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Former ‘Brain Dead Liberal’ Filmmaker Pens Scathing Column on Gun Control: ‘A Political Appeal to the Ignorant’

Jan. 26, 2013 8:04pm Erica Ritz

Former Liberal Filmmaker David Mamet Rips Gun Control Advocates in Newsweek/Daily Beast Column

David Mamet, writer/director/executive producer of the film “Phil Spector,” addresses reporters during the HBO Winter TCA Press Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo: AP)

Pulitzer Award-winning author, producer and director David Mamet has been extremely open about his conversion from “brain dead liberal” to conservative, and in the wake of President Obama’s latest push for stricter gun control measures, Mamet has penned yet another column setting the record straight as he sees it.

In an article for Newsweek, the writer of “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Hannibal” begins with a cutting analysis of centralized government (all subsequent emphasis added):

Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death.

For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of its supposed utopia. The agency is called “The State,” and the motto, fleshed out, for the benefit of the easily confused must read “The State will take from each according to his ability: the State will give to each according to his needs.” “Needs and abilities” are, of course, subjective. So the operative statement may be reduced to “the State shall take, the State shall give.”

Mamet proceeds to tackle gun control head-on, writing:

The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands of a citizen is X times more likely to cause accidental damage than to be used in the prevention of crime, but what is there about criminals that ensures that their gun use is accident-free? If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

Violence by firearms is most prevalent in big cities with the strictest gun laws. In Chicago and Washington, D.C., for example, it is only the criminals who have guns, the law-abiding populace having been disarmed, and so crime runs riot.

Cities of similar size in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and elsewhere, which leave the citizen the right to keep and bear arms, guaranteed in the Constitution, typically are much safer. More legal guns equal less crime. What criminal would be foolish enough to rob a gun store? But the government alleges that the citizen does not need this or that gun, number of guns, or amount of ammunition.

Mamet then compares the logic of gun control advocates to tales from his grandmother’s native country:

My grandmother came from Russian Poland, near the Polish city of Chelm. Chelm was celebrated, by the Ashkenazi Jews, as the place where the fools dwelt. And my grandmother loved to tell the traditional stories of Chelm.

Its residents, for example, once decided that there was no point in having the sun shine during the day, when it was light out—it would be better should it shine at night, when it was dark. Similarly, we modern Solons delight in passing gun laws that, in their entirety, amount to “making crime illegal.”

What possible purpose in declaring schools “gun-free zones”? Who bringing a gun, with evil intent, into a school would be deterred by the sign?

After discussing the benefits of having armed guards in schools, Mamet brings the article full circle:

The police do not exist to protect the individual. They exist to cordon off the crime scene and attempt to apprehend the criminal. We individuals are guaranteed by the Constitution the right to self-defense. This right is not the Government’s to “award” us. They have never been granted it.

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant…

Will increased cosmetic measures make anyone safer? They, like all efforts at disarmament, will put the citizenry more at risk. Disarmament rests on the assumption that all people are good, and, basically, want the same things.

But if all people were basically good, why would we, increasingly, pass more and more elaborate laws?

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a “set of suggestions.” I cannot endorse his performance in office, but he wins my respect for taking those steps he deems necessary to ensure the safety of his family. Why would he want to prohibit me from doing the same?

Click here to read Mamet’s entire article at The Daily Beast.

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Comments (318)

cosmic dogma
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:57pm
There is hope! Not long before conservative is the new trendy way to live! It will be so rare and unique, as to be stylish!

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- banjarmon
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:04am
  Well said Mr. David Mamet WELL SAID!!
  
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- Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:09am
  “Pulitzer Award-winning author, producer and director David Mamet … has penned yet another column setting the record straight as he sees it.”
  
  “setting the record straight” … “as he sees it” ?
  That reads like a liberal wrote it. Setting the record straight means … the record then is straight. It is NO LONGER how someone sees it. More evidence that TheBlaze has been infiltrated and is burning up from within.
  
  Glenn! Wake up! The house is on fire!
- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:22am
  Well, since accusing people of “straw man” arguments is so popular here, I’ll have to accuse this guy of the same for his remarks about Karl Marx. Even China is becoming a capitalistic country as is Russia. Despite what all your friends on AM radio would have you believe no country on earth is trying to become “Marxist.”
  
  I know the idea is to accuse President Obama of being a Marxist, someone in favor of the Federal Government managing the dry cleaner or the McDonald’s or the convenience store near your house and the grocery store and the Home Depot in your area.
  
  Now that’s so obviously false it makes me think this guy is as brain dead before his conversion as before. Perhaps you haven’t noticed but, while your wages – I’m talking about you – are stagnant, Wall Street and the Banks and Big Oil are making record profits. In fact, the US has the greatest disparity between the wealth of the rich and the poor in the world, a disparity that’s grown for the last twenty or thirty years. Hardly Marxism.
  
  You’ve been brainwashed into thinking that the Walmart family, which now owns 40% of the wealth of America were to own 50% of America’s wealth, or 60%, you’d be better off. And that anything else is Marxism.
  
  Well good for you. You’re a patriot. Maybe, if you’re lucky, your kid can get a job at Walmart. I hear the pay is pretty good.
- katzkiner
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:33am
  Damn! Meteor that is good. But your man is a self confessed socialist and all his buddies are communists, otherwise that was a brilliant post.
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:07am
  Dear Meteor,
  I don’t know what they taught you in school about practical Marxism, but in practice the greatest disparity between the haves and the have nots occurs in Communism. Their perfect little world is a THEORY that only works on paper.
  
  For instance my cousins (common laborers) during the 80′s lived in a one room home, they shared the kitchen, the bathroom and a “Common” room with two other families. They could not get meat for dinner and what little was available was only obtainable on the black market.
  
  Blue jeans, tobacco and liquor were about the only way you could obtain these things, problem was, they couldn’t get the things needed to trade because a pair of blue jeans would cost them a year’s wage. On the other hand, those RunningThe Party, those with political clout, they could get just about anything they wanted and as much of it as they wanted. Just ask the starving people of North Korea about Mau Se Tung’s little fetishes.
  
