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William Rivers Pitt is one of the best of our political commentators, which is almost certainly the reason he goes so ignored by the Beltway crew. He has a new post on the Tea Party's racism that you ought to read, even if only just to adjust your moral spectacles. An extract:
Nah, not racist.
The best part, for me, is Bartholomew's defense for his actions (after getting caught, of course): he forwarded it without reading it because "he was first getting familiar with the Internet." Yup, that makes sense. It makes so much sense, in fact, that Bartholomew resigned almost immediately after his brand of humor became public, rather than become a "distraction" for the midterm elections.
Yes, Dave, this is a great country.
So great, in fact, that organizations seeking to register voters and organize early voting for the upcoming elections are getting lambasted by Tea Party groups with racist and threatening emails. The most recent example of this has been taking place in Houston, where the group Houston Votes has received a pile of emails from Tea Party activists attacking them for perpetrating "voter fraud." The emails leave nothing to the imagination...with, of course, all magical spelling intact:
"You liberial scumbags should be hung by the neck in public ! We are on to your voter fraud. Keep it up you MOTHER FUCKERS and you will soon be put down for a long dirt nap! Your nothing but a bunch of white guilt ridden assholes, NIGGERS and greasy mexican spics! The WAR is comming and we are going to dispose of each and every one of you while we take OUR (White) nation back."
There was also this:
"Citizen's from all over Texas will be coming to Houston to watch you fraudulent Marxist pigs. Be forewarned, you will be watched at every turn, and your corrupt Marxist organization will be targeted!"
And this:
"I see you're all into fraud. Why do you want to change Texas? You want it to be like a third-world nation? Texas is great - and you want to change it into a third world state. No thank you. Your fraud won't work. You were caught red handed. Live with it. We know all about it."
And, of course, this:
"i hope everyone of you American hating A-holes are thrown in prison for cheating our country and trying to assure socialism.GO TO HELL."
The Tea Party group behind this calls itself the King Street Patriots, and they have apparently dedicated themselves to protecting the purity of the vote in Texas. So dedicated are they, in fact, that the Justice Department has begun gathering information on the King Street Patriots amid allegations that the group has been intimidating voters, messing with poll workers, and disrupting lines of voters once early voting got underway. According to witnesses, this Tea Party harassment has been taking place in Black and Hispanic voting districts exclusively.
Yes, Dave, this is a great country.
So great, in fact, that organizations seeking to register voters and organize early voting for the upcoming elections are getting lambasted by Tea Party groups with racist and threatening emails. The most recent example of this has been taking place in Houston, where the group Houston Votes has received a pile of emails from Tea Party activists attacking them for perpetrating "voter fraud." The emails leave nothing to the imagination...with, of course, all magical spelling intact:
"You liberial scumbags should be hung by the neck in public ! We are on to your voter fraud. Keep it up you MOTHER FUCKERS and you will soon be put down for a long dirt nap! Your nothing but a bunch of white guilt ridden assholes, NIGGERS and greasy mexican spics! The WAR is comming and we are going to dispose of each and every one of you while we take OUR (White) nation back."
There was also this:
"Citizen's from all over Texas will be coming to Houston to watch you fraudulent Marxist pigs. Be forewarned, you will be watched at every turn, and your corrupt Marxist organization will be targeted!"
And this:
"I see you're all into fraud. Why do you want to change Texas? You want it to be like a third-world nation? Texas is great - and you want to change it into a third world state. No thank you. Your fraud won't work. You were caught red handed. Live with it. We know all about it."
And, of course, this:
"i hope everyone of you American hating A-holes are thrown in prison for cheating our country and trying to assure socialism.GO TO HELL."
The Tea Party group behind this calls itself the King Street Patriots, and they have apparently dedicated themselves to protecting the purity of the vote in Texas. So dedicated are they, in fact, that the Justice Department has begun gathering information on the King Street Patriots amid allegations that the group has been intimidating voters, messing with poll workers, and disrupting lines of voters once early voting got underway. According to witnesses, this Tea Party harassment has been taking place in Black and Hispanic voting districts exclusively.
Now you, too, can claim that the lynch mobs of the 1950s weren't so much psychopathic racists as crusaders after truth blessed by a loving Jesus. But, me, I'd conclude otherwise.
