talkpolitics | Note Found In Vandalized Classroom: "A Republican Was Here."

Boston Herald.com

When the teacher, Paul Clifford, returned to his classroom Monday morning, he discovered that a collage depicting the history of the labor movement was missing. In its place, someone had left a bumper sticker reading: 'Working People Vote Republican.'

Caucus members also apparently looked inside a closed cardboard box near Clifford’s desk that contained copies of the U.S. Constitution donated by the American Civil Liberties Union. Clifford later discovered a note left behind reading, 'A Republican was here. What gives you the right to propagandize impressionable kids?' according to an account in the Portland Press Herald.

A public school in Maine allowed a contingent of Republicans to meet in their classrooms over a weekend. The result was a rifled and vandalized classroom and stolen materials.

It’s nice to know that the Maine Republican Party had the grace to apologize:

Villagesoup:

The Maine Republican Party does not condone the destruction of property nor does it encourage the lack of tolerance that these people demonstrated. Over 900 other people attended these caucuses without incident and I hope that the actions of few do not tarnish the image of many. We appreciate the hospitality of the staff from the King Middle School and hope to work with them again in the future. We sincerely apologize to the faculty and student body at King Middle School.

The problem is, that same contingent rooting around and looting the classroom – the Knox County Republicans -- is influential enough to have replaced the Republican Party Platform with one more to the liking of Tea Party activists.

In short, the vandals are the ones writing the party platform in that state.

But they're just a fringe group right? I mean, just because they're actually writing the Maine Republican Party platform doesn't mean anything. Right?

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Because we all know that outright falsifying history by such claims that say, Hitler was a Marxist internationalist who believed in worker's rights or that the Founding Fathers were 21st Century Assemblies of God Christians is entirely *not* propaganda, right?

No one ever claimed Hitler was a Marxist Internationalist.

In fact, the argument specifically states that what differentiated National Socialism and Italian Fascism from Marxism was that they were not internationalist. That is why Stalin hated Mussolini. It wasn't his lack of class warfare or wealth redistribution, it was his rejection of the Comintern.

Ah....Stalin didn't hate Mussolini because Lenin had only kicked the bucket the year Mussolini took over Italy. I'm just saying.

Jonah Goldberg did.

quote it.

No, he didn't.

No, as I mentioned above, he most certainly did not. The reason they called in National Socialism was in order to distinguish it from International Socialism.

Have you ever spent a day without mentioning Hitler and Marxism?

Historical commentary with a special eye towards totalitarianism is lankers' hat.

I was referring to Paft's post the other day.

You didn't answer the question.

And the "Assemblies of God" did not exist until the early 1900s (not having the actual facts at the tip of my tongue like you (or super fast ability to look things up, which either way humbles me no end :D) I realize Aimee actually started the Four Square from which the Assemblies came from, but I see what you did, and since I don't completely disagree, it's not worth the effort....especially on a Saturday afternoon I'm supposed to be working ;P)

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