FL's Allen West named by PFAW as one of Top 10 Scariest Republicans in Congress.

[madfloridian]

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Here is the article from People For the American way website. He is one of two in the list from Florida. This video is from an appearance at an event which I gather is called At the Revolution.

Listen to his words. They are scary. Even worse is the loud cheering of the crowd as he urges them to fix bayonets.

Meet Allen West: Fanatical Opponent of Muslims, Immigrants, Progressives & Obama

Democrat Ron Klein in a rematch of their 2008 race. West, an Army veteran, became a YouTube sensation by criticizing "this tyrannical government" and crying out: "if you're here to stand up to get your musket, to fix your bayonet, and to charge into the ranks, you are my brother and sister in this fight." He said that the country was engaging in "class warfare" between "a producing class and an entitlement class," which is composed of Obama supporters.

While serving in Iraq, he was forced out of the Army for his violent handling of an investigation of a police officer. During the interrogation, West dragged "him outside, pushed his head into the sand, and fired a gun next to his face to get him to sing." According to West: "It wasn't torture. Seeing Rosie O'Donnell naked would be torture."

West also has close ties to the Outlaws motorcycle gang, which an NBC News report found had criminal ties and a website that features a page honoring members who are in prison, extolling "members convicted of violent crimes, including murder." In a letter, West wrote: "Please, no more references to ‘criminal' because I can tell you, they have the utmost respect for me and that which I seek to achieve. I was never more amazed at how members of the Outlaws guarded me during a one hour cell phone radio interview."

West has addressed events sponsored by Outlaws-linked organizations, used Outlaws members to harass his rival's campaign workers, and writes a column for the group's magazine. The magazine, "Wheels on the Road," has published anti-Semitic, racist and sexist material, and once called women "oral relief stations."

West encouraged his supporters to use violence in suppressing the votes of opponents, saying, "You've got to make the fellow scared to come out of his house."

He also said publicly that he was going to bring the ""vile, vicious, despicable" leftwing to its knees."

New FL congressman to bring "vile, vicious, despicable" leftwing to its knees.

Letting his bandanna down, as it were, the biker mag columnist, ex-military mock executioner and musket musterer chosen to lead a District that includes toney Palm Beach, ripped the people he thinks brought Joyce down. From Naked Politics:

The incoming congressman just called into Joyce Kaufman’s radio show and told her while she’s taking on the left in South Florida, he’II “fight them on the battle field in Washington DC.

“I’m even more commited, even more focused on making sure that this liberal, progressive, socialist agenda, this leftwing vile, vicious, despicable machine that is out there is soundly brought to its knees,” he said.

We are just so lucky here in Florida. We not only got Allen West, but we got Rick Scott for governor, Marco Rubio for senator, and Adam Putnam for Commissioner of Agriculture.

And those are just the ones I have known about. The PFAW list made me aware of this lady who defeated a Democrat this year.

Meet Congresswoman-Elect Sandy Adams: Conspiracy-Theorist, Religious Extremist

After serving four terms in the Florida State House, Sandy Adams ran for U.S. Congress and handily defeated freshman congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas. She built up a far-right voting record as a state representative, and she campaigned as the most conservative candidate in the competitive Republican primary.

As a legislator and candidate Sandy Adams has embraced the agenda of the Religious Right. Adams voted to enact burdensome waiting periods and tougher parental notice laws for young women seeking abortions, and voted in favor of forcing women to have ultrasound tests before terminating a pregnancy, which the governor ultimately vetoed because it placed "an inappropriate burden on women seeking to terminate a pregnancy." During the GOP primary she was endorsed by militantly anti-choice groups including the Republican National Coalition for Life and the American Conservative Union. Moreover, she is on record opposing stem-cell research and boasts that she "fought against this type of research funding in the Florida House of Representatives."

She is also an avowed opponent of teaching evolution, and voted in favor of a bill that calls on teachers to "teach theories that contradict the theory of evolution." Adams herself does not believe evolution and says that Christians should reject evolution in favor of "the biblical terms of how we came about." When asked "by a caller in a telephone town hall meeting whether she believed in evolution…Adams replied, ‘I'm Christian. What else do you want to know?'" Adams also supports Florida's unsuccessful private school vouchers program and wants the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools.

[muntrv]

1. Since Alan hangs out with the Outlaws, put him on the terror watchlist.

[madfloridian]

3. Wonder why they had to guard him during an interview?

That is so very odd.

[muntrv]

4. "No references to criminal?" Uh Alan.....

