Various Tea Party organizers say they want a more respectable image for their movement. They better reiterate their wishes to their fellow TP’s in New York and Oklahoma, because those folks haven’t gotten the message. Carl Paladino, the Tea Party choice for New York governor has been caught once again being anything but respectable. The super-rich developer has previously been revealed as a diehard racist, and today, WNYmedia.net published several e-mails sent by Paladino to friends and associates. Read more details here, but in the meantime, here’s a short list of Paladino’s e-mails: A video titled “Obama Inauguration Rehearsal,” featuring an African tribesman dancing; under the subject line “Proof the Irish discovered Africa,” a video of monkeys that appear to be doing a Riverdance-style jig; and, unbelievably, a video of a woman having sex with a horse.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma, Tea Partiers want to create a new volunteer militia, and are pressing state lawmakers to sanction the idea. They say they need the militia in order to defend their state against federal violations of state sovereignty. Coming from right-wingers in the state where the Alfred P. Murrah building was blown up because of an earlier paranoid, anti-government conspiracy theory, this new idea for a state militia isn’t exactly comforting.
Tea Partiers, as you know, say they’re all about the Constitution, but their knowledge of the actual document is often lacking. For instance, Oklahoma state senator Randy Brogdon, who supports the idea for a volunteer militia in his state, says the Second Amendment is about “the right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves (sic) from an overreaching federal government.” Maybe in your dreams, Randy, but, no, not really. Whenever militias are mentioned in the Constitution, they are clearly to be organized (and “well-regulated,” as per the Second Amendment) to fight for the interests of the federal government, specifically against foreign invasion and domestic sedition — as in, people who would want to arm themselves to fight the federal government. In fact, a closer reading of the Constitution would do the Oklahoma Tea Partiers some good. Namely, read Article I, in which Congress is given the power to organize, arm, discipline, and call up militias, while the states are only empowered to appoint militia officers and train the militia “according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.” Also, check out Article II, Section 2, in which the President is named commander in chief, not just of the army and navy, but also of the various states’ militias. It’s doubtful that the Oklahoma militia types really want to take orders from Pres. Obama, but that’s what they’ll face if their goofball, get-a-real-life-for-God’s-sake militia idea is sanctioned by their state’s government.
Richard Nixon sent a chill through the radical left in 1971 when demonstrators planned to shut down Washington, D.C. through massive civil disobedience in what became known as the MayDay protests. Nixon simply said, “If that’s how they want it, this country has dealt with sedition before, and it can do it again.” It’s getting damned close to the time when someone like, say, Joe Biden, needs to bring up the subject again.
This article appears in Apr 13-19, 2010.
This is a whole big deal about nothing. He’s still a money maker and thats what this state needs right now
Figures that those G.D. teabaggers are going completely psycho again, and getting worse. Of course we see the bastard Frank Griffin continuing to go on and on stomping his feet like a little John McCain, still mad about the election and coming up with every known lie possible about President Obama. No need to go on about Frank Griffin and his silly dogshit though.
We are very proud of our President and I agree with Mr. Grooms. Vice President Biden needs to revisit these threats of sedition against the government. I say put every damned last one of the teabaggers on trial, and if anything bad does happen, every G.D. republican will have blood on their hands. I personally have ripped up every republican teabagger sign and poster that was put up that I can find by God.
A small [maybe] point of order. The actual meaning of the words ‘well regulated’ in the context of the time it was written into the Constitution was ‘well equipted’. It refers to the ‘reguations’ for the equiping of the military in colonial times. Therefore the whole of the militia was to be well armed. And who was the militia? The people! In the same context as ‘The right of the people to…’ [see first amendment]. So why is the second amendment different, huh?
There are 2 different Tea Party movements.
There are the neoconservatives — these people will spew anti-Obama rhetoric and general talk about lowering taxes and government but no specifics. They are banking on a neocon “american exceptionalism” GOP resurgence. These guys are similar to the current liberals in charge. This Paladino guy would fit in here. There’s some talk that the Paladino cheated on his wife too, but that’s beside the point. T
Then there are the strict constructionists — these people want a return to a constitutional republic, end of the federal reserve, abolishing of the income tax, drug war, terror war and nation-building. There are some anarchists, birthers and truthers mixed in with these guys. By and large these guys hate both parties but would vote for Ron Paul.
Group No. 1 is getting most of the airplay. See Palin, Dick Armey, Hannity, Beck, etc. These are neoconservatives who believe in socialism, militarism and corporatism. They hate that OBama, who is just as socialist, militaristic and corporatist as they are, is not enough of a “national greatness” guy. He’s killing muslims overseas, but not enough for their tastes, hahahah.
You can tell the difference. Ask them if the they think the federal reserve should be abolished. If they say yes, they’re cool. If no, they’re neocons.
yee-hawwww: Militia’s are catchin on ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY. TN already has one. MI, GA., LA. etc, talking…
LIBS r socialists who will destroy this country by thinkin their well-intentioned, huh? Well I say: “Every” Gov should be paying attention to Oklahoma.
ENOUGH “IS”… enough!
I forgot to add that Group 2 is very supporive of secession, which might be the only way to put a curb on federal expansion. This is another thing the “national greatness” GOP hates.
You’ll find more gun enthusiasts in group 2 also.
The President is, indeed, commander-in-chief of the various states’ militia, BUT ONLY WHEN CALLED IN ACTUAL SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. If the various states’ militia are called into service by their states’ governors in defense of a federal government led by a president in open defiance of his oath of office, then said president is no longer commander-in-chief of any of the militia. In fact, the regular military is then no longer obligated to obey unlawful orders, no matter how high up the chain of command they come from.
And just for clarification – the Tea Party movement is NOT anti-government, but rather anti- unconstitutionally-over-encroaching government.
In the immortal words of Edward Abbey, “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Frank Griffin is actually all of these people he claims to be having a conversation with. Same typing style, same punctuation, wording, and paragraph separations.
Weak, demented, and disturbing!
If you turn against the government and try to cause a civil uprising based on lies and racism, I hate to tell you what your sorry ass might get in return. Serves you right.
Just so you know, “well regulated” had a different meaning to our founders then it does to us. According the the Oxford English Dictionary, “well regulated”, meant “well functioning”. The people who formed militia groups to fight the British, including George Washington, described their groups as “well regulated militia”. Do you think that meant that they got a seal of approval by some regulator or did it mean their militia’s were properly trained? The right to bear arms is indeed a right of the people. Stop playing with the meaning of words to try and get your agenda across and maybe you should read the constitution with an Oxford English dictionary close by