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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:10 AM
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Keith Olberman - REPUBLICANS ARE PLANNING TO KILL YOUR PRESIDENT
 
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Republicans are now taking steps to assure that someone ends up dead. Hopefully it will be your president.... by saturating public events with guns and emotionalistic violent rhetoric, counting on the eventual lone crazy to pull the trigger for them. It is also no accident that Banister and Shirly are saturating their political base with images of Obama as Hitler, while Rupert Murdoch finances and promotes the film "Valkyrie" on the German patriotic assassination of Hitler. Ironically, the Republicans are actually historically tied to Hitler's Nazi movement, so it is not suprising they would choose this very image to project onto others. It is typical "advertising strategy" in the corporate world.
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Loge23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:19 AM
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1. Heard on Air America yesterday..
Mark Thompson just came right out with it and accused the FBI and SS of willfully not protecting Obama.
He has a good point. He brought up the infamous "free speech zones" of the Bush error (sic).
Why are they allowing individuals with assault weapons near the President now? Are they expecting trouble - or merely hoping for it?
We couldn't even get close enough to heckle Bush!
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sailor65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:28 AM
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3. How idiotic of him
Regardless of how you feel about these people carrying, none of them has been allowed close enough to actually get a shot, nor have they had clear lines of sight. Total BS.

To slam the FBI and SS is just plain stupid.
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tinkerbell41 Donating Member (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:30 AM
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4. Wondering the same thing.
WTF?? The talking heads are getting more hateful and violent by the hour. I truly have seen nothing like it. Even though I understand what makes them tick, I will never fully understand how people can be and think this way. No empathy, no compassion. From what I have seen among acquaintances they seem to be poor in every way possible. Lacking education, a steady job, healthcare. If they are angry about this it would seem to me they are shooting themselves in the foot when choosing to align themselves with Republican "values".
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:45 PM
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27. why IS the SS letting these freaks anywhere near the president with guns?
Hell, in Bush days you couldn't even protest.
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LostinRed Donating Member (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 12:27 AM
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29. Are you serious?
Why would you support "free speech zones?" Yes, I agree these guys are crazy but the secret service builds perimeters around the President and they are very hard to penetrate. These guys would never be allowed around him, they are all outside and very far from him. Do you seriously believe that there is some conspiracy between the FBI and Secret Service to let Obama get assassinated. If you do, I think you'll find some friends that don't believe he has legitimate birth certificate.
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dotymed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 08:26 AM
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WHETHER THE CRAZIES WE SEE ACTUALLY GET CLOSE ENOUGH
 
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to the President, is not the point. They (media encouraged)
are sending the signal; this President is evil, you can get
guns next to him..... They are encouraging some RW fool to
attempt and probably succeed (helped by the CIA) in
assassination.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 03:06 PM
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36. So you want to portray those who think differently from you as crazy?
And you consider that "progressive"?

Where did you learn to judge that way? Hmmmm?

Don't YOU realize that some of us have lived through this enough times to have our legitmate doubts?

Or are you that totally ignorant of history?

You see, that kind of judgement can go both ways, so how 'bout you taking a deep breath and deciding to pursue NON=VIOLENT speech, and show a bit of respect for others.

Really, it isn't that hard to do, and it's what sets us apart from the RW.

