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Right Wing Truckers featured on Fox call for violence

These guys had their group promoted on Greta Van Sustren's show on Fox News, because of course they did.

. . . Pete Santilli, a spokesman for Truckers Ride for the Constitution, suggested that violence against the government would be justified if his group's plan to jam the Capital Beltway that surrounds Washington, D.C., and ask members of Congress to resign fails.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/09/audio-conspiracy-theorist-radio-host-calls-for/196365

Here is a partial transcript of this kooks rant . .
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SANTILLI: I'm going to call this financial terrorism on this October 7, 2013, our people, okay, not our government, we are the government, the people that are running our credit cards, okay, on our behalf are committing financial terrorism against the American people. That right there is an act of war, is an act of terroristic war upon the American people, and we will respond.
And I would say at this point in time, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go so far as to say this: that if we were to respond even violently with the Second Amendment, if we were to respond violently with the Second Amendment it would be the equivalent of us going out and doing a preemptive strike on our foreign enemies. That that would be justified at this point because of the war that has been perpetrated upon our American people.

Let me put on my Union Army Kepi to help decipher this lunacy below the fold.

So you have decided to start a violent civil war against the U.S. Government. Need I remind you what happened to the last rebels who tried that?

Santilli's bizarre rant is like a window into the rabid teabaggers mind. The gubmint is gonna take our guns and give them to al Qaeda. Santilli says economic terrorism is letting WalMart ship our jobs overseas, but I will bet good money that this meathead voted for Mitt Romney, and then Santilli tops it off by saying that we shouldn't wait for the next round of "Fraudulent" elections because his side didn't win and that is justification for the violent overthrow of the US Government. In short, these people are nucking futs.

This is what happens when Government by hostage demands becomes the norm. Before long every conservative nut job tries to get in on the act.

And this lunacy is fed on a daily basis by the Right Wing Lie Machine, a machine that paints anyone who isn't a right winger as a socialist who hates freedom and yada yada yada, because as the GOP power sphere grows smaller and smaller the paranoid kooks who listen to Limbaugh all day become crazier and crazier until you end up with a conservative movement that makes less sense than an Old Spice commercial.

So to Pete Santilli and his mindless gaggle of slack jawed yokels I have only this to say.

Bring it on.

I dare you to put your money where your mouth is. You go right ahead with your war against the most powerful military machine in the world. Nothing says "I'm a delusional crackpot" like declaring war on the U.S. Government. Yeah, maybe the 3% of armed kooks on your side has guns, but the U.S. Government has bunker busters.

Because the Couch Potato Coup that right wingers have dreamed up where they can shutdown the Government until Paul Ryan's agenda is forced upon America with a knife to our throat is doomed to fail. The stochastic terrorism that the FoxNewsiverse spews like a poisonous cloud into our national dialogue creates loons like these truckers, self righteous know-nothings who talk big and carry a limp stick. And who can we thank for unleashing these violent morons on America? The right wing, that's who we can thank, because whenever you meet a paranoid gun clutching white guy who can't tell his ass from his elbow you can be sure to turn to the Republican Party and Fox News and remind them "You Built That"

Crap like this is why I wear a Union Army Kepi. It reminds me that the last time an open rebellion against an election result took place in America the Union won and the South lost. If anything I'd like to take a page from the GOP playbook on this and kindly suggest to these truckers and the rest of the dead-enders who believe every idiotic lie they hear in the FoxNewsiverse, if you don't like America anymore than you can GET OUT. Move somewhere else. Go Galt. Do whatever it is hissyfit throwing white guys do, just do it somewhere else, because if anyone is the domestic terrorist around here it is certainly the truck driving kook who thinks that violence is justifiable when you can't beat Barack Obama in an election.

Because there are millions and millions of Americans who support this President. There are millions and millions of Americans who want a sane and functional Federal Government. And there are plenty of dedicated US Soldiers who will take Pete Santelli out faster than you can say "Teabag"
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