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Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Why?

Which radical fringe organization is worse? Why?


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Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

We all have heard how radical the Tea Party is and how out of touch they are with reality. So how do the compare with the radical left organization calling themselves the Weather Underground formed in Ann Arbor from the SDS. The Weather Underground seemed pretty much out there and used violence to make their point. Please state your opinion.


1. I don't think the Tea Party as a movement is "Fringe"

2. I don't think that The Weather Underground and Tea Party are a reasonable comparison of political movements or groups

3. It's kind of transparent towards your intent when you reach back purposefully roughly 4 decades rather than grabbing a left leaning political movement from just a few years ago that was more comparable in terms of make up, impact, and scope to the Tea Party in regards to OWS.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

.... No - it really isn't. Abraham Lincoln didn't do away with slavery. That's incredibly generalizing. So why would racists stop existing? Actually, what do racists have to do with slavery? The two can be and have been found to be mutually exclusive. Abraham Lincoln helped abolish slavery in the US. That has nothing to do with whether racism exists. Now, run along and go play with people who aren't smarter than you.

that is what I have been doing with you LOL
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

makes little difference has nothing to do with the OP




In the OP you are trying to compare the Tea Party to a defunct organization which no longer exists and has zero impact in today's world.

What point are you trying to make?
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

1. I don't think the Tea Party as a movement is "Fringe"

2. I don't think that The Weather Underground and Tea Party are a reasonable comparison of political movements or groups

3. It's kind of transparent towards your intent when you reach back purposefully roughly 4 decades rather than grabbing a left leaning political movement from just a few years ago that was more comparable in terms of make up, impact, and scope to the Tea Party in regards to OWS.

OWS was barely a fart as far as movements go, mostly made up of AWOL students that were not self dependent in any means
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

In the OP you are trying to compare the Tea Party to a defunct organization which no longer exists and has zero impact in today's world.

What point are you trying to make?

The voting makes the point, socialist progressive favor domestic terrorism
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

that is what I have been doing with you LOL

I didn't think you'd have a reply to my argument. Tell us, is the Reagan Administration still here? Or has it been dissolved? Are the Beatles still around? What other organizations/groups do you know about that exist long after their members have disbanded? None. It was nice to destroy your argument. ;)

Here are the bare facts:

1. The weather underground is no longer around. It hasn't been around for 40 years.
2. The Tea Party is.

The Tea Party today is far more dangerous the WU ever was politically speaking. :shrug: It's a rebranded subsidiary of the GOP. It uses threats of violence to get its way. It votes for radical evangelicals and savages who selectively enforce the constitution. First amendment? Bad. Second amendment? Good. It's full of pork loving congressmen. It's also a group where there are high rates of people with weak bladders. That's extremely radical.
 
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Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

The voting makes the point, socialist progressive favor domestic terrorism




That's your opinion which I and a lot of other Americans don't agree with.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

I didn't think you'd have a reply to my argument. Tell us, is the Reagan Administration still here? Or has it been dissolved? Are the Beatles still around? What other organizations/groups do you know about that exist long after their members have disbanded? None. It was nice to destroy your argument. ;)

You didn't, all you did was give a false opinion of a group that was violent and part of the progressive network. Come back if you want to be spanked some more.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

That's your opinion which I and a lot of other Americans don't agree with.

that is what makes this country great
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

You didn't, all you did was give a false opinion of a group that was violent and part of the progressive network. Come back if you want to be spanked some more.

A false opinion? Lol, please tell tell me what is false about saying the WU is not around anymore? Show me it is. Tell us of its latest activities and bombings. Tell us its current policy. Who is its current leader? I bet you can't. Hey, here are the facts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

The Weathermen disintegrated after the United States reached a peace accord in Vietnam in 1973, after which the New Left declined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Weatherman_actions

1976-1981 the Weather Underground slowly disbands, many members turning themselves in after taking advantage of the Federal Government dropping most charges in 1973 (illegal wiretaps and intelligence sources & methods issues) and of President Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for draft dodgers.

http://www.search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=13

The organization disbanded in 1976. In addition to the book, the collection includes monographs from the WUO, communiques, and all issues of the periodical Osawatomie.

http://rushlimbaughreport.blogspot.mx/2010/07/weather-underground-organization.html

Jeremy Varon argues that by 1977 the WUO had disbanded. The federal government estimated that only 38 Weathermen had gone underground in 1970. An FBI estimate in 1976, or slightly later, of then current membership was of down to 30 or less.

Hey, I guess you're lying. Go figure.
 
