Freeper calls for "executors" for Senators who questioned Gonzales.

[onehandle]

To: NormsRevenge

I vote for special executors for Senators.......errrr, I mean prosecutors.

7 posted on 07/24/2007 5:21:44 PM PDT by caisson71
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871053/posts

[MaineDem]

1. Did he mean executioners?

Now that's funny! The error, not the thought!

[onehandle]

3. Whatever he meant, Freepers are armed to the teeth.

Once we have the Presidency back I hope that our AG focuses back on domestic terrorists.

Just seize RimJob's servers and you've got a pretty good start.

[DCKit]

6. It was an intentional error

But that doesn't mean he's not a tard.

[Ian David]

2. To manage their trust funds? Thanks! n/t

[Deep13]

4. Freeper does not deserve to be an American.

Anyone who is will to let the executive be essentially a king who is immune from the oversight of the people's branch of government is a traitor to the revolution.

[KansDem]

5. What is it with Freepers and their penchant for violence?

Last week a video about someone attempting to pass out enlistment forms to freepers demonstrating in support of the war had one freeper announcing his desire to "kick the ass" of the man passing out the forms.

Do all Freepers want to "kick the ass" of everyone they don't understand or comprehend? It's almost laughable.

[MGKrebs]

11. That goes to the "strong father" model. See: George Lakoff.

http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/projects/strategic/nationasfamily/nationasfamily

[iverglas]

14. if you liked that

you'll love this, which you probably haven't seen -- and unfortunately this is the only version I can find on line now, hater of all things pdf though I am:

http://www.michaeladams.ca/articles/pdf/here_father.pdf

... Nearly 20 years ago, my colleagues at Environics in Toronto and CROP in Montreal began a study of Canadian social values. In our first survey of Canadian values in 1983, we asked Canadians if they strongly or somewhat agreed or disagreed that: “The father of the family must be the master in his own house.” We posed more than 100 such questions to respondents that year. Our intention was to track these 100 items over time, dropping some, adding others; we hoped we’d measure what was important to Canadians or what was changing in our values and perspectives on life.

The “father must be master” question has become legendary at Environics. We love it because it measures a traditional, patriarchal attitude to authority in our most cherished institution: the family. Sons inherit the land, starting with the first -- primogeniture prevents estates from being subdivided like amoebas. Sons inherit the family business as in Smith and Son. Sons, not daughters, are named “Junior” in the hope they will prove worthy of their father’s aristocratic seed.

... Nineteen ninety-two was the first year we began conducting social-values research in the United States, the world capital of individualism and egalitarianism, of civil rights movements and affirmative action (remember, an American was the first to deflower the feminine mystique). We speculated that the United States would be ahead of Canada and France on this trend.

We found to our surprise that 42 per cent of Americans told us the father should be master, while 57 per cent disagreed and 1 per cent had no opinion. The gap between the two countries was a substantial 16 per cent.

... We went back into the field in 2000 to find out if the frontal assault on patriarchal authority by U.S. president Bill Clinton and television icon Homer Simpson would bring U.S. numbers more into line with those in Canada and France. This time, 48 per cent of Americans said the father of the family must be master in his own home; 51 per cent disagreed and 1 per cent had no opinion.

They were stunned. Do read the whole thing -- you might not be stunned, but it's pretty interesting!

[MGKrebs]

16. Thanks. I'll check it out. Looks interesting.

There's a relatively new guy here in Atlanta working the same themes:
Drew Westen.
http://www.alternet.org/authors/8450/

[iverglas]

17. and I'll check that out!

Especially that one on gun control -- ta!

On which point ... have you seen:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/04/virginia_tech_women.html
"Mass Murderers and Women: What We're Still Not Getting About Virginia Tech"

All part and parcel of patriarchy.

For more from the cross-cultural perspective, you might not be familiar wtih Michael Adams, who wrote the piece on Environics' "father knows best" question.

http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3501

U.S.-Canada: Just Who's the Docile One?

By Michael Adams | Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Canadians have long been considered more docile than Americans. But as President Bush visits Canada on November 30, 2004, does this stereotype still hold true? Michael Adams — author of "Fire and Ice" — argues that Canadians are emerging as the more liberal and pluralist people. In contrast, Americans are increasingly becoming deferent to authority.

... Winners and losers

In such a context, traditional authorities serve as anchors: A strong father, a strong police force, a strong military, a strong nation, the President and Commander-in-Chief. In such a world, there is little tolerance for subtlety, nuance — or shades of gray.

Life is a Manichean struggle between good and evil, winners and losers — and the only way good will prevail is by being the strongest, vanquishing the “evil empire” or the “axis of evil” — or the next incarnation of the forces of evil.

The Boss got it right

Bruce Springsteen, American icon and perpetual valedictorian of the school of hard knocks, summed it up in his aptly named tune, Atlantic City: “Down here, it’s just winners and losers — and don’t get caught on the wrong side of that line.”

I have to get around to reading Fire and Ice myself sometime ...

[MGKrebs]

18. That Mother Jones article is an eye-opener.

New information to me. Very interesting. Thank you.

It's funny, I've been thinking of the Manichean nature of things lately, but in the smaller context of dialog here on DU. When things are really bad, people want a hero, a white knight to ride in and fix everything. I think it is a source of a lot of the nastiness we see towards various candidates- we want them to be able to do so much and only THIS candidate can do that.

I love me some Springsteen lyrics:


Oh girl that feeling of safety that you prize
Well it comes with a hard hard price
You can't shut out the risk and the pain
Without losing the love that remains
We're all riders on this train

[wtmusic]

7. Justice is a b*tch

Get used to it caisson71.

[Contrary1]

8. "You cannot appoint a Special Prosecutor when there is NO crime to be investigated."

:puke: Ah yes, the old lying under oath only matters if one is Democrat defense.

[YOY]

9. A-Hyuk-Hyuk-Hyuk

That one will go straight to the writers pool in "Hee-Haw 2: The Reck'nin'"

[still_one]

10. What these idiots do not realize is that these abuses of power also affect them

they cannot see beyond their ass, that it isn't one side verses another side, it involves seperation of powers, perjury, and most of all the Constitution

All of our rights are being jepardordized by what is happening

What fools they are

[Imagevision]

12. CNN just now (12:21am.) Gonzo will have his very own special prosecutor,

no link yet...

[ronnykmarshall]

13. Maybe a nice visit from the Secret Service is in order.

Fucking knuckle dragging jack offs.

[proud patriot]

15. Freepers are putting Party before the US Constitution

disgusting creatures and Traitors to the Constitution Freepers are.

No Man is above the Law Freepers . If freepers want a
Dictatorship they should move to one . We are FREE in
America and we live by the Rule Of Law .

Our soldiers are Dying for The US Constitution and Freepers Piss on it
and our soldiers ..

Luckily they are a bunch of cowards who run from Liberals who
confront them .

:patriot:

Annoy a Republican Defend The Constitution

Teach a freeper to Read and then hand them
The U.S. Constitution .