{"id":4000,"date":"2011-02-03T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2011-02-03T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:31:08","slug":"pass-the-tin-foil-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/pass-the-tin-foil-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass the Tin Foil Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3RonHat\"The first person I ever depicted with a tin foil hat was Ron Paul.  While I favor most of his foreign policy, his extremism on domestic issues and covert but evident racism made him appear a few cans short of a six pack.  This was long enough ago that such extremes has not yet become common in the Republican Party.  The acorn did not fall far from the tree.  The time has come for Ron to pass the tin foil hat to his son Rand.  The extreme paranoia of his latest escapade into fantasy land demonstrate that he is a few toons beyond loony.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RandHat\"Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a real knack for paranoia. Playing the hero in his contrived world of made-up threats, Paul battles the menacing enemies of <\/font><\/font>pregnant women<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>American babies<\/font><\/a>, and <\/font>the Department of Education<\/font><\/a>. On Monday, Paul\u2019s <\/font>right<\/font><\/font>-wing fan base [extremists delinked] got a sneak peek at Paul\u2019s next target: the U.N. Small Arms Treaty.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

In an email to supporters, Paul <\/font><\/font>warned<\/font><\/a> that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the \u201cglobal gun-grabbers\u201d are out to \u201cstrip you and me of ALL our freedoms\u201d by signing a treaty designed by the \u201cpetty dictators and one-world socialists who control the UN\u201d to \u201cCONFISCATE and DESTROY\u201d all civilian firearms across the world. With his trusty sidekick the <\/font>National Association For Gun Rights<\/font><\/font> [extremists delinked] and a financial contribution from his base, Paul can \u201clead the fight to defeat this radical treaty\u201c [Teabuggery delinked]: <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced the Obama Administration will be working hand-in-glove with the UN to pass a new \u201cSmall Arms Treaty.\u201d<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Disguised as an \u201cInternational Arms Control Treaty\u201d to fight against \u201cterrorism,\u201d \u201cinsurgency\u201d and \u201cinternational crime syndicates,\u201d the UN\u2019s Small Arms Treaty is in fact a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019m helping lead the fight to defeat this radical treaty in the United States Senate and I want your help.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Please join me by taking a public stand against this outright assault on our national sovereignty by signing the Official Firearms Sovereignty Survey.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Ultimately, <\/font>the UN\u2019s Small Arms Treaty is designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept the exact wording of their new scheme under wraps. […]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

And along with your signed survey, <\/font>I hope you\u2019ll send a generous contribution of $250, $100, $50 or even just $35 to help finance this battle.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

With your generous contribution, the National Association for Gun Rights will continue contacting Second Amendment supporters to turn up the heat on targeted U.S. Senators.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s conspiratorial email is missing one tiny footnote: <\/font><\/font>there is no U.N. Small Arms Treaty<\/font><\/a><\/font>\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

You\u2019d think that at the very least, Rand would fear monger by distorting something that actually exists!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first person I ever depicted with a tin foil hat was Ron Paul.  While I favor most of his foreign policy, his extremism on domestic issues and covert but evident racism made him appear a few cans short of a six pack.  This was long enough ago that such extremes has not yet become […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}