Michelle Malkin, The John Birch Society, Tea Party Movement & Playboy magazine.

More signs of the Apocalypse when Michelle Malkin gets uppity because somebody is astroturfing and it not her side this time.

Michelle Malkin on the Attack on the Tea Party Movement
Written by JBS Staff (notice that they don't want to actually call themselves JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY so they use initials JBS, like KFC doesn't want people to associate it's food with FRIED.)
Monday, 12 April 2010 10:52
http://www.jbs.org/component/content/article/1006-quick-hits/6199-michelle-malkin-on-the-attack-on-the-tea-party-movement

This article links to Malkin's propaganda outlet:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/12/crash-course-your-illustrated-guide-to-the-tea-party-saboteurs/
Crash course: Your illustrated guide to the Tea Party saboteurs
By Michelle Malkin • April 12, 2010 06:36 AM

The JBS page also (starved for attention) pointed out an obscure Playboy magazine and website article now removed but conveniently pointing out where an archive copy can be located.


Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine: Is CNBC’s Rick Santelli Sucking Koch?
http://exiledonline.com/exposing-the-familiar-rightwing-pr-machine-is-cnbcs-rick-santelli-sucking-koch/

Googling Bob MacGuffie, Right Principles

Checking up on a familiar name Bob MacGuffie, a Connecticut organizer for Right Principles, who popped up in a news item on Tea Parties recently.

Bob MacGuffie wrote the infamous Tea Party Disruption Town Hall Meetings memo circulate to stalk and harass democratic representatives meeting constituents last summer.

Tea Party Town Hall Strategy: "Rattle Them," "Stand Up And Shout"
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/tea-party-town-hall-strategy-rattle-them-stand-up-and-shout.php

As Think Progress first reported, one tea-party friendly group has disseminated a strategy memo for other anti-reform and anti-government groups, outlining what they consider best-practices for protesters who plan to enter and disrupt town hall events hosted by members of Congress over the August recess--practices that, according to the memo, "could be useful to activists in just about any district where their Congressperson has supported the socialist agenda of the Democrat leadership in Washington."

The memo, authored by Robert MacGuffie, who runs the website rightprinciples.com, suggests that tea partiers should "pack the hall... spread out" to make their numbers seem more significant, and to "rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation...to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early.... to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda...stand up and shout and sit right back down."

MacGuffie is a volunteer for FreedomWorks, the industry funded group that helps organize and support the tea party protests.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Tea Party Patriots, who they are

http://truthiest.blogspot.com/search?q=MacGuffie
Tea Party Patriots avails themselves of free website services from ning.com (teapartypatriots.ning.com), where Bob MacGuffie's page (teapartypatriots.ning.com/profile/BobMacGuffie),[2] connects the TPP with the writer of the activist-disrupter "Rocking the Town Hall” memo composed by MacGuffie. TPP is listed as co-sponsor of The 912 Project 912dc.org March on Washington, September 12, 2009.[3]

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Proving Bob MacGuffie has ties to Organzed Crime Conspirators

http://truthiest.blogspot.com/2009/08/proving-bob-macguffie-has-ties-to.html

OK Bob. You asked for it and now you get it. Your ties to Galen Institute are known, ties to Greg Scandlen are known, ties to Organized Crime Tea Party fronts for FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity are known. You asked for all the cards to be turned face up on the table, and now you are going to get it.

Bob MacGuffie has not denied he wrote and circulated the memo describing how to disrupt town halls. He has only denied that it can be proved whether he got paid for it. "If I am in the pay of, or even connected with FreedomWorks, or the pharmaceutical industry, or any other lobby, prove it," he said.

Man Behind Town Hall Memo to DNC: Prove It!

Bob MacGuffie, is the man behind the infamous "Rocking the Town Hall” memo that you’ve heard of unless you’ve been vacationing in a land without television, Internet or radio.

But, he claims, his group did not conspire with large corporations and lobbyists to create a national campaign to stifle the national health care debate and wants the DNC to prove otherwise.

http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/profile/BobMacGuffie

Galen Institute Launches Center for Consumer Driven Health Care

Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, announced... Greg Scandlen, ... has joined the institute as director of its new Center for Consumer Driven Health Care.

