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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:30 PM Mar 2012

Can we please stop with the rightwing hysteria over Obama ordering martial law?

The wingnuts went crazy about a recent Excutive Order.

Here's an example:


http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/03/19/obamas-executive-order-authorizes-peacetime-martial-law

Of course, this is pure dishonest bullshit combined with a dose of the crazy. The Obama EO merely updates a Clinton EO by accounting for the existence of DHS and other changes to the Cabinet.

Compare for yourself:

Obama EO #
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

Clinton EO:

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/pdf/12919.pdf

Yet we see this stupid bullshit hysteria making the rec list here.

Despite the fact that Snopes has debunked it:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ndrp.asp

Please stop promoting right wing lies.

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Can we please stop with the rightwing hysteria over Obama ordering martial law? (Original Post) geek tragedy Mar 2012 OP
Here's an example of this crap being peddled here: geek tragedy Mar 2012 #1
And another: geek tragedy Mar 2012 #2
If you believe "The Progressive" is a right-wing publication do you expect us to take you seriously? Better Believe It Mar 2012 #4
Your talking points are rightwing. You know they've been debunked yet geek tragedy Mar 2012 #7
They are NOT righgtwing, in fact they are and have been very leftwing. Martial Law eg, was sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #22
Maybe you should read past the headline. geek tragedy Mar 2012 #26
Snopes link for you: geek tragedy Mar 2012 #19
"us?" Bobbie Jo Mar 2012 #20
Marital law is an important equality issue jberryhill Mar 2012 #3
I'm asking people to not lie like lying liars. geek tragedy Mar 2012 #5
He was equivocal about Prop 8 jberryhill Mar 2012 #13
Answer for you: geek tragedy Mar 2012 #15
Its propaganda FarPoint Mar 2012 #10
My god, can no one here spell? jberryhill Mar 2012 #12
I thought it was funny. And the responses were even more hillarious :D think Mar 2012 #21
Please don't act like a spelling bully. FarPoint Mar 2012 #25
OMG we went thru all this misinformation 2-3 weeks ago. FarPoint Mar 2012 #6
Just like the Birthers. Won't go away. nt geek tragedy Mar 2012 #8
It's getting old and tiresome. n/t one_voice Mar 2012 #9
You better believe it. nt geek tragedy Mar 2012 #11
Very nice. one_voice Mar 2012 #18
The left really sometimes does a better job about lying about Obama SpartanDem Mar 2012 #14
Well, he hasn't confiscated the guns, forced vaccines on us, brought in Sharia law, etc. But... freshwest Mar 2012 #16
I'm waiting for my FEMA camp orders. nt geek tragedy Mar 2012 #17
That was last week. ProfessionalLeftist Mar 2012 #23
You will regret this thread if a Republican ever takes office and uses the NDAA, etc. Zalatix Mar 2012 #24
Many Republican Presidents have already done the same thing Obama did. Tennessee Gal Mar 2012 #27
Damn, its nice to know we have a few sane people left here geek NNN0LHI Mar 2012 #28
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
7. Your talking points are rightwing. You know they've been debunked yet
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:48 PM
Mar 2012

you spread them anyways.

The Progressive peddles lies to get attention. Always a market for paranoid white people afraid Obama is gonna lock them up.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
22. They are NOT righgtwing, in fact they are and have been very leftwing. Martial Law eg, was
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 12:45 AM
Mar 2012

threatened by Henry Paulson after Congress first voted not to bail out Wall Street. And unless Democratic Congress members are also Right Wing in your view, it is most certainly something that people need to be concerned about. You may do as you please and simply trust that your team can be trusted with powers you would freak out over and probably did, when the other team had them. But most people, regardless of party affiliation, are very concerned about anyone have powers that could be used against the people.

It is the duty of citizens to be aware of what their elected officials are up to and to let them know when they are not happy with what they are doing.

You may do as you please, but we are Democrats, unlike Republicans we do not cheer for everything if our Party does just because they are our Party. That is what is known as Right Wing.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
26. Maybe you should read past the headline.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:26 AM
Mar 2012

I'm talking about the rw lie that the recent executive order was a power grab intended to establish martial law or a permanent war economy.

It's been officially debunked.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. Marital law is an important equality issue
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:43 PM
Mar 2012

Whether you like it or not, DU stands for equality in marital law, and asking people not to talk about it is out of place here.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
5. I'm asking people to not lie like lying liars.
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:47 PM
Mar 2012

The Obama EO did not do anything but change an existing Clinton EO to account for changes in the federal bureaucracy.

It does not create martial law. Only the FEMA camp right and their allies on the right spread that myth.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
13. He was equivocal about Prop 8
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:54 PM
Mar 2012

Going back and blaming the Clinton administration is no excuse for Obama's "evolving" position on marital law.

FarPoint

(12,462 posts)
10. Its propaganda
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:51 PM
Mar 2012

Go Google the issue....its been updated for the past 200 years....It's national security ...Thomas Jefferson started it.

FarPoint

(12,462 posts)
25. Please don't act like a spelling bully.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:02 AM
Mar 2012

it's bad enough on this Board lately as it is ...what, you never had a typo before? I prefer to treat others with respect.

FarPoint

(12,462 posts)
6. OMG we went thru all this misinformation 2-3 weeks ago.
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:48 PM
Mar 2012

It's ALL right wing freeper born spin. Glad your putting out this fire.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
16. Well, he hasn't confiscated the guns, forced vaccines on us, brought in Sharia law, etc. But...
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 12:03 AM
Mar 2012

Where's my socialist paradise?

Obama didn't promise that, but Rush and Beck said he would.

I'm waiting...

Tennessee Gal

(6,160 posts)
27. Many Republican Presidents have already done the same thing Obama did.
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 07:29 AM
Mar 2012

George W. Bush did it.

It is common practice for each President to update this.

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