If you love your freedom, assail a hack

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

If you love your freedom, assail a hack

Bless your heart, sir, my son is over in Eye-Rack, fighting for your right to protest. -- Sarah Palin, to a purported heckler at a rally yesterday.

There's something doubly evil about a self-avowed Christian who prefaces almost every uncharitable remark she makes with a disingenuous "Bless your heart!" In any case, I say this without even the slightest amount of support or emboldening from the US military-- fuck you and your jingoistic blather, Palin. How's that for freedom?

I've dealt with the intellectually bereft assertion that there is a direct relation between domestic freedom and this country's militant imperialism many times so please consider this a brief general election refresher tirade.

We were told years ago that our freedom was on the line in Vietnam. The USA then LOST the Vietnam War but we remained free. To this very day, Charlie has made no forays into my neighborhood -- unless of course you count the NIKE Store that he fills with manufactured goods in exchange for subhuman wages.

If I heart my freedom, thank a vet? Well, maybe a WWII vet but after that, you've got to be kidding me. The military/police state that is America in 2008 is overrun by people who think they have a perfect right to crack protesters in the head, restrict speech and impose ridiculous limitations upon civil liberties-- all in the name of freedom! Habeas corpus is a memory, constitutional safeguards against consolidation of power by the executive branch have been bound and gagged in Dick Cheney's inner office, the Fourth Amendment has been extraordinarily renditioned to parts unknown and the federal government is the silent partner in everyone's cell phone "friends and family" plan. For this I'm supposed to thank some poor sap, stupid enough to join a military with a draft-dodging rich boy serving as its commander in chief? Please. The war in Iraq (and allegedly on terrorism) has been used to curtail my freedoms. Loose lips sink bullshit at times of unnecessary war and we can't have that, can we?

To deal specifically with Palin's putdown of the person at the rally:

1- It's even money the 'heckler' was a plant. Has anyone spoken to him since the rally? Where is he? Gitmo?

2- Considering all the people who have been arrested over the past several years for protesting (or wearing tee-shirts or not being card-carrying Republicans or whatever) at mainstream American political gatherings (both R & D), Palin is relying upon American ignorance with her talk of "fighting for freedom." She has no use for protesters except when  she can put them down by exploiting her own son.

3- With her outburst yesterday, Governor Palin only underscored the fact that her son is in Iraq as a potential human sacrifice to her political ambition. Like her daughter she is forcing into marriage, he has been shoved by his stupid family into an arrangement that may well destroy his life because it is what is best for his mother's cynical aspirations. (At least Biden's son is also promoting his own political ambitions.) Young Palin is also serving as a Hessian in the cause of corporate imperialism. Sadly, that pretty much sums up what this poor dupe is doing in Iraq. To repeat, he doesn't have a goddamned thing to do with my freedom to call Palin on her bumper sticker jingoism. His presence in Iraq doesn't make it safe for me to speak out against reactionary slime like his mother. The First Amendment to the Constitution is what guarantees my right to accurately label political bottom-feeders like Sarah Palin.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and Palin opens with it. Then the freeze-dried fascist sinks even lower by terrorist-baiting her political opponents. She is the worst America has to offer.

So if you love your freedom, thank a protester for confronting penny-ante political thugs like Sarah Palin.



ADD COMMENT

JethrosexualWednesday, October 8th 2008 8:01AM

Thanks, Barry, for taking the piss out of one of the stupidest tropes I've ever heard (from too many liberals, as well). Bonus points for mocking the Christers who apparently think nobody sees their passive-aggressive bullshit for what it is; cowards who can't allow themselves to acknowledge honest anger because of the tight mental leash they're on. Sucks to be them.

tjwashWednesday, October 8th 2008 2:53AM

jeebus B, did someone link you to raptureready.com or something? You must be feeling awfully good about all the praying that is being done for you right now.

Bless your heart...

Walter DufresneTuesday, October 7th 2008 10:46PM

For those of us who agree about assailing that hack Palin, please join forces in helping elect her opposition.  It's the least we can do for that cute demagogue.