  But keep eating the crap sandwich they feed you. Eventually you will end up with dysentary.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:18am
  China adapts capitalist policies in international trade but rejects it domestically. China hasn’t earned wealth because it has afforded its people private rights or allowed businesses or individuals to pursue their interests in a free market, but because it has sought trade with capitalist nations. If china resembles an economic power today, it is thanks to the UK/US and other western nations, not because of its internal communist policies. Chinese citizens are not prospering, but are being used to enrich the state. Obama, like Marx, advocates rivalry between the social classes, and promotes hostility toward certain individuals who through their private rights independently prosper. Marx, like Obama, did not believe in personal liberties or blessings, but believed everything came from, and is for, a collective effort, wherefore, the state is said to be inherently all powerful. That’s not freedom, but forced subjugation. Most businesses and industries today are strictly regulated by the Government. Liberals, like good commies, use the Law to restrict and limit free individuals, not to restrain and restrict Governmental power. The reason Banks and Big Oil are making record profits is not because they have absolute freedom, but because Big Government is in bed with them. Why can’t private US citizens and businesses drill here? Why does Congress allow a private central bank to dictate and run our money supply? Cuz’ of a Big Commie Govment Agenda!
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:22am
  “The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved), or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.” – Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright
  
  “All that government does and provides legitimately is in pursuit of it’s duty to provide protection for private rights (Wynhammer v. People, 13 NY 378), which duty is a debt owed to it’s creator, WE THE PEOPLE and the private unenfranchised individual; which debt and duty is never extinguished nor discharged, and is perpetual. No matter what the government/state provides for us in manner of convenience and safety, the unenfranchised individual owes nothing to the government.” Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43
  
  “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the
  fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” – Frederic Bastiat
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:29am
  “Government does not exist, in a personal sense, for the purpose of acquiring, protecting and enjoying property. It exists primarily for the protection of the people in their individual rights, and holds property not primarily for the enjoyment of property accmulations, but as an incident to the purpose for which it exists – that of serving the people and protecting them in their rights.” – Curley vs U.S., 130 F. 1, 8, 64 C.C.A. 369
  
  “The Constitution is to be construed with respect to the law existing at the time of it’s adoption and as securing to the individual citizen the rights inherited by him under English Law, and not with reference to new guarantees.” – Mattox vs. U.S., 156 US 237, 15 Sup Ct. 337, 39 L. Ed. 409
  
  Most state constitutions read as follow: “Grateful to Almighty God (not to the state) for our civil and religious liberty…”, and, “All political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only… The people of this State have the inherent, sole, and exclusive right of regulating the internal government”
  
  The 10th amendment reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
  
  “The People of a State are entitled to all rights which formerly belonged to the King by his prerogative.” Lansing v. Smith, 4 Wendell 9, 20 (1829)
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:40am
  @sendinthemeatballs
  
  China has become fascist. They used AMERICAN companies that built up their infrastructure and factories to now make stuff for themselves. We can thank greedy globalists for exporting jobs to China all under the propaganda “we live in a global economy now.” We built up our enemy economically and now we have to worry about how strong they are-China is America’s Frankenstein.
  
  Amerika has become fascist too. We are an imperial power trying to spread our influence into the Middle East. Influence such as gay rights, women’s rights, and liberalism. This is the real reason why we are meeting so much resistance over there. They don’t want our liberalism imported into their area. Anyway, Amerika has partnered with all kinds of defense contractors to keep our never ending war going. That is fascism. The difference between communism is the state owns the companies and fascism is they partner with corporations to help their cause. However, Amerika is almost bankrupt due to this 10 year Politically Correct war. That is Bush’s fault for setting up this endless war. Obuma is keeping it going. The puppet masters (‘chosen people”) told Obuma that he’s not going to change anything. Remember how Obuma was going to close Gitmo and end the war? The real puppet masters told him “no you’re not” and that was the end of it. Amerika is a leftist, PC imperialist, fascist nation. A new hybrid on old ideas.
- BlueStrat
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:45am
  @ SendTheMeatballs
  
  I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify you Liberal/Progressive Marxists and I realized that you’re not actually human.
  
  Every human on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium of individual freedom with other humans and the government we create, but you Lib/Prog Marxists do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply, infecting everything with propaganda, lies, and deceit until every national resource and ounce of individual freedom is consumed, all the humans are dead or enslaved, and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area.
  
  There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?
  
  A virus.
  
  Lib/Prog Marxists are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
  
  You’re a plague…and We the People with our guns are the cure.
  
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- Guitarcarl
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:57am
  SendTheMeteors says Walmart owns 40% of the wealth of America? What the heck does that mean? Walmart doesn’t own 40% percent of the land in America, or of the money, what do they own 40% of? Almost half of the GDP? Maybe retail sales? What!? Bunch of nonsense!!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:20am
  @BlueStrat,
  
  Hit the head right on the nail !!!! LOL
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:42am
  @ Monk
  
  LOL!
  
  Thanks, man!
  
  Agent Smith’s little speech struck home with me when I saw the first Matrix film. I’ll bet there are still a lot of Lib/Progs who love that movie but are absolutely *clueless* that the film is about Statism (socialism, communism, fascism) vs Freedom.
  
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- NoSleeper
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 6:21am
  It does not matter what a government calls itself or the ideology behind it – the size and power of the government and the control exercised is what is of concern. Our problem is that our federal government has grown exponentially in size and power, and both parties want more of the same (Democrats quickly, Republicans more slowly). The only way they can achieve more power is to take it from the states and, inevitably, from the individual.
  
  Big Business and Big Government have conspired to take advantage of the American tax payer. When one chastises Big Oil, Wall Street and others, remember that all ours woes happened with the involvement and blessing of Big Government…and the politicians profited by it all.
  
  As far as the disparity between rich and poor, these are relative terms…’poor’ in this country would be considered ‘wealthy’ in most parts of the world. Capitalism, as we used to know it, built enormous wealth in this country and raised the standard of living for all. Our limited government and individual freedom allowed for unprecedented creativity and growth, and for individuals to rise (and fall) through the economic ranks. Government regulation and taxation have crippled the individual’s ability to ‘make it’ in this country.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 6:54am
  “…from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
  
  What a liberal/prog/marxophile hears: “My needs are many, but I’m so talented and have so much to contribute, sounds like a wonderful system…”
  
  What a marxist leader means: “You little idiot people aren’t worth the chaff we were going to throw at you…time to cull the herd.”
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:11am
  SENDTHEMEATEEYORES: “Even China is becoming a capitalistic country as is Russia. Despite what all your friends on AM radio would have you believe no country on earth is trying to become “Marxist.”
  
