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FBI Visits Ozark Blogger at Request From Rep. Billy Long's Office (Chilling Giffords Effect)
KY3.com ^ | Thursday, January 13, 2011 | Chad Plein

Posted on 01/13/2011 7:20:22 PM PST by kristinn

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To: Borax Queen
If she is unable to function mentally she should resign...

we have that Senator out West, Johnson (something or other) who had a stroke what four or five years ago and I feel there is a lot there that we don't know!!! and he continues to hold office and keep his seat...now remember, he is a Democrat....

again...TERM LIMITS ARE A MUST!!!!

41 posted on 01/13/2011 10:50:04 PM PST by haircutter
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To: kristinn

So does this mean Town Hall meetings are now outlawed? Should citizens who stand up and question their representatives expect a visit from the FBI???

I don’t like where this is leading! :*(


42 posted on 01/13/2011 10:57:21 PM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: Borax Queen

like how she drove her family business under>>>>>>>>

The way the press tells it she successfully negotiated Campo Tire’s sale to GoodYear. That Gabriella has some business smarts. Campo Tire was a chain that was started by her grandfather


43 posted on 01/13/2011 11:00:26 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: SaraJohnson

No it’s not over, Sara. But the ship has been capsized. Up righting her will be a challenge.


44 posted on 01/13/2011 11:09:35 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: Borax Queen

That is “if” she comes back, this is a one day at a time situation here.


45 posted on 01/13/2011 11:11:28 PM PST by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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To: Gilbo_3

I predict that this, too, will pass.


46 posted on 01/13/2011 11:16:23 PM PST by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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To: Gilbo_3
...smellin more like she took one for the team than anything else...

I've long been a beholder of the belief that when things are surreal, out of touch, incredible, then something is amiss.

If you're right, then her injuries were not as proclaimed. Since, just after Obama left the room, he claims, "she opened her eyes." So his claim is, he, the great Obama was the divine intervention.

Hold on, I gotta hurl. Okay, back. Now, more to the point. Her injury may not have been as proclaimed. Shot thru the brain?

I've asked this before. So, I will ask again. Who returns to normalcy after being shot thru the brain?

47 posted on 01/13/2011 11:42:50 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: takenoprisoner

“I’ve long been a beholder of the belief that when things are surreal, out of touch, incredible, then something is amiss. “

Actually, I haven’t had much time as most here to follow this story...but what I did see and found rather odd was an interview with two doctors who were almost giddy recalling the possibility that their patient might open her eyes just in time for the President. Shock and awe, I tell ya....they seemed delighted it actually happened.

Considering all the talk of late about this specific incident, I found this ‘after-the-fact’ interview to be more than strange.


48 posted on 01/14/2011 1:51:35 AM PST by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote! ~ DeMint, 2012)
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To: takenoprisoner

“We’re told the Greene County Sheriff was with the FBI agent in Ozark”


49 posted on 01/14/2011 4:12:08 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: kristinn

50 posted on 01/14/2011 4:22:29 AM PST by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: takenoprisoner
My Dad had major brain surgery in July. Aneurysm near the brain stem, and it took a 7 hour surgery to repair. Took him six months to get close to on the road to normal, and he isn't done yet.

Doc said the surgery was like getting shot in the head, and looking at the reports of Gifford's wounds, maybe more traumatic than her’s. He did open his eye and move some a few days after the surgery.

But the biggest thing is that there will be some major effects of the wounds. In short, her brain wiring is going to be all messed for a long time. She might, might, be able to resume her duties in a year.

51 posted on 01/14/2011 4:22:40 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Domandred
And so it begins

"A few agents of the thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous..."

52 posted on 01/14/2011 4:28:57 AM PST by IamConservative (Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. - Truman)
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To: jakerobins; kristinn

“I’m going to hate to see what the FBI does to TEA PARTY folks that dare ask a DEM too many questions at one of their visits home after passing another unpopular bill.......”


Of course, in this particular case, it was the Tea Party Congressman, Billy Long (who won the primary as a grassroots conservative with Tea Party support) who sent the FBI to investigate the guy who asked him questions.


53 posted on 01/14/2011 5:07:01 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Borax Queen

ping


54 posted on 01/14/2011 6:00:46 AM PST by ducttape45
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To: SaraJohnson

Registered fund raising letter? LOL. Sounds more like those event invitation’s LEO’s sometimes send out to criminal society.

What a picture album that must have made.


55 posted on 01/14/2011 6:08:18 AM PST by MurrietaMadman (Luke 23:31)
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To: Borax Queen

I believe you


56 posted on 01/14/2011 6:27:13 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: BenLurkin
following Long to his car, hoping for answers on different topics.

"That is creepy if you ask me."

Maybe he was just looking for answers that he didn't get in the meeting. Many pols seem to get touchy if you are not asking them questions in an approved meeting hall.

We need to document these cases where it appears that the elected officials are using FBI intimidation to silence those who may be guilty only of asking uncomfortable questions.

The elected officials have every right to ask for investigations of individuals where an actual threat has been made. It is a fine line they walk.

57 posted on 01/14/2011 6:27:44 AM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: kristinn
Hope I do not sound to heartless, but I figure if they feel the job is to dangerous, they may not be the right person for the job. I mean 1 person shot in 30 years is like safer than flying, right?

Is their job more dangerous than one of our fighting men/women in the military? Is it more dangerous than a cop?

They make a pretty good pay check compared to the latter 2, We can NOT afford more security for them all.

just my 2 cents

58 posted on 01/14/2011 6:28:33 AM PST by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2012 or bust)
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To: kristinn

I know Billy Long, he is not one to jump to conclusions and he is a big guy not someone that would be cowering against a bully. This guy must be some kind of a nut job OR maybe the staff was scared of him.
Billy Long has a heart of gold and will stop and talk to anyone. Prayers out to Billy, his staff and beautiful family.


59 posted on 01/14/2011 6:31:53 AM PST by conservativesister
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To: Belle22
I also heard Linda Lopez say to a Fox reporter on Saturday that the shooter was an “Afghan war vet” and that Ms. Giffords’ father told the police his daughter’s enemies were “the entire Tea Party”. The latter comment by the father was perhaps understandable under the circumstances, but Lopez’s voice was dripping with contempt about the supposed vet.

That Lopez interview just had me shaking my head in disgust!! And I never heard any retractions later. She DID completely sound patronizing.

And I forgot about the father's comment --- it was hit after hit toward us (those of us who had spent over a year protesting her policies, peacefully, never one incident of anything!!). He was only echoing his daughter's incessant drum-beating about how we are "the mob" with "swastikas." And she probably told her parents worse stuff privately over the last few years. I remember them coming to various events and sitting in the front.

60 posted on 01/14/2011 6:33:41 AM PST by Borax Queen
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