Here's Some Tea Party Members Who Enjoy the Books Loughner Does.

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An article from two months back, an article I just posted, as pointed out by DUer justiceischeap...

By David Neiwert -Nov 2010

Maybe it’s the gun-making kits that are being raffled off as door prizes. Or maybe it’s the fact that nearly everyone inside this hall at the Ravalli County Fairground is packing heat. But most of all, it’s the copy of Mein Kampf sitting there on the book table, with its black-and-white swastika, sandwiched between a survivalist how-to book on food storage and a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

It is obvious: This is not your ordinary Tea Party gathering.

Mind you, they don’t explicitly call themselves Tea Partiers. Their official name is Celebrating Conservatism. But their mission statement is classic Tea Party — “to restore our country, counties, and cities back to the Republic and the Constitution of the United States”

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/23/we-are-at-war-christian-identity-racists-and-anti-semites-find-home-in-the-tea-party/

[Kurovski]

1. From the article...

The guy behind the table is Reuben Walker, who runs a small local bookstore. “Can you tell me exactly why you’re selling Mein Kampf?” I ask. “Have you read it?”

“Yes,” he answers, seeming startled.

“So you know that it’s nothing but an extended screed about how the Jews are plotting to destroy the white race,” I say, pulling out my video camera.

“Well — ”

“So, do you believe what he wrote in the — ?” I begin to ask.

“No,” he answers. “You’ll notice we have other books out we don’t believe in.”

He points to the book next to it: Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, a favorite target of Glenn Beck. It’s clear he thinks the two books have something in common. “This is my ‘broken books’ section,” he says. “It’s there so you can know what we’re up against.”

A couple of weeks later I call Walker up at the bookstore, because I realize where this may be coming from: Jonah Goldberg’s right-wing treatise, Liberal Fascism, which posits that fascism has always been a left-wing phenomenon. I ask whether he’s read Goldberg’s book.

“Yes, I have,” he says.

“So is that kind of where you coming from on this? So people could be educated on fascism?”

“That’s right.”

“So where do you see fascism in our current scene?”

“You don’t see fascism in our current government?” he asks. “I believe there is some.”

“And so you want people to be able to see and identify fascism by going back to the original sources, right?” I ask.

“Definitely. Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.”

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2. My husband worked with a glen beck idolizer, he also idolized hitler. He would

tell anyone who listened how smart and right hitler was. I had MANY arguments with him, he would come into my place of employment to argue because he knew I couldn't argue back with him while I was "on the clock". Hubby said he could re-sight glen beck better than the pledge of allegiance.