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Republicans are attempting to pervert American patriotism into domestic terrorism and racism as they continue their ‘holy war’ attacks on the very freedoms heroic soldiers ‘protect and defend’.  They attempt to force their perverted beliefs by labeling anyone who does not buy into their game of revising history as ‘socialist’, Marxist; ‘un-American’ and ‘traitors’.

They proudly and loudly spout their hate for an American President, the sick and down trodden, anyone who is not ‘white’ and they lie, cheat and steal about truth, integrity and morality.  They are the ‘birthers’, ‘teabaggers’, ‘deathers’; Republican right-wingers and the religious right.  They not only hate the government (now that President Obama is in office), they hate their fellow citizens.

Is ‘jihad’ too harsh?  I don’t think so.  Jihad refers to the use of and perpetuating violence, including paramilitary action against persons, governments deemed to be enemies of the fundamentalist version. Jihad includes planning, preparing for, and engaging in, acts of physical violence, including murder.   Republicans and their pundits are engaging in the same tactics they obligate our military to fight against.There are “Birthers” led by Orly Taitz who think President Obama’s birth certificate is a fake while many of them are tied to White Supremacists groups.

“Teabaggers” who don’t want to pay taxes for schools, police and fire departments or roads while ignoring these are ‘socialistic’ institutions. And they’re backed up by insurance industry and right-wing funded front groups who are encouraging Republicans to disrupt health care town halls anyway they can throughout August.  Remember Rep. Frank Kratovil hanged in effigy outside his district office by “Teabaggers” in Maryland.

Their goal isn’t to debate or get their voices heard. Their goal is to stop any kind of civil dialogue.  Freedom Works is a Washington DC lobbying firm, run by former Republican Majority leader Dick Armey.
Corporate lobbyists are organizing far right hooligan tactics to disrupt civic meetings about health care reform.  In its report about the resurgence of the militia movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center notes that a Minuteman militia in Southern California uses the Tea Party anthem as its call to arms.

The Republican Jihadists get into ecstasies of joy by chanting the lie “Obama is a Muslim!” “Obama is an illegal alien!  Obama hates white people!  Obama wants to slit granny’s throat!  We hate him, Hate him, HATE HIM!” They continue their ‘war’ even if the truth is evident to them.

Hate has become the drug of choice for those who would perpetrate atrocities against anyone who does not agree with nor conform to their philosophy.  Hate is their sickening reason for living especially when Republicans lost the White House and both parties in Congress.

We have these nut job “pastors” like Baptist pastors Wiley Drake and Steven Anderson who are publicly praying for President Obama’s death in the name of Christianity, and encouraging others to do so. Drake has also said that Dr. Tiller’s murder is the result of another prayer.

Baptist Pastor Steven Anderson has even encouraged his sheep to bring guns to church and supported his church member Christopher Broughton, to bring an AR15 automatic assault weapon to a Presidential event.  He says he hopes President Obama dies and calls for the shooting of homosexuals.

When Leonard Clark with the Progressive Coalition contacted Tempe, Arizona Mayor Hugh Hallman and Vice Mayor Shana Ellis and asked them to speak out against religious extremist of Steven Anderson, they got no response. When Clark contacted the Diocese of Phoenix and was asked to do the same the Diocese spokesperson responded “they did not get involved in these kinds of issues”.

Christian Coalition founder Republican Pat Robertson as recently as 2003 urged his followers to pray that God would remove three Supreme Court justices so that President George W. Bush could replace them with nominees that support Religious Right positions against reproductive choice, gay rights and church-state separation. In 2001 Robertson joined the late Jerry Falwell in blaming the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Supreme Court, gays, feminists and civil liberties groups.

 

When Baptist preachers, or preachers of any denomination, call for the death of the President of the United States, or anyone else whom they politically disagree with, they articulate justification for acts of intimidation and violence and it is not only anti-Christian, it is grossly irresponsible and Americans and religious leaders should speak up against this type of incite to violence and repudiate such rhetoric.

The right-wing jihadist supported and remained silent with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney lead our children into a violent, unjustifiable war based on the lies of WMDs.  They supported the mass surveillance by the U.S. Government by vacuuming up of information on every American in their dragnet collection of telephone calls, emails, web activity and financial records all under the name of ‘The Patriot Act’.  These Republican jihadists supported George W Bush and Congress to initiate warrantless spying and expanding the power of the White House to spy on every single American, at will.  No ‘teabaggers’, no ‘thenthers’ no protests, no outrage, no praying for the death of President Bush; outrageously these same people who purport to terrorize innocent Americans today, rewarded Bush for these programs by re-electing him!

