One guy headstomps her while another one holds her down. Wanna-be stormtroopers without the guts to take on someone who can fight back. Find out their names, and publish them, so that they can be held up as the gutless wonders they are.
Update: The curb stomping coward turns out to be Tim Profitt who appears to be Rand Paul’s Burbon Country coordinator. Charges have been laid, and an arrest warrant issued. The guy who held her down while she was head stomped appears to have been Mike Pezzano. As far as I am aware he has not been charged with battery yet.
Tom Hickey
These are the Brown Shirts. The far right is always populated by an authoritarian, nationalistic, xenophobic, racist, you-fill-in-the-rest bunch of sociopaths. It goes with the territory. All that missing now is the demagogue, and there are several competing for the ’12 presidential nomination.
The GOP has made a pact with the devil they will live to regret.
C.H.
Interesting how when far-left people get pissed about something, we protest peacefully or write a scathing commentary, or make a documentary. At the most extreme, property might get damaged from someone chaining themselves to it or something.
When the far-right explodes about something, it’s interesting how often blood is shed. But when you’re that certain that you’re that right, I guess it’s inevitable.
I watched the documentary tonight on the Rachel Maddow show entitled “The Assassination of Dr. George Tiller.” Another case of violence from the right. One of many.
The thing about far right extremists is that they don’t care about people. Not really. They care about their god, their guns, and themselves. They don’t care that people are dying because they don’t have healthcare. They don’t care that gay people are people too and deserve the same rights as everyone else. They don’t care that many pregnancies don’t go perfectly, and therefore the mother and father are sometimes faced with a horrible choice.
They don’t care. And you know why?
Because many conservative wingnuts are also Christians. So they believe they’re going to heaven and that’s all that matters. They want to believe that everything is always black and white, and that things are never gray and complicated. They want to depend on a flawed, two thousand year old book to guide their life choices rather than reason and logic.
Are we suprised that people professing to follow a barbaric book are committing barbaric acts? Because I for one am not.
lambert strether
True. Fortunately, the Obama administration didn’t normalize Bush’s executive power grab, and in fact prosecuted the torturers, so we’re just looking at a fringe thing, here. Oh, wait…
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I’m all for publishing the names, and NV too, but let’s not kid ourselves on policy.
KZK
I’m Shocked, just shocked, that Jackbooted thugs..No actually I’m Not:
Like Father Like Son.
KZK
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S Brennan
I think many are just waking up to a rising Fascism. Fascism is simply a return to feudal format in an industrial/post-industrial world. The answer for it was in place during the Roosevelt era 1932-78, the was a shot at turning it back, the Fascist knew it and sent their tool Obama to head off.
From Israel:
“Fascism,” he said, “is licking at the edges of the camp, and we’re not paying attention to it. We’re on a slippery and very dangerous slope.”
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=what_is_a_jewish_state
Ian Welsh
Bernanke’s academic ouvre is about how to make sure that a great financial and economic crisis does not turn into a Roosevelt moment.
jcapan
“Bernanke’s academic ouvre is about how to make sure that a great financial and economic crisis does not turn into a Roosevelt moment.”
Beautifully put and sadly applicable to all of our elites. Seems the primary purpose of the D-party leadership and (of course) the MSM.
alyosha
@CH wrote:
The thing about far right extremists is that they don’t care about people. Not really. They care about their god, their guns, and themselves. They don’t care that people are dying because they don’t have healthcare. They don’t care that gay people are people too and deserve the same rights as everyone else. They don’t care that many pregnancies don’t go perfectly, and therefore the mother and father are sometimes faced with a horrible choice.
They don’t care. And you know why?
Because many conservative wingnuts are also Christians. So they believe they’re going to heaven and that’s all that matters. They want to believe that everything is always black and white, and that things are never gray and complicated. They want to depend on a flawed, two thousand year old book to guide their life choices rather than reason and logic.
Are we suprised that people professing to follow a barbaric book are committing barbaric acts? Because I for one am not.
After being around right wingers and Christians of all kinds for a very long time, I’m a bit more careful about statements like these.
IMO, the hallmark of a right wing orientation is lack of empathy for others, and there are several ways this can happen during the course of growing up. When you don’t understand, care, or are exposed to others, your world becomes very simple and black and white, kind of like the simple, self-centered world of children.
Christianity and its Bible, or any sufficiently complex scripture along with the religions that flow out of it (Islam and the Quran also qualify) is like a rorshact test. If you’re already predisposed to being judgmental, self righteous and angry, you’ll find plenty of support for that – and a judgmental God – in the bible. On the other hand, if you approach it from the viewpoint of love others as yourself, you’ll find plenty of evidence for that – and a loving God – as well.
A general rule of thumb is that we don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are – and this is nowhere more evident in the various religions and their practitioners. Their psychological orientation comes first, and then their view of God and the world, and how to act in it.
Your statement about right wingers being Christians and beholden to an ancient barbaric book, is not unlike those who think Islam and its Quran are a violent religion. After all, terrorists from the Middle East are Islamic, and are often acting out of a religious motivation.
However, people who believe this only see the most violent, unhinged (and immature) aspirants. There are millions of Christians and Muslims who are repulsed by these acts and who know better, and are the shining, unsung examples of their faith.
Now, it is true that this, shall we say, conservative form of Christianity underpins large parts of the USA, and makes an excellent foundation for feudalism or fascism. But it’s the failure of a more mature Christianity/spirituality to effectively deal with the pathologies of the culture that gives these Christians prominence and a bad name.
Christianity wasn’t always associated with such regressive behavior.
Ken Hoop
Maybe you guys and gals know something I don’t. Rand Paul has abandoned his dad’s staunch anti-war, anti-Zionism to the point of assuring the Lobby he was friendly to their war aims. You can call
that fascism if you want, doesn’t bother me. We’ll rewrite the terminology after the collapse.
Eureka Springs
Ian said:
Bernanke’s academic ouvre is about how to make sure that a great financial and economic crisis does not turn into a Roosevelt moment.
That sir, is another post. (I hope)
zot23
alyosha, great post. I couldn’t agree more, that is an elegant and arrow straight set of truths IMHO. I might need to print it out for saving, very good. Thanks.
Mandos
You could say that mainstream economics in general is about avoiding a Roosevelt moment.
Bernard
like we are not supposed to criticize Christians for their lack of Christianity. lol. in a Christian world i would agree. these are not Christians, so i don’t consider the attack to be against these kind of “Christianists.”
they have used the cover of Christ to advance their version of Sharia law. that is all these people are. Religious fundies who choose to use Religion to take control.
what we need are more lions to deal with the false Christians, Jews, Muslims, whatever they happen to hide behind.
now, however, it doesn’t really matter. the Christianists have taken over and everyone is afraid to be called a anti religionist, anti Christian. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and the rest have set up the game so they Christians are impeachable.
the Brown shirts won the same way. inch by inch, mile by mile. one threat after another, and there is no going back and starting over. Read your history of Nazi Germany, and other empires. this is just the way empires go.
was it Upton Sinclair who said fascism would come to America holding the cross and carrying a flag?
in any case, it is here. be prepared for the Brown shirts to do their bit, American style.
that’s why America has been dumbed down so, to make the Fascist/business/Christian takeover as easy as a “Get out of Jail” card issued to so called “Christians” who like Sharia law, Christian style.
Mandos
*BOOP*