Posted on 11/09/2010 9:07:21 PM PST by Tom Hawks
On Monday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan seemed to suggest the time may be right for violent revolution in the United States.
While interviewing liberal cartoonist Ted Rall, the host appeared to support the idea. Lachlan Markay of Newsbusters quoted the host:
"Are things in our country so bad that it might actually be time for a revolution?" Ratigan asked. "The answer obviously is yes," he added, and "the only question is how to do it."
Rall was promoting his book, "The Anti-American Manifesto", where he calls for violent revolution. Ed Morrissey of Hot Air posted 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?
From this excerpt, one gets the impression that Rall is calling for a civil war between liberals and conservatives - specifically the Tea Party, and he appears to openly call for liberals to take up arms against anyone on the right.
When Sharron Angle spoke of a "2nd Amendment solution" to the nation's problems, liberal media outlets like MSNBC went berserk. But Ratigan appeared to be okay with liberals taking to the streets in open, armed conflict.
In early October, Rall expressed support for a communist-style dictatorship in the United States in an interview with washingtoncitypaper.com.
In that interview, he said Thomas Jefferson was the American leader he admired the most. However, the man who helped create America's founding documents would probably not support a communist dictatorship.
In the interview with Ratigan, Rall ironically quoted John Locke; "It's up to the people. John Locke said, the people have an obligation to revolt when their government's fails.
Markay noted the irony:
That's right, Rall quoted the philosopher arguably most influential among American revolutionaries to suggest that another revolution would be justified. Gee, that sure sounds a lot like Tea Party protesters holding up signs demanding we "water the tree of liberty" - with the blood of patriots and tyrants, as Thomas Jefferson famously said.
Apparently, liberals calling for violent revolution and a Soviet-style communist dictatorship in the United States is okay with the hosts at MSNBC, but conservatives who want a return to Constitutional principles are radical.
An provocative title and ridiculous premise used to sell books? You don’t say.
Oh nooooo sissies in revolt....too scary. LOL!
I would love to see them bring it on. Anytime, liberal dreamers, anywhere.
Gee, which side has the guns...?
Bring it on - The Right has ‘cornered the market’ in brass and lead ...
Yea it reminds one of the way Al Franken used rush to sell a book.
This guy uses the phrase violent revolution as if his wimpy libs ever would have a chance.
Don’t you need to own a gun to shoot and overthrow someone violently?
Well, they don’t believe in violence or guns. Maybe they will send out the dikes on bikes against us.
Has the SPLC come out with a terrorist profile on these guys and MSNBC yet? Probably they would only be considered terrorist if they promoted the Constitution.
Let's rock!
What a metrosexual weenie this guy is.
If the guy was given a gun for his so-called “revolution” he’d probably wind up shooting himself
“Oh nooooo sissies in revolt....too scary. LOL!”
LOL the very IDEA of liberals with guns, they wouldn’t know which end the bullets come out of!
The left will team up with their political alliances - Muslims and the Mexican drug cartel if they want to do revolution here. The Black Panthers won’t help much. They are clowns.
There’s a problem: Conservatives own most of the guns.
Right now the US military and millions of armed civilians. But didn't the anointed one say he wanted a private force stronger than the US military? But he might not get it in time for the revolution.
I forgot about that.
Thanks for reminding me.
The same guns his fellow pinkos want banned?
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