-Caveat Lector-
Tom J. Wright
A Semi-Weekly Column of Political Commentary
January 1-January 15, 1999
Republican Hate Rhetoric Turns Deadly:
Somebody Stop Them Before They Kill Again
"Brains you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
--Walter Lippmann, famous American political commentator, December 14, 1974
"Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything-anything, that
is, except public office."
--Adlai Stevenson, Jr. during a Presidential campaign speech in Springfield,
Illinois, August 14, 1952
Although overshadowed lately by MonicaGate, the brutal beating and killing
of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, shocked the nation and
disgusted people around the world. The barbarity of the murderers, who tied
Matthew Shepard to a fence and beat him to death with the butts of their guns,
was stunning.
This vicious murder was motivated in large part, perhaps entirely, by the
radical homophobia of the two men who killed him. Matthew Shepard lost his
life simply because he was gay.
Many other instances of homophobic acts of violence, here in the United
States especially, have occurred as well. Also, hate crimes in general are
on the rise across the country. An obvious question arises: Why has
homophobic violence, and many other kinds of hate crimes, been rising so
dramatically? And why have the intensity and ferocity of that violence become
so extreme?
The increase in hate crimes is a direct result of the increase in hate
rhetoric. And we all know who the masters of hate are: the hard core
Republican right wing. These lunatics spew out hate the way an open sewer
spews out raw sewage.
Here are just a few disgusting examples of Republicans at work:
Conservative New York radio commentator Bob Grant once said, on the air to
millions of listeners, that he wished that police had machine-gunned New York
City's gay pride marchers during a 1994 parade. Grant also told one
disaffected listener of his show, who was angry about one minority or another,
to "Well, get a gun and go do something, then."
Republican Senator Trent Lott called homosexuality a "disease", like
kleptomania. Radical Republican conservative Congressman Dick Armey called
fellow Congressman Barney Frank, "Barney Fag", then claimed it was a slip of
the tongue. Right wing nutcase and Republican party BigWig Pat Robertson
stated that Disney World in Orlando, Florida would be struck by some
catastrophe because it didn't properly discriminate against gay people the way
he does.
The list goes on and on. The Republican Party has turned hate and
scapegoating and fearmongering into a science. It's what they are good at
doing. It's what they do best. And boy, are they proud of it.
But so far, no one has forced conservatives to take responsibility for
their hate rhetoric. This certainly includes the media, which of course is
itself mostly right wing. How else do you think sick bastards like the
aforementioned Bob Grant, Hitler-wannabee Pat Buchanan, the loony Nixonite G.
Gordon Liddy, and all of their right wing clones throughout the country, ever
get on the air? It ain't accidental, folks.
Well, it is time for the American People to hold the Republicans, and
their mouthpieces in the media, personally accountable for their outrageous
scapegoating, inflammatory rhetoric, manipulative scare tactics, and the
violence that inevitably follows. These spewers of hate must be stopped
before they kill again.
But we have to act quickly, because make no mistake about it, the
Republican Party is a very dangerous organization, full of hubris, hyper-
conservative dementia, and a ton of $$money$$. This ill-begotten monster was
born with the rise to power of that famous loon Ronald "Bedtime For Bonzo"
Reagan, and it's been growing ever since.
The best way to stop it and these people behind it, is to vote the
Republican Party out of office. And out of existence. Like the Whigs of
yesteryear, it is time for the Republican Party to die. It is too infested
with fanatics to be saved. Just put the thing out of its misery, for God's
sake. That will leave us with the Corporate Democrats on the right,
Progressives on the center left, and Libertarians somewhere in between.
Also, a sincere letter of apology, signed by conservatives everywhere,
should be promptly submitted to the American People, and put on display in
Washington D.C. The display will serve to remind potential hatemongers
everywhere that they will endure Great Pain, Suffering, and Humiliation, if
they ever again attempt such crude tactics.
Not only that, if the likes of Bob Grant or his ilk ever openly encourage
violence against innocent citizens again, and said violence occurs, then the
District Attorney of the county in which the incitement to violence was made,
should promptly prosecute them as criminals, for aiding and abetting a crime.
You won't believe how quickly these cowardly little runts will change
their tune, once they are confronted with the possibility of HARD TIME in any
number of America's Maximum Security Penitentiaries. Tough talking punks
like Bob Grant and Pat Buchanan, Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, and Dick Armey, as
well as other inflammatory types who use hate rhetoric, would last about one
hour in any of these lock-ups. They would be whimpering and crying for their
Mamas, with their thumbs in their mouths, faster than you can say "Bubba's new
girlfriend".
It is high time the Republicans practice what they preach about people
taking responsibility for their actions. Now, the Republican Party must be
forced to take responsibility for its actions.
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