Give it a try.
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dotymed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 08:19 AM
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31. IT IS OBVIOUS, NEVER, IN OUR MODERN HISTORY, WOULD THE SECRET SERVICE ALLOW GUNS AT A PRESIDENTIAL R
Just like JFK, these guys (corporate interests) want President
Obama killed. He is upsetting the "apple cart"
(status quo) albeit not nearly as much as real Americans want.
That is why we elected him, CHANGE!, unfortunately it is very
slow and always compromised by "the powers that be."
Anyway, yes, I think it is obvious that "they" are
setting the stage for a Presidential assassination.
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GivePeaceAchance Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:25 AM
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2. Suggest I got is dress black suits sunglasses and stand next to the disrpuptors.
It may calm them down some.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:38 AM
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7. don't forget the ear-piece
gotta have that to look dangerous ;) That chap in NH knew it made him look dangerous and cool, like he could listen in to the law enforcement.
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GivePeaceAchance Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 01:31 AM
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30. Yeah nice touch like it.
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:53 AM
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9. Better yet. I would stand in front of one.
I would stand in front of any asshole who brings a gun to a town hall event. I would explain to then that I view them as a threat to my president and I don't want to give them a clear shot. Hopefully more would join me until the COWARD left. Hopefully the police would do the right thing and escort the COWARD out. I wish some people had challenged the asshole who was carrying the AR-15, and called him out for being the COWARD he was showing himself to be.
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keepthemhonest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:32 AM
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15. Please do nt
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GivePeaceAchance Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:31 AM
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5. Why do they not want to be filmed, if folks recongnize them they should turn and fold arms in...
Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 09:32 AM by GivePeaceAchance
mutual protest. There is 77 percetn for health care refrom, so they need to know what we feel of them too in a subtle effective way.
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Gman2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:36 AM
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6. I still say, all dems bring red lasers. Light up all gun loons with thousands of lasers.
They would not again feel comfortable with guns on them.
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:56 AM
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11. I love that idea!
:woohoo:


Encourage everyone we know to purchase those cat toy lasers. Can you imagine hundreds of people bringing those to a town hall and pointing them at one of these assholes? Then the crowd starts chanting "Which one is the real one"?

We need to make these morons as uncomfortable as possible. Hopefully they will leave the event.
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:39 AM
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8. I DONT KNOW WHEN THEY DECIDED TO TURN THE TABLES ON US...
EVERYONE KNOWS THE NEO-NAZI MOVEMENT IS PART OF FAR RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM .
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trungpa ricochet Donating Member (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:55 AM
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10. A Joke from someone I know. Problem is...this is not funny.
Like anyone else with more than just a few friends and acquaintances, sometimes I get sent stuff that may be funny to some, but not to me. I can take a joke, but here's something sinister at work here. This is not unlike a particular mood in the US in about 1963.

Here it is:


You might recall John Hinckley, the seriously deranged young man who shot President Reagan in the early 1980's.

Hinckley was absolutely obsessed with movie star Jodie Foster, extremely jealous, and in his twisted mind, loved Jodie Foster to the point that to make himself well known to her, he attempted to assassinate President Reagan.

There is speculation Hinckley may soon be released as having been rehabilitated. Consequently, you may appreciate the following letter from Nancy Reagan the staff at the mental facility treating Hinckley reports to have intercepted:
*
*
To: John Hinckley
From: Mrs. Nancy Reagan

My family and I wanted to drop you a short note to tell you how pleased we are with the great strides you are making in your recovery. In our fine country's spirit of understanding and forgiveness, we want you to know there is a nonpartisan consensus of compassion and forgiveness throughout.

The Reagan family and I want you to know that no grudge is borne against you for shooting President Reagan. We, above all, are aware of how the mental stress and pain could have driven you to such an act of desperation. We are confident that you will soon make a complete recovery and return to your family to join the world again as a healthy and productive young man.

Best wishes,
Nancy Reagan & Family

P.S. While you have been incarcerated, Barack Obama has been banging Jodie Foster like a screen door in a hurricane. You might want to look into that.

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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:04 PM
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38. ouch
ha ha, but ouch

 
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:01 AM
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12. Yep
And people are just standing around waiting for it to happen, like it's expected.
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:07 AM
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13. This has been bothering me for weeks now
I am truely afraid for our President and can not understand this whole gun thing near the POTUS.

:wtf: There were free speech zones set up at various functions for the *bush.


