Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND BROADMINDED USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, et al reside in the other America!
Please sign this very important petition "demand question time" (of our political leaders) HERE... We really need more dialog from those at the top... The Republicans have got to be made to realize they can't hide behind "NO" any longer! thinkingblue
Daniel Ellsberg speaks out for Bradley Manning. The brave man who was so appalled by what he had seen during one of the US military actions in the Iraq War, that he stood up and blew the whistle and now is suffering the consequences of this bravery. The US pentagon frowns upon anyone who tries to expose military actions that are illegal, they do not want any negative publicity and will go to great lengths to prevent it; even if it means punishing someone who does not deserve to be punished (use as a scapegoat).
As Mr. Ellsberg points out, our country was founded on acts of treason by those who defied King George III leader/monarch of The United Kingdom and had become traitors to their country in order to create The United States of America. This interview was forthright and riveting and hopefully will be seen by many. thinkingblue
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King George III was born in June 4, 1738. He was the oldest son of Fredrick, the Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760.
The Loyalists in the Revolutionary War loved him. They would hang pictures of him on their walls and would salute the Great Britain flag every day. They would hold tea parties for King George III. For most Loyalists, he was a hero.
The Patriots in the Revolutionary War hated him. They would make effigies of him and burn them. They would call him a Tory and throw rocks at pictures of him. They would burn Tory houses because the Tories honored King George III.
He also had a disease called porphyria. It is caused by a chemical insufficiency. King George III had a severe case of this. He got it right after he married Queen Charlotte in 1765. Its symptoms are abdominal pain, paralysis on the arms and legs, and many more. This disease is often known as the royal hereditary disease because it affected most people in the royal family.FROM THIS SITE: http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/kgeorge.htm
Below is part of the video that Bradley Manning Leaked
Hey, they didn't come out of nowhere, they were there ALL THE TIME.
Finally a discussion about the illusive Tea Party, answering the mysterious question, just where did it come from and who are the members? It seems that everyone is abuzz about this newly formed “Party”. It’s been said they were spawned out of anger. The American people are all outraged over Government Spending, Bail-outs, job instability and the optimal Republican baited word "TAXES". These members dress up in teabags, carry weapons and bigoted placards while clamoring IT’S THE GOVERNMENT’S FAULT… DOWN WITH BIG GOVERNMENT. Hmmm, where have I heard that before? I think I could safely say… I’ve heard it most of my adult life from indoctrinated Republicans. Actually, it became the GOP mantra during the Barry Goldwater years and got louder with each Republican victory. Reagan was able to slip into the Whitehouse with the help of Tea Party members who weren’t called Tea Partiers at the time. They’ve been there all along, nothing new here folks. Same ole, same ole with a new name. It’s marketing… Change a name; add a new word and the worn-out product resells like hotcakes. Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes deliver this “tell it like it is” on The Rachel Maddow Show of September 16, 2010. The cat is out of the teabag. thinkingblue
Gainesville, {Fl.} is a bustling little city that has always represented progressive ideals and themes. A college town located in the northern part of Florida, it is surrounded by many rural communities that rely on it for its many thriving businesses, i.e. medical, judicial, educational, retail malls and for a wide range of entertainment.
We’ve found ourselves heading towards Gainesville many times. For prenatal care and the birth of our grandchild, dermatologist for my husband’s skin cancer, movie theaters, restaurants and whatever needs that one cannot find living in a rural place.
It’s always a treat when we have to plan a trip there, watching the college students’ hurry off to school. Observing or getting caught up in traffic flowing east, west, north and south that most likely heads toward the many jobs that Gainesville provides for its own city dwellers and for the many folk who live in the small towns and counties surrounding it.
Gainesville represents the heart of America with its football games (Go Gators Go!) its newspaper, its churches, (one must travel there to attend a Unitarian Universalist Church, the only one to be found for miles around ) and also for the many events Gainesville plans, year round.
