Another right-wing rally in New York

In a rally organized by the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition, a plethora of a few hundred people met in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the move to try suspected terrorist in a civilian federal court in New York City.

As you can imagine, the really intelligent folks came out for this one.

I think my favorite is around the 1:17 mark when an chubby white guy in a NRA hat and holding a giant flag emblazoned with "Don't Tread On Me" says the following:

...Why would you put a terrorist on trial in a civilian court and give him Miranda rights, give him the rights under the US constitution - why are we doing that? It's precedent. It is basically to embarrass America which is what this administration is all about. Let's embarrass America. It's called multi-culturalism. Embarrass western civilization. Embarrass the white race. This is exactly what the administration does.

Yeah...the administration is out to embarrass western civilization and the white race.

Actually, the more people like this jackass speak in public the more embarrassing it is to America.

Seriously...is it just me or do you increasingly see outspoken racists at all these Conservative rallies?

One of the speakers on the main stage was the founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa. You might recall the Guardian Angels as the vigilante group founded in New York in 1979 and later came to national prominence through the early 1980s. Of course...some of that prominence stemmed from fraud.

The Guardian Angels' founder and leader, Curtis Sliwa, has admitted that six of his group's early crime-fighting exploits were actually faked and former and present associates contend that even more of the group's activities were publicity stunts.

Mr. Sliwa said in an article in The New York Post yesterday that he manufactured six stunts, including a report of the rescue of a mugging victim substantiated by a group member displaying bruises he had actually received falling down in the subway. In another, Mr. Sliwa said he was injured fighting several rapists at a Brooklyn subway station.

Mr. Sliwa said he was coming forward now because he felt "unworthy" of the outpouring of support after he was shot in an as-yet-unsolved attack earlier this year. He maintained that attack was genuine.

But a number of former and current members of the patrol group, including two of its co-founders, said Mr. Sliwa had yet to admit all. They spoke of their disillusionment and told of additional incidents.

Tony Mao, a co-founder of the group, said he drenched himself in gasoline some dozen years ago and claimed it had happened when he pounced on two men who were planning to attack a token-booth clerk. The incident, he said, was planned by Mr. Sliwa, who enlisted two other Angels to pose as the thwarted bad guys to capitalize on a similar real-life attack. His account was confirmed by Arnaldo Salinas, a co-founder who now serves as the group's coordinator.

Yeah...let's have that guy speak at the rally. He is so noble.

So we have racists and liars. Good rally. Awesome.