"Rep. Peter King (R-NY): Do Not Allow Any Legitimacy for Wall Street Protests, Or It Will Be Like

[in_cog_ni_to]

1960s again" OH, I remember the 1960s too and those rat bastards had NO CHOICE but to listen to the masses! Of course he doesn't want that allowed again. His RW agenda will suffer. Asshole.

Speaking with right-wing radio show host Laura Ingraham on Friday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, blasted the media for providing fair coverage to the Occupy Wall Street protests. “They have no sense of purpose other than a basically anti-American tone,” he said.

King also explained that he is “old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy.” He added, “We can’t allow that to happen.”

King is right that the 99 Percent Movement, with “occupation” actions from Sacramento to New York City and beyond, mirrors the broad-based protest movements of the 1960s. Back then, millions of American engaged in street protests which eventually led to the end of legal racial segregation, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, as well as other successful programs to reduce the level of poverty and human suffering in America. The same protest movement King fears also led to the development of the Environmental Protection Agency, the birth of the mainstream feminist and gay rights movement, and the end of the wars in Indochina.

It might seem natural that King is an opponent of the 99 Percent Movement. He has spent much of his career in Congress placing the corporate interest over the public interest. For instance, King made a high-stakes legislative move to block health benefits for the rescue workers who developed cancer as a result of their heroic work during after the 9/11 terror attacks. He blocked the money because it was paid for by ending certain tax loopholes for foreign corporations. Indeed, like many of his GOP colleagues, King placed the foreign wealthy one percent over the people who risked their lives rescuing people at the World Trade Center.

http://www.nationofchange.org/rep-peter-king-r-ny-do-not-allow-any-legitimacy-wall-street-protests-or-it-will-be-1960s-again-13181

[salin]

1. what a koch-roach.

[DJ13]

2. I was thinking sucker, not roach

[bluestate10]

3. Who give a shit about what he thinks? Focus and keep fighting. nt

[Graybeard]

4. The Repukes are scared shitless that this thing is for real.

A coalition is building with students, unions, seniors, the jobless and now, I hear, the clergy all coming together in significant numbers.

[eShirl]

5. excellent

[monmouth]

6. Self Delete.

[Graybeard]

7. self delete

[malaise]

8. Fugg that ReTHUG

That is all

[cyberpj]

9. Ah... Good ol' Peter King - keeping McCarthyism alive and well. Remember this one?:

Rep. Peter King: ‘80 Percent Of Mosques In This Country Are Controlled By Radical Imams’
By Scott Keyes on Jan 25, 2011 at 11:50 am

Next month, House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (R-NY) will hold hearings on the domestic threat posed by Muslim Americans. Echoing McCarthyist rhetoric of the 1950s, King recently argued that Muslims aren’t “American” when it comes to war.

This week, King went on the Laura Ingraham Show to discuss his upcoming investigation. The guest host asked King how many American mosques he thought were “infected” by “radical jihad sentiment.” King, who in the past declared that there are “too many mosques in this country” and called Muslims “an enemy living amongst us,” was unabashed in his belief that “over 80 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by radical Imams”:

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/25/140549/king-radical-mosques/

[Dawson Leery]

10. The bloated fascist wants to censor his opponents.

[Bozita]

11. Fucking terrorist!

[vanlassie]

12. How old is King? Oh wait- I'll bet he was born old.

[WillyT]

13. Peter King...

Peter King's Secret Terrorism-Loving History
Jonathan Chait - TheNewRepublic
January 6, 2010 | 12:08 pm

<snip>

My previous item on Peter King touched a nerve with the excellent Alex Massie, who points out that King was an outright apologist for terrorism by the Irish Republican Army: http://www.nysun.com/national/rep-king-and-the-ira-the-end-of-an-extraordinary/15853/ Massie points me to this old New York Sun article (not by him) which has some great details:

In 1980, Mr. D'Amato, then the senator-elect, fulfilled a campaign pledge and went to Belfast on a fact-finding trip, taking Messrs. King and Dillon with him. It was the start of Mr. King's long entanglement with the IRA, and he took to it with the zeal of a convert.

He forged links with leaders of the IRA and Sinn Fein in Ireland, and in America he hooked up with Irish Northern Aid, known as Noraid, a New York based group that the American, British, and Irish governments often accused of funneling guns and money to the IRA. At a time when the IRA's murder of Lord Mountbatten and its fierce bombing campaign in Britain and Ireland persuaded most American politicians to shun IRA-support groups, Mr. King displayed no such inhibitions. He spoke regularly at Noraid protests and became close to the group's publicity director, the Bronx lawyer Martin Galvin, a figure reviled by the British.

Mr. King's support for the IRA was unequivocal. In 1982, for instance, he told a pro-IRA rally in Nassau County: "We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry."

By the mid-1980s, the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic were openly hostile to Mr. King. On one occasion, a judge threw him out of a Belfast courtroom during the murder trial of IRA men because, in the judge's view, "he was an obvious collaborator with the IRA." When he attended other trials, the police singled him out for thorough body searches.

Link: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/peter-kings-secret-terrorism-loving-history

:shrug:

[Spirochete]

14. He's a fuckstain

Of all the members of Congress, I hate him the most.

[a simple pattern]

15. He thinks they get legitimacy from the media.

He probably thinks he does, too.

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Hey King, have a Koch and a smile.

[RagAss]

17. It's too late little Petey...it's too fucking late !

[lonestarnot]

18. Evil bitch!

[lib2DaBone]

19. A good sign.. they are scared shitless.. they haven't had any opposition since the 60's...

And yes.. Rep. King.. I remember the 60's. I was at KENT STATE.... you rat bastard.

And I remember all who died in your useless Viet Nam meat grinder for the benefit of the Bankers.


Go OWS!