Proud To Be An American

Expanding on my earlier post today, we have yet another example of a GOP Congressman encouraging the radical fringe.

US House Representative Wally Herger, of California’s 2nd congressional district, expressed “enthusiastic approval” of a town-hall attendee who described himself as a “proud right-wing terrorist,” newspapers in northern California report.

According to the Redding Record Searchlight, an incident broke out at a town hall at Simpson University in Redding on Tuesday when Herger signaled encouragement to a 67-year-old town hall attendee, Bert Stead, who called himself a “proud right-wing terrorist.”

“Amen, God bless you,” Herger reportedly replied to the comment. “There is a great American.”

That was enough for 50-year-old Marisa Hewitt, who called the largely anti-health reform crowd “a bunch of racist haters” and started “using the f-bomb” after the controversial comments.

That did not sit well with crowd. One individual grabbed Hewitt by the arm and ejected her from the hall with the words “you’re outta here.”

Herger also told the crowd that the health care reform legislation currently before Congress is a “threat” to American democracy.

“Our democracy has never been threatened as much as it is today,” the Mount Shasta Area Newspapers quoted Herger as saying.

How many other self-proclaimed "proud right-wing terrorists" are out there? I'm sure there's thousands, if not many many more. The question is not if, but when this boils over into actual terrorism, the kind where people die.

Oh wait...that's already happened this year. Dr. George Tiller, gunned down at a church of all places. The Holocaust Museum shooting by a white supremacist. The rampage in Philadelphia when a man killed police officers who were "going to take his guns away from him." That's just in the last six months or so.

There will be more, because people like Rep. Wally Herger think that "right-wing terrorists" are justified American heroes.

Think long and hard about what that means the next time people are killed by people who think Obama is a "threat to democracy".