On 03-29-10, JOHNJWILSON said to BOB KLAHN:



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The real anti-Americans



The real anti-Americans


Posted: March 29, 2010


2010


As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to
the House hand-in-hand to vote for health-care reform, tea partiers
reportedly shouted the "N-word" at John Lewis and another black
congressman. A
third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.


Tea partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged
incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were
everywhere on the Hill.


Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they've been
threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene
phone calls they got.


If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should
be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or
hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear
opponents as racists and bigots.


This is the politics of desperation.


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Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of "aiding and abetting
... terrorism." New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the tea-
party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during
Kristallnacht:


"How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows
so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale
mimicry of Kristallnacht."


Kristallnacht, "Crystal Night," the "Night of Broken
Glass," was the
worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages. Synagogues were torched and
hundreds of businesses smashed. Shattered glass covered the streets.


Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered. After that terrible night,
half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.


To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office
and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the
left about the populist right.


Not since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made "some Americans run off the
rails," said Rich, have we seen anything like this.


Was Rich awake in 1964? Because it wasn't the right that went off the
rails. The really big riot in 1964 was in Harlem, lasting five days,
with 500 injured and as many arrested. The Watts riot in 1965, Detroit and
Newark in 1967, Washington, D.C., and 100 other cities in 1968, all
bringing troops into American cities, were not the work of George Wallace
populists or Barry Goldwater conservatives. They were the work of folks
who went "all the way with LBJ."


Nor was it Young Americans for Freedom that burned ROTC buildings,
vandalized professors' offices, toted the guns at Cornell or took over
Columbia in 1968. And it was not the Birchers who set off that 1970
explosion in the Greenwich Village townhouse that killed three radicals
and aborted the terrorist bombing of the NCO club at Fort Dix.


No, this was not the New Right. This was the New Left, and it was Obama
not John Boehner who used to "pal around" with one of the boys who did
the Pentagon and Capitol Hill bombings.


As for calling Barney Frank a naughty name, that is not nice. But one
wonders what Rich thought of the students marching under Viet Cong flags
chanting, about the man who signed that Civil Rights Act, "Hey, hey,
LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" and, "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi
Minh, the NLF is
going to win," when American boys were dying in the hundreds every week
fighting the communist NLF?


The 1967 attack on the Pentagon, where thousands tried to break through
military police to get into the building, was the work of left-wing
radicals. Did the tea-party folks who chanted, "Kill the bill," outside
the House behave worse than that?


Some of us recall the anarchy of May Day 1971, when 15,000 leftists
tried to shut down Washington on a Monday morning by rolling logs onto Canal
Road, smashing car windows, blocking traffic circles and wilding in
Georgetown. Most wound up behind a chain-link fence at the Armory.


How many were arrested on Capitol Hill Sunday a week ago?


Not one tea partier, man or woman.


The "mass hysteria" of the tea-party right, writes Rich, is at root
about race. "By 2012 ... non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority.


The tea party is virtually all white. ... Their anxieties about a rapidly
changing America are well-grounded."


Rich is implying that when America's white majority disappears, in 2042
according to 2008 Census Bureau projections, the day of the white
conservative is over.


Given the rise in ethnic consciousness among all Americans, Rich may be
right. But it is not just white folks who want illegal aliens deported
and legal immigration curtailed, while 25 million of our own are out of work
or underemployed.


A Zogby poll for the Center for Immigration Studies found that 56
percent of Hispanics, 57 percent of Asian-Americans and 68 percent of
African-Americans think legal immigration is too high.


If the tea-party folks think it is leftist elites who detest and wish to
be rid of the America they grew up in and love, they are right.





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