American Taliban collides with Oregon GOP

[Joanne98]

Just more evidence of the extremist, unhinged positions being adopted by the American right.

This Saturday, September 18, 2010, the GATHERING OF EAGLES will occur at the Ames ranch in Oregon. This event is advertised on the website of the Oregon Republican Party:

2010 Conservative Republican Gala
4th Annual Celebration of Freedom and Barbecue
BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!
Hosted by Ames Research Laboratories, Inc.

Saturday, September 18, 2010
1:00-6:00pm
At the Ames Ranch

The Red Phone Is Ringing's diary :: ::
Here is the summary agenda, featuring disgraced Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Bob Tiernan, Republican Party Chairman:

Master of Ceremonies
Jeff Kropf
Former State Representative
State Director for Americans For Prosperity

Honored Guest Speaker
Tom DeLay
Former US Congressman & Majority Leader

Notable Speakers and Honored Guests:

Bob Basso
As Thomas Paine

Lars Larson
Cigars with Lars

Bob Tiernan
Republican Party Chairman

Candidates, Elected Officials, and More!

If you click on the link that says "click here for full schedule" you are taken to the Gathering of Eagles website, which sets out a detailed agenda for the event, including:

5:00 Three-Minute speech opportunities offered to Coalition Members (introductions by Jeff Kropf)
Americans for Prosperity - Matt Evans
Freedom Works - Matt Kibbe
912 Project - Sandy Beden Miller
Tea Party Patriots
...
Marion County Republicans - Wayne Brady
...
Oregon Patriots of Resistnet.com
Oregon Contractors Association - Kelsey Sullivan

Americans for Prosperity? There's that Koch Brothers connection!

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is an astroturf front group started by oil billioniare David Koch and Richard Fink (a member of the board of directors of Koch Industries). AFP works together with the Koch family’s other conservative foundations and think tanks to disrupt Barack Obama's presidency.

If you click on WE BELIEVE at the top of the Gathering of Eagles website, you will find your basic yet frightening, extremist American Taliban talking points:

“What is a Gathering of Eagles?”

We are a gathering of Americans who believe in these spiritual principles of freedom; those freedoms founded by our forefathers and written into the Constitution and Bill of Rights to be self-evident and undeniably true.

...

We believe in the Pledge of Allegiance and that God should be a part of our government and our schools.
Government should not oppress people’s freedom to express their faith. We believe in a Godly nation and a Christian nation.
...
We believe that Liberalism and Socialism are the enemy of our people.

...

We believe People have the right to bear arms and the duty to overthrow their Government when it fails to perform and when resolution and legislation fail to correct it.

We believe administrations who violate our constitutional rights and lawmakers who pass laws they do not read should be held accountable and not only sent home for their wrong doings but punished to the full extent of the law.
...
We believe in Principles that revolve around the First Spiritual Principles of God, ...

Finally, we believe in our Constitution and we believe in America!


Go read the whole thing because it is both hilarious and scary.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/15/902287/-American-Taliban-collides-with-Oregon-GOP