[Peace-discuss] Liberal claptrap

[C. G. Estabrook]

[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]

...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.

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...

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