{"id":13207,"date":"2011-03-03T21:28:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T21:28:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-03T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T21:29:02","slug":"orange-county-rally-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/orange-county-rally-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Rally of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" align=right height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NutFkykjmbM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/03\/03\/hatemongering\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>, we get the story of a protest rally outside an Orange County fundraising dinner for a local Muslim organization. &nbsp;Among the many speakers were two members of congress, Gary Miller and Ed Royce, as well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villapark.org\/citycouncil.html\">Villa Park City Councilwoman Deborah Pauly<\/a>, who said some of the most vile things I have ever heard come from the mouth of an elected official. &nbsp;Apparently Muslims meeting is &#8220;pure, unadulterated evil&#8221; and she has a son who is in the Marines who wants to &#8220;speed up their meeting in Paradise&#8221; for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that is not to say that we shouldn&#8217;t be able to protests, as there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/islam\/index.html?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/03\/03\/orange_county_muslim_protest\">two pretty controversial speakers at the event<\/a>. But the level of invective that you can see in the video below is simply jaw-dropping. &nbsp;For example how about this line (about two and a half minutes in the video) &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are patriotic Americans and we love our Constitution, and it&#8217;s going to stay that way. One Nation Under God, not Allah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, somebody should probably tell that nice woman that God is not, in fact, in our Constitution, and oh yeah, it does protect the freedom of religion. &nbsp;This sort of hate is not all the norm, but it is clearly on the rise. &nbsp;It turns out that there is always going to be a group to hate. &nbsp;Anti-semitism was all the rage last century, but now we have moved on. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s hoping that one day we&#8217;ll find it within ourselves that we can just respect each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" align=right height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NutFkykjmbM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/03\/03\/hatemongering\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>, we get the story of a protest rally outside an Orange County fundraising dinner for a local Muslim organization. &nbsp;Among the many speakers were two members of congress, Gary Miller and Ed Royce, as well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villapark.org\/citycouncil.html\">Villa Park City Councilwoman Deborah Pauly<\/a>, who said some of the most vile things I have ever heard come from the mouth of an elected official. &nbsp;Apparently Muslims meeting is &#8220;pure, unadulterated evil&#8221; and she has a son who is in the Marines who wants to &#8220;speed up their meeting in Paradise&#8221; for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that is not to say that we shouldn&#8217;t be able to protests, as there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/islam\/index.html?story=\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/03\/03\/orange_county_muslim_protest\">two pretty controversial speakers at the event<\/a>. But the level of invective that you can see in the video below is simply jaw-dropping. &nbsp;For example how about this line (about two and a half minutes in the video) &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are patriotic Americans and we love our Constitution, and it&#8217;s going to stay that way. One Nation Under God, not Allah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, somebody should probably tell that nice woman that God is not, in fact, in our Constitution, and oh yeah, it does protect the freedom of religion. &nbsp;This sort of hate is not all the norm, but it is clearly on the rise. &nbsp;It turns out that there is always going to be a group to hate. &nbsp;Anti-semitism was all the rage last century, but now we have moved on. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s hoping that one day we&#8217;ll find it within ourselves that we can just respect each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[3319],"class_list":["post-13207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3319"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3r1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}