Broad Brushes Paint Wide Swaths

M2RB:  Louis XIV

As you peel back the skin from an orange
Remember how you got all of this?
Well, all of this
Is never ever coming true
There's nothing you can do to change it
You don't have to do the crime to do the time
It's just guilt by association

"For those commenters whining about why the tea party is being perceived as dangerous, your anti middle class and radical pro gun policies are a major determinant. Couple that with spitting on black congressmen and wishing death on poor people without insurance; and you shouldn’t be surprised why middle America thinks of you as dangerous."

Yeastie Noyz a/k/a Uppereastside, 20 July 2012

Before we get to the main topic, let's slay some of your strawmen:

Picnic held for the community of Oakland by the gentle-as-Mary's-little-lamb, Occupy Oakland

"...why the tea party is being perceived as dangerous..."

  


Granted, I haven't updated it since 3 December 2011, here are 498 incidents of criminal behaviour resulting in arrests of Occupy members.  The offences range from simple trespass to aggravated rape.  I'll also make sure to leave links to some of my posts documenting the violent, destructive, anti-semitic, and rather gauche behaviour exhibited by scores of Occupiers below.

None of us will hold our breaths while you compile your list of examples of 'dangerous" behaviour of or actions taken by the Tea Party.

Also, unlike the Occupy Movement, the Tea Party has never been endorsed by the Socialist Party of America, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party of America, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Government of North Korea, the Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, David Duke, Hugo Chavez, the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, the Black Panthers (original), the New Black Panther Party, Industrial Workers of the World (Who even knew that the Wobblies were still around?,) the Communist Party of China, CAIR, Hezbollah, the White Revolution, Marxist Student Union, Anonymous, the Freedom Road Socialist Organisation, the International Socialist Organisation, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the International Bolshevik Tendency, and the American Nazi Party!!!

I have a suggestion for you:  Why don't you ask the Tea Party to join Occupy in a PPV event?  Let America decide who's most dangerous.  The Tea Party can appear with their Gadsden flags, breeches, Betsy Ross dresses, powdered wigs, and clean-up equipment and you can bring all of the above.  Y'all can let your freak flags fly....high and proud!!!

 We can get John Walsh to host and call it "America's Most Dangerous.  We Report.  You Decide."

Oh, do us a favour and don't forget to bring the fruits, flakes, and nuts...we (sort of) miss 'em:

Gettin' buggy with it...

 

An extra from an off-off-off-Broadway production of Mulan?   

Somehow, I think Chairman Mao would have thrown him back.

Why do they never demand free soap and other personal hygiene products?

 Mmmm-Kay, well, maybe not....

All-American Girls 

"We are going to Rio for Carnival straight from here.  Luckily, we are Trustifarians!  Sorry, you suckas!"

And, of course, calling for the violent overthrow of the United States government is not the sign of a dangerous individual or organisation.  Nope.  Never.

"One of the speakers said the solution is nonviolent movement. No, my friend. I’ll give you two examples: French Revolution, and Indian so-called Revolution.

Gandhi, Gandhi today is, with respect to all of you, Gandhi today is a tumor that the ruling class is using constantly to mislead us. French Revolution made fundamental transformation. But it was bloody.

India, the result of Gandhi, is 600 million people living in maximum poverty.

So, ultimately, the bourgeosie won’t go without violent means. Revolution! Yes, revolution that is led by the working class.

Long live revolution! Long live socialism!”

 - Occupy Los Angeles speaker, 10.01.11

 

More contestants in the Democrats' "Just Your Average, Hard-Working, Middle Class American" Spokesperson Contest

"...your (sic) anti middle class..."

Sorry, but the Tea Party is primarily comprised of the middle class.  As I have told you repeatedly, Barack Obama lost the middle class vote in 2008 by 20 points.  You have little understanding of the composition of the Tea Party.   According to Gallup, Tea Partiers are fairly mainstream in their demographics.  Per the Los Angeles Times, Tea Partiers are "average Americans and 41% of them are either Democrats or Independents."  While the New York Times has made its manifest dislike of the movement quite apparent, even it has taken the time to look into the demographics of the Tea Party and not make assumptions, as you and your ilk continuously do.

