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2009-08-15 Home Front: Politix

Sorry, Snobs: Town-Hall Rage Is Real Democracy

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 OTOH STARS-N-STRIPES > RISE IN MILITIA GROUPS ACROSS USA REPORTED.

Numbers and armaments on the rise, just waiting for a spark(s) to peeve 'em off???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-08-15 00:47|| NA]">[NA] 2009-08-15 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 If I understand correctly, JosephM, it's one gentleman at the Southern something-or-other, one of those pro bono law groups -- like the ACLU -- that goes back to the civil rights fights of the 1950s but now has no real reason to exist. Apparently the gentleman has no actual evidence to support his terribly frightening claims about radical right activity.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-15 04:10|| 2009-08-15 04:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I think you are referring to the Southern Poverty Law Center, tw. They did some valuable work against the KKK back in the day, but now they basically have to find some way to justify their large endowment/fundraising efforts among the guilty white liberal market.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-08-15 07:13|| 2009-08-15 07:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Poverty pays: the Southern Poverty Law Center is worth nearly a quarter BILLION dollars.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2009-08-15 08:36|| 2009-08-15 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Mary Bauer Named SPLC's New Legal Director

Mary Bauer, who has directed the Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigrant Justice Project since its inception in 2004, has been named as the SPLC's new legal director, effective Aug. 1.

Linkie

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-15 08:53|| 2009-08-15 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I think you are referring to the Southern Poverty Law Center, tw.

That's the one, Cornsilk Blondie. Thank you!

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-15 10:52|| 2009-08-15 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Morris Dees is still head of the SPLC. If you listen to him or read him, he comes across as a pimp for racial and poverty issues.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-08-15 11:15|| 2009-08-15 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I recall a moment in the movie Gettysburg:

Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you'll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here you can build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, is each other. Sorry. Didn't mean to preach.

The Beltway has its special interest groups and lobbyists who fight for loot and other people's property. Those showing up at these Town Halls are fighting for 'the idea that we all have value, you and me.' There is no ruled and ruling class. No one is better than the other, 'Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was.' It's incomprehensible to the self appointed betters, 'No man has to bow, no man born to royalty' whether in formal title or behavior.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-15 11:54|| 2009-08-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Well said P2k. Well said indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-15 12:08|| 2009-08-15 12:08|| Front Page Top

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