Posted on 03/19/2009 3:34:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"What kind of revolution appeals most to you?" read the now-deleted poll question on Sean Hannity's message board: "Military Coup, Armed Rebellion, or War for Secession?"
The next four to eight years are gonna be some fun!
Barely two months into the Obama administration, wing-nuts across the land are frothing at the mouth, talking feverishly of secession, violent revolution, tax revolt, "going Galt," and national divorce. It would be hilarious if it weren't so creepy.
We all had a good laugh this past December when Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats, predicted that the financial crisis would eventually lead to widespread unrest, martial law, and, by 2010, a civil war in the US — the end result of which would be a motley collection of rump states like "Atlantic America" and the "Texas Republic," that then glom onto countries such as Canada and Mexico. It's an absurd idea.
Or is it? Perusing some of the sheer insanity spewed on rightist blogs, message boards, and comment threads — the pitchfork-shaking anger directed at this so-called socialist government — one has to wonder just what's percolating in this country. Maybe the big break-up is coming sooner than we think?
Obama talks a lot about his affinity for Abraham Lincoln. Let's just hope he doesn't end up having too much in common with the guy — that in addition to saving the economy, winning two wars, and curbing global warming, he doesn't find himself having to preserve the Union, too.
People are pissed. New faux-populist hero Rick Santelli has been enjoining citizens to register their disgust with the stimulus plan and budget by bombarding the White House and Capitol with tea bags — get it?! (The phenomenon has apparently caused headaches for workers charged with the safety screening of DC mail.) Meanwhile, 4000 people gathered this past Saturday for a so-called "Cincinnati Tea Party." Read one sign: HONK IF I'M PAYING YOUR MORTGAGE.
But protests do only so much. More and more, it seems, nothing less than outright secession will satisfy some of these cranks. The right-wing Web is all atwitter over a recent open letter, spreading from blog to blog like a hanta virus, by one "John J. Wall, Law Student and an American." In it, Wall puts it plainly: he wants a divorce.
"Let's just end it on friendly terms," he writes. "We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. . . . Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military." (What they'll do with all the guns he doesn't say.)
Ironically, when not busy fomenting revolution or concocting a plan to carve up the continental US, conservatives act a lot like the "hippies" that Wall went on to lambaste in his letter — thumbing their nose at authority and threatening to drop out of society.
It was reported on military.com last month that a soldier, First Lieutenant Scott Easterling, who is stationed in Iraq, has balked at following orders: "Until Mr. Obama releases a 'vault copy' of his original birth certificate for public review," he declared, "I will consider him neither my commander in chief nor my president, but rather, a usurper to the office — an impostor."
And the latest bit of in(s)anity making the rounds in conservative circles in is the notion of "going Galt," in which angry rich people protest Obama's fiscal policies by following the lead of John Galt —übermensch protagonist of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged — and removing their ostensibly valuable productivity from society.
Why? Because "a general strike among the wealth producers," as Michelle Malkin calls it, will help keep that wealth out of the grubby hands of the lower classes — those "moochers who claim your product by tears," in Rand's piquant description. Sigh.
Are we fated to fracture into Jesus Land and the People's Republic of Massafornia? Probably not. But maybe! Until and unless that day arrives, however, ours remains a riven nation. But if Malkin and their ilk want to "drop out" in the meantime, more power to 'em. It'll be nice, frankly, not to have to hear them talk for a while.
I seem to recall that the leftists didn’t even wait for President Bush to be sworn in before they went balistic - calling for impeachment and generally blasting him at every turn - some even wanted to leave the country (they never did - libs NEVER keep thier promises!)
At least “we” waited to see if Pres__ent Zero actually turned out to be the NULL that we expected him to be ....
Holy mackerel! They almost sound like DEMOCRATS, who promised (THEY LIED!!!! Who didn't see that one coming!) to leave the USA once Bush was elected!
I’ll read this comedy piece later.
They are beginning to get antsy. Excellent ...
Ah, no, Mike, you are creepy and delusional. Check back to your ruminations about “wingnuts” in a few months. I don't think you will be laughing in the future, ass.
He won't be so cavalier when his taxes go to 99% in "Massafornia" to cover all their social programs.
The Phoenix wasn’t always this outspoken:
“There are three reasons not to publish the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed with his turban styled as a bomb (to view the cartoons, click here) and the other images that have sparked violent protests and deaths throughout Europe, the Middle East, West Asia, and Indonesia:
1) Out of fear of retaliation from the international brotherhood of radical and bloodthirsty Islamists who seek to impose their will on those who do not believe as they do. This is, frankly, our primary reason for not publishing any of the images in question. Simply stated, we are being terrorized, and as deeply as we believe in the principles of free speech and a free press, we could not in good conscience place the men and women who work at the Phoenix and its related companies in physical jeopardy. As we feel forced, literally, to bend to maniacal pressure, this may be the darkest moment in our 40-year publishing history.
2) Out of respect for the millions of faithful and peace-abiding believers throughout the world who are deeply disturbed by the violation of their religion’s proscription against the pictorial representation of their prophet.
3) And in the hope that restraint shown by those who believe deeply in the sanctity of free speech will be able to stand side by side with those who believe with equal fervor in the dignity of religious expression to oppose the forces of darkness and evil in the Islamic world.
That is why there is no image in the space above this editorial....”
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/3588-World-of-pain/
Crackpots who supported and voted for Obama are just as mad.
Next time, let's take them up on it, and enforce their rhetoric on them.
Let's kick New England and downstate New York out of the Union.
Then exile Berkeley and Ithaca and Georgetown residents under pain of death. Nick their ears and tattoo "Leftist Loser" on their foreheads, then put them on planes and boats to anywhere. Problem solved.
Of course, Obama's Weatherman pal Bill Ayers's solution is for 25,000,000 of us to die.
Tho is Mike Milliard?
LLS
The solution is a return to and a re-embracement of the principles of the Constitution and our Founders.
There’s no need to secede.
Yet.
Obamanation or Jesusland, I’ll take Jesusland
Don’t worry. We’re not going anywhere. Though, I do wish all those leftist retards had left when Bush was elected.
Spoken like a true Yankee. Arrogance on display. If you have a problem with socialism you are nuts. I know now how my Virginia ancestors felt in 1861, it is a “creepy” feeling I will grant the Yank that.
Keep your Liberal paradise (open borders, Marxists, Affirmative Action, no guns, gays, global warmers...)
Keep it.
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