Displaced Aggression

People forget too quickly.

The Democratic Party is the Fire Department
President Obama is the Fire Chief

The Bush Administration was too busy trying to dismantle Social Security to take action on the memo; “bin Laden determined to strike in US”. “Counterterrorism 'tsar' Richard Clarke will later suggest that 9/11 might have been stopped “if [National Security Adviser] Rice and the president had acted personally, gotten involved, shaken the trees, gotten the Cabinet members involved when they had ample warning in June and July and August that something was about to happen.…”
History Commons-http://is.gd/6G4p3

The Bush Administration focused on the oil in Iraq and ignored Osama bin Laden in the Pashtun Province.

The Bush Administration and the Republican Party set the fires that are burning down our economy, health care, national security and employment. They are the arsonists.

Reconciliation with Republicans, Hell no! I think some arrests need to be made.

Just politics or hate group

"As I came out of the bank on a Saturday morning, they noticed my small flag pin which included the name 'Obama' beneath the flag. I was trapped at the intersection and threatened explicitly with being thrown into the street in the path of oncoming traffic. I was truly frightened! That was the scaryest thing that's happened to me in a long time

I do not understand why they are permitted to threaten peaceable citizens on their personal business in our downtown streets.

One of them, Sean Carpenter prominently featured in this video, is a Republican endorsed 2009 candidate for West Chester Area School Board." Kipp Stone-Candidate for Chester County Treasurer

It's sad to say that a once proud Republican Party here in Chester County is morphing into a White Nationalist / Christian Reconstructionist extremist group.

This is not “just Chester County politics” this is a hate group. I think the violence has nowhere is its peak yet. At least some of the Pagan motorcycle gang members can't support the Sheepdogs for a little while.

See the Southern Poverty Law Center Report Return of the Militias:
http://www.splcenter.org/images/dynamic/main/The_Second_Wave.pdf

In regard to the West Chester School Board election

All the tactics of the extreme right Christian Reconstructionists are well outlined by various groups that follow extremist activity. The ends justifies the means is a basic precept of Christian Reconstructionism. Lies are common in right wing political propaganda. Mid term elections where there is a low turnout is the primary way that Christian Reconstructionists infiltrate school boards, local government and Republican Committees.

This is excerpted from a Public Eye document:

“Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure, and they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order." Similar stealth tactics have epitomized the resurgence of the Christian Right, as groups like Citizens for Excellence in Education and the Christian Coalition have quietly backed candidates who generally avoided running as overtly "Christian" candidates. The Christian Coalition actually proposed something similar to Gary North's notion of "infiltration" when its 1992 "County Action Plan" for Pennsylvania advised that "You should never mention the name Christian Coalition in Republican circles." The goal, apparently, is to facilitate becoming "directly involved in the local Republican Central Committee so that you are an insider. This way," continues the manual, "you can get a copy of the local committee rules and a feel for who is in the current Republican Committee." The next step is to recruit conservative Christians to occupy vacant party posts or to run against moderates who "put the Republican Party ahead of principle."

“Central to the Christian Right's strategy is to exploit the national pattern of low voter participation by turning out their constituents in a strategically disciplined fashion and in greater proportion than the rest of the population. An important vehicle for achieving this goal is the ideology of Christian Reconstructionism or its stripped-down root, dominionism, which at once deepens the political motivation of their constituency and widens that constituency by systematically mobilizing a network of churches, many of which were politically uninvolved until the early 1990s.”

“Generally, Reconstructionism seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that would govern by imposing their interpretation of "Biblical Law." Reconstructionism would eliminate not only democracy but many of its manifestations, such as labor unions, civil rights laws, and public schools. Women would be generally relegated to hearth and home. Insufficiently Christian men would be denied citizenship, perhaps executed. So severe is this theocracy that it would extend capital punishment beyond such crimes as kidnapping, rape, and murder to include, among other things, blasphemy, heresy, adultery, and homosexuality.”

The Public Eye document is historical and was published in 1994. Christian Reconstructionists have made great strides and now dominate the Republican Base.

http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisrec.html

From “Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal:
“Even though Manifesto- and its call for literally attacking the foundations of liberal democracy – went unnoticed by mainstream America, it sold a whopping 250,000 copies in its first year after publication. “What’s amazing about Christian Manifesto, “Frank Schaeffer remarked to me, “was that my father was practically calling for the overthrow of the United States government. If his words had come out of the mouth of anyone other than a white American it would have been called sedition. Instead, we were invited to the White House and I went swimming in Michael Ford’s pool.”