... Scandlen most recently was a senior fellow in health policy at the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis and was previously with the Cato Institute. He was founder and president of the Health Benefits Group, a consulting firm; founder and executive director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, a trade association of insurance companies; and director of state research at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The Galen Institute is a not-for-profit nonpartisan research organization founded in 1995 and devoted exclusively to health policy.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute
Greg Scandlen, Director, Consumers for Health Care Choices, Heartland Institute

Googling "Galen Institute" Bob MacGuffie

Think Progress » Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems ...
A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, ... industry-funded "think-tank" called the Galen Institute. ...
thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/recess-harassment-memo/

GOP Astroturf for K Street Lobbyists and the Status Quo ...
Aug 5, 2009 ... Related topics: GOP Astroturf for K Street Lobbyists, device\, Brian Burgess, Galen Institute, Menefee, MacGuffie, Bob MacGuffie, ...
www.politicker.com/.../gop-astroturf-k-street-lobbyists-and-status-quo

ORGANIZED CRIME CONNECTIONS:

The Tobacco Companies were CONVICTED of R.I.C.O. racketeering in 2007. Their appeal was lost in 2009. GUILTY. Their accomplices as proved by courtroom evidence were HEARTLAND INSTITUTE, CATO INSTITUTE, NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS, CITIZENS FOR A SOUND ECONOMY (which has split into FREEDOMWORKS and AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY), FREEDOMWORKS TEA PARTY MOVEMENT (which is controlling everything from the logo to fees for sponsors to the 912dc.org March on Washington of the Tea Baggers.) Funded by David H. Koch called "Organized Crime" on national TV by his own twin brother, and court adjudicated for $296,000,000 for the deaths of two teens, plus fined $35,000,000 for polluting six state, is director and major funder for the Americans for Prosperity.

Crash the Tea Party (dot) Org

Party foes plot vs. ‘racists, morons
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20100413party_foes_plot_vs_racists_morons/

Tea Party foes, bent on making the conservative group’s members appear to be “homophobes, racists or morons,” say they’ll be crashing Tea Party demonstrations nationwide this week.

It’s unclear if anyone associated with crashtheteaparty.org will crash tomorrow’s rally on Boston Common. Founder Jason Levin couldn’t be reached yesterday and was reportedly traveling.

Levin told The Associated Press the group has 65 leaders in major cities across the United States who are trying to recruit members to infiltrate Tea Party events Thursday - tax-filing day. ...

... “Do I think every member of the Tea Party is a homophobe, racist or a moron? No, absolutely not,” Levin said. “Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely.”

The site states the group wants to dismantle the Tea Party by nonviolent means: “We have already sat quietly in their meetings, and observed their rallies.”

Tea Party members said the backlash comes from ignorance.

“They can’t actually debate our message and that’s their problem,” said Bob MacGuffie, a Connecticut organizer for Right Principles, a Tea Party group.

New York Tea Party coordinator Judy Pepenella said the attempt to destroy the movement was evidence its message is resonating. “We’ve been ignored, we’ve been ridiculed. Well, now they’re coming after us,” she said.

Would-be Cop-Killer Christian Mad-Tea-Party Militias Exposed

Hutaree stockpiled weapons, made hit list, prosecutor says: 8 indicted in plot to kill police officer plead not guilty
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett and Mark Reiter, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/143212278

Apr. 1--DETROIT -- The nine members of the radical militia group Hutaree gathered materials to make bombs, stockpiled and used firearms, made a hit list of influential officials, and conducted war-like training exercises as part of their plan for a massive attack on authorities, a federal prosecutor said in court yesterday.

... David Brian Stone, Sr., 44, the leader of the Lenawee County-based group, wanted to control Lenawee, Hillsdale, and Washtenaw counties by "It's not about a religious group. It's not about the militia. It's about driving out police from southeast Michigan.a group who decided to oppose by force the U.S. by using violence and weapons," Mr. Waterstreet said.

... Mr. Waterstreet said that Mr. Clough acted as the group's information officer and explosives expert and had shown the FBI agent who infiltrated the organization a list of important judges, teachers, elected officials, and local business leaders whom the Hutaree wanted killed. The prosecutor said the hit list that the former security guard prepared was shown to the undercover agent at the Dec. 12 wedding of David and Tina Stone. He said that in discussions about the government Mr. Meeks wanted the entire judicial system eliminated and everyone involved killed.

... The agent was sent to join the self-proclaimed "Christian" militia group after Hutaree members made threatening statements on Web sites in December, 2008, relating to a federal investigation of a local gun dealer.

... The federal prosecutor said Hutaree members were preparing for a live training session in which David Stone instructed his followers to kill anyone they came across who didn't submit to their demands, and told members to wipe fingerprints from bullet casings to hide their identities.

