The “Colonialists” in the United Kingdom did good for once — they banned “Talk Radio Pedophile,” the one legged racist beast, Michael Savage, from their country. This despicable and carnivorous LEECH, should be banned by “GOD” from breathing any air.
Ed Schultz discusses “extreme, hateful, paranoid” Savage’s UK banning, autism comments
Despite nation’s strides, hate groups grow in number. Fueled by non-white immigration, the economy and the rise to power of a black president, the number of hate groups rose to a record 926 in 2008. How can hate enjoy such phenomenal growth in a nation where a Jew serves as senator from Connecticut, a Muslim serves as representative from Minnesota, a Hispanic is governor of New Mexico and a black man is president?
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
There are now 926 hate groups in this country.
Take a second, and consider that number. It represents an increase of more than 50 percent since 2000. And by “hate groups,” I don’t mean guys in their bathrobes who go online and pretend their followers are legion. No, I mean actual Klan cells, Neo-Nazi sects, gay-bashing “churches,” cliques of black separatists, white nationalists, nativists, racist skinheads and other merchants of venom who meet, plot and recruit in all 48 contiguous states. (Alaska and Hawaii have no known hate groups.) Nine hundred twenty-six of them. The number is a record.
The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi sect marches last fall in Jefferson City, Mo.
We learn all this from the Southern Poverty Law Center (www.splcenter.org) in Montgomery, Ala., which has, since its founding in 1971, become a leading authority on the business of hate. According to the latest issue of Intelligence Report, the center’s quarterly magazine, that business is booming.
And maybe you wonder how this can be. How can hate enjoy such phenomenal growth in a nation where a Jew serves as senator from Connecticut, a Muslim serves as representative from Minnesota, a Hispanic is governor of New Mexico and a black man is president? The answer is that we are a nation where a Jew serves as senator from Connecticut, a Muslim serves as representative from Minnesota, a Hispanic is governor of New Mexico and a black man is president. Because if those things strike you as signs of progress, well, they are signs of apocalypse to those who believe only white, male Christians are fit to lead.
But that’s not the only reason for the increase. The center also cites the debate over illegal immigration that has dominated much of this decade. Though former President George W. Bush offered thoughtful, moderate leadership on the issue, he was drowned out by demagogic extremists competing to see which could most effectively scapegoat undocumented workers. They, too, bear responsibility here.
Finally, there is the economy. When things get tough, people become more receptive to the idea that their miseries are all the fault of some alien other. So the stock market, too, is implicated. Hate rises when the Dow falls.
I imagine the center’s findings land like cold water in the faces of those who took Barack Obama’s ascension to the presidency as proof that the nation was finally cured of the sickness of hate. The truth, I’m afraid, is more nuanced than that.
FOX News – Merchants of Venom
Maybe it helps to think in terms of alcoholism, a disease that can, with treatment, be contained, controlled, put into remission ? but never cured. Even when you have years of sobriety under your belt, the germ of it lurks in your bloodstream. Which is why alcoholics do not call themselves cured. Rather, they say they are recovering.
Hate is something like that, a fact some of us have never quite understood. Such folks are convinced that there is a goal line out there somewhere, which, once crossed, will allow the nation to declare itself cured. And once cured, we’ll never have to grapple with hatred again.
But it doesn’t work that way.
In a nation so deeply riven by culture, race and religion, there is always a temptation to hate somebody, to blame some group of others for the job you lost, the crime committed against you, the fear and uncertainty you feel. There is a simplicity and a seductiveness to it that are all too easily mistaken for righteousness.
So there is no “cure” for a nation’s hate. There is only an ongoing process of getting better, not unlike the alcoholic who must daily earn his sobriety anew. This explosion of hate is a reminder of what happens when we forget that, when we are undeservedly sanguine about how enlightened we’ve become.
It is said that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. Well, that’s the going rate for tolerance, too.
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[Enlarge] About The Author: Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture. He lives in Bowie, Maryland.
He has won awards for his writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, eventually claiming the honor in 2004. He is also the author of the bestselling book Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.
Pitts gained national recognition for his widely-circulated column of September 12, 2001, “We’ll Go Forward From This Moment,” in which he described the toughness of the American spirit even in the face of such a horrible attack.
In June 2007, Pitts was the subject of a campaign of death threats and harassment by neo-Nazis angry at a column he wrote about two whites raped and murdered in Knoxville, Tennessee. In his column addressing the murders, Pitts stated “for the crackpots, incendiaries and flat-out racists who have chosen this tragedy upon which to take an obscene and ludicrous stand. I have four words for them and any other white Americans who feel themselves similarly victimized. Cry me a river.”
