The ignoble death of Arizona racist J.T. Ready
Posted on | May 18, 2012 | No Comments
In the past, I’ve offered Russell Pearce’s anti-Mexican jihad as an example of the kind of overt racism that is no longer tolerated in politics. Now just a few days later we learn that J.T. Ready, Arizona’s leading white supremacist, 
appears to have killed himself. Along with, he allegedly murdered his girlfriend, her 2- year-old daughter, her adult daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend.
Ready was a protégé of Russell Pearce. Though Pearce has consistently claimed to have disavowed him in recent years, Ready called Pearce his “substitute father.” Last year, Pearce was recalled by his conservative Republican district for his stewardship of legislation that many have called racist (including SB1070, Arizona’s “papers-please” law.) Ready was prominent at pro-Pearce rallies leading up to the recall election.
Southern Poverty Law Center named J.T. Ready as one of the national leaders of America’s Neo-Nazi movement. He’s the founder of US Border Guard, an armed vigilante group that doesn’t actually patrol the border, but does sneak around (wearing camo and ghillie suits) in the Pinal County desert, some 140 miles to the north. He had recently threatened to run for sheriff of Pinal.
Ready was also the subject of speculation that he was involved in last month’s ambush killing of two illegal migrants. They were murdered in the Pinal County area where he was known to “patrol.”
J.T. Ready embodied the vile white-supremacist underbelly of Arizona’s anti-migrant movement, consistently promoting the notion of white supremacy and Neo-Nazi beliefs while pretending to stand for law and order. He was anti-Jew, anti-Latino, and pro-white – and he spoke adoringly about Adolf Hitler on at least one occasion.
He and his ilk are part of the same continuum of racial opportunists as some of Arizona’s top lawmakers, including Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. All of them operate from the same playbook of imaginary threats:
“Sheriff Arpaio continues to crackdown on immigration and will not be deterred by activist groups and politicians for [sic] enforcing all immigration laws.”
— Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Press Release
“This is the minuteman project on steroids. We’ve got people with assault weapons. We will use lawful, deadly force when appropriate.”
— J.T. Ready, reported by KOLD News 13 via Southern Poverty Law Center
“The simple truth is that the majority of human smuggling in our state is under the direction of the drug cartels, which are by definition smuggling drugs”
— Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
“This is a white, European homeland. That’s how it should be preserved if we want to keep it clean, safe, and pure.”
— J.T. Ready at a National Socialist Movement rally via Southern Poverty Law Center
Except for Ready, perhaps no one has been more of an opportunist on illegal migration than Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I believe SB 1070 was originally concocted not to reduce illegal intrusions but to give Arpaio legal cover from a mountain of civil rights lawsuits. At the time, Arpaio was threatening to challenge Jan Brewer for the nomination for Governor. When the law was passed, he changed his plans.
In 2010, the same year that Ready was promoting his vision of the white homeland, Arpaio was busy deputizing an “Illegal Immigration Posse,” ostensibly to round up illegal migrant workers, but maybe just to get some more publicity:
“Hollywood actors and real life law enforcement professionals Steven Seagal, Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk) and Peter Lupus (Mission Impossible) all signed on to work this detail. A retired Chicago police official aptly named Dick Tracy who now lives in Arizona has also joined this posse. And Wyatt Earp, a local resident whose uncle was the famous lawman, is joining the posse as well.”
— Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Press Release
Despite attempt these officials will make to distance themselves from J.T. Ready they still occupy the same side of the same street. Pearce, Brewer and Arpaio campaign by demonizing Mexicans. They invented an imaginary pestilence 180 miles to the south (the actual border) and invented phony crime statistics about it. Like J.T. Ready, they aggrandize themselves in white Arizona through the lies they tell about brown Arizona.
The takeaway, of course, is that there is not a lot of sunlight between the recognizable racism practiced by a J.T. Ready and the obscured racism of ethnicity-based lawmaking. Brewer, Arpaio and Pearce all dealt cards from the same deck as Ready. They just hid behind the Arizona flag while doing it.