Now suddenly its reputation of being progressive and tolerant has been tarnished (HOW CAN THIS BE?); Smeared by one pathetic little man who wishes to achieve fame by any means even notoriously. This one individual and his handful of followers eagerly, if not joyfully spread around their bigotry, ignorance and hate, not giving a hoot as to whom or what will be seriously hurt by their frivolity. It makes no sense that nothing and I mean NOTHING is able to stop them.
I love the freedoms that we Americans are privileged to enjoy by living here in the good ole USA; liberties like The Freedom of Speech, that is for the most part, taken for granted by most of us who can’t imagine living life without it. But like all good things that are taken for granted it also can be abused and abused it is, by this infinitesimal piece of nothingness who calls himself a preacher. What he is doing is an out and out, act of TERRORISM’ a quest to spread TERROR because he also enjoys this right but in his mind he is using it to invoke HATE and IGNORANCE. In other words, he is using FREE SPEECH as a weapon of mass destruction, not for the annihilation of material things (although that will surely happen) but the extermination of minds.
The greatest unsolved mystery here is ‘THE WHY’? Why are so many willing to grasp his message of HATE? When we, human beings are able to answer that ‘WHY’ we will be able to achieve everlasting peace on Earth. (IMAO ANYWAY!) thinkingblue
International attention over Quran-hating pastor overshadows Gainesville's reputation for tolerance BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND JOSEPH GOODMAN
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
GAINESVILLE -- The multicolored ribbons started appearing on mailboxes, trees and buildings around town Friday, with the scrum of national reporters and cable television satellite trucks still parked on the lawn of the Dove Outreach Church.
The ribbons were a subtle counter-protest, part of the ``Peace, Love, Not Dove'' campaign started by community groups and city leaders smarting from the unwanted notoriety created by Dove church pastor Terry Jones' plans to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Radical acts of faith do happen in this college town, but usually on fall Saturdays involving thousands of University of Florida football fans painting themselves orange and blue.
Politically, Gainesville prides itself on its tolerance and diversity. Its city government has passed ordinances to guard against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Its business community is known for spawning start-ups and incubating new technologies linked to the university. It has been ranked as one of the nation's smartest and most livable cities.
When Pastor Jones became an international sensation for using his tiny congregation to proclaim his hate for Islam, Gainesville cringed. The decision to cancel, or at least postpone the Quran burning did not remove the sting.
``I don't think anybody took him very seriously at first,'' said Annie Pais, a 35-year resident who runs Florida's Eden, a local non-profit economic development program. ``We were appalled at what he was doing but we thought it would stay a fringe thing and nobody ever thought it would get this kind of attention.''
Fueled by the Internet and fed by a 24-hour news cycle, Jones' anti-Quran crusade became the story of the day.
``People are mortified that this person who does not represent the community in any way would draw this international spotlight in one of the most progressive places in the United States,'' said Cynthia Barnett, a Gainesville author and journalist.
Mayor Craig Lowe, who is openly gay, called the church a ``tiny fringe group'' that is opposed to ``Gainesville's true character as a place that values every person.
``We're an open and welcoming community to anyone and everyone regardless of religion, race, national origin, language, gender, sexual orientation -- because we want everyone to contribute to our community,'' he said.
Lowe has endured the congregation's intolerance before. During the mayoral election campaign last spring, Jones posted a sign reading ``No homo mayor'' outside the church.
The mayor said what has been lost in the controversy is the ``true Gainesville we all know and love'' -- which features a first-class university, an emerging high-tech sector, hometown musicians Tom Petty and Bo Diddley, treasured freshwater springs (more than any other region of the world) and a vibrant arts scene.
Locals also proudly cite the latest lists. For example, urban economist Richard Florida lists Gainesville as the city expected to have the highest per capita increase in the ``creative class'' earners -- those with higher paying jobs in technology, health care or design -- between 2008-2018.
He also listed the city as one of the brainiest in the U.S., according to his blog for The Atlantic magazine, estimating that 19.5 percent of all adults over 25 hold a Ph.D.
There will be at least one religious demonstration on Saturday, when more than 90,000 fans trek to the stadium for the first-ever meeting between the Florida Gators and the University of South Florida Bulls: The city's Hare Krishnas.
