Local MA tea party candidate worried that trick-or treating could lead kids to witchcraft.

[Mass]

May be this is the explanation of O'Donnell. To much trick and treating?

ttp://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/19/gop_rallies_to_candidates_once_seen_as_long_shots/

Like O’Donnell, who has been mocked for saying she once dabbled in witchcraft, Martinez also has a lengthy history of television appearances that could haunt her. On her cable access show in 2004, Martinez warned that trick-or-treating, Harry Potter books, and the “new age images’’ presented in 1980s-era programming such as “The Smurfs’’ and “The Care Bears’’ could destigmatize the occult and leave children vulnerable to the lure of witchcraft.

“To me, that’s what the Harry Potter thing is doing, only in a much broader scale than the Smurfs ever did,’’ she said. “The children are going to remember those feelings that they had watching the movies and reading the books, and they’re going to be prime targets.’

LOL. They are all crazy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I know people who think stuff like that.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. These people have been steadily losing their minds since the 1980's.

St. Ronnie gave them his holy blessing to plum lose their minds and they've been making him proud ever since.

[flakey_foont]

3. the Care Bears???

REALLY!!!!!!!!

[Catshrink]

5. Sure - didn't you know that the Smurfs are demonic?

I was once told that by a member of a main-stream Protestant denomination. The crazy: it's everywhere.

[karynnj]

20. Well - I have to admit that in the Reagan years, I thought that the values of

Care Bear and Strawberry Shortcake shows and Raffi songs - especially in the non - kid environmental album would lead to a more liberal generation of kids. It was counter programming to Reagan's. The Care Bears would never label ketchup a vegetable.

[fascisthunter]

4. Tea Bagger Nut Cult

[Kind of Blue]

6. I guess they've run out of Obama-bashing treats

and are reaching deep into their old bag of tricks.
KnR

[derby378]

7. Did you know that SANTA is an anagram of SATAN?

Or that the Irish are a bunch of drunken boors stealing jobs from good hard-working Americans of English descent, so we shouldn't celebrate St. Patrick's Day, either?

:hide: :sarcasm:

Hail Santa! :rofl:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. But but but..what happens if you sell your soul to SANTA????

What??? :rofl: :rofl:

[rox63]

8. There are Martinez signs all over the next town over from me

Thank goodness I'm not in any district she may end up representing. I hope this sort of publicity will sink her candidacy.

[kestrel91316]

9. Ooooohhhhhh, THE LURE OF WITCHCRAFT......like Wicca is a bad thing.

What a moran.

Do these cretins worry about THE LURE OF CATHOLICISM?? Or THE LURE OF PRESBYTERIANISM??? Or THE LURE OF JUDAISM????

Methinks not.

[mudplanet]

16. Actually, a lot of them do. In some areas of the deep south kids were (are) taught that

catholic priests wear hats to hide their horns.

[kestrel91316]

24. The glaring ignorance and superstition was my point.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Because all of us hundreds of millions of ex-trick-or-treaters

from over the past 50-some-odd years are now Wiccans.

:crazy:

[saltpoint]

11. I'm pro-witch so as far as I'm concerned, that

would be an encouraging outcome.

[Jennicut]

12. It's New England. We like Halloween and witches and lots of us visit Salem every year.

I live in northwestern CT and there is nothing like celebrating Halloween around here. My daughters love Halloween AND Harry Potter (though the last movie looks too scary for them!). At 5 and 6 they are not practicing satanism but experiencing the joy of dressing up, getting candy, and visiting their neighbors. Oh, and the Smurfs and Care Bears did not corrupt my 1980's childhood. Books and movies about kids that practice magic have not corrupted them.

[whistler162]

13. Well I can see "The Care Bears" but the SMURFS!!!!

She NUTS!

[Wednesdays]

14. In Oklahoma City, they've moved Halloween to October 30

...they're doing it this year, and they've done it every year that October 31 has fallen on a Sunday, because...well, we can't have Devil Worshipers romp around on the Lord's Day. :eyes:

[toddwv]

15. I turned to Satanism after watching The Gummi Bears

True story for reals.

[old mark]

18. Yeah, we have to burn a few kid-wtches every year after Halloween...

What the fuck do the Smurphs have to do with witches?

What sad idiotic lives these people must lead...I am so happy I don't think like them.


mark

[karynnj]

19. This is crazy

The Harry Potter book are wonderful. I really don't get the attack on the care bears. I don't remember anything occult at all about them - just the nice values taught and I like the music used (no surprise, Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears music was written by 1960s musicians) I watched hours of the care bears with my kids. (Just thinking - could a care bear stare end the tea party anger in people it is applied against? Maybe that's her problem.)

Maybe Martinez needs to go further an attack the "Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe" - ignoring its clearly Christian roots.

What she seems against is fun, imagination and a kid getting to be a kid. I think she attacked most parents of kids born in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s - who bought their kids the books, and watched the shows with them - and all of those kids.

[Mass]

21. Only in America can the Smurfs be considered subversive.

In Europe, people may find them too nice, too idealistic, but leading kids to witchcraft?

[karynnj]

23. Maybe she didn't like that they were blue, elf like people

They really were pretty non-violent and nice.

[Vinca]

22. It's more likely it could lead kids to obesity or sugar highs.

How nuts. Some of my favorite childhood memories (from the dark ages) are connected to Halloween and trick or treating. Unfortunately, I am currently not able to turn people into frogs.

[11 Bravo]

25. I understand that's how Christine O'Donnell got started.