Tags: Arizona > J.T. Ready; Russell Pearce > Jan Brewer > Jimmy Zuma > Joe Arpaio > Neo-Nazi > SB1070 > Southern Poverty Law Center > U.S. Border Guard > white supremacist
Charting the rise of stupidity
Posted on | May 18, 2012 | No Comments
The following is excerpted from the forthcoming book, The Rise of Stupidity – how dumb ideas are remaking America in their own image.
The joke goes, “If Rick Perry wants Texas to secede, let’s pay him to go. If he takes Florida too, I’d give him a bonus.” It’s a commentary on how it seems that the dumbest ideas always begin in one or the other of these two states. You’d be surprised how often that’s true. Still, it would be hard to argue that foolish ideas all come from Texas or Florida. Today’s broken government, for example, grew from seeds planted in Washington DC some 35 years ago – during the Reagan Administration. 
It has taken that long for some utterly foolish ideas – supply side economics and “government is the problem” to name just two – to completely destroy America’s economy and largely decimate our world-leading position in invention, manufacturing, education and quality of life. In the better part of four decades, most of it under Republican presidents, we’ve also lost the cultural certainty that we can do big things and do them better than anyone else.
What’s left is a declining ability to compete in the world. Alone among our international competitors, our economic system is the one in which only those with no children or sick relatives (who need health insurance) can take entrepreneurial risks. Ours is the last first-tier economy to reward dirty energy and ignore its alternatives. Foreign students come here to get an education, but now they go home to use it. They used to want to stay.
To fill the gap, we have an entirely invented belief in something called “American Exceptionalism.” But that’s really just a flatulent way to try to salvage our dignity. The evidence is overwhelming that we are becoming more and more ordinary with each passing year. Peel away the jingoistic hyperbole and one is left with the realization that Russia is now our ride to the Space Station.
How do the roots of all these seemingly distinct problems weave together? Through Ronald Reagan it seems. Reagan’s embrace of “traditional values” as the solution to all problems led to the creation of a magical fairyland in American history when the country was supposedly greater than in the late 20th century. He said, ““There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.” (Think about that for a second, “a mandate to impose a voluntary…” Yes, it was Ronald Reagan speaking, not George W.)
A second seminal bit of fabric that holds all of this together was Reagan’s assertion that government is inherently bad. “Government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem,” he famously said. So any solution that dismantles, destroys or damages the federal government must be a great idea, right?
The third layer of the fabric is the Republicans famous willingness to completely betray logic of character or consistency of principle when there is money to be made. Reagan didn’t invent this willingness, but he surely practiced it.
The final, very consequential element of the weave is what happens when one separates Reagan’s ideas from his considerable intellect. In the hands of someone of lesser brain power, say a John Boehner or a Paul Ryan, the result is a Pavlovian salivation, not a nuanced understanding: It is true because we repeat it because it is true because we repeat it.
The first casualty of Reagan-era ideas was the secular nature of our government. Next children lost their first amendment liberties. In this century, economic theories that promote coddling and favoring the rich (like supply-side economics, which was originally promoted – and later disavowed – by Reagan budget director David Stockman) ruined our economy and ran up our deficits. Now an intellectual moronocracy is poised to challenge the very notions that our nation was built on – partnership, cooperation and compromise. The US Senate, once called “the world’s greatest deliberative body” is today frozen in a custard of filibuster.
Even “Starve the Beast,” the conservative economic theory that is directly responsible for today’s massive deficits had its roots in the Reagan White House. ” The label, coined to describe a cut revenues and let the rest sort itself out approach was first attributed to an unnamed White House staffer by The Wall Street Journal. Reagan put it this way, “Well, if you’ve got a kid that’s extravagant, you can lecture him all you want to about his extravagance. Or you can cut his allowance and achieve the same end much quicker.
What Reagan didn’t anticipate and what George W. Bush was too simple to realize, is that people still expect a return on their investment in government no matter how little taxes they pay. This is especially true of the people who bought your presidency for you. Starve the Beast became Wimpynomics: I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today…
Now we are poised to watch the entire Republican Party double down on a legacy of cultural, social and governance failure, even though it has already wrecked our economy, poisoned our civic life, tried to exclude our fastest growing minorities and driven a massive political wedge between some Americans and other Americans. And because Republicans have been concurrently promoting dumbness, Americans as a whole may no longer be smart enough to stop it.
