I stopped at Bob Evans, today. Since it has been a long time since a bought a newspaper. I went inside to get change first, so i gave the guy a dollar bill and asked for four quarters. That shows how long it has been since I bought a paper. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was $1.50 and USA Today was $2.00. I decided I didnt want to give either liberal rag that much money, so I just went inside. A USA Today was sitting on a bench, so i picked it up. Im glad I didnt pay $2.00. Im glad I didnt give them a nickel. Below the fold was a headline by one Susan Page; IRS chief: New rule on way for non-profits. The sub heading was; Attempt to address Tea Party brouhaha. I thought, Tea Party brouhaha? It wasnt a scandal. It wasnt a violation of the law, or an abuse of power, in which a department of the federal government targeted the enemies of the party in power. it was a brouhaha. The article mentioned that there were complaints from the right and left that it goes too far. Sounds pretty benign, doesnt it? It kind of leads you to believe that it was a broad based snafu that annoyed the Tea Party AND Occupy Wall Street. Page 2 has a column by John Waggoner, at the top of the page. The title was On Tax Day, Greatest Generation leads. It featured a picture of Gen. Eisenhower speaking to paratroopers before the D-Day invasion, on June 6, 1944. The point of the article was to bemoan the whiners who think they are paying too much in taxes. One paragraph begins with; The Greatest Generation also had a sense of shared sacrifice. The last sentence is; What we can learn from the Greatest Generation on Tax Day is that there are far worse things in the world than making compromises and sharing sacrifice. Who do you think his comments targeted? Do you think he is trying to shame the top 1%, who pay 30% of all Federal Income Taxes? Do you think he is referring to the top 20% who pay 90% of all Federal Income Tax? What do you think the chances are that he is referring to the bottom 50% who pay a couple percent of the bill? My guess is that he believes those of us paying the lions share are being to greedy and selfish. Hes trying to shame us into paying MORE of our fair share. Now we get to the article that prompted this rant. Page 3A headlines with the juicy news from one Rick Jervis, alerting us to the news; Hate suspects often seniors. The sub-heading is; Right-wing assailants tend to be older than other extremists. There you have it, in a nutshell. The biggest threat to America is old, white Tea Party renegades. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Jervis reports with orgasmic excitement; But cases like that of Frazier Glenn Cross are not unheard of among right-wing extremists and white supremacists. Jervis then goes on to list the right wing extremists, starting with James, von Brunn, a long time neo-Nazi who was 88 in 2009 when he opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington. Jervis doesnt mention that von Brunns history was murky. Some believe he was at one time, a registered Democrat and that he hated George Bush and Dick Cheney. Next, Jervis digs up Dennis Mahon, 62, a white supremacist, from ten years ago. Mahon was a member of the Democrat founded KKK. As his last piece of evidence of the dangers of all of us extremist old white guys, Jervis dug up Keith Gilbert, a neo-Nazi and former Aryan Nation aide, who was 66 in 2007 when a federal judge sentenced him to eight years in prison on gun charges. Gun charges? Isnt that what California Democratic State Senator and candidate for California Secretary of State, Leland Yee was charged with? According to Jervis, The USA is currently in the fifth year of a violent wave of right-wing extremism, including anti-government groups and white supremacists, which encourages violent acts by lone wolf assailants, Pitcavage said. Jervis has only one sentence referring to anyone other than old, white right-wingers; Unlike left-wing extremists and domestic Islamic militants, who tend to be younger, right-wing extremists are often radicalized around middle age and could lash out with a violent act well into their retirement years, Pitcavage said. Pitcavage is the director of investigative research of the Anti-Defamation League. Jervis could have written a similar column, raising the alarm about radical Islam, but there are two problems with that. The first is that it would be politically incorrect. You cant paint all Muslims bad, just because of a few thousand deaths. The second reason, is that it could result in his own death. Discretion is the better part of valor. He also could have written about all of the mass murderers of the past ten years and gone into their backgrounds and their family upbringing, but that would have shed a spotlight on a prevalence of liberal ideology and a preponderance of Democrat Party affiliation. That isnt as much fun. usatoday/story/news/nation/2014/04/14/right-wing-kansas-shooting/7716275/
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:09:23 +0000
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