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In a recent article about Pat Boone’s dream of President Obama’s overthrow and his installation as commander in chief I wrote:
Recently right wing Americans have organized to make Mr. Boone’s dream come true. From fomenting rebellion in the military, to seceding from the Union and surrounding domestic enemies, the call of Joe Hill “Don’t mourn, organize” is heeded, but with a sense of danger and hostility. It may be a dream to take up arms to overthrow the government, but it is unclear if the dreamers understand that what for them may be a thought experiment; for the next Timothy McVeigh may be marching orders.
Tragically a Pittsburgh man took statements like Boone’s as marching orders; then shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers. His belief that Obama would strip American of their second amendment rights fits neatly into the extreme right wing paradigm. After all, Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck tearfully rues the day Obama took office claiming that its time to exercise the power that comes with surrounding your enemies. Chuck Norris, Ted Nugent and Pat Boone wax poetic of overthrow and secession while Alan Keyes foments military insurrection.
The killer believed lock, stock and barrel that the extreme rhetoric employed by the right wing and yes, Republican talk radio/celebrity cabal was a call to arms. He was a devotee of Stormfront, a white supremacist website that takes typical right wing rhetoric and turns it up a notch. In fact Derek Black Stormfront's Radio Program Director won 61 percent of the vote in his bid for election to the Palm Beach County Republican Committee.
Surely Americans of good will abhor this violent rhetoric and are the ones who outnumber and surround them.
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