Forefathers of the TeaBirther Movement
Telling “jokes” about murdering your political enemies, inciting riots at public townhalls, a consistent pattern among Republican leaders comparing democratically-elected officials to Nazis, misinformation so egregious and widespread that it makes reasonable debate impossible…this is terrifying. There is no longer a discussion between liberals and conservatives, but between the ambitious and the sociopathic, between those who are trying to accomplish what they were elected to do and the anarchists who will tell any lie, stoke any hatred, and go to any length to destroy the other side.
Let’s just hope history doesn’t repeat itself :

This original flyer, one of about 5,000 distributed in downtown Dallas a day or two prior to the Kennedy assassination, was the creation of Robert Surrey, an associate of Major General Edwin Walker, Retired. Unknown persons placed these anti-Kennedy handbills on car windshields and tucked inside racks of the two Dallas daily newspapers.
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I hadn’t seen this before; thanks for providing this piece of history. it is indeed disturbing to see parallels between the rancor and hate of some political utterances today and this propaganda circulated shortly before Kennedy’s death.
Comment by Donna H. — April 12, 2010 @ 10:26 pm