  BALONEY.
  
  NEWSFLASH: all systems are “capitalist” (i.e. for profit). Think about it, “MEATBETWEENTHEEARS”. The real question is, who owns the capital (the means of production)?
  
  Free-enterprise capitalist system: The citizens (individuals and conglomerates) own the capital.
  
  Socialism–>Communism: it’s under the guise of “collective” ownership (makes for a nice sales pitch), but the STATE (politicians and bureaucrats) own, monitor, and centrally plan all activities. AKA a “lead balloon”…completely inefficient as it inverts natural human behavior.
  
  Fascism: you “own” (at least on paper) and are responsible for the capital and its maintenance, but the state tells you exactly what to do with it. How nice for them.
  
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- chucksue351
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:22am
  meteor, you forget that in a real economy the pie is growing, in the communist model, which we are headed it is stagnant, so the wealth of the walmart family is of no concern to those who aspire to wealth, as the productive aspect of the country grows all will be better off
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:30am
  METEORS..
  
  “the US has the greatest disparity between the wealth of the rich and the poor in the world.”
  
  lol.. nice try. That is politi-speak for “i’ve never been to any other country other than U.S.”
  
  People who believe that nonsense also believe we are the most racist country and have the worst healthcare, too.
  
  Try going to Qatar, Kuwait, India, Philippines, .. or anywhere in South America. Hell- go anywhere in the world. Pick a country.
  
  I’ve been to many different countries and can tell you that the dirt poor are dirt poor everywhere, and the fabulously wealthy are fabulously wealthy everywhere. The only difference is that we have people of every class here, while most countries just have Wealthy, Poor, & Poorer. Our middle class is the most diversely defined…. though maybe not for long.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:37am
  Marx’s endgame was no government.
  After the bloody class war/revolution, human beings would be more than capable of governing themselves. He would be the first to see that his ideology didn’t work out as planned.
  
  Governing revolutionaries gain so much power and wealth off of the class war– it is certainly not in their interest to share their privileges. (Take gun protection, for example.)
  
  Just the same old feudal system. Only the names have changed. Instead of nobles living off the labor of the serfs, we have the non-producing government elites living off the labor of the taxpayers.
  
  I have always thought that this is why socialism was so easily implemented in Europe.
  They are comfortable with feudalism.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:39am
  You know your country is in big trouble when there are enough idiots in it to elect another idiot to run it, we are there.
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:40am
  Post this everywhere you can.
  
  Gonna scroll down now to see the daily troll response. Should be the newest talking point.
  
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- jakartaman
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:47am
  Liberal (progressive) secular socialism will be the ruination of our Republic. I see many voters thinking that we should take from the rich and give to the poor. Hey kids this was Communist Russia – how did that work out. Taking God and Guns is some of the strategic moves of the communist, along with divide and conquer the masses.
  Unfortunately, stupidity is incurabel and 51% of the our people have been infected.
  We have the 21st century slavery going on – the black plantation. Big central government will provide for the weak and stupid – so the weak stupid keep voting for the Democrats.
  God help us!
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:49am
  Have you noticed that the socialists/progressives that remark on the Blaze never have any solutions, never any answers to the issue at hand. They spout on and on, throwing an occasional fact or statistic here and there. These “facts” usually has nothing to do with the issue at hand, and almost never support their nebulous arguments.
  
  One of the beautiful things about the people here is they have practical, real solutions to problems. Some of them could be implemented the very next day, and some are pretty far out, but it is undeniable that they are WELL thought out, and passionately believed in.
  I guess the point is that people here are creators and innovators, even if they are just ideas. They love making things, tinkering with things. The Lib/Progressives that come here make nothing. Perhaps they are the vanguard of the “looters” that Ayn Rand spoke of?
  More and more I am beginning to understand that we are not facing a conflict between Conservatives and Liberals, but a true war of competing civilizations. A war between free people, and willing slaves.
  And it will be a war to the knife.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:55am
  East
  
  There you are you rat bast***. How dare you disagree with me you pinko. LOL
  
  You know I have to agree with Cosmic. I have told my kids the same thing about tattoos. They are in now but times will change and then they will be out and you will be marked up like silly puddy on a comic page.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:58am
  MEATEEYORES You are a maze of contradictions:
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/25/australian-winery-seeks-to-pull-its-wine-from-the-nra-wine-club-yes-they-have-one-of-those/
  
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:36am
  “Do you guys think it gives me pleasure to explain American values to you? Do you think I enjoy explain over and over to our capitalistic system to the uniformed, the ignorant, the just plain stupid and the closet communists who think they should be able to control private enterprise?”
  
  So you state that communists seek to control private enterprise…but then, “no country on earth is trying to become ‘Marxist.’”
  
  ?!
  
  Oh, and there’s more (for anyone who wants to bother or has time to waste):
  
  “No it doesn’t. It pains me to see how little the right wing nuts understand the entrepreneurial spirit that has made this country great. Our country would be destroyed by ideologues like you were it not for the strength of the Constitution of the United States of America.
  I’m sorry, but a job creator doesn’t have to do business with the NRA if they don’t want to as much as the fascists here think they should be able to dictate who a company does business with.
  This company realizes that the association with the NRA is toxic to their business. Their job is to maximize profits. No I don’t enjoy explaining the obvious to you. The very fact that I have to makes me sick.
  If you loved capitalism, and indeed, if you loved this country, yo
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:02am
  @GETLIFE I’ve noticed that, too. Socialism/communism seems the logical substitute for people long accustomed to a feudal mentality.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:03am
  RANGER….
  
  “….A war between free people, and willing slaves….”
  
  Well said- though i would amend it to say “free people vs. slave masters, and willing slaves”
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:09am
  Hey SURF ….lol
  
  If you remember, just prior to your former self getting beamed up to the Enterprise, I said i will miss agreeing AND disagreeing with you!
  
  Face-tattoos are cool though, right?
  
  http://media1.policymic.com/site/articles/19088/photo.jpg
  
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- chicago76
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:12am
  Sendinthemeteors zombie growlings originate with the Great One, because the undead cannot think for themselves. The undead only listen to the Great One.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:13am
  http://tpnn.com/obama-reported-to-be-dismissing-military-leaders-who-will-not-fire-on-civilians-if-ordered/
  
  Here is a little thought from our dictator.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:18am
  East
  yes…yes I do. It made me cry (:
  Yea gotta love the face tats. Wonder if he ever hooked up with car girl??
  
