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Sen. Durbin’s “Stand Your Ground” intimidation
Overlawyered ^ | 08/09/13 | Walter Olson

Posted on 08/10/2013 8:06:32 AM PDT by AtlasStalled

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a close ally of labor union and trial lawyer interests on Capitol Hill, is sending out hundreds of letters to groups linked to ALEC, the free-market group of state legislators that has occasionally involved itself in other issue areas like criminal and self-defense law, promising to shame those supporters at a public hearing for the notional link to the Trayvon Martin affair

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment

1 posted on 08/10/2013 8:06:32 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: AtlasStalled

bttt


2 posted on 08/10/2013 8:11:56 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: AtlasStalled

It’s an awkward thing to see someone with no shame try to shame someone.


3 posted on 08/10/2013 8:14:12 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: AtlasStalled

Liberals don’t like to be compared to Nazis but this is just the way the SS took care of Hitler’s enemies. Fight back America!


4 posted on 08/10/2013 8:19:32 AM PDT by yoe ("They Come To America" order it now: http://www.theycometoamerica.com/buy-dvd/)
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To: AtlasStalled

Mockery is the proper response to Durbin:

“In other news, Richard “Dick” Durbin announced his proposal of a new law related to self defense issues, to be known as the ‘It’s OK, just kill me’ law.


5 posted on 08/10/2013 8:19:54 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: AtlasStalled

Defensive Knife Use Of The Day: Chicago Southsider Edition. But It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use.
Posted on August 10, 2013 by Chris Dumm

http://www.thetruthaboutknives.com/2013/08/defensive-knife-use-of-the-day-chicago-southsider-edition-but-it-should-have-been-a-defensive-gun-use/


6 posted on 08/10/2013 8:22:21 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: AtlasStalled

Key word:

Dick


7 posted on 08/10/2013 8:28:15 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: AtlasStalled

He won’t intimidate me..


8 posted on 08/10/2013 8:50:40 AM PDT by cardinal4 (The GOP, the ultimate battered wife? Or willing co-conspirators? You decide..)
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To: bigbob

Dick Turban. Get the picture? Yes, we see!


9 posted on 08/10/2013 8:51:20 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: AtlasStalled

Durbin is a traitor. A Trayvon of the first order.


10 posted on 08/10/2013 10:03:12 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: AtlasStalled
If the Republican party had any guts/testes (ha!), they would do the following.

The House committee chairman from a powerful committee with lots of gov't contracts would look up the campaign donations to Durbin. Then they would send a letter to each company asking if they agree that a politician use his office (a la Durbin) to intimidate corporations that support different causes than they do. Insinuate (but don't say!) that you might take a closer look at those companies, since it's all political now. When Durbin and the media throw a hissy-fit, keep directing it back to Durbin's letters: "Well, if Senator Durbin's letters were ok, then so were ours. If they aren't, why didn't you say this when Durbin sent out the original letters?" Pound it until the hypocrisy is crystal clear.

But that would require Republicans with balls... and there's not a full set to share between the lot of them (reminds me of the witches from the Perseus myth)...

11 posted on 08/10/2013 10:51:45 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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