History Repeats Itself, Sometimes Violently
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2844542/the_hutaree_and_the_second_coming_of.html

the latest evidence of which appears to be the arrest of nine people in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio on seditious conspiracy charges. Those nine people apparently belonged to a militia group known as the Hutaree who not only believe that mankind has entered the Christian biblical "end times" but that it was their Christian duty to oppose local, state and federal authorities who are considered part of a "New World Order." Even worse, the Hutaree had planned for two years to assassinate federal, state or local police officers, according to the indictment issued by federal prosecutors.

The Hutaree share an ideology that is common with these survivalist/end-of-the-world militias. They believe that the established government is either bogus or has betrayed the will of the people, that the world is slowing becoming or has already become a one-government system (hence, the "New World Order," which commonly refers to the United Nations), and that their Christian-based belief system mandates their actions. It was such a set of beliefs that fostered the rise of the Michigan Militia, the organization that Timothy McVeigh and his cohorts belonged to and felt had chosen word over action, giving impetus to their plans that led to the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Does the Hutaree militia raise a red flag of growing far-right violence?
http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/31/does-the-hutaree-militia-raise-a-red-flag-of-growing-farright-violence.php

The Hutaree believe that the feds are conspiring to create one-world government and so a war is at hand, that is, between Christians and the Antichrist. Exactly who is the Antichrist? This is unclear from "Hutaree theology,` but I would think it must be Barack Obama, since he`s the president of the federal government.

... One might write off the Hutaree as a one off, an oddity with no future ramifications. I can`t really do that. Many incidents of the past come to mind: Ruby Ridge, The Branch Davidians in Waco and Timothy McVeigh`s bombing of federal building in Oklahoma City. These anti-government hate groups don`t mind using violence to achieve their ends. And in the case of David Karesh they don`t mind using "end of time` rhetoric, supposedly culled from the Book of Revelations, that employs Christ in their paranoid obsessions. That is a Christ as a violent warrior, not as a peaceful messenger of "turn the other cheek.`

... So the threat of "domestic terrorism` is greater with these fringe militia groups on the far-right, and especially when they hinge their belief-systems to twisted takes on Christianity, and purloin isolated passages from the bible (The Book of Revelations) for ill-purpose. When the federal building was bombed in Oklahoma City (1995) I thought (at first) it was "International Terrorists`. I was shocked to find out that Timothy McVeigh was just a disgruntled Gulf-War veteran!

And let us not forget Joseph Stack crashing his plane into an IRS building here in Austin. This was obviously an act of Domestic Terrorism. " Stack hated the government and was willing to kill innocent people to make his point. Stack shares some commonality with these Hutaree, only his weapon was a small airplane instead of IEDs. I fear these extremist groups will only multiply.

Militias Throwing Hutaree Under the Tea Party Express Bus

Militias 'Appalled' by Hutaree Suspects, FBI Says
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/militias-appalled-by-mich-conspiracy-suspects-fbi-says/19421218

(March 31) -- The head of the FBI's Detroit office said Tuesday that other militias have distanced themselves from the nine members of the Midwest group who were indicted this week for plotting to kill law enforcement officers.

"I honestly think they don't believe the same things this group does," Andrew Arena told AOL News. "I think they were appalled."

In fact, there were media reports that an outside militia member went to the FBI after the Michigan-based Christian militia group Hutaree came to him for help. "It's true, he did," Arena said.

Arena said he didn't believe Hutaree is a very big organization. He said different people have trained and met with the group, and some have come and gone. "We don't have evidence they also crossed the line," Arena said.

THE HUTEREE HOAX, GOP IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING

THE HUTEREE HOAX, GOP IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
March 30, 2010 by Gordon Duff
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/30/gordon-duff-the-huteree-hoax-gop-in-sheeps-clothing/

This week, a massive federal raid in our area netted what we are told was a Christian terrorist organization planning to murder dozens of police in our region. Almost immediately, the other militia and pro-gun organizations distanced themselves. Who are the “Hutaree’s” and how are they different from the other militias? Well, the group are all republicans, 100%. No surprise there, in fact, the Michigan Militias have always been activist GOP, back into the 1990s. There is a much older history, though, one not taught in our schools.

The militias in Michigan and Ohio all have their roots in the KKK from back in the resurgent years of the 1920s. However, their primary activities were financial, they were “strike breakers” and “scabs,” turncoat shills for factory owners who looked for criminals and thugs to keep from paying fair wages. The Black Legion was not only the most violent arm of the KKK but also worked like their Nazi Germany counterparts, the SA and SS, to suppress organized labor. (Check out this history of the Black Legion)

What is the Tea Party Militia?

