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More on the guy “Speaking Truth to Crazy (hogwash) at the Pensacola Tea Party

Here is some information from the guy who brought some facts to the Pensacola Hate Party…

I had planned to cover the local teabaggery for a while, but really only to livetweet it for posterity.  However, after arriving and taking a few pictures and such, they announced via megaphone, "Anyone who’d like to say a few words is welcome to do so."  Well, they did say anyone …

I worked my way up to the front … well, it wasn’t so much front as it was middle.  It ended up being like a "theater in the round," with the main action taking place in front of a bust of Andrew Jackson, once the governor of territorial Florida with its capital in Pensacola.  I took lots of pictures and videos there (some of which I hope to post shortly at Blast Off!), and I was thinking about what I might say if and when I got up there.  Still, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it.  People were, well, rather rambunctious in their Obama hatred, and the shouting and craziness was, to be honest, a little unnerving.

But when a couple of my friends showed up, one offered to film my "speech," so I figured I’d go for it.  I gave a lot of thought to what I wanted to say, making sure to draw the crowd in so they’d listen carefully before bringing the rhetorical hammer down.  I guess it worked.  :)  After I spoke, the MC of the event calmed everyone down and said, "All opinions are welcome here.  And besides … he’s half right."  That helped defuse the situation a bit, as did the next speaker, who started by complimenting me on my hat (it’s a Baltimore Orioles hat — I was born in Baltimore and I’m a lifelong O’s fan).

Speaking Truth to Crazy at the Pensacola Tea Party

Man speaks truth to the hogwash at a Tea Party

DaddyHogwash.com has been paying extra attention to the ignorance of the Tea Parties because, well, it is a bunch of hogwash.  It is amazing how uninformed these people are.  A more appropriate name would be the Boston Hate Parties.

Watch this guy catch the ignorance red-handed:

Tea Party – April 15, 2009 – Sowing the Seeds of Fascism

Timothy McVeigh: The first modern day Tea Party organizer?

Image via Wikipedia

I know many of the Tea Party people now, and the vast majority of them are completely harmless.  They just feel that they are paying too much in taxes.  Although their comparisons to the Boston Tea Party are ridiculously unrelated to anything they are whining about today, they are harmless.  On the other-hand, some of these people are incredibly coo-coo.  The reason why a federal agency Department of Homeland Security recently warned law enforcement of radicals on the right is because of wackos and jackos like Timothy McVeigh and his buddies who are drawn to these types of events.  If they feel at all threatened, and more importantly, empowered by this nonsense, they may just see it as their destiny to let their craziness loose.

Timothy McVeigh set the bomb which killed 168 people at the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on 19 April 1995. The bomb, made of fertilizer and oil packed into the rear of a rented van, destroyed the front half of the building and killed 149 adults and 19 children. McVeigh, who had served in the U.S. Army from 1988-91, was an extreme conservative who later told investigators he was angry over the federal government’s clashes with white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992 and with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas in 1993. McVeigh was convicted of the crime in 1997 and sentenced to death; he later insisted all appeals on his behalf be dropped and asked to be executed. McVeigh’s co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, was convicted but sentenced to life in prison. McVeigh was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on May 16, 2001 in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. In early May of 2001 the FBI revealed it had withheld from McVeigh’s lawyers documents relevant to the case, and the execution was delayed one month. McVeigh was then killed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.

McVeigh is no relation to Timothy R. McVeigh, the U.S. Navy officer who was discharged in 1997 (though later reinstated) after he was accused of being openly gay.

Timothy McVeigh: Biography from Answers.com

“Burn the Books!” – Tea Party Video

Apparently it is video day on Daddy Hogwash…

I haven’t paid much attention to these Tea Parties; however, I was so embarrassed for these people, I had to post this.  There once was a time when we actually wanted intelligent people running this country…I wonder what the Constitution Party guy has to say about African Americans being counted as 3/5’s of a person…