Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Opinion

John Aloysius Farrell

McVeigh and Oklahoma City Remind Us: Calm Down Before the Crazies Come Out

April 16, 2009 05:14 PM ET | John Aloysius Farrell | Permanent Link | Print

Reader Comments

Exercising free speech and...

Disagreeing with Mr Obama does not make one ignorant OR a racist. We would like to maintain that right but after the release from the Department of Homeland Security memo the VERY same day as our protest, it makes one wonder how long this will be a free Nation. You must remember that Obama is in office with a scant 6% lead in votes which included all the 1st time voters recruited who have little if no political knowledge.

GWB endured more slams from the media and "Hollywood" over his 8 years than I've EVER witnessed. Absolutely NO respect was given to his position as President so to call the race card everytime one critcises Obama, now THAT is racist. We do not believe in HIS change AND we have a right to say so...still.

Give me Condi Rice anyday!

Think for Yourselves!

You all live in the most liberal nation in the world. Where else could ungrateful, selfish, navel-watching morons make outrageous comments about their duly elected government and live to talk about it? You are blessed to live in a democratic society where goverance of the country changes through peaceful elections. You only need watch BBC World News to find out that this is not the case in most of the world. Shame on you for calling yourselves Christians and patriots! You misquote and abuse the Bill of Rights at will and think that others agree with your treasonous speech- they don't; you shame us.

I dare say, many of you have never served in the US military, because if you had, you would have learned that all of our citizens bleed red blood for the USA. I am an Independent vote and I am sick of your racist rants!

You need to support tis administration because President Obama is trying to regain the respect that we lost during the Bush years. Get your heads out of the sand and think for yourselves!

Why the change of heart?

I don't understand why after 8 years of right wing domestic spying, secret prisons, cia torture, etc all these nut bags are flipping out? What has changed? Obama and co and closing some of the prisons and stopping some of the torture, but otherwise things are basically the same. What is with all these wacky secessionists? My life is exactly the same as it was in November. Do these crazies just love to hate so much that they'll invent things to hate or even hate their own country? Pull it together guys, focus on the big picture.

John Aloysius-Who is thie person?

Who is this guy who wrote this article? You say that Rick Perry committed treason by his comments.

No, on the contrary, federal politicians and judges commit treason EVERY DAY through their illegal acts that have no basis in the constitution. Mr. Aloysius, just because someone issues orders does not mean that the orders are legal. You're so stupid. By your logic, the Founding Fathers committed treason too.

Rick Perry said it like it needs to be said. You are just a bloodsucking member of the establishment that doesnt want to ruffle any feathers. Its amazing how people like you even have the job you have when you cannot thoroughly analyze the facts. I'm sure someone you know got you your job.

Two separate countries, each better off

The most rational course of action would be to form two separate countries out of the United States. We don't need to follow the tragic example of the civil war, we can follow the example set by Czechoslovakia that peacefully split into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Clearly, the US is no longer governable as a single unit. In order for a population to be successfully governed as a political unit, it requires a population in substantial agreement over fundamental values. We do not have that and we will not have it in the United States. However, we as two separate nations, we could have a very friendly trading relationship with each other and the rest of the world. In all likelihood, this would be beneficial for both sides. Life is very short, and spending it constant cultural strife and social pathology is unnecessary. Both sides can do better, we can separate. Married couples do it all the time, why can't we?

Why did he do it?

Let's not forget the real motivator. A federal gov't that killed women and children because they had GUNS!!!

I'm guessing we won't hear much about the gov't snipers that shot unarmed children in Idaho or how reckless federal agents burnt children alive on a raid of a private property.

Typical lefties. "We never do any wrong. It's ALWAYS the conservative rednecks with their guns and bad teeth!!"

Deal with facts

I am sorry, but people on the right do know history. When Germany tried to cover their debt by printing more and more money this helped cause hyperinflation which helped the rise of the Nazi party. And the Nazi party was a socialist party. Bush doubled the size of the government, which caused him to lose favor with conservatives. Obama has accelerated spending even more. So, why is the fear of what excessive spending will do to our country and future generations racist? I would love to have the chance to vote for Condoleezza Rice or J.C. Watts. Deal with facts, not emotions.

Right wing crazies

These nuts remind me of the brownshirts.I really don't think any of them know enough history to comprehend what I'm talking about,but some of these idiots,but are pretty scary with their racist blather.

Bias again

I can’t believe what I am reading after we have come off of a time when left wing loonies were making a movie celebrating the possibility of Bush being assassinated, people hung effigy’s of US soldiers at their house, left wing bloggers wrote too bad Cheney was not blown up by a suicide bomber on an Iraq trip, and left wing nuts went around claiming the 9/11 attacks were an inside job by Bush and Cheney and you have the damn nerve to worry that a peaceful protest against excessive government spending (which all of the protestors know started under Bush and Obama has accelerated) and the fear of the future taxes that will be required to pay it back, somehow equate to growing hysteria is beyond me. Do you remember Hillary Clinton yelling that descent when the government is wrong is patriotic? Timothy Mc Vie was a sick person. There has been no hint of violence in the Tea Party; as a matter of fact the closest I have seen to a loon in any of the protests were the left wing biased Susan Roesgen, so called reporter from CNN and Janeane Garofalo’s remarks afterwards. Look at the remarks on the Huffington if you want to see hysteria.

Orange Jumpsuit

When Rush Limbaugh and the crazes at Fox

news start preaching Tea Party's, they should

be charged as domestic terrorists under

the provisions of the US Patriot Act.

Rush Limbaugh gets paid 400 million dollars

a year to preach his hate. He and his kind

need to go to jail!

I want to see Rush Limbaugh

in a Orange Jumpsuit wearing shackles!

Rush Limbaugh and Bernie Madoff can

share a cell together.

Maybe Republican EX-U.S. senator Larry Craig

can give them conjugal visits.

Because of the Republican media hate machine you have crazes like

Mark S. of the REPUBLIC OF TEXAS of TX

talking about BRAND NEW M4 for home and a 1911A to carry, and talking about Texas Secession.

Why do all these crazes need

guns and big trucks to make up for

small penis size?

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John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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