[lbo-talk] Liberals with guns: scarier than Tea Partiers

[Joseph Catron]

"Maria Harris-Lacewell is a professor at Princeton University, as so
subtly alluded to in the above excerpt from her latest drivel for The
Nation, and she's concerned about the 'legitimacy' of the state -- a
legitimacy she assumes but doesn't explain -- which she notes some
backwards reactionaries have had the temerity to challenge in the age
of Democratic government. Now, considering that U.S. government
imprisons more of its own citizens than any other in the history, with
25 percent of the world's prisoners; that it has more military bases
in more countries than any previous empire in history, and has killed
millions of people from Iraq to Vietnam; and that its current head,
Barack Obama, is openly targeting for extrajudicial killing Americans
and foreigners alike, one might ask: why is a liberal magazine so
concerned about this state's legitimacy?

"Because of the Tea Party movement, you see, whose flashes of racism
and disrespect toward politicians is of more concern to Ivy League
academics than the 'legitimate' state violence they applaud. Tea
Partiers, by accusing the current administration of 'various forms of
totalitarianism . . . are arguing that this government has no right to
levy taxes or make policy,' the professor writes, apparently under the
mistaken belief that most taxes the state levies go to gumdrop bridges
and fairy dust health clinics, rather than less wholesome things like
aircraft carriers and daisy cutters."

http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2010/03/liberals-with-guns-scarier-than-tea.html

On a related note, I trust everyone has seen the classified video
Wikileaks released yesterday of state-sanctioned murder by US troops
in Iraq?

http://www.collateralmurder.com

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