Name a man who intentionally flew an airplane into an office building because he is angry at the actions of the people inside and who they represent.
Mohammed Atta? Marwan Al-Shehhi? Ahmed Al-Haznawi?
Add the name Joseph Stack to the list. There is no difference, other than the size of the plane and the number of people who were killed.
It’s only by luck that nobody in the IRS building in Texas was killed. Stack clearly didn’t care who else he took with him. He didn’t care what would happen to the people inside. There could have been a day-care center there too, like in Oklahoma City. But Stack was so motivated by fear, hate and ideological fervor, that nothing was going to stop him from carrying out his evil plan.
We can expect more death and destruction at the hands of the radical right wing. The Tea Partiers are riling up all sorts of anti-government fringe elements. At CPAC yesterday, Tea Party leaders encouraged their followers to wage a grass roots war on liberalism.
To quote Dana Loesch with the St. Louis Tea Party: “We have several bars that are infested with liberals in St. Louis. Go there, take them over. Say how much you love the Constitution! Say it loud! Make them feel uncomfortable. Have no mercy, take no prisoners, suffer no fools. Don’t let them have a sanctuary.”
That kind of stuff really sends chills down my spine. It reminds me of the type of language heard in beer halls in Munich in the late 1920’s. If nothing else, it is borderline incitement to violence. It’s not a stretch at all to envision another Joseph Stack taking such language and actually going to such a bar and firebombing it. Mark my words.
Of course, all of this is going on with the encouragement of Republican Party leaders like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who are scared to death that the Tea Partiers will find them insufficiently ideologically pure and roust them from office. John McCain and Charlie Crist are facing vigorous primary challenges from the far right.
Even Mitt Romney has been forced to drink the Kool-Aid. Of course, he only got thunderous applause at CPAC when he made snide attacks against Obama. However, when Romney actually talked about his plans for helping the economy from a business perspective, or defended GW Bush for his fiscal and education policy, the response was much more subdued. The state of the Republican Party is such that Romney now has zero chance of being elected President in 2012. He might as well give up and save his millions now. It’s clear what direction the Republican Party is headed. It may be old, but it sure ain’t Grand.
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