Posted on 08/20/2009 11:33:41 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
On Wednesday, August 12, a man holding a sign that said “Death to Obama†at a town hall meeting in Maryland was detained and turned over to the Secret Service for questioning, which is pursuing an investigation into charging him with threatening the president.
As well they should. I fully and absolutely agree with this arrest, since anyone who threatens the president is breaking the law and should be prosecuted. It doesn’t matter that Obama was not at the meeting nor that the man was unarmed: the threat all on its own is a federal crime, according to the United States Code.
I support the arrest and prosecution of any person who threatens Obama or any president of the United States.
But the story of this arrest got me to thinking: Why was no one ever arrested for threatening President Bush at protests, when they displayed signs in public that called for his death?
Many readers may naively think, “The answer is obvious: no protester was ever arrested for threatening Bush at a protest because no one ever threatened him at a protest. Who would be that stupid? I certainly never heard of any such threats.â€
Alas, if only it were that simple. Because the bald fact is that people threatened Bush at protests all the time
(Excerpt) Read more at zombietime.com ...
“Who would be that stupid?”
Well, pretty much everybody on the DUmmies and KOmmunistS blogs.
I’ve noticed lately that several of my friends who formerly despised George Bush are now having second thoughts about him.
....and they are not Republicans.
We need to spam all those pictures to all the liberal dirty evil mediaPUKES!! Thanks for posting!
Poisoners of the well, Indeed, and water that WE ALL now must drink. You’ve got my vote ROS. Careful though, the
SS main frames have eyes. (wink)
JJ61
Dontcha just love dimocrats?
I googled “Arrested for threatening President Bush”
You won’t do it, but if you did, you would find that you’re full of baloney.
That’s the difference between Bush and Obama. Bush was willing to take some risks as he was a proponent of free speech. Obama, on the other hand, wants only to hear from his worshippers. All others are to be silenced.
Thanks for the memories.
Should we ever have a full on violent Revolution, much of it will be so easy to get used to.
Outstanding rant, Sharon! Don’t forget to include (in any future edits) about the schools allowing (promoting) the play “How to kill the President” (referring to Pres.Bush). (my nephew was forced to participate in the play probably because the teacher knew he and his parents were conservatives - in Martinez, CA)
At any rate, because your post is such an effective ‘rally cry’, I’d love your permission to send this out via email (giving you credit, of course).
The left-wing State-run news media only reports on bad things that their opponents do. They never report the misdeeds of their own. I thought we had a Constitutional right to a free press. The liberal’s co-opting of 99% of the news media has taken this right from us. But what can we do about it?? The situation has been like this since at least the 1960’s or 1970’s, so the answer would seem to be “not much”. Foxnews, a smal number of news papers, and talk radio are the only places conservatives seem to have been able to hold on, and make sure the whole story is told. The other 99% of the media/government is doing their level best to shut THAT down too.
“The situation has been like this since at least the 1960’s or 1970’s, so the answer would seem to be “not much”. Foxnews, a smal number of news papers, and talk radio are the only places conservatives seem to have been able to hold on, and make sure the whole story is told. The other 99% of the media/government is doing their level best to shut THAT down too.”
Things are actually a lot better now than they were 20/30 years ago IMO. One of the primary goals of a conquering force is to make people feel like resistance is futile; instill pessimism. But there are a lot of educated people today. People were always instinctively conservative, but now there are a lot of educated conservatives. They can only operate in a total information vacuum, and they’re not going to have it.
In terms of media propaganda, we need to find a way to apply Alinsky - pick the target, polarize it. They hide behind the idea that these are just independent companies operating as normal businesses, so there’s no one thing to go after. Anyone with half an ounce of sense can see the fact that they are operating as a single operation
Check this out— targeting Bush
http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2009/08/20/hitler-comparisons
“Hitler Comparisons and Media Reporting: Then and Now”
20 August 2009
by Evan Coyne Maloney
stepping back in time...
http://brain-terminal.com/common/images.php/gwb-target.jpg
http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2005/04/14/peace-loving-ny-liberals
Oh, Those Peace-Loving New York Liberals!”
14 April 2005
SNIPPET: “Some kind, compassionate, tolerant, pacifist New York liberal(s)* have recently taken to posting George W. Bush shooting targets—complete with simulated bullet holes penetrating various parts of the body—around town. This picture was taken on the west side of Second Avenue, between 72nd and 73rd Streets.”
Well, the 99% of the media DOES do a good job of instilling pessimism and futility at times, at least from my point of view. So, who do we Alinsky-ize then?? George Soros?? And how?? The small section of the media we do have access to already does that, and quite well too. It doesn't seem to have much affect however, when one's perspective is derived from living in the SF Bay Area!!
The usual,double standard, left can say or do as it will, the right does in kind, takes hit from jbt
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