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ck4829

(35,077 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:23 PM Dec 2012

Tea Party Nation chimes in... Disarm the Unions and make people like George Zimmerman school guards

Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips sent out an email to members yesterday featuring an article by TPN member Timothy Birdnow attacking teachers over the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. He said that parents must “take away the power of the radicals in the classrooms” and lawmakers must introduce right to work laws to cripple teachers’ unions. He says liberals “destroyed the family” and encouraged the shooter to be “coddled all his life, given free rein to indulge his senses but not to face the responsibilities that freedom necessitates… He lived in a world of the Progressives making, not in reality.” Birdnow even suggests that President Obama will use the shooting to “to advance the cause of disarming the American People” and argue that people like George Zimmerman (!) should be guarding schools.

After accusing the left of using this to score political points, Tea Party Nation goes on to suggest several 'ideas' that they say would have stopped this:
* Homeschool.
* Back Right to Work legislation for the public sector.
* Engage in more frank discussion of race and culture.
* Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet.
* Support the creation of local organizations to act as “neighborhood watch” for schools. Had George Zimmerman been at the front door instead of some mechanical card reader those children would still be alive.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-attacks-teachers-over-ct-school-shooting

Ya, really.

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Tea Party Nation chimes in... Disarm the Unions and make people like George Zimmerman school guards (Original Post) ck4829 Dec 2012 OP
idiots mikeysnot Dec 2012 #1
Adam Lanza was home schooled. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #2
Tea Party Nation can never be inconvenienced by little things like facts ck4829 Dec 2012 #6
Uhhhh ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 #3
They do know Adam was homeschooled, right? nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #4
The day a George Zimmerman works at one of my kid's schools gollygee Dec 2012 #5
See, the crafty bastards used thier last one to make sure you'd follow their first one. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #11
LOL gollygee Dec 2012 #12
I guess they forgot that Zimmerman murdered a child all american girl Dec 2012 #21
Sex? What about violence in movies?? renie408 Dec 2012 #7
I've had a lot of sex in my life and it's never made me want to go shoot people. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #14
The mental image of George Zimmerman guarding the doors to the no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #8
Are there no lunatic asylums hifiguy Dec 2012 #9
Maybe we can pay for them all one way plane tickets to Somalia. Initech Dec 2012 #16
The Moon is uninhabited. hifiguy Dec 2012 #18
According to Newt Gingrich we'll have a moon colony established by 2020. Initech Dec 2012 #23
Their more like Oxymoron Nation. nt Snotcicles Dec 2012 #10
I wouldn't let George Zimmerman and his ilk within a mile of any children of mine. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #13
Oh my god these people are stupid. Initech Dec 2012 #15
Hey, Judson Phillips, have you paid your $748,000 hotel bill? Brother Buzz Dec 2012 #17
Most, if not all, of these school shooters have been white. sadbear Dec 2012 #19
George Zimmerman at the front door wouldn't have stopped this jmowreader Dec 2012 #20
Aaaaaannndddd the idiot faction is heard from. Zoeisright Dec 2012 #22
"Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. " Tea party approved! Kurska Dec 2012 #24

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
6. Tea Party Nation can never be inconvenienced by little things like facts
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:32 PM
Dec 2012

They can make a string of right wing talking points, therefore they already got their base hook, line, and sinker.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
3. Uhhhh ...
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:29 PM
Dec 2012
* Engage in more frank discussion of race and culture.


No thank you, because I sense that my having a "more frank discussion of race and culture" with you would likely end in violence.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
5. The day a George Zimmerman works at one of my kid's schools
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:31 PM
Dec 2012

is the day I homeschool. Period.

The idea is to make schools SAFER, not have trigger-happy bigots running around there.

 

RomneyLies

(3,333 posts)
11. See, the crafty bastards used thier last one to make sure you'd follow their first one.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:36 PM
Dec 2012

Bastards.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
12. LOL
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:42 PM
Dec 2012

The only reason homeschooling would help to keep kids safer from school shootings is because they wouldn't be at school.

all american girl

(1,788 posts)
21. I guess they forgot that Zimmerman murdered a child
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 06:04 PM
Dec 2012

Oh that's right, Tayvon was black, so that doesn't count as much
Jerk

renie408

(9,854 posts)
7. Sex? What about violence in movies??
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:32 PM
Dec 2012

This is a perfect example of someone forming an opinion and then working backward to support it.

"I like guns. Because I like them, guns must be good. I don't like teachers or unions, they are always bad. If someone uses a gun in a classroom, it must be the fault of the teacher's union."

That sex thing is a lot harder to follow, but the same 'logic' is surely involved.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
14. I've had a lot of sex in my life and it's never made me want to go shoot people.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:03 PM
Dec 2012

I've watched a fair bit of film/video sex, too. Same thing.

no_hypocrisy

(46,112 posts)
8. The mental image of George Zimmerman guarding the doors to the
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:32 PM
Dec 2012

proverbial Little Red School House makes me sick.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
16. Maybe we can pay for them all one way plane tickets to Somalia.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:15 PM
Dec 2012

And then revoke their passports so they can't get back into the country.; They want a fundamentalist Utopia where religious fascism reigns, guns everywhere and the workers get nothing? Let 'em experience it first hand!

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
18. The Moon is uninhabited.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:20 PM
Dec 2012

And it's almost a quarter million miles away. No government, no nothing. I vote for a mass deportation to the Moon! One way tickets only, of course.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
23. According to Newt Gingrich we'll have a moon colony established by 2020.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:48 PM
Dec 2012

So that's not a bad idea!

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
13. I wouldn't let George Zimmerman and his ilk within a mile of any children of mine.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:01 PM
Dec 2012

And Adam Lanza was homeschooled - that worked out SO well for everyone involved.

Oh, and..... "....Engage in more frank discussion of race and culture...." = Just let us call folks n----rs and k--es and be---rs and f-gs and such so we can let off some steam and everything will be ok.

sadbear

(4,340 posts)
19. Most, if not all, of these school shooters have been white.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:21 PM
Dec 2012

I'm not sure if someone like Zimmerman would know how to handle that.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
20. George Zimmerman at the front door wouldn't have stopped this
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:26 PM
Dec 2012

Lanza got in by breaking out a window.

And homeschooling? What would have stopped him from getting a backpack full of empty two-liter plastic coke bottles and a hose clamp (good field expedient silencer for about ten shots) and going house-to-house?

Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
22. Aaaaaannndddd the idiot faction is heard from.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 06:05 PM
Dec 2012

They are a scourge upon the earth. And a waste of oxygen and water.

Kurska

(5,739 posts)
24. "Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. " Tea party approved!
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:52 PM
Dec 2012

I hope we can all collectively remember that next time someone around here starts talking about censoring the media for the children.

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