I Think The Tea Party People Are Idiots

Epeeps Misled By Attempt To Portray Tea Party As Nazis... I have looked at the website Amerika.org hysterically cited in this group. There is nothing there that indicates any link to the Tea Party. "Amerika" is used not to advocate Nazism in America but as a pejorative designation for what the blogger dislikes in terms of where he says "liberal anarchism and commercial fascism" are taking the US. Excerpts from the latest posting there follow :

"American foreign policy fails in the mideast
Nov 7th, 2011 by Brett Stevens. 8 comments
American wars since WWII have followed this pattern: find an enemy who competes with our superpower status, then discover some “reason” (justification) for declaring war on them, and then conquest following by a police action against a guerrilla army.

This was the pattern in Viet Nam and Korea, and now Iraq and Afghanistan follow it. We must construe our enemies as enemies of “freedom” and democracy so that we feel justified in smashing them utterly, and once we’ve done that, we try to fix the mess we’ve made.

In doing so, we start believing our own press releases, and actually bring “democracy” to these places. However, they are not ready for what we want from them, which is modern liberal democracy; they are too invested in their own politics. As a result, democracy becomes a method of brutality. ...

Our foreign policy in the mideast has failed not because the mideast is a horrible place, but because we went in with unrealistic expectations and never adjusted our fond mental image to match reality. Nature, being logical and consistent, simply served us up with the failure we deserve."

Sounds a lot like something you'd find on a liberal blog.

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I don't take the Southern Poverty Law Center's word for anything. The SPLC successfully pressred a Nashville hotel to cancel an appearance by Robert Spencer and Pam Geller. Those two are not extremists; they are courageously telling the truth about Islam. They are a lot more mainstream than the leftist hatchet group SPLC. And keeping other people from having an opportunity to speak is not the American way, but the Red way.

The SPLC once called for the disbanding of what it termed dangerous militias including the Mormon Militia. Nevermind the constitutional right to bear arms, under which people have to be found to be breaking the law for the government to disarm them. And it turned out the Mormon Militia didn't have any guns-- a real testament to the SPLC's thoroughness of research. The SPLC is a pernicious attack outfit not an authoritative source.

I have not heard any information about Brett Stevens previously but I didn't see anything on his blog that marked him as extremist. The point is, he is not a Nazi but someone who uses "Amerika" pejoratively. And the Tea Parties have no known links to him.