Wild Wild West
Meet Rep.Tom Tancredo of Colorados’ sixth district, a wealthy white Denver suburb where plenty of right –wing supporter Jeff Coors’ watered down,tasteless, ale gets quaffed. One of the new breed of Republican fascists he has built a lucrative career out of anti-immigrant hate mongering. A loose ideology built around the “clash of civilizations”,the evils of multi-culturalism, nativism ,militia supporting xenophobia makes him a brown shirt to take seriously.Elevated for a while to regional director of the Dept. of Education by William Bennett (that paragon of conservative virtue), he used his position to promote a “Christian educational system”.
Heading due west we find ourselves in Utah. Unless there is some way to avoid it. Home of Orrin Hatch and the Mormon Church, the theaters in Salt Lake have reacted to popular pressure and cancelled the showing of Brokeback Mountain. The moral indoctrination they prefer was deciphered by their very own prophet who was given some tablets by God that said he could “marry” all the (very) young gals he put his eye on..Then the tablets disappeared. Also the tablets said only white people were Gods chosen. You get the picture but if you need more read Under the Banner of Heaven.
North of there you get into the famous potato state of Idaho, home of the Aryan Nation and Sen Larry Craig. Go north and head a little east and your in Dick and Lynn Cheney territory of Wyoming. That’s all I need to say about Wyoming. Up here in Montana we got soon to be indicted Conrad Burns who refers to Arabs as “ragheads” and who, when asked what it was like living in DC with so many blacks, replied “it’s tough”.The Curly to his Moe is Rep. Dennis Rehberg who panders to the survivalist /anti-government/ militia crowd. Yippe Yi Yoh Ki Yay.
"The Negro revolt is evolving into more than a quest for de-segregation and equality.It is a challenge to a system that has created miracles of production and technology to create justice. If humanism is locked outside of the system, Negroes will have revealed it's inner core of despotism and a far greater struggle for liberation will unfold." Martin Luther King Jr. 1967
posted by troutsky @ 4:37 PM
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I just wanted to qualify that the person asked Senator Conrad Burns (R) MT what it was like living with so many NIGGERS, not blacks. For him not to reprimand the questioner speaks volumes. A smear campaign really needs to bring up all of his "talking points" highlights; that is by no means of the imagination the totality of what he has to say.
Tancredo sounds okay to me, but I could probably be construed as a nativist/xenophobe. While you may one day hope for a united world, I'll suffer no such frivolity over a utopia. Simple fear of power and corruption leads me to believe that the bigger a country is--both in size and influence--the less likely it is to be just.
Our worship to the gods of capitalism have given us free trade, and with it exploitation of foreign labor. By defending our borders and enacting a tariff we can at least ensure that Americans do not have to slave away.
Tancredo may have other faults, but to believe that one's country is good and that one should protect it is no sin.
Oh, almost forgot. Buchanan had a piece on politcal activism on behalf of the church.
Hope you enjoy it:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=11555
i may hope for a united world but in the meantime I wish to see a little justice and equality. I cant picture the kind of walled off world Tancredo desires. If only trade were somehow "free"...Take into account the coercive force of the state and how it influences trade not only in goods and services but in labor.
"Fascism:a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through a merging of state and business leadership together with a belligerent nationalism" Mussolini
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