Salon Article says Teabaggers have become the new counterculture

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/republican_party/index.html?stor...

Instead of "Summer of Love" , it's "Winter of Hate". Har, Har.

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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on March 15, 2010 at 8:17pm

Two differences that I notice: the Teabaggers are racist and violence-enabled where the Hippies were not.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on March 15, 2010 at 11:15pm

Obviously you participated in the 60's counter culture because you do not remember the burning ROTC buildings, 1968 Democrat National Convention, the broken windows, burned cars, and of course the Weather Underground. Yes, I know the only people they killed were themselves, but they did set off some bombs. And yes, I know what you will say those were yippies not hippies.... yeah right. So where are the broken windows, burning cars, bombed buildings, after a tea party demonstration? I googled it for you and this is what I found.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1118/violence-at-tea-par...
Here is another racist tea party member for you. Yep, there is a black guy in the crowd. One of the 10% that vote Republican showed up in Chicago to tell BHO ....NO. Just trying to keep this cottage industry going one picture at a time...

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Permalink Reply by GodHatesTrash on March 16, 2010 at 5:03am

All those folks got hit real bad by the ugly stick, fer sure.

Lay off the Doritos, you fat sumbiches.

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Permalink Reply by Van on March 16, 2010 at 6:03am

It's so funny that you're looking through these pictures to find the face of a black person.

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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on March 16, 2010 at 8:03am

It's like the world's easiest game of "Where's Waldo?".

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Permalink Reply by Van on March 16, 2010 at 8:25am

It's not just no black people. As far as I can tell no Hispanics or Asians.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on March 16, 2010 at 7:42pm

You want some asian flavor here you go....It is so funny you say hispanic and asian.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on March 16, 2010 at 8:25pm

Per your request here is a hispanic "bigoted racist"voicing his opinion... I just see them as Americans standing up for their political ideology. I guess you dims just see racists hoarding all the band-aids.

The video below shows what happened when the protesters reached the office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat. As you can see, as one protester complains of arrogance and uncomfortable-looking young staffers survey the scene, the office door is closed, prompting chants of "liar" from the group outside.

The apparent ringleader of the group is then encouraged to enter the office; he declines. Another person then seems to ask the man to keep his voice down so that the police don't remove the protesters.

"Do you think that I going to allow a Chavez take over my country? No sir, you're wrong," the man says. "You haven't seen what these people can do to our liberties."

"I don't care about the police, I'm not scared, I've been arrested in Colombia four times in my life," he adds. "...I get arrested here, no big deal."

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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on March 16, 2010 at 10:53am

Over and over, I've seen pictures of the Teabaggers carrying signs that said something racial.

No, I'm not going to bother to look for them on the Web. Too much trouble to beat a dead horse.

The anti-war movement of the 60s and 70s started off non-violent. Then some of the kids got tired of being beaten up for sitting on the grass and singing.

As for the 1968 Democratic Convention violence, that was perpetrated almost entirely by the Chicago cops, at that time the most corrupt police force in the country. One group of cops was beating the demonstrators and trying to force them out of the park; on the other side, cops were beating them and forcing them to stay in the park. They went into McCarthy's campaign headquarters, shoved his staff around and insulted his wife. We saw pictures of three or four cops standing over a woman who was down on the ground helpless, still beating her with their billy clubs. Yeah, I remember the Great Police Riot of 1968.

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Permalink Reply by glen max davis on March 16, 2010 at 12:32pm

Does anyone remember Kent State? This was a movment to stop war and death. Bagers want to stop help for our fellow man. It is just that simple.

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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on March 16, 2010 at 1:45pm

See a gallery of ignorant, bigoted Tea Party signs.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on March 16, 2010 at 7:53pm

I did not see the n-word on any of the signs. Or any thing about race for that matter. If calling the president a liar makes you a racist then uh oh... you guys/dims are racists. Here is some real racism from the left. Anti-semitism at its finest...