Why is the Left making such an effort to discredit Texas Nationalists?

by Dave Mundy

You know, given the fact that so many liberals consider the Texas Nationalist Movement to be a “tiny minority” of Texans and its cause to be “unbelievable,” you have to wonder why the Radical Left in this country is trotting out all the big guns in an attempt to discredit them.

There have been a lot of blogs and “reports” showing up all over Texas and the nation about the Aug. 29 Texas: Sovereignty or Secession rally in Austin. It would seem the news media, especially the far-left news media like MSNBC and the Dallas Morning News, feels that although the Texas Nationalist Movement is some kind of wacky fringe group, it’s necessary to expend top dollar-coverage to making sure that the message TNM is promoting gets warped and minimized.

Are they perhaps fearful that their liberal audience might hear the real message of the Texas Nationalist Movement, and join it?

First realize that the group has been around since at least the mid-1990s. It didn’t just magically appear following the election last November. I did a story about them for The Katy (TX) Times back then, and they were concerned not about black people running for office, but about a certain fellow by the name of George W. Bush and what he was doing in Texas as Governor. They really were a tiny minority of people at the time.

When Dubya got elected President, more people joined the TNM. Why? They feared the Patriot Act. They feared the massive expansion of federal powers and the creation of a police state. They feared the massive corruption which was taking place, and they feared they were being disenfranchised by special-interest groups.

Correct my memory, please – aren’t those the same concerns raised by lefties during the Bush years? If I recall correctly, Michael Moore & Co. called opposing those programs “patriotic” and “standing up for freedom.”

So now the lefties are in charge and have control of that same “fascist” apparatus that Bush built. Are they dismantling it?

Oh, no. They’re using it. They’re even using the same tactics.

Which is why you have fake reporters making stuff up in an attempt to convince the populace that the TNM is just a bunch of redneck hicks who want to put crosses and nooses on every lawn.

Foremost among those fake reporters is Wayne Slater. You’ll remember him as the guy who helped Dan Rather fire himself over a falsified report about Bush’s military record. How in the world he ever got employed by an organization as prestigious as the Dallas Morning News is incomprehensible – but it certainly gives truth to the contention that the news media has a strong liberal bias.

Slater has also attempted to do a hatchet job on Karl Rove using primarily hearsay and unverified “facts.” I’d be happy to supply him with a few real ones about what Rove did to the conservative movement when Texans began asking questions about the fraud Bush was trying to spring on the Texas school system back in the late 1990s.

Unlike Slater, apparently, my journalism school instructors taught me that making things up and calling them “facts” is wrong. Unlike the Morning News, I’ve never published fake facts.

Then there’s the young man by the name of Forrest Wilder. He is a fake reporter for the Texas Observer. Now, the Texas Observer has every right to hire as many liberals as it wants, it just shouldn’t call them “reporters” when they don’t use facts.

Forrest Wilder’s primary claim to fame is being an activist with a group called the “Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.” That’s a pacifist organization founded by a fellow named David Krieger, a globalist who wants to see the United States and the rest of the world run by the United Nations. Go right ahead, Google ‘em and check my facts.

The lefties have been pretty good about contending that those nasty ol’ Republicans are responsible for people asking questions in the recent Town Hall meetings about nationalized health care. They’ve also been pretty good at paying people to show up to heckle causes they oppose, such as ours – one of those heckling the Aug. 29 event in Austin admitted he could care less about moveon.org or its cause, but since they were paying him $15 an hour he’d do what they needed and try and disrupt us.

Then there’s the YouTube video of another moveon.org organizer coaching his recruits before a Town Hall meeting, telling them that “…if anybody starts asking questions, just chant ‘Health Care Now!’ until they get frustrated and quit.”

These are the guys who support open dialogue, rational debate and the democratic process?

Why would liberals – the guys who maintain that they stand for freedom of speech, for freedom of expression, for self-determination, for pure democracy, for the right of every individual to live without fear of being pulled out of bed at 4 in the morning by government soldiers and marched out to a wall and shot for daring to disagree with the government – why would these people oppose so much of what the Texas Nationalist Movement stands for?

I will venture one opinion.

They’re not really concerned with all those lofty ideals. They could care less about anyone else’s freedom of speech, so long as they can dominate the conversation. Like the right-wingers they hate so passionately, all they care about is power.

The Texas Nationalist Movement offers Texans a way out of that constant power struggle between the party of the Left and the party of the Right, a government which would constitutionally prohibits political parties and their inherent corruption and power-lust. We want to give political power back to the people, from whom power lawfully derives.

And that is why we scare them.

The left in this country just as in other countries do not believe in free speech. We see the erosion of civil liberties in Venezuela which is fast becoming a carbon copy of communist Cuba. The American Left wants the same kind of power that Chavez has in Venezuela and the Castro brothers have in Cuba they are expending so much energy to discredit the Texas Nationalist Movement because that movement has more chance of succeeding than any other separatist movement in the United States. When Texas leaves the union surely other states will follow, the Left knows this as well as Rightists and we know that both want to rule the American Empire if states begin leaving then the Empire crumbles. Patricio Bridges.

02 Sep 2009