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Rally To Expose Tea Party for What They Are

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement epitomize the complete insanity of what is going on politically in this country. The Birther Movement, the Climate Change Deniers, the "Obama is a Muslim/Socialist/Communist/Nazi" labeling, all share a common thread. All these beliefs are based on misinformation campaigns completely devoid of any truth, and are resulting in working families mobilizing against their own interests (healthcare for all, taxing the top 5%, keeping the estate tax high, etc.).

The huge amount of misinformation being generated by the right wing has one huge byproduct and that's FEAR. And that fear takes us right to our basest instincts, so it's easy to bring out the worst in us, which accounts for the amount of hatred being generated. It's the Blacks. It's the Gays. It's Liberals. It's the Immigrants. They Want Our Country!

It's hard to fight hate, and it's hard to fight fear, but one thing works well on both:

LAUGHTER. Specifically, the kind generated by turning the insanity of the lunatic fringe back on itself, as the people of San Francisco recently displayed in staging a counter protest against the Westboro Baptist Church, the God-Loving folks who brought us the "God Hates Fags Message:

Well, Nitwit Central is headed our way, Boston. Sarah Palin is going to be speaking at a Tea Party in Boston on the Boston Common on April 14th at 10 AM, and I think it's up to REAL REAL AMERICANS (black/white, gay/straight, first generation/Mayflower generation, left/right, Democrats/Republicans) to say, "ENOUGH". We cannot afford to let morons dictate public discourse anymore.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing – Edmund Burke

The media is increasingly treating these insane fringe groups as mainstream America, and that doesn't align with reality. Look at Palin's Tea Party speech to 8,000 lunatic fringe folk in Searchlight, Nevada. The media covered it like a presidential debate, including live coverage by C-Span, CNN, MSNBC and her employer, Fox "News".
So we propose to fight dumb with dumber, give ‘em what they want, only stupider. Let's face it, truth and common sense don't work for a lot of folks in the Tea Party/Sarah Palin/Fox "News"/Limbaugh crowd. Otherwise Glenn Beck wouldn't have a show.

It's hard to be afraid and it's hard to hate when you're laughing (Name a funny conservative comedian that isn't on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour). So I suggest we fight serious ridiculousness with silly ridiculousness.

Our Goal is to use every group we can to bring together as many people as possible to the Boston Common on April 14th to push back on the real nitwits with our own brand of nitwittery! We want real groups (SEIU), real funny groups (Billionaires for Wealthcare) fake funny groups (Gay Nazis for Human/Animal Marriage) and as many sign-carrying bodies as we can assemble.

To Quote Animal House:

I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.

And We're Just the (People) To Do It.

Wanna Help? Here's What You Do To Be Part of The Nut – Tea Party!!!

(Or Just Want To DO SOMETHING If You're Not A Joiner)

1) WEAR Something Blue (So People Know Why You're There)

2) MAKE A Sign or Banner (Suggestions Below Or Make Up Your Own FUNNY or SILLY sign – nothing heavy, man! If You Can't Make a Dopey Sign, Wear Blue and Show Up Anyway. Maybe Someone Nice Will Make Extra Signs (Hint, Hint Artsy Craftsy Types!)

3) CALL-EMAIL-TWEET Your Friends/Organizations to Do The Same. Let's Start A Good Virus For Once!

4) SHOW UP! At the Common April 14th at 9:30AM (Car pool, MBTA, Gossamer Wings)

5) HAVE FUN! (And Play Nice, Walk Away Laughing)

Some Suggestions for Silly Signs or Banners (Don't Forget the Creative Misspellings)

Obama Wants Us To Wear
Silly Hats!

I'm Hopey, Changey, Dopey, Derangey

Free To Be NUTZ!

Workers Unite To Stop Alien Earth Conquest!

I'm Coo-Coo for HealthCare

I Obey the Chip in My Head!

Glenn Beck for Pope!

I'm Angry ‘Cuz My Taxes Went Down!

Keep Your Government Hands Off
My Government-Run Medicare!

This Rally Brought To You Ho Chi Stalin Hitler!

Ann "The Man" Coulter Teabagged Me!

Libertry for Sheep!

Big Government NO! – Big Turtles – YES!

