Bill Maher: Why aren’t Tea Party numbskulls complaining about militarized police forces?

[davidn3600]

“This is the massive expansion of government power that you numbskulls in the Tea Party should be freaking out about,” Maher said. “You’re always screaming about the loss of liberty, and how tyranny is coming. Yeah, it’s coming right through the door with a battering ram, no warrant, and a stun grenade. Or to put it in a way you can understand, I’m scared of the cops, and I’m white.”

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“Once you start dressing and equipping people like an occupying army, they start acting like one,” he said.
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Every day, Maher said, stories come to light of another incident involving excessive force. Specifically, he mentioned the footage of an unidentified California Highway Patrol officer beating 51-year-old Marlene Pinnock, a homeless woman, for allegedly trying to walk onto a Los Angeles freeway.

“Even worse, that’s their training video,” Maher said, drawing groans from the crowd. “This guy has been demoted to desk duty while officials conduct a review, but what’s to review? He’s punching an old lady in the face.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/19/bill-maher-why-arent-tea-party-numbskulls-complaining-about-militarized-police-forces/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, davidn.

[freshwest]

2. They don't complain about brutality because they blame the victims as liberal moochers.

And they think that nothing will ever happen to them because they're 'armed.' Which is a lie they keep on telling themselves until they finally think they're going to pull off Red Dawn. The citizens of the world have built a technocracy, some unwittingly, but others do know exactly where it leads to and call all who resist terrorists.

OTOH, I blame the same forces that created the Tea Party for voting for MIC congress representatives through which they expect to make a good living at building weapons to take out the 'undesirables' on this planet. And here in the USA, for that matter.

Their backing of the Jared Millers of this world is going to make their worst nightmares come true. I don't think they are adult enough to admit that they are part of the problem.

While they threaten to act with violence, the opposite reaction by design will be occurring. They're creating the exact same thing they say they oppose through their hatred, division and lust for armed rebellion.

JMHO, YMMV.

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[Populist_Prole]

3. I brought up much the same to my hard-ass right TP father during a recent visit

Got a sheepish chuckle. He agreed with me with an embarrassed "yeah....well"..... True story.

Here's the thing: They know they're full of shit; it's just that they go on the attack so much that it's seldom brought to light, because we're always dodging their bullets instead of directing ours their way. You can sense that they think they're "tough" just because they're conservatives. It's all reinforced through all the fox news bullshit.

They know it's bullshit; but they're comfortable with it. If/when they're surrounded by some of their like minded types, they think the whole goddamned world agrees with them, and so they're bigger jerkoffs yet.

We just have to wait for them to die off.

[DeSwiss]

6. And you can also tell your ''right TP father...''

...that TPTB love it when we're fighting against each other because they know that as long as we're at each others throats, we're no threat to them.

- You couldn't plan it any better.....

[Cha]

4. Don't forget those teabaggers in Nevada who killed the those two poor cops. :(

Married Las Vegas street performers kill two police in bid to 'start revolution'

Murderous white supremacist couple drape officers' bodies in swastika and American Revolutionary War flags associated with the Tea Party

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10887842/Married-Las-Vegas-street-performers-kill-two-police-in-bid-to-start-revolution.html

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R!

[blkmusclmachine]

7. His deeds do not equal his words.

[Enthusiast]

8. Ain't that the fuckin' truth.

[geek tragedy]

9. Because they are fascists who are out of power,

not people concerned about liberty.