Meet Allen West (R-FL): Fanatical Opponent of Muslims, Immigrants, Progressives & Obama

[Shallah Kali]

People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch blog is profiling the Ten Scariest Republicans Heading to Congress:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/subjects/-ten-scariest-republicans-heading-congress

Here is #4:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/print/6260


While serving in Iraq, he was forced out of the Army for his violent handling of an investigation of a police officer. During the interrogation, West dragged <4> “him outside, pushed his head into the sand, and fired a gun next to his face to get him to sing.” According to West: “It wasn’t torture. Seeing Rosie O'Donnell naked would be torture.”

West also has close ties to the Outlaws motorcycle gang, which an NBC News report <5> found had criminal-ties and a website that features a page honoring members who are in prison, extolling “members convicted of violent crimes, including murder.” In a letter, West wrote <6>: “Please, no more references to ‘criminal’ because I can tell you, they have the utmost respect for me and that which I seek to achieve. I was never more amazed at how members of the Outlaws guarded me during a one hour cell phone radio interview.”

Moreover, he addressed events sponsored by Outlaws-linked organizations, used Outlaws members to harass <7>his rival’s campaign workers, and writes a column <8>for their magazine. Their magazine, “Wheels on the Road,” has also used anti-Semitic <8>, racist and sexist <9> material, and once called women <10> “oral relief stations.”

West encouraged <11>his supporters to use violence in suppressing the votes of opponents, saying, “You've got to make the fellow scared to come out of his house.”

MUCH, much more at the link: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/print/6260

Read the profiles of the other gop newcomers:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/subjects/-ten-scariest-republicans-heading-congress

[mwrguy]

1. traitor of the highest order

[pampango]

2. And not surprisingly "West said he supports the Tea Party movement."

"He spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2010 and was endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. As one of 32 African-Americans who ran for Congress this year as Republicans, West said he supports the Tea Party movement ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_%28politician%29

[Kalyke]

3. Oral relief stations?

I know what they're saying, but it doesn't make any sense when you think of it in a "freedom-fighter" sort of way. Their mouths aren't getting to so-called "relief" - something else is.

God, in addition to being abhorrent, they're also just DUMB.

[Fla_Democrat]

4. And, soon, member of the CBC

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/congressional-black-caucus-west-scott_n_781031.html


GOP Congressmen-elect Allen West (Fla.) and Tim Scott (Ga.), the party's first black House members since Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma retired in 2003, have been offered membership into the Congressional Black Caucus, a body currently made up solely of Democratic members.

"Membership in the Congressional Black Caucus has never been restricted to Democrats," the group said in an email to its members Tuesday, perhaps referring to Virgin Islands Delegate Melvin Evans and Rep. Gary Franks of Connecticut, two Republicans who once sat on the assembly. "Should either of the two African-American Republicans recently elected to the House of Representatives request membership in the Congressional Black Caucus they will be welcomed."



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