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GOP House Rule Would Ban Video Of Protests As They Gut Medicare and Social Security On House Floor (Original Post) John_Doe80004 Dec 2016 OP
No violence? Plenty on the right blather on about T Jefferson saying: CurtEastPoint Dec 2016 #1
Violence does solve things . It ended ww2 . Ohioblue22 Dec 2016 #2
how would inventing a religion solve anything? Skittles Dec 2016 #5
Myself, I would be ashamed... TupperHappy Dec 2016 #3
GOP who wail about instrusive govmnt, have a real facility withthe techniques of totalitalitarianism Bill USA Dec 2016 #4

CurtEastPoint

(18,644 posts)
1. No violence? Plenty on the right blather on about T Jefferson saying:
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 06:49 PM
Dec 2016
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

TupperHappy

(166 posts)
3. Myself, I would be ashamed...
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 07:23 PM
Dec 2016

...to have been part of an anti-civil rights demonstration on the floor of the House, advocating to grant the executive branch the power to revoke people's rights with no due process if their name has been scrawled on a secret list. (Such list being, in effect, 90% of P-E. CheetoFace McTribbleHair's much desired "Muslim registry".) I certainly wouldn't want to have any audio or video evidence of my involvement in that attempted gross violation of the Constitution.

But that's just me.

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