Teabaggers start attacking people, breaking windows, to protest health care

[Suu]

Well, I fortunately live in a state where they really have no presence. If it was easy to break off, I'd be living in the Socialist States of New England.

[Suu]

Jesus, what the hell?

Breaking windows because of restrictions on being denied medical insurance? WTF is wrong with these people.

The media most likely. They have no idea what the HCR is really about. They only hear Glenn, Rush, and Sarah's POV, and draw their own conclusion.

Chances are, these are the dregs of society, absolute Middle American Gun-toting White Trash who know nothing about how the system works.

[Da6s]

The problem with civil war is that our present day military is far more conditioned and indoctrinated than militaries of old, and they are far better equipped to suppress huge numbers of civilians than any force in history.  So any civilian war that does occur will be much more "under the table" than probably anything seen to date.  

Not hardly.

It used to be like this:



Now it's like this:



Much more difficult to brush the second one under the table.

[Jasper]

Jesus, what the hell?

Breaking windows because of restrictions on being denied medical insurance? WTF is wrong with these people.

They're not sane.  It is a mistake to act as if they inhabit your reality.

But seriously though, what we have on our hands is a fast-growing political party that is fanatical enough to get totally nuts when people oppose it.

How do we stop them from burning the Reichstag, so to speak?

I don't think it can be stopped. Not unless people with official looking papers came along and had them line up against a wall.

It feels, to me, like we've hit a critical mass stage, so to speak.

Aren't you supposed to be one of the optimists?

The sack-guzzlers teabaggers must be shown their folly.  Nobody with the authority to stop them has the damage to go toe-to-toe with them, so I think that we are the natural opposition for this group.

[Freeky]

But seriously though, what we have on our hands is a fast-growing political party that is fanatical enough to get totally nuts when people oppose it.

How do we stop them from burning the Reichstag, so to speak?

I don't think it can be stopped. Not unless people with official looking papers came along and had them line up against a wall.

It feels, to me, like we've hit a critical mass stage, so to speak.

Aren't you supposed to be one of the optimists?

The sack-guzzlers teabaggers must be shown their folly.  Nobody with the authority to stop them has the damage to go toe-to-toe with them, so I think that we are the natural opposition for this group.

I probably would be, but this city has a tendency to strip one of their fluffy pink mind-clouds.

I disagree on the bolded point. I think the teabaggers are a short hop away from doing something that will get the gov't's attention. In that case, they would need very little to completely annihalate these people. And then it would be even less trouble to declare martial law, and everyone who has their own opinion is subversive and a terrorist, and it'll become a bloodbath, eventually.

At least, that's how I see it could happen. I realize though that I have no idea how these sorts of things really work, and I could be totally off base. If so, I'd like to know what could very possibly happen from people who know more than me.

[Cain]

I read this just earlier today, and thought I should repost it: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003234.html

Someone in the progressive world needs to find a relative of someone killed in the Oklahoma City bombing who understands that was the result of nineties right-wing incitement, and get that relative on TV talking about how we're on the same path now. Things are getting fairly alarming, and we should be using any means we have to shame the right into tamping down the crazy. We might not succeed, but it's irresponsible not to try.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear it. Added bonus: preventing another Oklahoma City keeps Democrats from using the opportunity to extinguish our few remaining civil liberties.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

These are clearly Terrorists That Hate Our Freedom.

[Cain]

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/sorry-lamestream-media-the-coffin-on-carnahans-lawn-was-for-a-prayer-vigel-not-for-threats/

Because it would be unfair not to give the other side a chance to spin things. 

Although seriously, a coffin?  Are you retarded?

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

"On Sunday night several members of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition held a prayer vigil at Russ Carnahan's office for the millions of babies that will be slaughtered under the democrat's pro-abortion health care bill."



WE WILL MARCH ON A ROAD OF BABIES!
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[BADGE OF HONOR]

I read this just earlier today, and thought I should repost it: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003234.html

Someone in the progressive world needs to find a relative of someone killed in the Oklahoma City bombing who understands that was the result of nineties right-wing incitement, and get that relative on TV talking about how we're on the same path now. Things are getting fairly alarming, and we should be using any means we have to shame the right into tamping down the crazy. We might not succeed, but it's irresponsible not to try.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear it. Added bonus: preventing another Oklahoma City keeps Democrats from using the opportunity to extinguish our few remaining civil liberties.

If that doesn't happen, the other option is waiting for them to commit some sort of atrocity (like another OK bombing) that will shock 90% of the teabaggers back towards moderation.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Or spark a bloody revolt of politically ignorant morons who would ultimately be killed/imprisoned.

[Cain]

At least the Nazis, while functionally retarded on almost every level, believed in evolution. 

[Jasper]

While I think a mass revolt would be interesting, I doubt it will occur.  Didn't the health care bill omit funding for abortions at the last minute?  These people are basically protesting a non-real issue.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

They don't care, they just want to protest.  They've spent the last year or more working themselves up into a violent froth of rage-fear, no way in hell they're going to back down now.

[Jasper]

Reminds me of this:

"Anger is all the rage"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301589.html