Inside my Head….. I Guess
Once a cable news morning talk show host has made comments basically saying Americans are, “marry other species”, Fox News realizes you may have gone over the line.
But wishing death on U.S soldiers captured by our enemies and accusing them of desertion, is still okay? Damn, Fox News sets such high standards.
Fox News resurrecting the prejudices of the antebellum south and spreading them by airwaves since 1996? Look on the ticker of this video, the words that move across the screen at the bottom from Fox News’s New Year’s Eve coverage that I found posted on Raw Story. Fox Personalities like Bill O’Reily often denounce blogs like the Huffington post for hate speech. But will the network apologize for airing a racist statement like “Lets Hope the Magic Negro does a good job”? The phrase “Magic Negro” is a reference to a parody song originally played by Rush Limbaugh and more recently distributed on a CD by former Tennessee state Republican Party Chair and candidate to be the Party’s National Chairman Chip Saltsman.
This is not only ridiculous but tragic, that in this day in age anyone would burden their child and relegate him to what will no doubt be a life of ostricization and being a social outcast by naming their son after the most brutal tyrant of the 20th century, who slaughtered 6 million people and that is not counting all the allied soldiers fighting against the axis powers.
Anyway a Pennsylvania family is now outraged, as well as both awkwardly espousing and softly denying their Nazi sympathies, after criticizing a local bakery for not writing the name of their three year old son Adolf Hitler Campbell. They later did go to a Wal- Mart that wrote the name on the cake instead.
This is cruel. Though one could say who is the bakery to decide what is and is not offensive, and I am not suggesting that they legally ban someone naming a child after Hitler as they do in Eastern European countries. But the fact that anyone would actually do this in the 20th century is really outrageous and shows that people don’t necessarily grow more intelligent over time.
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.
“I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they’ve been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past,” Heath Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.
“There’s a new president and he says it’s time for a change; well, then it’s time for a change,” the 35-year-old continued. “They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did.
He says he named his child after Hitler, not because he admires what the Getrman dictator did, but because he just liked the name because it is so unique and so uncommon. There is a reason for that you know? So naming your son after Adolf Hitler, just a mistake made after a drunken night in the Mel Gibson spirit? Well the Campbells have also cursed their two children with racist names, one after the white supremacist organization the Aryan Nation and the other after high level Hitler associate and Nazi Heinrich Himmler.
The Campbells’ other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name.” He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated.
Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.
The Ku Klux Klan has unfortunately been one of the most painful and hateful legacies in our nation’s history. Like terrorists groups such as Al-Queda do to try and justify their cause by perverting and distorting Islam, the Ku-Klux Klan does by carrying out acts of violence, their faces knotted with hate concealed behind bed linens; in the name of America and the name of Christianity when what they are really doing is soiling the fabric of both. I am white, but its deranged militants like these who are fueled by hate that make me embarrassed to call them fellow human beings at times. Many see the Ku Klux Klan as a shameful relic of the past, but unfortunately that is only half true. They are in fact shameful, but while their influence may have waned and they have been rightfully labeled as the tangled mass of stupidity, they are still in operation.
Just this week, a horrifying story, about a woman murdered at a Klan rally in Louisiana.
COVINGTON, La. (AP) — After a Ku Klux Klan initiation at a Louisiana campsite went awry, authorities said, a recruit who tried to back out was shot dead. The body of the woman, who traveled from Oklahoma, was dumped on a rural roadside and covered with brush. Her belongings were set aflame.
But the cover-up was stillborn: The body was found Monday, a day after the shooting. By Tuesday, a local Klan leader sat in jail on a second-degree murder charge, and seven others were charged with trying to help conceal the crime.
“The IQ level of this group is not impressive, to be kind,” St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said Tuesday.
The woman, whose identity was not released, was recruited over the Internet to participate in the ritual and then return to her home state to find other members for the white supremacist group, Strain said.
This is horrific. It is the 21st century and it is abhorrent that some narrow minds remain cemented in the prejudices that have haunted this country for over two hundred years. The Ku Klux Klan may say they are for the so called “purity of the white race” and “white woman hood” but this is them. They are against not only minority groups but those who don’t subscribe to their twisted and warped view.
However, in another KKK related story, the Southern Poverty Law Center has dealt a crushing blow to the Imperial Klans of America. Here is More:
The Southern Poverty Law Center today won a crushing jury verdict against one of the nation’s largest Klan groups for its role in the brutal beating of a teenager at a county fair in rural Kentucky.
