talking about bomb threats and not Hastert.
The things that make my head spin.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Makes me wonder as well.....
global1
(25,249 posts)the recent thing with the Patriot Act & the Freedom Act and all those that said that we will be more vulnerable if things change. Was this a shot across the bow?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)It's not like the hatred isn't there. If someone happens to Obama, chaos will ensue, and that will fit right into the old meme RWNJs had years ago.
They want a 'race war' but not just because of racism. The plan said that it would cause enough disruption to allow them to take over the federal government and install their RW regime. They've said this for many years.
It's been in media memes for years, too. Turner Diaries: OKC for example. The Waffle House putsch and those who were caught shooting up black neighborhoods and saying they'd behead Obama and any black person they could.
Bundy. Las Vegas. Confederate flag in front of the White House, the video of the guys wanting to lynch Obama, but not only that, they wanted 'to tar and feather him first, so he'd suffer more' before he was lynched.
So many attacks on AAs. So many images of Obama dead in a noose. And nooses at colleges, etc. It's an industry now.
Yes, they intend to kill him, but that's not the real goal, as the overthrow of the government is their intent. I used to argue with these guys in less crazy days. I wouldn't dare now. This is the Second Amendment Solution. When they were considered more fringe and had less slogans to use, they said they'd install their fascist government and the first target, 'during the ongoing race war,' would be any white person who didn't go along. So it's not just racism, it's about seizing power. Nordquist's quislings have softened up the government sufficiently that it is not funded well enough to save itself from them and they're being more upfront.
People of goodwill should listen and stop laughing about it. The reason for the proliferation of guns and other weapons once relegated to war zones, can make this work. They've said they intend a long term guerilla war against those who don't agree with them. They've set up enclaves. The OC movement is to desensitize people to living in a war zone.
Ain't nothing funny about it. But there have been several shot across the bow since Obama was elected. I hope this... isn't it.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)What suspicions?
I'm not plugged in to the M$M so bomb threat stuff hadn't yet penetrated my Internet-addled brain. Or maybe I heard something on the radio & just automatically tuned it out of consciousness as background noise.
But, I imagine that bomb threat stuff is just like the old color-coded Danger alerts, which tracked the appearance of unwanted news in the Bush years. I think the Bushie who ran it even admitted that years later.
First AP, Fox & CNN all misidentify Hastert as a Democrat, now bomb threats. Then I suppose breaking news that the missing jet liner still hasn't been found.
malaise
(269,004 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)....aside from fucking his high school students.
if he were a democrat, they would have drawn and quartered him by now.
don't expect anything close....
your friend the super-cynic
malaise
(269,004 posts)And yes you nailed it
spanone
(135,838 posts)just visited my 91 year old aunt..her hubby is 87 and they live by themselves....
again, it gave me a sweet perspective. they are precious....function is a chore for them...getting from point a to point b....
but they smile and keep on keepin' on...
great folks.
hope all is well with you.
life is a teach
malaise
(269,004 posts)is an important lesson. I am often amazed at the little things that make them happy.
My aunt says tolerate the niggles or die.
I am well.
spanone
(135,838 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)something hurts - you exercise, eat as well as you can and get on with it - or you die and life is over. She loves life and is going down fighting.