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Ben Stein: Mitch McConnell restaurant hecklers 'exactly how the Nazis started out'
The Washington Times ^ | October 22, 2018 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 10/22/2018 9:01:52 AM PDT by jazusamo

Video at link.

Actor and conservative commentator Ben Stein said Saturday that the protesters who berated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a Louisville restaurant the night before are “becoming like the brownshirts in the early days of the Nazi Party.”

Mr. McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, were confronted at the Havana Rumba restaurant by at least two hecklers who reportedly stole the couple’s leftover food off their table and threw it outside.

It was one of many similar incidents involving Republican politicians being heckled in public in recent months. Mr. McConnell was recently heckled by protesters at Reagan National Airport near Washington.

Mr. Stein, a lawyer and economist who is also Jewish, told TMZ at Politicon in Los Angeles that leftist protesters are wading into fascistic territory.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benstein; democrats; facism; fascism; harassment; leftism; mcconnell; violence
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"These people are gangsters, they are mob gangsters, they’re not decent people."

Ben Stein is dead on the mark.

1 posted on 10/22/2018 9:01:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Yup! It’s too bad one of the younger MEN at the restaurant didn’t hand this fat boy bullying Mitch the Senior Citizen and his wife a nice, big, juicy knuckle sandwich. Fat Nazi boy just didn’t know how to shut up.


2 posted on 10/22/2018 9:04:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: jazusamo

Of course. It is how all dictators start. They intimidate the weakest of their opposition then move on to killing off or imprisoning the rest. Any elections are just for show and justification before the world’s opinion.


3 posted on 10/22/2018 9:05:39 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: jazusamo

For chrissake. I’m getting sick of hearing about people just passively allowing themselves to be bullied by these sh!theads. Start punching them in their mouths already. This is freaking ridiculous.


4 posted on 10/22/2018 9:11:53 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: jazusamo

The brown shirts were also homosexuals.


5 posted on 10/22/2018 9:12:11 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: jazusamo

Step into the light, Ben Stein; consider becoming an Independent or Republican. All will be forgiven.
None of the parties are perfect, but we do the least harm.
Think it over, Ben Stein.
The Dems are not heeding your warning bells.


6 posted on 10/22/2018 9:15:53 AM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: longfellow

Ernst Roehm recruits.


7 posted on 10/22/2018 9:16:09 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: 60Gunner

Amen, scum of the earth type understand street justice.


8 posted on 10/22/2018 9:17:18 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: longfellow

“The brown shirts were also homosexuals.”

I’m surprised Wikipedia allowed the first sentence to be published:

SA intimidation contributed to the rise of the Nazis and the violent suppression of right-wing parties during electoral campaigns, but its reputation for street violence and heavy drinking was a hindrance, as was the open homosexuality of Röhm and other SA leaders such as his deputy Edmund Heines.[6][7] In 1931, the Münchener Post, a Social Democratic newspaper, obtained and published Röhm’s letters to a friend discussing his homosexual affairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm


9 posted on 10/22/2018 9:17:27 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: jazusamo

Yes he is. Other folks need to back up the targets of this nonsense and send these idiots packing, in such a manner as to discourage other similar acts.


10 posted on 10/22/2018 9:17:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: jazusamo

This type of behavior hasn’t been seen in Western societies since the 30’s.


11 posted on 10/22/2018 9:19:25 AM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: jazusamo

Does anybody in this country still think that the Democrat Party is just about them selecting their best person to run for a government job?

The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.

The Democrat Party’s candidate for President, Hillary Clinton, orchestrated the murder of a foreign leader so she could steal Libya’s wealth.

There is nothing the Democrat Party won’t do to get money.

Nothing.


12 posted on 10/22/2018 9:19:55 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: treetopsandroofs

Who else could design that ss uniform?
Sharp.


13 posted on 10/22/2018 9:20:18 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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MAGA!

Support Free Republic, Folks!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

14 posted on 10/22/2018 9:20:44 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Not just the Nazis, but the Red Brigade as well. It’s what subversives do.


15 posted on 10/22/2018 9:21:32 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: gundog

America is dying one un-enforced law at time! What we see on the TV is becoming the new norm.
Vote Conservative!


16 posted on 10/22/2018 9:21:36 AM PDT by Tac Double Tap (I'd rather die standing than on my knees begging.)
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To: DoughtyOne

It was good to see some people spoke up against those turkeys but you’re right, go a step further and make a few of these scum examples and much of the problem will go away.


17 posted on 10/22/2018 9:26:44 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo; All

This crap will not stop until there are arrests and the Secret Service breaks some bones.


18 posted on 10/22/2018 9:27:15 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: jazusamo

What little Ben N’erTrump is really referring to is this is like the Reichstag fire, a paid hoax staged by the Nazis and their crisis actors to blame their political enemies and give them sympathy and win public support.

Like so many other staged hoaxes such as Charlottesville, let’s remember McConnell is part of the fake “right” in the Uniparty NWO elites.

RINOs = Uniparty hoaxters


19 posted on 10/22/2018 9:28:02 AM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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To: jazusamo
Once upon a time, Americans understood the essential principles of liberty, as did their leaders.

Thomas Jefferson's 1801 First Inaugural laid out what he considered to be the principles of his Administration. Mr. Trump may find that Jefferson's listing agrees with most of what he ran on as a candidate.

Note the important warning contained in Jefferson's last paragraph--that if "we" strayed from those principles, the nation should return to "the only road which alone leads peace, liberty and safety."

We are just beginning that "road" back. Determination of "We, the People," combined with diligence and patience will be required against those "progressive" paths which have led us away from the principles of Jefferson and the Framers of our Constiution of government.

(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;

- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;

- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;

- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter

—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?

- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,

- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.

- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;

- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;

- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;

- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;

- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;

- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;

- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;

- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;

- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;

- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;

- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;

- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;

- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.

These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."


20 posted on 10/22/2018 9:28:12 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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