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Woman Allegedly Raped by Tunisian Police Faces Jail Time for ‘Indecent Behavior’

Sep. 30, 2012 10:43pm Erica Ritz

Tunisian Woman Allegedly Raped by Police Faces Charges of Indecent Exposure | Arab Spring

A Tunisian protester holds a placard reading 'Congratulations Madame Hillary for this thief and rapist government' on September 28, 2012, in Tunis, during a meeting of support to a woman who was raped by two policemen. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

In Tunisia, the birthplace of the so-called “Arab Spring,” a woman is facing immorality charges after allegedly being raped by police officers. The case has sparked outrage both in Tunisia and abroad. At one demonstration, a woman held a sign reading (translated) “Congratulations Madame Hillary for this thief and rapist government.”

Amnesty International relates (all subsequent emphasis added)

The woman’s lawyers told Amnesty International that three policemen approached her and her fiancé while they were in a car in the capital Tunis on the night of 3 September 2012.

She later filed a complaint accusing two of the police officers of raping her inside the car while the third took her fiancé to a nearby ATM in an attempt to extort money from him.

After being arrested and charged with rape and extortion, the policemen alleged that they had found the couple in an “immoral position” in the car – a claim which was later repeated in a statement by Tunisia’s Ministry of Interior.

Though Tunisian law allegedly protects rape victims, Tunisians and members of the international community are demanding stricter enforcement.

The Tunisian lawyer of a girl raped by two policemen, Amna Zahrouni (C), speaks on September 28, 2012, in Tunis. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Amnesty International continues:

The woman and her fiancé, who prefer to remain anonymous, could be imprisoned for up to six months for “intentional indecent behaviour” stemming from claims – by the very same police officers charged with raping her…

The couple deny the charges and their court hearing is due to resume on 2 October.

“At best, charging the victim of a rape by police officers instead of protecting her from intimidation and stigma highlights the deep flaws on Tunisian law and criminal justice system. At worst, it is an insidious attempt to discredit a rape victim and protect those she accused of raping her,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International.

“Rape by security forces – often used as a tool of repression – is a form of torture, and must be promptly and fully investigated and, if there is sufficient admissible evidence, prosecuted.” [Emphasis added]

Tunisian human rights defender Zeineb Farhat speaks on September 28, 2012, in Tunis during a meeting of support for a woman who was allegedly raped by two policemen. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Not surprisingly, many are concerned the situation will prevent other victims from coming forward.

Since Tunisia’s government changed in 2011, the victim’s lawyer says there have been “many cases of sexual, moral, and financial harassment” in Tunisia. Though the revolution was reportedly supposed to usher in a new era of freedom and democracy, many fear women’s rights will suffer as the influence of radical Islamists grows.

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

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JimCS
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:39am
Got to respect those other cultures, right? Can’t go imposing our values on them, right? Wrong! This is wrong any way you look at it. Barbarism should be stamped out everywhere we encounter it.

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 8:23am
  I do not understand what this woman is complaining about. Her rape was just a “bump in the road” she needs to quit making so much “noise”. Our President Oblamo does not have time to deal with the mess he created in the Middle East – he is too busy keeping Woopie’s legs in the air while Joy Behar waits in line backstage.
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 10:57am
  Let them rape and kill and behead and maim each other ………..but do not let them come here,,,,,,hey Odumbass , how’s that Arab spring thing ????????
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:33am
  We have a muslim problem in this world…..a 1 billion strong problem.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on October 2, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Each country can practice what they want as long as they don’t try and FORCE it on everyone else. My dog does not force me to be a dog or force the neighbor’s cat to be a dog(he just chases it of “his” property. He wants everyone to have their “space” which makes for better neighbors overall. If the cat is allowed by me to “visit”, he has no problem. If we go visit the neighbor and they say “come in” their cat has no problem with my dog or me.
  
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Dagnabbit5
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:29am
Maybe I’m to jaded by all the fake rape allegations that have happened here in America but is there any way to know if she is telling the truth? Do they have a rape kit and evidence to back her up? If you were caught in an Islamic country breaking a “moral” crime, knowing the stiff penalties, is crying rape not the easiest way out the situation? Not saying that’s what happened but I’m to jaded by the false rape cases we’ve had here in the states.

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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:44am
  Don’t know much about Sharia huh? “Crying” rape in a sharia compliant country is not helpful to any woman and is quite dangerous for her since it requires the testimony of 4 male witnesses to prove.
  
