RIP Senator Byrd

For those of you who are not yet aware who we lost last night (and especially for those of you who are):




Biggest loss since Wellstone. We'll miss you, Senator.

Tribal Racism in the New Right

I've mentioned the teabagger/birther heroes "Oath Keepers" before:

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution

Our motto is "Not on our watch!"

They've got a particularly widespread fantasy that the government is about to start rounding people up and putting them in detention camps (or something ... Wooolverines!!!):

[...]

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control."

[...]

So, I wonder how they'll react to this:

Arizona state Treasurer Dean Martin, a Republican candidate for governor, called on Tuesday for the creation of statewide tent cities to house the expected increase in the number of illegal immigrants expected to be arrested under the state’s controversial new immigration law.

I'm just kidding ... I know how they'll react. Freedom with these teabagger types is not the Negative Rights of egghead libertarians, it's local control on issues of ethnic, religious and cultural homogeneity.