9/12

The 9-12 March on Washington is scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and possibly across the country in the form of "tea parties". Dick Armey's Freedom Works Foundation is sponsoring and similar groups are paying up to $10,000 to participate. They will have their speakers, including Joe "You Lie" Wilson (R) South Carolina, who brought the town hall temerity into the House Chamber and called the President of the United States a liar during his speech on health care.

I'm a huge supporter of peaceful marching and protesting. When I marched in Washington against the Iraq War and for women's health care, it was the most rewarding democratic process I had participated in second to voting in my entire life.

But, understand this march for what it is and is meant to be.
1) As noted above, this is a corporate-sponsored "grassroots" march.
2) Glenn Beck and FOX News can't have it both ways. Glenn Beck and FOX News are supporting this too and have themselves and logo plastered on the 9/12 Project website; yet, it also reads: Please note that these events and groups are not sponsored by or affiliated with FOX News, Glenn Beck, or their affiliated entities. Glenn Beck is broadcasting this live on FOX News from Washington from 1-3 EST, as advertised.  You know, folks, other people can see and read your website.
3) Also sponsoring and participating in this march is a right wing revolutionary group called the Northern American Rural Lane Land Owners (NARLO), whose website reveals these potential terrorists look forward to violent revolution against the "enemy" government which will lead to the rapid secession of States and ultimately causing a new Civil War.

It is all very frightening and is indeed meant to be, right down to the scary music on their videos.  I can understand why people are skeptical of a government who has lied to them in the past (remember weapons of mass destruction, etc., etc.). Is there any amount of proof otherwise or efforts toward civility and common goals to change a belief so deeply embedded?

As I receive and read the emails remembering 9/11 today, my concern is directed to the potential terrorism on our own soil and not just the aggressive and threatening tactics, including murder, of abortion providers we've known about for years.  As Rachel Maddow asked on her blog today: are these people the Republican Party embrace and surround themselves eight years and one Black president after 9/11? It seems to me that Glenn Beck, FOX News, and others are not only affiliated but are trumpeting this cause. It seems to me that they are directly inciting that violence to occur.

Where are the cooler heads in the Republican Party and why aren't they standing up to take their party back to some level of civility? Was bringing in graduates of religious "universities" with limited knowledge of the world and political ideologues embracing religious-speak worth this?