Teabaggers hit a new low with concentration camp poster

[FORD]

Real class from the Bachmann Teabagger Overdrive crowd

[FORD]

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[Nitro Express]

It's called freedom of speech Ford. They have the right to express themselves just like you have the right to express yourself. I don't find it scary. What's scary for me is when you no longer can express yourself because if violates some political correct doctrine. I've put up with enough of that shit at school, in places I've worked. I'm tired of it. Nobody talks about free speech anymore and why people have the right to it. Now days too many people are out to shut somebody down because they don't like the message using political correctness or so called hate speech doctrine as the excuse.

If they bug you so much why don't you fly to Washington DC and call them out personally instead of bitching and moaning about it.

[FORD]

Freedom of speech is saying "I don't like your health care plan because the fucking idiot Oxycontin addict that I listen to on the radio has convinced me that the big scary black man in Washington DC wants to take away my right to go bankrupt to insurance company CEO's"

Which is completely fucking idiotic, but within the rights of free speech.

It's completely something else to take the murder of 12 million people and trivialize that to fit a warped political agenda.

[FORD]

Jewish Organizations Condemn GOP For Standing By As Tea Party Protesters Waved ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitic Signs

One of the most disturbing images from yesterday’s Tea Party rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill was a protester’s gruesome sign showing a pile of dead Holocaust victims. The banner — captured by ThinkProgress here — read: “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945.” Another sign said that “Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds [sic],” a reference to the famous Jewish banking family often implicated in conspiracy theories. Today, Nobel Prize winner and Holoacaust survivor Elie Wiesel strongly condemned the signs, calling them “indecent and disgusting.” From his foundation’s Twitter page:



Elie_Wiesel

The National Jewish Democratic Council also criticized the “vile invocations of Nazi and Holocaust rhetoric” and called out GOP leaders who stood in plain view of the signs but ignored them. The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded that the rally organizers “publicly repudiate the use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery.” Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) made similar comments in a video he posted on YouTube, singling out the rally’s organizer, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN):

I can’t believe that Congresswoman Bachmann would stand where she stood, and see those images, and not have the common decency to say, “I disagree with the use of those images.” I think that she owes the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust an apology. She owes us all an apology. And I’m waiting. We’re all waiting.

Watch it:
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When Politico asked House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) spokesman for comment on these signs, he simply replied, “Leader Boehner did not see any such sign. Obviously, it would be grossly inappropriate.”

[LoungeMachine]

It's called freedom of speech Ford. They have the right to express themselves just like you have the right to express yourself. .

Where did FORD say they didn't????

He just pointed out the crass, disgusting use of their right to free speech.

Point being, just because they have the right of free speech, doesnt make them very bright, or very sensitive to those who lost their lives in that particular struggle.

[Nitro Express]

I get what they are saying. They are pointing out to what happens when desperate people accept fascism's hollow promises to save the country. Hitler went around promising a chicken in every pot, a car for every family, and wonderful new roads to drive on. It's a drastic way of someone saying the corporations have merged with the federal government and let's not get duped into their false promises because last time a broke country had the largest military in the world and corporations, bankers, and politicians got together this happened.

Plus, it's better to remember the holocaust than forget it.

People don't trust the federal government anymore and they certainly don't want it in TOTTAL control of the healthcare system which all these bills dictate.

[jhale667]

Nitro, you're fucking crazy if you think that poster was in any way anything other than despicable.

[Nitro Express]

Plus it's not the Republicans holding up the health care bills. It's the Democrats. Those senators and congressmen have to go home and answer for their votes. Many Democrats don't want the Federal Government taking over the health care system either. So this is not a Republican/Democrat issue. It's how much more government we want.

It's actually more easy to set up a business banking account in China than it is in the US today. I spend half the day dealing with a bunch of red tape because of Homeland Security banking regulations. I could have gotten the same thing done in Honk Kong in 15 minutes. People don't want more red tape, corruption, and incompetance in health care with everything being appointed by a health czar in Washington DC that answers to nobody but the corporations who own the president. The healthcare bill flanks congress once it's enacted and puts all the power under one person who of course bill pharma, the banks, other corporations control.

I'm not against the govt. regulating the castastrophic care prices insurance companies charge but I don't want it in TOTTAL control of the system which is what these bills are all about.

[Nitro Express]

Nitro, you're fucking crazy if you think that poster was in any way anything other than despicable.

What despicable about showing what an out of control fascist government did? It's more despicable to forget what happened.

[Nitro Express]

As soon as people get too cozy and forget, it happens again. Especially from a government that likes to run it's military around the world invading sovergn nations so the fat cats can make their war profits and oil money. The US is a war economy now. We outsourced all the other industries.

[jhale667]

Wrong. And you know it.

What despicable about showing what an out of control fascist government did? It's more despicable to forget what happened.

Problem with your premise- NO ONE'S FORGOTTEN. And to attempt to draw that out-of-context parallel with healthcare reform is beyond fucking idiotic, much like the Republican party these days. The fact that it was not immediately condemned by the Republicans standing on that podium in plain sight of it shows how disgusting they are. But then they're OK with the "Obama-as-Hitler" signs, too.

[Ally_Kat]

Problem with your premise- NO ONE'S FORGOTTEN. And to attempt to draw that out-of-context parallel with healthcare reform is beyond fucking idiotic, much like the Republican party these days. The fact that it was not immediately condemned by the Republicans standing on that podium in plain sight of it shows how disgusting they are. But then they're OK with the "Obama-as-Hitler" signs, too.

What I want to know is where was this talk about Holocaust/Hitler/Fascist references when it was going on with anyone involved with the Bush Admin?

As a spectator in the name-calling fight, I find it kinda amusing that the tables are turned and the people who were doing it now this it's disgusting.

No one seems to mention that part in this whole mess -- almost as if it never happened.

Just an observation.

I think it's retarded on both sides.

[FORD]

What I want to know is where was this talk about Holocaust/Hitler/Fascist references when it was going on with anyone involved with the Bush Admin?

As a spectator in the name-calling fight, I find it kinda amusing that the tables are turned and the people who were doing it now this it's disgusting.

No one seems to mention that part in this whole mess -- almost as if it never happened.

Just an observation.

I think it's retarded on both sides.

1) There were no rallies with Democratic elected officials present that ever had any such signs about Chimpy.

2) There are actual historical ties between the BCE and Hitler.

3) This picture was not a photoshop......

[jhale667]

2) There are actual historical ties between the BCE and Hitler.

Think he's kinda got you there, Ally...