It's people like this who I most fear, because they are completely irrational, own guns, and embrace violence. It's also why I loathe Michele Bachmann and her ilk. They actually encourage this type of behavior.

Watch this exchange. This man starts out angry, but controlled. He's got a problem with our new "socialist-communist" health care bill, and he'll tell anyone within 50 feet about it. When pressed on specifics, he just rolls out of control, first shouting for death to the communists, then death to the videographer.

"Get out of here before I run you up with this flag and throw you to the river," he cries. "I fought for this country, you sonofabitch. What did you do?"

With all due respect for his service to our country, he seems to have a disconnect when it comes to Constitutional rights. Evidently free speech, which he is exercising liberally in this clip, is only acceptable when it's right wing free speech.

Part of me really dislikes giving any attention to these people. At the same time, ignoring them also ignores the fact that when mentally unstable people are stirred up and their anger ignited, it will not end well.

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OK, looks like the pressure is finally getting to Glenn Beck. You can't watch this rant, from his show yesterday, without concluding that the big implosion is on its way.

Beck: Does sacred honor even exist in Washington anymore? Because I ratted out a self-avowed Communist in the administration in Van Jones, the same organizations, the same politicians, the same progressive media that are ignoring or standing for ACORN now, have called me Joseph McCarthy. They have such little regard for your intelligence that they don't think you're going to figure out that Joseph McCarthy was a powerful senator! Surrounded by the trappings of power of the United States government. With the power of subpoena and the power of Congress! The guy who stood against that was alone. While everybody else wet their pants and cowered in fear!

You'd think the members of the media might remember his name. It was Edward R. Murrow. And while I am nowhere near an Edward R. Murrow, never claimed to be, let me use the words of, finally, somebody that stood up to the power, and these senators, and said, Senator, have you no shame? Have you no shame?

Indeed, his critics have been making the all-too-accurate comparison to McCarthy, most notably Media Matters, who put together a handy side-by-side comparison that's devastating. Looks like Beck watched it and it made him cry.

Or maybe he saw the tallies from the latest set of advertisers to flee his sinking rat's nest of a show: over 50 percent of his ad dollars have now gone elsewhere. Bet that makes him cry too.

But really, Beck did make at least one accurate statement here: He's no Edward R. Murrow.

Hell, he's not even a Krusty the Klown.

One of the more disturbing trends we've been observing is the return of far-right "Patriot" rhetoric about government oppression with the election of President Obama. Fueled in no small part by mainstream right-wing talkers proclaiming we're headed into "socialism" -- not to mention a "radical communist" who must be "stopped" or else America will "cease to exist" -- the overheated rhetoric has been gradually getting higher in volume, intensity, and frequency with each passing week.

The initial concern that this raises is the possibility of a new wave of citizen militias, particularly when you have mainstream pundits like Glenn Beck out there helping to promote the concept. As Glenn Greenwald observed, the "Patriots" are back with a vengeance.

At least for the time being, however, there isn't any evidence of new militias forming, though we may see numbers growing within the coming months within existing units, particularly as Fox News and radio pundits start fueling right-wing anxieties.

However, we are starting to see a trend that's even more disturbing: Military veterans voicing Patriot-movement beliefs, including threats of violent resistance to the Obama administration.

One of them made the news recently:

A federal grand jury indicted a former Camp Lejeune Marine on Wednesday on charges that he threatened the life of Barack Obama, the U.S. Attorney's Office confirmed today.

Kody Brittingham, 20, formerly a lance corporal with 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, was accused of making threats against Obama while he was president-elect, said Robin Zier, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office for the eastern district of North Carolina.

Brittingham was arrested by the Jacksonville Police Department on breaking and entering charges in mid-December 2008.

Naval investigators discovered a journal allegedly written by Brittingham in his barracks after his arrest by civilian authorities in December. The journal contained plans on how to kill the president, as well as white supremacist material, a federal law enforcement official said.

This is an example of why I've called the Iraq War "the Timothy McVeigh Finishing School": Inevitably, there are going to be competent killers either joining the far right from our military ranks -- especially if they've been recruited into those beliefs either before or during their service -- or enacting far-right "lone wolf scenarios," and they are going to have the ability to wreak a great deal of havoc.

Another vivid example is the above video, in which an anonymous "Marine" not only urges that citizen militias form to resist any new gun laws and possibly taxation, but also promises them that "there is a resistance" within the military as well.

Note also that the video opens with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Of course, this was the inscription on the T-shirt worn by Timothy McVeigh (picture here) at the time of his arrest for the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Remember, too, that there have already been concerns raised about the infiltration of neo-Nazis into the ranks of the military. If Patriot-movement beliefs -- which are only a few degrees removed from neo-Nazi beliefs anyway -- have become somewhat common in the ranks of the military, then the concerns raised then by the FBI hold true in this situation as well:

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Via Kos, it appears the Kansas Republican Party, deeply divided between moderates and far-right activists, is pushing party loyalty to the extreme.

The state Republican Party is forming a loyalty committee so that it can punish officers who endorse or contribute to Democrats. [...]

Bob Beatty, a Washburn University political scientist, suggested the loyalty committee could prove a "public relations disaster."

"Ironically, it smacks most of the Communist Party," Beatty said Monday. "That's the kind of public irony that most parties try to avoid -- the party of freedom telling people they have no freedom."

As TBogg said many years ago, “Nothing quite says ‘freedom’ like being compelled to recite a loyalty oath.”