The $2.5 million verdict will likely cripple the Imperial Klans of America, which has 16 chapters in eight states.“The people of Meade County, Kentucky, have spoken loudly and clearly. And what they’ve said is that ethnic violence has no place in our society, that those who promote hate and violence will be held accountable and made to pay a steep price,” said SPLC founder and chief trial attorney Morris Dees, who tried the case. “We look forward to collecting every dime that we can for our client and to putting the Imperial Klans of America out of business.”
The SPLC brought the lawsuit on behalf of Jordan Gruver, who was 16 when he was attacked in July 2006.
The jury deliberated for approximately five hours before delivering the verdict against IKA Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards and two former IKA members, Jarred Hensley and Andrew Watkins, both of whom served two years in state prison for assaulting Gruver. The SPLC earlier reached settlements with Watkins and one other Klansmen.
This is the way to hit them the hardest. Don’t only go directly after those who break the law, but drive the groups into bankruptcy. Now that is hitting them hard.
There has been so much hate in this campaign, springing forth by aggravated conservatives and people who are just bound by their own ignorance and unreasoned illogical and ugly hatred.
Now after the bizarre and fabricated report of a McCain volunteer being assaulted by an African American, a real terrifying incident where a real incident of violence is now allegedly thwarted. The Feds have arrested two neo-Nazis in Tennessee, suspected in a plot to assassinate Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill), and murder 88 African American students at a school.
This just shows that while we as a society have made immense progress in terms of race relations and civility, there are still those in enclaves who with hate brewing in their hearts seek to drag us back through horrific acts of violence and make we the majority of civilized paralyzed by fear.
No matter what your politics are, a political assassination as well as the slaughter of nearly one hundred people is horrific to even think about.
Feds disrupt skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.
In all, the two men whom officials describe as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people – 14 by beheading, according to documents unsealed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
The spree, which initially targeted an unidentified predominantly African-American school, was to end with the two men driving toward Obama, “shooting at him from the windows,” the court documents show.
“Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt,” the court complaint states. “Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.”
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The best thing we can do to fight this hate and really aggravate these two Hitler worshiping neo-Nazis is to cast a ballot for Barack Obama on November 4. Many people my age and some older have expressed anxiety that if elected President, Obama would not only find himself on the receiving end of racially tinged vitriol and anti-Muslim rhetoric, but that his very life could be endangered, by those such as these two suspects who despise the mere notion of an egalitarian diverse America, where Americans are no longer garisoning themselves off in a state of erratic fear, but embracing each other in the fashion of America’s promise.
The way I respond to those who express such anxieties is while that is a worry I too share, we can’t be held in the shackles of our own fears and worse case scenarios. In short, vote based on the issues and your ideals, don’t deprive yourself and your country of a more vibrant future because of your fears about what could happen to them.
UPDATE: Much like the minds of the two guys involved, police say the plan wasn’t fully formed yet.
Friday Night Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R- MN 06) not only repeated the scurrilous Bill Ayers Jeremiah Wright attacks against Barack Obama, but she now claims that liberals are anti-American and that many members in congress could be plotting against America.
Next she will likely be claiming that she has a list of 50, or 200, or 100 Al-Queda members who are in the high ranks of the U.S State Department. Joseph McCarthy brought about division, shattered lives, and made the Cold war harder to fight all to enhance his political career. Suddenly I am worried that this clip shows that we could be on the precipice of repeating a shameful and hideous chapter in American history and a grim event in the lengthy history of America’s freedoms. Representative Bachmann, Barack Obama and dissent in America is not the problem, your tactics to stir greater fear and suspicion for your own partisan gain is the problem.
UPDATE: (Saturday 11:25A.M ET)- You too can take action to stop these dangerous histrionics by signing this statement, urging Congress to censure Bachmann for stoking such fears. Send a message that McCarthyism and the manipulation of the American polity will not stand.
> Learn more at this blog about the madness of Bachmann and the woman who is described as “Minnesota’s answer to Florida’s Katherine Harris”.
Now I appreciate how Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) has taken a strong stand against the Iraq war, but saying something that sounds like you are calling your constituents racist in an election year can’t be good.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.
The 17-term Democratic congressman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.”
Murtha said it has taken time for many Pennsylvania voters to come around to embracing a black presidential candidate, but that Obama should still win the state, though not in a runaway.
