October 19, 2010 6:41 AM

The future of democracy in Tea Party AmeriKKKa

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

  • Samuel Adams

Interesting, isn’t it? Tea Party zealots will bust a vein screaming to the four winds about how Barack Obama is taking away our freedoms. They’ll try to convince you that the real threat to liberty and democracy comes from those bleeding-heart Libruls who think that government is the solution to everything even as it’s taxing us to death and appropriating our property. Funny thing, though; what they won’t tell you is that they don’t give a damn about your freedom. The only thing they care about is seizing power; “freedom” and “liberty” are just buzzwords used to rile up and propagandize the American Sheeple into thinking that they’re on their side. The Tea Party is only about freedom and democracy insofar as Timothy McVeigh was about Christian charity and turning the other cheek..

It’s not as if Joe Miller’s security goons illegally handcuffing and detaining a blogger is something that should come as a surprise. Tea Party Republicans recognize that the greatest threat they face is the unscripted moment when they’re asked a question they’re not prepared or don’t want to answer. In answering that uncomfortable question, they recognize that voters just might come to understand that the emperor has no clothes. Miller has determined that the only way he can be elected in Alaska is to surround himself with a security detail designed to protect him from unkempt, unruly Socialists who would dare question him.

Thanks to Miller’s goons, Tony Hopfinger will now get his 15 minutes of fame- and Miller comes off looking like he’s afraid of the messiness that is the democratic process. Really, what does Miller have to hide so desperately that he has to surround himself with a cocoon of Brown Shirts? And how can he claim to be a defender of the Constitution when his Brown Shirts deny a blogger his right to participate in the democratic process?

Miller’s goons defended themselves by saying that the town meeting that Miller was about to leave as Hopfinger was “detained” was a private event. Let the absurdity of that idea sink in for just a moment. A town hall meeting conducted by a candidate running for the US Senate…and the candidate’s Brown Shirts are treating it as if it was an invitation-only bar mitzvah?? Perhaps Joe Miller simply doesn’t understand that running for PUBLIC office means that anything done in the guise of a political campaign is a public event. There’s no conceivable, credible way that a town hall meeting could possibly be considered to be a private event.

Then again, what could you possibly expect from an anti-democratic loon who could come up with this and still keep a straight face:

“East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow… Now, obviously, other things there were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, obviously to secure our border. If East Germany could, we could.”

Right; what Miller conveniently forgot to mention was that East German guards had standing orders to shoot to kill anyone attempting to escape East Germany’s Socialist Paradise. Jeebus, what a schlemiel….

Hypocrisy is clearly a value treasured not only by Republicans; it’s also a tradition revered by the Tea Party.

When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross…and it’ll look a lot like Joe Miller.

Vote Republican…it’s easier than thinking.

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