State Trooper participating in 'Tea Party'?

As I walked, falling ill with a cold on a rainy day, to the Denver ABC 5k run, an event to which I never made it, I noticed a disturbing sight at the rally being held at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver at the time. The day was September 12, and as many were misfortunate enough to know, there was yet another revanchist "Tea Party" rally underway on the west steps of the Capitol.

It was there I noticed a security guard for the Capitol building, which in Colorado is always a State Trooper - they do security for the Capitol building - riding his bicycle and patrolling the rally with a symbol all too well known to the world, but which means different things to different people, especially considering the company at the Capitol that day and their very explicit use of the same symbol.

The American flag perhaps can be a symbol of patriotism, however, it can also be a symbol of hate. In the case of the 'Tea Party' rallies that have occurred, especially those that took place outside of town hall meetings where "tea baggers'"; a colloquial term now spreading to describe, and somewhat ridicule, the right wing extremists who have disrupted town hall meetings and rallied around fanatic cries of emblematic zealotry, paranoia, and hate; carried loaded firearms and signs calling for violent insurrection within range of the President of the United States of America, and some Representatives and Senators; to this new pre-Neofasicst right wing mobilization the American flag symbolizes possession.

They believe the United States was originally theirs, and that is a blatant reference to white supremacy, which existed in legal terms and application, throughout most of the United States' history. They see in Barack ObamaBarack Obama a loss of their power, which they think is tied directly to their survival, and thus perceive a threat to their existence - a very dangerous ingredient to the recipe of violence that usually rears its ugly head just prior to some catastrophic but intentional, in fact conscious, though not rational, collective political violence. This is exactly what occurred in Spain just before the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and what happened in Germany around the same time, as well as Italy, and most illustratively what happened in response to the Paris Commune of 1871, which was a ferocious right wing backlash against the left wing they saw as taking away their power, as impossible as that power may be to justify.

The American flag to these 'tea-baggers' is their symbol, they believe, and when a member of the security services, in fact the public and civil security service whose task is specifically to protect elected leaders - after all they work at the State Capitol building - displays the same exact symbol touted by the revanchists as being theirs by fundamentally undemocratic right, while patrolling the very same space the revanchists are using for a rally to call attention to their "movement", displaying the very same symbol, regardless of what that symbol actually is or means - well what signal does that send to them? Is it an endorsement, or a showing of solidarity by this State Trooper in support of the irrational and zealous ideology of the 'tea-baggers'?

Police did not arrest those carrying loaded weapons outside of President Obama's town hall meetings on health care either. They did not detain and/or interrogate them either. This is extremely disturbing, and all together spells a clear indicator of political violence brewing with impunity as various members of security forces split their loyalties between their political bias and their oath to serve and protect. This presses the question: Where lies the loyalty of domestic security and police services to the President of the United States?

In other words, which side are they on?

The following URL is video footage in support of this article:

"Colorado Capitol security participating in 'Tea Party'?" on Youtube.com/pazyamor07:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDKT2wmOC0