Maybe we should list the tea party as terrorists. - Page 15

I agree, marjorie.

"But your tirades are what??????????????????????????????????????"
I dont do tirades, only the facts:-)

"I would love to see some on topic opinions of the study I posted."
On this thred? What study?
Ohhhh. I think you are talking about a different thred. In which case, I commented on the title of the thred.
If I'm able to get the link to down load, l'll look at it.

I grew up in the heart of the area where the KKK was conceived after the Civil War. The KKK was but another version of organizations and movements that happen when the world changes and people are afraid of the coming change. These movements are a form of tribalism based on race, nationality, or religion combined in some mixture. The Tea Party founders come from the same area around Nashville TN where the original Klan first sprouted and that is no coincidence. The second and third resurgences of the Klan came in the early 1900's and in 1960's due to social changes related to urbanization and the civil rights movements. Every time the USA goes through a time of social change organizations like the Klan rear their ugly heads because people are afraid and some political parties that start with an R and the Klan off springs such as the Tea Party use this fear to grab political power. In the 1920s and 1930s during the Klan's second wave it was a powerful political force and marched in front of the White House with open political power and control in congress. The current Klan Lite offering known as the Tea Party is riding a wave of fear surrounding the shifting demographics that will see the "pure white" plurality of the USA shift from being more than 50% of the population to just being the largest race group but no longer the totally dominant social and race group. Not all R's and Tea Party members are involved in the dirt but just as some Klan members of the 1960's in North Carolina were not up to their eyeballs in the hate and murder .. their organization was. If you watch Klansville you will see where the Tea Party got it's roots. The Tea Party represents the 4th wave of fear and bias .. just a new name for what happens when the world changes and people are afraid.

An “American Experience” documentary making its premiere on PBS on Tuesday night, Callie T. Wiser’s “Klansville U.S.A.” (based partly on the book of that title by David Cunningham) is about the third wave of Ku Klux Klan activity, which came in the 1960s in response to the civil rights movement. Specifically, it’s about the mid-’60s North Carolina Klan, which grew from nothing to nearly 10,000 members in just two years, in what was supposedly the South’s most progressive state.

Ya know the thing that set you off, again. This thread was dead for 6 days and all I posted was this link  http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/more-guns-more-dead-cops-study-finds-n409356 (the study) and bam that got you going again. So, no it wasn't on another thread and if you didn't read it, then why are you here on this thread? Oh thats right.

 

Joan, have all the guns you want but quit trying to paint me as a something I am not. And you should really go back and read your posts and then honestly tell me who is denigrating, who is projecting and who is ranting. I don't need control - never been the controlling type beyond being a first born child. I just simply do not take peoples crap online or off line.

I have remained civil and to the point as best as I can. You brought up the other day how my posts on guns was off topic - the whole point of this thread was guns and the wee party. I don't think my posts about guns on a thread about some wee party moron attacking others in a movie theater with a fake gun is all that much off topic, considering the posts I have read all over this site that clearly take things way off topic. I think most of what you have said here on this thread is you trying to control the debate. You aren't going to change my views no matter how much you twist and contort my words and say negative things to me.

You have a good night.

 

Bubba,

You hit the nail right on the head. The wee party is a hate party. Look at some of the moral high grounders in the news right now preaching their shit about morals the whole time they are banging each other and then going home to their spouses as if nothing is happening. WTF?

 

 

With regard to the mentally ill .. Reagan started the process of dismantling mental hospitals and treatment. Those with serious mental health issues now fill our prison system where the cost of housing is 2X and the mentally ill get no treatment. The rise of our industrial prison system was due to Reagan's war on drugs and the slashing of funds for mental health care. After nearly 35 years the "War on Drugs" has given rise to a militarized police system, private for profit prisons, and the highest incarceration rate in the developed world while drug use has only increased.

Rotfl. No, your link didn't 'get me going'. I read your post above that which was directed at me...responding to your post directed at me, I didn't bother looking at your 'study'. You don't want me to respond to a thred, don't mention my name, simple as that. If people are not allowed to respond to posts, then lock them. Bubba, you are correct.

I get it, you waited 7 days for me to post to this thread again and here you are. lol, whatever.

BTW, I used to be a projectionist at a drive in, back in the day. So thanks, I liked to think for a teen I was pretty good at it.

Gotta run, hope all is well for you Joan.

Let me clarify .. the Tea Party is just the reincarnation of movements which occur when there is uncertainty and change in the society. While there are some haters in all political groups the Tea Party just represents a group of middle income to high middle income people who feel threatened by the rise of non-white political power. If you watch the documentary "Klansville" the average person in the Klan in 1960's NC was a middle to lower middle class white mill worker or factory worker. The Klan used the threat of racial impurity, loss of jobs to blacks, and black violence to stir up a social movement based on fear more than hatred. With regards to NC the textile jobs went to China and black violence toward whites in NC has never been any worse than white violence toward whites on a per capita basis. The most violent group in NC is men and the most attacked group is women and that has been true for the last 150,000 years of human history. Fear is a violent motivator and humans seem more than willing to be afraid of the different and the unknown. So it is with dogs .. the confident dog may bite but the fearful and afraid dog is much more unpredictable and more likely to bite a child or act irrationally.

Curiosity made me look at the thread when it popped to the top of the 'latest posts' forums, before that, it was obscure in the 'forum list'. Lol, @ 'waited 7 days for me [you] to post...' Yeah right, and I was holding my breath while I waited. Lol.
Hope you are well also, gsdAdmin.