Another March on Washington

Published in Neues Deutschland
(Germany) on 28 August 2010
by Olaf Standke (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Ron Argentati. Edited by Celeste Hansen.
This latest “March on Washington” is designed to be a political provocation and demonstration of power in a midterm congressional election year. Tens of thousands of ultra-conservative tea party members will demonstrate today at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. – on the same spot where Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his dream of equality for every citizen of “God’s own country” 47 years ago. The tea party is not an official political party but a loose, network-based movement that came into being after Barack Obama’s inauguration. It had its origins in the right wing of the Republican Party and just one target: the new President.

Democrat, liberal, black – that’s all just too much for people like TV personality Glenn Beck. God’s own rabble-rouser is currently the most well known mouthpiece for the tea party, but Sarah Palin, failed candidate for vice president, is also riding the wave of conservative frustration and anger that flows over the country with obvious racist overtones. Critics of today’s march rightly fear the denigration of great civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Barack Obama is, in the eyes of many hate-filled tea partiers, “immoral” and “unpatriotic,” and they liken him alternatively to Hitler and Stalin. Even if these crude tea party tactics have no effect at the ballot box, they are already taking a massive toll on Republican candidates. John McCain’s slide to the extreme right in his campaign for reelection to the Senate is just one example.


Marsch auf Washington
Von Olaf Standke
28.08.2010

Dieser neue »Marsch auf Washington« ist als politische Provokation und Machtdemonstration im Jahr der Zwischenwahlen zum US-Kongress gedacht: Zehntausende Anhänger der ultrakonservativen »Tea Party«-Bewegung wollen heute am Lincoln Memorial in Washington demonstrieren – dort, wo vor genau 47 Jahren Martin Luther King seinen Traum vom gleichberechtigten Leben für alle Bürger in »Gottes eigenem Land« verkündete. Die »Tea Party« ist keine Partei, sondern eine lose vernetzte Basisbewegung, die sich nach dem Einzug von Barack Obama ins Weiße Haus am rechten Rand der Republikaner gebildet hat und von Anfang an nur ein Angriffsziel hatte: den neuen Präsidenten.

Demokrat, liberal, schwarz – das ist für Leute wie den TV-Moderator Glenn Beck zu viel. Dieser Hetzer vor dem Herrn ist das zur Zeit wohl bekannteste Sprachrohr der »Tea Party«. Aber auch Sarah Palin, die gescheiterte Kandidatin für das Vize-Präsidentenamt, surft auf der Welle von konservativem Frust und Zorn, die über das Land rollt und unübersehbar rassistisch eingefärbt ist. Zu Recht befürchten Kritiker des heutigen Aufmarsches Verunglimpfungen des großen Bürgerrechtlers Martin Luther King. Barack Obama mit seiner »unmoralischen« und »unpatriotischen« Politik ist in den Augen vieler hasserfüllter Party-Anhänger ohnehin wahlweise Hitler oder Stalin. Auch wenn diese krude Tee-Runde nicht zu Wahlen antritt, nimmt sie längst massiven Einfluss auf die Kandidaten der Republikaner. Der Rutsch nach rechts außen des einstigen Präsidentschaftsbewerberss John McCain im Wahlkampf für das Senatsvotum im Herbst zeigt das gerade exemplarisch.
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1 COMMENT

  1. You shouldn’t believe everything the liberals write about us, they are completely off base. If you study our real history, you will find that it is the conservative Republican party that was founded to oppose slavery. The conservative Republican party enacted civil rights that we have now back in the 1870’s. The liberal Democrat party was founded in 1854 to protect slavery. After attaining a majority in Congress a decade after the civil war, it was the liberal Democrat party that repealed all of the historic civil rights legislation and enacted the Jim Crow laws resulting in a centry of oppression that the conservative Republicans fought the entire time. The liberal Democrat party founded, funded and directed the KKK to murder Republicans, black and white. You can see they have not changed at all. The successors to the KKK are Acorn and the SIEU. In fact the old message to minorities, “vote Democrat or else” was manifest at a St. Louis tea party where black vendor Kenneth Gladney was assaulted and wound up in the hospital from injuries suffered at the hands of SIEU thugs. All of the violence and racism at tea parties was created by liberals either attacking patriots, or masqueraging as patriots and behaving reprehensibly.

    Planned Parenthood was founded by liberal eugenics advocates whose objective was to eliminate blacks via abortion. Check the statistics, blacks account for about 40% of abortion victims yet only about 13% of the population. This is no accident. People look at the tea parties and don’t see enough blacks, well guess what, minority means “minority”. There are easily 13% of blacks at tea parties.

    I suggest you stop listening to liberal American media and start researching history. You will find a very different picture.

    Best regards,
    Gail S
    http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com