I have never attended a Tea Party event nor is my financial situation representative of 99% of most people and you should refrain from assuming that all libertarians, conservatives, Tea Partiers, Republicans, "limited government types," etc., are fat cat corporate jet owners.  Unlike you, the overwhelming majority of them can't afford to live on the Upper East Side...even in the basement.

 

Mohawks!  Getcha Mohawks!  Middle Class Accountant From Wichita, Getcha Mohawk Heeeeyah!  Not!

Middle-class Americans are not European Socialists.  They are a different breed of cats.   Europe is very different from the United States.  Europeans have never really been free.  They have been serfs, pawns, indentured servants, slaves, the conquered, the vanquished, subjects, meat for grinding war machines, prisoners, concentration camp victims, comrades behind a wall built to keep them from leaving their countries (as opposed to a fence designed to keep out people, who lack the host country's permission to enter,  which the illegal immigration lobby odiously compares to the Berlin Wall), and dependents.  For most of the history of Europe, its residents have been ruled by monarchs or dictators.  For brief, fleeting moments, they have had elected leadership that may or may not have governed according to the will of the people.   Now, against the will of the majority of Europeans, the continent is reverting to type.  Instead of several monarchs or dictators, we see darkening clouds on the horizon and the curtain of iron once again rising in the form of the Dictatorship of the European Union.    Americans wouldn't put up with most of the shit that Europeans do because they enjoy their freedom.


If you think messages like the one below is going to win the middle class, you are an Allah-damned fool.

 Do they look like supporters of the American middle class to you?

 "...wishing death on poor people without insurance..."

THE HYPOTHETICAL DID NOT INVOLVE ANY "POOR PEOPLE," YOU DUNCE.

The transcript from the Tea Party Express Republican Debate in Tampa, Florida, on 12 September 2011, courtesy of CNN:

BLITZER: Thank you, Governor. Before I get to Michele Bachmann, I want to just -- you're a physician, Ron Paul, so you're a doctor. You know something about this subject. Let me ask you this hypothetical question.

A healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, you know what? I'm not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because I'm healthy, I don't need it. But something terrible happens, all of a sudden he needs it.

Who's going to pay if he goes into a coma, for example? Who pays for that?

PAUL: Well, in a society that you accept welfarism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of him.

BLITZER: Well, what do you want?

PAUL: But what he should do is whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself. My advice to him would have a major medical policy, but not be forced --

BLITZER: But he doesn't have that. He doesn't have it, and he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?

PAUL: That's what freedom is all about, taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to prepare and take care of everybody --

(APPLAUSE)

BLITZER: But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?

PAUL: No. I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s, when I got out of medical school. I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, and the churches took care of them. We never turned anybody away from the hospitals.

(APPLAUSE)

PAUL: And we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves. Our neighbors, our friends, our churches would do it. This whole idea, that's the reason the cost is so high.

The cost is so high because they dump it on the government, it becomes a bureaucracy. It becomes special interests. It kowtows to the insurance companies and the drug companies, and then on top of that, you have the inflation. The inflation devalues the dollar, we have lack of competition.

PAUL: There's no competition in medicine. Everybody is protected by licensing. And we should actually legalize alternative health care, allow people to practice what they want.

If you have the money, but decide not to insure your house and it burns to the ground, should I feel obliged to pay for it to be rebuilt?  

You people claim to be pro-choice, but you are not.  "Live free or die" is just something kewl to put on a licence plate to you.  How dare anyone expect you to live by it!

On many occasions, I have told you that I am young, healthy and fairly wealthy.  I could pay for my medical care out-of-pocket completely, if need be, but choose to carry a major medical policy.  Because of authoritarian, do-goodering, social justice pushing Mrs Kravitzes like you and Barack Obama, I no longer will have that option in 2014.  I will be forced to purchase an expensive policy with bells and whistles that I neither want nor need.  Why?  Because you want me to subsidise others.  Should the kid down the block with 3 accidents and 6 speeding tickets be able to demand that your auto premiums skyrocket so that his can fall?  Should I have to pay more for health insurance so that fat smokers can pay less?

 "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." 

- C S Lewis

As I always say:

PROGS ARE ONLY PRO-CHOICE WHEN IT COMES TO UTERI, RECTUMS, AND POT.  PERIOD.

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