(Apr 12, 2009): "Tea Party Insanity: 'Burn The Books!' (VIDEO)"

[CGP]

YouTube - Project 912 Glenn Beck Tea Party

(The person mentioned in the article below starts speaking around 2.00)

Be very scared, the end is near!!! What next - gay marriage? Oh the end of the USA as we know it! And get out of college now before it's too late! :rolleyes:


Big bucks are pouring in to the tea party movement. Fox News reports that organizers are making a fortune in merchandise sales -- the online store for the Tax Day Tea Party website has already lodged over $48,000 in sales, according to tea partier Eric Odom.

But the big bucks aren't only in T-shirts with pithy slogans - Fox's Glenn Beck said on his radio show that he plans to attend a $500 dollar-a-plate fundraiser for the tea party movement.

One wonders how much that fundraiser will resemble the scene in this video of a small event organized by the 9-12 Project, in which a man rouses the rabble with a conspiracy-alleging rant.

"In the early 50s our country was infiltrated by the communist party," he says, calling the Obama administration the culmination of that infiltration. "They're doing everything they can to brainwash our public...This thing they're putting on our TVs," he says, presumably referring to digital cable converters, "it's a brainwash unit!"

As his speech winds down, he exhorts his listeners to get their kids "the hell out of college. They're brainwashing 'em!"

The anti-school message resonates with one woman.

"Burn the books!" she yells from off-camera. The surprised camera man asks if she's serious, and which books she'd burn. "The ones in college, the brainwashing books, like the evolution crap."

[Horizon]

WTF? No words, this boggles the mind.

[Laura Cereta]

Well, I wouldn't burn any books, but it is true that there are many higher education texts that are written with a very obvious political agenda. I've read textbooks that may as well be renamed, "How To Think Like A Liberal."

I don't like the dissing of the tea parties. In fact, I plan on attending one. I sure as hell would rather see some form of action taken rather than everyone just sit by while we spend our way into oblivion and grow the incompetent federal government at an alarming rate. Democracy should not be a spectator sport. It is serious; it was bought with American blood and treasure; and it deserves a defense by the citizens of this country.

[Jester]

I was so inspired. Very boring book burning. Went to my computer folder marked "books" with all the .pdf, .chm, .txt, .htm. And hit delete.

Not very exciting. But I was able to pull them out of the recycle bin and do it all over again.

Actually, didn't even watch the video. I always thought the tea parties seemed a bit lame to me. I'm not against a public statement about the spending going on, but the tea parties seemed crappy to me.

[greenleaf]

I think it may be a little premature to dismiss the tea party movement as a whole.
Obviously the gentleman in this video may not be its best representative. The idea of abandoning college and brainwashing converter boxes are too ridiculous to defend.
That does not mean that there isn't any truth in what he says. In my opinion, the media does choose what and how to report based on its own agenda.
And, again IMO based on my experience, college professors in public universities do tend to profess heavily to the left.
Perhaps, just perhaps, if the media and the college learning environment was a bit more even handed they would not feed the paranoia of some people.
Or have we all decided that left is right and good and right is wrong and bad in all things and at all times?

[agatha]

The conspiracy guy is probably talking about this.


YouTube - Former KGB Agent Explains the Brainwashing of America 1980's



Book burners are idiots. But many colleges and professors definately have social agendas. And those that do will be getting neither my kids nor my dollars. **==

Oh and the 9-12 project is different than the TEA parties. These particular people are probably involved in both but they are not the same thing.

[Suzan]

I thought the tea parties were supposed to be bipartisan and about protesting taxes? I was curious, but if they're going to devolve into rants about brainwashing and book burning, I won't be participating.

This is disappointing. IMO, we all need to be less complacent about the deluge in governmental spending and the flood of taxes it's going to create.

Hey, how's that for some biblical imagery?

[cinnamongirl]

I can see the original purpose of the tea parties and why people would get involved, but they've also become a platform for right-wing fringe nuts with a political ax to grind. Those voices inevitably drown out the moderate ones.

Good luck with that handful, tea partiers.

[Aria]

I don't know how organized, or focused, the tea parties are and they may take different forms with differing emphasis around the nation - but I, too, think it may be premature to dismiss the movement as they seem to have caught on quickly which says something about the intensity of feelings of people involved. The tea party idea may be easy to make fun of, but why? It's people speaking for people's concerns. If the concerns are legitimate, they need to be aired and met - against the agendas of those who oppose. At the very least, the troubled are due the American right to speak out.

[TheTaoOfBill]

I don't care if these people want to not go to college. What upsets me is when they have kids. I consider teaching your kids this anti evolution crap or teaching them that college will brainwash child abuse.

Those kids will never have a chance at being successful.

[cinnamongirl]

I don't care if these people want to not go to college. What upsets me is when they have kids. I consider teaching your kids this anti evolution crap or teaching them that college will brainwash child abuse.


Why let your kids learn to think for themselves when you can do all the thinking for them, and save them the trouble? ;)

[hillary4change]

I went through the primaries this election cycle and witnessed the medias very biased "reporting". I trust very little the media has to say now.

I research and learn for myself, as we all should.

The concept of the tea parties is a good one. Voicing the way you feel about your government is the American way...whether the media chooses to cover your obvious differing opinion, is another matter entirely. Unfortunate but true.

[hillary4change]

Why let your kids learn to think for themselves when you can do all the thinking for them, and save them the trouble? ;)I like that. Very true!

[Jester]

I don't care if these people want to not go to college. What upsets me is when they have kids. I consider teaching your kids this anti evolution crap or teaching them that college will brainwash child abuse.

Those kids will never have a chance at being successful.

Why do you care about anarchists?

[agatha]

I don't care if these people want to not go to college. What upsets me is when they have kids. I consider teaching your kids this anti evolution crap or teaching them that college will brainwash child abuse.

Those kids will never have a chance at being successful.



Are you saying that only kids who go to college will be successful?

[agatha]

I thought the tea parties were supposed to be bipartisan and about protesting taxes?

They are. Anything I've seen from the TEA party has supported this.

I was curious, but if they're going to devolve into rants about brainwashing and book burning, I won't be participating.


There is a difference between the 9-12 project and the TEA parties. I'm sure there is overlap of supporters but the movements themselves are two different things.