Check out one of the pictures being posted by Freepers over Ms. Shiavo's

Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:13 AM
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Check out one of the pictures being posted by Freepers over Ms. Shiavo's

Edited on Thu Mar-31-05 11:15 AM by Walt Starr

demise:

Found in this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1374638/posts

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Fenris

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:13 AM
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1. UGH! How dare they!

:grr:

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Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:14 AM
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3. If they go down this road

it will be the end of the conservative movement forever.

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Bouncy Ball

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:14 AM
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2. Uh, who is that?

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Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:14 AM
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4. He lies a moldering in his Grave

John Brown.

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Bouncy Ball

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:15 AM
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6. ???

Ok, I'll google it.

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Fenris

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:16 AM
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8. Radical abolitionist

I mean, the shootin' kind of radical.

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jonnyblitz

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:17 AM
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9. I have no idea either. research time. nt

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Bouncy Ball

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:18 AM
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11. Got it now.

WOW the hypocrisy just ABOUNDS doesn't it??

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LiberalEsto

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:31 AM
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21. Ding ding ding ding -- you WON!

You spelled hypocrisy correctly.

Would other DU'ers please take note? It's hypocrisy, not hypocracy.

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zbdent

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:37 AM
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23. Not when you're talking about Bush and the Repukes

and you are making a point about their idea of "democracy".

Then it is "hypocracy". Sometimes it's inentional.

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LiberalEsto

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:39 AM
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25. Oh, didn't know that!

Thanks.

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geomon666

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:15 AM
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7. George McFly n/t

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Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:18 AM
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12. John Brown

History of the United States. Pre-Civil War. "Bloody Kansas". Tried to start an insurrection.

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geomon666

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:29 AM
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20. ......Nah, I'm gonna stick with George McFly

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alphafemale

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:18 AM
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13. John Brown

"John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured.

John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. Led by a father who was vehemently opposed to slavery, the family moved to northern Ohio when John was five, to a district that would become known for its antislavery views.

During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. (He would father twenty children.) Working at various times as a farmer, wool merchant, tanner, and land speculator, he never was finacially successful -- he even filed for bankruptcy when in his forties. His lack of funds, however, did not keep him from supporting causes he believed in. He helped finance the publication of David Walker's Appeal and Henry Highland's "Call to Rebellion" speech. He gave land to fugitive slaves. He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers.

In 1847 Frederick Douglass met Brown for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts. Of the meeting Douglass stated that, "though a white gentleman, is in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery." It was at this meeting that Brown first outlined his plan to Douglass to lead a war to free slaves."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

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flamingyouth

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:15 AM
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5. Just when you think you've seen it all...

Well, there's no end to the nerve of those people.

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CornField

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:17 AM
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10. Wouldn't that be considered advocating violence?

Where's RimJob today?

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Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:18 AM
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14. Ayup

That's precisely what it's about.

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Just Me

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:19 AM
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15. Uh,...is that not a call for violence?

:scared:

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Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:23 AM
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16. That would be the point

Chilling, especially since the Michigan Militia wanted to get involved.

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Just Me

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:26 AM
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18. They ALWAYS manipulate American heros to their weird agenda.

I mean, who the frack are they seeking to free and from whom?

These people are just plain creepy!!!!

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Bridget Burke

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:26 AM
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17. He's not a good choice for them....

Yes, John Brown was a bloody fanatic.

But he advocated ending slavery--how many Freepers think that was a good idea?

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Beetwasher

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:27 AM
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19. Err, John Brown Would Have Shot The Freepers Nuts Off

Interesting bedfellows...:eyes:

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Crankie Avalon

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:36 AM
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22. OK, so John Brown was a martyr...

...and maybe they think Ms. Schiavo is a martyr since her body's final weeks were put to use as yet another media distraction from reporting on the crimes of their leader, till the next media distraction comes along for them to exploit.

Is that where they're coming from?

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Walt Starr

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:38 AM
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24. I don't think so

I think they want to give the impression that they should take John Brown's approach to the slavery issue on as their approach to the anti-choice issue.

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Crankie Avalon

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:41 AM
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26. I was being ironic...

...actually, if I were to give my straight opinion, I think they are saying she should be "avenged" the way John Brown was (i.e., civil war).

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Straight Shooter

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:43 AM
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27. Freepers support bush, who *cough* won by suppressing blacks, minorities.

So apparently they now think John Brown is a worthy role model, when back in Brown's day they would have been the ones stringing him up.

It must be nice to feel that cool breeze blowing between your ears all day.

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moobu2

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Thu Mar-31-05 11:57 AM
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28. lol look at this pic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374644/posts?q=1&&page=51

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