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Steven Weber

Steven Weber

Posted: March 24, 2010 10:24 PM

Terror, Inc.

What's Your Reaction:

This Party Will Self Destruct in Five...Four...Three...

Where are they? Where are all the Republican fomenters of division and sedition, the Palins, the Bachmanns, the Armeys? Where are the inciters of violence who then shrug their padded shoulders and say "Who, me?"

Where is Rush?

Where is Glenn?

Where is Fox and Friends?

Where is the Republican party?

They are hiding in their bunkers, reinforced for just such an occasion. Because to them, its all or nothing, America love it or kill it.

And low as this is, it is not the nadir of the Republican party. The generations of racism and extremist ignorance, the radical religious fanaticism and the mealy mouthed assertions which have permeated the Gory Old Party has nothing on the planned for, strategically organized nuclear option of letting loose the dogs of yet another manufactured war upon society itself.

America: this is your Republican party at work!

Where are their voices united in condemnation of such home grown terror?

Where are their touted morals?

Where is their relentlessly invoked sense of patriotism?

It is nowhere.

Like Blackwater rebranding itself as Xe, the Republican Party is now Terror Incorporated. And everything they have accused everyone opposing them of being is, as in the case of all bullies, the very things they themselves are.

See them for what they are. And stand clear.

This Party Will Self Destruct in Five...Four...Three...

 

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03:57 PM on 03/25/2010
Steven, you said this to me... "And no Liberal seeks to abolish Christianity. That assertion in itself is flagrantly absurd."

I'm going to respond to this post in a similar way... no conservative wants anyone killed (or terrorized) for excercising their rights.. that assertion in itself is flagrantly absurd.

I believe all of these people have made comments condemning the death threats by the FRINGE nut jobs that btw are on BOTH sides of the isle. If they haven't I still see not reason to believe that they condone this. More than likely they are just choosing to not give attention to these lunatics. Death threats are no doubt made on a regular basis... it's just getting attention now because this topic is so heated. And also because the left NEVER passes on an opportunity to villanize the right whether justified or not. Which, I contend, in this case is unjustified.
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Dynamohum
04:38 PM on 03/25/2010
Oh yeah, because, what, they have been so ADULT all along? The Republican Leadership stoked the fires of the violence that occured over the weekend. There is VIDEO proof ot it. I don't believe in villanizing anybody regardless of their party affiliation, but when I see the truth I call it out. You are totally describing your party in your complaint and the sad part is that either you are privy and lying about it anyway or you are not aware. I know it is NOT the latter. Why is it you always have an EXCUSE to rationalize the behavior as if it is justified?
04:50 PM on 03/25/2010
Just because this website won't report on the tactics of the left doesn't mean they aren't thuggish. This man was beaten by SEIU A-holes and the silence from the left was deafening. Violence from either side is wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGr8oYV50l8
05:09 PM on 03/25/2010
Dynamohum, if you truly "call out" truth when you see it, how come you haven't mentioned the death threats by the left? Which I KNOW YOU must be aware of. I just saw the most horrible pictures on Fox news of Bush when the left was protesting against him. THE LEFT IS JUST AS BAD with their "crazies". But the only time the right brings it up is when they are defending themselves of the left's accusations of being promoters of violence. Can't you guys understand the concept of fringe lunatics?

btw, can you post a link to the video you mentioned?
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lakat
Haiti lives.
05:14 PM on 03/25/2010
You are going to have to show me links to news stories written about all the violence from the Democratic side of the aisle and I think you are going to have trouble doing so. When have left wing protesters spit on members of Congress and called them racial epithets? EVER? When have left wing activists killed right wing fundamentalist, extremist preachers? Never. But you have heard of right wing religious activists killing doctors who perform abortions. I understand why you want to justify what is done on the right by saying we do the same things, but you would be wrong. You need to look with truthful eyes and judge fairly. It just isn't so. But we will not be quiet any longer, that's what the right hates, having a mirror held up to its face. Get used to it. You can't think of yourself as a good person when you align yourself with bad people.
05:28 PM on 03/25/2010
Lakat, I'm sorry but your comment is ludacrous... it has no basis. Once again, you (the left) are talking about the FRINGE. And you insist on attaching their actions to the entire group. But I'll argue your unfounded point anyway.. just to make it more unfounded. This healthcare bill is unprecedented. People are fired up. Are you going to try and tell me that if the bill was defeated, that there wouldn't have been people on the left doing the VERY SAME THING? You are extremely naive if you think not.
04:36 PM on 03/27/2010
Lakat, you said:

