{"id":7046,"date":"2012-05-08T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2012-08-04T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T16:08:51","slug":"allen-west-joins-hate-group-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7046","title":{"rendered":"Allen West Joins Hate Group Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AllenAllen West has already distinguished himself as a commie-phobic<\/a>, Nazi-baiting<\/a> extremist who engaged in mock executions against innocent Iraqis before leaving the Army and running for congress. He has not even completed his first term yet he has offended millions of Americans as well as his colleagues. He called Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz “the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives.”<\/em> And he hired a staffer who excited her Tea Party audience by declaring that “If ballots don\u2019t work, bullets will.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Now West has added to his resume<\/a> his participation as a member of the advisory board of the Thomas More Law Center, a notoriously aggressive group of Christian extremists with a record of blatant bigotry. The TMLC supported former judge Ray Moore who was ousted from the bench for violating a federal court order to remove a religious monument from his courthouse. They also brought suits to force schools to teach creationism along side evolution. They challenged the Hate Crimes Prevention Act which was passed after the brutal murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. They tried to force Planned Parenthood to falsely declare a link between abortion and breast cancer. They are virulently homophobic. And they have been amongst the most rabid anti-Muslim organizations in the country with wild assertions that Islam is a hoax disguised as a religion bent on destroying America.<\/p>\n

It seems a perfect affiliation for West who shares the same principles. In a press release announcing the appointment, West said…<\/p>\n

“What impressed me about the Law Center is that it knows the true threat to our nation posed by radical Islam and it has initiated and funded more cases challenging the Stealth Jihad being waged against our Nation than any other public interest law firm in America.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sentiment was captured by West recently when he said that, “When tolerance becomes a one-way street it will lead to cultural suicide.”<\/em> Let that sink in for minute. What West is saying is that if we encounter intolerance on the part of others and do not thereafter become intolerant ourselves we are committing cultural suicide. So West believes that we should assume the worst characteristics of our enemies. If they are racist, we should be racist. If they torture, we should torture. The problem with that is that when we become as bad as those we are fighting, then what the hell are we fighting for?<\/p>\n

Patrick Murphy is West’s opponent for the 18th district congressional seat in Florida. Here is how you can help him defeat West<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allen West has already distinguished himself as a commie-phobic, Nazi-baiting extremist who engaged in mock executions against innocent Iraqis before leaving the Army and running for congress. He has not even completed his first term yet he has offended millions of Americans as well as his colleagues. He called Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz “the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[956],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-allen-west"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1PE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7441,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7441","url_meta":{"origin":7046,"position":0},"title":"Allen West On The Conspiracy To Sap And Impurify Our Precious Bodily Fluids","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/27\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Stanley Kubrick's brilliant cinematic satire, Dr. Strangelove, produced one of the most enduring characterizations of the dangers posed by paranoid crackpots in positions of power. 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