Glenn Beck for Supreme Donut King!

I Forgot What I'm Angry About!

Stupid Is The New Smart!

Glenn Beck Says: "Aliens Are Stealing Our Underpants!"

Pass Gay Marriage So I Can Marry My Dog

I'll Have What Rush Is Having

Don't Violate My Constipational Rights

I'd Rather Have My Baby Die of A Curable
Disease Than Be Called A Socialist !

Hey! Where's All the Black Folks At!

LET'S DO IT PEOPLE! WE CAN'T ALLOW SARAH TO TAKE A BIG ALASKAN HUSKY DUMP IN OUR BACK YARD!

Wanna Help! Here's What You Do To Be Part of The Nut – Tea Party!!!

(Or Just Want To DO SOMETHING If You're Not A Joiner)

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I was hoping for a concert appearance by the band Simple Plan. I am disappointed.

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Leftists already have the astroturf "Coffee Party" to join if they want to support the establishment.

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Kooks to the right of me, wackos to the left of me.

Ignore the tea party at your peril though. Many ultimately mainstream movements start on the fringe. The core message of the tea party - lower taxes and less government resonates strongly with the independent voter. They used to say the same thing about anti-war protesters in Vietnam, climate changers, gay rights activists and many others - and in the end they were right (at least in my opinion)! Say what you want about the tea partiers as people and like all ideological groups it has its share of wingnuts - but the message is simple and powerful and you should expect a more mainstream (probably Republican and Blue Dog Democrat) offshoot that will drive the likes of Pelosi and Reid from office (a pair of left wingnuts) - and the sooner the better!

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Admittedly, they do seem to threaten harm to those who disagree.

The question of taxes and services is a reasonable debate.

The Tea Party has displayed very little restraint in their approach to engaging in debate. They like to employ fear tactics (IE. Death Panels) and threat of harm (IE water the tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants.) If anyone is undermining the credibility for the Tea Party to engage in a constructive debate, it is the Tea Party.

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"Palin is being paid $100k to yell today!!"

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2...

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Who's paying her fees?

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Ah I remember just a few years ago when, "dissent was the highest form of patriotism". Bloody hypocrites.

At least the industries which supply sign making and giant effigy materials will be making some money in this bum economy. Although, I am dismayed at the prospect of the nicely replanted (at great taxpayer expense) parade ground on the Common being reduced to a mud-bowl from all the foot traffic.

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Why shouldn't the folks who pull the permit pay to fix the lawn when they're done?

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Don't take my word for it. Judge for yourself:

[size=14]DUMB: SARAH PALIN[/size]

On her foreign policy credentials.

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008

Debating health care reform. Is this is cynical use of misinformation for political purposes or does she believe what she says? Either way, millions of Americans believe her ignorant declarations and that is why Sarah Palin is counterproductive for in an honest debate about policy. Look at the direction conservatives are pulling this country. It is toward lies and fear and misinformation to win political fights. Who is corrupting the honest debate about policy and why?

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009

On trends for a more secular government. Who to blame?

"Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend." –Sarah Palin, pushing a conspiracy theory that "In God We Trust" had been moved to the edge of coins by the Obama administration (the change was made by the Bush administration in 2007 and was later reversed by Congress, before Obama took office), West Allis, Wisconsin, Nov. 6, 2009

On "the department of law"

"I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." --Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn't be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009

[size=14]DUMBER: MICHELLE BACHMAN[/size]

On politically aware pandemics.

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009

On the new McCarthyism.

"I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?" -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008

Bachman spreads fear about the government's Constitutional obligation to take a census every decade.

"Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, June 2009

Employing violent and revolutionary rhetoric to argue against climate change policy.

"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country." -Rep. Rep. Michele Bachmann, March 2009

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If they are so dumb why are they making so much money. You are out here hiding from your own idenity and they are just exercising their right of free speech. Let them talk and have your own rally. Lots of us are tired of Congress and their arrogant, inside the beltway dealings. That does not make us crazy, or stupid or racist, or homophobe, ( by the way calling us teabaggers is homophobic). Why can't you just agree to disagree

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Says the dude who can't even spell his own first name.

Larry the Cable guy is rich too, doesn't mean he's not a dunce.

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I'm not hiding from my idenity. It just can't get past spell check.

