President Obama Facing Dangerous Crowd

Tea Party Racism

Re: Tea parties prepare for Obama visit to Charlotte – CharlotteObserver.com, By Jim Morrill and Bruce Henderson, Staff Writers, Posted: Thursday, Apr. 01, 2010

President will tour plant that has green jobs; demonstration leaders urge a peaceful protest.

Tea party groups from around the Piedmont are planning to protest President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and other policies Friday, though details of the presidential visit remained sketchy Wednesday.

Tea party organizers said they expect protesters from as far as Asheville to descend on southwest Charlotte, near the Celgard plant the president plans to tour.

Celgard has been among the most prominent examples of the green-energy jobs that Charlotte’s economic development leaders hope to expand. The company makes porous membranes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers, digital cameras and other devices.

Obama is scheduled to make a midday visit to the plant, which he’s expected to tour before he speaks about the economy.

Tea party protestors as a group are a slurry mix of just about every dumbed-down, emotionally driven, faux institution along with every hell-bent, ideologically rabid, wolf pack you could imagine. They include, but are not limited to:

*birthers (he’s born in Kenya, etc.),
*deathers (death panels. Grandma’s plug pulled, remember? dwindled. not a big issue anymore since all these facts got out about HCR.),
*armed christian militia/survivalists (crazy dangerous. group arrested in Michigan this past week. they will show up with guns and 2nd amendment signs. they all train together. arrest them all.),
*Birchers (John Birch Society, 1950’s hold-overs still ranting about communist takeovers. Koch brothers are members, uber billionaires, Koch Industries, father was founding member, Koch brothers started Americans for Prosperity, bankrolls tea parties. radically opposed to anything “socialist”. not grassroots no matter how loud they get. inches from becoming armed survivalists.),
*racists (will carry signs depicting Obama caricatured as almost anything except an American President. shouts the “n” word at black passersby.),
*xenophobes (loudly suspicious of anyone brown and foreign-looking/sounding. sees terrorists everywhere.),
*libertarians (no taxes, period. never mind all the public transportation they used to get there.),
*tenthers (refers to the 10th Amendment. 13 states’ Attorneys General are filing a frivolous and improbable lawsuit claiming the health care mandate, a Republican idea, is unconstitutional. they believe states have the power above the federal government. big dog whistle for anti-civil rights.),
*cold warriors (stuck in the 60’s cold war. be afraid of the communist threat.)
*Zionists (more anti-Muslim than pro Israel. picture Senator John McCain on stage singing, “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran”.)

The organizers of the tea party factions are calling for peaceful protests:

Protesters announced their plans on Facebook.

They plan to gather on South Tryon Street at Carowinds Boulevard. Craig Nannini, a tea party organizer, urged protesters to remain peaceful.

“Remember, even if you vehemently disagree with President Obama, respect the office,” he wrote. “Bring respectful signs (hand carry the signs, no sticks), and if counter-protesters come, be respectful and civil to your fellow Americans, even if they are not. We need the story to be about the message, not anything else, so everyone be on your best behavior.”

Since Congress passed the health care law this month, there have been reported threats on both sides. Michael Kelly, president of the tea party group We The People NC, said the protests will be civil.

“We expect the opposition to protest and try to incite violence,” he said, “and we intend to remain peaceful about it.”

Can you believe this BS? This Craig Nannini is trying to inject a pre-determined judgment that “counter-protestors” will show up and be the ones to blame if the tea party protestors get out of hand. He wants the tea party folks to have the luxury of washing their hands, shedding culpability ahead of the event, if things get crazy. It’s like a pre-apology, you know, “forgive me if this hurts you, but I’m doing it anyway”. He is afraid things will get out of hand and is cowardly weaseling away from responsibility.

Now that we have a good picture of who the tea party protestors are we have to look at the fact that these crazies are showing up tomorrow at a Presidential event near Charlotte. Good luck, Mr. President. Wear body armor.

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