  So it is helpful to this woman in this case? Wise up, study up and wake up
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 7:06am
  You’re kidding, right? There is no advantage of crying rape in a Muslim country. MAYBE, and that’s a big maybe there might be here in the US. I can say possibly if a woman “changes her mind” about having sex, or has a vendetta against the person she claimed raped her, or even to cast doubt on a public figure, but it’s thinking like this that makes most rapes go un-reported. No is no. In Shari’a compliant countries a woman can’t even say no to her husband. No, honey, I’m not in the mood, and he doesn’t even have to “get” her in the mood, he just takes it. And like the previous post, a woman has to have 4 (I thought it was 5) male witnesses. In most cases, there are that many witnesses, because it’s a gang rape, and who is going to confess? I’m sorry to say, but she has no hope of winning this. And the NOW nags won’t even get involved in the injustice to women in those countries.
  
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- RRFlyer
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 9:39am
  You People always blaming the victim. May nothing bad ever happen to you, because I will sure doubt your story
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 10:37am
  The police officers are not even denying it are they? They justify it by saying she was in a immoral position. In Shariah Law, she’s not supposed to be out with any male that is not her husband. If a woman is raped and doesn’t have four male witnesses to confirm her statement, she can later be killed by her family because of the disgrace. Claiming rape there is not “helpful”. How horrible for that couple. It’s probably happening more than being reported.
  
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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:08pm
  hmmm was it a legitimate rape? lolololol
  
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charleyrocks
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:26am
The usa is not so perfect, glenn says there is no slavery in the usa, just freedom, well glenn and others, you all stand by and let female children get pawned off to old men who adore jeff warren. They are deprived of a education, not allowed, the girls can’t read a newspaper, not allowed. Old men take their welfare checks and live in houses supplyed by jeff warren followers. So where is the freedom for those girls. Are they not protected under the constitution? or is it just for boys. Where is the outcry, where are all the women in america, lost their voice?

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- sputnik
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:39am
  @CHARLEYROCKS You really fail at being a troll… Glenn has called Jeffs a monster ever since his actions hit the news. There is outcry which is why Jeffs is in jail. Maybe you should get out from living under a rock and pay attention instead of living in 2006 when Jeffs was arrested.
  
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- cookcountypatriot
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 3:01am
  hey, progressives should be exuberant over this,,,this is the fruits of thier arab spring…king obama,s version of peace….
  
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- sleezevil
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 3:11am
  @Charleyrocks – ????? Re-read what you wrote because I don’t think you believe that…BUT, if you do, then post some links or something to backup your radical “Glenn loves Jeff Warrren” theory…..
  
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- JimCS
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:41am
  How much more in jail do you want Jeffs to be? Smaller cell or no window, or maybe the death penalty?
  
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- phrogdriver
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 7:22am
  That’s right. We all know the really important question is whether or not these women are getting free birth control.
  
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Midnightvista
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:17am
yes…Fla Patiot…you summed it up very well…thank you for my laugh of the day….hahaha

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:00am
  Islam and Muslim are very, very, very peaceful people……and so were the Mayans and Aztecs with all their human sacrifices.
  
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barber2
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:06am
Apparently women are expendable to Muslim culture and American liberals are American hating idiots.

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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:10pm
  women are expendable to the gop
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:58am
And the democrats love these Muslims…………love them….!!!!!!!

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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:21am
  They love the young illegal Mexican girls brought here with the promise of a better life, too. If the girls are lucky, they’ll only go to Planned Parenthood. If they’re not, they’ll never be missed.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:35am
Someone please explain to me the utter illogic of:
feminists/anti-war/liberal/progressive/gay/democrats….and all the rest of the left leaning idiots out there openly supporting Islamic extremists like the Muslim brotherhood.

Their hatred of Christians and Jews is logical and understood. The Bible/Torah is explicitly and undeniably against homosexuality, is patriarchial in nature, supports nationalism over internationalism, is against immorality in it’s many forms, does NOT think much of human righteousness, and tells us there is one very personal God, who loves us, but will also judge us.

So it would be only logical that the groups mentioned above, would REALLY! hate a religion with an even more stringent moral code. Especially if that religion gave it’s adherents the moral authority and justification to force people by any means to believe as they do….including torture, rape, and murder.

But noooooo…Those evil Christians, they are the real enemy of the left….not those noble muslims who will chop your heads off to the glory of Allah, or rape your daughter because she’s an infidel and has no rights before their god.

Why is it this way? Why did Code Pink march in Tahir square? Why does the left leaning press think so highly of people who hate them and would kill them if given a chance?

