Mr. Dennis Taylor’s column of Oct. 20 serves as exhibit A of
exactly what has gone dangerously wrong in American politics.
Mr. Taylor hurls his customary insults with his habitual
flagrant disregard for accuracy.
Mr. Dennis Taylor’s column of Oct. 20 serves as exhibit A of exactly what has gone dangerously wrong in American politics.
Mr. Taylor hurls his customary insults with his habitual flagrant disregard for accuracy. He accuses me of saying that voter registration drives are nothing but fraudulent liberal attempts to affect the outcome of an election. I said no such thing. He claims that I said that only Democrats engage in voter fraud. He lies; I specifically gave the stats on dual registered Florida voters, 12 percent of whom are Republicans.
Mr. Taylor then uses his telepathic powers to inform the readers that I deliberately left out the Oregon and Nevada voter frauds. Sorry, Mr. Taylor; your ESP still isn’t working. As of last week, I had not yet investigated those cases.
I have now; thanks for bringing them to my attention. In Oregon, the state is investigating the claims of a registration drive worker that he was instructed to accept only Republican forms. The sponsoring organization, however, claims that the man never worked for them.
In Nevada, Eric Russell claims that he saw his supervisor tear up 8 to 10 Democratic registration forms. However, he cannot remember his supervisor’s name. The organization alleges that Mr. Russell is merely disgruntled about having been fired.
Both these cases are under investigation, and time will tell whether fraud has been committed, and if so, by whom. Thanks for keeping the topic alive, Mr. Taylor; it gives me a reason to mention a new case: in Ohio, Chad Staton allegedly filled out over 100 fake forms for Georgianne Pitts of the leftist-affiliated National Voter Fund; she admits she paid him with crack cocaine.
I find Mr. Taylor’s habit of insult and name-calling dangerous; one need look only as far as the corner of Santa Teresa and Thomas to see why.
Mark Zappa rented space on some real estate signs around town and posted Bush/Cheney campaign placards over the signs. Within a day or two some vandals used box cutters to slice up the placards, in some cases damaging the underlying signs.
Mark reported the incidents to the police and stapled the placards back together as best he could. The vandals came back the next night, tore the pieces down, and stole them. They and knocked the entire $3000 real estate sign down at Santa Teresa and Thomas, breaking off the posts. They spray painted the sign at Club Drive and Santa Teresa.
Mark subsequently received an email from an anonymous coward calling himself f**bu**@***ay.com. (All asterisks mine.) This charming, tolerant individual wrote: “Your f***ing signs are a g** d**** eyesore and they deserve to be burnt to the ground!”
Are there any leftists out there who are finding this funny? Keep reading.
Gilroy remains relatively civilized, compared to Gollatin County, Montana, Gettysburg PA, Edwardsville IL, Spokane WA, Fairbanks AK, or Canton OH, where Republican campaign offices were burglarized or vandalized. Or Madison, WI, where a vandal burnt an 8-foot square swastika onto the lawn of a Bush supporter. Or Huntington WV or Knoxville TN or Florida, where Bush campaign headquarters were shot up. Or Orlando FL, where Democrats surged into a Republican headquarters, and injured two workers, including ramming the head of one worker into a door.
Mr. Taylor will respond that Republicans do the same. Google search says otherwise: not in number, not in intensity.
Where does this hate come from? What is it that can make reasonably sane human beings feel justified in committing fraud, vandalism, and violence?
It comes when columnists like Dennis Taylor insult and misrepresent their ideological foes, when they deliberately escalate the Culture War. Think, what comes after the Culture War?
Mr. Taylor, like his hero, propagandist Michael Moore, is fomenting hatred. He is breeding brownshirts. He is laying the groundwork for the next Krystallnacht.
So who are the National Socialists this time around, really?
