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In the faces of Tea Party shouters, images of hate and history (Barf Alert)
Washington ComPost ^ | 3/27/2010 | Colbert L. King

Posted on 03/27/2010 6:41:47 AM PDT by GregNH

The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar. They resemble faces of protesters lining the street at the University of Alabama in 1956 as Autherine Lucy, the school's first black student, bravely tried to walk to class.

Those same jeering faces could be seen gathered around the Arkansas National Guard troopers who blocked nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.

"They moved closer and closer," recalled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine. "Somebody started yelling, 'Lynch her! Lynch her!' I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the crowd -- someone who maybe could help. I looked into the face of an old woman and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she spat on me."

Those were the faces I saw at a David Duke rally in Metairie, La., in 1991: sullen with resentment, wallowing in victimhood, then exploding with yells of excitement as the ex-Klansman and Republican gubernatorial candidate spewed vitriolic white-power rhetoric.

People like that old woman in Little Rock, the Alabama mob that hounded Autherine Lucy, the embracers of Duke's demagoguery in Louisiana, never go away.

They were spotted last weekend on Capitol Hill under the Tea Party banner protesting the health-care-reform bill. Some carried a signs that read "If Brown [Scott Brown (R-Mass.)] can't stop it, a Browning [high power weapon] can." Some shouted racial and homophobic epithets at members of Congress. Others assumed the role of rabble, responding to the calls of instigating Republican representatives gathered on a Capitol balcony. [emphasis mine]

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: kkk; racism; reichstagfire; slowreichstagfire; teaparty
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To: Kaslin

Pretty soon they will be saying “Granny’s gotta a Gun” sad to say but true.


21 posted on 03/27/2010 6:52:46 AM PDT by vicar7
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To: GregNH
Some shouted racial and homophobic epithets at members of Congress.

Bosh and loon!

Where's the beep!

How come there's no state controlled media (SCM, pron'd: SCAM) recordings of "Ni(beep) Fa(beep)"?

22 posted on 03/27/2010 6:53:02 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: vicar7

Tell him what you think, all you racists.

kingc@washpost.com


23 posted on 03/27/2010 6:53:42 AM PDT by Vasilli22
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To: MissH

Only an extreme minority of so-called “conservatives” are white supremacists but the left can’t wait to make them representative. The left despises us because we support individual rights and liberty. They want collective rights and free money.


24 posted on 03/27/2010 6:56:06 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: GregNH

Barf alert ?


25 posted on 03/27/2010 6:56:46 AM PDT by JrsyJack (a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
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To: GregNH

I think the author is confused. The twisted, angry faces he saw were the demonstrators at the Ann Coulter speech . . .


26 posted on 03/27/2010 6:58:45 AM PDT by jeffc (I now live in National Socialist America)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Nothing like a little race baiting in the morning to get the blood flowing. I never knew I was David Duke and George Wallace re-incarnated? Can somebody tell me where I left my white robe? With all the racism last weekend in Washington DC, I am surprised people aren’t lining up to collect the $10,000 reward for documentary evidence of that fact.


27 posted on 03/27/2010 6:59:35 AM PDT by milwguy
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To: GregNH
In case anyone thinks its worth it: E-mail kingc@washpost.com

What piece of trash this is.

28 posted on 03/27/2010 7:00:00 AM PDT by raybbr (I hate B(ig) H(ead) Obama)
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To: isthisnickcool

Most of us understand what an op-ed piece is. MSNBC, for instance is a verbal op-ed. The point is the people that are his readers will take his crap as fact.


29 posted on 03/27/2010 7:00:57 AM PDT by GregNH (Re-Elect "No Body")
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To: GregNH
This 'rat needs to get outside the beltway more often.

Just think how surprised they'd be to learn that Mr. Browning was a Mormon - just like Harry Reid.

30 posted on 03/27/2010 7:02:35 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: GregNH
Which part of this travesty I should begin to vomit over first? Typical, over-privileged, inside-the-Beltway black 'journalist', allowed to throw delusional propaganda bombs based solely on the color of his skin? Equating the anger and non-compliance of millions of Americans with the institution of slavery? Projecting the genetic Leftist marker of 'victimhood' status upon anyone who doesn't acquiesce to his post-American/neo-Roman worldview?

It's a shame that resources were needlessly wasted to pump this sewage out into a public forum.


