What’s With the Thomas Paine Lies?
by
David Schlecht
I’ve seen numerous posts over the years questioning the sickness of unending deceit coming out of the Republican Party. Today is no different. Why would any political party want to lie about the political leanings of one of America’s Founding Fathers?
The new video out pushing the Tea Party features a Thomas Paine impersonator. I just don’t understand why a party would choose one of the more progressive forefathers and make him up to look like he would, in some remote way, support what the Republican Party stands for.
There is no question that the Republican Party relies heavily on the failure of their followers to question their motives, or to even possess a grade school education.
Thomas Paine was for taxing the rich, and ensuring that aristocracies don’t take root in our country. He was all for “stakes” which were his program for scholarships which would be given to the young to allow them to get educated and start businesses, by taxing the rich.
For those who didn’t pay attention in elementary school, the Tea Party was really a revolt against big business, with the name of The Honorable East Indian Trading Company. It was a revolt because this mega-corporation, like Wal-mart, was given unfair tax breaks that threatened to destroy New England’s tea houses. It was a revolt against all the things the Republican Party stands for.
Thomas Paine wrote extensively about building a social safety-net, like Social Security, to protect the people. Check out Rights of Man.
Simply put, Thomas Paine was for all the things that this Tea Party is against. The purpose of this Tea Party is to revolt against taxes on the rich, the same taxes they were paying before Reagan screwed up our country. Thomas Paine was for estate taxes. Yes, those exact taxes the organizers of the Tea Party are opposing.
The billion-dollar families in America have united to create the Tea Party and they’re relying on the ignorance of the Republican followers. How can they expect such stupidity? Well, because they haven’t been let down, yet. Will they this time?
America’s Coming War With the Right Wing Radicals
Sunday, April 19th, 2009America’s Coming War With the Right Wing Radicals
by
Dave Speck
Three news reports in the past year bring light upon the dysfunction of the American Conservative Movement. Three times in the past year Conservatives has taken up arms against the scary Liberals. Before that, we had Waco, Oklahoma City, and even Columbine. There are numerous more cases that don’t even show up in the news as Conservative Attacks against America, because the news is afraid to paint it in that light, lest the Right crucify them for it.
Today the Department of Homeland Security warns us that Right Wing Radicals are recruiting our military veterans for the coming war. The greatest internal threat of violence against America is the Conservative party. The Right is going crazy trying to get the DHS to take it all back. Rather than asking their radicals to stop preaching hatred and violence, they’re in full blown “hide the truth” mode.
Now, tell me, how many scary Liberals have attacked Americans because of the political views of the attacker or the victim? Zero! Even the radical groups like Green Peace use peaceful demonstrations.How many Liberal Hate Radio stations are there? Practically none. None successful. What are the most successful Conservative shows? Hate Media. It’s that simple.
Today the Conservative Hate Media is chanting kill, kill, kill, and their mobilized zombies are rushing to the ammo stores to stock up on their Librul Killing Buddies. Ammunition and weapons sales are at an all time high. Why? Obviously it’s not because the Liberals are planning on murdering Conservatives, but rather, the weak-minded followers of the Conservative party are arming themselves for the coming war with Librul Amerika.
The rest of us Americans (yes, the huge majority of us) can complain all we want but the problem won’t go away until Hate Media is silenced. We are way past the point of comparing this to yelling “Fire” in a theater. This Hate Media is already proving to be causing Conservatives to murder their neighbors. Hate Radio and Fox must be silenced.
I’m not for censoring anything that isn’t already against the law. I’m for enforcing the laws that we already have that forbids media from insiting violence.
Will America’s Conservatives recognize this as a problem with their media and put a stop to it? Of course not. Never will happen. The vast majority of the Conservatives would never believe that the problem is with them. Heck, there’s still 20 some percent that think George W Bush was anything but a criminal. Talk about blind alegance to a party platform. Party before Country! The Republican Motto.
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