{"id":5450,"date":"2011-07-24T01:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T08:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2011-07-24T01:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T08:53:59","slug":"insanitea-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/24\/insanitea-in-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"InsaniTEA in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first learned of the tragic terrorist attack in Oslo, Republicans and the corporate media were quick to blame Al Qaeda.  I heard such speculation on MSNBC.  It turns out, however, that this is a case of Right Wing terrorism. Now the right doesn\u2019t want to talk about it anymore.  Is it fair for me to associate Breivik\u2019s violence with the Tea Party, as I did in the title?  I think it is, because a direct connection exists.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Corporate-Media\"When news began to unfold on Friday of the terror attacks in Norway that has left more than 90 dead<\/a>, many blogs and Twitter accounts immediately lit up with speculation about who was behind the massive bombings in Oslo<\/a> and the subsequent attack on a youth camp<\/a> 20 miles away.<\/p>\n

But some pundits, mostly right-wing neoconservatives, proclaimed that this bore all the hallmarks of Islamic terrorism, even going so far as to draw policy prescriptions<\/strong>. At the Washington Post, normally a well-respected news outlet, Jennifer Rubin quoted<\/a> the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies\u2018 [fascists delinked] Thomas Joscelyn and AEI [Neocons delinked] scholar Gary Schmitt [neocons delinked] to say that the attacks were the result of Islamic terrorism. She then concluded<\/a> the \u201cjihadist\u201d attack on Oslo means the U.S. shouldn\u2019t cut military spending… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Then the smoke began to clear.  In Yesterday\u2019s Open Thread, I said that he identifies himself as a conservative Christian.  He was half right.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24Breivik\"A rambling, 1,500-page manifesto purportedly written by the suspect in Friday’s bloody terror attacks in Norway lays out right-wing extremist views and vows that a "European civil war" will lead to the execution of "cultural Marxists" and the banishing of Muslims<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While the title page of the document says "By Andrew Berwick," the writer goes on to later to identify himself as Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in the Norwegian terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

The document, which is part political diatribe, part confessional and part action plan, details Breivik’s background and his plans to commit Friday’s attacks. It also contains various photos of him.<\/p>\n

"If you are concerned about the future of Western Europe you will definitely find the information both interesting and highly relevant," the author writes, adding later that the work took him nine years to complete.<\/p>\n

CNN has not been able to independently verify that the document was written by Breivik. But police told the Norwegian newspaper VG that the document is "linked" to Friday’s attacks\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <CNN<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s starting to sound like a Republican brown shirt, and there\u2019s even more to come.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Norwegian news reports confirm that Anders Behring Breivik, the gunman detained in connection to the terrorist attack yesterday in Oslo and Utoya Island, has confessed and called his actions \u201cnecessary<\/a>.\u201d This afternoon, reports emerged that Breivik had recently posted<\/a> a political YouTube video outlining why \u201cChristian soldiers\u201d and \u201ccultural conservatives\u201d should rise up against \u201cmulticulturalism,\u201d Muslims, and what he viewed as Marxist influence in society<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Now I still haven\u2019t connected this man and the Republican Tea Party.  Here is that evidence.  Breivik was involved in Norway\u2019s tea party, known as the Progress Party.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u2026As if turns out, Tim Phillips, President of the Tea Party group Americans for Prosperity, [InsaniTEA delinked] spoke at a Progress Party event in 2010. According to an article published in the Norweigen [sic] paper Aftenposten<\/a> <\/font>on April 24th, 2010:<\/font><\/p>\n

Phillips was invited by the Progress Party leadership to talk about grassroots organizing. But he talked mostly about how his organization is fighting for a weaker central government and lower taxes, to health reform and climate change.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Alternet<\/a>><\/p>\n

Americans for Prosperity [for the rich only] is the Koch funded Tea Party group, and has been heavily involved in spreading Teabuggery in Europe.<\/font><\/p>\n

The point here is simple.  Republican hate is dangerous, all over the world.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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