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Related: About this forumTea Party Group Blames Connecticut Shooting On Teachers, Unions, And Sex
By Jeff Spross on Dec 17, 2012 at 12:35 pm
A piece posted to the Tea Party Nation website yesterday, and sent to the groups members in an email from TPN head Judson Phillips, blamed the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on teachers, unions, bureaucracy, and the presence of sex in popular culture. In a lengthy screed thats essentially a round-up of every major cultural and policy grievance the American right holds with the rest of the country, author Timothy Birdnow cited concerns about the mental health of shooter Adam Lanza, the lack of spanking in schools, and the new movie Django Unchained among other things as evidence that American popular culture has made murder, rape, mayhem, hatred, and violence cool.
He then went on to recommend a number of interesting solutions, including a lamentation that George Zimmerman was not guarding Sandy Hook Elementary School:
Back Right to Work legislation for the public sector. Teachers unions have helped cement much of this in place. As long as we have group think in the classrooms we will never see the end of this. ...
Work to devolve power back to the parents, the local officials, and the communities. A society that is top-down will inevitably lead to alienation of the sort we have seen here. This young man was twenty years old, and his actions were neither spurious nor random. As an FBI profiler said on television last night, he undoubtedly felt powerless and sought to remedy that. Why does a twenty year old feel powerless? He could leave his mothers home at any time at his age. He feels powerless because he has lived in an over-bureaucratized society, one run ultimately from a far-away central location. ...
Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. There is a reason why young people commit these sorts of crimes, and sex plays no small part. Their passions are eternally inflamed, and they wander the Earth with no outlet for their overstimulated glands. ....
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. Perhaps its time we start asking for volunteers to protect our children. It will require security checks, but isnt that worth it? This dovetails with the union problem; the unions will fight this measure tooth-and-nail.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/17/1346491/tea-party-group-attributes-connecticut-shooting-to-teachers-unions-and-sex/
freshwest
(53,661 posts)And that is mainly coming from the Tea Party's friends, dehumanizing everyone. This is just the same plan they've been promoting to balkanize America further than they already have. That's why the re-election of Obama is not enough. This is by no means over with.
reteachinwi
(579 posts)Perhaps the worm hole that brought us the tea party is closing and will transport them back to their alternate universe where being out of touch with reality is some sort of evolutionary advantage.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)It's like Ghidorah or something.
no_hypocrisy
(46,114 posts)Judson Philips and Timothy Birdnow, go fuck yourselves. Repeatedly.
orwell
(7,773 posts)...this deranged killer got his guns from his gun-loving mom, who now lies dead from the 4 rounds this mentally disturbed young man pumped into her head.
Sounds like the power was already "devolved".
Aristus
(66,377 posts)George Zimmerman only shoots unarmed people!...
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)if I'm not mistaken.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Sex makes people want to shoot people?
What is wrong with this moron?
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)He probably would have opened the door for him.
Cha
(297,240 posts)F***** Agenda.
This says everything about how they are a Big Part of the Problem and absolutely Nothing about what happened in Newtown, Connecticut.
Keep Digging Tea Koch party Assholes.
Cha
(297,240 posts)He killed an innocent kid.. Wtf would anyone want his ass at any door that was the gateway to Children or People?
The Stupid Is Ugly
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I'm noticing the teabaggeratti and Obama haters are coming out of the woodwork now.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)They can all fuck right off.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)You make it SO much easier for us to win elections!