“Levin, a media lab technology teacher at Conestoga Middle School, drew international attention last spring after creating crashtheteaparty.org. The now defunct site had said it was part of a national movement to "dismantle and demolish the tea party by any nonviolent means necessary."
The site encouraged people to infiltrate the tea party, then misspell protest signs, make wild claims during interviews and perform other public actions that would damage the public's opinion of the tea party.”
Are we sure we are talking about a middle school teacher and not a middle school student?
“In a now deleted post on his "Crash the Tea Party" Web site, he called on his supporters to collect the Social Security numbers -- among other personal identifying information -- about as many Tea Party supporters as possible at the numerous rallies that took place on Thursday, Tax Day.
"Some other thoughts are to ask people at the rally to sign a petition renouncing socialism. See just how much info you can get from these folks (name address, DOB, Social Security #). The more data we can mine from the Tea Partiers, the more mayhem we can cause with it!!!!" he wrote.”
How old is this guy? So would it be ok Mr. Levin if someone took your personal information and misused it and put you through hell? Of course it’s different, right? Well maybe it’s just me but I see this as immature and self-center act.
“Levin has said he would seek to embarrass Tea Partiers by attending their rallies dressed as Adolf Hitler, carrying signs bearing racist, sexist and anti-gay epithets and acting as offensively as possible -- anything short of throwing punches.”
Really Mr. Levin, you want to dressing up as Hitler to embarrass the Tea Party? Sir, get a life. You really have nothing better to do with yourself? Are you really that afraid of a group that is basically a Libertarian movement that supports lower taxes and smaller government. Mr. Levin you as a teacher should realize Hitler and the Nazi Party not only was about being anti-Semitic but was Socialist that believed in big government and government control of people. So it’s kind of stupid to be dressed up Hitler and go to a small government and less interference in people’s lives rally, isn’t it? Ah! That’s right Mr. Levin was a teacher for a public school which depends on government funding by tax payers. So big government and taxes is good for them.
When I was in public school many many years ago the teachers weren’t paid much and lucky to a modest pension. I remember that it wasn’t uncommon to see your teacher working as a clerk in a store when school was out for summer break. I liked the majority of my teachers and even then I felt they were underpaid. But when I was in High School I started to asked them why did you become a teacher? Now a couple males teachers said they became teachers to keep from going to Vietnam but they as well as the rest of the male and female teachers said because they love teaching and that they don’t teach because of the money or the benefits or the respect because there isn’t any. But it was because they really love to teach. But I wonder about many teachers today. I’m sure there are those who love teaching but would many of them today be willing to do it if it was 20 plus years ago.
Anyway let’s get back to the Tea Party thing.
“In a recent interview with Talking Points Memo, Levin said of his plans, "Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!'"
Mr. Levin seems to have a problem Birthers whom some go to Tea Parties but Mr. Levin what about liberal 9/11 Truthers? Will you going stand up to a Truther as well? Personally I don’t waste my time with either one. Until there is real evidence and not conspiracy theory I have more important things to worry about. Are all Tea Party members Birthers? I doubt it.
Look whackos show up to all political events. They show up liberal events and conservative events and everywhere in between. So will a racist or far right nut show up to a Tea Party? I have no doubt they will, but is the Tea Party sexist, anti-Semitic, anti-gay and racist? I’m sure many on the left will say yes, and there are certain members of the media and liberal bloggers that have been working hard to find any little thing that they can use to discredit the Tea Party but yet just can’t seem to bring them down. The Washington Times did interview at least three people “whom are black”.
“The Washington Times caught up with several health care bill protesters, all three of whom are black, and asked their thoughts on the allegations regarding the racial epithets.
Bill Owens Jr., a Tea Party Express leader from Las Vegas, said he did not experience or witness any racial hostility.
"I had a chance to be among these people. It's not about pigmentation. You have race issues going on all the time; however, I'm not seeing anything significant from these rallies. It's just not there," he said. "Does a person find a racist once in a while? . . . Sure, you find that anywhere. These people are concerned about the issues of where you stand, not what color you are."
Charlene Freedman, a health care bill protester from New Jersey, has been to Washington four times, since she first attended the 9/12 rally. When asked if she witnessed or heard any racial hostility from the crowd, she said: "Absolutely not . . . just well-wishers. I didn't see color. They didn't see my color. We're just American citizens, and we're here to say, 'Keep America free.' I’ve heard nothing about racism . . . nothing at all."
