Dan Gonzales Greenville Tea Party 17APR10

[Shallah Kali]

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S.C. Tea Party Mayhem: Racism, Sedition, Paranoia and Homophobia

http://chattahbox.com/us/2010/04/19/s-c-tea-party-mayhem-racism-sedition-paranoia-and-homophobia/

Tea party activists in South Carolina apparently didn’t receive the memo to tone down their incendiary rhetoric, in the wake of death threats and violent acts waged against U.S. lawmakers. A tea party rally held in Greenville over the weekend provided the few thousand in attendance a cornucopia of racism, hate, paranoia, seditious calls to take up arms against the government and anti-gay rhetoric. And the offensive remarks receiving the most attention were those made by the event’s keynote speaker, race-baiting nativist and former U.S. congressman Tom Tancredo. He took to the podium and whipped up the crowd with an anti-Obama racist birther rant: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?”

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Racist birtherism, check. Fearmongering, check. What’s left? Oh, yes a call to arms against the federal government. Pastor Stan Craig, of the Choice Hills Baptist Church was on hand to provide the sedition rhetoric, saying he “was trained to defend the liberties of this nation.” He shouted that he was ready to “suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do.”

And Dan Gonzales, chair of the Florida Constitution Party, provided the paranoia and new world order conspiracy theories, ranting about the Rockefellers controlling the Republican Party. Gonzales also was prepared for an armed battle against the federal government. “{T}his is the end of America right here,” and if the Tea Partiers “don’t get to work we’re going to be fighting in the streets,” he declared.

To top off the incendiary rhetoric, another speaker accused Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of being a traitor and a danger to America, because he may be gay: