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President Obama Says Eric Garner, Ferguson Protests ‘Necessary’ (You read that right)
Time Magazine ^ | December 8, 2014 | Maya Rhodan

Posted on 12/08/2014 7:19:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

'As long as they're peaceful'

President Obama, who started his career in politics as a community organizer, said Monday that protests in the wake of grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men are a necessary step.

“As long as they’re peaceful, I think they’re necessary,” Obama said during an interview that aired on BET Monday. “When they turn violent then they turn counterproductive.”

“Power concedes nothing without a fight, that’s true , but it’s also true that a country’s conscious has to be triggered by some inconvenience,” Obama said. “The value of peaceful protests, activism … is it reminds the society this is not yet done.”(continued)

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ericgarner; ferguson; fergusonactivists; fergusonriots; obama; obamaferguson; riots
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1 posted on 12/08/2014 7:19:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 12/08/2014 7:21:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

REAL Objective:

Federal erosion of state control of law enforcement.

“We need a domestic security force just as powerful, just as well-funded as the U.S. Military....”

(incredibly: “clap! clap! clap!”)

I was dumbfounded to hear the clapping, yet now we see the plan coming true.


3 posted on 12/08/2014 7:22:53 PM PST by gaijin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama, as someone on this form told me, "Don't let your alligator mouth write a check your butterfly ass can't cash."
4 posted on 12/08/2014 7:23:36 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin ( Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s our boy!

As Sarah said, palin’ around with terrorists.


5 posted on 12/08/2014 7:23:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Power concedes nothing without a fight”
hear that GOP, America?


6 posted on 12/08/2014 7:24:17 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: gaijin

Their plans have been coming true for 100 years.
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7 posted on 12/08/2014 7:25:01 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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8 posted on 12/08/2014 7:26:23 PM PST by gaijin
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He’s a foreign agent. In the White Hut. The phrase “with extreme prejudice” comes to mind.


9 posted on 12/08/2014 7:26:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: gaijin; dontreadthis

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts


10 posted on 12/08/2014 7:27:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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...who started his career in politics as a community organizer

Pretty much wraps it up!

11 posted on 12/08/2014 7:28:20 PM PST by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: BenLurkin

I recognize that layout. It’s from a 1951 painting by one of my art idols Norman Rockwell called ‘Saying Grace”. Obama fits in very well in the role of ‘the snide doubter without a clue’.


12 posted on 12/08/2014 7:29:10 PM PST by lee martell
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Impeach remove and punish. Before he inflames the entire country into a bigger version of modern day syria or some other islamoNazi race war battlefield.


13 posted on 12/08/2014 7:30:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Odinga seeks to weaken the police and thereby strengthen the Marxist agitators. Past Marxist revolutions have been crushed in the early stages by the police and military. If you hamstring them beforehand, the revolution has a better chance of success.


14 posted on 12/08/2014 7:35:01 PM PST by matt1234
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To: faithhopecharity

Zero is well on the way in fundamentally transformins America into something unrecognizable. What has happened to the USA we grew up in?


15 posted on 12/08/2014 7:35:55 PM PST by Sasparilla
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When we take to the streets, we will see change.


16 posted on 12/08/2014 7:37:39 PM PST by jch10 (OTOOTO....Obama, The Out Of Touch One!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a very dangerous President. Luckily, less and less people are really paying attention to anything he says.


17 posted on 12/08/2014 7:39:22 PM PST by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin
As long as they’re peaceful, I think they’re necessary,” Obama said during an interview

And if they're not, whatcha gonna do? Its not my fault anyway....

18 posted on 12/08/2014 7:40:24 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Sasparilla
What has happened to the USA we grew up in?

It's gone.

Simple math confirms that truth.

Between the debt, a negative birth rate among producing Americans, and an invasion of South American nationalists,our goose is as they say… cooked.

Numbers do not lie, even though politicians do and cognitive dissonance refuses to accept it.

19 posted on 12/08/2014 7:40:48 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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Some change is natural and some is inevitable. Some good some bad. We just have to adjust. But some change is deliberately destructive. We’ve not generally really been used to this type of change. Most presidents of both major parties have led At Least Mostly plausible changes, whether we agreed or not, apparently designed to be of some public benefit or value in a positive sense What’s happening to us now is quite different. Alas. Pray for America.


20 posted on 12/08/2014 7:41:36 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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