Next time: How one simple Supreme Court ruling forever changed what our children learn about free speech.
First published as Charting the Rise of Stupidity on Technorati.
Tags: American Exceptionalism > Boehner > economics > Jimmy Zuma > Moronocracy > Rick Perry > Ronald Reagan > Starve the Beast > Stockman > supply side > The Rise of Stupidity > Wimpynomics
Mitt Romney’s “bless his little heart” strategy in post-racist America
Posted on | May 3, 2012 | No Comments
Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee, we’re starting to get indications of his general election strategy. Apart from trying to etch-a-sketch the radical-right positions he took in the primary, what is emerging is an election strategy based on two tactics: be vague and make liberal use of belittlement.
Be vague, is a publicly acknowledged plan for the campaign. Romney has said he believes he lost a 1994 Senate race and the 2008 nomination because he was too specific about what he’d do as president. In other words, when he said what he wanted to do, people wouldn’t vote for him. So he plans to talk a lot, but not say too much.
Unless you’re a potential donor, of course; in that case he wants you to know that he’d gut federal programs for low income housing and make the Department of Education’s only mission to oppose the right of teachers to organize in order to get better pay and working conditions. You can see his problem.
The second strategy, in essence, is to say bless his little heart; he’s a perfectly nice young man but he’s just not up to the job. I call it Southern-style snark. You can just imagine TV chef Paula Deen saying it as she throws another stick of heart disease into the roux.
So how will these two strategies work?
Certainly the platitudes-before-policies strategy has had longstanding success for Republicans, even before Reagan made high art of it. Republican voters practice what I like to call “faith-based politics.” They vote for people (like George W) who say the things they’d say. And they operate on a strict belief system. If something they believe in doesn’t work, it never crosses their mind that they are wrong. They just need to do it more, they think.
So for them, fist-pumping while yelling “America is best!” is enough. They’ll turn out for Mitt. Candidate Romney’s say-nothing strategy will get the votes of traditional Republicans and those “Independents” who always vote Republican. “We’re the greatest, thank God, and pass the ammunition!” is all they need.
But by itself, say-nothing won’t win a majority, much less an election. So Mr. Romney needs the second strategy. He needs to make Obama seem inept and foolish, despite the evidence otherwise. Ridicule is the most powerful force in politics. No one votes for the motley fool.
Don’t believe me? Just ask Michael Dukakis (who was killed by a funny hat) and Howard Dean (whose promising candidacy was killed by an enthusiastic scream.) Either would have been a good leader. But they were winning one day, dead the next.
The Republican Party has already been successful at holding down President Obama’s popularity by (arguably made up) ridicule about his popularity, his capability, his relatability and his experience. It works with anyone who is not listening too closely. That said, after years they haven’t managed to deliver anything close to a knockout.
Is Mitt Romney the guy to deliver a fatal blow? He has his own ridiculousness issues, of course. He’s the out-of-touch rich guy who likes to fire people. And Romney’s ridiculousness is entirely his own making. He calls Paul Ryan’s slash and burn budget “marvelous” a view probably shared only by Paul Ryan. Even before the primary, Mr. Romney was already famous for, as Michael Eric Dyson says, “blowing in the wind.”
Romney seems intent on making the case that rich people deserve to be honored, simply for being rich. This is the kind of talk you hear at country club cocktail parties, but it is usually privileged 20-something children doing the talking, not the grownups. Nonetheless, we’ll all be sure to admire Bernie Madoff, Muammar Gaddafi and Pablo Escobar, won’t we?
The other way that belittlement could backfire for Romney is if it is seen as racial. Certainly, any hopeful delusions of a post-racial America have been quashed of late. But just as certainly, we live in a post-racist America. The recall of Russell Pearce, architect of Arizona’s Paper’s Please Law and the national outcry over the killing of Trayvon Martin are clear evidence that a large majority of Americans – and most white people – simply won’t abide racism. Racism, when discovered, simply isn’t tolerated anymore.
