Listen to the Panther

The American Thinker ^ | March 30, 2010 | Ed Kaitz

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"[The] left became so ideologically attached to anti-Americanism and pro-communism and Third Worldism that I believe we have a problem on our hands" - Eldridge Cleaver A Washington Post columnist by the name of Colbert King recently compared the "Tea Party supporters and their right-wing fellow travelers" to the angry mobs who used threats, intimidation, and even murder to prevent the "landmark civil rights laws" of the 1960s. According to King,

"The angry '50s and '60s crowds threatened and intimidated; some among them even murdered. That notwithstanding, Americans of goodwill gathered in the White House to witness the signing of landmark civil rights laws."

King reminds his readers that although "[s]choolhouse doors were blocked and little children were demeaned," the "bigots didn't get the last word. Justice rolled down like a mighty river, sweeping them aside."

And while comparing present-day Tea Party anger to the abuse, lies, insults, and vandalism characteristic of yesteryear's George Wallace brigades, King is confident that "progress" today will prevail as it did back in the '60s:

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There is no equivalence. I don’t think Cleaver has gone to the Tea Party events.

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NYT Ponders: Weather Underground, Tea Party Movement Just 'Varying Degrees of Rage'? By Clay Waters - NewsBusters - Mon, 03/29/2010

VARYING DEGREES OF RAGE The Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, second from right, during the Days of Rage in 1969, and anti-health reform protesters in Washington on Sunday.