The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers

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The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted September 2, 2009.

You thought they were just unhinged. But here's what they're really saying to the armed and dangerous.




When Glenn Beck offers an odd-looking icon for his 9-12 Project, or Sarah Palin says something about her native state that sounds a bit to off-kilter to the ears of those in the lower 48, it's tempting to think, well, they're just nuts.

Perhaps they are, but that's beside the point. The point is that when Beck throws up a graphic of a segmented snake as his project's mascot, or Palin speaks of her native land as the "sovereign" state of Alaska, they're blowing a kind of dog-whistle for the armed and paranoid who make up the right-wing, neo-militia "Patriot" movement and the broader "Tea Party" coalition.

The loose affiliation of right-wing groups under the Tea Party umbrella can make it difficult to discern who's truly dangerous, and who's just an angry blowhard.

For instance, in its report about the resurgence of the militia movement, the Southern Poverty Law Center notes that a Minuteman militia in Southern California uses the Tea Party anthem as its call to arms.

Scott Roeder, the militant anti-abortion activist who is charged with the killing of Dr. George Tiller, counts himself among the members of the patriot movement. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/politics/142333/the_wing-nut_code%3A_what_glenn_beck_and_sarah_palin_are_really_saying_to_their_followers/

[HillbillyBob]

1. Patriots my auntfanny. they are dangerous nutcases out to

violently overthrow our current government and install a Fascist-Theocracy what they are too stupid ot realise is that when they do overthrow our civil government the even more violent fascist will used them to kill those of us who object then will do away with them like Hitler did the SA in the 'Night of the Long Knives' because rabid dogs are too dangerous to keep around after they have killed those you want killed , rather than keep them around to stir more trouble.

[TankLV]

2. the term "Brownshirts" springs readily to mind - it is very appropriate here...

[Jester Messiah]

3. Also, "traitors" and "rebels".

There are laws. I'm just saying.

[Doctor_J]

4. There are laws, but they are enforced only against Dems

If you are protesting a republican, you can be arrested for wearing a t-shirt, having a bumpersticker, or carrying a sign. If you are protesting a Dem, you can wave a gun around and be left alone.