31 posted on 03/27/2010 7:02:49 AM PDT by Viking2002 (Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
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To: GregNH
sullen with resentment, wallowing in victimhood, then exploding with yells of excitement

Coming from from professional victims, like most blacks, that is an amazing statement.

32 posted on 03/27/2010 7:03:23 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: GregNH; ExSoldier

I found this fiction on the internet. This might be the next act.

INTERIOR UNDERGROUND DC PARKING GARAGE. BOTTOM LEVEL. NIGHT.

Libra’s footsteps echo off the walls. The buzz of a flickering neon light is heard. In the corner of the garage a whole sector of lights has gone dark. Shadows thicken. A lighter flickers in the darkness as a cigar is lit.

LIBRA: Carthago. Countersign?

CENTURION: Delenda est. Sort of overly dramatic don’t you think?

LIBRA: Not paid to think. What is the assignment?

CENTURION: The Wing thinks it’s time to lay a little blue smoke between the mirrors. Take the heat off our team and torch the other side. That’s your job.

LIBRA: Fine. How wet does the Wing want it to get?

CENTURION: We project that if three team members are sent down it should put a stop to any attrition in November.

LIBRA: Wouldn’t taking out just one serve the same purpose?

CENTURION: No. It has to look like a pattern.

LIBRA: Fine. Any particular team members you need erased?

CENTURION: Nobody from Chicago or San Francisco. And from safe seats only. We need to preserve the count. Renegade’s very keen on that.

LIBRA: Level of obfuscation?

CENTURION: None. Public and messy. “Accidents” would be counter productive. But no families. Renaissance would be upset.

LIBRA: Timing?

CENTURION: Within the next 10 days. It would be best if all three were within the same day.

LIBRA: You want target clearance and notification?

CENTURION: No. This will be the last contact for this contract.

LIBRA: Half to the Bahamas account by noon tomorrow and the half on completion to our friend in Costa Rica.

CENTURION: Done.

LIBRA: Anything else?

CENTURION: No. If we need you again we can always find you.

LIBRA: That’s what you people always think. Oh, by the way, was that stuff about you being naked in the showers the real deal?

CENTURION: Just get it done.

FADE TO BLACK


33 posted on 03/27/2010 7:04:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: hal ogen

Like I said, consider the source


34 posted on 03/27/2010 7:04:11 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: GregNH

Just sayin'

35 posted on 03/27/2010 7:04:19 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: GregNH

That’s funny. In those same Tea Party faces, I see a boundless LOVE OF COUNTRY and bitter anger against those who are trying to destroy it. I see great commitment to the ideals of true freedom, and contempt for those who threaten that freedom. I see the sacrifices they have made to be there,their unwillingness to allow others to render vain their sacrifice to build lives for themselves and their heirs, some of whom risked their lives for that ideal, and an intense resolve to protect the fruits of their sacrifice from those who want to steal it. I see the faces of patriots. I see good people trying to protect good things.


36 posted on 03/27/2010 7:04:45 AM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: GregNH

The KKK was the enforcement arm of the southern democrat party.

This article is being used to fire up the riots this summer.


37 posted on 03/27/2010 7:06:21 AM PDT by stockpirate (Hey Beck, Thomas Jefferson was a birther!)
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To: GregNH

38 posted on 03/27/2010 7:08:58 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: GregNH
I think the purpose of smearing the Tea Party movement is twofold.

First, and most obvious, is to discredit the Tea Parties.

Second, it is to scare the Republicans away from embracing the Tea Parties.

If the left can drive a wedge between the Republicans and the Tea Party people, they will split the right.

And the Repubs are just stupid and weak-kneed enough to fall for this kind of nonsense.

"Did you see what the NYT said about the Tea parties? Why, we can't be seen with that bunch of crazies."

39 posted on 03/27/2010 7:08:59 AM PDT by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
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To: GregNH
Hey Colbert L. King; shouldn't you leftards be extolling your victory?? Yet you lefties keep trying to change the subject with this racist/threats of violence smokescreen.

You guys just passed the American Left’s “Dream” legislation of the past 50-100 years, and you don't want talk about it's virtues?? Instead you spew this racist BS to hide the fact that this law is crap.

You know a bad law was forced on the American People, and I guess if I supported it; I'd want to change the subject too.

40 posted on 03/27/2010 7:09:10 AM PDT by skully (I Hope Obama gets Gonorrhea for screwing America!!!)
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