Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as a new job, running a think tank she founded to appeal to Tea Party supporters. Liberty Central, according to Kenneth P. Vogel, writing in Politico, "appears to be positioning itself as a hybrid think tank/advocacy group/campaign arm for the tea party movement." Among those who are part of Thomas's hybrid is Gun Owners of America, listed among 32 organizations deemed as "friends" by Liberty Central.
Gun Owners of America is led by militia guru Larry Pratt, who when last I saw him, appeared to be calling for war on the U.S. government at a 2nd Amendment Rally held on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
At the gun rally, Pratt expressed his displeasure at the attendance of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at an Oklahoma City ceremony commemorating the lives lost in the bombing. "I look around: it's so good to see all these terrorists out here," Pratt said to the gun activists. "Janet Napolitano, she figured, as governor of Arizona, that we didn't have a border problem, but she knows who the real enemy is. Ha, ha, ha, ha. And Bill Clinton's been runnin' cover for her, too," he added, referring to an op-ed Clinton published on the day of the gun march. Pratt went on to paraphrase Clinton: "Watch out how you guys speak out there, you know, words can have consequences."
"Remember Oklahoma City?" Pratt continued. "Yeah, I do. And I also remember the Waco barbecue that your attorney general gave us. Thanks a lot...We're in a war. The other side knows they're at war, because they started it. They're comin' for our freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They're comin' for everything because they're a bunch of socialists."
Is Larry Pratt's anti-government "war" the sort of activism that Ginni Thomas, CEO of Liberty Central and wife of a member of the high court, would condone?
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it's the FOX "news" audience
In a word, yes.
http://www.libertycentral.org/five-founding-principles
Why aren't we?
PROGRESSIVE PRINCIPLES
Government provides the foundation for our individual rights. We wouldn’t have any rights without government.
* The first responsibility of government is to protect and empower its citizens. FDR said, "In our personal ambitions, we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people." In short, the common good is necessary for individual well-being.
* To protect the common good, we must preserve the common wealth which secures the common good: police, military, firefighters, banking and court systems. No one in our country can legally make a dime without government support.
* Opportunities created by the common wealth allow the accumulation of personal wealth. Money is kept in the common wealth to be used for the common good. As a matter of fairness, everyone has a responsibility to repay the common wealth proportional to the benefits he/she has received from it. It is unfair to take economic resources from the commons and transfer them to wealthy individuals who don’t need them.
* Deregulation and privatization do not eliminate government, they only make it unaccountable. The act of governing is merely shifted from the public sector, where there’s an ethic of protection and public accountability, to the private sector, where profit is put before citizens.
Talk about unclear on the concept -- they're a bunch of "socialists?" Try a dictionary, buddy. Can Justice Thomas be impeached for this--I know, I know, freedom of association, yeah I know--just hoping, searching. Maybe he'll resign; he hates it there anyway.
Jan Schakowsky's husband is a convicted felon.
Nancy Pelosi's Husband has huge interests in what she pushes with his empire
thomas. He would summon everyone to look [up] river, being, that they didn't know his wife, as good as he. :)