Poor Fox News. You really have to feel for the producers who have been tasked with getting juicy clips of Wisconsin SEIU brownshirt sturmtruppen and Stasi teachers union members attacking the helpless conservatives cowering behind their signs.

After scratching their heads (or some other body part) for a bit, the Fox News team came up with a sure fire winner. Bring in some footage from a rally in Sacramento, California (complete with palm trees…) of a guy who shoved a Tea Party member, and then try to pass it off as a major event in Madison, Wisconsin!

If this doesn’t pan out, you can always claim that the reporters are being assaulted, of course. (Kinda like the girl who carved the word “Obama” in her head backwards…always a problem when you are looking in a mirror)

(propaganda image from Free Republic)

The game is to see if somebody in the union ranks can be goaded, pushed or cajoled into actually doing something violent, and that will be all the justification the the far right needs to launch reprisals. The tribal identification shibboleth of “SEIU thugs” is part of the far right DNA, and they desperately need to affirm that belief.

What happens if they get their way? Free Republic has been calling for conservatives to take firearms to union rallies (Sorry, I refuse to link. Google “Free Republic bring guns to union rallies”). Violent, bloody suppression of an anti-American enemy is what they fantasize about.

One quote at Free Republic really stood out among the calls for mass arrests and machine gunning teachers:

“I am embarrassed that these Americans have more selfish concern for themselves than for the survival of their state, our nation.”

Let us compare that with a quote and guiding principle of somebody else from 20th Century history, shall we?

It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realise that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole…that above all the unity of a nations spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. (1933 translation?)

Adolph Hitler