Liberals Openly Call For 'Violence' And 'Revolution' On MSNBC

Joe Schoffstall | November 9, 2010
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On Dylan Ratigan's show, liberal cartoonist Ted Rall, author of the "Anti-American Manifesto", suggests violence may be the only way to save America. Ratigan himself asks "Are things in our country so bad, that it may be time for a revolution? The answer obviously is 'yes' ,the only question is 'how to do it?"

UPDATE: Verum Serum has posted an excerpt from the Ted Rall book 'The Anti-American Mainfesto" in which he calls for a violent socialist movement from within, here's a little bit:

We are here because the U.S. is going to end soon. There’s going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It’s going to come down to us versus them. The question is: What are you going to do about it?… Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the “Godless,” “secular” United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party. Right-wing organizational names change, but they amount to the same thing: the reactionary sociopolitical force—the sole force—poised to fill the vacuum when collapse occurs. The scenario outlined by Margaret Atwood’s prescient novel The Handmaid’s Tale—rednecks in the trenches, hard military men running things, minorities and liberals taken away and massacred, setting the stage for an even more extreme form of laissez-faire corporate capitalism than we’re suffering under today—is a fair guess of how a post-U.S. scenario will play out unless we prepare to turn it in another direction…

To read the whole excerpt, head on over to Verum Serum. Also, for a full transcript between Ratigan and Rall check out this NewsBusters post.

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