Who sponsored the 9/12 event in DC?

[dgibby]

According to Think Progress, in addition to Glen Beck, these groups paid up to $10,000 each for the dubious "privilege" of funding the hate fest "grass roots" gathering in DC yesterday:

– Gold Sponsor Tea Party Patriots is a website run by FreedomWorks staffers. When Tea Party Patriots list serv members objected to the 9/12 march symbol, they were rebuffed and told that all final decisions were made by FreedomWorks.

– Gold Sponsor Our Country Deserves Better is a Republican PAC that also operates the Tea Party Express, a bus tour arriving in DC for the 9/12 march. Our Country Deserves Better/Tea Party Express, which has ran an advertisement comparing Obama to Hitler, is managed by the GOP consulting firm Russo, Marsh & Rogers.

– Bronze Sponsors The Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute are phony think-tanks dedicated to churning out academic-appearing reports to discredit global warming. Like FreedomWorks, both organizations are funded by David and Charles Koch of the Koch Industries oil empire, one of the largest privately held companies in the world.

– Bronze Sponsor American Conservative Union is run by David Keene, a lobbyist for a firm that represents private health care companies, including the insurer HealthFirst.

– Bronze Sponsor The Senate Conservatives Fund is a Republican Party PAC run by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).

Much more at link:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/09/912-march-lobbyists/

And writing on his blog, Liberal Land, Alan Colmes has this to say:

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The National Association for Rural Landowners, a bronze sponsor, references the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge to call for attacks on “government entities” and liberals. In a YouTube video posted in July , the group makes the case for a secession, followed by a violent civil war. Similarly, another 9/12 cosponsor, FreeRepublic, is a forum for various radical right causes. As ThinkProgress reported, the shooter at the Holocaust museum found a welcome audience for his writings on the website.

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Although we are being civil now, our civility is straining at the leash. After civility and calls for the redress of grievances that aren’t answered, comes massive protests and the potential breakdown in civil order. After massive protests will come the secession of states. After the secession of states will come the pitchforks. And after the pitchforks will come the guns. After the guns will come civil war our outright revolution.“

More at link:

http://www.alan.com/2009/09/12/teabagger-co-sponsor-warns-of-pitchforks-guns-civil-war-and-revolution/

My 2 cents worth:

Please take special note of the fact that FREE REPUBLIC was a Bronze sponsor of yesterday's event.

I no longer believe we can consider any of these groups "fringe elements" within the Republican Party. IMO, they are the base, and they have either overt or covert support by the Republican Congressional Leadership. Overt support is evidenced by those elected republicans taking an active part in the event, and covert support is evidenced by the silence of the rest of the leadership. I have yet to hear any of them publicly condemn any of this.

It's way past time to ignore these groups or underestimate them. They are dangerous and will stop at nothing to futher their hateful, racist, violent agenda to overthrow the government.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I heard on MSM radio that Dick Armey was involved with the organization of the "march".

[L. Coyote]

2. The Counter Reality Party!

The Up is Down Brigade,
The American Liars Union,
The Falsehood Religion,
and the Morans for Running More Morons.

[C_U_L8R]

3. There are a lot of people making money off this

Quite a remarkable shell game for moving influence money around.

[3waygeek]

4. Earlier this week, Rachel Maddow ran down this list...

and focussed specifically on the National Association of Rural Land Owners, whose website calls for the violent overthrow of the federal government.

[bmunson]

5. In search of the type of people who participate in Hate Rallies

What does hate look and sound like. We have all seen it, heard it and likely experienced it. What if we could just drop in on conversations between a bunch of "patriots" who encourage hate, violence against their own countrymen, for crimes as simple as being a vegan?

I used to blog more actively, but became discouraged, dis-heartened and disgusted by all the hate that I encountered. So I took a break and just recently started poking around again on active blog sites and myspace pages to see what is happening especially with the introduction of health care reform. There is one person on myspace who seems especially hateful and angry and he alarms me. His myspace messages talk about (and encourage) hate and violence in the name of patriotism. He suggests the bombing of liberal coffee shops to "get the attention" of liberals. Glenn Beck is one of his heroes and he participated in and encouraged the hate rally of 9/13 in DC. This section of his myspace page is public. He actually wants people to see the drivel he writes. Go ahead, check this out, see the color of Hate. http://friends.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.friendmoods&friendId=428556231
Now maybe you understand why I got so discouraged and disgusted.

[dgibby]

6. Welcome to DU!

Whenever I encounter people who alarm me like this, I report them, either to the FBI, Secret Service, or the Southern Poverty Law Center, depending on who I think they're a threat to. I don't know how much good it does, but I feel better.

[prolesunited]

7. I would report him

Sounds like a terrorist to me.

And for the record, I would report a deranged progressive making the same types of threats.