Thanks to Anne....for introducing me to this site..... http://bloggerinterrupted.com/it is remarkable for its debut of "truth which lives in the shadows"... the sort of truth most of us are afraid of, in denial of, or flat out in agreement with.....
the speeches this week by Sarah Palin...absolutely demonstrate to me that her dominion religious faith has little to do with humanity, and all to do with self!
McCain-Palin rallies turning into a lynch mob
Tue, Oct 7, 2008
the speeches this week by Sarah Palin...absolutely demonstrate to me that her dominion religious faith has little to do with humanity, and all to do with self!
McCain-Palin rallies turning into a lynch mob
Tue, Oct 7, 2008
http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/10/mccain-palin-rallies-open-the-gates-of-hell-one-step-away-from-a-postcard
This is what a lynch mob looks like.
In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed “treason!” during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.
“[Obama] said, too, that our troops in Afghanistan are ‘air raiding villages and killing civilians,’” Palin said, mischaracterizing a 2007 remark by Obama. “I hope Americans know that is not what our brave men and women in uniform are doing in Afghanistan. The U.S. military is fighting terrorism and protecting us and protecting our freedom.”
Shortly afterward, a male member of the crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, yelled “treason!” loudly enough to be picked up by television microphones.
“Kill him”.“Terrorist”.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are completely out of control. They are sitting by watching their rallies turn into lynch mobs. In fact, they are stoking it. The media are not doing their job, which is to expose this level of hate for what it is. So someone else has to that job for them.
If I were a Secret Service agent in charge of Obama’s security, I’d be canceling every day off for every agent under my command.
This is what a lynch mob looks like.
In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed “treason!” during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.
“[Obama] said, too, that our troops in Afghanistan are ‘air raiding villages and killing civilians,’” Palin said, mischaracterizing a 2007 remark by Obama. “I hope Americans know that is not what our brave men and women in uniform are doing in Afghanistan. The U.S. military is fighting terrorism and protecting us and protecting our freedom.”
Shortly afterward, a male member of the crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, yelled “treason!” loudly enough to be picked up by television microphones.
“Kill him”.“Terrorist”.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are completely out of control. They are sitting by watching their rallies turn into lynch mobs. In fact, they are stoking it. The media are not doing their job, which is to expose this level of hate for what it is. So someone else has to that job for them.
If I were a Secret Service agent in charge of Obama’s security, I’d be canceling every day off for every agent under my command.
The McCain-Palin rallies are opening the gates of hell. Just ask James Allen.
James Allen has collected a series of postcards of lynchings.
Searching through America’s past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America.
This photo is the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jew.
As celebrated as any court battle in the twentieth century, the trial of the “jew,” Leo Frank, for the murder of “little Mary Phagan” pitted Jews against Christians, industrialists against workers, northerners against southerners, and city against country folk. It launched political careers and destroyed others, prompted the formation of the AntiDefamation league, and set the stage for the resurrection of a more sinister and brutal Ku Klux Klan.
Leo Max Frank was arrested on April 27, 1913, the morning after Confederate Memorial Day. A grotesquely engineered trial led to Frank’s conviction and a sentence of death by hanging. After Governor John Slaton’s commutation of the death sentence, Frank was transferred, for his own safety, to a prison farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. On the night of August 16, 1915 at 11 p.m., a gang of twenty-five men, some of Marietta, Georgia’s “best citizens,” wearing goggles and hats pulled down low, pulled Frank from a hospital bed (he had been hospitalized for a near fatal, seven-inch knife wound to his throat.) They placed him, feeble, undressed, and handcuffed, in one of four waiting cars and departed for Marietta, intending to hang him over the monument of Mary Phagan. Frank, often described as stoic, sufficiently impressed two of the lynchers with his sincerity and innocence that they advocated his return to the prison farm. The mob, minus the few who “mutinied,” drove into a grove just outside Marietta, selected a mature oak, swung the rope over a limb, stood Frank on a table, and kicked it out from beneath him.
Postcards of the lynched Leo Frank were sold outside the undertaking establishment where his corpse was taken, at retail stores, and by mail order for years. The owner of the property where the lynching occurred refused repeated offers to buy the tree from which Leo Frank was hung. The dean of the Atlanta Theological Seminary praised the murderers as “a sifted band of men, sober, intelligent, of established good name and character - good American citizens.” The mob included two former Superior Court justices, one ex-sheriff, and at least one clergyman.
Leo Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1985.
“Kill him.” “Terrorist”. “Treason”. “Sit down boy“. That’s just this week.
James Allen has collected a series of postcards of lynchings.
Searching through America’s past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America.
This photo is the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jew.
As celebrated as any court battle in the twentieth century, the trial of the “jew,” Leo Frank, for the murder of “little Mary Phagan” pitted Jews against Christians, industrialists against workers, northerners against southerners, and city against country folk. It launched political careers and destroyed others, prompted the formation of the AntiDefamation league, and set the stage for the resurrection of a more sinister and brutal Ku Klux Klan.
Leo Max Frank was arrested on April 27, 1913, the morning after Confederate Memorial Day. A grotesquely engineered trial led to Frank’s conviction and a sentence of death by hanging. After Governor John Slaton’s commutation of the death sentence, Frank was transferred, for his own safety, to a prison farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. On the night of August 16, 1915 at 11 p.m., a gang of twenty-five men, some of Marietta, Georgia’s “best citizens,” wearing goggles and hats pulled down low, pulled Frank from a hospital bed (he had been hospitalized for a near fatal, seven-inch knife wound to his throat.) They placed him, feeble, undressed, and handcuffed, in one of four waiting cars and departed for Marietta, intending to hang him over the monument of Mary Phagan. Frank, often described as stoic, sufficiently impressed two of the lynchers with his sincerity and innocence that they advocated his return to the prison farm. The mob, minus the few who “mutinied,” drove into a grove just outside Marietta, selected a mature oak, swung the rope over a limb, stood Frank on a table, and kicked it out from beneath him.
Postcards of the lynched Leo Frank were sold outside the undertaking establishment where his corpse was taken, at retail stores, and by mail order for years. The owner of the property where the lynching occurred refused repeated offers to buy the tree from which Leo Frank was hung. The dean of the Atlanta Theological Seminary praised the murderers as “a sifted band of men, sober, intelligent, of established good name and character - good American citizens.” The mob included two former Superior Court justices, one ex-sheriff, and at least one clergyman.
Leo Frank was posthumously pardoned in 1985.
“Kill him.” “Terrorist”. “Treason”. “Sit down boy“. That’s just this week.
Watch James Allen’s movie. Look at the proud faces of the onlookers, the writing on the cards, as if this were a barbecue. And ask yourself, when you hear how McCain-Palin rallies have opened the gates of a kind of hell we thought was gone - how much further does this have to go before someone really gets hurt?
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