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- HavocK
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:53am
  If a person has EVER, present or past, taken a prescription drug that can be related to depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, or ANY other drug related to brain function, you can be found mentally ill by ObamaCARE’s “Committee,” or the “Secretary,” or the “Death Panel.” Take your pick (They are all operated by the same puppet master).
  
  Yep, just keep following like ‘sheeple.’ It s in the “Affordable Health Care Act” to have all medical records be input into a database, (if you did not know, it looks like “CONGRESS” isn’t the only one who did not read the bill.)
  ((c) MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS.—)
  {starting on page 247, or just word search “Database” yourself!}
  
  WHY? You might ask, well, when you go for a background check, you not only get your criminal record checked from your State Bureau of Investigation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, and local court on record, NOW you will have the “Committee” look into your electronic medical records. So, you will now have a long wait, just to be denied your 2nd Amendment right by the “Committee,” who, by the way, have NO medical training whatsoever!
  
  The “Committee” will only be looking for red flag words, like condition such as ”depression or angry,” or drug names like “Prozac, Adderall, Focalin, or Ritalin.” Having trouble sleeping? Careful what you use to get some Zzzz’s. These pills can also be used against you. Get the picture yet?
  
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- HavocK
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:54am
  Continued…
  
  Yea, YOU are the mentally ill, if the ‘Committee’ determines you are, for whatever reason.
  
  IT IS ALL CONNECTED!
  
  So, go ahead, keep talking about the “MENTALLY ILL”. It is YOU.
  
  Give just a little, and what you don’t give, “they” will take. What “they” don’t take, “they” will get one way or another, and the ‘sheeple’ will be glad to help out. (Maybe YOU are mentally ill.)
  
  “They” will invent ways to make a person “FIT” into a category that will suit “their” needs. When you wonder how or why, it’s too late, you are no longer a ‘citizen’, you are a ‘subject’ enslaved by your own foolishness! Subjected to laws that are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
  
  THOSE WHO HAVE EARS LET THEM HEAR!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:05am
  Dang, I see now that I forgot to leave my SENDTHEMEATEEYORES prediction on this story last night. Regardless, he did as I predicted in my mind anyway, and showed up on his JZS schedule time and showed us all his elitist and lost ass as usual. Its so easy to see that you have worked in academia in this country for quite some time, but you are not from this country, are you? You can spout the usual left wing academic numbers and bullsh/t, but you are lost when it comes to most everything else. And, it shows. Go home and preach to your own people.
  
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- HavocK
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:12am
  Here’s a thought…
  
  If it turns out that a person has to get a background check (or if you live in a state that already does), that person shall be denied a firearm if evidence shows that person has ever been a registered democrat, or has ever participated in liberal, left wing, progressive political lobbying, that person shall be denied a firearm. After all, that is what ‘they’ want, and it is about time ‘they’ put their ‘money where their mouth is’, and live it the way ‘they’ want the rest of us to live it. These political idiots are on record saying, “It is suppressing the right to vote, for a person to prove who they are before voting, with a picture ID.” What do they call it when a person has to fill out a two (2) page Form 4473, show a picture ID, and answer all the questions on that form “correctly” OR that person is DENIED their RIGHT to the 2nd Amendment and cannot bear arms. That is a whole lot more than suppression!
  
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- SLAPTHELEFT
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:16am
  Meteors spends a lot of time trying to convince you that what you can see and feel is false. Now why would it waste it’s time doing that? It has shown that it doesn’t care about you. It has made public it’s disdain for you. It insults and delegitimizes you.
  
  So again why? I contest that it’s a liberal university product who has been promised something in return for its efforts. Maybe a cubicle job at the center for American progress? A chance to lick the masters hand? 40 acres and a mule?
  
  Don’t waste your precious time on us. We know where we stand. Your presence is a nuisance to mankind.
  
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- 1947
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:24am
  David for PRESIDENT since we don’t have ONE.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:43am
  This guy is still brain dead! Most of you have seen the news this morning about 245 parents loosing their loved ones in a night club in Brazil. Obama and the American Democratic Party and the news media will be demanding These clubs around the world be shut down.Look what they did over 26 children in a school shooting being gunned down by a nut. As around the world we saw the world want guns banned you will see the world want these clubs banned. Parents have lost 10 times the death toll in Sandy Point.
  
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- decendentof56
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:47am
  meteor…Meteor…METEOR!
  We know you just luvvvvve Obama, but try to actually think!
  Hale DeMar, a 52-year-old Wilmette resident, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor violations for shooting, in the shoulder and leg, a burglar who broke into his home not once, but twice. Cook County prosecutors dropped all charges against DeMar.
  In March 2004, the Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill 2165, a law introduced in response to DeMar’s case, with provisions designed to assert a right of citizens to protect themselves against home invasions, such that self-defense requirements would be viewed to take precedence over local ordinances against handgun possession. The measure passed the Illinois Senate by a vote of 38-20. Barack Obama was one of the 20 state senators voting against the measure.
  
  Governor Rod Blagojevich vetoed the bill. On Nov. 9, 2004, the Illinois Senate voted 40-18 to override Blagojevich’s veto. Again, Obama acted against the bill.
  
  On Nov. 17, the Illinois House voted overwhelmingly, 85-30, to override the governor’s veto and Senate Bill 2165 became law.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:50am
  Sendinthemeteors:
  “Perhaps you haven’t noticed but, while your wages – I’m talking about you – are stagnant, Wall Street and the Banks and Big Oil are making record profits. In fact, the US has the greatest disparity between the wealth of the rich and the poor in the world, a disparity that’s grown for the last twenty or thirty years. Hardly Marxism. ‘
  
  You’re right about Wall Street and corruption there. The LIBOR scandal is a good example of how the elites can control society by manipulating the interest rates.
  
  However, the country has been in the throes of devolvment into one or another political concepts for years, mostly societally, but many aspects of it involve altering the economy and the government’s relationship with private enterprise, which would be closer to fascism than Marxism, but both fascism and Marxism require government control to work, and, at present, this society involves a bit of both political concepts.
  
  But it is the push for societal change that bring into play economic concepts that surely do involve…or border on…. Marxism.
  
