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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:18 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">[More grist for Walter Benn Michael's mill. Those who defend the disgusting policies of the Obama administration - murder half-way around the world and the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich at home - labor mightily to turn all questions of class into questions of race, of equality into "diversity." Naturally The Nation is in the lead. Hysterical ignorance like this is in danger of giving McCarthyism a good name. Of course, McCarthyism in all its abjection was of greater intellectual caliber. --CGE]<br>
<br>...The Tea Party is a challenge to the legitimacy of the U.S. state. When Tea Party participants charge the current administration with various forms of totalitarianism, they are arguing that this government has no right to levy taxes or make policy. Many GOP elected officials offered nearly secessionist rhetoric from the floor of Congress this weekend. They joined as co-conspirators with the Tea Party protesters by arguing that this government has no monopoly on legitimacy.<br>
<br>I appreciate the parallels to the civil rights movement drawn by the MSNBC crowd, but they are inadequate. When protesters spit on and scream at duly elected representatives of the United States government it is more than act of racism. It is an act of sedition...<br>
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<div>Or at least assault and battery.</div>
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<div>What amuses and disheartens me is the Republicans who, at least since the time of Reagan, have been clamoring for "less government" while fighting tooth and nail to retain their position in government so that they can impose the kind of government THEY want on the rest of us. Slavery is Freedom. War is Peace.</div>
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