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Social change could spark violence (gag)
Politico ^ | 09/25/09 | EAMON JAVERS

Posted on 09/25/2009 1:43:08 PM PDT by thefoundersrock

“And the whole country’s under threat now, with the economic difficulties and political polarization,” said Post, now a professor of psychiatry at The George Washington University. “The need to have someone to blame is really strong in human psychology. And once you have someone to blame, especially when there’s a call to action, some see it as a time for heroic action.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrymob; bho44; blame; hypocrisy; liberalmedia; psychology
Unbelievable.
1 posted on 09/25/2009 1:43:09 PM PDT by thefoundersrock
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To: thefoundersrock

I blame Obama.


2 posted on 09/25/2009 1:44:37 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Man the pitchforks and torches.......let the revolution begin)
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To: thefoundersrock
The need to have someone to blame is really strong in human psychology

Need?

This isn't about casting blame. It's about calling it as it is. This country is broke, but Obama and the Democrats think NOTHING about proposing trillions in new spending.

What a pinhead.

3 posted on 09/25/2009 1:44:57 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: thefoundersrock

We only blame Obama and Pelosi for spending $13,000,000,000,000 more than they’re bringing in over the next ten years because we need someone to blame. It has nothing to do with the fact that those two socialists hate the America that we know and love and they are trying to destroy our country.


4 posted on 09/25/2009 1:45:36 PM PDT by TurtleUp ([...Insert today's quote from Community-Organizer-in-Chief...] - Obama, YOU LIE!)
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To: thefoundersrock

We can only hope that she is correct! And yes when a free people are ordered by tyrants to change to slavery they should expect violence to the n-th degree.

Or as Jefferson wrote:

“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to perserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.”

“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have liberty.”

Let us have liberty!


5 posted on 09/25/2009 1:46:26 PM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: thefoundersrock
If politicians stopped ignoring the will of the people, there would be no reason for them to be scared.
6 posted on 09/25/2009 1:46:46 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: thefoundersrock
The need to have someone to blame is really strong in human psychology.

I've noticed this to be more pronounced in liberal commie 'RATS than in normal Americans.

7 posted on 09/25/2009 1:46:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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To: thefoundersrock

He’s just worried about the corrosive and explosive social effects of the Leftist violence and riots in Pittsburgh.

No?


8 posted on 09/25/2009 1:46:50 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: stockpirate
Or as Jefferson wrote:

“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to perserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.”

“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have liberty.”

AMEN TO LIBERTY!!!!

9 posted on 09/25/2009 1:49:41 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: thefoundersrock
I assume the professor is explaining the reason why for fifty years Democrats blamed Hoover and Republicans for the Great Depression. And why they will blame Bush for every problem for the next Fifty years.

Their need? To get elected to public office.

10 posted on 09/25/2009 1:49:45 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

I used to live in Jersey and had a bike. Egg Harbor TWP.


11 posted on 09/25/2009 1:50:55 PM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: thefoundersrock

Time to run the liberals out of their university covens. That’s a scary thought to the Left!


12 posted on 09/25/2009 1:50:56 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: thefoundersrock

God please let what she wrote be true, for our nations sake, for liberties sake!


13 posted on 09/25/2009 1:51:51 PM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: thefoundersrock
I think the "silent majority" simply is silent no more. The left (and writers like this professor and politicians such as Nancy Pelosi) are starting to hear a "new noise" that they simply do not understand. They've been "conditioned" to the "Quiet Right". What Nancy and this writer do not understand is that the left is CAUSING the noise from the formerly "quiet right." There is a point at which "outrageous" is finally noticed and people start saying "NO!" So they are "causing" their own "concerns."

Nancy's Fears & Tears @ The Patriot's Flag

14 posted on 09/25/2009 2:01:11 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (The Patriot's Flag at http://www.thepatriotsflag.com/)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

It’s a classic case of projection....look at the difference between the 9/12 marcher and the anti-G20 anrchist...

Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak..

“these arent the violent protestors you are looking for”


15 posted on 09/25/2009 2:08:11 PM PDT by Crim
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To: thefoundersrock

Aftershave and smoke
And the same unfunny jokes
They say they’ll take you
“Anywhere, But there”
Believe every half-whispered
Half-remembered lie
Where truth is a luxury
They can’t afford to buy

Scapegoat
Looking for a scapegoat
There’s always someone else for you to blame

Backed into a corner
He barricades his life
Fastens up the shutters every night
This island is big enough
For every castaway
But most of us are looking round
For someone else to blame

Scapegoat
Looking for a scapegoat
There’s always someone else for you to blame


16 posted on 09/25/2009 2:10:21 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: thefoundersrock

I think we need to re institute the old tried and true method of tar and feathering. It’s the perfect middle ground between complacency and deadly physical violence. It also holds true to our colonial ancestors. Just a thought, but it would negate the need to ask “Can you hear me now?”


17 posted on 09/25/2009 2:11:41 PM PDT by FoundersRWatching (Make them Proud!!)
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To: Crim

You almost get the feeling they are TRYING to provoke some sort of reaction, just to use it as an excuse...


18 posted on 09/25/2009 2:14:47 PM PDT by thefoundersrock
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To: FoundersRWatching

I don’t think too many people survived having hot tar poured all over their bodies.


19 posted on 09/25/2009 2:17:42 PM PDT by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: ichabod1

Do a little research.


20 posted on 09/25/2009 2:19:28 PM PDT by FoundersRWatching (Make them Proud!!)
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To: ichabod1
The punishment appeared in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1767, when mobs avenged themselves on low-level employees of the Customs service with tar and feathers. In October 1769, a mob in Boston attacked a Customs service sailor the same way, and a few similar attacks followed through 1774 (the tarring and feathering of customs worker John Malcolm received particular attention in 1774). Such acts associated the punishment with the Patriot side of the American Revolution. In March 1775, a British regiment inflicted the same treatment on a Massachusetts man they suspected of trying to buy their muskets.[citation needed] There is no case of a person dying from being tarred and feathered in this period.
21 posted on 09/25/2009 2:30:06 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: thefoundersrock

“The need to have someone to blame is really strong in human psychology.
The liberal a##hats have been using this for decades. Look at the health bill, 3 of them no one read, majority vote, they could pass it immediatley without the GOP but they won’t! why? because they have no one to blame when we come calling with the pitchforks and throw all their a##es in jail!


22 posted on 09/25/2009 3:12:50 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (We are governed now by educated idiots!)
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To: stockpirate

I have some family oin that area.

<P.I am up north in Warren county.


23 posted on 09/25/2009 4:04:46 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

I live in Maryland now. There is also a bikerbabe here on FR.


24 posted on 09/25/2009 4:09:21 PM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: thefoundersrock
You almost get the feeling they are TRYING to provoke some sort of reaction, just to use it as an excuse...

For some of us, there is no "almost" about it. We know that is what the plan is, and if it doesn't occur naturally soon, with all the provocation given, then there will be a "reaction" manufactured...

the infowarrior

25 posted on 09/25/2009 11:36:32 PM PDT by infowarrior
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