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by the way calling us teabaggers is homophobic

Only gays can be teabagged? Are you sure you know how this works?

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to lay off Palin until after the republican primaries are set and done. She doesn't stand a chance against Obama or any normal democrat. Pointing out how dumb she is only angers moderates and helps their cause. Its exactly the same reason Scott Brown and George Bush won in my opinion.

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Let me get this straight. You suggest that people who think Palin is spreading falsehoods to gin up fear and discontent should not criticize her becuase it is not in their interests from a political stand point. That sounds like the kind of thinking that explains Palin and Bachman acolytes. Are you a Palin a advocate?

Is this what politics has come to? Don't criticise people who's assertions ring false because criticizing them is sure to help their cause.

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Its a game. There are stragegies involved. Its why you don't see the mainstream media criticzing the American Facist Party or the American Communist Party. Sure those parties are there, but it makes no sense to attack them. They are what they are. I think its sort of the same with the Palin movement. Let it run its course.

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I'd like to see an Obama vs. Palin campaign in 2012. Let's put the Tea Party to a test and find out if this country has what it takes to reject this hateful, spiteful rhetoric and worldview.

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Pete, you like to sit in judgment about what other people don't understand but if we were to put it to a vote among the UniversalHub readership, my money says your conclusions would be judged as deficient, not those who you judge so.

I'm with Yamada: Obama v. Palin in 2012.

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And all I'm talking about is the political strategy of it all. If you want Obama as the president in 2012, then you want him to go against the weakest canadite possible with the least amount of chance to win in 2012. Don't you think Obama has a better chance to win against Palin than he does against Romney? I mean, this isn't like the Superbowl here where you simply want to see the best teams to play so you can watch the best game.

I think the Romney camp loves having Palin out there making a fool of herself. Lay low and let the democrats smash her to bits so he can come in when its time and take over.

And although I dont think Palin has a chance, there is no way in hell I want to see her as a possible choice when it comes down to it. This isn't a game here.

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beliefs, politics and policy positions that make sense to you? Feel free to dig into any of the issues raised in the quotes above.

On a related issue, why should liberals take Pete Nice's advice about what is in the best interests of progressive causes?

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Especially on a blog that is probably 85% liberal anyway. We have seen the things you have printed above over and over. Its nothing original. You aren't going to change anyones mind about Palin one way or the other. If you like Palin now, you aren't going to read some of her dumb quotes and come to some realization that she might not be the best fit as president. If you don't like Palin, then the jokes and quotes should be old news anyway.

I'm just saying that if you want a democratic, liberal or progressive president, then you want someone like Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee. Democratic strategy should be set toward making sure Palin gets the Republican nod and not someone like Romney, Huckabee or even Jeb Bush.

Its kind of like the Ralph Nader issue. I mean, he still thinks it was better for his cause that he got a chance to run for president as the third party. Isn't it clear that he had a big part in putting George Bush into the White House?

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But I do have an ability to posts quotes that reveal a politician for who they are and how they approach politics.

The best counter to populist ignorance is populist truth.

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I'm talking in general about all the Palin bashing. And in general people do have control over who gets the GOP nomination. The Democratic Party has specific strategy on who they want to help, hurt, uncover, cover up, hide, expose etc.

I think it would be better for the liberal press to lay off the offensive tactics, and focus on the positive aspects of the recent progressive programs that have more positives than negatives.

The sarcastic, repetitive anti-right rhetoric gets boring fast. That's my opinion anyway.

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How about we talk about this proposition?

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement epitomize the complete insanity of what is going on politically in this country. The Birther Movement, the Climate Change Deniers, the "Obama is a Muslim/Socialist/Communist/Nazi" labeling, all share a common thread. All these beliefs are based on misinformation campaigns completely devoid of any truth, and are resulting in working families mobilizing against their own interests (healthcare for all, taxing the top 5%, keeping the estate tax high, etc.).

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If Palin said she wasn't going to run for president, these nutjobs would just support one of the other republican canditates. These wackjobs are going to be there no matter what, and are going to vote right wing no matter what.

