Are you a terrorists because you beleive people should be responsible for themselve?

**travelinman** · June 3rd, 2004, 09:09 AM

NAACP Chairman Compares Republicans to Terrorists
By Robert B. Bluey
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
June 03, 2004

Washington (CNSNews.com) - In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists Wednesday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan.

"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side," Bond told a cheering audience. "They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."

Bond's remarks came at an opening of the liberal Take Back America conference, a three-day event that has drawn more than 2,000 liberals from across the country to the nation's capital. Bond spoke moments after MoveOn.org founders Joan Blades and Wes Boyd received a rousing ovation from the partisan crowd.

Bond called the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 two of America's greatest achievement. He then went on to attack Republicans.

"The passage of these two laws in 1964 and 1965 marked the beginning of the dependence of the Republican Party on the politics of racial division to win elections and gain power," Bond said. "By playing the race card in election after election, they've appealed to that dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality. They preach racial neutrality and they practice racial division."

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics...20040603a.html

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**jumper69** · June 3rd, 2004, 12:04 PM

It's a sad sad day when people don't follow the directions on their prescriptions. Clearly this person missed their dose of Paxil. [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]

**Piña** · June 3rd, 2004, 07:10 PM

Are you a terrorists because you beleive people should be responsible for themselves?

"They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."

I kinda thought this was pretty easy to understand.

**travelinman** · June 3rd, 2004, 07:13 PM

Originally posted by Pi?a:
Are you a terrorists because you beleive people should be responsible for themselves?

<blockquote>quote:<hr />"They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."

I kinda thought this was pretty easy to understand.<hr /></blockquote>As usual, you don't have a fucking clue.

**Piña** · June 3rd, 2004, 07:36 PM

Originally posted by travelinman:
As usual, you don't have a fucking clue.

As usual, you don't have a f***ing argument.

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**Lew** · June 3rd, 2004, 11:42 PM

I didn't know Julian Bond was still alive. I do know he's still irrelevant.

I won't argue with the significance of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, obviously, but to compare the Republicans to terrorists is cheap politics. Can't say as it surprises me, though.

BTW, the most important piece of legislation in the history of the U.S. was the Pacific Rail Act of 1862, but I digress.

**travelinman** · June 4th, 2004, 08:59 AM

Originally posted by Pi?a:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by travelinman:
As usual, you don't have a fucking clue.

As usual, you don't have a f***ing argument.

[img]graemlins/kiss.gif[/img] <hr /></blockquote>And as usual you forget I don't find you worth my time to bother in actual discussions.

**Piña** · June 4th, 2004, 03:13 PM

Well, from my reading of the article he actually compares them to the Taliban which is pretty much dead on with the direction that George Fundamentalist Bush seems to be hellbent on taking us.

(God, you have no idea how I wish McCain had won the nomimation.)