Responding to Two Minutes of Hate with the Truth – In the End the Truth Will Set Even the Thurston County Democratic Party Free

(This article was originally published on the Freedom Foundation blog on August 5, 2014, written by Glen Morgan, while he was the Property Rights Director at the Freedom Foundation.  The original article posting was deleted by the Freedom Foundation in 2017.  It has been reposted here exactly as it was originally written. Some links no longer work and have been removed. Some original images are no longer included in the article)

August 5, 2014

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Glen Morgan, Property Rights Director, Freedom Foundation

In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” he describes a daily ritual wherein the party of the ruling government mandates a daily “two minutes of hate” directed at external “enemies.”

Here and now, the Thurston County Democrat Party’s equivalent two minutes of hate can be found in its monthly newsletter—usually the editorials written by local political leadership. True to tradition, the recent publication’s two minutes of hate was written by Dennis Mansker, editor of The Democrat, and directed at the Freedom Foundation and its staff.

You can read the article here.

While this is not the first time hatred from the party’s poobahs has been directed at our organization, Mansker’s latest diatribe ratchets up the vitriol to unprecedented levels of toxicity.

At first blush, it isn’t clear why the Thurston County Democratic Party is so filled with hatred and anger. Its chosen political leaders dominate nearly all levels of Thurston County government. The Thurston County commissioners are all Democrats and they’re managing its affairs as only party Democrats in good standing can.

In addition to ignoring the voters and building a $45-million jail that still sits empty four years later, actively driving many businesses (like Ritchie Brothers) elsewhere, and losing a $12 million jury trial a few weeks ago for violating constitutional due process (among other violations), they are also governing a county that continues to suffer budget shortfalls and embarrassing financial setbacks.

The Thurston County Democratic Party is living its political dream after achieving nearly every electoral goal its leaders set for themselves. They should be celebrating not hating.

Still, they manage to take time out of their busy schedule of social engineering and central planning to lob hate bombs at the Freedom Foundation, and their motives for doing so couldn’t be more transparent. The first is that the largest financial supporter of the Thurston County Democratic Party is local hate cult leader and scam artist JZ Knight — whose day job is channeling a 35,000-year-old Lemurian warrior who entertains her brainwashed followers by preaching hatred and donating lots of money to the Democratic Party.

JZ knight is not happy at the world, but she likes the Thurston County Democrats

Among JZ Knight/Ramtha’s recent highlights:

  • On Jews: “F—k God’s chosen people! I think they have earned enough cash to have paid their way out of the g-ddamned gas chambers by now,” and “Your God should have redeemed you from Germany.”
  • On Mexicans: “The invasion of the Mexicans who just breed like rabbits (audience laughter), they are poison,” “I’m telling you this, every G—damn Mexican family is a Catholic — (more laughter) they’re breeding like f—ing rabbits,” and “All Mexicans are not worthy of conscious thought.”
  • On Catholics: “F—k you, you Catholics!” “We will come on you in a terror,” and, “We will bring… St. Peter’s temple down and we will swallow it in the sea.”
  • On Gays: “All gay men were once Catholic women”

With these statements and others well documented and exposed by a variety of news media, including articles by the Western Free Press, Watchdog Wire, Northwest Daily Marker, the Tacoma News Tribune, Seattle Times, The Olympian, The Seattle Weekly, NPR, and even the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Thurston County Democratic Party has enthusiastically aligned itself with its largest donor.

To ensure the Thurston County commissioners understood the nature and beliefs of Knight’s doctrine of hate, I provided video excerpts of these statements at a commissioner meeting a few months ago, as documented here. For this attempt to expose the truth and inform the elected officials, JZ Knight/Ramtha sued both my wife and I and the Freedom Foundation in federal court (JZ Knight v. Morgan, et al).

It’s not clear if the venom spewed by a 35,000-year-old Lemurian warrior through a con artist mouthpiece in Yelm has influenced the Thurston County Democratic Party, or if the two minutes of hatred expressed in the Democrat newsletter was an attraction for the JZ Knight/Ramtha crew to become the Democratic Party’s biggest donor. Either way, this is a mutual admiration society that has been lucrative for the Thurston County Democrats and allowed them to use dirty money to fuel their own hate.

We support the First Amendment right of the Thurston County Democratic Party and JZ Knight to preach hatred and make as many inflammatory statements as they desire. Regardless of how strongly we disagree with the content of their comments, they have a right to express it. We should all be thankful we live in a nation which still allows the freedom of speech.

However, with free speech comes some responsibility for that speech, and while factual inaccuracies dominated the Thurston County Democratic Party’s newsletter attack on the Freedom Foundation, there are a few points worth correcting.

First, the author claims the Freedom Foundation is just a member of the State Policy Network (SPN), which is true, but very much a misleading understatement. The Freedom Foundation and our founders were instrumental in helping to create the State Policy Network as it exists today. If not for our founders, Bob Williams and Lynn Harsh, it’s unlikely that SPN would have grown into the national organization it has become today. They are both still very involved in expanding and helping to grow the State Policy Network.

Secondly, the author ignorantly repeats un-informed talking points about the Koch Brothers, the Waltons, and other libertarian and conservative national donors as a source of funding for the Freedom Foundation. We wish he was accurate, and we would appreciate any introduction he can make between the Freedom Foundation and any of these sources of private donations.

We would proudly accept their donations provided they don’t attempt to change or influence our mission of expanding individual freedoms, increasing prosperity and improving government accountability and transparency.

However, the typical donor to the Freedom Foundation is like Robert B. Stewart, former mayor of Bremerton and longtime citizen activist. Bob passed away in 2011, and his legacy donation in 2012 has helped the Freedom Foundation continue our mission. We are proud to accept these donations from honorable civic-minded people like the late Robert Stewart who want to make a positive change in Washington State. Bob Stewart’s legacy of political activism and concern for our future lives on at the Freedom Foundation.

Finally, the Thurston County Democratic Party may desire the enmity of the Freedom Foundation, but the Freedom Foundation just wants to help all citizens see the truth about free markets, individual freedom, government accountability, and personal responsibility. At the Freedom Foundation, we are eternally optimistic that over time the truth can set you free, and freedom is all we desire for every member of our community—including those who lead the Thurston County Democratic Party and the rest of us in our community who suffer when the candidates endorsed by this organization succeed in gaining political power.

While Dennis Mansker and the Thurston County Democratic Party certainly may direct their two minutes of hate at the Freedom Foundation, our staff and our generous donors, we will continue our mission. They are proud to be bankrolled by a hate-filled cult leader, and we will continue to raise money from civic-minded citizens from all around Washington State who desire freedom and support our mission.

While they may support politicians, policies and bureaucrats who continue to make a mess out of government and inflict personal pain and suffering in our communities, the Freedom Foundation will continue to expose the truth about the results of these harmful policies.

In the end, we believe freedom and truth will triumph over bigotry and deceit.

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