If people come to believe Mitt Romney is calling President Obama “boy” his candidacy is over. It’s a fine line of perception that Mitt is probably not deft enough to avoid. Trying – or failing – may just neuter Romney’s attempt to ridicule – a tactic he desperately needs if he is to win without saying anything about what he plans to do.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Romney’s campaign was brought down not by any of his actual flaws, but by the views he made us guess about?
Tags: campaign strategy > Dukakis > Election > George Bush > Howard Dean > Jimmy Zuma > Michael Eric Dyson > Mitt Romney > nomination > Ridicule > Ronald Reagan
Ted Nugent’s dirty little secret
Posted on | April 22, 2012 | No Comments
Ted Nugent just said some really crazy stuff. But he has a very important reason to get himself in the news. He’s launching his own line of Ted Nugent brand ammunition.
Despite his nutty ranting, you actually have nothing to fear from Ted Nugent. In Nugent-world he’s a brave man because he won’t leave home without a gun hidden way up under his shirt. But being afraid to go outside without a gun isn’t a sign of bravery; it is decisive evidence of cowardliness. The vast majority of Americans prove that every day (including the vast majority of gun owners.)
Of course the gun hiders don’t want you to know that little secret. Heck, they don’t even want to admit it to themselves. But that’s the long and short of it. These guys bloviate and hide guns up under their skirts… I mean shirts… for the same reason. They are afraid of the big, bad world outside of the castle walls. It’s all smoke and bluster – underneath is a scared little boy terrified he’ll get eaten by a dragon.
So I’m amused to watch my liberal compatriots try to make the case that Nugent is somehow a threat to the president. Forget that Nugent wouldn’t survive 15 seconds up against any Secret Service Agent. He wouldn’t have the cojones to even try it.
Nugent is what he is – the former frontman of a C-list band, the Amboy Dukes. Remember them? Me neither. Like some other “former artists” he revived his income potential by attaching himself to a social issue. He’s more Victoria Jackson than George Patton, trust me.
But on a more granular level, Nugent is also a paid spokesman for an industry that markets entirely to scared guys with the message, No matter how many guns you have, you need another one.
The National Rifle Association is no longer the sportsman’s organization I shot for back in the late 60’s. (Yes, I can still put a round through your eyeball at 50 feet — with iron sights — but you won’t hear me threatening to do it if you try to steal my lawn mower. Sheesh.) Today’s NRA is an industry shill devoted entirely to making sure fraidy-cat, child-men stay whipped up into a frenzy of panic-induced purchase intention. And Ted Nugent is their mouthpiece.
Think I’m kidding? During a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Nugent used the Trayvon killing as an excuse to extoll the virtues of needing to carry a second gun, in case the perp’ gets a hold of your first one. No matter how many guns you have, you need another one. Get it?
And so it was with his comments at this year’s NRA convention – a gathering that is itself the nexus of paranoia and smokeless gunpowder. Parse Nugent’s message – our leaders are criminals and they will try to kill or imprison people like you and me – and you can find the Meta message: No matter how many guns you have, you need another one.
This brings us to Nugent’s most recent deliberate news making…
Besides guns themselves, the other big money in the gun industry is in convincing people to stockpile ammo, in anticipation of the coming Armageddon. Or race riot. Or Democratic administration.
Remember the ammo shortage when President Obama was elected? Nugent hopes to tap that same income stream with his new ammo brand. In garages, basements, CONEX containers, and buried in forest caches and hidey-holes, the nuttiest gun squirrels stockpile hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of rounds. And the Amboy Juke wants his picture on every moldering box.
The line is manufactured by Pierce Munitions LLC, a small, boutique manufacturer in New York. Pierce is owned by Aaron J. Pierce whose other business is selling cigarettes on the Seneca Indian Reservation. Pierce’s product is primarily offered regionally and the Nugent deal is the only press release on the company’s half-done website. Clearly, Pierce doesn’t have to juice to pull off a brand promotion by itself. Cue the crazy talk…
The problem, of course, is not Ted Nugent, nor his semi-coherent rants, nor his vanity ammo business. It is when some simple-minded guy named Zimmerman laps up the shtick and imagines he’s the line between society and chaos. Then, the possibility of tragedy becomes much more real. Nugent is about as dangerous as a Twinkie. It’s the guy repeating Nugent’s rant-speech in a mumble; he’s the one you have to watch out for. He’s the real face of today’s NRA.