They have been chanting their religious mantra outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium for every home game since 1996, the same year UF won its first national championship.
The peaceful chant ``purifies the hearts of everyone who hears it,'' said Ali Krishna Devi Dasi, 30, who works at the Krishna House and is a graduate student at UF.
``It is considered one of our most important charitable acts,'' she said. ``. . . A lot of people say this is the reason the Gators are so good.''
Mary Ellen Klas can be reached at meklas@MiamiHerald.com
Please sign this very important petition "demand question time" (of our political leaders) HERE.. We really need more dialog from those at the top... The Republicans have got to be made to realize they can't hide behind "NO" any longer! thinkingblue
News from the science front brings us a wee bit closer to knowing (and I mean wee) how the Universe came into being. It’s so refreshing when scientific education succeeds in opening doors and letting in natural facts concerning reality. Therefore perhaps, closing, a little bit, the collective mental gap developed by human religion to believe the fictitious divine intervention tale as fact.
Religion offers no answers only FAITH a word that means (in religion) no proof but what we tell you (no matter how preposterous it may sound) is true, so you better believe it or else.
It’s as though religion had became an aggregate ‘personhood’ and entered the human psychic, writing indelibly these words … "Hey 'I' have no answers, no proof but that’s OK. All you have to do is just keep the faith that (a) God created the Earth, sprinkled it with creatures (animal and vegetable), in preparation for the real mission of concocting a GODLY mortal who will be separate from the sprinkled creatures that were solely put on the Earth to be used by this GODLY mortal that 'I' will dub MAN. These words are not to be, forever and EVER, questioned!”
Somehow, this mythical tale of ole’ was able to take hold of a reasoning part of way too many human brains, kidnapping minds, forcing them to believe it reality. YIKES!
Thank goodness for the superior intellects (like Stephen Hawking) who live amongst us and lead us into the glorious light of real awareness. AMEN! thinkingblue
PS: On the "Burning Koran Day on September 11, 2010".
The crackpot from Florida who is insisting on spreading HATE & FEAR. (BTHOM, that one lunatic is able to wield such power; just goes to show how insane humans have made existence.) There is a website out there that is trying to counter this KOOK who has posted on his Dove site http://www.doveworld.org/ (which BTW has been taken down... Hmmmm, I wonder why?) "Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran" by retaliating with "Ten Reasons Not To Burn A Koran".
Here is my response:
--- Religion is a product of Homo sapiens (or the humans) who inhabit this Earth. They were created to promote security in an insecure world, to lessen the fear of death and to give human beings a feeling of social togetherness. Today’s religions should encourage love and teach tolerance. If a religion supports intolerance such as the one in Gainesville, Florida called Dove World Outreach Center, it ceases to be a promoter of peace and instead becomes a facilitator of hate and intolerance. The ordered burning of another people’s religious bible (or sometimes called Good Book) can only spread hatred especially when the head of this so called religion advertises this notorious action as something good. Burning another group’s Good Book will not accomplish what he wishes and that is to spread scorn or prejudice towards the Islamic belief system. In the end, the only thing Pastor Terry Jones will accomplish, is that he and his religion will be thought of as belonging to a group of sociopathic lunatics, and that is one good reason not to burn a Koran.
Click the below link to give your reasons not to burn a Koran. thinkingblue
AFP/File – God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments … .By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."
Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.
"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.
Lately when I turn on the news, all I hear is how the REPUGNANT Republicans are going to make a clean sweep of the House and possibly the Senate with the TEABAG candidates leading the pack. These TEABAGGERS are wackos and it's beyond reason how the American majority (those who vote anyway) want them in a position of power.
I don't know how much longer my body will allow me to continue with my visit to Earth but I'm telling you, if I live long enough to see another horrendous Republican Take-Over of our American Government... I may not be able to watch the political scene any longer, while they lead us into permanent ruin.
I'll stay away from all the sad news that will fill our newspapers, TVs and airwaves but I also know that, this will not shield me from the shocking and terrifying bad news.