" but republic leadership was slower than molasses in January in saying weakly, "We do not condone such behavior." Not quite as admirable as denouncing but hey, we are talking about republics here. They who love money more than people. Like Jesus? Not really, I think He was more a people God than a money God."

oh, you mean like how the republicans (conservatives) let their unborn child live and have to spend money to care for them for the next 18 or more years? You mean like that? And how the democrats (liberals), not for any monetary reasons of course, decide to abort their child and subsequently not have to spend any of their money on them?

Yeah, ok.. got it.
03:53 PM on 03/25/2010
LOL! What a bunch of panic struck little puppies.
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intotheabyss
Imperialism is a form of insanity.
03:36 PM on 03/25/2010
What I want to know is, where are the cops in riot gear who smashed peaceful protesters and even independent (non-corporate) journalists faces into the ground at the Republican convention? The undeniable double standard with regard to how left vs. right protesters are treated is what's really scary here. The capitol police made no arrests last weekend. If those hecklers and name callers had been lefties attacking republicans, there would have been numerous arrests and we all know it. It's very disturbing.
03:54 PM on 03/25/2010
LOL oh yeah the left never gets to protest. Kinda like burning things in California a couple of weeks ago.
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satanlite
If ur neibor wtchs Fox Nws wtch ur neibor
04:00 PM on 03/25/2010
Yeah. the cops show no hesitancy cracking the skulls of non-violent students and those on the left.
03:11 PM on 03/25/2010
Oh, wow, well done, Steven. Thanks for speaking out so beautifully.

A lot of the Republican reaction reminds me a bit too much of the people who protested against Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and currently against LGBT Rights.

And 'where is one of their many leaders now' is right on. Thanks again.
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Carl Caroli
Give peace a chance
03:07 PM on 03/25/2010
It's clear the republicans want to make a "political issue" out of their wink and nod support of violence when the democrats call them on it, so it really is up to all the media folks to badger any politician that is caught doing or saying anything that can be construed as inciting violence of any kind. It's not enough to publish the quote - you have to question it, and not let the perpetrator say whatever he wishes, or what used to be called in depth reporting. Fox wont, obviously but all the rest must.
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Dynamohum
04:41 PM on 03/25/2010
Forget NBC or MSNBC, they both emphasized the negative reactions toward healthcare the past few nights and gave little or NO attention to the positive side of things. I frankly, do not trust any of our media outlets anymore.
07:57 PM on 03/25/2010
What? Haven't you seen Sarah Palin play the Victim card before? Over and Over and Over? This is just more of the same. Incite violence, and then act like they are being attacked when they are asked, politely, to knock it off.

