Things That Just Piss Me Off

These guys used to be a favorite topic of mine because they so clearly represent everything that is wrong with the republican party today. Republicans may take offense but today’s republican party represents wiretapping, crime, gay politicians, terrible foreign policy, suppression of privacy, suppression of freedoms this country stands for, and unjust or unreasonable wars.

Redstate.com personifies this as a neo-con website. I used to go there and post. My last post was to defend freedom of speech. A politician had said something they did not like and I said he had the right to say what he wants. It’s freedom of speech. They banned me for defendinmg that politician’s right to say what he wants and exercizing his freedom of speech.

This story will go a little further so you know I’m not exaggerating about these people;

From Wired
By Sarah Lai Stirland

Conservative Blog Limits New Ron Paul Supporters

RedState.com announced Tuesday that all but veteran users are henceforth prohibited from posting messages supporting the long-shot Republican presidential candidate, whose fans have emerged as an usually vocal and motivated presence on internet forums.

“Effective immediately, new users may not shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion,” wrote Leon Wolf, one of RedState’s bloggers. “Not in comments, not in diaries, nada.”

“If your account is less than six months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul,” he added. “Those with accounts more than six months old may proceed as normal.”

“These people are not part of the Republican coalition. It’s somewhat naive to think that these people will stay in the race with Republicans when Ron Paul is no longer in the race,” said Erickson.

“This doesn’t hurt Paul’s credibility as much as it does Redstate’s,” wrote blogger Ed Morrissey on his blog Captain’s Quarters. “While Paul’s supporters tend towards the annoying and repetitive, they have less impact because we can easily engage them and counter their arguments. Banning them simply for their support for a candidate seems more like an admission that RedState lacks that ability.”

However, redstate.com uses banning people to control their content all the time. They want the republicans who go there to only be able to read what they want them to read. This is not a blog. This is a propaganda machine plain and simple.

The online equivalent to fox news, the fake news show that takes the republican and the george bush side all the time and used to put out the joke about being fair and balanced.

On a recent fox news program about the fires in California, fox news representatives blamed Al Gore for not being there and once again raised their petty jealousy about him winning the nobel peace prize for environmental concerns. They keep saying that they don’t understand why he won since it was the environment and not about peace as if that is the first time it ever happened.

They want people to believe that democrats now control the nobel peace prize and gore won because of politics and that this is the first time the nobel peace prize was awarded for enviromental work when in fact it has been awarded at least twice before to people involved in working to improve the environment. So this is no precedent and had a republican been awarded the peace prize, (highly unlikely but use your imagination), fox news would have had tv specials honoring the recipient and all the republicans would be cheering.

I’ve never voted democrat. I have voted republican. But with the current atmosphere of fear and intimidation by republicans and places like redstate.com. That and the false information our government, the republican party, fox news, and other republicans keep feeding the public will make me decide to change parties this time around.

I will no longer support pre-emptive wars, meddling in the affairs of other countries and dictating to them, torture, wiretapping of amercian citizens, suppression of freedom and privacy, or any of the other things the current administration and the current republican party stands for.

The Republican View of the Bill of Rights. Click the picture to enlarge it.

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