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I usually don't go to right wing sites and boards. I still work for a living, often 20 hours a day, and have better things to do (even when I take a day off, like today). However, I do have this friend--an oddball kind of guy to have as a friend, but the world isn't always as cut and dried as we want it to be, and much as I was prepared to hate this guy when I met him, it turned out we got along great--sympathy for the devil, maybe, but there it is. His name is Richard Viguerie, and politically, he is the polar opposite of just about everything I believe in. We only agreed once on one thing--that Bush was a f***ing disaster. For different reasons: that goes without saying.
Richard has his own website and sends me links to it. This time I saw something interesting: he ran an article about how right-wing and conservative (at least Richard knows there IS a difference) people were getting riled up over the DHS telling its agents to watch out for terrorism from the right. To them, I guess, there was no Timothy McVeigh and no 9/11 (Bin Laden is, after all, nothing if not a deeply conservative Muslim). They are still going on about the Weather Underground (!!). Check out the Bill Ayres/Obama connection that they were trying to conjure up during the presidential campaign. Who knows what they'll bring back next week? Maybe Neil Cavuto can find some descendant of the Rosenbergs with a radium dial watch or something. They seem to be running out of gas, that's for sure.
Anyway, for the first time, I decided to post a response to Richard's article+links about their puffed-up offended sense of something-or-other over the DHS RW-terror watch ("so we're armed to the teeth and we're a little crazy. That doesn't make us dangerous!").
I am stationed overseas, so if they come looking to toss a few bricks through my windows, they'll at least have to do some serious research, breach some security, and spend quite a bit on air fare. Here's what I posted:
"I wouldn't let myself get too worked up over this. With the huge increase in gun sales and unemployment, along with Timothy McVeigh still fresh in the mind of law enforcement, this kind of notice was bound to show up. After 9/11, the same watch for ultra-conservative Muslims was sent out, and American Muslims screamed just as loudly as Boehner & Co. are screaming now. I'll bet with anyone who thinks that American conservatives, or even non-conservative right-wing extremists will be given the same treatment as Muslim Americans (not to speak of Muslim foreigners!) were given in the years following 9/11. There will be plenty of things for true conservatives to toss at the Obama adminstration come the mid-term elections. This will not be one of them. Relax, guys. They are NOT 'coming to take you away, ha-ha.'"
What I neglected to post is that a good number of them DO deserve to be taken away ha-ha. But I figure if I posted THAT, then some of them WOULD cough up the air fare.
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