Campaign mailer has West Chester Area officials riled
Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Daily Local News

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/10/21/news/srv0000006660943.txt

"WHAT UP?" With "Mikie" Steele and a biography of Ann Rand on the John Stewart Show.

Jackie Robinson's writing certainly has the ring of truth here in Chester County, PA:

This is an excerpt from Jackie Robinson’s autobiography
I NEVER HAD IT MADE
Jackie Robinson
Chapter XV:
On Being Black Among The Republicans

“By and large Republicans had ignored blacks and sometimes handpicked a few servile leaders in the black community to be their token "niggers". How would I sound trying to go all out to sell Republicans to black people? They're not buying. They know better.”
Read more at:
http://www.framinghamdems.org/JackRob.html

DNC: "Steele And GOP Have Thrown In Their Lot With The Terrorists By Criticizing Obama’s Nobel"

The GOP’s statements about the President’s Nobel Prize are for its base. Its base does not think; the GOP’s base follows its leaders.

I think the right wing shift away from Democracy is very real.

I believe that is not so much that the Republicans are un-American or traitors. I believe they want to bring down government by the people and for the people and make it government by the wealthy corporations and for the wealthy corporations.

Read “Republican Gomorrah” by Max Blumenthal and “Blood and Politics-The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream” by Leonard Zeskind. Both books give a parallel history of the extremist movement that was on the fringes of the Republican Party in Eisenhower’s day and is now at the center of the Republican Party.

Freedom and Democracy require work from ordinary citizens. The desire for freedom may be in equal opposition to the desire to let someone else make decisions for you.

President Eisenhower saw first hand that the war criminals of Nazi Germany were carpenters, plumbers, bakers; just ordinary people. He fully understood that the same kind of ordinary people lived here. I believe that was the basis of his fear of the fringe element that existed in the Republican Party of his day.

It is not a fringe element anymore.

“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party. The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.”
Brad Woodhouse, Democratic National Committee

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/democratic-national-committee/dnc-by-criticizing-obamas-nobel-steele-and-gop-have-thrown-in-their-lot-with-the-terrorists/

Voters “simply want to be affiliated with a party which better represents their values”

Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and a few others represent the views of the Republican “Base”.

A Republican elected official who tries to distance themselves from that “base” is quickly cut off from party support.

The problem is that most Republican voters and most voters of any party do not go along with Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It is a quagmire that the Republican Party is not able to free itself from.
There is a post on the Chester County Democratic Committee’s website titled “The New Chester County Democratic Party”.

There is a prescient statement in that document:

“Fueling that early growth were many voters changing their party registrations from Republican or independent. Republicans claim they will get many of these voters back, but we came to know many of these people through door-to-door calls and at the polls. With few exceptions, we found they simply want to be affiliated with a party which better represents their values.”

Chester County is not exceptional; a switch from Republican to Democratic Party because the voters “simply want to be affiliated with a party which better represents their values” is taking place nationwide.
"The New Democratic Party" can be found here:
http://chescodems.org/?p=570#more-570

I think it is time for a wake up call to Chester County Republican Voters

The 1950's and early 1960’s was the time of Country Club Republicans that gave liberally to civic causes. The Eisenhower Republican Era of the 1950’s to early 1960’s that some of us remember is not a distant dream; it is a forgotten dream.

If he could come back President Eisenhower would not recognize his Party. He would see the Liberal wing of the Democratic Party as his soul mates. The “fringe nut cases” that existed in the Republican Party during Eisenhower’s time now have total control of today’s Republican Party.

Barry Goldwater was one of the people that President Eisenhower referred to as a “fringe nut case”. I firmly believe that had Barry Goldwater won the presidency instead of President Johnson we would now be radioactive dust floating in clouds around a barren planet.

Goldwater’s nut case prodigy is now in control of the National Republican Party. Those once fringe nut cases also control the Chester County Republican Committee.

If you define Liberal Politician in today’s political climate President Eisenhower would be classified as a Liberal Politician. Our last truly Liberal President may have been President Richard Nixon:


August 31, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Missing Richard Nixon
By PAUL KRUGMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/opinion/31krugman.html?hp

BYE BYE MISS PATSY! SHEEES OUTTA HERE!

Did Ernie Campos pull the chute on Patsy Ray?

Jarrell Brazzle is running as a write in for Coatesville City Councilperson 2nd Ward.

Brazzle is still on the ballot for Coatesville City Council at Large running as a Democrat.

Ingrid W. Jones is on the ballot as a Democrat for Coatesville’s 2nd Ward.

