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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:18 AM
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Anti-Prop 8 protests - large protest this evening in West Hollywood, CA.
500+ protestors, police in what looks like riot gear. On TV right now, KCAL9.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:24 AM
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1. Oh there will be resistance, believe me.
Shit, like we're just gunna sit on our hands?
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:24 AM
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2. Go for it.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:30 AM
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3. I'm getting weary of the pigs in riot gear every time there's a protest..
Time to make them back the fuck off with their police state bullshit. :mad:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:32 AM
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5. They like to make like we protestors are all big bad terrorists
with bombs stuffed down our bras.

Assholes. LAPD is particualrly bad in this regard.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:48 AM
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6. Yea. MacArthur Park anyone?
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:30 AM
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4. I saw the cops beating a guy up
Edited on Thu Nov-06-08 01:30 AM by Ellen Forradalom
on tv

:-(
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 01:49 AM
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7. This reminds me of a peaceful protest I saw once in Hollywood....

the night before the LA Riots. No one got beat up, but the police were in full riot gear.
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Karl_Bonner_1982 Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 04:38 AM
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8. Meanwhile, over in Freeperville...
(from a Free Republic thread on the Prop 8 protests):
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“...but don’t actually want to live their lives in big numbers as married people.”

First of all, their lifestyle is unnatural, and what sets them apart is the sexual act between individuals of the same gender.

Here’s a part of the bigger picture (note #26):

Communist Goals (1963)

Documention below

Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:



CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand .

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use <”>united force<”> to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

The issue is not just about the “right” to marry whom ever you choose. It’s about the total destruction of society. Namely, a society built on Christian principles.

19 posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:48:33 PM by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)

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My verdict on this freeper post? A unique mix of McCarthyism, military belligerence, and Christian-right supremacism.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 04:42 AM
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9. BWHAHAHAA,,,,There's no question who this is:
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