When a far-right group last weektried to blame the Boston Marathon bombing on abortion and gays, it was fairly easy to chuckle and marvel at the inanity. When a Republican state lawmaker tries to blame the Boston Marathon bombing on the United States government, it's a lot less funny.
State Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) posted on conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's Facebook page Friday that the attack and the subsequent search for suspects was playing out how Beck had suggested. She said the bombings were a plot by the federal government, and included a link to a video from another conservative talk show host Alex Jones, in which Jones also claims the federal government planned the bombing. Tremblay's message to Beck was posted Friday morning, before suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested.
Though she didn't clarify, Tremblay said the events had unfolded in Boston "just as" Beck "said would happen."
As the Huffington Post report added, Tremblay is also a birther who recently argued that former President Woodrow Wilson agreed with Adolf Hitler, despite the fact that Wilson died before Hitler rose to power. One of Tremblay's aides believes the U.S. government is under the control of Queen Elizabeth II.
Pressed for an explanation by a local news outlet, the New Hampshire Republican said she had suspicions of some kind of plot involving Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi nationals, and "black ops" soldiers.
Say hello to the Glenn Beck wing of the Republican Party.
And before you dismiss this as the strange rants of a crazed and largely unknown state lawmaker, let's not overlook the fact that last week, Beck used his Internet show to push a bogus claim about a Boston suspect, but his arguments quickly drew attention from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, and the chairwoman of the House subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security -- all of whom are Republicans, and all of whom took Beck's nonsense seriously.
There's a strain of madness running through contemporary Republican politics, and it runs deeper than just some random state lawmaker in New Hampshire.
My comments:
As one scans the GOP legislators across the nation, you start to realize there is a common insanity component in each one of them. There had been great discipline in the GOP to stay in lockstep with the national party agenda and PR. But the TeaPublicans have taken power of the party to such an extent that even the old establishment members are in fear of the TeaPublican members.
As FDR stated, "The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself." Obviously since FDR was a progressive, the GOP just remains fearful, ALL THE TIME now.
These crazies would be humorous if it was not that they hold enough power now to affect public policy and inflame the electorate with these crazy statements to the point that it could lead to armed conflict against their fellow citizen. We see this with the fervor of the 2nd Amendment nuts who cherish it over all other rights and even life itself. There paranoia is permeating throughout the country by triggering the inner racial divide that still exists in this country.
9/11 terrorists attacks accomplished their goal. Bin Laden knew, as he stated in one of his videos, that by their terrorists acts, they will cause such great fear in America that they will forsake democracy and freedom for security and will spend the entire treasury to accomplish it.
It did something else too. It awakened the deep paranoia of the conservative mind. As we now know through scientific study that conservatives are naturally paranoid of everything and harbor deep fear of change or anything they can't comprehend and that is complex. Adding to this emerging group paranoia we have a black president that boils over the underlying racism of these paranoid conservatives. It is the perfect storm for the undermining of our nation.
As one scans the GOP legislators across the nation, you start to realize there is a common insanity component in each one of them. There had been great discipline in the GOP to stay in lockstep with the national party agenda and PR. But the TeaPublicans have taken power of the party to such an extent that even the old establishment members are in fear of the TeaPublican members.
As FDR stated, "The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself." Obviously since FDR was a progressive, the GOP just remains fearful, ALL THE TIME now.
These crazies would be humorous if it was not that they hold enough power now to affect public policy and inflame the electorate with these crazy statements to the point that it could lead to armed conflict against their fellow citizen. We see this with the fervor of the 2nd Amendment nuts who cherish it over all other rights and even life itself. There paranoia is permeating throughout the country by triggering the inner racial divide that still exists in this country.
9/11 terrorists attacks accomplished their goal. Bin Laden knew, as he stated in one of his videos, that by their terrorists acts, they will cause such great fear in America that they will forsake democracy and freedom for security and will spend the entire treasury to accomplish it.
It did something else too. It awakened the deep paranoia of the conservative mind. As we now know through scientific study that conservatives are naturally paranoid of everything and harbor deep fear of change or anything they can't comprehend and that is complex. Adding to this emerging group paranoia we have a black president that boils over the underlying racism of these paranoid conservatives. It is the perfect storm for the undermining of our nation.
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