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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:31 AM
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14. Olbermann said "Republicans are Planning to Kill Your President"?
Let's not confuse Olbermann with "ObamaComma" or assume the GOP endorses the militia movement.
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Ysabela Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:32 AM
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16. This is CIA...
they are preparing the American public with this indoctrination of "crazies with guns" showing up at Obama events, to lay the ground work for a CIA assassination. That way when the CIA plot is executed along with our President, the media can claim is was just some lone nut who loved his guns and hated blacks, it will be a modern day Lee Harvey Oswald set-up.
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daa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:37 AM
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17. Why are guns allowed at political events when
you got kicked out of bush events for wearing a T-shirt?
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Ysabela Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:53 AM
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18. Because the elites are using the media to lay the groundwork
for a CIA assassination. They are creating the new cover for a Lee Harvey Oswald type patsy.
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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 11:52 AM
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20. Because Obama's administration respects the rule of law!
From Obama's press secretary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803416.html?hpid=topnews

"Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said people are entitled to carry weapons outside such events if local laws allow it. "There are laws that govern firearms that are done state or locally," he said. "Those laws don't change when the president comes to your state or locality.""
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dotymed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 08:37 AM
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33. ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
I do not want to return to the "Bush Doctrine" but
there is a lot of median in there. A shirt? OK. A gun? Not OK.
Obama must start the prosecution of Bush or he'll never be
really safe...
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kegler14 Donating Member (541 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 11:30 AM
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19. The guns I've seen have been far away enough that nobody would have been screened
for guns. For all we know -- and given the crows I'd say it was pretty likely -- there were many more people carrying concealed weapons. It's legal (as long as you have permit) until you get within a certain perimeter around the president.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 12:17 PM
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21. Why are these people inciting violence not in prison already?
I thought we had laws about this but I guess I am mistaken.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 01:13 PM
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22. Because technically they haven't committed a crime.
It isn't illegal, in Arizona for instance, to carry in public if you have gone through the legal channels. Granted, if they were to draw said weapon... that could be another thing all together.

If you want to see how this is going to play out, look at the movements of the Black Panthers in the 1960's. While their goals were vastly different, in the end the mentality remains the same.
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:46 PM
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28. it didn't matter in Bush days, and SS could pick them up under suspicion at least
given the events they were at.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 02:45 PM
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35. Well we like playing by the letter of the law not of some Orwellian universe.
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 01:48 PM
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23. I noticed that Frank Rich was pointing out something important...

a similar type of paranoid atmosphere existed around JFK before his assassination.
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 03:04 PM
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24. Because if we don't give the babies what they want
They will cry the loudest. Republicans are like spoiled children, and should be treated as such. It's the same with everything they do, it's sickening. I like the laser pointer idea.
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 06:55 PM
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25. I am an Old Fart
And I don't remember in all my years, a presidential event where people wore GUNS...No one wore guns when they went to see Kennedy Speak in our town. No one wore guns when Johnson, Nixon, Ford Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton or baby Bush spoke at local events...What makes this time and this President so different...and WHY AREN'T THERE MORE PEOPLE PISSED ABOUT THIS????? GAWD DAMMIT ALL TO HELL WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON????
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 07:59 PM
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26. This, after Palin tried to label Obama a terrorist.
:sarcasm: knows no boundaries.
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ScottLand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 08:45 AM
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34. It's a scary time to be an American.
I recently saw "Valkyrie" and the first thing I thought of was the fact that people are talking the same way about Obama. It's unfounded, of course. Until Obama's starts gassing jews, I fail to see the similarity.
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ControlledDemolition Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 12:18 AM
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37. ... and the Military Industrial Complex will 'sit by' and let it happen. Another 'lone nut'...
... with a 'magic bullet'!
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The Animator Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:33 AM
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39. Long ago, when I was an elementary student learning about WWII...
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 02:35 AM by The Animator
... I wondered how the people of Germany could be foolish enough to buy into the Nazi bullshit... that they were superior to all other races... that they could conquer the entire world... that it was their destiny to become a master race...

Odd, I thought, that if blue eyed, blond haired people were so superior, that they would be getting their orders from a guy with dark hair, dark eyes, and a Charlie Chaplin mustache...

I didn't understand it then...

... and I still don't understand it.

But here we go again...


I swear it's like were living history backwards...

Civil War, Great Depression, Rise of the Third Reich, World War II, Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, Civil Rights, unprecedented prosperity, Reaganomics, unprecedented economic prosperity, Reaganomics, Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, Great Depression, Rise of the Third Reich,...
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