Tea Party Patriots (dot) Org has a page for the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia which trained in the past year with the Hutaree Cop-Bomber Terrorist Cell of the Tea Party Philosophy.

This Image LOGO above is copyrighted by Freedomworks, Inc., sponsor of the 9-12 Project advertised, supported by Koch Industries, run by REPUBLICAN DICK ARMEY (paid $400,000 of Koch money through Freedomworks two organizations).

Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project

What is the Tea Party Militia?

Tea Party Shirt: TEA PARTY MILITIA MEMBER

Tea Party Shirt: TEA PARTY MILITIA MEMBER

"Liberal Hunting Permit"... Goes Well with American Flag Stickers...

"Liberal Hunting Permit"... Goes Well with American Flag Stickers...

the shirt that Timothy McVeigh was wearing when he was arrested.

Anybody know what this is? It’s the shirt that Timothy McVeigh was wearing when he was arrested.

Tea Party THUGS: Violent underbelly of arrested Hutaree

More sensational stories and headlines from the Teaball-Sucking gun-crazies in the Michigan Militia.

Violent underbelly of arrested Hutaree militia members revealed
Posted: March 31, 2010, 1:24 PM by Ron Nurwisah
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2010/03/31/violent-underbelly-of-arrested-hutaree-militia-members-revealed.aspx


Actually there are no new details but I liked the headline portrayal "Violent underbelly ... revealed"

In previous days posting I linked the Tea Party Patriots (dot) org website page devoted to the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia which admitted to knowing and jointly training with the Hutaree several times since Obama was a candidate, including within the past year.

Christian Militias And Tea Party: Threat To Our Democracy
By Robert Paul Reyes -- Published:March 31st, 2010 12:09 EST
http://thesop.org/story/opinion/2010/03/31/christian-militias-and-tea-party-threat-to-our-democracy.php

... If it weren`t for our courageous police officers risking their lives to protect us, our society would quickly dissolve into anarchy.

But an alarming number of Tea Party members, Christian fundamentalists and and other conservative riff raff view cops as agents of the Antichrist.

There is a lot of hate brewing in the Tea Party Movement, the militia movement and other outposts of right-wing America, and it`s being stoked by Sarah Palin who uses violent imagery in her speeches, and other Republican leaders who demonize President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress.

Tea Party members have already committed acts of vandalism and issued death threats against Democratic politicians, how long will it be before they also start gunning down law enforcement officials? ...

CNN Smears Completely Unconnected Group As Tea Party Terrorists
Reporting on cop killing plans of Hutaree cult, CNN zoomed in on Michigan Militia website promoting family picnic
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cnn-smears-completely-unconnected-group-as-tea-party-terrorists.html

Despite the obvious fact that the advertisement was for a completely lawful event organized by a group that has nothing to do with the Hutaree at all, CNN used the image to openly imply that the alleged cop-killing Hutaree members were part of the same organization, demonizing the second amendment and the Tea Party movement all in one fell swoop.

Despite the obvious fact that the Tea Party Militia and the Hutaree trained together several times since Obama was a candidate and within the past year.

The Detroit Free Press has been milking what amounts to a local story for them, with four articles since the story broke...

FBI agent infiltrated Hutaree group, attended training
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100331/METRO/3310392/FBI-agent-infiltrated-Hutaree-group--attended-training

In militia's backyard, mistrust of authority shared
Friend who helped Hutaree member says anti-government sentiment isn't radical
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100331/METRO/3310369/In-militia-s-backyard--mistrust-of-authority-shared

Tea party seeks toehold in Michigan
Disaffected activists increasingly voice views on local, national issues
http://detnews.com/article/20100331/POLITICS02/3310373/Tea-party-seeks-toehold-in-Michigan

Tea party shows clout of grassroots networks
Political movements have had mixed success through U.S. history
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100331/POLITICS03/3310367/Tea-party-shows-clout-of-grassroots-networks




Boehlert: What if Fox News actually wants mob violence?
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201003300001

Republicans, the Tea Party, and charges of racism
March 31, 2010 02:10 PM EDT
http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978142784


A Method to Republican 'Madness'
By Robert Parry, March 31, 2010
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/033110.html


Setting The Stage For A Political Murder
By Jim Fuller, 30 March, 2010
http://www.countercurrents.org/fuller300310.htm

The Tie-Dyed Tea Party
Andrew Reinbach, Posted: March 28, 2010 05:30 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-reinbach/the-tie-dyed-tea-party_b_516291.html


Sarah Palin: Gun Imagery, Tea Party Fanatics, and Hunting Wolves From Helicoptors
Harmon Leon, Posted: March 30, 2010 10:36 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harmon-leon/sarah-palin-gun-imagery-t_b_517659.html

Here's the emerging Reichwing take on the story trying to distance themselves from the mud thrown and that which they are currently throwing...