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- Fla.Patriot
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:52am
  Extreme Mass Mental Retardation. Hope I cleared that up for you :)
  
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- palerider54
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:55am
  I love it when the newest and the oldest are so close. to the voters. the voters are trying to tell the vast unanswered audiance that they are wrong.
  The newest are trying to make sense of the debate, and all the while the so called neutrals are laughing their ass off.
  I myself will vote my faith and my conscience. I will back up by vote with force if necessary.
  After that, any one wishing to be stupid will receive a bullet between the eyes,
  Anyone wishing to fight no more and get back to Gods rules for us raise your right hand.
  
  Aint it GREAT to be free?
  
  Maybe you would like to kill me and try something else. GOOD LUCK :( :( :(. Always waithig.
  
  Christ was with God before, during and after the experiment with the human race.
  Please excipt the ONLY verse that will save your eternal soul.
  
  GOD FORBGIVE ME BECAUSE I AM A POOR SINNER, AND I NEED YOUR FORGIVENESS.
  HUMPLE ME, STRENGTHEN ME, RAISE ME UP TO MEET YOUR EXPECEPTATIONS.
  YOU ARE THE UNDIVIDED, ALMIGHTY RULER OF EARTH. GOD BLESS YOU AND ALWAYS ENFORCE YOU. ====================AMEN AND AMEN BROTHER.———————————
  
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- Midnightvista
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:15am
  Fla patriot….you did for me….thanks for my laugh for the day….straight and to the point….summed it up well…hahaha
  
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- sleezevil
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:35am
  Speaking of “Extreme Mass Mental Retardation,” PALERIDER54 shows up to lay down some Christian ignorance – the “I’m saved” fallacy. Complete rubbish, followed by a threat that anyone who doesn’t share PaleRider’s political/religious views will get a bullet in the head (which he chuckles about), and then tries to push his extreme opinion by legitimatizing a total BS “vain repetitious” prayer. God and guns, huh? your “argument” went as:
  
  - Jesus is the ultimate authority
  - I am saved by Jesus
  - Anyone who does not accept Jesus deserves a bullet to the head
  - Jesus has authorized me to shoot unbelievers in the head
  - Christ is Lord
  
  Why worry about Muslims when there are Christians next door ready to pull the trigger of Jesus Christ and put a bullet in my head if I have a different belief ????? If your religion is enforced by the barrel of a gun, then you are delusional and dangerous to society (and yourself).
  
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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 4:43am
  C’mon Sleezy. Use your head…if we don’t light them up, then they’ll light us up. I’m sure The Father thinks that One Martyr was enough. Be ready to roll.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 5:47am
  the answer is simple – because all of these goups are leftists first and foremost and conservatives and any who are not a leftists are the enemy and must be defeated at all cost – even to the point of cutting off ones’ nose….
  
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dovndce
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:30am
Who cares, I sure as hell don’t! They’re all savages even the women. I don’t care if they all kill each other off that’s why I like what’s happening in Syria, the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.

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- sleezevil
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:58am
  You must be a follower of Christ….
  
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- JimCS
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 6:45am
  The Crusades were a rockin good time for everyone.
  
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sleezevil
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:30am
Cops have been raping women in the United States for quite awhile so it really shouldn’t be a surprise that cops in Tunisia also rape women.

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- phillycornerboy
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:58am
  wow…that’s a new twist on being twisted.
  
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SilentReader
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:26am
This is the result of the egregious foreign policy of this Obama-Clinton regime where they are apologizing and appeasing, and collaborating with, the vile Islamist Supremacist enemy. They have been emboldened to commit further crimes, having gotten away with their crimes of no tolerance, plunder, genocide and occupation for 1400 years now.

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Exrepublisheep
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:16am
Why would you make such a terrible thing political? The posters here did it first you say? HHhmmm…

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blackyb
Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:00am
These people will have to stand one way or the other. The old saying an eye for an eye goes along way when nothing else works.

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blackyb
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:59pm
Flocking Fluke wants to know when the next flight to Tunisia leaves.

Also, do those security forces no know the same things could happen to their wives, sisters, or even them?

The saying is: Where there is a will, there is a way.

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ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:50pm
Wow, her comments for more spot on than my own.
“Congratulations Madame Hillary for this thief and rapist government.”

It all began with Obama bowing down to Terrorist Regimes. Thanks Obama for creating the most hostile and insecurity worldwide. You will be remembered as evil if not “more evil” than Hitler.

Look what you have started, and it’s only beginning.

The governments replaced since “you’re Arab Spring” have only grown with evil intent. Maybe you are the one prophesied about in MY BIBLE! I would never give you enough credit to be Satan, but you might be his little brother.

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:14am
  Hitler!! I said HITLER!!!!!!
  
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:28pm
We haven’t seen nothing yet. This President has created a nightmare around the world.

