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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPat Boone: President Obama's Plans Are To 'Release All The Murderers'
Musician and conservative activist Pat Boone took to WorldNetDaily today with an incendiary column titled Obamas Willie Horton plan: Release all murderers, in which he criticizes President Obamas goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Likening Obamas plan to the Massachusetts furlough program that critics said was responsible for Hortons crime spree, Boone said Obama might begin emptying and shutting down all our prisons and just let all the offenders be released back into society.
He and his administration are already doing that deporting criminal illegal aliens, and then allowing them to come right back in to commit more crimes, Boone added, wondering if the Obama administration's policies will lead to a mass invasion by illegal aliens, including near certain terrorists with plans for future 9/11 style attacks in our own cities?
All of this, Boone said, is meant to turn America into a virtual socialist, if not outright communist, society.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-boone-thinks-obama-will-release-all-murderers#sthash.f8MrfXOs.dpuf
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Screw him.
gordianot
(15,242 posts)rpannier
(24,333 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)pstokely
(10,530 posts)rpannier
(24,333 posts)like the scooters
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Satan has kept him alive, lo, these many years, so Pat's got to hold up his end of the bargain by spreading fear, hatred, and ignorance far and wide.
A deal's a deal...
olddots
(10,237 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)don't think this Guy is all there.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)and still a moron, apparently. Where was he when Reagan granted amnesty to millions of immigrants? Or when Dumbya ignored the warnings prior to 9/11?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Boone is proof of that.
liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)LOL. I remember, growing up in the 70's, even then my parents couldn't stand Pat Boone or his insipid dipshit daughter and her endless iterations of "You Light up my Life." They were teenagers when Pat was all the rage, and they saw through him even then.
I was in my early teens when "You Light up my Life" proceeded to "light up" the airwaves over and over and over and over and over and over again every day ad infinitum. The attitude was almost like we were supposed to all bow down to Debby Boone for her greatness. I don't know which was worse, the song or the stupid movie. One of the best zingers from that time that I remember was when someone asked a Hollywood "insider" columnist when Debby Boone was going to get her own variety show and why she hadn't gotten one yet (remember, that was the time when almost anyone who was anyone would, at some point, have some kind of "variety" show on tv). Debby was singing that stupid song EVERYWHERE on TV in addition to the radio. Without missing a beat, the insider responded "well, what for? What the hell would she do after she sang "You Light up my Life"? Which proved to be prescient, considering she never really did anything else (to my knowledge) and is now just as much of a fundie whackjob as her father.
rpannier
(24,333 posts)there fixed that little part
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)Til they got a hold of him
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)samsingh
(17,600 posts)gordianot
(15,242 posts)I opened it on iTunes and listened to the samples. One of the most hilarious albums anywhere. Thank you for the experience.
liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)photoshop? Did he seriously do a metal album? I cannot wrap my head around that, lol. I'm not sure I'd have the guts to actually try listening to it, if it's really real.
gordianot
(15,242 posts)samsingh
(17,600 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)We are constantly propagandized to divide into our Red and Blue teams and participate in the Two Minutes Hate over some absurd comment by a Republican or other ridiculous story like the one in the OP. The purpose is to keep us hating and divided.
Meanwhile, the two parties, funded by the same major corporate interests, are quietly colluding on virtually every major economic, war, and police state issue important to the One Percent.
No, the president is not planning to release all the murderers. On the contrary, he has continued and expanded the malignant Bush agenda of attaching a profit motive to the caging of human beings, and turning the prison system of this nation, and the justice system in impoverished communities, into an exploitative business opportunity for predatory corporations.
This is the malignancy of the corporate money that floods the halls of our government and both parties now.
It's a vicious agenda. It's the corporate agenda. And we need to unite to stop it from both parties.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023368969
Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014158005
The Caging of America - Why do we lock up so many people
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002226110
The Obama administration is aggressively growing private prisons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022568681
Obama's 2013 budget: One area of marked growth, the prison industrial complex
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002392306
Obama selects the owner of a private prison consulting firm as the new Director of the United States Marshals Service (USMS)
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/mars-d03.html
Private prison corporations move up on list on federal contractors, receiving BILLIONS
http://www.nationofchange.org/president-obama-s-incarcernation-1335274655
Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784% in 10 Year Span
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4362184
Prison Labor Booms As Unemployment Remains High; Companies Reap Benefits
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272036.html
Private Prison Corporation's Letters to Shareholders Reveal Industry's Tactics: Profiting from Human Incarceration
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022665091
Financial growth of private prison industry...Profiting from caging humans.
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BshteP8i282pcaeH8pdUsA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTUyMA--/
We heard about private prisons...but do you know of the private probation industry?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025380204
NYT: Probation Fees Rise, Firms Profit and the Poor Go to Jail
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002893040
No Safe Place: How Cities Are Making It Illegal to be Homeless
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101699724
Thrown in jail for being poor: the booming for-profit probation industry
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024603515
The exploitation of Ferguson I: In 2013 the town issued over 24,000 arrest warrants..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025404667
The exploitation of Ferguson II: The Seamy Underbelly Of Ferguson Starts To Appear
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416747
The exploitation of Ferguson III: Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025428157
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)gordianot
(15,242 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)to blow goats
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Speaking of which, if you have a minute for a laugh:
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Obama's only got a short time (relatively) left to take our guns, kill our grannies, make the gays have abortions in FEMA camps.....
Initech
(100,098 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I used to mow Pat Boone's lawn!! If I knew then what I know now I would have burned his lawn out with cyanamid.
Oh, and while we are on my earlier years, I also briefly dated Howard Fast's daughter.
How's them potatoes...
rpannier
(24,333 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)rpannier
(24,333 posts)Did the family singers come out and sing while you mowed?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)At the time I didn't know enough so I probably thought it was cool to be mowing his lawn.
Dating Howard Fast's daughter briefly WAS nice.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Panich52
(5,829 posts)spanone
(135,858 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)Releasing murderers and rapists because their victims were related to Bill Clinton and/or they claimed they'd found Jay-sus?
Vinca
(50,301 posts)I've always wondered if they malfunctioned if you could be electrocuted. (Can't help it . . . I'm daydreaming. LOL.)
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Reading Pat Boone's words got me wondering what's the weather like on his planet.