Today I went to the Houston Money Show being held at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. There were two shows being held there, the money show, my destination, and the high caliber gun show being held down the way. I parked the car in the parking lot at the far end from the money show so I had to walk the length of the convention center. As I walked I thought about the wisdom of having a gathering of a large amount of high caliber guns and their users just down the way from a large cache of gold, silver and extremely valuable and rare coins and currency. It seemed like a perfect set-up for a great heist movie.
I had to pass the gun show entrance to get to the money show and as I passed I notice people around tables with posters attached and they were talking to people, some strapped with weaponry. The most prominent poster was the tried and true image depicting the president as Hitler, a classic used heavily during the Bush presidency here being used on Obama. This is a well worn tactic used to make a connection in peoples minds that will inspire hatred for a person by comparing him to a man responsible for the death of millions of people, who committed the most horrendous acts humanity has ever seen.
Around the poster of Hitler/Obama were other posters with images of other political villains and a lot of text. Apparently it takes a lot of posters to fit even a general outline of the complicated liberal conspiracy to put us all in labor camps. The most prominent text was ‘Remove Obama Now’ written in bold red marker above the image of Hilter/Obama. They are not saying stop Obama, something I see reiterated ad nauseum by many, they are not talking about the next election, they are saying now. This call to remove our elected president seemed more ominous being made surrounded by heavily armed men 50 feet from a building with enough weaponry to supply an army.
I slowed down as I passed to get a better look at the posters and people and I overheard an impassioned speech made by a small middle-aged man holding literature in is hands. His speech was directed towards several larger men with what looked to be brand new shotguns strapped over their shoulders. What I heard of his dialogue painted America in an emergency situation that can only be solved with the immediate removal of Obama who he refers to as a Stalinist. Apparently it is not enough to compare Obama to a man who exterminated millions of Jews and threw the world into war; they must also compare him to Stalin, another man who systematically murdered millions of his own people. Obama is such a terrifyingly evil mastermind that in just two years of his presidency he has managed to almost destroy America, which is his plan it seems, and if given two more years we will surely be doomed.
After just a brief pause I continued on to the money show. Ironically money being the very thing that is at the root of many of the problems causing such discontent which has inspired people to use their free time to spread this over the top doom and gloom rhetoric. I wondered how many of these people actually believe what they are saying or hearing and how many are knowingly creating and feeding a false sense of imminent danger from a president they typify as a villain, worse than Stalin and Hitler combined, who wants to destroy America. I wondered if the fact that they were specifically targeting heavily armed white men with high caliber weapons says anything about who they believe will be sympathetic to their message or hinted at how they imagined the immediate removal of our President should play out.
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