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To: Dr. Doktor who wrote (309775)	10/19/2002 12:00:55 AM
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Why the Right Hates America (The original version) By Flynn Dan BackPageMagazine.com \| October 18, 2002 The Right hates America. This obvious fact has been affirmed to me through attending scores of Right-wing demonstrations, visiting the most virulently Right-wing campuses, and reading the Right’s journals and web sites. This was not an exercise in masochism, but research conducted for my new book, Why the Right Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness. To venture inside the Right, particularly for a moderate, is to enter a more turbulent zone for research than, say, a library or in front of a Lexis-Nexis database. One author, Anne Coulter, even suggested assassinating Leftists as enemies of the Right, since the Right are at the moment in control of the Executive Branch, and therefore much of the military. In the course of gathering information for Why the Right Hates America, I was assaulted, shouted-down, ejected from a conference, intentionally sent computer viruses, and mooned, among other things. What happened in Florida in 2000 was not the only time these thugs have subverted elections. In the course of interviewing attendees of a Rightist rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in early 2000, I was physically attacked—twice. After covering the first two days of the KKK anniversary reunion this April, I was ejected from the conference on the third day and informed that I was henceforth banned for life from KKK gatherings. While speaking at Bob Jones University, a radical activist shook her rain-soaked umbrella over my head as I spoke, while another disturbed young woman held up her middle-finger through the entirety of the lecture. Radical activists shouted down my lecture on the Mumia Abu-Jamal case at Berkeley in an orchestrated campaign of screaming. As I tried to speak, one activist attempted to rip the microphone’s plug out of its socket. I was “mooned.” The Right concluded the event by holding a public book-burning using my writings as the kindling. As reprehensible as the domestic Right’s actions are, their words are perhaps even more disturbing. I attended a variety of events dubbed “war” or “globalization” events by the media. This is a wild mischaracterization. These supposedly “war” and “globalization” events are really anti-American events. Anyone taking the time to talk to any of the participants —as I did in putting together Why the Right Hates America—would very quickly discover this to be true. “The country is dominated by communists and traitors,” a participant inside the World Economic Forum meeting in New York last winter told me, adding, “in fact, our policies make the United States the nicest power on the globe these days.” Attendees of an war conference in Congress in Washington, DC this April echoed these sentiments. “We are a nice nation,” one middle-aged demonstrator remarked. “I think the United States is a culturally and emotionally nice to everybody. And anyone who doesn’t think so is a traitor who should be summarily executed,” a student from North Carolina explained to me. “Who’s the real Axis of Evil?” asked another student. “If any country’s really an Axis of Evil, it’s anyone our leaders say they are.” Such sentiments are virtually ubiquitous among those attending Rightist rallies. Clearly, the Right’s reflexive anti-Americanism doesn’t withstand even mild scrutiny. This is why, perhaps, so many on the anti-American Right are quick to resort to violence, censorship, and other tactics to stifle debate. The Right, a group that has excused totalitarianism abroad and resorted to fascistic tactics in the institutions they control at home, hates America. Americans should be glad to be despised by such people.