  And in the process of changing society, radical leftist dregs have no qualms about invoking totalitarian mandates if it furthers their pie-in-the-sky fantasies. Or Marxist principles…like those of Cultural Marxism where economic Marxism as been converted to Cultural Marxism to change the culture, which is the basis for much of the left’s agenda, including Alinsky.
  
  Orwellianism is also used.
  
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- Disavowed 1
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:57am
  Register your guns or comply to any new legislation and we will live to regret it. Bottom line? DO NOT COMPLY. Call your local Sheriff and let them know a gun grab is underway.
  
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- decendentof56
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 10:05am
  China = state-run business with some freedom to use OUR capitalist model
  Obama= racist “wise Latino Sotomayor” appointment to the SC
  Obama= “I think its good to spread the wealth around’ comment to Joe the Plummer
  Obama= armed Fed agents going into a guitar factory
  Obama= If a company wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can….its just that it will bankrupt them.”
  Obama= “under my plan of a Cap and Trade System, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
  Obama= an avowed Communist (Van Jones) was appointed “Green Jobs” Czar
  hummmmmmm a Czar? look that one up
  
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- mrunner
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 10:53am
  You kinda nailed it Cosmic. Currently the sheeple believe it is the “in thing” to support Obama, not because he is a good leader- much like those who purchased a pet rock did not expect it to be a genuinely good pet. Low information voters who want to do the “in thing”. I am betting you are right that “conservative” will become a popular position to take in the near future. The low information voter may think it is kinda quaint and nostalgic to hold onto the Constitution,,,
  
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- dnewton
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 10:57am
  What percentage of taxes was he paying before it dawned on him that he might be a Conservative? Or was it that after paying for Utopia for a certain number of years, and not getting it, he gave up hope? Maybe he just did not care to bear the guilt of failed public policy. But, how would he be blessed with shame or guilt after so many years of Liberalism?
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 11:15am
  “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” Obama wrote in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
  
  Obama exposed: http://commieblaster.com/obama/index.html
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 11:40am
  @sendthemmeteors aka cretin drone….
  
  Ft Hood shooter – Registered Democrat – Muslim
  Columbine shooters- Too young to vote; both families were registeredDemocrats and progressive liberals
  Virginia Tech shooter – Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to hisstaff – Registered Democrat
  Colorado Theater shooter – Registered Democrat; staff worker on theObama campaign; Occupy Wall Street participant; progressive liberal
  Connecticut School Shooter – Registered Democrat; hated Christians
  Congresswoman Gabby Giffords’ shooter – leftist, registered Democrat.
  Common thread is that all of these shooters were progressive-types.
  Why is it that the media always tells us that conservative NRA-typegun-owners are the real danger???
  
  NUFF SED!
  
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- dcatkin
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:16pm
  My god miracles nver quit comming, is the world comming to an end.
  
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- AINT_SKEERT
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:24pm
  It is impossible to be both a liberal, and a socialist. They are diametrically opposed. …Hayek. How the left loves to contort words, and change definitions to suit their agenda. Progressive Fascist seems to fit them best…. Please stop calling them liberals!
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:27pm
  @SENDTHEMORLOCKS…
  
  …proves once again that, “A liberal only knows what they been told.” They have ZERO practical life experience from which to reason rationally: it’s all instinct (emotion) which serves NO greater purpose than to protect their FRAGILE egos.
  
  In other words:
  
  “It’s just not possible to be this STUPID naturally–it HAS to be on PURPOSE!”
  
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- red1
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:28pm
  I told you all to read or watch the film adaptation of Mamet’s play Oleanna a while ago. It was brilliant. Do it now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleanna_(play)
  
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- jeffersonian1776
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:46pm
  Meteor, I guess all those college professors today aren’t “Marxists” at all. Oh, by the way, when has Wal-Mart forced or coerced somebody into buying something? I didn’t know they had actual power like that, where there transactions are no longer voluntary. Fact is, they are filling a demand, if it were not so, they wouldn’t be in business. As for oil company profits, who are you to decide what they should be allowed to charge or keep for themselves. And for that matter, these wealthy CEO’s that you despise of the oil companies, don’t wake up everyday with a decision to be either “greedy” or go about their day with a “moral responsibility” (where they set prices based upon what YOU feel they should) to society. Of course, your idea of an oil company being morally responsible is for them to loose money and hopefully go out of businees. That way the gubmint can take over and than charge people each different prices based upon their abilities. That would be fair in your eyes, trust me I know your type. Maybe you should check why the price of oil/gas is so high, it’s the FED’s inflation of the monetary supply which creates artificial demand on many things while the supply of these things has not been matched at the same time–hence our economy runs on oil/gas so it is affected most. It’s a good thing that the banks have not been putting all these fiat dollars into the market, because nine times the $$$ means $28 to $30 per gallon of gas right now.
  
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- jeffersonian1776
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:02pm
  Meteors, that’s right, if it hadn’t been for some of the bankers who initially said they didn’t want any of Obama’s and Bernanke’s money, like Wells Fargo, that was before Obama sat them down and strongarmed these “greedy” bankers, we would be paying $28 to $30 per gallon of gas right now. That’s an economic fact. It”s good that Obama and Bernanke sort of woke up and said yeah you’re right to the bankers, maybe it’s better if you just hold it in your vaults. I mean, shoot, real wages aren’t even keeping up with the amount of monetary inflation with gas at $3.50 too.
  I remeber my high school econ teacher, a real dupe, who had all these kids believing that inflation was the gradual rise of prices by all these big businesses out there who were just perpetually greedy. Something made me question this idiot though, I thought to myself, why, when prices rise the most the fastest is during a recession; thus, I thought, why would any sane businessman want to raise their prices especially at a time when people are losing jobs and have less money and etcetera? Why raise their price and then sell less or even none of their product or service? That would be cutting your own throat, wouldn’t it?
  Also, prices for oil are set by supply and demand, not what the oil business believes they can pull out of our pockets. If you had a business and the product you sold just fell out of heaven meaning 100% profit on your part, you could still break even if their was NO DEMAND, FAC
  
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- Knight Templar
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:22pm
  Meteor —- Your post demonstrates very well that you have been thoroughly brainwashed by the left. Read the posts in response to yours to learn truth.
  
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- PlowMan
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:37pm
  @obama-in-peepee, what? Get behind me satan!
  
