Sharron Angle is jumping into the race for queen of the Tea Party, with her new Patriot Caucus PAC. In a press release on ThePatriotCaucus.org, the Nevada Republican bounces back from her loss in the Senate race with a promise to launch, among other groovy things, "an online action hub" for the 2012 election.
The first go at that action hub may already be in action. ThePatriotCaucus.net leads off with a bunch of pharmaceutical spam and a racist video.
" 'If you see something, say something' -- welcome to Obama's America," says Ron Futrell for the Liberty Alliance. "Big Brother here, or in this case Big Sis, beaming out at all of us through TV screens in Wal-Mart of all places, telling us to spy for them."
He's referring to a new PSA campaign by Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano urging shoppers to "report suspicious activity" to Wal-Mart managers or local law enforcement.
"What if I see someone, can I report that?" Futrell says. "Things don't cause terrorism, people do. What if I see someone, for example, let's just say a male of Middle-Eastern descent acting suspicious while chanting 'Allah akbar,' or something? What if I see that? That's what they saw at Fort Hood, was it not? Ask the 13 families who lost loved ones in that terrorist attack at Fort Hood if they would've liked a warning when they heard Nidal Hasan commit his terrorist act there. But you see, that would be profiling, wouldn't it?"
You might remember that Angle's flagrantly racist campaign ads drove away some voters, and helped her opponent, Sen. Harry Reid, define her as too extreme.
A single Tea Party activist owns all three of the websites Angle appears either to be using or to be prepping. Eric Odom, who claims to have started the first Tea Party group and worked to get Angle elected, bought .org, .net, and .com sites for The Patriot Caucus back in November 2009. Odom's Twitter bio lists Liberty.com as his website -- it's the same one that appears in the video on what looks like Angle's new action hub. Now Odom's the head of 1773 Media, which stands to be the ones and zeroes for the next Tea Party wave.
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Ron Futrell would do well to remember jefferson's warning that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
This crap is sooooo tribal it's ridiculous. The WHOLE country seems to be breaking into tribes. How about America first for once. And we Dems are no better on this front than Repubs. Lean Forwarders should rise above this floating turd eco-system we call "the American Democracy". The pollution is mind-blowing.
I lived in and/or traveled to Texas, Atlanta, and Chicago in the months after 9/11, and both liberal and conservative leaders were using "if you see something, say something" as an immediate means of shoring up internal defenses that were often believed to be lacking. Why does Ron Futrell criticize the desire of citizens (including those of Middle East descent) to make up for those perceived shortcomings, or the effort of law enforcement (whose members include those of Middle Eastern descent) to find ways of identifying suspicious activity?
It should also be noted that the "if you see something, say something" policy has stopped several would be terrorists from blowing something up. For example, the Shoe Bomber and Underpants Bomber were both taken down by civilians who saw them acting suspiciously and who acted on that suspicion.
Another example - the Vietnam Vets in NY City that noticed the suspicious car bomb.
Also, 9/11 itself; 19 guys with box-cutters hijacked FOUR Planes;
Remember the Fourth Plane? A few 'Regular People' realized that not only were THEY going to Die, but many more on the ground, maybe the White House or Capital Building, TOO! So they chose to DO SOMETHING, and tried to re-take the plane - Yes, they still all died, but no-one else on the ground was killed. Thank You, All, you are Heroes!
We all have a role in Security - Use common sense, but Please Do Something!
Exactly. Who hasn't seen that phrase on at least one billboard, highway LED sign, airport security poster, or something of the sort in the last 9 years?
And I'll bet most of the people "protesting" it now are the ones who would have been vehemently defending it as every citizen's obviously necessary patriotic duty back when the Republicans were in charge. That is, if anyone had actually questioned the idea that if you see what looks like a crime in progress (particularly one likely to involve killing people), you should report it to the authorities.
Silly me, though. I forgot that Wal-Mart was the sacred hunting ground of Good, Honest, Hardworking Christians and thus clearly immune from any kind of [Muslim] terrorist activity. (Brackets are there because, for some reason, I couldn't get the strikethrough to work.)
Well, one thing for sure, on the few occasions I have been forced to go to Wal Mart for some reason or another,,, I can say for sure... ALMOST EVERYBODY IN THAT PLACE..looks suspicious,,!!
u mean large waists & small craniums?
