The Patriot Movement
There is and has been for some time a propaganda war
designed to marginalize and demonize the liberty movement and those who
advocate for a government that is limited by the Constitution and rule
of law.
Last week, that war hit high gear, as it became apparent that
rational discussion about the role of government is no longer possible —
in Washington or elsewhere.
The hate group I call the Southern Preposterous Lie Center (read about it
here,
here and
here)
fired its salvo with its spring non-Intelligence Report, “The Year in
Hate & Extremism.” The magazine is yet another regurgitation of the
SPLC’s regular quarterly vomit used to divest widows, simpletons and
progressives of their wealth so Morris Dees and his socialist partners
can live the high life and work from swanky office space in downtown
Montgomery, Ala.
In the report, the lie center equates liberty-minded,
pro-Constitution conservative and libertarian Americans with the Ku Klux
Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads, but it draws no real nexus beyond the
bogies inside Mark Potok’s collectivist brain. Potok and the lie center
have created a “hate group” designation for these people: Patriots.
He begins one section, under the heading “Once Again, Gun Control Spurs the ‘Patriots,’” with this screed:
Twenty years ago, the passage of the Brady gun control
bill helped ignite the first wave of the “Patriot” movement, a
combustible mix of gun-toting militias and baseless conspiracy theories
about government perfidy that culminated in the 1995 mass murder of 168
people in an Oklahoma City federal building.
One may recall that these “baseless conspiracy theories about
government perfidy” include the Federal government’s murder by gunfire
and incineration of 83 people — including women and children — living by
their own choice in a compound in Waco, Texas; the cold-blooded murder
of 14-year-old Sammy Weaver (who was shot in the back by U.S. Marshal
Bill Degan and/or other Federal agents) and Vicki Weaver as she held her
10-month-old baby (shot in the head by the criminal FBI sniper
Lon Horiuchi, who received a commendation rather than a deserved murder charge); the passage by Congress of the 2
nd
Amendment-shredding Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, which
outlawed semi-automatic weapons based on cosmetic features alone; and
the 1993 attempt to force Americans into a socialist healthcare
(deathcare) system dubbed Hillarycare.
Potok then makes a leap to tie displeasure over these instances of
true “government perfidy” to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., with strings that have not been
proven and that likely do not exist. However, while it is certain that
the “government perfidy” did lead to a growth in the number of people
who realized that government was getting out of control, it is more than
likely that the Oklahoma City bombing was a false flag attack designed
to bolster Bill Clinton’s failing Presidency, which was at its lowest
point of his two terms. I explained that
here. (And there is much more evidence available for those who wish to see it.)
This explanation, which I wrote in 2010, came after Clinton joined a
chorus of Democrat progressives and statists and media talking heads
(apologies for the redundancy) in comparing supporters of the
then-burgeoning Tea Party movement with convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh
(and Branch Davidians and Randy Weaver). So you see that Potok is just
reviving a tired — but somewhat successful, thanks to the mainstream
media government propaganda agents, many of whom turn to the lie center
for “news” — message.
And just who does Potok and the lie center name as leaders of this
“radical” right “Patriot” movement made up of “racists” and
“extremists?” Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Representative Trey Radel
(R-Fla.), who has said Obama could be impeached for executive actions on
gun control; Sheriff Richard Mack; The Oath Keepers (current and former
military and law enforcement who have vowed to uphold the oath they
swore to the Constitution); former Constitution Party Presidential
candidate Chuck Baldwin; Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel Action; Tony
Adkins of Conservative-daily.com; Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial
Watch and FreedomWatch; the Family Research Council; Joseph Farah of
WND.com; Donald Trump; and unnamed lawmakers (but you know who you are)
in Arizona, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee who proposed laws
that sought to prevent Federal gun control from applying to their
States.
On Thursday, Senator John McCain (Senile old fool and supporter of
perpetual war-Ariz.) and his trained monkey, Senator Lindsey Graham
(Fascist and Liar-S.C.), denigrated
Paul and also some of
Paul’s allies
— with fallacious and specious arguments — over his almost 13-hour
filibuster in which he sought a straight answer from President Barack
Obama and/or Attorney General Eric Holder about the use of drones to
kill Americans. But McCain didn’t stop there. He also took to the Senate
floor to take swipes at libertarians and the
liberty movement with yet more logical fallacies.
But McCain and Graham are not the first of the establishment
Republicans to attempt to marginalize supporters of the Constitution and
small government with ad hominems and logical fallacies. Nor is it just
the establishment elected class and its propagandists who casually
throw around the term “extremist” when talking about the honest,
hardworking American business owners; blue- and white-collar workers;
veterans; retirees and students who are linked to the liberty movement
through the original grassroots local Tea Party groups and
libertarian-oriented “Ron Paulites.” Notice that in the comments below
articles on this site and others there are those who attempt to smear
the Tea Party with baseless ad hominems and comparisons to the Taliban.
Recall that during the 2000 election, then-candidate George W. Bush
ran on a platform of “compassionate conservatism.” Compassionate
conservatism was, as I said at the time, doublespeak for national
socialism or fascism. It was used to imply that conservative principles
were somehow not compassionate and that Bush was somehow more
high-minded, thinking and compassionate than those who opposed him in
the primary.
That Bush was more high-minded, thinking and compassionate was not
borne out by history. Bush policies are what accelerated the journey to
where we now find ourselves: living in a police state engaged in
perpetual war with a bloated, deficit-riddled, ever-growing government
and in a time where Senators and Americans who oppose those policies are
branded as extremists or potential terrorists. It was opposition to
Bush policies at the end of his term that sparked the growth of the Tea
Party in the first place.
It’s a sad day indeed when there is a necessity to ask whether our
government feels it can label us as terrorists and disregard the
Constitution and kill us without due process and when just asking the
question gets you branded as an extremist or, worse, a libertarian, a
terrorist or a Patriot.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry,
Thomas Payne, John Hancock, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe,
Alexander Hamilton and a host of others were our first patriots. If
their idea of government is extreme in the eyes of the SPLC, McCain and
Graham, then I’m a part of the “Patriot” movement, too.
I suppose that makes the lie center, McCain, Graham and others of
their ilk enemies of freedom and, therefore, extremist enemies of
America. Maybe they’ll be featured in the SPLC’s next issue.