Posted on 04/22/2009 8:46:48 AM PDT by locke22
On the heals of announcements of the formation of a local Eureka Ca. ( Humboldt County ) committee and fund raising for the construction of a bust or statue of former president George W. Bush, local and state left wing radicals have announced terror threats and plans to destroy the proposed statue by explosion.
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Good grief. And we’re the ones they’re worried about.
Whew!! Good thing its not a threat from those crazy RW extremists; Homeland Security has been warning us about.
Because after 40 years of bomb throwing liberals, they have now risen to the highest ranks of power in this country and can have the political purge of Conservatives that they have dreamed of for 40 years.
It isn’t the crime they are prosecuting, it is the ideology.
Exactly. *rolls eyes*
a bunch of real brave PUNKS, would love to sit, ( I know, I can be a tree sitter )and wait on them to show
Freedom Fighters.
If they were tea party attendees they would be right wing terrorists. /s
Eureka PING!
they actually think the feds don’t investigate things like this, idiots.
Yo Janet, got some more bombers for you to take a look at.
But blowing up a statue of GW is OK, because we didn't like him.
This logic escapes me.
Really! You saw the unrestrained mayhem that ensued at those tea parties... oh wait a minute that was the leftists at the G20! Never mind.
When BO gets a statue erected in Ithaca, Austin, Burlington, wherever I doubt he’ll strike the same powerful pose as W.
He’ll be wiping his skinny arse with the Constitution in his and all will be well.
I just can not wrap my pea brain around such craziness. Is there no end to what the far left will stoop to when something happens they do not happen to like?
Rally around abortion clinics . . . kill babies cause it is our right but blow up a statue of Bush cause he is evil. Good Lord what on earth is happening to this society???
Words have meaning. You cannot terrorize a statute. You can threaten it, you can vandalize it, you can blow it up, you can pull it down, you can expose it to bird poop. But it is not a conscious being, and cannot be terrorized.
It’s true that the statue is an inanimate thing but it is an expresion of speech or beliefes. Any attack on the statue is an attack on the beliefes of others.
So, an attack on the beliefs of others, as opposed to an attack on others, is an act of terrorism?
You do not know the defination of terror. The victim of terror is never the intended target.
Word to idiot liberals, George W Bush doesn’t have the power anymore to do anything. None ,nilch, nada.
I don’t think we should have statues, schools named after, ships named after, etc of living current or former leaders at all (Presidents, Congressmen, whatever), but sure as hell don’t make terrorist threats about having them.
What are they threatening to do? Pull it down and then whack it in the head with their shoes?
That is absurd. What about the people in the twin towers? They weren’t both the victims AND the intended target? They were not the only victims, but they were victims of terror nevertheless.
The victim of a terrorist act is never the intended target. You do not understand the definition
of the word terrorism. As you wrote, words have meaning.
Read the comments. Egads, the DUmmies are showing their true colors. However, the DUmmies posting there are the base of the Democratic Party, so these are not terroristic threats, they are just a unique way of political free speech. At least that is how one City Councildork from St. Paul, MN would describe it - yes, the same one who defended the actions of the RNC “anarchists” with Molotov cocktails and urine bombs. Now those disagreeing with the Obama administration in a civil manner - those are the real terrorists. Janet Napolitano said so.
Sorry to be so ignorant and stupid. Merriam-Webster says terrorism is “the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion,” without mentioning the intended target. Terrorism is the intent to intimidate or cause terror. Destroying a statute, however repugnant, surely isn’t intimidating, it is maddening, it might be insulting but it is not threatening, nor is it what I would call coercive. Who would be coerced? What would they be coerced into doing? What, pray, would be coercive in blowing up a statue? It might cause alarm among the non-sentient statue population, but few others unless they happen to be very skittish, or unless they believe themselves to be non-sentient statues. By your definition, sanitation workers threatening to strike is an act of terror. Blank slate, indeed.
A statue, a building, an airport, all symbols. The terror aspect is not the building statue or people next to it, it is the political target that is the end result. As you wrote, Terrorism is the intent to intimidate or cause terror.
I guess the bottom line is, I am not terrorized by acts of vandalism and destruction carried out on inanimate things, regardless how symbolic, or threats thereof. I come from sterner stock. And that is why the 9.11 creatures struck the twin towers instead of the Statue of Liberty.
And they effectively curtailed many good things he tried to do while in office...with a lot of help from their "friends" across the isle.
And they effectively curtailed many good things he tried to do while in office...with a lot of help from their "friends" across the isle.
I don’t think the George Bush statue is SKEERD of these
leftist threats. Hahahahah!
Funny thing is that the democrats in office were the ones who started this calling Bush a war criminal. After reading the thread that is what the idiot who makes the threats keeps going back to. (lets conveniently forget that the democrats also sanctioned the war though)
Liberals can be as violent as they want. When we get involved with anything like half a million people all over the country in peaceful protest and not one report of violence at all we are called terrorists.
OK. I just saw it was in Eureka and figured ya might be interested.
It is a great looking statue, isn't it?! Not a person that would go around apologizing to the world for his country!
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