I do not yet know if Brazzle changed his registration to Republican.

I guess Ernie wasted his money on a looser, see campaign finance statement- Patsy Ray:
http://www.box.net/shared/3kyky2v776

Ernie can now put more money into a winner, see campaign finance statement- Jarrell Brazzle:

http://www.box.net/shared/hgrdrhapot

"Coatesville adds 5 recruits to its police force"

If Richard Legree Sr. was still alive we might still have Matthews as chief and Richard “Stretch” Legree could have been running for District Magistrate Judge in Coatesville. I would say that could be a winning combination if you were into drug trafficking.

"Coatesville adds 5 recruits to its police force"

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/08/11/news/srv0000006088279.txt

The fall of the Republican Party

The anti-immigration nut cases are trying to make a case that immigration to the USA will increase if we have health care for all in the USA. They actually have a good point. An average non-billionaire Canadian or European citizen would be nuts to trade living in his own country to live in a country where just getting sick means you loose everything that you own and worked for. Foreign residents who are being educated and trained in the USA might have a reason to take up permanent residence in the USA if our health care rises to an adequate level.

Everyone of us knows someone who picked up an infection in a hospital. Right now US hospitals are a place to go to die. You could go into a hospital for routine surgery and come out in a hearse because you died from an infection picked up in the hospital. The hospitals are forced to cut costs. Lack of adequate staff and properly trained staff means that sometimes infections ride on equipment and sometimes on gloves. Your insurance company could care less what happens to you. Your insurance companies customers are not you or your employer. Their customers are their stockholders

The anti-medical care for all Americans fight is being led by convicted felon Rick Scott. Scott is a former hospital company chief executive forced to resign as C.E.O. after his company defrauded the government through overbilling. But that is just the TV advertising of the medical insurance industry. The real battlefield of the insurance company’s war against US citizens is in the halls of Congress.

I understand that some Democrats are in the pockets of medical insurance and drug company lobbyists. But let’s get something straight. If the Republican's prostitutes on Capitol Hill and their insurance and drug company johns prevent US citizens from getting adequate medical care the Republican Party is finished. It may not be immediate. It may take a few election cycles but the Republican Party will be history.

Some rambling about the local political condition here in Chester County

The local Chester County Republican Party is weakened by the total meltdown of the Republican National Party now firmly under the control of Palin, Norquist and Limbaugh.

It appears as though a well organized ultra right wing group of local Republican “Tea Parties for Palin”, anti-Darwin, Confederate Flag waving types are rising out of the ashes of the former staid old foxhunting and country club Eisenhower Republican Party here in Chester County. It looks like the local Chester County Republicans may condense into Ideologues who are very good at energizing each other and not much else.

They have formed a local group called “Chester County Action, Americans for Christian Traditions in our Nation” (sounds more than a little KKKish) and a Pennsylvania wide “Pennsylvania Conservative Council”.
http://www.chestercountyaction.org/

http://www.paconservativecouncil.com/


All it would take is a light to moderate countywide voter turnout to reduce the Republican Parties influence in Chester County even further. A heavy voter turnout might almost eliminate the local Republican Party.

At the same time the Chester Democratic Party is growing with each Election; each Election, not just the General Election in the fall. You also need to keep in mind that the “Country Club Republicans” of the Eisenhower area are living and possibly reflexively voting to the memory of that long gone Republican Party. And most of those Republicans are in their 80s.

The flag of that “Eisenhower Republican Party” ideology has been picked up by the Democratic Party that now represents the views of the overwhelming majority of Americans. That fact is being demonstrated by voting patterns all across our Nation.

We have to be careful what we wish for. It is not a good thing to have a one party system. It would be much better to choose from two qualified candidates from either party than to choose from one qualified Democrat and one tinfoil hat, extremist screwball Republican. The tinfoil hat Republican types are usually very well armed and if frustrated enough could turn to violence.

There are some interesting articles on the local condition here:

Check out the Daily Local Dan blog from:

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The battle for the soul of the Chester County Republican Party
It's no secret that the county GOP is in the midst of an ideological battle
http://www3.allaroundphilly.com/blogs/dailylocal/dailylocaldan/labels/West%20Chester%20Area%20School%20Board.html

Lots more reading at “Chester County Democrats”:

http://ccdemocrats.com/?cat=22

More on creationism and education
Posted by CCDs on Jun 25th, 2009
“Creationism” seems to have entered the West Chester Area School district race with one candidate’s controversial statement at a forum before the primary election (see “WCASD candidate Wingerter on creationism”).

