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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 04:50 PM
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Right wingers scream about losing liberty yet are ALWAYS in favor of the most invasive government
It drives me nuts- they always, and I mean always, support the most invasive, despotic crap. The Arizona "let me see your id" law is just the latest. Was listening to the weenies on the radio and one suggested that anyone getting government assistance shouldn't "be allowed" to have a TV or cable. Now, I ask you, what level of government bureaucracy and law enforcement invasiveness is going to be required to enforce that little nugget? Most of their "solutions" seem to involve some ill-defined big brother making sure people are punished in some way (forced sterilization, losing citizenship, etc., etc.). Preferably without the nicety of a trial, of course. And of course the topper being their support for Bushco's spying on Americans.

I would love to stop one of these folks and ask them- "Just what do you think will enforce such a law? Hmmm?"
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 04:52 PM
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1. When those teabaggers are stopped 15 or 16 times and asked for their papers...
We'll see how many of them thinks that it a great law or now
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 04:57 PM
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2. Don't worry--our re-education camps will fix THEIR wagon!
:rofl:
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Leftist Agitator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:49 PM
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9. In order to RE-Educate someone, they have to "educated" first.
The teabaggers aren't. Just FYI.
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 04:58 PM
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3. Exception: Gun laws. (None please.)
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:06 PM
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4. Crazy isn't *supposed* to make any sense.
That's why we call it crazy.

So to assume that anything these crazy people say *will* make sense
is in itself crazy.

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:09 PM
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5. Gosh. You'd think that kind of cognitive dissonance would drive them crazy..oh wait..
They already ARE batsh*t crazy!!!
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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:10 PM
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6. Rush and Beck do all the thinking for them
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:17 PM
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7. Small government for white male Christian heterosexuals
Everybody else gets big government.
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southernyankeebelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:20 PM
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8. Here is a good idea. Since divorce is higher in Southern states lets see
if they would like this idea. Any man that has a child out of wedlock must have a government enforced vasectomy. No one can have more than 1 legal divorce. If you make less than $20,000.00 a year you can't have children, own a car or have TV, smoke, drink or even go to the movies. By the way that only applies to those people making less than $20,000 a year.
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political_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 05:51 PM
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10. Authoritarianism and a penchant for control will do that for them.
Edited on Thu Apr-22-10 05:52 PM by political_Dem
Self-centeredness and outright stupidity also factor into their behavior.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 07:29 PM
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11. Well, see, they only care about *their* liberty and
they have the naive notion they'll still have it when everyone else has lost theirs.

First they came for....
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