So the texans are threatening to secede again. I say good riddance. If this is your reaction to losing an election fair and square (and let's not forget it was someone from YOUR STATE who fucked the world economy up), we're not going to play along with your silly crybaby games. Go take your ball and go home. We'll do just fine without you.

If only. How about those teaparties, eh?

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If only. How about those teaparties, eh?

Retarded. The original tea party protested "Taxation without representation". Who is denying these people the right to vote, exactly? They have representation. It's their fault alone if they don't go out and vote.

I'm glad to see they've got enough money to throw away in this economy that they're wasting tea. That's certainly more than a lot of people can afford to throw away these days. Must be nice.

Seriously? This would be awesome. Did you read the article? Chuck Norris as president of Texas!

I'm not a fan of Texas at all atm (their firearm laws are too restrictive), but Chuck Norris would change that ;)

I think Gov. Perry is worried that Kay Bailey Hutchinson will beat him in next year's Republican primary so he's seeking support wherever he can get it and if that means pandering to the fringes of his party, he'll do it.

In the meantime, if secessionist rhetoric inspires a borderline personality type to go off his meds and blow up a federal building, the media will forget these statements and applaud loudly as politicians like Perry use the tragedy to clampdown on more freedoms.

Eric Boehlert has been knocking this issue out of the park the last two weeks.

Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media

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We don't know if Poplawski tuned in to watch Jones' star turn for Fox News last month. But is there any doubt that Fox News is playing an increasingly erratic and dangerous game by embracing the type of paranoid insurrection rhetoric that people like Poplawski are now acting on? By stoking dark fears about the ominous ruins that await an Obama America, by ratcheting up irresponsible back-to-the-wall scenarios, Fox News has waded into a territory that no other news organization has ever dared to exploit.
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Fox News' militia media: mainstreaming the fringe.

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What Fox News, and specifically Beck, is doing in early 2009 is giving a voice -- a national platform -- to the same deranged, hard-core haters who hounded the new, young Democratic president in the early 1990s in the wake of Waco (i.e. the Clinton Chronicles crowd). What Fox News is doing today is embracing the same kind of hate rhetoric and doomsday conspiratorial talk that flourished during the '90s, and Fox News is now dumping all that rancid stuff into the mainstream. It's legitimizing accusatory hate speech in a way no other television outlet in America ever has before.
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Faking anti-fascism to foment fascism.

Regarding the Tea Parties, there's a sucker born every minute.

The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt

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The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.

They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to global trade run by the East India Company that was destroying local economies, this small, masked minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the Boston Tea Party.

On a cold November day in 1773, activists gathered in a coastal town. The corporation had gone too far, and the two thousand people who'd jammed into the meeting hall were torn as to what to do about it. Unemployment was exploding and the economic crisis was deepening; corporate crime, governmental corruption spawned by corporate cash, and an ethos of greed were blamed. "Why do we wait?" demanded one at the meeting, a fisherman named George Hewes. "The more we delay, the more strength is acquired" by the company and its puppets in the government. "Now is the time to prove our courage," he said. Soon, the moment came when the crowd decided for direct action and rushed into the streets.

That is how I tell the story of the Boston Tea Party, now that I have read a first-person account of it. While striving to understand my nation's struggles against corporations, in a rare book store I came upon a first edition of "Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party with a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbor in 1773," and I jumped at the chance to buy it. Because the identities of the Boston Tea Party participants were hidden (other than Samuel Adams) and all were sworn to secrecy for the next 50 years, this account is the only first-person account of the event by a participant that exists. As I read, I began to understand the true causes of the American Revolution.

I learned that the Boston Tea Party resembled in many ways the growing modern-day protests against transnational corporations and small-town efforts to protect themselves from chain-store retailers or factory farms. The Tea Party's participants thought of themselves as protesters against the actions of the multinational East India Company.

Although schoolchildren are usually taught that the American Revolution was a rebellion against "taxation without representation," akin to modern day conservative taxpayer revolts, in fact what led to the revolution was rage against a transnational corporation that, by the 1760s, dominated trade from China to India to the Caribbean, and controlled nearly all commerce to and from North America, with subsidies and special dispensation from the British crown.
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The EIC wasn't a traditional company, it was a mercantilistic one like we have in many corps today. Monopolies are essentially impossible without state support.

Also: Glenn Beck is a bit weird. You know he was talking about the same stuff when he was on CNNHN right? It's not just Fox News.

And regarding Waco: I've never seen any compelling evidence that they had machine guns, or any types of illegal weapons. None. Zero. .50 calibers? Useless, and not illegal anyways.

Even if they had machine-guns. So what? What's the big deal? The functional difference between a semi-auto and full-auto firearm is generally a sliver of metal. What about an AR-15 with a happy switch, as opposed to one without, warrants killing someone and running over their place with a tank. Especially when you realize that it's a tax law violation to possess a machine-gun without a tax stamp. So you attack someone with tanks because they didn't pay taxes?

Also, it was never shown who set the fire to the Waco compound. There really is no way to know. Considering most police are fascist ass-hats I wouldn't be surprised if they set it. I give it a 50/50. It doesn't really matter. Whatever the ATF wants to say about the Waco incident, it was a dismal failure surpassing Ruby Ridge. Even if the branch davidians did have machine guns and they did set themselves on fire.

Oh, Glen Beck isn't just a little weird.

At present, the man is a whole bag of fries short of a happy meal.
I am quite sure he is well on his way to completely losing it.

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I'm fairly sure he's missing the toy and the vast majority of his sandwich, as well.

Right, because seceding would solve their problems. The Texan economy would be destroyed if they seceded from the nation.

if only they would secede.we can hope.