Yes, they piously say that they are opposed to violence, but not a one of them offers to tone down their rhetoric, because that might mean admitting they were, shock, WRONG to use the rhetoric of violence and hatred.
02:46 PM on 03/25/2010
You people have already judged every Republican and conservative in the U.S. You call them racist, terrorist, tea baggers, ignorant, redneck and every other vile name you can think of. Since about 40% of the voters see themselves as conservative, you are applying these names to about 60 million people. And you want to villify them because they believe in fiscal responsibility and the constitution as set up by the founding fathers. You ignore the violence perpetrated by any liberal and want to attribute everything bad in this country to conservatives and white people. You are just as bad as any racist out there and the majority of middle class America is realizing that. Since you have already judged, you might as well shut up and let history take its course.
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satanlite
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03:13 PM on 03/25/2010
STill waiting for a cite on that claim you made that liberal media pundits were calling for the killing of Sarah Palin.
03:52 PM on 03/25/2010
try earthopenetwork.net and I will find more for you.
03:58 PM on 03/25/2010
try this one http://gatewaypundit
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kapalabhati
Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu
03:24 PM on 03/25/2010
Let us talk about the Constitution about which the so-called "conservatives" claim to want to protect.
This is the same Constitution that compels the separation of Church and State; yet, the so-called "conservatives" want to ram their twisted form of Taliban Christianity down all of our throats.
This is the same Constitution that states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Yet the so-called conservatives, ignoring that operative word, Militia, interprets it to be an assault rifle for every person.
This is the same Constitution which affords a criminal defendant the presumption of innocence and the right to a jury trial; yet, the so-called "conservatives" want to deny Guantanamo detainees a fair trial. What are they afraid of?
In other words, the garden variety, Joe the Plumber, so-called TeaBagging conservative wouldn't know the Constitution if it bit them in the @$$ They have probably never read it.
04:18 PM on 03/25/2010
Liberals hate Christians don't they?
02:27 PM on 03/25/2010
Some quotes from Obama's Government
Ron Bloom, Manufacturing Czar,: "We understand that the free market is nonsense." "We kind of agree with Mao, that political power comes at the point of a gun."
Anita Dunn: "One of my two favorite political philosophers is Mao Tse Tung"
Van Jones, Obama's Green jobs Czar, an avowed Communist, "Give them (the idians I think) the wealth, Give them the wealth."
Joe Biden: "We are going to control the insurance companies."
Barack Obama: "Redistribution of wealth is a good thing." And from his first book: " I chose as my friends radicals and Marxist professors."

But its the Republicans we should be worried about. R-i-i-ight!!
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satanlite
If ur neibor wtchs Fox Nws wtch ur neibor
02:16 PM on 03/25/2010
Have the true leaders of the GOP condemned violence on their mega platforms?

Rush?

GLen??

Sean??

Bill O????
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satanlite
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02:11 PM on 03/25/2010
It didn't take long for rightwing truth twisters to get on this thread. The delusional members on the right, they'll see one incident by a "lefty" equivalent to 10,000 incidents by "rightys". To them it is the same. They display a true pathological inability to distinguish proportion in this regard. They really can NOT tell the difference between the actions at a WAR PROTEST rally to actions taken by people going to a regular town hall meeting. It's all the same. IF something occured 30 years ago on "the left", then if they "right" does it again and again and again and again today, tomorrow, and next week that's fine to them.

Zero sense of equivalency.

The GOP is done. The party of no is the party of hate, the party of terror, and the party of brick throwers and vicious attack dogs. Eat it up rightes, eat it up and own it. You can't run from it or deny. We won't let you.
02:50 PM on 03/25/2010
Who is twisting the truth? Where is the "10,000" incidents?
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satanlite
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03:58 PM on 03/25/2010
"The delusional members on the right, they'll see one incident by a "lefty" equivalent to 10,000 incidents by "rightys". "

Read closely and use comprehension. Where did I I say there WAS A 10,000 to 1 ratio? It's an example of your behavior and you know it. That is your tactic isn't it? So how many left incidents are worth right incidents? How many do you cite? Oh, you don't cite. Like your post about "liberals calling for Sarah Palins death" your posts are total BS and you just keep repeating the same nonsense.

At some point in time some liberal performed a violent act. That act is used as justification, again and again be people like "wow" to justify rightwing violence. The same liberal incident will be replayed again and again each time a new act of rightwing violence occurs. 1 incident becomes justification for the next 10,000 incidents.

People like you, "wow", have no sense of proportion or equivalency which is the point of so many of my posts. Yet you cry like you really do understand what equivalency is.

Show me a liberal Scott Roeder. Show me a liberal Timmy McVeigh. Then show me the liberal homes where the Scott or Timmy equivalent is diefied, where liberals create home shrines to them. C'mon.
01:10 PM on 03/25/2010
Wingnuts are not limited to the right. Characterizing the few crazies out there as being representative of the entire right is disengenious and fraudulent.

