The Sunday talk shows report that the Tea Party people are "mad as hell." Well, two can play at that game. I am mad as hell, too, at the Tea Party radicals and -- more importantly, at the billionaire polluter who founded and funds them, and their right-wing allies.
We need to do more to alert the public to the vast corporate money and Republican political organization behind these purported spontaneous groups. They are not spontaneous; they are organized, orchestrated and funded -- and their tactics derive from Nazi Germany.
Are you Mad as Hell, Too?
The right wing Tea Party people, the right-wing Republicans, Dick Cheney, Dick Armey, Sarah Palen and a lot of other right-wing TV personalities are all mad as hell! They are all over TV, staging demonstrations, shouting down others who want to talk, wanting the President to fail, trying to justify the Republican solid bloc voting for gridlock and being "mad as hell."
Well -- I am mad as hell, too. Perhaps you are, too. Merle Haggard said it best: "When you're runnin' down our country, you're walking on the fighting side of me."
Are you sick and tired of these right-wing politicos wrapping themselves in the flag and claiming to be patriots while they run down the President and seek to engineer the failure of the President (and the country)? I am.
Are you sick and tired of the Tea Party militants who pretend they are part of some spontaneous anger due to something done by the Obama Administration when they are actually a political hit squad funded by a few right-wing tycoons and orchestrated by Republican political consultants? I am.
Are you sick and tired of these politicos promoting real or implied threats of violence and racism and then joking about violent incidents, like the airplane crash/bombing in Austin, after something happens? I am.
So --- I am sick and tired of the right-wing politicians fighting to bring down our country for their own partisan, political advantage -- and I hope you are, too. They are walking on the fighting side of me and I hope you feel the same. I am mad as hell and am going to do something about it. Won't you join me?
We need to start by understanding that the Tea Party "patriots" are not a spontaneous group of angry citizens, but, indeed, a well-organized and orchestrated political hit squad. They were founded and funded initially by David Koch, an ultra-conservative billionaire, one of the world's richest men and member of the Forbes 400. See story and story . Koch has founded several right-wing front groups including those which support conservative political causes, created the tea party movement and disparage the science related to global warming. Koch Industries is one of the worst industrial polluters in the nation. See story For someone like David Koch "freedom," means freedom from regulation and accountability, freedom to pollute, freedom to break the law.
And the tea party "activists" are coordinated by well-known Republican political consulting firm Russo, March and Rogers. See story So the mob scenes at which senators and congressmen were shouted down and prevented from speaking at Town Hall meetings, and the threats of violence and racist anti-Obama rants and posters were not spontaneous outbursts from angry citizens. Instead, they were planned and organized by Republican operatives funded by one of the richest men in the world. The misinformation given to the Tea Party participants about the health care bill wasn't a misunderstanding; it was intentional disinformation designed to mislead both the tea party-goers and the public.
From their beginning, the tea party groups have adopted the rhetoric of violence and threats of violence, whether express or implied. They have invoked and incited race hatred. At the CPAC meeting yesterday one speaker joked about the Austin plane crash in which an individual targeted government workers in a government building and another advocated smashing in windows of government buildings. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans are concerned about rhetoric breaking into physical violence.
The Tea Party mobs and their right-wing masters did not invent the tactic of taking resistance to government into the streets, shouting down their opposition, inciting race hatred and threatening or implying physical violence. But they are following in the footsteps of the greatest practitioners of the art -- Adolph Hitler and his Nazi brown shirt goon squads. They made the KKK look like pikers. They, too, claimed to be "patriots" protecting the Fatherland.