Posted on 11/10/2010 3:42:57 AM PST by markomalley
Ted Rall has a new book out titled The Anti-American Manifesto. In it he makes an explicit call for a violent socialist revolution from within. In case you think this is all a big joke, here’s an excerpt from the book:
We are here because the U.S. is going to end soon. There’s going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It’s going to come down to us versus them. The question is: What are you going to do about it?…
Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the “Godless,” “secular” United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party.
Right-wing organizational names change, but they amount to the same thing: the reactionary sociopolitical force—the sole force—poised to fill the vacuum when collapse occurs. The scenario outlined by Margaret Atwood’s prescient novel The Handmaid’s Tale—rednecks in the trenches, hard military men running things, minorities and liberals taken away and massacred, setting the stage for an even more extreme form of laissez-faire corporate capitalism than we’re suffering under today—is a fair guess of how a post-U.S. scenario will play out unless we prepare to turn it in another direction…
A war is coming. At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom, living. The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. Are you going to fight back? Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms?…
The millions of partisans who follow Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing televangelists happen to be the best-armed people around, and they despise just about everyone who doesn’t think and pray like them. They will see collapse as affirmation of their beliefs that secular liberalism is destructive. They will also see it as an opportunity to create a new, ordered world atop the ashes. They will act to stop teenage sluts from getting abortions, teach niggers a lesson, and slaughter those spics, dots, and everyone else who doesn’t fit into their vision of what and who is right…
I want to kick people in the ass. To get them thinking. To get you thinking. I want you to understand the situation—your situation. I want you to see that revolt is a good idea, and that it has never been more necessary. I also want you to size up the opposition (both the government and 28 The Anti-American Manifesto the extreme right): They will never get weaker.We have as good a chance at taking them on as ever.
That’s a small sample of chapter one. He’s not kidding. He wants a war. He even uses al Qaeda sleeper cells as an example. And of course where would one go to promote a book about the violent tearing down of America? Here’s Rall on MSNBC:
[HT: Director Blue for the video]
Ironically, it was only about a month ago that Sharon Angle was excoriated by several MSNBC talking heads for making a reference to “2nd amendment remedies.” Is Chris Matthews going to call out Ted Rall and/or Dylan Ratigan for letting him promote this? Rachel Maddow wanted to know if Angle’s language was finally too extreme. Well is it still extreme when it’s coming from the far left over your own TV channel, Rachel? If so, maybe you should poke your head down the hall and say something.
Sounds like we’re getting under his skin...
Oh, but WE are the crazy hate-mongering, fear-mongering, war-mongering bigoted racists wanting to start shooting off our guns at the poor, peaceful leftists.
Not to mention a Starbucks! Those poor libs - having to wage a war without their Mocha Latte.
Rall is so filled with seething hate, one of these days he’s going to spontaneously combust. I’ll bring the marshmallows.
First Timmy Wise and now this guy. They are telling us exactly how most on the left feel about those not like them. Imagine that.
I can’t help but giggle at the idea of them standing around in the woods forming a committee to discuss an evironmentally sensitive means of crossing a stream.
LOL, I don’t think that pasty froot would like the results of such an occurence. Who’s he gonna get to do his fighting for him?
For some reason cartoonists don’t scare me.
The department of Home Land Security sent out supplies for a crises ( it looks like this government knows that something is about to happen ).
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If something does happen, we’ll hold the Kenyan personally responsible.
‘This is the 2nd thread I’ve read this morning where a liberal is “promoting” violence. The other one was some idiot on MSNBC or CNN (can’t remember).’
This is another story about the same wacko!
Ted Rall is Mengele writ small.
Lots of those on the left. Be ready for the hunt.
He’s definitely a hater, which explains why his cartoons are more angry than funny.
Then he should compare the rates of private gun ownership between the red and blue areas.
Will there be a bag limit?
The first part of this sentence is my favorite. They may want to have a violent overthrow but at the same time he acknowledges we are better armed. Irony in many forms.
Soooo...totalitarian methods will be used to impose a libertarian economy? OK...
These novels depict authoritarian behavior because authoritarians always take over in times of economic crisis - indeed, they are eagerly welcomed by a frightened populace. Mr. Rall should ask himself which political figure today is working hardest to scare Americans into accepting authoritarian government control over their lives. Hint: it isn't Sarah Palin.
Can you say PROJECTION? It is incredible what the loony left really believes .....
“The Rall and Ratigan types would have no chance if something like that occurred. Be careful what you wish for.....”
These fools probably think the military will be on THEIR side.
Well, if there’s going to be a war, we’re the ones with the guns.
(Man, does this guy actually believe the tripe he writes?)
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