When the Left Went Teabagging: As You Chuckle at the Right's Newfound Activism, Don't Forget That the Left Sucked Balls for Years

Angry dude, you need to improve your reading comprehension skills. You made up a whole mess of stuff that's inconsistent with what I wrote. I'll try to change it up to maybe get past your rage:



1.) Protests like the tea baggers and kkk pull off, and like some of the others that have gone off whose intention was to spew hatred, racism, bigotry in order to bring a confrontation or to just plain spew in the most loud way possible, are NOT productive.



2.) People who protest in this fashion, who block traffic on busy streets to otherwise make life miserable for "innocent" bystanders are making enemies - NOT improving awareness of an issue, regardless of the "rightness" of the protester position.



3.) Protesters may feel powerful when being noisy, but they are relinquishing power when they are abusing others in the process of trying to make a point. Poking someone in the eye to make them pay attention to what you have to say doesn't fly.



4.) These teabaggers contrast with the WTO protesters because the Seattle protesters were peaceful. It was the police that turned ugly - just like in the civil rights marches. Those protests inspired because they clearly showed what and who the problem was.



5.) If you can't deal with the fact that these highly counter- and unproductive activities are a bad choice, that's YOUR problem, not mine. I'm reporting the news here, not making it.



Now go flame someone else.
About Tax Day Tea Parties
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Sharing Tea Bags with Right Wing Extremists

We can always rely on your crowd to come up with deluded, miscontrued, illogical, and unintelligible commentary in response to a well-reasoned, fact-based, logical essay.



You put on big yellow shoes and a red nose and then march around and shout in the streets. When people look at you funny for the outlandish behavior and appearance, your response is, 'my superior political view have you rattled - ha!' The fact is, the incoherent grasp of reality and impulsive, irrational, unfounded hatred is what is alarming.
About Terrorism
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Will Muslims Hear the Change in Tone in Obama's Counter-Terrorism Policy?

Well, I actually think that it goes beyond starting a war they can't win. They must not win the war, because if they actually "win," and there is actual peace and safety, they are screwed! Their "base" is motivated by fear and dread and hate. When there is peace, they have nothing.



So to that end, I'm in agreement with your premise. However, where I have a very hard time keeping with you is with the general pervasiveness of the evil needed to consciously create the 'war on terror.' There are some people like cheney who I can credit with the intelligence and evil to do this. But I can't even give the R sw.ine in Congress any credit for being smart enough. They're just not very bright. Do you think Mr. Steele has it in him to cook up such a thing? Could dubya have come up with it? Not a chance.



I think there are a few "special" vermin at the top of the R pyramid who conjure these things up. But even they are defective. They are tuned only into the audience in the US. Their hatred for non-them limits the impact of their carefully laid marketing campaigns to their base and a few weak-kneed - like the ironically named commentator (commonsenserules) of the original comment I responded to.
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Will Muslims Hear the Change in Tone in Obama's Counter-Terrorism Policy?

Your comment projects a significant lack of understanding as to what "America is all about" in the eyes of Muslims (or any non-American).



Our history is littered with misdeeds that are very widely known within the societies in which they occurred. For example, the CIA deposed Iran's democratically elected leader in the early 1950s and inserted the Shah. The Shah was every bit the butcher that saddam was. You have to look reasonably hard to find out about these and many other misadventures in this country. But 'foreigners' who lived through it are very keenly aware and are, therefore, reasonably mistrusting of the US. Not so much of the American PEOPLE - but of our elected officials and corporations.



So, yes, our problems with extreme Muslims didn't start with bush or 911. We've been giving non-extreme Muslims plenty of reasons to upgrade to extremists for many years.



The "war on terror" phrase wasn't so much an euphemism for 'we're gonna git you Muslims' as it was an acknowledgment that our former president and his people are at best, adolescent or prepubescent in their thinking and communication. Declaring an on-going crusade against a technique like terrorism is embarrassing - because it's logically a recursive admission that we are terrorized. It told the world's sentient citizens that the US was being run by a bunch of chest-thumping flunkies.



Communicating as an adult won't pacify extremists, but it will start to help prevent more people from gravitating toward or supporting extremists.
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