[Occupymendocino] Near Hysteria on the Right

[Richard Karch]

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12844-the-obama-victory-and-the-american-far-right
            The Obama Victory and the Near Hysteria of the American Far-Right

Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:00	 By Matthew Feldman and Leonard Weinberg, Truthout | Op-Ed

President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, November 14. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times)
The contrast between the FBI's hate crime data and the near hysterical reaction by some on the further reaches of the far-right to President Obama's re-election have some scratching their heads.

To the surprise of many, US President Barack Obama was elected to a second term of office. For example: the wealthy and flamboyant developer Donald Trump called for a march on Washington and mentioned the possibility of revolution as a means of overturning the result. The treasurer of the Republican Party Peter Morrison, in Hardin County, Tex., called for secession following the Obama victory. Morrison wrote in his Newsletter, "We must contest every single inch of ground and delay every baby-murdering, tax raising socialists (sic) at every opportunity. But in due time, the maggots will have eaten every morsel of flesh off of the rotten corpse of the Republic, and therein lies our opportunity." Some on the far right were farsighted. Before the balloting, a county judge in Lubbock Tex., Hon. Thomas Head, reported fearing a popular insurrection in the aftermath of an Obama victory...
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/occupymendocino/attachments/20121121/b32f5076/attachment.html