“Surprise ‘Hate Crimes’ Bill Gets Hearing Thursday; Must Be Stopped”
Posted by CCDs on Jun 22nd, 2009
[Dems, progressives, civil rights and gay activists, get ready for the right wing extremist onslaught:

(Liberty for whom?)
Posted by CCDs on May 24th, 2009
NYTimes, May 24, 2009, p. A19
University Bans Club for Democrats
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Phila Inquirer, 5/21/09, p. B6
online title:
Many factors cited in defeat of Chesco incumbents
By Kathleen Brady Shea
Inquirer Staff Writer

I would argue that the Republican Party is not “on the ropes” but down for the count.

June 25, 2009
Sanford Case a New Dose of Bad News for Republicans
By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON — Republicans were just starting to breathe a little easier.
More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/us/25repubs.html?hp

I would argue that the Republican Party is not “on the ropes” but down for the count. The Republicans used the ladder of racism to climb to the top. That ladder fell and broke into pieces. One of those pieces is the Republican Party. Some others are “Reagan Democrats” and white supremacist organizations. People like Karl Rove and AM talk radio extremists like Hal Turner and Rush Limbaugh are carrying pieces of the ladder.

It’s true that the Southern Democrats once owned that ladder, but they dropped it with the Civil Rights Act and Ronald Reagan picked it up in Philadelphia Mississippi supporting “States Rights”.

There is a difference between people who register to vote as Republicans and the Republican Party. It is more of a chasm than a difference. Most of the people in Chester County who call themselves or register as Republican are not avid fans of people like Hal Turner; an extremist talk show host who has just been arrested by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. They are what as known as Eisenhower Republicans. President Obama is much more like President Eisenhower than Adlai Stevenson.

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT USA vs.HAL TURNER:
http://www.box.net/shared/j4t9c297zk


The Democratic Party has been migrating to the “center” of US politics. Eisenhower supported the “New Deal” and thought that Republicans like Barry Goldwater were extremists that could never represent Republicans. The Democratic Party has now matched the beliefs and philosophy of Eisenhower Republicans. The present Democratic Party is in general to the right of President Eisenhower's beliefs. That is the reason that Republicans here continue to flock to the Democratic Party and leave the Republican Party here in Chester County to be supported by a few insane extremists and some others who allegedly could lose big if there was a change at the county level.

I think the best description of the present state of USA politics is found here:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=27017295001

QUIET WAR

Please note that some of this is opinion from a person who looks at church service collection and immediately thinks money laundering.

Also understand that if you want “something done” in Chester County Democrats can’t help you. The Republican Party however, has been solidly entrenched Chester County since about 1856. And the political power structure here in Chester County is very slowly changing.

I believe that there is a quiet war going on among Eisenhower Republicans and extremist leaning Republicans in Chester County. Unfortunately I believe that Extremist Republicans now hold a majority in the Chester County Republican Committee.

I believe that in the past certain people have had what I call “protected person” CCRC status that follows them into our court system. Richard Legree Jr. and Clayton Ayers Jr. are in my opinion two examples of that “protected person” syndrome. Mark Ethan McFall may be an extreme example. Mark Ethan McFall former owner of McFall's Towing in Valley was alleged to have Chester County Republican Committee connections and Philly and Delco organized crime connections that extend into Chester County. Some allege that it is the reason that he “got off easy” so many times in the past. I’m not sure but I think that the publicity over the suicide of one of his alleged victims in New Jersey along with his many arrests here may have overwhelmed the “protected person” status of McFall in Chester County Republican circles. Some people have also hinted that McFall may have traded information for special considerations. See:

”Prison for owner of tow-truck business”
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2008/02/02/past%20stories/19957473.txt

Some evidence of that “Quiet War” in Chester County may be the school board elections in the Borough of West Chester.

The involvement of “Chester County ACTION” and Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (PALCS) may be a manifestation of that “Quiet War”.

Einstein Academy virtual school had its charter revoked for financial mismanagement and failure to provide services. Dr. James Hanak was the CEO of the Einstein Academy. Dr. James Hanak is now the CEO the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School.

See “Wired.com”:
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2002/08/54737?currentPage=all


http://www.palcs.org/

Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School board members and past members include:

John Wingerter Republican committeeperson; Chief Academic Administrator, PALCS

Shannon Royer, former Republican committeeperson and West Chester Borough Council member, candidate for state legislature

Andrew Lehr, Republican candidate for West Chester Borough Council, 2007

Terence Farrell, Chester County commissioner and Republican committeeperson.