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- Jim S
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:05pm
  Who said, “Power comes from the barrel of the gun”?
  Mao Zedong, Communist dictator of China 1949-1976.
  First said by him in 1935,and later included in his ‘Little Red Book’ of 1967.
  
  ….he seems to still love commies!…OUR founders thought all the various checks and balances, all that crap before and after the 2 Amendment, should be used to redress concerns.See, OUR founders wanted it’s citizens to NOT have shoot outs with authorities, they had just fought a war from tryanny..so they created this fairly wonderful system,blacks and native Americans not so much the first 200 years but wer’re getting there. I am apalled at the lack of knowledge expressed regarding ALL our rights..secure in our homes,warrantless searches,confront accusers, rules of evidence,squash illegal warrants/searches, trail be peers etc etc etc…THESE are the important rights…just having a gun guarantees you nothing but the ability to attempt to kill…as a last resort GREAT,but let’s enforce all the others first..Bill of Rights, U. S. Constitution ..lots of stuff in there..read all of it,they interact and compliment each other…lots of people in lots of nations have guns, that doesn’t make them free.
  
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- bumpkin
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:45pm
  @ sendthemeteors: Your chosen screen name tells much about you. So does your ability to project what a nation is “becoming” when you obviously do not live there to actually know. However, that said, we, -many of us here, do live in the United States of America, where BHO currently resides and is trying to micromanage a Nation into the Dreams of his ‘father’, the man who spent the most time with him, which by all accounts was a card-carrying communist/Marxist. In considering your post, I imagine you an older, white-haired gentlewoman who played ‘hippie’ during her younger years, -yes, peace-love-dope. It was very fashionable at that time to have ‘opposing views’ on about everything. Personally, I believe that is where ‘liberals’ emanate from- the profound desire to bring to the world an ‘opposing view’. No matter what the view is. You see, I have a sister who is a ‘liberal’. She spends ALL of her family-time in trying to shove her ability to argue any point down her families’ throats. I believe she feels it is clever, and honestly, she does not even take the time on her ‘opposing views’ to determine if her outcomes of her views are helpful or disastrous. After all, her reason for opposing views isn’t to improve an outcome, its to show off her fine ability to argue, or ‘debate’ as she lovingly calls it. Hence, her profound stupidity. Her ‘why’ is skewed. And, she upholds the quote “Most (wo)men would rather DIE than think!” (my parenthet
  
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- urrybr
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:00pm
  Man . . . “sendthemeteors” is really full on Kool-Aid. China, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and other Marxist nations have really not gone capitalistic. Just look at the poverty level of it’s citizens. In the late USSR, there were still people living in huts with dirt floors, in villages without paved roads. The food that they “bought” was oftentimes maggot-infested and/or rotten. North Korea still struggles with abject poverty. Vietnam is STILL considered a 3rd world country, as is Venezuela and Cuba. Yep, Marxism has done those people good. Look at our economy right now, it’s in the toilet. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and O’numbnuts is still trying to crown himself king. He’s actually the court jester, or the village idiot. In all his intellect there is not ONE SHRED of common sense.
  
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- onetoomany
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:10pm
  Meteor: You’re a f****** idiot, go back under your rock!
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:13pm
  holy crap, someone made sense, yes virginia there is a santa claus!
  
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- anothercomment
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 3:44pm
  BLUESTRAT
  I typically avoid people that post to the Blaze just to be an a… um – annoyance – which is what Send wants to be – the self-appointed Geo. Soros’s disinformation army.
  But THANK YOU for your response, it was level, smooth, pointed, and so true. I rest assured that SITM’s head is spinning about now, if it has one…
  
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- teddie888
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:18pm
  Listen to Obama’s anaugeral address, he said united State, not state”s”. It was very noticeable and sounded very purposeful. Does it pertain to this article?
  
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- teddie888
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 4:22pm
  people who come from communistic countries see things clearer, with reality
  
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- tyuchic
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:20pm
  meteor sez we are afraid of “the Federal Government managing the dry cleaner or the McDonald’s or the convenience store near your house and the grocery store and the Home Depot in your area.”
  
  have you ever owned or worked in one of those places? the answer must be “no”, or otherwise you would know the ridiculous amount of rules and regulations already imposed on them by the government, from the age you can start working, your rate of pay, what you wear while working, proper way to use government approved tools, to how you must control the actual air you breathe, what you allowed to sell, where the business can be situated, and how you will be taxed in relationship to other businesses. if you don’t think the government already controls/influences 75% or more of your life already, then you’re just not paying attention, or you are content with it. some of us are not.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:26pm
  MeteorHead = Propagandist = Willful fool = Tool of the enemy of man. That’s all folks, as they say in Looney Tunes… :)
  
  But still I have to thank him from the bottom of my heart. I have not seen such an inspiring, deeply felt and thought out set of responses to evil in these posts, well, ever! It just goes to show, once again, that God is great and can be found in even the most unlikely of places. He does indeed work in mysterious ways and shines his sun upon good and evil alike. When this life of endless choices is over, it will be an entirely different kind of story. Judas played a key role is saving mankind. But I would not want his reward nonetheless…
  
  God has given us a stone upon which to sharpen our swords- one of many. The enemy thinks that they are soooo crafty and clever. But all of their Byzantine plots will, in the end, slay them (as well as many of us) because they go against the true order of life. The only question is; will we defeat them sooner or will we wait and have to go through millions or billions of dead first? What has always been the role of America? It is up to us. We will fight the good fight and God will decide. I am completely at peace with that because, in the end, there can be only ONE result.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:53pm
  Yourinsensi:
  
  Did the Blaze slap your pee-pee?
  
  This is what you already know:
  
  That was clever, but contemptible and sophomoric. It’s too bad your talents are wasted in hate and disdain. Maybe someday you’ll learn to think for yourself instead of steeping yourself in group-think. Shake it off! Open your eyes. You’ll feel so much better as your own person!
  
  It is so.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:59pm
  SendTheMeteors
  
  Even China is becoming a capitalistic country as is Russia. Despite what all your friends on AM radio would have you believe no country on earth is trying to become “Marxist.”
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  When you have progressive tax rate of 75% (What French President Hollande, socialist in good standing) or 94% (What we have had & what many liberals want to go back to), the distinction between socialism & Marxism is a matter of a few degrees.
  
