by Anjali Sareen
1:25 pm, December 17th, 2012
Tea Party member Timothy Birdnow lamented yesterday that had George Zimmerman “been
at the front door” of Sandy Hook Elementary School, “those children
would still be alive.” According to Birdnow, Zimmerman was the perfect
“neighborhood watch,” and we should “support” activities like his.
In a piece posted to the Tea Party Nation
website, Birdnow blames the Newtown, Connecticut shooting on everything
from teacher’s unions to lack of spanking in schools. Changing our gun
laws, Birdnow believes, is not the answer.
The piece, entitled, “Barbarians at the Gates of Sandy Hook,”
prescribes a number of solutions to our nation’s violence problem,
including homeschooling children and a “more frank discussion of race
and culture.” According to Birdnow, “for far too long we have tiptoed
around these issues, fearful of being branded a racist.” He believes,
“If black thugs kidnap and rape a woman,” we should “ask if there is
something in the black culture that fostered that.”
Birdnow also suggests a restriction of “the sex in movies,
television, on the internet,” claiming young people that commit violent
crimes have “their passions…eternally inflamed.” “They wander the Earth
with no outlet for their overstimulated glands,” he says.
He laments the absence of God from our society, saying the “key” to
our “cultural disintegration,” is that we’ve “kicked God out of our
collective sight.” He claims that American pop culture “has made murder,
rape, mayhem, hatred, and violence ‘cool.’”