“Former Washington Times columnist Eliana Benador, who was fired for writing a piece speculating that former Rep. Anthony Weiner had converted to Islam and was pushing a ‘socialist political agenda,’ has found a new home for her controversial work: Tea Party Nation,” according to Raw Story.
“RightWingWatch.org, a watchdog for conservative media that is part of political activism group People for the American Way, excerpted Benador’s debut column on the conservative social networking site, meditating on the ‘invasion of America’ by ‘non-European immigrants.’
“As we celebrate America’s Independence Day, it’s noteworthy that the percentage reduction of original American voters, might have been a defining factor in the election of someone like the current president, who among other goals, seems to be keen in opening further our borders to endlessly increasing numbers of immigrants who, regardless of their skin color, are bringing in a whole new texture of culture, 100% foreign to what America’s origins were as its wonderful adventure began back in 1776,” Benador wrote.
“Tea Party Nation has previously published writings that warn of the impending ‘extinction’ of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) population.
“Benador has a history of racial and religious alarmist writings, including the ‘Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin: Married to a Muslim agenda?’ column that she was fired from the Washington Times for. Currently, she is a U.S.-based ‘Goodwill ambassador’ for a group of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. In the past, Slate reported, she ran a public relations agency that representative neo-conservative hawks.
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I also wanted to point to some local reporting by Anna Haynes on the local Tea Party:
http://ncfocus.blogspot.com/2011/07/notes-on-thetea-party-at-gv-fourth-of.html
Also, I noticed that the Mecklers from our county are speaking to the Yuba/Sutter group:
July 14, 2011: YSTPP Member Meeting
Special Guest Speakers: Stan and Elaine Meckler. Place: Gauche Aquatic Park Meeting Room, 421 C Street, Yuba City. Time: 6:00PM to 8:00PM.
It comes as the Territorial Dispatch newspaper (which airs tea party views and is Dan Logue’s “Business of the Year) is expanding in both counties.
They’re coming up the hill! LOL.
Thank you for posting that Jeff. Coming up the hill sounds more like “There goes the neighborhood”.
Jeff,
As much as Margaret Sanger and her friends at Planned Parenthood tried to keep the abortions focused on those troubling minorities, it turned out to be the selfish white folks who availed themselves the most. So hopefully the more socially conservative minority voters will one day reverse Roe v. Wade.
John
Actually at the beginning of the American experiment a person needed to be male, white, and a property owner to vote or run for office. The Senate was appointed, women were property of men, and blacks were property of whites. Our founders were pragmatists or realists, but they put into the founding documents the ability for democracy to flourish if the people were willing to put the effort into movements gaining rights. What we are seeing today are legislators and some movements trying to strip rights from people, backing away from democracy. This can only happen when a majority of people become complacent and assume that democracy is a right not something that has to be continually fought for.
This series is a great introduction of democracy by Tony Benn
“Currently, she is a U.S.-based ‘Goodwill ambassador’ for a group of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. In the past, Slate reported, she ran a public relations agency that representative neo-conservative hawks.”
Jews and Born-Agains working together, indeed we have reached endtimes…
Ben,
Never forget the most basic definition of democracy: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.”
Even this member of parliament admits that the basis for the government in which he served was the belief that we are all “born equal” and that government must accept that. I am sure the lamb would much prefer such a “republic” where you have the rule of law that protects his or her life.
He then turns right around and talks about the importance of democratic control: I think he means the exercise of democratic means, but if you take what he says at face value then you have mob rule, or in the case of my simple definition, lamb chops are suddenly on the menu by a two-to-one vote!
He talks about having to “win rights” where our founders better understood, even with all their weaknesses that you rightly pointed out, that true rights have to be God-given: Rights that are won from men can also be lost.
He is right about money and military power needing to be kept in check. “Democracies” have not done this very well: Remember, Hitler was elected.
His ignorance of the significance of the Magna Carta is telling. I would again recommend the recent version of Robin Hood as food for thought. He is right about there being no reference to democracy which is also true about the founding documents of this nation.
He then turns to the hedge-road preacher for the truth that our rights are God-given, with which I have NO argument! The idea that the Bible establishes the basis for equal rights is still powerful today, because it is still true today!
Giving the “impression of representative government” is a big part of our problem today, so here again I can stand in agreement with his references to the early Parliaments.
Next up is that Christian Cromwell who moved us closer to a proper understanding of Constitutional Republics.
Don’t forget that Mr. Paine got most of his good ideas from Rutherford’s Lex Rex where he establishes the principle of God’s Law as the proper King so that all people and their representatives could be held accountable. Preventing tyranny on the one hand, and preventing mob rule on the other. This was the balance that our founders strove to find. Paine and the other humanists have no basis of right or wrong to hold the magistrates, or the mob, accountable to.
Trade unions can be an important check against the power of employers, but neither should have the government picking favorites. Also, demanding to be represented is not the same as calling for pure democracy [see my definition above].
The next part is tricky: The wealthy should not have the power of government to gain more power or to prevent others from gaining wealth of their own: However, government power should not be used to force the wealthy to “share” their wealth.
A constitutional republic has nothing to fear from having women vote, but the important issue is whether the battle was for women to vote in the same way that men do or for using it as a cover for moving toward pure democracy. I would argue that with most it was the former in history, but today many, as this man does, try to use that battle support a different agenda.
And in the end, the second half moves on to something that we agree with in principle but approach in very different ways: The undo influence the military and wall street power brokers must be curtailed.
IF anyone thinks that democracy will help accomplish these worthy goals, they should once again read the simple definition I have given above and ponder what the real impact would be if they were to succeed.
John
John,
That is a right wing propaganda definition.
I prefer this one “A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it.
The CEO takes 11 cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’ “
Ben,
That is cute, but it has nothing to do with what was presented in the video.
Of course, IF I wanted to play along, I would have to ask, whose cookies were they?
As to my definition, it simply illustrates the principle of democracy which is majority rule. If you have a better definition of democracy, I am all ears.
John
John,
The series in the video explains what democracy actual is and how we need to fight to keep it. The power brokers of every era will fight against it and will corrupt as much of the government as they can to limit democracy from happening.
The cute post is about the corporatist system you promote. The cookies are the wealth the laborers created. Remember without labor wealth cannot exist. Until the labor is put towards the stick it cannot become the axe handle.
What it has to do with, Stoos, is the reality that the CEO’s are cooking everyone’s goose, and blaming it on the ganders..
John,
A perfect example of this are the corporates opposition to unionization. Unions are democracy in a work place and the administrators are the power brokers. As the cute joke above points out the power broker making sure the workers are divided not united.
As the song says “Poor folks ain’t got a chance unless they organize”
Ben,
I think I gave you a pretty detailed response to the video promoting democracy, which promotes it as I have defined it. Majority rule is a very bad thing without the rule of Law.
Labor is certainly a component, an important component, in the creation of wealth: However, you need to remember that they will have no means of laboring without capital and investment.
It is the same with the issue of unions: There is an element of democratic action when a group of workers vote to organize or to approve a contract. There is still the danger of “mob rule” which we are seeing in some cases today where unions refuse to give concessions to save jobs because the folks who will be laid off are outnumbered by those who get to keep their jobs and all their benefits. There is also an element of democratic action the corporations if they have a board of directors or stockholders.
John
The lambs in this country are armed with AK-47 banks fully loaded with lobbyists to keep the wolves at bay.