Monday, January 25, 2010
Tea Party Boise Tea Bagger Cameo in Captain America Comic
Posted by Nathaniel Hoffman on Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM
The March 2010 issue of Captain America, called "Two Americas," starts out with a police raid on a Boise Foothills home, where an impostor Captain America is gathering up an underground army of Tea Party-like anti-government forces.
- Captain America 602: A house in the Boise Foothills
William Burnside, who in the 1950s became obsessed with the New Deal American Hero, to the point of impersonating him, returns to find his childhood home in Boise replaced by a vacant strip mall.
"And now he was finally home ... but not to a hero's welcome," the strip reads. "No, this country had turned its back on him long ago."
Burnside, posing as the Captain, gathers groups of angry white truckers and returned soldiers in his compound. "Honest, hard-working Americans ... ready and able to rise up and fight back," as the strip describes. They march on downtown Boise (depicted below) and throw an African American secret agent posing as the Tax Man out of a bar, calling him Obama (with some degree of agent provocateur meddling from an undercover REAL Captain America).
- March on Boise: Look familiar?
- Find the best sign (hint Medicare is government health care)
They even have the real undercover Captain posing as a Tea bagger refuse free beer (no handouts, no charity, man) after throwing the faux tax collector out of the bar:
- I don't want your free beer ... What?
The strip acknowledges that Idaho ain't DC, but implies that the hinterlands are fraught with anti-government forces bent on insurrection. The cliffhanger ending leaves open the possibility that the real American patriot, Captain America himself, may swoop in and hand these impostor patriots a large can of whoop ass.
It's enough to make a guy want to read the comics again.
You can get the book at:
Captain Comics
www.captain-comics.com
710 S Vista Ave
Paper Back Place
7011 W Fairview Ave
Outpost 12
3890 W. State
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[ Eli's Hammer ] Aw NYC is just bitter 'cause Obama (probably the biggest superhero ever!) kicked screen-door smacking area (as*) on some of the Wall Street and Insurance carpetbaggers. And for the record--IF, what I see in the Tea-Whinner set constitutes a "militia"...then the whole damn world's in deep do-do. Those loozers wouldn't make a pimple on a elephant's arse. That would (the tea-bag angst) be an illegal and rather pedestrian use of the militia...Which, when truly needed, is a guaranteed and good thing. Pouting over taxes and having a nice young black guy as President does not constitute a militia organizing cause. It's an embarrassment to fine militias everywhere:)
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[ Eli's hammer ] part 2/2 Comics and the Militia. I want to make this very crystal clear...
The Militia of the mid 1990's was a needed counterbalance to the militarization of several federal agencies, and for other purposes at that time. That was the militia, and it faded like morning mist when the Constitutional threat abated. No more do we have the dog shootings, cat stompings, and "accidental" home burnings of that era. The authorities still have their fancy weapons and uber-scary gear, but also simi-respect private property and the Bill of Rights. (they're slipping but it is expected) The Tea Party is not, and shall not be a militia...in fact it cannot be a militia. The militia is NOT a platform, a therapy session, or a dictatorship of the masses--the Tea Party is all three. Should certain persons, being hyperventilated by Glenn Beck, et al, even try to infer that they are somehow of/by/for etc. the militia...Then they should rethink their coffee-shoppe musings. The militia is not for solving what can readily be solved by Congress, law and time. Such as the current so-called 'crisis.' The Founding Fathers did NOT make our country a Democracy for good reason. They made it a 'Representative Democracy' so that fads, current trends, and mass-poutings could not bring down the whole country. They made it to move slowly. "Tryanny of the Masses"
was recognized as an inherent danger to a free system of governance. The milita as such is NOT a political arm of government (or a mob's phantasm!) and will not be used as such. People should be cautioned about members moving amongst the Tea set with such notions--They are False Prophets, and certainly not militia.
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