The Tea Parties are like an onion of open sedition against the Constitution: They're layers and layers of unconstitutionality wrapped around a core of sheer evil.
Lately, they've anchored their ship largely to one issue: drug testing of government workers and welfare recipients. As a "small government" movement, you'd think the Tea Parties would be against such a policy, right? Well, guess again.
In addition to drug tests being unconstitutional, hardly anybody in the real world supports it. But the Tea Parties and the Republicans have hitched their lives to it because they want to energize the fascist base. America does not have free and fair elections. It has mob rule by the rich.
More to the point, they think you can repeal constitutional rights with a voter referendum. No, it doesn't work that way. This is supposed to be a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy. Pure democracy was one of the things the Constitution's framers opposed. If that's what we had, a handful of states would be invading other states to impose their antiquated laws on an unwilling public.
Be on the lookout for the Mississippi Gulf Coast 912 Project - one of the teabaggingest of the teabagging groups. As an example of their scumbaggery, they call it the 912 Project in an attempt to exploit 9/11 and paint opponents as unpatriotic. Now they're sponsoring a statewide referendum in Mississippi that - if approved by voters in 2012 - would amend the Mississippi Constitution to require all state workers and welfare recipients to take a drug test.
If they asked me to sign their petition to get their referendumb on the ballot, they're walking on the fighting side of me. If there's one valuable lesson I've learned over the years, it's this: In America, you obey the U.S. Constitution. You have no right to deny somebody else's constitutional rights. None.
Worse, this measure would require the person being tested to pay for the drug tests themselves. For state workers, the cost would be docked from their salary. Also, the proposed referendum is full of misspellings.
I believe that before referendums even appear on a ballot, courts should have the power to initiate a case to remove the measure if it's unconstitutional. Our small-r republican system is the glue that bonds a free people, and I favor reasonable safeguards that curtail rule by those such as the teabaggers who lack the moral capacity to govern according to constitutional tenets.
Mississippi has a major geographic characteristic that many other states lack: It abuts international waters. Since the Mississippi Gulf Coast 912 Project hates the Constitution so much, why don't they move to a ship in the Gulf of Mexico so they can start their own country? I think there's a very simple reason why they don't. They'd prefer to whine about America being so unfair to them - and impose their goofy views on the country as a whole.
The Tea Parties are enemies of the working class, enemies of the poor, enemies of science, enemies of the Constitution, and enemies of America. I've always been told that if fascism came to America, it would be wrapped in the flag and waving the Bible. Well, the Tea Parties fit the bill.
If they fuck with me, that could be the biggest mistake they ever made. Do not underestimate me. Because I happen to believe in all 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights - if you catch my drift.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Tea Party sedition and class warfare in Mississippi
Posted by Bandit at 3:52 PM
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