The author shot competitively with the NRA Headquarters JRC team in the 1960s. He likes to shoot for fun.
Tags: Aaron J. Pierce > ammunition > concealed carry > George Zimmerman > Jimmy Zuma > National Rifle Association > NRA > Pierce Munitions > Piers Morgan > President Obama > Secret Service > Ted Nugent > Victoria Jackson
Rick rolls, Twitter nabs a killer, and a Mormon martyr for motherhood
Posted on | April 15, 2012 | No Comments
So many topics, so little time – a rockin’ week in politics
Thanks for nothin’, Rick
Rick Santorum finally admitted he has no chance of becoming president. He left the race just like he came in, against birth control because, “It’s a license to do things in a sexual 
realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." Quite the English major too, isn’t he?
If Mitt Romney loses his shot at the presidency history will write that running against Rick Santorum was largely the reason. Romney has adopted far out policy positions (like promising to defund Planned Parenthood) in an attempt to out-Santorum Santorum.
These ideas offend independents. It is unlikely that Romney can escape his flirtations with evangelical and tea party radicalism. Combined with the “etch-a-sketch” meme, Romney’s deal with the devil makes it dead easy to paint him as someone who can’t be trusted to honestly report his own views.
Romney also has a 30 point deficit among women. Partly, that’s due to anti-vaginal legislating by mouth-breathing state governments in Arizona, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Virginia. But Rick Santorum offered a national voice to Republican’s opposition to contraception, abortion, equal pay and women’s body sovereignty. He reminded everyone what’s wrong with that party.
What was a slam dunk for Republicans just one year ago is now an uphill climb. Pivoting to the center ain’t what it used to be, eh’ Mitt?
Social media nabs a killer
Back in February, the Sanford police told Tracy Martin that there would be no arrest in the killing of his son, Trayvon. Court watchers blame Florida’s extra crazy version of a “stand your ground” law. But whatever the reason, that was the state of justice in Sanford
Florida just 90 days ago – and as far back as anyone could remember.
Fast forward 30 days to national outrage that began on Twitter and spread to Facebook making enough noise that local and national media became interested in the story. The usual suspects picked the shooter’s side mostly, I believe, to defend the National Rifle Association. But they were quickly drowned out by the furor on the Internet.
So much has happened in such a short time that it might be hard to remember that Martin and Sybrina Fulton had to file a lawsuit to get the 911 tapes. Yet before court proceedings, Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett voluntarily released them. Thank Twitter for that. Like a flock of swallows, all the tweets had combined into an unavoidable din.
On the tapes we all heard Trayvon screaming for help in the last moments of his young life. And then we saw George Zimmerman looking freshly pressed and unconcerned.
Now Zimmerman, who gives every indication of not being very smart, is charged with second degree murder and faces life in prison. Nationally, "stand your ground” laws are also on trial. The law’s author, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is shedding corporate donors faster than Rush Limbaugh has been shedding corporate sponsors. Laughably, ALEC is left to claim they are victims of “bullying, intimidation and threats.”
Facebook and Twitter did not bring George Zimmerman to justice, but social networks played a critical role in making sure he didn’t get away.
Ann Romney – stay at home martyr
Is it outrageous to say that Mitt Romney’s point person on women’s issues – his wife – never worked a day in her life? That’s what the Romney campaign would have you believe about Hillary Rosen’s fairly benign comments on CNN. The Romney campaign wants you to believe that pointing out their expert is no expert is somehow off limits. Many Republicans – hoping finally for some good news – seem willing to repeat this silly conceit.
Still, it does seem to be an issue that Mitt’s expert has never had to balance child-raising with a career (like 85 million other American women.) And it’s worth mentioning that Ann Romney has a rather full staff of assistants helping out at each of her houses (and riding along in each of her Cadillacs.) It’s probably also worth mentioning that this policy expert has no education in her topic and has never published a policy paper on any women’s issue.
There is no shortage of real experts for women’s issues, Mitt. Go get one. You’ll need her. (See above.)