Since Rep. Erich Cantor's office was shot up yesterday, does that mean all left-wing supporters are violent "terrorists", as well?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/25/congress.threats/index.html?iref=allsearch
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Chris Rautmann
01:20 PM on 03/25/2010
When the Right refuses to condemn the actions of extremists, it is, in fact, tacitly supporting them.
You are either FOR terrorism, or you are AGAINST terrorism.
You can't just be against it when it's working against you.
01:36 PM on 03/25/2010
That's just the point. All of the republican leaders have condemned these threats but you people keep trying to smear them. You are just as bad as any of those making the threats. You have a responsibility to help calm things also. Stupak had to turn off his answering machine BEFORE the vote because he was getting harassing calls from LIBERALS.
01:26 PM on 03/25/2010
No pictures, no release of threats- I don't believe Cantor-he is too efficient at twisting the truth, following the Gory Obstruction Plague script.
01:47 PM on 03/25/2010
Now Cantor is confirming his fake script-he's trying to say Dems are imagining the threats. If someone just shot my window, that's the last thing I'd say. Now he's accusing Dems of "fanning the flames". He's pathetic.
01:09 PM on 03/25/2010
Just don't count on your Republican representatives to be anywhere near the front lines when the shooting starts. They usually let the poor do their fighting for them.
01:37 PM on 03/25/2010
Yeah and the Democrats let their Union thugs do their fighting just like the night that they beat up the tea partier. An AFRICAN-AMERICAN tea partier I might add.
01:45 PM on 03/25/2010
Why was his being african american important?
02:10 PM on 03/25/2010
I suppose you have proof of this? A link, perhaps?
12:54 PM on 03/25/2010
If only they would self destruct. Unfortunately they will continue to rabble rouse and rally the idiots in this society who believe that they can force their agenda at the point of a gun, knife or thrown brick. They will do their best to destroy what should be a great country because they cannot have their selfish desires. The Republicans will not self destruct unfortunately, they will instead try to destroy us.
01:45 PM on 03/25/2010
A quote from Ron Bloom, Obama's manufacturing Czar, "We kind of agree with MAO, that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun." He also said that the free market is "nonsense" And you're worried about the REPUBLICANS because they want to stick to the Constitution. Are you blind or what?
02:26 PM on 03/25/2010
Found an article about this and the conservatives that have also said similar things:

http://mediamatters.org/research/200910200026
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Daphydd
Lets play some music
12:30 PM on 03/25/2010
"And everything they have accused everyone opposing them of being is, as in the case of all bullies, the very things they themselves are." Thank you for articulating this. I've been aware of this Republican tactic for some time, and have been waiting for someone to call them on it. They accuse Democrats of being Corporate shills, when everyone knows they are worse corporate shills. They accuse the Democrats of throwing tax payer money at banks to bail them out, when they created the banking crisis and initiated the TARP program, etc....
12:21 PM on 03/25/2010
ahh, Glenn Beck went on for a half an hour yesterday, ranting, in fact begging, people not perform violence..
01:56 PM on 03/25/2010
I have never seen Beck advocate any violence.
02:10 PM on 03/25/2010
You haven't paid very close attention.
02:18 PM on 03/25/2010
Beck has a different methodology, just as dangerous.This is an article that explains it far better than I could:
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200904070009
12:02 PM on 03/25/2010
Where is the terror?
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motoGpifupleez
watching with amusement
12:41 PM on 03/25/2010
Crystal Night, you dummy.
01:48 PM on 03/25/2010
So, a lot of jews got their windows smashed this week. Stange, the news didn't report it.
12:48 PM on 03/25/2010
The corporate fascist takeover by the far right leading to a plutocracy and the violent elimination of any dissenting opinions orchestrated by the ReThuglican party through their mouthpieces at FAUX noise, Limbaugh and Savage garbage talk radio backed by the military industrial complex with endless foreign wars and the dissolution of the middle class to the bottom economic wrung leading to the serfdom once known as America. Hail to the Chief replaced by Hail to the King. God bless America replaced by God bless the Corporations and Banks. Freedom and justice for all replaced by Freedom and justice for who can pay for it. Health care replaced by you are own your own - die.
Higher education replaced by job training for jobs in the machine.
I could go own forever but that's a small sample of the domestic terrorism that is the GnOP party.
01:20 PM on 03/25/2010
I think I've just found my new idol... btw don't expect a response.
01:47 PM on 03/25/2010
Where is the violent elimination of any dissent? It was SEIU thugs that beat up a tea partier a few months ago. It was black panthers that carried clubs to a polling place in the last election. So, where is the elimination of dissent?