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- CatB
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:18am
  The REAL war on women .. children … etc.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:29am
  And just think, America’s turn is at hand if he is elected for a second term.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 12:56am
  AND…he’s done this ON PURPOSE.. this “president”… he is the agent of SATAN or satin himself…everything that he has allowed has been allowed for one reason…to destroy the people of the world, Christianity, Judaism, decency, Democracy FREEDOM… He’s neither a dope, weak or incompetent. HE KNEW when he bowed to those b-tards that he would elevate them to violence. HE knew when he went to CAIRO that this would happen. Snow is right….what the Hell is going to happen should he get elected again?? Especially now that HE KNOWS that WE KNOW what he’s all about.
  
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- sleezevil
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:41am
  Anyone that disagrees with Patty Henry is Satan and should be killed. That’s the crux of every argument she makes. Lighten up.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 11:54am
  Pro choice has a different meaning in a muslim country. The man gets to choose. A little beating and rape here and there is the cornerstone of the true muslim gentleman.
  
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woodyee
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:19pm
Gaybama –

Tens of thousands killed with Gaybama military and moral support in Arab Spring uprisings, resulting in enemies of US and Israel gaining strength in Middle East.

Hundreds, if not thousands, killed in Mexico by cartels armed by Gaybama and his gayministration.

Four Gaybama bathhouse buddies have had their lives completely altered; all attended the wrong “rev.” Wrights’ “church” of black liberation theology; one murdered in Nov. 2007, one murdered Dec. 2007, one died of septicemia AND pneumonia AND HIV in Dec. 2007. The last, Larry Sinclair was sued by Gaybama for slander over several gay trysts. Sinclair WON. Source – http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/mom-of-murdered-obama-gay-lover-speaks-up/

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:46pm
  0 liked to cruise the gay bars in Chicago when he was a senator there and the media…..crickets. Progressive/Socialists are as vile as they come. Have too many forgotten all the scandals surrounding the Clintons? And half of them were covered-up. 0′s scandals are about 1000 times 1000 worse and not many people even know one quarter of the depth of his evil connections and dirty deeds.
  
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lassiegirldawn
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:16pm
Hillary didn’t even know what was going on in the Oval Office, what makes you think she knows what is going on elsewhere.

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sleezevil
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:09pm
Jail time instead of honor killings? The Tunisian government has gone soft. The police departments are the largest gangs in the world.

Well, at least we don’t have to worry about that in the United States…

https://rt.com/usa/news/carranza-police-rape-houston-885/

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13th Imam
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:06pm
Where is NOW? All the pink ******’s? The sluts? Can’t they support these rape victims? Hillary? Nancy P? Janet Reno? Our brave almost female Supreme’s? Sandy Fluke?

HELLO? HELLO?

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:13pm
  The Blaze actually did a story about the pink V JJJJ”S. Now they can’t even allow the word. What’s up with that?
  
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- BloodSweatandTears
  Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:23pm
  This administration via Hillary has put women in the middle east back a thousand years…
  
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Fla.Patriot
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:04pm
Way to go there Obama. I know the protestor is holding a sign blaming Hillary, but what they don’t realize is that Clinton, while culpable, is NOT the head of the snake

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face.chewer
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 11:00pm
A complete Muslim genocide is the only thing that will help.

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RossPoldark
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 10:57pm
Ah, the wondering process of demoncracy…… Im sure Hilary will be blaming the video for any misbehaviour by these savages. Yes Savages. I call um like I see um.

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- Fla.Patriot
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 1:08am
  Actually this is squarely on the shoulders of Obamas administration. All this talk about Democracy in the M.E. The last thing they needed or were ready for was Democracy. Democracy, literally translated comes from the Greek word Demo, which translates to Mob. Democracy is literally Rule of Mob. Gettin the picture? This is akin to placing a loaded pistol in a room full of emotionally disturbed 14 year olds. Just absolutely NO WAY it could possibly turn out well. Kinda like Electing a do-nothing Senator with extremely radical political leanings…no way it can turn out well
  
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 10:54pm
Silly ******* can’t tell up from down.

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Cosmos102
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 10:51pm
According the the Democrat ideology, this type of behavior is to be rewarded. Not punished. When someone commits a heinous crime against us, we are to pay them off in order to beg their forgiveness, that they may see us as “friends” and never commit heinous crimes against us again.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 30, 2012 at 10:50pm
Her ankles were showing, she kept making goat noises, and didn’t scream loud enough during the rape. Of course it was all her fault, and her fiance didn’t have the extortion money on him, he should have known better. Hurry, congress needs to send this govt $450 million dollars.

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- castuslonginus
  Posted on October 1, 2012 at 8:43am
  good!
  
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