Political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship
Democratic Representative Alan Grayson is correct in his statements in that the results of the policies that Republicans would put forth would make someone who gets sick want to or hope to die quickly lest they possibly leave their families in debt or bankrupt. His statements were crude but sometimes shock and awe is necessary to give the opposition pause to realize that the moral side can get rough to defend that which is moral.
We will be the seed of our demise!!
I hate to write about this, but I have actually been to this play before and it is really disturbing.
I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his office. He needed one. I remember the ugly mood in Israel then — a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords. They questioned his authority. They accused him of treason. They created pictures depicting him as a Nazi SS officer, and they shouted death threats at rallies. His political opponents winked at it all.
And in so doing they created a poisonous political environment that was interpreted by one right-wing Jewish nationalist as a license to kill Rabin — he must have heard, “God will be on your side” — and so he did.
Others have already remarked on this analogy, but I want to add my voice because the parallels to Israel then and America today turn my stomach: I have no problem with any of the substantive criticism of President Obama from the right or left. But something very dangerous is happening. Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination.
This is serious. The Right Wing through the author of this piece has clearly committed a seditious act. From the Tea Parties, to the raucous town halls, to the above average vile towards the president, this is ultimately what they would actually support.
The Right Wing like to portray themselves as more patriotic than everyone else when ultimately they portray all the instincts of dictatorship or government not of the people but of a particular people.
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In a column published yesterday, Newsmax’s John L. Perry wrote that there is a "gaining" possibility that the military will stage a coup to "resolve the ‘Obama problem.’" Newsmax has apparently removed the column from its site. Links are now redirected to the homepage, and Perry’s author page has no mention of his latest work. You can read the full text here. The coup — which would be "civilized" and "bloodless," according to Perry — would consist of a "patriotic general" sitting down with the President and working out a new system in which "skilled, military-trained, nation-builders" would "do the serious business of governing and defending the nation" while Obama would still be allowed to make speeches. Obama, he said, is inviting such a "family intervention." |
Newsmax Columnist: Military Coup May Be Needed ‘To Resolve The Obama Problem’ | TPM LiveWire
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