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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTea 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.
mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)they name is teabaggers.
RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)They can make a string of right wing talking points, therefore they already got their base hook, line, and sinker.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)No thank you, because I sense that my having a "more frank discussion of race and culture" with you would likely end in violence.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)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)Bastards.
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)Oh that's right, Tayvon was black, so that doesn't count as much
Jerk
renie408
(9,854 posts)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)I've watched a fair bit of film/video sex, too. Same thing.
no_hypocrisy
(46,112 posts)proverbial Little Red School House makes me sick.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in which to confine these creatures?
Initech
(100,076 posts)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)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)So that's not a bad idea!
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)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.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)I'm not sure if someone like Zimmerman would know how to handle that.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)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)They are a scourge upon the earth. And a waste of oxygen and water.
Kurska
(5,739 posts)I hope we can all collectively remember that next time someone around here starts talking about censoring the media for the children.