And these topics the nutjobs always support (The Birther Movement, the Climate Change Deniers, the "Obama is a Muslim/Socialist/Communist/Nazi) all have something in commmon. There are no hard facts (except for the birth certificate I think) to really support each side 100%. Now I'm not going to sit here and tell you that smokestacks might actually be good for the country, or that Obama has similar policies to Stalin, but these issues aren't as cut and dry as raising taxes, supporting the right to choose, supporting gay marrige, etc.

And I don't want to say that you should ignore these people either. I just think there should be a better way to expose these people than just spewing the same old sarcastic hyperbole.

Scott Brown should have been a wakeup call to this type of stuff. No one bought the stuff Coakley was putting out at the end "a vote for Brown is a vote for Bush, etc". That seems like the same stuff that the anti-Palin people are putting out.

But that makes me think twice about this whole thing again I guess. Maybe this is what the Palin people want? (and also what another anon said above). I don't know.

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"I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company."
- Conservative Fox News Channel show host Glenn Beck.

According to Forbes, Glenn Beck Inc. made $32 million for the year ending March 1.

The fear and smear campaign survives the end of the Bush Cheney Administration. Watch the propaganda.

alt to video The 912 Project

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Palin heads up Boston "tea" party from WBZ News Radio 1030AM:

The Sarah Palin show steamrolls into town Wednesday, amid a maelstrom of activity on Beacon Hill and on the eve of tax day, the bane of the Tea Party movement's anti-tax, smaller government agenda.

Massachusetts is the 24th state on a cross-country Tea Party Express tour that began in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, and is scheduled to end in Washington D.C., Thursday.

[...]

Right-leaning radio host Michael Graham of 96.9 Boston Talks will join Palin, broadcasting the event live from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Tea Party Express III tour, as it is officially known, comes with the tagline "Just Vote Them Out!" and will take aim at "some of the worst offenders in Congress who have voted for higher spending, higher taxes, and government intervention in the lives of American families and businesses," according to the tour's web site.

Given the Massachusetts delegation's prominence in Congress and proclivity to vote with the majority, the rally may take aim at the home-state electeds.

Although the Tea Party often takes on Republican incumbents too, the GOP hopes to rally the Tea Partiers to boost Republican candidates. Tea Party supporters have pointed to the upset victory by Scott Brown in a U.S. Senate special election as evidence of their influence. "

On the major fiscal issues that the Tea Party cares about, they're going to find the most alignment with the GOP," said Tarah Donoghue, spokeswoman for the state Republican Party. A Monday Rasmussen poll found 48 percent of voters say their views align more closely with the Tea Party movement than with President Barack Obama.

The tour stop is expected to include a strong element of political voyeurism, with political insiders on watch to see who will resist the tour's message and who will show up to embrace it.

http://www.wbz.com/topnews/Palin-heads-up-Boston--...

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'Tea' is for terrorism
When even the most ‘legitimate’ voices of the right validate dangerously unhinged anti-government rhetoric — DUCK!
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 8, 2010

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/99670-tea-is-for...

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So, hey. This Nut-Tea Party is kind of even more stupid than the Tea Partiers. I mean, think about it... you've just given the Tea Party movement cover. From now on, any bad Tea Party news can be attributed to liberal infiltrators trying to defame the cause.

Please don't do that.

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However one thing the Tea Party (and Fox News) like to do is talk about just HOW MANY people are in this "grass-roots, populist" movement...but their numbers are going to include infiltrators. Both sides can claim "half the audience was with US, not THEM" and so the attendance will be murky for both sides...but the crashers don't really *care* how many people came out...only that they make the Tea Party numbers unreliable and exemplify the worst aspects of the Tea Party to any media attention that they can.

So, they can attribute all the bad stuff to the infiltrators...but they also won't be able to attribute any of the good stuff (crowd size, etc) to themselves either. There's going to be wins and losses for both sides.

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You're underestimating the ability of conservative pundits to twist the facts so that the infiltrators are irrelevant to crowd numbers.

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Hang out with one of those small video cameras and take footage while these tea party types drive into town and try to find parking. Also, record the fun when they park illegally and get towed and ticketed.

That's going to be some right fine entertainment. I somehow doubt that they have planned much to have parking ready for these folks, and I somehow doubt that they are urging them to use public transit. Gonna be fun!

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Public transportation? Who's paying for that? Sounds absolutely Socialist to me.