  Sorry Meatballs but you fail again.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:07pm
  “In fact, the US has the greatest disparity between the wealth of the rich and the poor in the world, a disparity that’s grown for the last twenty or thirty years”
  
  There has always been a disparity.
  
  The rulers in the Kremlin hid their dachas in the forests. If you looked at the poltibureau, central committee & apparatchiks you can tell the difference between rich, middle class & poor in a Marxist state.
  
  There were specials stores for the rich also.
  
  Sorry Meatballs but I married a person from a communist country. They lived a block from Murdoch’s new digs. You can lie to yourself. You can lie to other liberals & low information voters. But you cannot lie to the rest of us. Less than a 1/2 mile away from where my spouse lived, is where the politbureau used to live & party. I guess all the nose complaints gave away the relative disparity in wealth in a so called classless society.
  
  When I walked past where the members of the politbureau use to live & we discussed who had lived there, there was venom in my spouses voice.
  
  Go LIE somewhere else Meatballs, you little apparatchik wannabe of the Democrat ruling class.
  
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- ambrosia
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:12pm
  Saw Mamet’s article a few days ago-
  no matter how many times one reads it,
  you walk away shaking your head,
  yes, David Mamet has a way with words, that is his livelihood
  but like all proud, freedom-loving Americans,
  his blood runs constitutional red 24/7.
  
  All of our lives are busy,
  no matter how simple, no matter how complicated.
  We hate living daily with freedom anxiety
  but this horrid administration has forced us to do so,
  in the wake of
  chipping & chiseling away at the very essence of our being.
  
  They want us to roll over, they want us to look the other way,
  they want us to run along & be silent.
  Hell NO !
  
  Mamet lays it out on the line…clear, concise, conscious-
  what the hell is going on here,
  what’s it going to take to wrestle the very freedom
  our country fought & died for
  from devils eager to demolish ?
  
  Mamet’s lucid piece sums it ALL up…with NO room for argument !
  
  This tyrant-in-chief has continuously thrown darts at every issue
  to keep from working on the crucial one-
  the country’s economy .
  It makes him “look” busy, it makes him “look” concerned-
  somebody needs to tell him to quit squandering our freedom
  and get back to the matter at hand.
  
  Mamet’s article does just that-
  everyone should email, mail, phone & recite his very words
  to the Bully King’s attention
  at the White House & Capitol Hill
  Inundate all of them with the truth via Mamet’s pen.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:27pm
  AxelPhantom says, “Dear Meteor, I don’t know what they taught you in school about practical Marxism, but in practice the greatest disparity between the haves and the have nots occurs in Communism.”
  
  Axel, you’re wrong. There are no “communist” countries. Communism doesn’t work and never has, although that might require some explanation. No intelligent person believes in communism anymore, except maybe some college dropout weirdos (people sought out by this website to try pretend progressives actually believe that nonsense).
  
  China is no more “communist” than the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is a democracy.
  
  Possibly “communism” worked 15,000 years ago when humans lived in small tribes of 15 – 20 people where sharing resources “each according to their own” was paramount to the survival of the tribe. Maybe.
  
  China and Russia are either dictatorships or oligarchies and there ain’t no “wealth sharing” going on in either country. We all call them “communist” countries, but neither their governments, nor their economic systems are “communist.” Maybe a small group group of people, like a family, can be “communist” in the sense that they each do what they can and all share in the wealth of the unit. But no rational person thinks “communism” is a possible economic system for a country.
  
  As the popular term is now, this idea that Democrats are “communists” is a straw man.
  
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- Tankertony
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:30pm
  Thank you God, thank you for sending the meteors. Thank you for giving us a glittering, shining example of a brain dead liberal.
  
  I haven’t heard such naivete since John Lennon. Perhaps the bearded marxist ‘it is so’ guy and enlighten us?
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 11:20pm
  Yeah, MeteorHead? Is that so? So very fascinating… Well there ain’t no Mafia either and if you don’t believe me, I’ll send my cousin Vinnie over to ‘educate’ your face. Capishe? A face is a terrible thing to waste…. :) Do you think Trog is a match for Vinnie?
  
  This space rock propagandist cracks me up. (pun intended :) You know how to tell when someone is dissembling, right? They insinuate themselves into somewhere they don’t belong, don’t fit and aren’t welcome, then commence to spew a bunch of carefully constructed partial-truths and (oh-so-astute) prattle- Ad nauseam… Then they become a legend in their own mind. (Well, that may have come first :)
  
  The really bad and deluded liar/propagandists even think they are accomplishing something besides pulling down minimum wage. Well, we all have our dreams… Let the left dream their dark dreams while we watch them and prepare for all eventualities- political and practical.
  
  We’re grateful too, because we all need to be reminded of that which we are fighting, regularly.
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:51am
  SendTheMeteors
  Moron enough with the evil rich rhetoric. We get it you hate everyone and everything that could possibly give anyone else a job. You want to be able to tell everyone what they should make and how much everyone else should give to the government so that they can waste it as inefficiently as possible. We get it already, maybe there is someone on huff and puff or msnbc that hasn’t heard all your bull**** yet. Why don’t you go see! please
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:30am
  SendtheMeatballs
  
  “Axel, you’re wrong. There are no “communist” countries. ”
  
  So Meatballs acknowledges Marxism is kaput at least for arguments sake. Is Marxism really kaput. Not from what I remember in college. I also see the Shining Path guerillas are alive & well in Peru. True they are no longer the threat to the people of Peru they were 20 years ago, but they still are leftists in good standing. It is kind of hard to maintain a straightface when you maximum leader is is caught in the capital city on a noise complaint as a result of his disco party.
  
  People on campuses still espouse communism. But Meatballs is probably right. Most leftists now espouse some form of socialism. After all if one form fails they can always say there are so many varieties & we just have tried the right one.
  
  Socialism is like the anthropomorphic global warming (AGW). The left is hoping to push thru changes before the socialist countries implode. I have been to Europe several times. It is not a pretty sight. From news reports & what I know from my relatives, socialism is not working. In fact it is in a state of terminal decline.
  
  Socialism will be finished in a generation. By that time Meatballs will be in a nursing home conveniently sick with alzheimers. So you will get no acknowledgement for Meatballs. At that tine what would be the point?
  
