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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 06:17 PM
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Terrorism. Let's call the Right Wing's tactics for what they are.
S: (n) terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Rush Limbaugh: "People at a certain age with certain diseases will be deemed not worth the investment, and they will, just as Obama said, they'd give them some pain pills, and let them loop out till they die and they don't even know what's happened…They're preparing you to die,"

Lou Dobbs: "Yeah. And also, they want you to go out and start getting counseling for end of life. I love that one...Well, you know, we could save a lot of money. I mean, you know -- I mean, what they're basically talking about -- I mean, you start getting to that level, what's next? Euthanasia?"

Glenn Beck: "You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics.....Ask yourself this question, do you trust these people enough to give them control over who lives and who dies?"

Sarah Palin: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."


These are examples of terrorism and nothing less.


Sources:
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=terrorism
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/government-health-care-kills-grannies-dead
http://mediamatters.org/research/200908060043
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908060009
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Palin_calls_Dems_healthcare_plan_evil_cites_threat_to_Trig.html

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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 06:19 PM
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1. K&R
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 06:22 PM
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2. Ratcheting up RW terrorism to foment their base into a mindless frenzy?
:shrug:
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Chemisse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 06:23 PM
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3. These are incendiary comments
But not terrorism, since there is no threat implied.

However, other comments we have been hearing have clearly crossed the line. These right wing freaks need to be considered a terrorist group and monitored as such.

Where is J Edgar Hoover when you actually want him?
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 06:25 PM
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5. The implied threat is that if HC reform passes, the govt. will kill your loved ones.
IMO.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 06:23 PM
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4. The GOP are simply anti-healthcare. n/t
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 07:13 PM
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6. No, they are pro-corporate. And more than willing to terrorize Americans for corporations.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:44 PM
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8. They are the party of "no." They are the party of obstructionism.
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 08:53 PM by ColbertWatcher
They are the anti-healthcare party.

By saying they are pro-anything contradicts the reputation they've been cultivating all these years.

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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:45 PM
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9. Good point. nt
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 07:39 PM
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7. more, they are temper tantrum.
spoilt children trying to get their way. time for time outs in michelle backman's FEMA CAMPS.
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