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Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

anything left or right of center will always be considered radical.
I am surprised you voted the for the group that has NEVER blown up any government buildings or killed anyone. How can you justify that thinking?




Wrong.

Politically, radical means having extreme views that are not shared by most people.

Do you think that the Tea Party has extreme views?
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

A false opinion? Lol, please tell tell me what is false about saying the WU is not around anymore? Show me it is. Tell us of its latest activities and bombings. Tell us its current policy. Who is its current leader? I bet you can't. Hey, here are the facts:

Weather Underground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



List of Weatherman actions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Freedom Archives Search Engine



Rush Limbaugh Report: The Weather Underground - organization



Hey, I guess you're lying. Go figure.

You did not address the OP as most liberals would not since they support domestic terrorism. Nothing was stated about present day, you injected that into the argument when it was not part of the argument. Your vote alone shows you support orgnizations that target civilians. Merry Jihad to you.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

Wrong.

Politically, radical means having extreme views that are not shared by most people.

Do you think that the Tea Party has extreme views?

radical is anything left or right of center, I think some things the Tea Party says and does is ridiculous, just like things the WU did as well as OWS.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

So much like slavery, it is old news?




Correct.

If you have any information about current activity by the Weather Under ground you should post a link to it.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

You did not address the OP

Of course I did. You stated that the Weather Underground was around. It isn't. As they aren't around, comparing them in terms of "who is" is flawed. :shrug:

as most liberals would not since they support domestic terrorism. Nothing was stated about present day, you injected that into the argument when it was not part of the argument. Your vote alone shows you support orgnizations that target civilians. Merry Jihad to you.

Lol, your statement after being shown for making a flawed poll is to call me a Muslim? Oh yeah! You've really convincing everyone that the Tea Party isn't a radical xenophobic group now ;) - What else? Lol, you're going to go on a rant about banning immigration like some of your fellow Tea Party members? Look, face it. The WU is harmless. It was even harmless in the 70s. It had no political power. It had no traction with the anti-war movement. It was a one time thing that ended up killing more WUO members than anything else.

The Tea Party? They've gotten people elected to stand behind radical right wing ideas. What's even more radical about them is that they have morons like Brewer & Cruz bandwagonning to out right wing each other. It's a good thing they're now a relatively weak force even within the Republican Party.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

radical is anything left or right of center, I think some things the Tea Party says and does is ridiculous, just like things the WU did as well as OWS.

Well, if you were looking for a fair comparison, why not just compare the Tea Party to the OWS? Personally, I only view one of these groups with a radical message outside mainstream current policies while the other group was mainly anti-tax.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

The weather underground was a radical group.
The tea party is a reactionary group. Apples, oranges.




The Tea Party is definitely reactionary, some people in the Tea Party would like to take the USA back to pre-1964 Civil Rights Act days.

That is not going to happen.




"Better day's are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

I think the original one was far more centrist, and formed around the original ideals of the country. Mirror of the federalist papers in many aspects.

I don't understand how wishing to model the country off of it's original design is considered extreme.




No matter how much some people on the right would like to see the USA go back to the pre-Civil War days that will never happen.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

I would suspect not. MSNBC told them. They 'lean forward', which means they are correct.

It has been proven he's a leftist sympathizer. The right wing rumors were media sensationalism. Nothing more.


Wrong.

Timothy McVeigh was a registered Republican when he lived in Buffalo, New York in the 1980's.

Read more here: Timothy McVeigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

The Tea Party is definitely reactionary, some people in the Tea Party would like to take the USA back to pre-1964 Civil Rights Act days.

That is not going to happen.




"Better day's are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

The Tea Party script was written ages ago only Tea Party members rarely know history. They have the same message as the American Liberty League which was supported and started by the rich. It's quite funny because it was actually supported by both rich Dems and Repubs. Party line didn't matter as much as their extreme hatred for what they viewed as radical FDR policies.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

Don't get me wrong because FDR's policies were radical in that day in age after the roaring twenties. The pendulum had swung to the opposite side of those old policies which was the peak of the Gilded Age.

So, the pendulum swings again.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

You seem to be struggling to discern the truth. Timothy McVeigh should be the icon of every white man who's ever wanted to overthrow the government of the United States of America.

For those of us who retain our sanity,
he is an example of what horrors would happen if the anarchists ever chose to become terrorists
.




Read a little history-lots of anarchists have been terrorists.
 
Re: Which is radical fringe is worse? The Weather Underground or the Tea Party? Wh

U
hhh at one point in time it was legal to own slaves in all parts of early US
.




The USA's founding fathers fought the British for freedom for themselves-not for the Black slaves in the USA.
 
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