Well, one thing for sure, on the few occasions I have been forced to go to Wal Mart for some reason or another,,, I can say for sure... ALMOST EVERYBODY IN THAT PLACE..looks suspicious,,!!
it's called http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
I'm confused. How would racial profiling have stopped the Fort Hood shooting? And last time I checked it wasn't a terrorist attack? In order to be an act of terrorism the goal of the attack has to be political. Everything I've read about Hassan says that wasn't his motivation? Or am I missing something?
What you're missing is "racism."
I think the ad is ineffective, but the commentary although highly bias and full of conjecture may have a small point, but not to the extremes of the commentator. To me, if you "see something" like someone loading lots of fertilizer in to a white paneled van with many cans of gasoline may constitute as "something" to report. It's not about racial profiling.
But with this message being focused on Wal-mart customers, racial profiling is what you'll get independent of what the message is saying.
Wow it is the red scare all over again. I am glad the John Burch society is back to protect us. Lived through this once don't want to repeat, but I am thinking of opening a torch and effigy boutique.
That's a good catch. I've been thinking that myself, that Muslims are the new Communists. We can call it the Green Scare.
Imagine a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, and his Shopping List:
Sharron Angle, call Homeland Security, or "Don't Worry, He's Not Muslim!"?
....I don't know about the rest of you, but I'M Calling!
It's about Actions, not Race or Religion!
lol. I think that shopping list goes straight to Homeland security from the register. Same thing with the murder kit: shovel, plastic sheeting, duct tape and nylon rope... and a package of Oreo's to throw suspicion.
I think Ron needs to bypass the Walmart Greeter and sniff his way to the enema aisle ASAP. His brain has been affected alarmingly by constipated crap. If the PSA in question is playing? I hope some good citizen Walmart shopper reports Ron for 'suspicious' activity in the enema aisle before all that nutwing petard blows everywhere.
Well done, Janet. Ron is who you are warning the Walmart Shoppers about. Now how about us anti-Walmart shoppers? PSA's in Costco?
What this chuckling fathead doesn't seem to understand is that sometimes, terrorists aren't always middle eastern men. Shocking, I know. Sometimes, they're middle-aged white men. Like the guy who flew a plane into the IRS building. Or sometimes, they're white middle aged religious zealots like the group that was plotting to murder a police officer and then have an open season; yes, a mass assassination of the group of police officers that would attend the funeral. Sometimes they're middle aged white religious zealots like the guy who walked into a church and shot George Tiller in the head. Sometimes they're younger, ex-military veterans who are, you guessed it! White! Like the guy who bombed Oklahoma City. Sometimes they're out of work software engineers who are making bombs in their house. Oh, yeah. He was middle aged...and white, too. Notice a trend here? Like, I don't know, maybe a lot of the terrorist attacks were perpetrated by people who, according to your narrow-minded views, wouldn't be a threat?
This is the kind of simple-minded garbage that led us into the Iraq war. This is the kind of simple minded trash that has caused a wave of Islamophobia to break out. And worst of all, what this idiot doesn't realize is that this video, and others like it, are probably being shown to kids all around the middle east as proof that "America hates you. America wants you exterminated. Come join us, your friendly neighborhood Taliban and jihadists." This idiot just made a recruiting video for Al Qaeda.
Would you prefer a paper or a cloth towel to wipe our soldier's blood off your hands, you jerk? Oh, paper, because "global warming isn't real and chopping down trees for paper towels is actually good for the environment"? Okay, coming right up.
Napolitano's advice is actually a really good idea. Nobody cares more about your safety than you. Theoretically, anyway. If you see someone, anyone, buying a lot of things in Walmart that could be used for explosives, tell someone. Or if they seem to be engaged in other shady activities, tell someone. That's not encouraging people to spy on their neighbors, that's just common sense. This just goes to show how far gone the conservatives are on their Obama-hatin'. It doesn't matter how logical of a suggestion it is, if it comes from the Obama administration, they will try to find something wrong with it. It's absurd.
He (and the rest of the right) also don't pay attention. Yes, the 911 hijackers were all from the Middle-east but most of the subsequent attempts have not been carried out by people of Middle-eastern descent. So the foreign radicals are able to learn and adapt while our domestic radicals insist that we don't. You can't stupid your way to success.
Well said.
I, too, would like all of us to start thinking about what's best for all of us. How can Americans on both sides continue to tout our country's strength while constantly tearing down one side or the other? We are all in this boat together, and if we don't start acting like we "get it" we will continue to make all Americans look to the world like big fat liars.
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The first thing wrong about "Trickle Down Economics" is the word "Trickle". The reality is that even if money does "trickle" down, it that it only trickles; most of the flow is still held behind the rather large money dams of the covetous.