By Carlos Miller
There are conservatives and there are neocons. There are republicans and there are repugs.
My dad was a fiscally conservative republican who was socially liberal. He was a Goldwater republican. Before he passed away in 2003, he told me that Bush had stolen the election and was sending our country to hell by starting a war in Iraq. Funny how we tended to agree on things the older we got.
Neocons and repugs, on the other hand, are ignoramuses who have complete faith in our government. They believe the State is there to protect them. They are the anti-Reagans.
Usually, these idiots contain themselves to their 24 percent segment of the population where they still insist that WMDs will eventually be found in Iraq.
But every once in a while, they manage to get loose, as they did this week when a horde of neocon repugs escaped the neanderthaloic Conservative Cave website to swarm my blog in order to mock me for my less than perfect verdict.
They found out about my trial on Democratic Underground, a site I used to post with much frequency until I discovered the joys of blogging.
These neocons remember me because a couple of years ago, they invited me over to their sister site, Conservative Underground, for a debate. They piled on me with the usual load of rubbish right-wing talking points. When I started responding with sensible liberal arguments, they kicked me off their site.
I didn’t take it personally because DU always kicks neocons off its site. Because of the strict discriminatory practices on both sites, the two sides rarely get to debate.
So when the neocon repugs saw the DU thread about my verdict, which lead to my blog post, they wet their dockers because this would allow them to bash a liberal on a site that does not practice such harsh discriminatory practices.
This prompted a few of my DU teammates to pop in for a round or two with the neocon repugs, who were saying I got what I received because I refused to abide by the police authorit-tay.
So before I knew it, my blog was Ground Zero of a comment war. If anybody remembers the original article Rebecca Wakefield posted on the now defunct Category305.com about my arrest, then you might remember the heavy comment war between DU and CU forced the site’s server to crash.
Interestedly, at least two conservative republicans left comments about my verdict in the same comment section, but they took a much more Constitutional approach to it.
Fellow bloggers Srcohiba and Henry Gomez are right-wing fanatics. As a left-wing fanatic, I disagree with their stances on Cuba and American policy.
But the First Amendment is an issue the three of us respect, unlike the neocon repugs, who believe our First Amendment rights should be stripped if it makes us safer from the terrorists.
Srcohiba and Henry Gomez have pledged their full support towards my cause, despite knowing I am a Raging Liberal.
Henry, like Srcohiba, writes for the right-wing Cuban blog, Babalu. He was the only other non-court employee in the courtroom besides my mom and my aunt when the verdict was read at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday night.
He had been in jury duty earlier that day and chose to remain until the verdict was read. Then he stepped out into the hallway, fired up his Macbook and posted the verdict in the comments section of one my previous posts.
And it was from there that members of the Democratic Underground picked up the information and posted it on DU. By the time I got home that night, after having a couple of beers with my attorney at the Loggerhead, the news was already spreading through the World Wide Web.
And it’s moments like these that give me hope for our country; moments that show that although there are great divides that separate the republicans from the democrats, there are a few bridges that connect us.
The Kool-Aid drinking neocon repugs, however, are a hopeless case.
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9 responses so far ↓
1 brantl // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:43 am
Taking pictures in any public venue is none of the police’s business. I should hope that some civil libertarians would stand beside you.
2 James David Walley // Jun 19, 2008 at 10:51 am
Was it really a “horde of neocon repugs” commenting on yesterday’s entry? Based on what I read, it seemed more like a one-person horde of neocon repug using sockpuppets to post the same crap over and over again.
3 darren // Jun 19, 2008 at 10:56 am
Lets get serious now.
Some of these blogs for quite entertaining and sometimes the self importance of its members makes me laugh.
In reality, your just not that important.
Go do your probation, do you community service and take those anger management classes.
Go live your life
4 James David Walley // Jun 19, 2008 at 11:55 am
(As I was going to note, it should only be a matter of time before the sockpuppets start appearing on this thread, too. Let’s see if they all make the exact same spelling and grammatical errors, as usual.)
5 Maz // Jun 19, 2008 at 2:25 pm
@darren
Whether or not he’s that important isn’t an issue. He’s expressing himself and like many other people, he blogs for the sake of it. You choose to make him important by reacting to him.
I find his site interesting… I admit I revel in it a bit. Is his case ground-breaking? Probably not. Do I think he’s a bit overly confrontational? Perhaps.
But he’s within his rights to post… It’s not like he’s baiting police officers for the blog. Again, you make him important.
6 Truft // Jun 19, 2008 at 3:14 pm
You are a dumb ass, next time obey the Police and stay out of the way.. This is USA, but you still have to follow direction by the Police. Your 15 min of fame are over, try not to violate your probation, it would be a shame if your ass ends up back in jail. Get a life!
7 ABCitizen // Jun 19, 2008 at 4:37 pm
@ Truft:
Dumb ass? Actually the Democratic Party’s mascot is a donkey, differentiated from the ass by having BALLS. YOU think you CHOOSE to OBEY as if it’s the wise choice. But because you have no self-determinism, your choice has actually been made up FOR you. You are happy with this because sheep are always fluffy and happy as long as they see the fence around them and feel safe. You parrot what the Mainstream Media teaches you and wants you to spread as if it is truth, but it is not truth in most cases; it’s spin/propaganda/distraction all of which lead our eyes away from truth to something entertaining or something new-and-improved.
Police are humans and are susceptible to all kinds of mental, philosophical and educational problems, just as anyone is. So sometimes we get bad ones who think their badge is a force-field of Kim Jong-Illian authority. But it doesn’t mean that everything they do is right or legal (especially when filtered through The Constitution, which you should read, btw). Do you truly believe that any utterance from a figure of authori-tay is the law, or that it’s true? Slow elephant, just for a moment, untie your trunk from the shit-stinky tail of the pachyderms you’re following around, and you just might expand your awareness to the tyranny falling like invisible cinder blocks all around you.
@Darren:
Regarding self-importance, I think you may suffer from a bit of it yourself. I bet you truly believe that your post is important for all of us to read and understand and accept as true. But you really only state opinion and rhetoric, when facts and truth are the only things we really are interested in. So if your posts are to be important to the readers here, they’ll ultimately have to contain reasonable discourse or actual facts. Millions of people (all around the globe) blog because they want to have a bigger voice, to see what ideas others may have and which of those ideas are unifying, or worth contemplating… not to check up on what pedantic recommendations the sheeple are foisting this week, although that does frequently provide comedic detours from real, actual idea-farming.
8 Carlos Miller // Jun 20, 2008 at 7:41 pm
JDW,
Not even the sock puppets will be able to deny what I stated on this thread. That they are willing to give up their First Amendment rights if the government tells them it’s for their safety.
9 Sean McGee // Jun 21, 2008 at 7:18 am
I hate being a republican…it seems the more right-leaning the majority of the party gets, the more I feel like a Libertarian. TRADITIONAL Republicans are supposed to be champions of the constitution…we’re supposed to adhere to a strict interpretation of it. Unfortunately, the party has lost it’s way, and for the rest of us sane ones, it’s either vote for a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich. (props to South Park for that one)
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