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Why isn't the Tea Party sending a militia to Ferguson?
Al Jazeera ^ | 8-15-2014 | Dexter Thomas

Posted on 08/18/2014 10:26:22 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

The NRA and Tea Party haven't said a word. Can we just conclude that they don't care about black people?

On August 5, a man named John Crawford was playing with a toy rifle in an Ohio Wal-Mart. Someone called 911, and police showed up and shot him in the chest. He died.

On August 9, a man named Michael Brown was walking in the street in Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer stopped him. According to the friend that was with him, Brown put his hands up to show that he was unarmed. The officer shot him in the back. Brown's body was left in the street for hours before being removed.

Since then, the incident in Ferguson has overshadowed the Ohio Wal-Mart shooting. Protesters have been gathering, and demanding answers from the police, who have become increasingly skittish and violent. Journalists are being told to turn off their cameras, local residents are getting tear gassed.

Nobody knows exactly what happened, but whatever the facts may be, things certainly look bad now. To most Americans, this is the stuff of horror films: A sleepy rural town being terrorised by an advanced military.

All of this then, begs the question: Where is the National Rifle Association (NRA), and where is the Tea Party?

(Excerpt) Read more at m.aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; islamonaziagitators; militia; nra; teaparty
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To: wardaddy
Let the Amish eat each other for all I care

Well said!

21 posted on 08/18/2014 10:36:45 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Citizen Zed

Not only that, where is the Welcome Wagon, the Rotary Club, the Shriners and Ladies Who Lunch & the Red Hats? Where is NASCAR, the Professional Bowlers Association, Up With People and the Society of American Florists? Where are the National Association of Independent Real Estate Brokers, Lutheran Social Services and the Hispanic National Mortgage Association and the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association? Huh?


22 posted on 08/18/2014 10:37:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: smokingfrog

The NRA too?


23 posted on 08/18/2014 10:37:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: re_nortex
Kate Pierson from the B-52's called

She wants her beehive back!
24 posted on 08/18/2014 10:37:52 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Citizen Zed

If Tea Party types came to help in any fashion, it would definitely be racist. I can see the headlines now.


25 posted on 08/18/2014 10:38:20 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: Citizen Zed

This guys attempt at tying Ferguson with the Tea Party is about as effective as trying to sew snot and bubble gum together.

Epic fail.


26 posted on 08/18/2014 10:38:57 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Citizen Zed

Uh, because they don’t want no more white people with guns?


27 posted on 08/18/2014 10:40:12 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (I don't have a soul, I'm a soul that has a body. -- Unknown)
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To: Usagi_yo

Because there’s no need for reasonable people to waste their time on unreasonable people...: )


28 posted on 08/18/2014 10:43:01 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Citizen Zed

Hay Jazerra, where’s Al Gores money? hahahaha


29 posted on 08/18/2014 10:43:03 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Dexter Conehead doesn’t know what the expression “begs the question” means, but he can’t dress himself so it’s not too surprising.


30 posted on 08/18/2014 10:43:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Jagdgewehr

He sleeps upside down in his very own batcave, in Batjammas that hang below his buttocks.


31 posted on 08/18/2014 10:45:00 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Wow. Al Jazeera is really hoping we’ll stir something up . . . .


32 posted on 08/18/2014 10:46:22 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: Citizen Zed
1. Tea Party doesn't have militias.

2. The militias that showed up at the Bundy ranch were invited to be there by the Clive Bundy. No one at Fergeson that I have seen has invited militias to be there.

33 posted on 08/18/2014 10:48:49 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Citizen Zed
All of this then, begs the question: Where is the National Rifle Association (NRA), and where is the Tea Party?

This isn't begging the question. "Begs the question" is not synonymous with "raises the question".

Learn grammar, idiot.

34 posted on 08/18/2014 10:49:40 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: Citizen Zed

The interesting thing is this could be an opportunity for the Tea Party. They have a bunch of people who aren’t normally their allies protesting the government. Yes, this plays right into the Tea Party’s wheelhouse.


35 posted on 08/18/2014 10:49:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Citizen Zed
This is what now passes for journalism, which it is not. First and foremost, the premise is wrong--everything that follows is worthless. This is not news reporting, it is agenda journalism nonpareil.
36 posted on 08/18/2014 10:51:42 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: re_nortex

Wasn’t he in House Party in the early 90’s?


37 posted on 08/18/2014 10:52:17 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: re_nortex

This creature is a waste of time and I shouldn’t spend another minute on him or his irrelevance but I love a great train wreck.


38 posted on 08/18/2014 10:52:59 PM PDT by WilliamRobert (We are doomed if good men stand by and do nothing.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Can’t speak for others but friendly neighborhood riots are not my thing.


39 posted on 08/18/2014 10:56:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: jsanders2001

‘House Party’ and ‘Booty Call’ I think.
And ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’? But he had white stripes in his do.


40 posted on 08/18/2014 10:56:35 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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