To my knowledge, Cliven Bundy, nor any of his sons, ever served in the U.S. Military. Cliven Bundy recently said he does "
not recognize the United States Government." Cliven Bundy is a thief who waged war against the United States government, was willing to
use women and children as human shields and
issued terrorist demands to the United States Government. Now that's the kind of American-hating behavior that got Cliven Bundy hailed as a hero by the GOP.
You see, in the GOP's eyes, if you wage war against the U.S government while the U.S. government is upholding a Federal Court order against you, then it is the "Government" who has "gone wild" - not you, got it.
BUNDY: "I don't recognize the United States Government as even existing"
From what little I, or anyone, knows about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Bowe Bergdahl
is a U.S. soldier who
allegedly "deserted" when he walked off his base in Afghanistan and was captured, in uniform, and held as a POW for 5 long years ... and that is the type of behavior that gets you called a "traitor" by the GOP.
In GOP Psycho-World, an American POW should rot to death in the enemy's POW camp if they're even suspected of being a "deserter" of the U.S. Military cuz there's nothing worse than deserting the U.S. Military.
The GOP have proven too many times that they don't give one damn about U.S. soldiers and they rarely support legislation to improve the lives of military veterans. Decorated Vietnam War veteran John Kerry is one, of many, U.S. military veterans that the GOP denigrated and demonized. And, what was the GOP reaction when it came to light that GW Bush's military record indicates he too went AWOL? What about draft dodgers? Draft dodging can be a crime and the GOP did eviscerate President Clinton for dodging the draft -- yet they supported draft dodger Dick Cheney.
To me, the GOP condemning Sgt. Bergdahl's release from being a POW are American-hating jerks.
Personally, I don't give a flying fig if Sgt. Bergdahl did or did not go AWOL nor do I care what GD religion he uses. To me, he is a U.S. soldier and a human being who was captured and held as a POW and for that reason alone he deserves to be rescued. I have a hunch that a lot of POWs in a lot different wars were captured after they deserted their camp for one reason or another. But, deserter or not, they are still U.S. soldiers until they are discharged from the military.
The GOP have gone from demanding President Obama rescue Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, to chanting he is a traitor. Seems that when chants of Bergdahl's alleged 'desertion' did not stick, the GOP had to -- had to -- ramp up their hate toward a U.S. service man who was a POW for 5 long years to convicting him of being a 'traitor.' You know, cuz being a traitor is not something that needs to be proven in a court of law or anything.
Of course, there is zero proof Bergdahl is a traitor.
My older brother served two tours in Vietnam as an Air Force Helicopter Pilot. I was eight years old and I remember every day praying, to any and all positive forces in the universe, that my brother would not be captured and would not get killed. I didn't give a fig if he went AWOL ... I cared that he came home SAFE AND ALIVE!!!!!
I am becoming more and more convinced that popular rightwingers in the GOP have fewer function brain cells than a box of tea. I don't know if their hate for President Obama is so deep that it causes them to absolutely loathe and despise 'real' America - or - if hatred of 'real' America is because they subscribe to the insanity of Cliven Bundy's "Sovereign Citizenship" mumbo-jumbo?
Normally, their knee-jerk hysteria toward President Obama's breathing of oxygen makes me laugh: Birtherism, Benghazi, IRS, Kenya, Muslim, blah blah blah. To me, their uncontrollable salivation to spew irrational, loathsome hate for America's rules of law and America's troops is enough to make any normal person pity them.
Their reflexive salivation-for-hate, at the mention of President Obama's name, has similarities to Pavlov's dog. We all remember that Pavlov's dogs knew Pavlov would feed them so they would salivate whenever Pavlov entered the room, even when he was not bringing them food ... hello Fox News, Hannity, Rush and all you other con-artists who have nothing to offer society so you rely on selling hate to make millions.
I am not saying Pavlov's dogs are as mentally damaged as hate-filled GOP -- not at all. In fact, I'm guessing that if Pavlov were alive today his experiments would show that his dogs had higher critical thinking skills than the haters in the GOP.
(Hattip to Harold Itzkowitz, whose tweet was inspiration for this diary)