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/gangunit/gangs/motorcycle.html

[madfloridian]

9. Wow, thanks for the Dept of Justice link. Guess that makes it very clear.

"Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMGs) are organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises. OMGs are highly structured criminal organizations whose members engage in criminal activities such as violent crime, weapons trafficking, and drug trafficking. There are more than 300 active OMGs within the United States, ranging in size from single chapters with five or six members to hundreds of chapters with thousands of members worldwide. The Hells Angels, Mongols, Bandidos, Outlaws, and Sons of Silence pose a serious national domestic threat and conduct the majority of criminal activity linked to OMGs, especially activity relating to drug-trafficking and, more specifically, to cross-border drug smuggling. Because of their transnational scope, these OMGs are able to coordinate drug smuggling operations in partnership with major international drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs)."

And that club is listed:

Hmmm it won't let me copy/paste the names of the clubs, but Outlaws is definitely mentioned.

[MrModerate]

2. What a fuckin' loon. Democracy has its flaws. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Good grief. Who are the other 8??

:scared:

[NuclearDem]

14. Here they are...all 10 of them

Renee Ellmers: Cracking down on Monarchy and Mosques
Tom Marino: Plagued by Corruption Charges
Tim Walberg: A Birther Goes to Washington
Vicky Hartzler: Missouri's Anti-Gay Zealot
Lou Barletta: America's Anti-Immigrant Mayor Heads to Congress
Tim Griffin: Karl Rove's Man in Congress
Allen West: Fanatical Opponent of Muslims, Immigrants, Progressives & Obama
Meet Alan Nunnelee: Mississippi's Newest Member of Congress is on a "Crusade to Save America"
Meet Raul Labrador: Bryan Fischer's Favorite Tea Partier
Meet Sandy Adams: Conspiracy-Theorist, Religious Extremist

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Vicky Hartzler is a nutcase

[Mojorabbit]

6. I am still in shock over this last election. nt

[madfloridian]

10. Me, too.

Complete shock.

[lib2DaBone]

7. What a bully and a gas bag...

Let's see... the Republicans outsourced all our jobs to China so now people have to fight for meager unemployment insurance and a scrap of food to eat... and it's all THIER fault?

The U.S. Military has lost/misplaced/stole $43 Billion in Afghanistan.. and it's OUR fault?

The TBTF Banks got a $700 Billion free bailout and sent the money overseas to speculate in foreign currency nad nation-build. So we have to tighten OUR belts?

Ya right....This guy is a brownshirt Bully Blackwater scum bag wrapped in a flag and carrying a bible.


"We need to fix bayonettes... " Hoo-haa... I know which end of the bayonette will be pointing at guys like this.

[russspeakeasy]

8. He is a true nut job teabagger/gangster.

[truth2power]

11. I know this is a stupid question, but...

how do people like this get elected??

[KamaAina]

21. They put an (R) after their name

and wait for Faux to make anyone with a (D) look like Satan himself.

[The Wizard]

12. New gargoyles on the block (NT)

[NuclearDem]

13. Fascist pig

Awesome...advocating the violent overthrow of the United States government...which is he now a part of.

[watstearns]

16. Action to Remove Corporate Influence from Campaign Financing

Let's reform the campaign finance system so corporate money,
corporate media bias, and corporate corruption of vote
getting and vote counting are nullified. Here's a petition
for that:

http://www.petitiononline.com/PoliTru3/petition.html

[bertman]

17. Too late to Rec, so here's the kick. Fascist christian fanatics like him are

gaining more an more power in our military. I'm surprised they tossed him out of the Army. He must have been a loose cannon there too.

Florida has apparently developed some version of Mad Cow disease that is affecting a huge percentage of the voting population. Very scary.

To give you an idea of the mindset of this particular group of military types, I was sitting next to the wife of a retired Army officer on an airplane flight a couple of days ago. The first words out of her mouth were: "Did you see the HAIR on that guy up there in row 8? My goodness, his hair is HUGE. I can't believe they let him on this flight. I wonder what he's hiding in that hair!"

Here we had just gone through the Shoes Off, All Belongings in the Trays, X-rays for Everyone, Metal Detector Walk-Through for Everyone, and this stupid excuse for a human being is acting like the guy was hiding something in his hair.

Evolution? I'm thinking DEvolution for a huge percentage of the human race.

[DFW]

18. You are going to have to change your name

You will have to call yourself Sane Floridian, because the rest of your state seems to have gone mad.

[Taverner]

19. Didn't Altamont teach us something about using biker gangs for security?

[wxgeek7]

20. Another Repub Hypocrite

At one point in his idiotic, hateful rant, he says the USC say's promote the general welfare, not provide welfare.

Hmmm, I suppose it never occurred to him (after serving for 22yrs in the military, and now as a retiree, receiving VA or Tricare medical care), that he's been receiving government healthcare (welfare) all these years.

[Enthusiast]

22. I stopped it.

I refuse to listen to this right wing bullshit. These fuckers are off in the head.

[spooked911]

23. What a fucking idiot

He is so messed up on so many levels