U.S.A.: The far-right fringe: Armed, bigoted, and dangerous

clipped from onlinejournal.com Things have gotten really ugly in the Tea Party world. It was scary enough when some people showed up at town hall meetings last summer with loaded guns. But those seemed like isolated incidents. Now, however, even the unarmed Tea Partiers are resorting to more and more extreme displays of bigotry and hate. Over the weekend, tea partiers gathered outside the Capitol to protest the health care reform bill. Only this time they weren’t just hurling ill-informed talking points. This time they were hurling hate speech -- and worse. While a lot of this behavior is surely based on their mindless acceptance of the right-wing fear-inducing propaganda, I suspect it has even more to do with the fact that we now have a black man in the White House -- a black man with an exotic name in charge of this country. It scares the hell out of them. The problem is that some bigots can be very, very dangerous, especially when they are frightened. And that is even scarier than the fact that they can vote.