(Guest blogged by Nonny Mouse)

Love the age of the internet. A bit of Googling around with what fragments of what I could remember, and voila!

To watch it again after nearly 1/2 a century, though, was chilling, particularly the ending - the best and most concrete spelling out of what exactly 'freedom' meant. It's a word W seems particularly fond of spouting, and a word that too many Americans now wouldn't have the faintest idea of how to define, since just about every freedom this film warned us we were in danger of losing... we've lost. It's an eerily prescient film - but not in the way it was intended to be.I never realized it - but it seems the neoCons aren't Republican Nazis -they're actually Red Communists - and the Communist plot to take over America has finally come to fruition.

Comrade Mouse

We've all seen the wall to wall coverage of the man taking over the Miami Herald office with a fake gun. What's being under reported as far as I've seen is this little nugget.

Also, in a taped telephone interview with WJAN-CA 41 television newsman Juan Manuel Cao, Varela referred to a recent controversy involving a Miami Herald report on Radio and TV Martí, U.S. government broadcasters that aim to end the communist regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The Miami Herald story reported that several journalists, including El Nuevo staffers, had taken pay from the broadcasters .

It sparked an outcry in the Cuban exile community -- and dominated discussion on Miami's Spanish-language radio talk shows. Fiedler referred to radio critics of the report as ''Chihuahuas'' nipping at the newspaper's heels. He later apologized for the remark.

Exactly what pushed Varela over the edge Friday was unclear.

More paid propaganda hitting our airwaves. It's just getting worse. And---what's up with such a low bail to get him released?

Obviously, It'll Be His First Time There

Hoffmania

- President Bush, speaking after an historic meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai at the White House today, announced he will visit Vietnam in 2006 on the invitation of the communist leader.

Daley Wankery arch pundit

Nice

On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley-- a fellow Democrat-- added his voice to the chorus of criticism, saying, "I think it's a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military would act like that."

Yeah, like it was a disgrace when anyone said that about a certain Police Commander?

Of course, Durbin didn't say it was the fault of the military, he said it was the fault of the administration. Then again, one might see why the Mayor wouldn't like that reasoning either.

Hoffmania:
LINK - President Bush, speaking after an historic meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai at the White House today, announced he will visit Vietnam in 2006 on the invitation of the communist leader.

There's nothing more to add.

It looks like Gibbons has taken another page out of Bush’s playbook by trying to buy positive media coverage.

The Las Vegas Review Journal is reporting this morning that Jim Gibbons paid $8,000 to a Reno radio reporter on November 30 for “post election analysis”. Just like they did when Gibbons was exposed for plagiarizing a speech two weeks ago, Gibbons’ office is, once again, pleading ignorance by claiming they didn’t know Andrea Engleman was reporting while being paid by the Congressman. Gibbons is planning to run for Governor in 2006.

Engleman defended the payoff as a favor, saying that Gibbons gave her the $8,000 “to get through Christmas” after she was fired from her political reporting job at KRNV as co-host of “Nevada Newsmakers”. Engleman is still covering Gibbons and other Nevada politics for KKOH radio, including a speech delivered by Gibbons at the Nevada Legislature last month.

While Engleman describes the $8,000 as a one-time favor, Gibbons’ office says they are considering Engleman for future work. You will remember GIbbon's for his communist remark, and his plagerized speech, and of course Hannity getting nailed, trying to bail him out.

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Oh, thank you very, very, very fucking much people for bringing my attention to this little goodie from Michelle Malkin. Well, it's only appropriate, I guess, to end a truly Malkin'd week with the sort of really busy fisking of a wing nut that you craaave. Especially since Auguste is off somewhere on hiatus and someone's got to take out the trash.

I'm not sure why it has to be me though. What about the Liberal Avenger? Can't he avenge this cold blooded murder of brain cells and bandwidth that Malkin saw fit to shove in our faces like we were Scott McClellan and her column was Jeff Gannon's cock?

No, seems he's got his own problems.

Oh, OK. (pinches nose shut). Damn, you know I'm going to boof.

Yeah, yeah, we get it: She's a communist or, rather, she writes for a communist newspaper, a difference there that seems entirely lost on Malkin, like so much else.

Commie! Commie! Neener-neener-neener!

Go ahead, Michelle, get it out of your system. We'll wait. Forever. read on...

In Praise Of...Flavia Colgan and Lawrence O'DonnellLiberal Avenger? Can't he avenge this cold blooded murder of brain cells and bandwidth that Malkin saw fit to shove in our faces like we were Scott McClellan and her column was Jeff Gannon's cock?

No, seems he's got his own problems.

Oh, OK. (pinches nose shut). Damn, you know I'm going to boof.

Yeah, yeah, we get it: She's a communist or, rather, she writes for a communist newspaper, a difference there that seems entirely lost on Malkin, like so much else.

Commie! Commie! Neener-neener-neener!

Go ahead, Michelle, get it out of your system. We'll wait. Forever. read on...

Dennis Prager thinks that we really only want to die.

"One of the greatest insights of Sigmund Freud, who, his atheism notwithstanding, was perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century, was that human beings have a Death Instinct, a death wish that is as strong as the Life Instinct. He wrote this decades before Nazism and the Communist genocides of the 20th century proved his point."

Taking a theory of Freud's and using it to validate the extermination of Jews as nothing more than Hitler exercising his death instinct is sick and twisted..

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