Why can't they just privatize the Common and build a 20-story garage so my family and I can park our two Chevy Suburbans in peace. Before they were Government Motors, GM sure did make some practical automobiles. Too bad all these Boston hippies care about is trolley bells and bicycles. I had a bike once, too, but then I graduated high school and grew up. Be mature -- move out of that cesspool city and get an SUV.

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which should be fine for both the event and any counter-events.

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Last I checked, commuters parked there. You know, people who come downtown to earn a living instead of standing around in their Lee Greenwood tour T-shirts sipping Big Gulps and belching out the occasional gem about how their tax dollars aren't buying them anything -- as their Payless-clad feet stomp parks department property, their half-tons wear down public roads and their right to express themselves is protected by police on the public payroll.

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I would agree on a weekend. On a weekday, well, dream on.

I have searched around the web and I can't figure out how they plan to get people in to the city unless they are bringing in buses for private groups and that's about it. The certainly don't do a good job of raising their numbers if they are not planning for transit and parking, that's for sure! I think they really don't care.

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Is Palin coming in the "Going Rogue" Mobile, and 70 of her closest friends in the "Hand Off my Health care Express" Don't Socialize It! (and don't let the guv'mint change one thing about my elderly mom's medicare either.)

News+Opinion
Sarah Palin’s bus-tour 'hoax'
http://theweek.com/article/index/103564/Sarah_Pali...

Sarah Palin's folksy "promotional bus tour" to publicize her new memoir, Going Rogue, has come under question. Reports that she's been traveling between at least some stops on a $4,000-an-hour Gulfstream II private jet, first reported by an Alaska anti-Palin blog, Palingates, have been confirmed by Palin's publishers, Harper Collins. Does staging a faux bus tour damage Palin’s populist credentials? (Watch Sarah Palin's bus get a warm greeting at a book tour stop)

This bus tour’s a “hoax”: There’s “nothing the least bit inappropriate” about an author flying from one promotional stop to the next, says Joe McGinnis in The Daily Beast, but that’s not how Palin’s bus tour was sold to the media and the public. What we have here is “apparent fakery created and sustained for the sake of building pseudo-populist appeal—and selling books”—and that’s unseemly, if not fraudulent.
“Palin’s bus hoax”

What’s the big deal? “Is this a huge scandal?” asks David Weigel in The Washington Independent. “I don’t think so.” The “packaging and the optics” may not look so hot, but this is nothing, say, presidential candidates don’t do on a regular basis.
“You’ll believe a populist can fly”

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Such an interesting choice of a week to Tea Party, especially for tea party particpants worried about gun rights and expressing concerns about raids and seizures of weapons by the government? Stop me if I've heard that one before.

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Does Palin Support McCain’s bill—Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens On Mere Suspicion?

On March 4, 2010, Sen. John McCain introduced S.3081, The “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010.”

Sen. McCain’s S.3081 would eliminate several Constitutional protections allowing Government to arbitrarily pick up Americans on mere suspicion—with no probable cause. Your political opinions and statements made against U.S. Government could be used by Authorities to deem you a “hostile” “Enemy Belligerent” to cause your arrest and indefinite detention. S.3081 is so broadly written innocent anti-war protesters and Tea Party Groups might be arrested and detained just for attending demonstrations; Government can charge that attending demonstrations "materially supported hostilities."

Considering how often Sarah Palin defends Free Speech, one can’t help wonder why Palin is helping McCain’s reelection to the U.S. Senate after he introduced possibly the most anti-Free Speech Bill in Modern U.S. History. Perhaps Palin or her Tea Party supporters haven’t considered McCain’s legislation might be used by a corrupt government administration to crush them. Tea Parties might question Palin whether she supports Sen. McCain’s bill the “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010.” (S.3081)

Under S.3081, an “individual” need only be Suspected by Government of “suspicious activity” or “supporting hostilities” to be dragged off and held indefinitely in Military Custody. Government will have the power to detain and interrogate any individual without probable cause. Government need only allege an individual kept in detention, is an Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent suspected of; having engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners; or has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. How could one prove to Government they did not purposely do something? “Materially Supporting Hostilities” against the United States could include any person or group that spoke out or demonstrated disapproval against an agency of U.S. Government. It is foreseeable many Americans might go underground to Resist Government Tyranny. Definition for Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent: (Anyone Subject to a Military Commission)

At least under the Patriot Act, law enforcement generally needed probable cause to detain a person indefinitely. Passage of S.3081 will permit government to use “mere suspicion” to curtail an individual’s Constitutional Protections against unlawful arrest, detention and interrogation without benefit of legal counsel and trial. According to S.3081 Government is not required to provide detained individuals U.S. Miranda Warnings or even an attorney.