There has got to be a better way to phrase that.
The McCain campaign and their crowds have become increasingly unruly and jacobinical this week, as the campaign has raised questions and released ads about Obama’s connections with 1960s radical and Weatherman member William Ayers, whom Obama served with on an education reform board in Illinois years ago.
The volley of attacks began last weekend when Republican Vice Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska)accused Obama of “Paling around with domestic terrorists”. Although Mccain did not raise the issue of Ayeres at this past week’s Presidential debate, Palin has continued being the chief point person on these attacks and McCain himself has said on several occasions at rallies this week that Obama’s relationship with Ayers needed to be further explored, and the campaign has released at least one ad on the subject.
Meanwhile at the McCain rallies in several states, as members in these audiences have become more and more unhinged, with audience members parroting Internet rumors and some shouting out when Barack Obama’s name is mentioned that responses from the crowd are outright hateful. Some audience members even branding Obama a “terrorist”, yelling “Kill him”, and those are just two.McCain’s campaign stops seem to be morphing into incubators of hate and what can only be described as political lynch mobs, as McCain supporters even slur a black camera man.
McCain has started a fire that he in essence can’t put out. it seems to be that it has all taken on a life of its own. Nevertheless, McCain seemed to be trying to put all this racous and even dangerous violent rhetoric back in the proverbial Pandora’s box.
At a town hall in Minnesota, McCain tried to tone down a week of raucous, angry crowds after one man stood up and said: “We want you to fight.”
“The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight. We want a strong president to lead us through the next four years.”
“I think I got my marching orders,” McCain said. But then he shifted tones.
“I am enthusiastic and encouraged by the enthusiasm and I think it’s really good,” McCain said. “We have to fight and i will fight but we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments and I want to be respectful.
“I dont mean that you have to lose your ferocity. I just mean you have to be respectful.”
A moment later, another woman stood up and urged McCain to speak up so voters “really have an understanding of who the candidates are.”
“There’s a difference between rhetoric and record,” McCain said, adding that Obama voted to raise taxes 94 times. “He has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate, even more liberal than Bernie Sanders.”
Once again, McCain repeated, “I want all of you to tell your neighbors about the difference between rhetoric and record, but let’s do it respectfully.”
I doubt this moment will continue for the duration of the campaign. After all McCain’s ads bringing up the Ayers connection are still on the air, Palin is still stoking crowds with this, and talk radio is still aiding Mccain in promoting this. Meanwhile his supporters both inside and outside his rallies are becoming more and more unhinged. Here are a few of the most viralent and shocking examples:
> Anti-obama Billboard gets michiganders approval.
> The Smoking Gun.com: man pulls gun on Louisana Voter Registration offical saying “Keep the N*&er out of Office.”
> Video: McCain supporters accuse Obama of being a terrorist, Muslim, and socialist.
> Man shot for wearing Barack Obama t-shirt.
> Gun for sale on Craig’s List: If Obama Gets Elected.
> Huffington Post: McCain Campaign Now attacking Michelle Obama over Ayers Connections.
More acts of hate:
> Crooks and Liars.com: Man at palin Rally displays Monkey doll with Obama sticker.
> Crooks and liars.com: Your an Obama Supporter? You can’t Park Here.
> Huffington Post: “Obama Bin Lyin” signs show up at McCain/Palin campaign rally.
Now someone tell me, what is so maverick about leading political lynch mobs? If McCain manages to pull this off and win, then what? His economic plan as President would probably be to change nothing else and just keep attacking Barack Obama. Now that isn’t maverick, that is just delusional.
I will update this post frequently as I hear of more vitrolic attacks and outright racism by McCain supporters and Anti-Obama forces. Stay tuned.
Yeah there are people that hate Obama so much they are willing to pull a gun on someone to make sure they get a voter registration card. He seems to have also forgotten his white bed sheets at home. Absolutely disgusting.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) states that since the crisis on Wall Streets, comments and incidents of anti-semitism have risen, since last month when banks such as Lehman Brothers went down.
In times of crisis people entangled in awe that soon turns to fear, and soon morphs into anger and the vitriolic search for scapegoats, as the shareholder sinks his head and in his bought with insomnia plunges into his open hands burying his face as he sits at the kitchen table. The Market, a gamble, We are all patrons in the elaborate Casino. Left it to chance and lost all, savage prejudices engulf.
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