Papantonio: GOP Embracing “Sovereign Citizen” Extremists

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Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Sister Sarah are hoping to turn this election season into a referendum against government, taxes, and regulations. It is the only tune they know. Each one of them are barely able to finish a sentence where some direct or nuance attack on government, taxes, or regulations is not part of the punch line. The Tea Bagger movement, Sovereign citizen movement naturally adore the 3 anti-everything candidates. Just like the Sovereign Citizens, Perry, Bachmann, and Palin are one trick dogs who have a substandard level of intellect that prevents them from ever having an understand about how America exists, uniquely because of taxes, regulations, and the rule of law.

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1. Sounds like something Ron Paul could 'get behind' as well

A sure sign that my memory is slipping...there was some nutcase or other in the news recently, although the corporate media were circumspect in their avoidance of the inconvenient fact that the perp was an adherent of this 'sovereign citizen' nonsense. One of them must have slipped-up, however, as I remember some mention of it - brief though it was. Help me out, someone!

[SoapBox]

2. K & R

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3. The next level of crazy for the GOP.

They are determined to be in the minority for another 40 years.

[saras]

4. OF COURSE they will be in the minority - the ruling class always is.

What they're doing is working just fine for them. They're still gaining money and power, and they obviously don't give a flying copulation for anything else except to manipulate us. We keep on handing over our rights, and our wealth, in exchange for stale piss. Why should they change direction now? Truth doesn't pay for them. Integrity doesn't pay. Sanity doesn't pay.

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6. Same mentality, same mentality

And they all look kinda weird too, just like this one:

On July 24 or July 25, 1846, Thoreau ran into the local tax collector, Sam Staples, who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes. Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery, and he spent a night in jail because of this refusal. (The next day Thoreau was freed, against his wishes, when his aunt paid his taxes.<33>) The experience had a strong impact on Thoreau. In January and February 1848, he delivered lectures on "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government"<34> explaining his tax resistance at the Concord Lyceum. Bronson Alcott attended the lecture, writing in his journal on January 26:

Heard Thoreau's lecture before the Lyceum on the relation of the individual to the State– an admirable statement of the rights of the individual to self-government, and an attentive audience. His allusions to the Mexican War, to Mr. Hoar's expulsion from Carolina, his own imprisonment in Concord Jail for refusal to pay his tax, Mr. Hoar's payment of mine when taken to prison for a similar refusal, were all pertinent, well considered, and reasoned. I took great pleasure in this deed of Thoreau's.

How much of the anti-tax sentiment is because taxes go to pay for a bloated military, bank bailouts, oil company subsidies and tax credits for exporting jobs?