S.3081 if passed will frighten Americans from speaking out. S.3081 is so broadly written, it appears any “individual” who writes on the Internet or verbally express an opinion against or an entity of U.S. Government or its coalition partners might be detained on the basis he or she is an “unprivileged enemy belligerent”, “supporting hostilities against U.S. Government.”

How might Americans respond should Government use this bill to take away their loved ones, family members and friends on mere suspicion? It is foreseeable McCain’s bill will drive lawful political activists underground, perhaps creating the domestic terrorists McCain said we needed to be protected from.

McCain’s bill mentions “non-violent acts" supporting terrorism in the U.S. and or emanating from America against a Coalition Partner. Non-violent terrorist acts" are covered in the Patriot Act to prosecute Persons that support “coercion to influence a government or intimidation to affect a civilian population.” However, U.S. activists and individuals under S.3081 would be much more vulnerable to prosecution, if (charged with suspicion) of “intentionally providing support to an Act of Terrorism”, for example American activists can’t control what other activists might do illegally—they network with domestically and overseas. Under the Patriot Act, law enforcement generally needs probable cause to detain or prosecute someone. But under S.3081, law enforcement and the military can too easily use (hearsay or informants) to allege “suspicious activity” to detain an individual. It is problematic under S.3081 that detained individuals in the U.S. not involved in terrorism or hostile activities, not given Miranda Warnings or allowed legal counsel will be prosecuted for ordinary crimes because of their alleged admissions while in military custody.

Notably, McCain’s S.3081 mandates (merging) Federal, State and Local Police and subsequently the U.S. Military to detain and hold Individuals in the U.S., even without probable cause. Interestingly a Rand Report prepared for the Army, recently made public, appears to suggest that U.S. Government develop a Local, State and Federal U.S. "National Police Stabilization Force merging State law enforcement with the Feds. What could happen to State Rights and what Laws and Jurisdiction would be used to prosecute state Citizens arrested by a National Police Stabilization Force? A National Police Force could potentially be sent by the President into any State with the approval of its governor, against the wishes of its Citizens? To clarify the Rand Corporation report visit:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=1...

Historically it is foreseeable under S.3081 that "erroneous informant information" could be used to detain innocent Individuals. Other countries have used lying informants to imprison; even execute political opposition.

Under S.3081 government may use an individual’s phone call and email information to allege without probable cause “suspicious or hostile activity against a U.S. civilian population or the United States to detain Americans.”

(Make Your Own Determination If The Analysis Herein Is Correct) See McCain’s 12-page Senate bill S.3081 at:
assets.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/politics/ARM10090.pdf

FYI: below is enclosed a copy of “Hitler’s Discriminatory Decrees signed February 28, 1933.” Although the Nazi Decrees are written differently than S.3081, the McCain bill could bring America to the same place crushing free speech and personal liberty. Note how the Nazi Government in Section (1) and (4), similar to U.S. S.3081, suspend personal liberty— shutdown Free Speech to intimidate Citizens speaking out against Government:

See Section 1
“Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”

Similar to McCain’s S. 3081, but using different wording the Nazi Government in Section (4) see below, suspended Constitutional rights, ordered the arrest of Citizens for any ACT that might incite or provoke disobedience against state authorities. McCain’s S.3081 instead mentions detaining and prosecuting Individuals for “supporting hostilities” against U.S. Government. S.3081 is so broadly written any person or group attending a protest could be arrested without provable cause and detained if government charged a protest-supported hostilities.

See Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.

DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE

Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7

In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:

Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.

Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.

Who ever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.

Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.

Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).

Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:

1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;

2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;

3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.

Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.

Reich President
Reich Chancellor
Reich Minister of the Interior
Reich Minister of Justice

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