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Mar 2

Scapegoats and Lynch Mobs

Posted on Monday, March 2, 2009 in Conspiracies and Mobs, Lounge
George Meadows

George Meadows

Today’s Americans probably know little about lynching, mob murder of someone they take a dislike to. For the reader who is not familiar with this blot on American history, I suggest Lynching in the United States.  Between 1880 and 1951 the Tuskegee Institute recorded 3,437 lynchings of African Americans, as well as 1,293 whites.

René Girard talks  about mob violence in his book, The Scapegoat. Girard’s thesis is that pressures in a community build up, and through an act of violence opposing forces can unite at least for a time, and some sense of relief can be found.

At this time in American history with the economy in shambles, two wars, high profile public figures shown corrupt, and threats of terrorism and global ecological disaster, there is no shortage of pressure. When the mob chooses a victim, they pick someone who is “different”. To many Barack Obama is “different” because of his race, the fact that he’s mixed race, lived in Indonesia and doesn’t pass the right-wing litmus test on anything.

Of course, no one can lynch the President, (more…)

Jan 10

The Angry Mob

Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 in Conspiracies and Mobs, Featured Articles, Orly Taitz

NObama forces hiding behind a thin veneer of respect for the United States Constitution are actually traitors who are planning to overthrow the lawfully elected government of the United States.

Example Number 1 is Dr. Orly Taitz, drunken with her new found celebrity, said it plainly on her blog, Natural Born Citizen…Orly? (more…)