Because I will know what the R's have done as soon as our Social Security checks stop and we no longer have the Medicare Health Insurance Plan. Just 2 of the items the selfish, ignorant and insane Teabag (they may call themselves Libertarians but they will always be TEABAGGERS to me) people who lead (MORE LIKE PIED PIPER-ing) on the far RIGHT of the spectrum, want changed...
It's not the MEEK who will inherent the Earth... IT'S THE STUPID!! thinkingblue
PS: Please read William Rivers Pitt's essay on this HATRED AND STUPIDITY from the RIGHT subject below:
Saturday 04 September 2010 by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
photo (Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Chris S., Gage Skidmore)
2010 is shaping up to be the Year of the Hate Crime in America, thanks in large part to right-bent Republicans and their Tea Party allies who have nothing to run on in the upcoming midterms. Think about it; would you want to run for office as a Republican these days? Their dearest economic ideas gave us the current recession, their foreign policies resulted in a war we lost in Iraq and a war we're losing in Afghanistan, their environmental designs have resulted in yet another oil rig detonation in the Gulf of Mexico, a great many of their supporters don't believe in dinosaurs because the Bible doesn't mention them, and their biggest national superstar is Sarah Palin, who by all appearances is so drastically stupid that she couldn't figure out how to pour piss out of a boot if there were directions on the heel.
So, yeah, not much to hang your hat on there. In the absence of anything substantive to give the American people, the right has gone home to their mothership: sowing discord, fear and hatred to distract people from the fact that, while Republicans are good at campaigning, they are walking cancer cells to the body politic if and when they actually win.
This time around, the right's weapon of choice against this republic is spreading hatred and fear of Muslims and Islam. September 11 happened nine years ago, so it may seem an odd topic to harp on after so much time has passed, but the Cordoba House controversy gave them an opening and they ran right through it. Of course, it started before that, pretty much as soon as President Obama first threw his hat into the ring for the 2008 election. Once the right figured out his middle name was Hussein, it was hats over the windmill, and their incessant blather about his background and religion has finally begun to bear bloody fruit.
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Wrap your mind around this: at this point, a majority of Republicans not only believe Mr. Obama to be a practicing Muslim, but believe his intention as president is to impose Sharia Law on America and the rest of the world. I'd like Gallup or Pew to do a special poll so as to determine exactly how many of those who believe these things were dropped on their heads when they were babies. I'd wager the number would pop close to 95%. Of course, the media's love for spectacle - no matter how deranged or dangerous it is - has motivated them to run these cretins and their theories across the sky with klieg lights, and just as the right hoped, it is all having the desired effect.
There have been other effects, however, and deadly dangerous ones at that. Mosques have been firebombed. A Muslim cabdriver in New York City was savagely slashed by a man screaming anti-Islam epithets. A Sikh man was punched in a store for wearing a turban, even though he was as Muslim as a church steeple. The controversy over the Cordoba House project has inspired a rash of threats against the Imam in charge, the Muslims involved, and the building itself. In short, the right has basically stated that if the place gets built, they will shoot it up and/or burn it down.
There is nothing whatsoever funny or pleasurable about this phenomenon. The people pushing this vile tactic are someday going to find themselves burning in a deep ring of Hell, and rightly so. Sometimes, though...oh yeah, sometimes the tables get turned, and the hatred and stupidity being peddled by the right is transmogrified into a special kind of justice. Street justice, to be sure, but justice nonetheless.
There's a joint in West Haven, Connecticut, called the Fire and Ice Hookah Lounge. By all reports, it's a nifty little place; the theme is Middle Eastern, the hookah smoke is tasty, and the belly dancers are something to see indeed. Last Thursday, a fellow named Kevin Morris, also of West Haven, came ditty-bopping into Fire and Ice and staked his claim to first-ballot entry into the Dumbass Hall of Fame.
