Is it ANY WONDER the FREEPERS are RESORTING TO TERRORISM?

[berni_mccoy]

I'm listening to C-Span and you've got some REAL NUTJOBS calling in from the republican side who SOUND EXTREMELY DESPERATE. What the hell is wrong with these people. They need to accept that their party lost and get over it!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Not at all.

These are the same people in militia movements during the Clinton era. They're the Tim McVeighs.

Shit, they're still supporting David Koresh and wossname, Ruby Ridge.

[skooooo]

2. Look at protestwarriors...

And some of the college republican videos on YouTube. They are disturbed and disturbing.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. They've been "cult"-ivated for quite some time now

and need to be de-programmed. Unfortunately, some of them might just be pushed over the edge.

[Richard Steele]

4. No wonder at all. I'm expecting much more before they are finished.

I'm surprised we didn't see a few start running amok
last Wednsday morning. But they're out there, and
they will, sooner or later.

[Demeter]

5. When Reagan Dumped the Metally Ill Out on the Streets

We developed a whole new crazy culture. Families cannot cope, social services cannot cope, there isn't anything anyone can do, except rethink the whole institutional system. There is no reason why a person in need of structured control must be left to float in an uncaring society.

The institutions were not perfect, and some were criminal, but that wasn't because they were institutions, but because people weren't doing their jobs and tax monies were not being wisely spent.

Another Reagan plan must bite the dust, once and for all.

[gratuitous]

6. Not at all

Violence is their preferred method for settling differences, just like it is with any group of knuckledraggers. And they make the mistake common to their sort that anyone who does not want to settle disputes with violence (which is, in reality, no settlement at all) is therefore afraid and will be overcome by their violence.

On a side note, isn't it interesting how the "failed" social experiments of the two parties turn out? When Reagan emptied the asylums, we got loonies like Mr. Castagna. When Democrats instituted the "failed" social experiments of social security, millions of elderly persons avoided living out their days in dependence and penury. When Democrats declared the "failed" war on poverty before it was ended during the days of Reagan, millions of people became self sufficient and responsible for their own welfare. When the Democrats began meddling with the class system (which doesn't exist in the United States) by opening the opportunity to go to college to more people during the second half of the 20th Century, millions of people took advantage of the opportunity to better themselves and get ahead in the world. Of course, some folks decided that enough was enough, and that the ingrained privileges of wealth needed to be protected against too much mobility, and through the active connivance of folks who took advantage of affirmative action only to slam the door behind them (Uncle Clarence Thomas for one) ended that as well.