Bydio

He quotes Weigel’s posts on Journolist:

When Rush Limbaugh went to the hospital with chest pain, Weigel wrote, “I hope he fails.” Matt Drudge is an “amoral shut-in” who should “set himself on fire.” Opponents are referred to as “ratf — -ers” and “[expletive] moronic.”

This type of discourse is an odd combination between the snideness of the cool, mean kids in high school and the pettiness of Richard Nixon rambling on his tapes. Weigel did not intend his words to be public. But they display the defining characteristic of ugly politics — the dehumanization of political opponents.

Unlike Weigel, most members of the Ugly Party — liberal and conservative — have little interest in keeping their views private. “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh,” Ann Coulter once said, “is he did not go to the New York Times building.” Radio host Mike Malloy suggested that Glenn Beck “do the honorable thing and blow his brains out.” Conservatives carry signs at Obama rallies: “We Came Unarmed (This Time).” Liberals carried signs at Bush rallies: “Save Mother Earth, Kill Bush.”

…The rhetoric of the Ugly Party shares some common themes: urging the death or sexual humiliation of opponents or comparing a political enemy to vermin or diseases. It is not merely an adolescent form of political discourse; it encourages a certain political philosophy — a belief that rivals are somehow less than human, which undermines the idea of equality and the possibility of common purposes.

via Advice Goddess Blog.

The Homeland Security directive is designed “to help police spot the tell-tale signs indicating potentially dangerous right wing extremism,” Mr. Delingpole points out. “They include: Being unimpressed by America’s first ‘African-American’ president; Objecting to tax hikes; Disliking big government; Talking concernedly about the state of the economy and job loss, especially in the manufacturing and construction sectors,” (and) “Opposition to abortion, gay marriage and gun control.

“No really, I’m not making this up. Here’s a representative paragraph:

“Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. …

Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » ‘Rightwing extremists’ are concerned about ‘restrictions on firearms ownership and use’.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/james_delingpole

http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=588

One more time, FUCK YOU, OBAMA!

I wonder if Billy Townsend over at Lakeland Local thinks I should be designated a terrorist for believing in such right-wing extremist issues as the right to keep and bear arms, or not liking all the taxes being raised to fund the Wall Street bailouts and social programs that keep people suckling at the government teat? Maybe he thinks I deserve the extra scrutiny because I may be a threat to a Socialist way of life.  I like to think he’s smarter than that, but I can’t look into his mind and be sure.

Just to be clear, let’s go down the list:

1) Unimpressed with America’s first “African-American” President – I am not impressed that Obama is part black; I don’t agree with any hyphenated American designation, you’re either American or not American. The only acceptable use would be with dual-citizenship. And so what if Obama is part black? All these people who think they’re above race point out he’s black all the time; idiots, it’s not about race, it’s about his actions, and I think he sucks big-time. (Preemptive strike: Bush sucked, too; Politics is not an either-or scenario. Just because I don’t like Obama doesn’t mean I liked Bush, morons.)

2) Objecting to tax hikes – Hell yes I object to tax hikes. If you want to give our government(s) more of your money, go ahead, but don’t force me to do it, too.

3) Disliking big government – Hell yes I dislike big government. Big government stifles freedom, always has, always will.

4) Talking concernedly about the state of the economy and job loss, especially in the manufacturing and construction sectors – We should maintain our manufacturing base, it’s necessary for the stability of our economy, and there are many laws that prevent our manufacturing base from expanding, or even maintaining, its presence on American soil. Environmental laws often being the most galling, but wage laws contribute, and permitting laws can be onerous.

5) Opposition to abortion – While I’m personally against it, I don’t think anyone should be punished for killing their fetus.

6) Opposition to gay marriage – Nope, homo love is just as valid as hetero love. I object to special tax exemptions for married people, though. Making single people pay more in taxes is inherently unfair.

7) Opposition to gun control – Hell yes I oppose gun control. Every “reasonable” regulation snowballs into more and more regulation against lawful citizens in the hopes of curtailing some crazy nutbag in the future. I hear guns were sold in hardware stores back in the 60s (and earlier), no license was necessary to buy them, but no mass killings were going on, so obviously it’s not the easy availability of guns that causes crimes.

So I’m on Obama’s Department of Homeland Security list of evil terrorists for believing in rights that founded this country.  Fuck Obama for this bullshit, fuck Bush for making the DHS, and fuck anyone who doesn’t think for themselves.

From a drive-by commenter in OT we get

Why do you still use the image of the twin towers? time for a change I think.

That question is exactly why the image is still there.

The hole in Manhattan is still there.
The leaders are mostly still there.
The paymasters are still there.
The isolationists are still there.
The dumbasses who think it was all Bush’s fault are still there.
The dumbasses who think it was all America’s fault are still there.
The dumbasses who want to just Move On are still there.
The dumbasses who Hope for a big Change are still there.
The threat is still there.

Note that I’m not Bill, and he’s well able to put words into his own mouth. But I’ve been reading DP almost since the beginning and think I have a feel for the place.

Side note to ’sky’: I edited this post extensively to remove the vitriolic beat-down that was my first response. Pending further information or provocation, I’ll assume you asked an honest question. If it turns out you were trying to be an asshole or cause trouble, I will make it my mission to beat you down until you shit yourself.

Daily Pundit » Never Forget.

Amen. And big LULZ for the last sentence.

The selection of Mr Susman, a lawyer and banker from the president’s hometown of Chicago, rather than an experienced diplomat, raises new questions about Mr Obama’s commitment to the special relationship with Britain.

Mere Rhetoric: Obama To Appoint Fundraising Crony As UK Ambassador, British Officials Going Ballistic.