Romney and Santorum photos by Gage Skidmore . Trayvon Martin family photo.
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Tags: Ann Romney > anti-vaginal > CNN > contraception > Florida > Fulton > Hillary Rosen > Jimmy Zuma > Martin > Mitt Romney > Sanford > Santorum > Trayvon > women > women’s issues
Marco Rubio to GOP: Please make the pain stop!
Posted on | March 31, 2012 | No Comments
The endorsement of Mitt Romney by Florida Senator Marco Rubio signals the end of the Republican primary. He joins other tea party darlings, among them 
Utah Senator Mike Lee and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, in bowing to the inevitability of a Romney candidacy.
Rubio’s nod to Romney also follows on the heels of a string of party establishment (read rich guy) endorsements in recent weeks. These included the older George Bush and his son Jeb. But the Rubio nomination is especially meaningful. He is both a favorite of right wing anarchists and a rising star in the mainstream GOP. Rubio – along with Jeb Bush – is also thought to be the last best hope for saving the Republican Party from its knee-jerk tendency to alienate Latinos whenever the opportunity arises. He is a cross-constituency power player.
Both the Rubio and Jeb Bush endorsements were unusually tepid, though. Traditionally, endorsements are made before the endorser’s home state primary — when they have the opportunity to affect the outcome. They are usually effusively positive.
But The Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio endorsements could only be described as tepid. Rubio essentially said he was endorsing Romney because the primary was hurting the party. Jeb’s endorsement was hardly more ringing, but at least he endorsed the candidate, not simply the end of a painful primary. Still neither of these guys stepped up when they should have, before the Florida primary.
Lukewarm endorsement or not, Rubio is right that the Republican primary is hurting the party’s chances. I wrote over a year ago that President Obama had no chance of being reelected. This election should have been a GOP cake walk. But boy, what a difference a year makes.
Gingrich-as-gadfly has been delivering stinging criticisms of Romney (on any subject) to anyone who would listen. His pronouncements are mostly notable for their apocalyptic construction, as if a Romney candidacy signals the end of life. But that’s Gingrich. He’s the perfect embodiment of “Please make it stop!” Party officials are thrilled that Newt’s owner, Sheldon Adelson, has declared his candidacy finished. Newt is now left to charge $50 for a photo with himself at his events. He may be out by tomorrow.
Santorum brings his own set of party-killing negatives, essentially serving as the focal point for the party’s antediluvian views on women, a woman’s place, and women’s health. He – along with help from a few state legislatures – has killed his party’s chances with women. Women voters now give Democrats (and President Obama) a 15 point advantage, largely owing to Santorum’s – and the party’s — opposition to family planning.
So, dragged along by these fringe-thinkers, Romney’s favorability continues to drop. In five recent polls, his unfavorability is approaching majority. And his spreads are growing:
Meanwhile, President Obama finally has some wind at his back (despite rising gas prices.) The most recent ABC News Poll pegs his favorable number at 53%, ten points higher than his unfavorable number. That’s a 19 point advantage over Romney in favorability.
Nonetheless, Romney can still win the general election. In order to do so he needs:
- Effective RNC voter suppression in minority neighborhoods
- A successful campaign free of rich-guy gaffes
- A strategy to win back women
- A big negative ad campaign by Superpacs
- Marco Rubio as his vice-presidential mate
Yes, Romney needs Rubio on the ticket to win. It’ll be a cold day at the condom counter before Romney offers the vice-presidency to Santorum, or to Gingrich or to any of the other nutbag nominees. Jeb Bush won’t accept it. Neither Chris Christie nor Mitch Daniels delivers votes Romney wouldn’t already get. But Rubio can deliver the hopes and aspirations of the Latino community. Romney can’t win without a solid third of Latino votes.
Still, Rubio — who has presidential aspirations of his own — will only join the ticket if he believes Romney has a chance to win. That will be the true test of his endorsement.
Rubio portrait by Gage Skidmore. First published on Technorati as Marco Rubio to GOP: Kill me now, OK?
Tags: Gingrich > GOP > Jeb Bush > Jimmy > Kill me now > Marco Rubio > Mitt Romney > Primary > Santorum > women’s issues > Zuma
