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Null Set (Updated) 6

Pro Publica has an interesting article on the new nullification movement.

You may have heard of the old nullification movement. It was created by the same persons who brought you secession and Civil War.

This one’s all about the right of gun nuts to worship their graven image in the Church of the Holy Heat.

Addendum:

Speaking of secession and Civil War . . . .

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6 comments

  1. George Smith

    May 3, 2013 at 12:05 pm

    They play with fire. The GOP state extremists who do this for their base ignore at their peril the inspiration they give to even more fringe and crazy individuals obsessed with striking back against alleged federal government tyranny. They want to refight the Civil War as theatre without thinking about the fact that someone who takes them very seriously in the audience may decide to take part.

     
  2. Frank

    May 3, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    In addition to what you list, I would argue that they also betray the racism fundament on which their ideology rests.

     
  3. George Smith

    May 4, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    50/50 odds Ted Nugent uses the NRA conference this weekend to threaten the president with a thin metaphor again this weekend. It was at the same even last year that he did so and earned a visit from the US Secret Service. Last time I checked most people manage to get through life without a special courtesy call from them, that it’s a blot on your reputation if they are compelled to come and quiz you about matters.

     
  4. Frank

    May 4, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    The right is going nuts.  I wonder if this is what the 1850s were like.

     
  5. George Smith

    May 4, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    Here’s another nullification stunt to compile. Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, just signed into law legislation that requires police to sell the guns bought in buyback drives back to registered gun sellers, thus making no point to them. The Phoenix police have scheduled three to get in before the law goes into effect. That’s the kind of law that’s just a socially destructive and nasty stunt, meant double as a symbol to the nuts gun right. For god’s sake, there has never been anything wrong with gun buybacks in cities, particularly in places like LA.  

     
  6. Frank

    May 5, 2013 at 1:04 pm

    A primary motivation of the Republican Party seems to be simple down-home meanness and spitefulness.

     

    It flabbergasts.