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The RFK Assassination 50 Years Ago Today: The Media, The Emotions And The Second Amendment
Nextrush Free ^ | 6/5/2018 | Nextrush/Self

Posted on 06/05/2018 3:54:55 AM PDT by Nextrush

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To: Nextrush

Sirhan is a Christian brought up by Greek Orthodox parents. He has never said is a Moslem.


21 posted on 06/05/2018 5:49:11 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: Palio di Siena
Doesn’t matter that there was another gunman. Sirhan is just as guilty.

Unless you believe it is a coincidence that Sirhan and another gunmen (or two) shot simultaneously then it does matter.

Conspiracy time! Partee!
22 posted on 06/05/2018 5:50:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I saw much the same reaction to RFK’s death in my Catholic high school and Catholic community. Since my parents though were ardent Republican and conservative by then, none of us were in sympathy with operatic displays of grief at RFK’s assassination. To us, his tragic death was yet another sign that the country had taken a wrong turn under the Democrats. Even as a first generation Irish Catholic, my mother worried far less about the Kennedys than the risk that her three sons would get drafted and sent to Vietnam if the Democrats won in 1968.


23 posted on 06/05/2018 6:24:26 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

You were a few years wiser than us

But we all eventually saw the hypocrisy, corruption, unpatriotism, and PC ass kissing, and switched allegiances accordingly


24 posted on 06/05/2018 6:31:37 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH)
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To: Palio di Siena

Yup, no problem pointing out the racist whiteness of James Earl Ray, but Sirhan?

Naw, just a crazy guy


25 posted on 06/05/2018 6:33:48 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH)
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To: a fool in paradise

ABC (the only network in Santa Barbara) was rolling credits when the shots rang out. By the time they got cameras into the kitchen, RFK was already on the floor dying while there was still a struggle going on to get Sirhan’s gun.


26 posted on 06/05/2018 7:02:00 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: montag813

FYI — from wikipedia

Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old his family emigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California.

As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.


27 posted on 06/05/2018 7:17:07 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Nextrush

I remember that day well and how America’s gun owners were blindsided as the news media led the hysteria stampede for more useless gun laws.

The blame was placed on the “glorification” of violence on TV, movies, pulp fiction, comic books, guns, the NRA. Actually, in the 1960s all these were very mild and safe for kids.
So adult (still safe for kids) TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows, movies shown on TV were butchered to remove “violence”, pulp books changed their covers, the 1968 GCA was passed, the NRA went over a million members for the first time.
The MOVIE INDUSTRY said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system and proceeded to reshoot scenes and add more blood, guts, sex to get the coveted “R” or “X” rating.

Today, TV and movies are worse than ever, showing things that would never have been shown back in 1968. Today PSYCHO is on several times a year, and I remember when it was to be shown, then the TV broadcast stations backed out at the last minute.

Mow the screen and TV is filled with far worse vile shows.


28 posted on 06/05/2018 7:41:49 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: plain talk

*** Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.***

I remember their adds in the backs of all the men’s magazines in those days.


29 posted on 06/05/2018 7:46:36 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

***Mow the screen and TV is filled with far worse vile shows.***

**NOW.** To ward off the spelling nazis.


30 posted on 06/05/2018 7:48:24 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Nextrush

I think the key question is, what was Sirhan Sirhan doing in this country? Did he benefit from the other Kennedy’s (Ted) sponsorship of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965? Ironic if so...


31 posted on 06/05/2018 8:01:53 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: cgbg

My point is that Sirhan is guilty whether there are other guilty parties or not and Kennedy is publicly giving him a pass to pander to the muzzies.


32 posted on 06/05/2018 8:32:58 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Palio di Siena

Sirhan Sirhan isn’t a Muslim:

Early life
Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family[5][6] in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old his family emigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California. In Altadena, he attended Eliot Junior High School, followed by John Muir High School and Pasadena City College, both in Pasadena. Sirhan’s father, Bishara, has been characterized as a stern man who often beat his sons harshly. Shortly after the family’s move to California, Bishara returned alone to the Middle East.[7] Sirhan never became an American citizen, retaining instead his Jordanian citizenship.[6]

As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches.[8] Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.[9]


33 posted on 06/05/2018 8:34:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I give my parents credit for the wisdom.


34 posted on 06/05/2018 9:36:11 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Ah yes the Rosicrucians,


35 posted on 06/05/2018 9:43:09 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Nextrush

All the killings and riots are by the democrats, socialists, commies and muslims. Not republicans but you would never know it by the corrupt news media.


36 posted on 06/05/2018 10:46:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: plain talk

FYI — from wikipedia

Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old his family emigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California.

As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Then in 1966, he joined the occult organization Ancient Mystical Order of the Rose Cross, commonly known as Rosicrucians.


SO had nothing to lose by dying ...


37 posted on 06/05/2018 12:45:31 PM PDT by elbook
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To: elbook

SO ... Sirhan Sirhan was NOT a muslim as some people have stated.


38 posted on 06/05/2018 1:54:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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