{"id":6304,"date":"2012-01-30T09:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2012-01-30T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:37:46","slug":"battlefield-america-gop-confederate-allen-west-declares-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6304","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield America: GOP Confederate Allen West Declares Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen West is representative from Florida&#8217;s 22 district with a unique vision of America. It&#8217;s a vision that permits only his interpretation of what constitutes American values. Stray from West&#8217;s dictatorial creed and you are not fit to be an American and must be banished. Never mind free speech and other Constitutional guarantees of liberty, it is West&#8217;s proclamation of patriotism that counts and nothing else. In that spirit West told his comrades at a Republican Party event (video below) that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>This is a battlefield, that we must stand upon.<\/strong> We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain&#8217;t on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but <strong>get the hell out of the United States of America.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In that short paragraph West has expressed a perverted view of Constitutional liberties, denied the freedom of expression to elected representatives, and asserted what amounts to a declaration of civil war. This beacon of intolerance cannot grasp the the fact that his disparagement of his perceived political enemies in Washington, extends to the millions of Americans who voted for them. He might as well be telling half the nation to get the hell out of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>West is serving his first term in the House, and maybe his last if his district has any sense. His brief time in public service follows a military career that ended in disgrace after he interrogated an Iraqi police officer (who was never found to have done anything wrong) by firing a bullet just past his head. Since becoming a congressman West has made an embarrassing spectacle of himself by hiring an aide who riled up a Tea Party rally by saying that <em>&#8220;If ballots don&#8217;t work, bullets will.&#8221;<\/em> And despite his collegial reference above to his <em>&#8220;dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee,&#8221;<\/em> he previously said this about her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You <em>[Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz]<\/em> are the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>West also seems to have caught Nazi Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome from Glenn Beck. He can&#8217;t seem to stop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5970\" target=\"_blank\">using Nazi references<\/a> almost every time he stands to speak. Here&#8217;s an example that Fox News was so impressed with they featured on their Fox Nation web site:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-west-goebbels.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation - Allen West Nazi\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>There many more examples at the link above. This is the character of Allen West. He is a disreputable purveyor of hate and an advocate of violence and suppression of free thought. The good news is that he is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegrio.com\/politics\/allen-west-how-violent-rhetoric-may-topple-a-tea-party-favorite.php\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable incumbent<\/a> who is likely to be a one-term congressman. You can help to affect that outcome by supporting the CREDO SuperPAC to <a href=\"http:\/\/act.credoaction.com\/take_down\/the-ten.html\" target=\"_blank\">Take Down the Tea Party Ten<\/a>. Sign the petition and make a donation today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8YDnd1Yoyk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen West is representative from Florida&#8217;s 22 district with a unique vision of America. It&#8217;s a vision that permits only his interpretation of what constitutes American values. Stray from West&#8217;s dictatorial creed and you are not fit to be an American and must be banished. Never mind free speech and other Constitutional guarantees of liberty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[956],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-allen-west"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1DG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7871,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7871","url_meta":{"origin":6304,"position":0},"title":"Allen West&#8217;s Crap Sandwich: You Want Lies With That?","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/26\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"GOP whackadoodle congressman Allen West has once again demonstrated the classlessness of the Republican Party. During an appearance on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, West went on another deranged rant against President Obama saying... \"Let's be very honest and let's put this military vernacular. If you're feeding a person a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9841,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9841","url_meta":{"origin":6304,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Contributor Allen West On Eric Holder: Worse Than Al Qaeda","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/6\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you happened to be looking for another reason to be grateful that Allen West was booted from congress, you just got your wish. West sent an email to his Batshit Brigade seeking money to fund his struggling Super PAC, The Allen West Guardian Fund. 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Here is a sampling of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8108,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8108","url_meta":{"origin":6304,"position":3},"title":"Allen West: Disgraced Army Reject Attacks Opponent For A Teenage Bar Fight","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/28\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In the annals of disreputable political attacks, Allen West is going to have a place of honor reserved. His latest ad is a pathetic and desperate assault that avoids any discussion of substantive policy matters, but goes directly for jugular with an absurdly irrelevant personal smear. For the record, Patrick\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6959,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6959","url_meta":{"origin":6304,"position":4},"title":"Allen West&#8217;s &#8216;Weapons of Mass Destruction&#8217; Remarks Backfire Bigtime","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/26\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday on the House floor, Whackadoodle Poster Boy Allen West added to his treasure trove of inanities. 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