Conservative Canadian editor Jonathan Kay attended the U.S. Tea Party convention in Nashville, not as a news reporter but as a paying participant. While most American reporters focused on Sarah Palin's speech, Kay says he was amazed by the number of "unhinged paranoiacs" at the assembly.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Conservative Canadian editor Jonathan Kay attended the U.S. Tea Party convention in Nashville, not as a news reporter but as a paying participant. While most American reporters focused on Sarah Palin's speech, Kay says he was amazed by the number of "unhinged paranoiacs" at the assembly.
In a Newsweek report titled "Black Helicopters Over Nashville," the managing editor of Canada's National Post recounts how he was repelled by "toxic fantasies being spewed from the podium."
For example, Texas radio host Alex Jones claimed that Barack Obama's presidency is a plot by leaders of the New World Order to "con the American people into accepting global slavery." Kay continued:
"According to this dark vision, America's 21st-century traumas signal the coming of a great political cataclysm, in which a false prophet such as Barack Obama will upend American sovereignty and render the country into a godless, one-world, socialist dictatorship run by the United Nations from its offices in Manhattan."
Judge Roy Moore -- who was removed in Alabama for illegally installing a huge Ten Commandments monument in his courthouse, and now is a GOP candidate for governor -- warned the Nashville gathering of "a U.N. guard stationed in every house."
Another Tea Party figure warned that "Washington, D.C., liberals had engineered the financial crash so they could destroy the value of the U.S. dollar, pay off America's debts with worthless paper, and then create a new currency called the Amero that would be used in a newly created North American Currency Union with Canada and Mexico."
Various "birthers" at the convention contended that Obama was born in Kenya, thus fails to meet the Constitution's requirement that the president must be a "natural born citizen."
Meanwhile, Tuesday's New York Times contained a long analysis of oddball extremists among the hodgepodge of Tea Party leaders -- including armed "militia" crackpots. One female organizer expressed fears of "another civil war." The paper added:
"In Indiana, Richard Behney, a Republican Senate candidate, told Tea Party supporters what he would do if the 2010 elections did not produce result to his liking: 'I'm cleaning my guns and getting ready for the big show. And I'm serious about that, and I bet you are too."
The lily-white Tea Party movement seems laced with unspoken racial prejudice against America's first black president, the Times noted. Barack Obama is endlessly depicted as "not one of us" and even as an African witch doctor. He's called an agent of the New World Order, covertly bringing "socialist tyranny" to America through plots such as universal health care.
No wonder Alice Moore, who caused Kanawha County's 1974 uprising against "godless textbooks," became a Tea Party participant at Nashville.
This movement is sort of a wing of the Republican Party. The GOP national committee created a Web page urging supporters to mail teabags and send electronic teabag pictures to Democratic leaders. Later, the page was removed.
Heaven help America. Even Bill O'Reilly, the dean of Fox News conservatives, was moved to say:
"Some of these Tea Party people are nuts. They are. They're crazy. I mean, we sent Jesse Watters down there, and he puts the number at about 10 percent who are just loons, out of their mind."
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Conservative Canadian editor Jonathan Kay attended the U.S. Tea Party convention in Nashville, not as a news reporter but as a paying participant. While most American reporters focused on Sarah Palin's speech, Kay says he was amazed by the number of "unhinged paranoiacs" at the assembly.
In a Newsweek report titled "Black Helicopters Over Nashville," the managing editor of Canada's National Post recounts how he was repelled by "toxic fantasies being spewed from the podium."
For example, Texas radio host Alex Jones claimed that Barack Obama's presidency is a plot by leaders of the New World Order to "con the American people into accepting global slavery." Kay continued:
"According to this dark vision, America's 21st-century traumas signal the coming of a great political cataclysm, in which a false prophet such as Barack Obama will upend American sovereignty and render the country into a godless, one-world, socialist dictatorship run by the United Nations from its offices in Manhattan."
Judge Roy Moore -- who was removed in Alabama for illegally installing a huge Ten Commandments monument in his courthouse, and now is a GOP candidate for governor -- warned the Nashville gathering of "a U.N. guard stationed in every house."
Another Tea Party figure warned that "Washington, D.C., liberals had engineered the financial crash so they could destroy the value of the U.S. dollar, pay off America's debts with worthless paper, and then create a new currency called the Amero that would be used in a newly created North American Currency Union with Canada and Mexico."
Various "birthers" at the convention contended that Obama was born in Kenya, thus fails to meet the Constitution's requirement that the president must be a "natural born citizen."
Meanwhile, Tuesday's New York Times contained a long analysis of oddball extremists among the hodgepodge of Tea Party leaders -- including armed "militia" crackpots. One female organizer expressed fears of "another civil war." The paper added:
"In Indiana, Richard Behney, a Republican Senate candidate, told Tea Party supporters what he would do if the 2010 elections did not produce result to his liking: 'I'm cleaning my guns and getting ready for the big show. And I'm serious about that, and I bet you are too."
The lily-white Tea Party movement seems laced with unspoken racial prejudice against America's first black president, the Times noted. Barack Obama is endlessly depicted as "not one of us" and even as an African witch doctor. He's called an agent of the New World Order, covertly bringing "socialist tyranny" to America through plots such as universal health care.
No wonder Alice Moore, who caused Kanawha County's 1974 uprising against "godless textbooks," became a Tea Party participant at Nashville.
This movement is sort of a wing of the Republican Party. The GOP national committee created a Web page urging supporters to mail teabags and send electronic teabag pictures to Democratic leaders. Later, the page was removed.
Heaven help America. Even Bill O'Reilly, the dean of Fox News conservatives, was moved to say:
"Some of these Tea Party people are nuts. They are. They're crazy. I mean, we sent Jesse Watters down there, and he puts the number at about 10 percent who are just loons, out of their mind."
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I was neither one, ……. why do you ask?
Tell Me, I was actually too busy working to provide a better life for myself and designing computer related products to make life a little better for the rest of the populace, ….. rather than sitting around on my arse smoking wacky tobacco, troughfeeding off the taxpayers and joining in every form of protest movement the weirdos could think up.
I’m kinda proud to think that the world is a little better off because of my contribution to society.
How bout yourself?