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Eric HansenTuesday, October 7th 2008 9:22PM

Thanks for the advice.  Your You Tube link eventually worked for me, though in the meantime I went to You Tube directly to see both the "shaky" video and a longer video that looked at the same event from a different angle.  I concluded from looking at both video segments that the "heckler" was likely a plant, though I also concluded that most of the people commenting at You Tube about the incident wouldn't even consider the possibility that the heckling was staged.  This in spite of their tendency to write as if they were at professional wrestling matches.

I've been far more perturbed trying to post this comment.  It's taken multiple attempts with at least 4 different passcode combinations.  Far too many "there's been an error" messages.

We're doing our best, Eric. I'll talk to my webmaster about your latest complaint.

BC

CharlieTuesday, October 7th 2008 9:16PM

Cheese wiz Barry,
Why is it when people read the truth on your site they get all jammed up in their undies?
MOE-RONS.

kbx4kimTuesday, October 7th 2008 8:17PM

hello,i agree with you completely. after obama wins i hope he sends all repubs to re-education camps. and if they never come back, good ridance.

I don't believe in reeducation camps. Reeducation home schools, maybe, but no camps!

Barry

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Larry in 'lantaTuesday, October 7th 2008 8:11PM

Here's to the folks who are spreading Barry's links on lemmings.com! His site was already very busy but now the traffic will be through the roof.

BTW, how come none of them have any specific response to Barry's point? His and our freedom is not on the line in Iraq.

TomTuesday, October 7th 2008 8:05PM

You're a strange little man

JTDTuesday, October 7th 2008 7:35PM

Hey Concerned;

I think the only time Mommy Moose would say "Please", is in asking for more undeserved attention and power ...

Those Wind-Up Nazis - Is it a turnkey you crank, or do they come with batteries? Are they available at Amazon, or do they just appear at Palin-McCain rallies?

JTD

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Mark MapsTuesday, October 7th 2008 7:32PM

I'm quite embarrassed for you with your "fuck you" anger.  

Are you an adult or some pimply teenager sitting in his mom's basement on a computer paid for by mom, yelling at the grown ups of the world?

If you're an adult, I'd suggest not exposing yourself to the silent ridicule of the mature adults who live around you.  If you're a teenager, I just smile with memories of my own stupidity at age eighteen opposing the Viet Nam war.

Gosh, Mark, you came to my website (along with thousands of others) so why don't you look around and familiarize yourself with me before further humiliating yourself? I'm no kid but at least I respect young people enough to work my whole life to keep them out of insanely unnecessary wars.

Palin is hate-mongering riffraff.

Love and kisses,

Barry Crimmins

MikeInFLTuesday, October 7th 2008 7:17PM

You do know how the phrase 'Bless your heart' (variants 'Bless her heart' and 'Bless his heart') is used in the South by women, don't you?  (The incident happened in Florida.)

The phrase is used all over the place, Mike. It's just that most people don't use it before unleashing malice towards someone.
And Palin has used it nastily all over the place, not just in Florida.

BC

concernedTuesday, October 7th 2008 7:11PM

You Palin-haters sound like a pack of wind-up Nazis.  You clowns would be on her case if she said "Please".

Take this to your graves:  Leftism has caused 150,000,000 excess human deaths during the 20th Century because of whackjobs like you.

"Concerned,"

Please show your incredible math!

BC

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Mrs CTuesday, October 7th 2008 7:03PM

Bless Your Heart, you are a complete idiot.  I'll pray for you and if I can call out a heckler for you, I'll let you know!

Mrs. C,

Congrats on the most incoherent reply so far! Way to go!

Barry

BeezTuesday, October 7th 2008 7:02PM

Bless your heart...you're off your meds again, I see.

Beez, Oh please, anything but insults culled from tee-shirts!

BC

Eric HansenTuesday, October 7th 2008 4:25PM

Are you trying to make a point with the YouTube "connection" at the end of this essay?  When I click on it [Tuesday afternoon] it prints "we're sorry, this video is no longer available".

If you aren't trying to make a point, seems somebody else is.

When a fish rots from the head, where does dissent come from?

Eric, That soemtimes happens with YouTube. It often clears up if you just reload the page. I bet someone has a better explanation. BC

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CHARLIETuesday, October 7th 2008 3:06PM

Barry,
Yeah, young Mister Palin is protecting my freedom as much as drinking protects my sobriety.

P.S.
I've tried to get to your neighborhood only I keep getting lost in the woods.