I remember when Bill Clinton was President and the Patriot/Militia movement was in full swing. Bill Clinton was the evilest man alive. The atheist/communist/illuminati President was flying around in Black Helicopters, mutilating cattle, setting up concentration camps, buying body bags and preparing to turn over American sovereignty to the United Nations. The specter of U.N. Blue Helmets at street-corner checkpoints was palpable among the denizens of the Patriot movement.
Then, when Bush/Cheney was foisted upon us with the most heinous Supreme Court decision in the history of the Republic, the Patriot/Militia movement dried up and all but vanished. The guy with a pecker problem was replaced by a guy with a braincell problem. Bush proceeded to trample the Constitution, rampage the world and declare himself dictator. But the Right Wing Christian Identity Militia Patriot nut-jobs vanished into the woodwork whence they came.
Now, with a mulatto/islamic/communist/foreigner President, the Patriots are back with a vengeance.
According to our Government, homegrown terror of the Patriot movement kind is considered the biggest threat to the Government. And with a trillion guns and most of their brains eaten away with fear and loathing, I don't doubt the veracity of the threat.
But why? Are they really patriots concerned about loss of liberty, abrogation of the Constitution, encroaching militarism and creeping totalitarianism? Or are they just Rush Limbaugh clones who await their marching orders from fascist clowns without a thought in their heads?
It is just I would have more respect for them if they hadn't allowed the dry-drunk with messianic delusions of fairy-plum grandeur dancing in his head off the hook for a litany of war crimes and the American heresies of lies, deceit, corruption and cruelty.
Bush and Cheney, using the pretext of a vicious crime they refused to investigate, did more harm to the nation in a shorter time than anyone in our history. They murdered hundreds of thousands, displaced millions, wasted trillions of dollars and destroyed the economy of the strongest economy on earth. Bush and Cheney shouldn't be writing books, they should be chalking the walls of their prison cells with the days left of their life sentences.
So why all the hate against the current President for doing nothing but continuing the policies of his predecessor who the Patriots revered?
The color of his skin? His smug confidence? We continue the neocon foreign policy. We treat banks like a religion and banksters like clergy. We cater to every corporate interest before the interests of the common good. Our vacuous culture continues unabated. I just don't get the hate. Where were these idiots during the first lost decade of the 21st Century as Bush and Cheney tore the country apart on behalf of their base of billionaires and addiction to bloodlust?
What has the current President done to deserve this? The answer is absolutely nothing. If they didn't make a peep against the creeps installed in 2000, they have no right to make a peep now.
Are these people just really that stupid they call the President a communist? Do you see fucking workers taking over factories or do you see the consolidation of corporate control over every aspect of our lives? Most of these nut-jobs believe the President was born in Kenya and is a Manchurian Islamist Terrorist when in actuality the President is a Yuppie (like we'd all like to be.) He's another fucking Lawyer for pete-sakes, trained to talk out of both sides of his mouth at once. He's a politician who will say and do anything to get elected, just like every other politician.There is nothing special about the President to single him out for such vilification and hatred by the so-called Patriots who wouldn't know the truth if it was stapled to their foreheads.
These folks are brownshirt, black-boot storm troopers for extreme right wing billionaire fascists. Their screws aren't just loose they have fallen through the sewer grate. They are the What's the Matter with Kansas faction who blame everything for their woes but their own cowardice, ignorance and stupidity. They hate the President but want to vote for a Romney, Santorum or Grinch who would only continue our bi-partisan approach to war, civil liberties and finance.
I just don't get it. And I have no doubt they are dangerous. They have guns and idiocy on their side.
Let's be clear. America is a walking contradiction. Our policies of talking about freedom while enslaving the world through empire is the height of hypocrisy.
But the opposition of Patriots? Rush Limbaugh versus George Washington? Ann Coulter versus Abigail Adams? The Koch Brothers versus Paine, Henry and Jefferson? The new patriots are not fit to lick the horse dung off the boots of our fore bearers.
Yes, we need vigilance against tyranny and yes, our current government of, for and by Corporations must be ended.
If it is a choice between the Occupy Movement or the Patriot Militia movement – there is no choice. It is the difference between principles and hysteria. The right-wing is like a bunch of kids at a slumber party telling scary stories to each other. Boo! The President is a secret islamic communist. Boo! The President was born in Africa. Boo! The President let his daughter go on Spring Break to Mexico.
As opposed to Bush/Cheney who were truly frightening and began a regime of torture, rendition and indefinite detention against innocent people caught between opium War Lords and religious fanatics. What did the slumber party brigade do then? They slumbered.
Bill Clinton was a liar and cheat, but was he a murderer? The current President is a Phillips Head Screwdriver in service to the 1%, but is he a traitor to the country?
Bush/Cheney are crony capitalist war criminals and profiteers who should be in The Hague, if the country were brave enough to face the facts.
Our current Patriot/Militia movement with small-penis-syndrome violence brewing under their myopic veil of simplistic morality are sunshine patriots and summertime soldiers who are cowards in the face of the facts that their leaders are the true enemies of this nation.
It's time to stop the provincial patriotism of partisan politics and become patriots for the human race. Enough Party Loyalty Politics and Situational Ethics Patriotism.
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. ~Adlai Stevenson