John Boehner, the House Minority Leader (http://uspolitics.einnews.com/article/886654-a-fourth-of-july-question-if-john-boehner-doesn-t-want
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ut-rebellion-), has joined a growing number of Republicans and independents calling for a "Second Amendment solution" (see the type of letters this is producing at:http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/is-a--second-amendment-solution--so-silly--97921624.html) to the Obama administration. This is no idle threat, the meaning is clear along with a number of decisions by the Reagan & Bush Administrations have made the possibility of a right wing religious insurrection not only likely, but probable. Most importantly has been the Reagan decision to eliminate the Fairness Doctrine. This allowed the current mass of hate radio to appear and escape any standard of accuracy and instead to become propaganda organs for extremist views. Through this means another assault has been made on civil life and that is undermining the credibility of any news outlet. Fox News has achieve this end and the recent scandal over the firing of Shirley Sherrod is a case in point.
Another example is the Acorn hoax where Republican extremists fabricated an incident with Acorn representatives to appear as if the Acorn staff was breaking the law by aiding a pimp to gain federal funds through fraudulent means. When all the facts were known, the Acorn staff did no such thing and in fact had called police to report the pimp (http://www.opednews.com/articles/San-Diego-ACORN-Worker-Sui-by-Gustav-Wynn-100710-717.html) (see more details at: http://www.dailykos.com/...
The Republicans are playing with fire, they are calling for rebellion and the result is an increasing atmosphere of division, animosity and violence. They are sowing discord in the nation in the hopes that it will bring them advantage and Fox News is at the center of this effort. It is fair to speculate on the owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdock's intentions from the manipulation of events that has become Fox News' modus operandi (see background on Murdock and Fox News at: http://www.dailykos.com/... What seems to be the method can be seen in recent Tea bag actions, not so much the racism of fringe elements, but the repercussions of their organizing. Shifting the Republican party to rightwing loosely organized mass cells who respond to Fox News' calls (see for details: http://www.dailykos.com/... on the disintegration of social order constructed in the former Yugoslavia by the ruling Communist Party bosses as they attempted to seize power in Serbia and Croatia.