It is a secular humanist’s dream to live in a world where no country
on Earth required a military to protect its citizens from invasion, but
like most Utopian fantasies, such a world will never exist. As the
leader of the free world, America has built up a huge military to
protect the nation’s interests, its allies, and its way of life for its
people. After the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, despite the
senseless invasion of two Islamic countries, the nation is still engaged
in a war to combat global terrorism to prevent Islamic extremists from
planning and launching attacks on Americans at home and the nation’s
interests abroad. The war on terror focuses on groups loosely affiliated
with the Al Qaeda terrorist network, but it turns out that Islamic
extremists do not pose the greatest threat to America according to a
2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security. The biggest threat
to America, its people, and government is from domestic right-wing
extremist groups that fall under the purview of the repugican cabal
that gives unwavering legislative support to their affiliates in
religious, racist, and anti-government extremist movements.
The 2009 Homeland Security report
cited the repugican Great Recession and resulting economic climate,
along with the election of an African American man as President, as the
primary drivers fueling the resurgence of domestic anti-American terror
groups. At the time, the DHS-commissioned report drew special attention
to
the fact that “
extremist right-wing groups posed more of a threat than Islamic extremists,” and repugicans
objected
loudly prompting Secretary Janet Napolitano to withdraw that report
because as Americans have come to realize, repugicans cannot handle the
truth. However, a
new study from West Point’s Combatting Terrorism Center evaluates the risks from domestic terror groups titled “
Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right,”
that isolated three categories that represent the John Birch iteration
and anti-American sentiment inherent in the repugican cabal.
The report identified and examined the background ideologies and
methods of the Racist White Supremacy Movement,christian Fundamentalist
Movement, and Anti-Federal Government Movement Americans have learned
make up the core of the repugican cabal’s legislative agenda that, as
the report points out, poses an existential risk to the United States.
What the report discovered was that each of the groups will use violence
against their targets to emphasize their ideologies regardless if it is
racial minorities, abortion clinics, or government agencies, and the
past two years reveal their agenda and ideology is synonymous with the repugican cabal.
One need look no farther than the recent repugican campaign leading
up to the general election to identify the terror groups’ deep-seated
ideology founded in racism, religious extremism, and anti-government
agenda, and why the result of the election increased the spectre of
violence and calls for race war, violence against the federal
government, and attempts to impose christianity on all facets of
government and the people. It is tempting to cite the recent gun control
measures as the reason for increased calls for violent intervention to
transform America into a collection of theocratic Aryan states, but it
is more likely the result of the American electorate rejecting the
racist, extremist christian, and anti-government agenda promised by repugican candidates from Willard Romney down to state and local level
representatives identified as repugicans or teabaggers.
During the repugican presidential primary and leading right up to
the general election, candidates decried President Obama’s practice of
stealing money from white Americans to give to African Americans “
who just want more free stuff.” Romney, particularly,
utilized a
Ku Klux Klan
slogan and portrayed President Obama as a foreigner who did not
understand what it meant to be an American, and claimed the President
pacified muslim’s and degraded christians and their favorite nation,
Israel. Nearly all repugican candidates diligently pushed extremist christian agendas against women and gays by promising to repeal Roe v.
Wade, defund Planned Parenthood, ban contraception, and criminalize
same-sex marriage that are part and parcel of the fundamentalist christian agenda. All repugicans campaigned to weaken and defund all
aspects of the federal government except defense, and promised to give
states sovereignty over the federal government regardless the Supremacy
clause in the U.S. Constitution.
The West Point report examined the three terror groups, racists,
fundamentalist christians, and anti-federal government advocates as
individual threats in their own right, but combined, they represent
everything the repugican cabal promised to impose on the nation if they
prevailed in the general election. It is impossible to segregate the
right-wing extremists into separate groups when their combined
ideologies fall under the aegis of repugican dogma, and the government
cannot address any of the groups’ threats without first addressing why,
and where, they got the idea their extremist agenda would garner
legislative support, without which they will resort to violence.
The repugicans began pushing the extremists’ agenda on the first day of the 112
th
Congress, and if one examines every proposal and piece of legislation
proposed by repugicans in Congress and state legislatures over the past
two years, they will find some ideological aspect of the three
extremist groups’ cited in the West Point report, and since their chance
at imposing their radical agenda through repugican legislation failed
in the general election, as the study clearly stated, they will use
violence to achieve their aims.
The repugicans cannot possibly deny their, and the three violent
extremist groups, agenda are nearly identical, and to shift attention
away from the repugican cabal’s culpability, one repugican said the Combating
Terrorism Center was guilty of “
perpetuating the left’s myth that right-wingers are terrorists,”
but since repugicans promote racial bigotry, christian fundamentalism,
and anti-federal government rhetoric and legislation, the myth is the repugican cabal is not promoting domestic terrorism. The uncontestable
proof is that besides pushing legislation supported by the three
extremist terror groups, not one repugican has denounced calls for
violence against racial minorities, women, gays, or the government
because the right-wing extremists and repugican ideology are one and
the same.
See, the entire film is set inside the property at Walt Disney World in
Orlando, Florida, and a fair amount of the film appears to have been
actually shot on the property, during business hours, without anyone's
permission. It is largely stolen feature film, and while they were
careful to change all the music so they're not playing anything in the
film that they could get sued over, they are still including tons and
tons of familiar Disney iconography. Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Pluto, Donald
Duck… all the costumed characters appear. We see huge chunks of the
"Snow White" ride, portions of the "Winnie The Pooh" ride, material shot
inside the Haunted Mansion. There's an entire sequence built around
waiting in line for the Buzz Lightyear ride. They go to Epcot, and
Spaceship Earth is prominently featured and even blown up at one point.
It feels like someone saw "Eraserhead" and said, "Hey, why don't we get
that guy to shoot an infomercial for the Magic Kingdom to get more
families to come?" and this is the oh-so-not-what-they-wanted result.
It is a magnificent, impossible nightmare.
'Cosmic bang' hit Medieval Earth
If
you're wondering what in the world are those neon orange balls growing
on a beech tree, you're in good company. See, it was Charles Darwin himself
who first encountered the strange balls when he landed in Tierra del Fuego
during his voyage on the HMS Beagle.