I can’t blame Obama for this, nor Bush. We all see how Muslim-crazy the Brits are, fawning like lap dogs to accomodate them, and it’s shown in high levels of government. So not trusting the British with a special relationship is only to be expected, as the Brits have “gone Mullah”, so to speak.

OBAMA: I think Iran continues to be a threat to some of its neighbors in the region, so they’re still funding Hamas, they’re still funding Hezbollah, and those are things we have to be concerned about. But it is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology. And that’s been the problem with their foreign policy generally. They should have stopped the saber-rattling, should have never started it, and they need now to aggressively move on the diplomatic front. Dec. 4, 2007.

Mere Rhetoric: US Spy Agencies: Actually, It Turns Out That Iran Is Developing Nukes (UPDATE: Obama On The NIE: “Bush Continues To Not Let Facts Get In The Way Of His Ideology”).

Florida is about to make a hundred-year decision on transportation, similar to the 1950s, when Congress created the interstate highway system and forever changed neighborhoods whose voices were shut out.

The Florida Department of Transportation wants to close a deal with CSX Railroad that would create a freight super-railway through Starke, Ocala, Wildwood, Dade City, Plant City and Lakeland. These communities had no say in the matter – no knowledge it was even being planned – until former Governor Bush announced the deal was done.

Lakeland Local News and Info from Lakeland Florida » Blog Archive » Senator Dockery’s Letter to Govenor Crist on the Eve of His Announcement.

And in a broad swipe at the Bush administration’s lawyers, Obama
nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any
lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11, 2001

WTF? Obama’s just doing whatever he feels like doing. You thought Bush was bad….

Solomonia, Washington Post

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“You must destroy the West” — so said a speaker at a recent conference featuring Islamic leaders in London. My column in Human Events this morning:

“You must destroy the West” — so said a speaker at a recent conference in London. The conference featured Islamic leaders openly calling for the overthrow of the British government and the establishment of an Islamic state in Britain — under the noses of British authorities who, just days before the conference, had announced a new crackdown against “hate speech” and “extremist” preaching. The episode was instructive — or should have been — for proponents of the Fairness Doctrine and “hate speech” laws in the United States.

The conference organizer, Anjem Choudary, declared at the conference that “as Muslims, we will not submit to any man-made law, any government, or any prime minister — Bush or Brown — or Jacqui Smith. We submit to Allah.” Instead of submitting, he called upon Muslims to rise up: “It is our religious obligation to prepare ourselves both physically and mentally and rise up against Muslim oppression and take what is rightfully ours. Jihad is a duty and a struggle and an obligation that lies upon the shoulders of us all. We will not rest until the flag of Allah and the flag of Islam is raised above 10 Downing Street.”

Choudary called on Muslims to dare to take the risks involved in participating in the violent overthrow of the British state. “There are three types of Muslims,” he said: “those in prison, those of us that are on our way [to prison] and non-practicing Muslims. Brothers and sisters, if you do not fear your home being raided by the Kufar [non-believer] police, you are not enforcing the Sharia [Islamic law].”

Speaking via a live feed from Lebanon, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, a jihadist leader formerly based in Britain but now barred from returning to that country, exhorted the conference attendees: “Do not obey the British law….We must fight and die for Islam — this is the map and road to Jennah [Paradise].” He praised Osama bin Laden and asserted that Muslims had no obligation to obey secular laws rather than Islamic law.

Ironically, this conference came only two weeks after UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that the British government was taking new steps to stop “preachers of hate from spreading extremism in our communities.” So would Choudary and the other conference organizers and speakers be arrested? Unlikely: a British Home Office official said that “the new measures…only prevent individuals from coming here and spreading their hate in person.” As such, they “do not cover” this jihadist conference.

Later, the Home Office and London’s Metropolitan Police played hot potato with the conference. A Home Office statement said that it wasn’t their responsibility to determine whether or not any laws had been broken; rather, “it is for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to investigate any breach of the law,” to which a Police spokesman replied: “It’s the Home Office that makes the laws. If it doesn’t know whether something is against the law, then who does?”

Good question — and one that goes to the heart of the problem with “hate speech laws” in general. Even in the face of the London jihadist conference’s open calls to destroy British society as it is currently constituted and impose Islamic law there, no one is quite sure what constitutes “hate speech” and why hate speech laws are so dangerous. “Hate speech,” like the “fairness” that the Fairness Doctrine promises to establish, is in the eye of the beholder. Hate speech laws, like the Fairness Doctrine, are so vague in their application that law enforcement officials can easily become genuinely befuddled (like the UK’s Home Office) as to what crosses the line and what doesn’t — and that very vagueness can make them a tool in the hands of those in power to silence dissent.

As America welcomes a new President who counts among his supporters many who would like to see the U.S. enact laws like Britain’s hate speech codes and the Fairness Doctrine, this London jihadist conference illustrates anew that such laws create more problems than they solve. As jihadists in Britain speak openly about their intention to overthrow the British government, British officials would be better off dusting off and enforcing old laws about sedition rather than trying to figure out if some dangerously vague new laws have been broken.

From the BBC daily email¹

* Obama ‘to use executive orders’ *

Barack Obama will use executive orders to reverse some of President Bush’s policies, his transition chief says.
Full story.

Possibly just a warm up before reversing some of James Madison’s as well, heh?

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1. Note that the title of the article on the site has even more gloat on it: Obama ‘to reverse Bush decisions’—It's a wet-panties party all over Europe, but it's only irritating until you realize that at the end of the day (Obama or not) Europe is the backyard of the developed world and these clowns a gang of bums sitting on their asses. They know it too mind you, and that's why they're so bitter and hateful.

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