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To: JoeProBono
youths rampaged through the city, smashing windows and torching police cruisers.

Just kids having fun...

30 posted on 06/27/2010 3:02:16 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: sargon

The Tea Partiers are the angry ones and nihilists:

“In truth, there is nothing that the Tea Party movement wants; terrifyingly, it wants nothing. Lilla calls the Tea Party “Jacobins”; I would urge that they are nihilists. To date, the Tea Party has committed only the minor, almost atmospheric violences of propagating falsehoods, calumny and the disruption of the occasions for political speech — the last already to great and distorting effect. But if their nihilistic rage is deprived of interrupting political meetings as an outlet, where might it now go? With such rage driving the Tea Party, might we anticipate this atmospheric violence becoming actual violence, becoming what Hegel called, referring to the original Jacobins’ fantasy of total freedom, “a fury of destruction”? There is indeed something not just disturbing, but frightening, in the anger of the Tea Party.” -NYT


39 posted on 06/27/2010 3:16:11 PM PDT by Ronbo1948
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