Jay Jarbo came to the health care protest from Atlanta and explained: "I just want to see them follow the Constitution, and they're not doing that. Anyone that tries to throw around the racial thing, just squash it, because this has nothing to do with race. I haven't heard anyone say anything about race at any one of these events," Mr. Jarbo said. "Honestly, this is the type of thing people bring up to distract from the real issues, and it's always about race in this country, and its always the last card in the deck that everyone plays."
Just to make clear I’m not a Tea Party member but I do agree with some of the things they state that they are for; like lower taxes and smaller government. But I’m a moderate or independent Republican. So Republicans would call me a RINO “Republican In Name Only”, all because I don’t vote straight Republican. But that’s my right as an American.
Mr. Levin should think about this. If some racist right wing loon shows up to a Tea Party gathering spout hateful things but now thanks to Mr. Levin the Tea Party can excuse them as some liberal infiltrator. Oh well, “The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley”
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Mr. Levin must have come from the shallow end of the gene pool. How many times do you see news stories where public officials (teachers are public) get into trouble for using work time and equipment for personal means. And this wasn't a minor lapse, this was calculated abuse. His unreasoning hatred of Tea Partiers got in the way of sound judgment.
"Really Mr. Levin, you want to dressing up as Hitler to embarrass the Tea Party? Sir, get a life. You really have nothing better to do with yourself? Are you really that afraid of a group that is basically a Libertarian movement that supports lower taxes and smaller government. Mr. Levin you as a teacher should realize Hitler and the Nazi Party not only was about being anti-Semitic but was Socialist that believed in big government and government control of people. So it’s kind of stupid to be dressed up Hitler and go to a small government and less interference in people’s lives rally, isn’t it?"
Acrtually, they really did something like that in Germany. There, you are a Nazi if you are opposing Muslim, well, Nazism.
This may be interesting.
This is for a broader picture.
The issues (American Tea Party movement = Small Government, German Anti-Islamisation movement = well, anti-Islamisation) may be different, the mechanisms are the same.
Gator even though it’s been reported that there has been no complaints or reports that he ever pushed his views on his students, I find that amazing considering how “passionate” he seems to be.
Editrix very interesting article. I think you’re right about the two men you wrote about. Strange that no one seems to know who they are considering how seriously Germany is about watching Neo-Nazis. I’m sure it’s different in Germany but in America usually Neo-Nazis that come to things to start trouble typically come in large groups not just two people. It seems to me that the large man seem to old to just became a skinhead so I would think watch groups would have known who he is. So I think you’re right that these men may not be who they seem to be.
"...how seriously Germany is about watching Neo-Nazis."
That calls for another rant from me. ;-)
Here we have a perfect example of anarcho-tyranny. The marginal problem with Neo-Nazis is blown up to gigantic proportions, first to put up a smokescreen to shield the real danger from becoming known, second because entire chapters of the domestic security would have to be closed because they are superfluous, and third because it makes the Germans feel good to do something "against the right".
The liberal media Left do seem to try to attach far right fringe groups as the face of the average Right supporters.
I think this placating to Muslims by the left is actually more out of fear and the use of fear than the idea of unity and peace. I mean it is obvious that certain Muslims have no problem using violence whether it’s for political reasons or because a family member dishonors them. They will do mass protest and on several occasions turned violent (at least in Europe) and send death threats because of a cartoon. Muslim killed Van Gogh because he made a film that the Muslim disagreed with (to put it mildly) and so on. Of course there are those Muslim who say that’s not Islam but it obvious there are Muslims who disagree and believe violence is Islam. The “peaceful Islam” Muslims are losing the trust of non-Muslims because they are spending more time defending Islam and addressing discrimination than denouncing the violence used by other Muslims and declaring those type of Muslims as non-believers in Islam.
See the left doesn’t fear violence from the right, so it is far safer to pick on the right and the left fears the right will anger Muslims and Muslims in mass will get violent. But its mainly political. God forbid the Right and Left and all in between can all come together on something.
I don't think the left succumbs to Muslims out of fear, or not JUST out of fear. I thinks it's that they generally feel drawn to totalitarianism and Islam is just what they asked for.
I understand your point. What’s the old saying, “Politics make for strange bed fellows.” And of course there the old saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
I’m just trying to understand why.
I know it’s about control, so the left can eventually destroy the Right and establish their vision of a utopian society where the intellectual Leftist are in control of course Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” Orwell’s “1984” explained what the Left’s reality of a utopian society will be like. But how is the Left going to keep Muslims from taking control? Or is the Left going to become Islamic and change it from within? I think its more likely that once the Right is gone the Left will have an outright war with Islam.
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