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Thread #124239   Message #2745538
Posted By: Bobert
14-Oct-09 - 10:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: History of US radical religious right
Subject: RE: BS: History of US radical religious right
It would be very nice if we could pull this thing off the way that Ghandi and King drew it up on the chalkboard but...

...those were very much different situations... The radical right was by no means as armed as it is now... The NRQA wasn't pounding propaganda into their thought-less little brains 24/7 about how they needed to get bigger and badder guns because the governemnt/liberals/elitists were coing to get them and take away their guns... Guns, guns, guns...

I mean, let's do a little review here...

Since the 60's, whcih BTW was the last time that the pedulum swung toward liberalism/humanism there has been one political assasination after another of liberals/humanists... And look where it has taken US??? Hey, would one think that we would have gotten to this place in history had JFK, RFK and MLK not been assasinated??? These assasinations weren't just 3 men... These assasinations were the hopes and dreams of over 100 million people... Three bullets brought down "the movement"... Three lousy friggin' bullets...

Now we have an army of looney zombies armed to the teeth... They are so removed from critical *thinking* that they show up at public events with semi-automatic weapons strapp0ed to their legs like Rambo... Why??? Because we have collectively made an exception for these radical right zombies/martyrs (with papers in order)... How could this happen??? Guns, guns, guns...

Right here in my rural county one such radical right zombie thought it was perfectly okay to fire thousands and thousands of live rounds of heavy duty ammo in my6 and my wife's direction... When the bullets would fly by us, sure, I'd call the law... The law would come and basically tell US over and over, "If the guy shoots at US we'll either arrest him or return fire" then the law would leave US to dodging this man's insanity... That's what I mean here... The US has slowing succumbed to it being pertfectly okay for radical righties to do what they want with guns... But let some lefties take a page out of the RR's (radical right) play book and the reaction is much different... Think back to the 60's when if any leftie's group t5alked about arming themselves for self defense that that group was branded as a revoultionary group to be erradicated???

Hmmmmmmmm????

So it's okay for the barinless RR to be armed but not okay for the left to be armed???

That creates an unlevel playing field...

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As for the link that Carol put up, yes, I did listen to the entire interview... Couldn't find much there to disagree with other than I wouldn't put LaRouche in with the RR'ers... Radical nutball??? Yes... But not exactly a rightie on all the issues... I know alo of LaRouchies and they ain't that easy to pin down... True believers??? Yeah, just a hodgepodge of beliefs... Radical??? Yeah, but radical on both ends of the political spectrum...

B~