The Fear Factory Revisited:The Hutaree 9 and Remembering Liberal Warnings of the Growing Fascist State
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/38364


My Take on Militias
Written by Craig Roberts Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:54
http://www.tulsatoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1696:my-take-on-militias&catid=54:tulsa-speaks&Itemid=147

Juan Williams: 'Don't Tread on Me' Flags are 'Timothy McVeigh' Imagery
By Matthew Balan, Tue, 03/30/2010 - 14:08 ET
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/03/30/juan-williams-dont-tread-me-flags-are-timothy-mcveigh-imagery

ReTHUGs Continue to Spin the Hutaree Smackdown as Lefty Plot to Embarrass Them.

The Hutaree and MSNBC Militias
Scott Horton, March 30, 2010
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/03/30/the-hutaree-and-msnbc-militias/

A safe first guess on a case like this is that the Feds have just made up another one. The formula is always the same for them: Find a person or a small group of people who are gullible and bordering on criminal, then trick them into saying, or sometimes even doing, something stupid and/or evil. See for example the Miami 7, the Detroit 5, the Lodi 1, the NY 2, the NY 4…

... The funny part is, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported Monday, “The FBI had infiltrated the group for several months,” attributing this information to Detroit News 4, though the closest thing this writer can find to that on their Web site is the assertion that “federal authorities had been monitoring the Hutaree members for some time.”

I’m betting Maddow’s interpretation that they had actually been infiltrated is accurate and that the worst of whatever these people actually did was at the urging of said federal agent.

... But anyway…

Over at the Reason blog Brian Doherty caught more liberals cheering on the police state and recommended a great article, “The Paranoid Center,” by Jesse Walker.

So What's the SPIN at the David H. Koch Reason Foundation blog, and it's Paranoid Center?

The Paranoid Center
How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent
Jesse Walker from the October 2009 issue
http://reason.com/archives/2009/09/15/the-paranoid-center

It turns out the referenced article was an old, 2009, article whitewashing the reichwinger connections of the Holocaust Museum Guard Killing and the George Tiller Murder ten days apart with some gratuitous references to Waco-Koresh-Davidians and Oklahoma City Murrah Bombing.



Hutaree militia arrests and the insidious mainstream interpretation
http://www.examiner.com/x-32940-Arlington-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m3d30-Hutaree-militia-arrests-and-the-insidious-mainstream-interpretation

But the race to define the Tea Party in the most unflattering terms has sadly been taken to a new low with the arrests of the Hutaree militia, where, within the space of 24 hours, the MSM have used the otherwise unrelated Hutaree story as evidence that the Tea Party protesters are part of a radical and dangerous movement.

...

That the Tea Party is being unjustly smeared in the process, by any event at hand, regardless of its connection or relevance, speaks to the lengths that the MSM will go in defense of their chosen path.

It is as sad as it is unworthy of an institution that has for so long been a guard of our Republic, but now gestates as an ignoble mouth piece for a specific government.

Of course "MSM" is reichwinger-speak for everybody who doesn't drink Fox Newz Koolaid, Fox being the 3rd largest news/media conglomerate on the world is not "main stream" or "media" to reichwingers.

Tea Party Hatriots throw Christian Militia Terrorists Under Their Bus

Tea Bagger Hatriot Militia Leader who trained with Hutaree within the past year, now denies that they are Christian or Militia. (Also denies that they were affiliated.)

Group arrested not Christian or militia, insider says
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/michigan.militia.arrests/?hpt=Sbin

Members of a militia charged with plotting to kill police were not Christian or a militia, a man acquainted with the group said Tuesday.

"This is a group that I would classify as neither a militia or a Christian group," said Michael Lackomar, a member of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia. "They're really a fringe group outside of anything we do.

"They're more of a private army or a terrorist organization or really just a criminal organization."

You could say the same about all armed Tea Party Hatriots.

LINKS

ReTHUGlicans start spinning Tea Party Terrorist Hutaree Militia

Palin told them "Go ROGUE".

Raids target Tea Party associates Christian militia in Midwest

Southern Poverty Law Center Report: Radical Right Catches Fire