Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread wp49284-ks
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Bruce Bostwick wrote: So this is a complex question, because while the Tea Party does technically have a leadership of sorts, it's a weak one, and there's a lot of leaderless-cell activity underneath the surface that's not at all like the public face of the party. And I'm not sure

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, zwil...@zwilnik.com zwil...@zwilnik.comwrote: Don't overlook what is called dog whistle political statements. This names comes from the well-known phenomenon that a highly-pitched whistle will be heard by dogs, but not by people. And in polictics there is a

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Alberto Monteiro albm...@centroin.com.brwrote: Bottom line: you don't think it's Intelligent Design, you think it's Natural Selection. Too funny! Because it's true, I think. Politics red in tooth and claw. Or truth and clues. Or something. Nick

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread Keith Henson
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:58 AM, zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: snip Don't overlook what is called dog whistle political statements. This names comes from the well-known phenomenon that a highly- pitched whistle will

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:42 AM, wp49284-ks wrote: Luckily, for most U.S. citizens freedom boils simply down to the right to carry and fire a gun. No need to worry about other aspects of freedom! As long as you want a country that aspires merely to imitate the animal world, as Nick notes:

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-26 Thread zwil...@zwilnik.com
On July 25, 2010 at 7:57 PM Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: Is the Tea Party fundamentally racist?  Or is it just coincidental  that it formed as a black man was taking office?  For years,  Republicans were in office

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:58 AM, zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: On July 25, 2010 at 7:57 PM Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: Is the Tea Party fundamentally racist? Or is it just coincidental that it formed as a black man was

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-26 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:58 AM, zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: On July 25, 2010 at 7:57 PM Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: Is the Tea Party fundamentally racist? Or is it just coincidental that it formed as a black man was

Tea Party Racism

2010-07-25 Thread Doug Pensinger
Is the Tea Party fundamentally racist? Or is it just coincidental that it formed as a black man was taking office? For years, Republicans were in office busting the budget and passing bills like Medicare D which was completely unfunded and will cost us something like $72 B a year. Where was the

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-25 Thread John Williams
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com wrote: Is the Tea Party fundamentally racist?  Or is it just coincidental that it formed as a black man was taking office? I think you will find haters in just about any large group of people. Groups that have been around a while

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-25 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: Is the Tea Party fundamentally racist? Or is it just coincidental that it formed as a black man was taking office? For years, Republicans were in office busting the budget and passing bills like Medicare D which was completely unfunded