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The Blue Flower

(5,442 posts)
2. If the PATRIOT Act doesn't address this kind of terrorism, it's worthless
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 02:04 PM
Jun 2014

And Ben Franklin was right: (Paraphrasing) Those who surrender their freedom for safety will have neither.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
5. I'm guessing the families of the murdered police
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 02:25 PM
Jun 2014

probably aren't too thrilled with the decision of the Feds to back down to the Bundy 'patriots', encouraging them in their delusions that they could 'start a revolution' and overthrow the government.

 

InfoWingerWatch

(78 posts)
7. Who is truly behind these RW attacks against police at LAX, Canada and now Nevada?
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 05:39 PM
Jun 2014





6:13: Guest: "Alex, this is an armed revolt against the American government. Make no mistake about it. That does not change the nature of the event and that does not change the fact that every criticism leveled against what we are planning to do would be true of any act of resistance, of any open protest of any act of rebellion"

8:02: Guest: "we are revolting with arms"

11:23: Guest: "I will not let government tell me what to do and yes, we are going with the aim of overthrowing the government. It has become obsolete, it is an anachronism in 2013 that we still believe as a human beings that we should be organizing society by coercion and violence and force of a central authority."

14:31: Guest: "We have to make it clear and put government on notice that we will use physical force when necessary and when appropriate to defend ourselves I'm very glad that we haven't come quite to that situation yet but the government's reaction to what we do on independence day may prove that to be necessary, I hope that they are not going to put us in that situation where violent resistance is appropriate"

22:02: Guest: "We are asserting the right to be armed and to apply deadly force"

23:45 Alex Jones: "Well look, this is civil rights at its core, just like black folks going in and sitting at lunch counters saying I'm not gonna you know get food out of the window anyone, I'm a human or going to the bathroom or sitting at the front of the bus back then that was in incredibly radical. Those people were demonized."

26:38: Guest: "You'll be on the wrong side of the firing line when the shooting starts"


Alex Jonestown has been pushing for violence against law enforcement for years.

Warpy

(111,261 posts)
8. Meanwhile, the groups of people who actually are victimized by bad cops
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:37 PM
Jun 2014

have been incredibly patient.

It seems nobody is more paranoid than white guys who are dim enough that they have to listen to radio ranters who to hate.

I can see why the government held off, hoping the self styled revolutionaries would get sick of a desert summer in a tent and go home. I don't think that it's going to be able to continue that policy much longer. It seems the right wing maniacs at that ranch are going to be branching out quickly and they are stupid enough to declare war against the government.

Any sane government with the tools the Patriot {sic} Act gives them would have gotten Jones off the air a long time ago.

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