These American ‘jihadists’ support immoral behavior of elected officials like Sen. John Ensign, Gov. Mark Sanford but call efforts to reform health care as ‘immoral’, ‘socialism’, and ‘un-American’.  Jeff Sharlet, in his new book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”, writes in alarming detail about members of Congress who believe they are above the law because they are ordained by God as leaders allowing Republicans to try to justify their tawdry affairs, while passing laws to penalize the very behavior that they had embrace.

When the Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning of potential violence by “right-wing extremists,” Republicans, Rush Limbaugh and the right-wingers of the internet were enraged. (When George W Bush was warned about al-Qaeda threats in the U.S., he did nothing; remember 9/11?) Republican and right wing extremist Michael Savage even sued Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security claiming the issuance of a government report criticizing certain groups violates his constitutional rights.  (Savage has been banned from the U.K. because his preaching is so ‘vile’.)

Then after DHS issued its report, some right-wing extremists started killing people.

Recently there were 3 political shootings by these right-wing jihadists as Republicans and their right-wing media leadership step up the intensity and rhetoric of violence.  Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney, Bill O’Reilly tell their audiences the nation is literally in danger because a ‘black man’ is in the White House.

Scott Roeder, a Republican (a member of the patriot movement) murdered Dr. George Tiller at church; Roeder was an anti-abortion fanatic with ties to a right-wing extremist group. Jim Adkisson, shot up a Unitarian church, killing two people because he hated liberals and gays. Then there is the white supremacist, James Von Brunn, (he writes crazy things, on the internet.) who murdered the guard at the Holocaust Museum.

Threats to assassinate the President soared by 400% since he took office, averaging 30 threats each day.

As Susan Brooks Thistlewaite pointed out in the Washington Post “When there is a constant battery of nasty, demeaning, race-baiting, fear mongering, it stokes the fires of extremism. Individuals already inclined toward violence may be encouraged to act out. I believe that religious leaders and civic leaders who feel that stoking feelings of alienation and fear are not good for the country need to speak out clearly. We need to explain, connect, reassure and find common ground where we can. We need to say unambiguously that no religion supports hate-motivated violence”.

A Little More Republican Extremism

• Glenn Beck, in a real race-baiting rant, declared that Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people…”
• Rush Limbaugh, with respect to Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination for the Supreme Court.  “How do you get promoted in a Barack Obama administration?”  Limbaugh answered his own question, “By hating white people.”
• Rush Limbaugh joking that we shouldn’t kill all the liberals because we need a few to remind us what they stand for”.
• Ann Coulter saying her only regret was that Timothy McVeigh didn’t bomb the New York Times building and then there is Sarah Palin accusing Obama of “palling around with terrorists.”
• Rep. Wally Herger, (R-CA) praised an attendee for declaring himself a “proud right-wing terrorist” and Herger said: “Amen, God bless you. There is a great American”. GOP Representative Smiles, Nods As Man Declares Himself A “Proud Right Wing Terrorist” (VIDEO)
• Rep. Michelle Bachman (R–MO) falsely claims Americans pay half their income to taxes, she said, “This is slavery, it’s nothing more than slavery.” Minneapolis Star Tribune

The Republican and right-wing and religious right jihadists are so extreme they try to manipulate Americans into believing “patriotism,” means to actually hate our government and anyone who supports American. They are America’s soulless political prostitutes. Their ‘teabaggers’ ‘birthers’ ‘secessionists’ movements, and militias are a very specific and intentional strategy with the purpose to mainstream their belief systems and their ‘call for violence’ agendas. Their tactic is to adopt the appearance of normal, “red-blooded” Americanism as a way of pushing out their ideas that their radical beliefs are “normal” too.

I am really tired of listening to these anti-American jihadists who offer no help or viable solutions to moving America forward but continue to dole out complaints and denigrate anyone who does not buy into their extremism.

The Republican Party leadership, the Party of NO, is unwilling to take any of these hard-line jihad extremists to task.  By their inaction, Republican leaders legitimize the extremist rhetoric and at the same time paint their Republican Party into an extremist corner.  Until Republicans are willing to change, and demonstrate their support of the Constitution and America’s Democratic society, their party will be seen more and more as a regional Southern party, fitting snuggly along side of the KKK. Along with Republicans, there are NO religious leaders and NO main stream media speaking out and therefore they too, along with Republicans become complicit in any violence or murder perpetuated by the American jihadists.   Have they forgotten about Timothy McVeigh?

The truth is, most of Americans still like Democrats better than Republicans, but jihadists’ real issue is their racist view of having a smart, intelligent, well educated, Christian father and husband as the leader of the United States.

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