Mr. Morris, it seems, decided that any place with hookahs and belly dancers must be a festering nest of Muslims, and decided to give the patrons what-for. According to news reports, he barged through the door and started screaming racist and anti-Muslim epithets at everyone there. The crowd didn't really react until Morris tried to throttle the bartender...at which point, the patrons rose up righteous and basically beat the ever-loving Jesus out of him. Morris' mug shot looks like his face went through a wheat thresher, and as of now, he remains in police custody.
Hatred and stupidity, folks. When they ride in the same applecart, things can get truly dangerous. But sometimes, and only rarely, things can also get truly funny.
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William Rivers Pitt is a Truthout editor and columnist. He is also a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence." His newest book, "House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation," is now available from PoliPointPress.
Please sign this very important petition "demand question time" (of our political leaders) HERE.. We really need more dialog from those at the top... The Republicans have got to be made to realize they can't hide behind "NO" any longer! thinkingblue
News from the science front brings us a wee bit closer to knowing (and I mean wee) how the Universe came into being. It’s so refreshing when scientific education succeeds in opening doors and letting in natural facts concerning reality. Therefore perhaps, closing, a little bit, the collective mental gap developed by human religion to believe the fictitious divine intervention tale as fact.
Religion offers no answers only FAITH a word that means (in religion) no proof but what we tell you (no matter how preposterous it may sound) is true, so you better believe it or else.
It’s as though religion had became an aggregate ‘personhood’ and entered the human psychic, writing indelibly these words … "Hey 'I' have no answers, no proof but that’s OK. All you have to do is just keep the faith that (a) God created the Earth, sprinkled it with creatures (animal and vegetable), in preparation for the real mission of concocting a GODLY mortal who will be separate from the sprinkled creatures that were solely put on the Earth to be used by this GODLY mortal that 'I' will dub MAN. These words are not to be forever and EVER, questioned!”
Somehow, this mythical tale of ole’ was able to take hold of a reasoning part of way too many human brains, kidnapping minds, forcing them to believe it reality. YIKES!
Thank goodness for the superior intellects (like Stephen Hawking) who live amongst us and lead us into the glorious light of real awareness. AMEN! thinkingblue
God did not create the universe, says HawkingAFP/File – God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments … .By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."
Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.
"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.
I just watched the video and OH MY GOD OF SHOCK!!!
Ignorance beyond REASON! How so many human beings can wear their stupidity so proudly on their sleeves, is ASTOUNDING!
The NO-THINK is quite chilling, just realizing that every one of those spouting off their shitbrains (without a single notion, of how deranged and foolish they SOUND…) CAN VOTE is quite SCAAARY!
Good grief, didn't we have enough ignorance and LIGHTS OUT during the Bush/Cheney years?
When I hear the media claiming that polls show Liberal Democrats not motivated enough to stop the Republican Machine Of Hate and the conservatives (especially, the hate filled teabag bigots) who are motivated out of control and going to make sure their crazy, batshit, squirrelly, NUTBALL LEADERS will take over again, is just plain MIND BOGGLING!
HERE WE GO AGAIN… back to the twilight zone but this time we may not survive and I ain’t just whistling the Battle Hymn of the Republic! :-() thinkingblue
PS: Wow, I never realized what an easy job Glenn Beck has until now! TRIPLE WOW! --- PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS VIDEO.
On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be "non-political" despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore "honor" and "pride" to a country that had lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor, most cited the election of Barack Obama.
8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, and Glenn Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to misappropriate the occasion.
Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country's first African-American President--as a "racist... who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." When offered the chance to respond to Beck's statements, his fans either agreed with him or simply refused to believe that he had ever made them.
While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of multiculturalism—that atheists or black liberation theologists or radical Muslims or "free-loading" Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used to be.
This NEW LEFT MEDIA film was produced and edited by Chase Whiteside (interviewer) and Erick Stoll (camera operator) with additional camera work from Kasey Hosp.
Please sign this very important petition "demand question time" (of our political leaders) HERE.. We really need more dialog from those at the top... The Republicans have got to be made to realize they can't hide behind "NO" any longer! thinkingblue
Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and
free-thinking, the other intolerant and close-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND FREE-THINKING USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh et al reside in the intolerant America!
thinkingblue
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