“Fringe right-wingers are still clinging to anti-immigration absolutism. Americans want immigration solved, and they realize that mass deportations will not do that. When you add the unprecedented engagement of growing numbers of Latino voters in 2008, it becomes clear that the nativist path is the path to permanent political irrelevance. Unless you can find a way to get rid of all the Latinos.” — New York Times
Author of — “Awakening The American Racist Spirit” — Lou “Compost Thrower” Dobbs, attacks “partisan bunch of hacks” Media Matters with falsehood. Lou Dobbs and his fellow Republican THUGS, are experts at distorting reason, and propagating politics of fear, hostility and hate. Mr. Dobbs’ claim that he is an “Independent Populist THUG,” is FALSE. He is a pure ReTHUGlican goon — a member of the NINCOMPOOP fraternity that includes Limbaugh, Hannity and O’Reilly, who parrot persistently to their right-wing congregation of — small-minded, fearful, bigoted and shallow Americans — who are totally incapable of recognizing crooked Republican policies, that are not in their best interests, or their country’s. All they see is WAR, GUNS, GOD and CRIPPLING RACISM.
On his CNN show, Lou Dobbs falsely claimed that in an item criticizing a report by Ed Henry on President Obama’s economic recovery package, Media Matters “tr[ied] to conflate the Office of Management and Budget numbers as somehow superior with the Congressional Budget Office.” In fact, Media Matters merely pointed out that according to the OMB director, the CBO conducted only a partial analysis of the bill, which Henry did not report.
Just before Obama took over, idiot Bush “took a final dump” on his already super-soiled legacy, by pardoning two “Hispanic Ex-U.S. Border Patrol agents,” who had been convicted of shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler.
The two men, Texas-based agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, were serving prison terms of 12 years and 11 years, respectively, after being found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon, defacing a crime scene and violating the smuggler’s rights.
Compean and Ramos shot admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled a van full of marijuana. They argued at trial that they thought Davila was armed and that they shot in self-defense, but the prosecutor said no evidence linked the van to Davila and that the agents didn’t report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.
They were fired after their convictions, and all charges but obstruction of justice were upheld on appeal.
One former Justice Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of criticizing president Bush, decried the commutations. “These men were totally unrepentant, there was obstruction of justice, they shot a man in the back. I am speechless. These are terrible clemency cases,” he said.
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I have said this before: Anybody who commits an act of theft (smuggling) of any kind belongs in jail. Similarly, anyone who takes the law into his own hands — and then shoots anyone, including smugglers, in the back, “for sport,” unprovoked or just because he/she thinks he/she can get away with it (with the aid of RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT public sentiment) — is a cold-blooded murderer, or in this case — a cold-blooded attempt to murder, followed by a cover-up.
Compean and Ramos belong in jail. These two “thugs in uniform” were sentenced to jail by a federal jury of their PEERS.
They thought that they are above the law, and therefore chose to shoot an un-armed man, who posed no threat to them — IN THE BACK!
But, that has not prevented the self-ordained independent “Populist Propagandist,” CNN(s) and America(s) modern day Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Lou Dobbs, from describing these two VIGILANTE THUGS as “outstanding Border Patrol agents.”
No they are NOT Mr. Dobbs, especially when we all know that a racist like you will pivot on anything… anything that gives you an opportunity to demonize immigrants, especially Hispanics. These two are just but vigilante bogeymen — a “useful” conduit through which right-wing extremists like Dobbs and his filthy cousins at Fox News — gleefully HIDE BEHIND while promote their agenda of hate against ALL immigrants.
By pardoning these two, Bush has emboldened the anti-immigrant movement — A movement of Racist White Americans (Mostly Republicans) whose sole aim — is to rid America of all Hispanics, Blacks and even non-Anglo whites, if the opportunity presents itself.
Numerous cases of vigilantism and racist attacks on immigrants go un-reported in the United States. Families of immigrants are being petrol bombed, threatened and killed by racist thugs. Immigrants(legal and “illegal”) are under siege, and are terrified all over this land.
By releasing these two, George W. Bush has proven one thing — When he initiated the immigration debate three years ago, it was not a heartfelt gesture, rather, it was a despicable political maneuver that ended up falling flat on its face.
| If I had some “Medicine” to make these SMELLY GOONS piss uncontrollably in their pants, I would apply it in overdose! |
AND HERE ARE THEIR MEDIA COUNTERPARTS
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References:
1.Nashville, Tennessee — Racist Nativists Fail in “English First” Referendum. — “The results of this special election reaffirms Nashville’s identity as a welcoming and friendly city, and our ability to come together as a community,” Mayor Karl Dean said in a news release. About 10 percent of Nashville’s nearly 600,000 people speak a language other than English in their homes, according to census data. The city is 5 percent Hispanic and home to the nation’s largest Kurdish community and refugees from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
