The Axis of Crazy: Paulites, Palinites, teabaggers, militias and crackpot Pastor Anderson
The nexus of these groups is coming into focus. It seems that the origin of the wingnut ascendancy might be the failed, quirky candidacy of Ron Paul. More and more, the craziest forces on the right appear to be a combination of Ron Paul adherents, Sarah Palin fans and fringe miliita types, all brought together by media figures like Glenn Beck. One piece of evidence: “Pastor” Steven Anderson, the guy who wants President Obama dead (specifically, melted like a salted snail) was the star of one of those ubiquitous July 4 “tea parties.” Watch:
So, do this blogger and others like him, still think Anderson is “great?”
Anderson was also present at an incident documented by the Phoenix New Times s, in which some Paulites race-baited two members of and the Yuma, Arizona border patrol:
RP4409? That’s the title preferred by Jason Shelton, RP4409’s creator. RP likely stands for the man that he and Freedom’s Phoenix’s Ernie Hancock worship like a demigod: Congressman Ron Paul. The number 4409? Well, Shelton’s told some folks that this stands for the 44th President — Barack Obama, and the year, 2009.
Pastor Anderson, Shelton, militia pimp Hancock, RP4409, the liber-tard party, et al., are so intertwined with each other that you’d practically need a Venn diagram to understand how they overlap.
Take this incident that allegedly took place August 5 at a Round Table Pizza parlor in Yuma. As you can see in the video above, the 4409 crew approached two lunching Border Patrol agents, and asked them if they are American citizens and have the i.d. to prove it.
The fact that these questions might’ve had racial overtones in this particular instance seems lost on the 4409 ofays. (Yeah, I know, such are the questions agents often ask at BP checkpoints, but still…) The BP agents, for their parts, acted like class acts, and just got up and left. Shelton calls this video “Nazi Checkpoint Guards, Confronted.”
Writing in the first person on the Freedom’s Phoenix Website, “4409″ notes, ironically, that:”4409 [was] arrested after this violent confrontation with two Checkpoint SS guards at a Round Table Pizza! I was charged with 13-2904 A1 Disorderly conduct…”
Freedom’s Phoenix’s editor Powell Gammill says he was a witness to the event, and says the men involved did nothing wrong. He reported September 1 that Pastor Anderson, who was there also it seems, has a warrant outstanding on the incident. Gammill ascribed it to the supposedly evil intentions of the Yuma County Prosecutor.
Here’s the video:
And Paul himself (who was so right on Iraq but so strange otherwise,) has been way too friendly with a neo-Nazi outfit called Stormfront, even posing for friendly pictures with them:
Ironically, the same “hate Obama”, tea party, Paulite, Palinite, “extreme Libertarian” crowd that is so closely aligned with such wingnuttery uses accusations that OBAMA is a Nazi, to bolster its insanity.
Strange days we’re living in.
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