American Taliban? Montana Tea Party Leader Called For Gays To Be Hanged
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The president of Montana’s Big Sky Tea Party Association has been fired from his leadership position following remarks made online that implied his support for the public hanging of homosexuals.
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He did NOT call for ‘hanging’ this is what he called for on facebook”
This is from Amplify
http://tinyurl.com/25ynbqa
The President of the Montana Big Sky Tea Party, Tim Ravndall, thinks it’s funny to joke about murdering gays.
A Facebook exchange:
Dennis Scranton: “I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they can be seen and appreciated. Call Wyoming for display instructions.”
Tim Ravndal: “@Kieth, OOPS I forgot this aint(sic) America no more! @ Dennis, Where can I get that Wyoming printed instruction manual?”
(A reference to the torture and murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming in 1998). Randval has apologized. But the organization has not yet met demands to remove himl from office.
What’s it going to be, Tea Party and sympathizers? Are you going to have the guy who thinks murdering gays is hilarious as your president? Any official denunciation of violence coming our way anytime soon?
I was in college and had just come out when Matthew Shepard was murdered. His death was such a horrifying and unexpected tragedy that it left its mark on everyone I knew, even though none of us had ever met him. To read the exchange between Scranton and Ravndal makes me wince as if from a physical blow.
Matthew was my age – he’d be almost 34 now. Is the world now, no better than the world that he left? Is this truly where Tea Party and other anti-gay types want us to be? Because this is where the road of homophobia and discrimination against GLBTQ people ends. This is where the fractured discourse, alarmist propaganda, and fearmongering ends. In violence and death.
It’s not funny to me. Is it funny to you, Tea Party?
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You forget that the first amendment guarantees freedom of lynching! Read the Constitution, morans!
Obviously this is an isolated incident…just like all of the other isolated incidents.
He wasn’t fired for making the comments. He was fired for saying them in a public discourse.
Just as it’s a win-win when TEAbaggers run in Republican primaries (either they win and then lose to the Democrat, or they absorb money and energy from the Republican leadership and thus weaken the establishment candidate), it’s a win-win for America when they say what they really think: either they make the TEA Party look like a bunch of bigoted idiots, or they throw some of their own under the bus.
He wasn’t fired for making the comments. He was fired for saying them in a public discourse.
Are you giving us behind the scenes info as a member of the Montana Big Sky Tea Party, or are you just practicing your mind reading skills?
Dave in SoCal: Yeah, no conclusions can be drawn from the fact that these people clearly believed they were in safe company when they uttered these disgusting remarks.
Then what exactly did he do to get fired, Dave?
Where’s GOP Proud in all this?
Suck ours too, Dave.
‘American Taliban’ Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,472 in Books
Heckuva job, Kosie.
Gay bashing is cool because Markos isn’t outselling Twilight!!!!!
Dennis says look over there.
Did he ever address the subject of a post?
You don’t expect Dennis to have a sudden burst of rationality, do you?
Right wing teabagger assholes bashing Others? Get outta town!
This is who they are.
Dang, how come nobody wants to compare American Taliban to Liberal Fascism anymore?
Did you ever hear of someone named Glenn Greenwald?:
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how come nobody wants to compare American Taliban to Liberal Fascism anymore?
They might, if the post was about that. How did it escape your attention that this post is not about anything related to book sales?
LOOK! OVER THERE!
Did you have any thoughts on the subject at hand? Did you know that anyone, even you, can have a blog, where they can talk about anything they want?
The title of the blog post begins with “American Taliban?”, Dishonest Repack.
Then respond to the rest of the headline, Dennis.
Did I tell you guys that when Dennis called me the other week he sounded a bit jittery, like he was on meth?
Then respond to the rest of the headline, Dennis.
Here’s a thought, DA, why don’t you respond to it, since you haven’t yet, either. And you’re the one who sounded like Deputy Dawg on quaaludes. Don’t blame me if you’re slow of foot and mouth.
What a load. Don’t waste your time.
Then respond to the rest of the headline, Dennis.
Here’s a thought, DA, why don’t you respond to it, since you haven’t yet, either.
Hey, my opinion about such things can easily be inferred from what I’ve written here before, but you still play “look over there” as if it’s the first time I posted here.
So you don’t deny doing meth, Dennis?
Suck ours too, Dave.
Sorry, Randy, I don’t swing that way.
You’ll just have to go back to paying homeless guys to do you behind the bus station.
You’ll just have to go back to paying homeless guys to do you behind the bus station.
And put SaveFerris out of business?
Knock off the personal attacks, kids. This is the internet, after all.
Trolling isn’t to be entertained either. Look how quickly they came in and changed the topic, simply because they knew their position was indefensible. Especially given how the Tea Party has reacted to Ravndal’s dismissal:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/montana-tea-party-members_n_709067.html
Of COURSE they’re gonna wanna change the topic to any other stupid subject they think they can get you to nibble on. It helps distract from the ugliness in their own souls.
My soul is pure as the driven snow, Jody. And knock off the personal attacks yourself.
Yellow snow, maybe.
I’m not the one trying to change the subject from the bigotry inherent in the Tea Party. I’m staying on topic. Somehow you keep managing to avoid it, even tho that’s what the OP is about.
I wonder why that is.
Now quickly, toss me another deflection, get offended by my uncivil treatment of you, and ad me some hominem.