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- RobbieTLHughie
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:46am
  I think if more gun owners could make a sane and civilized case for the second amendment then none of this would be a problem, but because there’s so much lunacy going on with websites like The Blaze, Free Republic, Prison Planet and it’s now branched over to other sites as well… There are, many times a celebration of the death culture at these websites. Do you think it helps your case for the second amendment when people see comments about how, instead of shooting the intruder four times, the person should have shot him nine times?
  
  Cavalierness about guns is what causes fear of guns, people are always surprised when I tell them I own handguns, because I don’t flaunt it about. Not because I’m ashamed of it, I just see it as being like anything else I own – a computer, a phone, etc. It’s a tool, that must be responsibly maintained and used like any other tool. And, when the time comes it’s fun to share it with other people – RESPONSIBLY.
  
  That is the main word here, very important. When gun owners are irresponsible, which it seems like more than their fair share have been these days, it makes us ALL look bad, despite what any of our other political opinions may be. Don’t want someone coming for our guns? Stop acting like children and give your senators and representatives real phone calls and talk to your friends and neighbors, not like a crazy person.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:02am
  @Meteors
  
  You presume a lot. You sneer about how if we let WalMart make “60% of the wealth in the nation where now it makes 50% of the wealth in the nation” (a statistic I’d like to see you back up with non-politically affiliated sources please) that means that this is somehow wrong. You don’t say “wrong”, but you explicitly imply that if we oppose 60% that we’re doing so out of some kind of misguided ideological reaction to Marxism. But let me ask you, under what system do YOU get to determine how much of one’s own labor an individual gets to keep? It certainly isn’t laissez faire capitalism, bud. Marxism? Not necessarily, but clearly one of the tired old players from the Progressives e.g. – socialism, fascism, mercantilism.
  
  The whole point of a laissez faire capitalist society is that it dis-empowers people like you, I’m talking about you, from getting to decide the parameters that others are forced to live under economically.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:46am
  Hey Ghost. How about a tax structure similar to what we had under Clinton (or even Reagan), when the economy was booming the middle class thrived and the rich were doing just fine thank you very much.
  
  Somehow, according to those here, that was communism. If Reagan were to come back to life, propose having taxes as high as when he was in office, he’d be called a communist or Marxist. If we were to tax people at the same progressive rate as under Clinton, that would be communism. The entire idea seems to be America was communist before the temporary Bush tax cuts, and after the tax cuts, we are now a capitalistic country. Let the temporary Bush tax cuts expire, and we’re back to being communists. Sure, whatever.
  
  We don’t want laissez-faire capitalism in this country. That’s why we have anti-trust laws. I know you might it’s great to have a few huge monopolies that control all the means of production in the country (a Plutocracy), but wiser people know better. It’s great for the people who own those businesses, but bad for everyone else.
  
  Would you like to pay to drive down the street in front of your house because some rich guy owns the street and can charge you to use it? Or maybe you actually do like the idea of some communally owned property (communism!), you just have never thought about it very carefully.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:25am
  @SpaceRockHead
  Clinton got a (very) free ride due to the groundwork that Reagan put into place which resulted in part with the dot com boom. Even our Marxist ‘Dear Leader’ would seem Capitalistic if he had a new technology boom to surf on like Bubba did. Clinton merely got out of the way and let the private sector work its magic. It’s a strategy that Dear Leader could learn very much from. But no. He’s doing the EXACT opposite, trying to regulate and tax the country into catatonia which is why we are currently in the lowest and slowest recession recovery in history.
  
  Let’s be clear. It is Capitalism which creates success and freedom which is exactly why you Progressives (Regressivees) oppose it, albeit sneakily and sideways. Reagan cut costs drastically and raised taxes some. It’s called a ‘balanced’ approach. For the current crew and our present Liar in Chief ‘balanced’ means ‘raise taxes to infinity and seek to destroy the economy at the same time through absurd regulation’. You Prog morons aren’t fooling anyone with half a brain. You and your philosophy are a disaster for the country and the sooner you implode and crap your pants, the better for ALL concerned.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:23am
  @MeteorHead- again
  We remember the Clinton era fondly not for anything he did that was important. He didn’t really do anything except entertain and disgust us with sexcapades. Well, except for welfare reform which he was dragged into and which Dear Leader is now frantically dismantling. No, we only remember his era with nostalgia because of the boom times his administration coincided with. Capitalism is king. Even you Prog troglodytes need it. You just avert your eyes and pretend that your high minded B.S. is what makes life not suck. But you are only a drag on the system. A virus in the host. It’s Capitalism which makes everything good happen. That’s the truth you cannot escape. It’s what America was founded on and what, at her core, she is all about.
  
  All systems whether stupid or sublime have to have it as their basis or they collapse immediately. So it’s better to face it head on, embrace it and not to lie about it, than to be a slimy worm and eat at it from around the edges until everything you touch becomes putrid and spoiled. We must be Libertarian in our regulation and learn to live with a certain level of uncertainty and fluctuation. We can only do this with faith in the one true God. For only with God at our core do we have the intestinal fortitude to patiently endure the lows and then prosper in the highs of the only viable system on earth, namely; Capitalism. That is why you Progressive slime are trying to destroy Christianity. Without it the nation
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:32am
  “Without it the nation falls.”
  
  And finally:
  We must understand that life cannot be a padded cell where everything is perfect and painless. If we succeed in creating such a perfect world, it will kill us. If you Progressives succeed in fashioning a world where the state is dominant and seeks to regulate the minutia of our lives and all pain and suffering out of existence, it will destroy us as surely as the sun shines down.
  
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- jeffersonian1776
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:52am
  Hey GHOST, SENDTHEMETEORS is one who is, should I say, able to comprehend the laws of economics; or maybe she does understand them but purposely believes as do all Marxists that people cannot left to make their own decisions through voluntary exchange, the state must come between two individuals/entities “for our own good” of course.
  If she was smart on economics, she would understand that corporations operate at the margin, and in a free market competition is always squeezing the profit margin. THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS MONOPOLIES IN LAISSEZ-FAIRE MARKETS, it’s impossible. I don’t understand why sendthemeteors would believe that if you are a corporation in a market who is meeting the demand (even if said corporation “shares” [not owns] possibly even 75% of that market) of your consumers that you are a monopoly, in her eyes. The fact is a monopoly needs friendly government legislation to maintain a foothold on mass market share. LAISSEZ-FAIRE means “to leave it alone”–for all you who don’t know, this means that the gov’t is stay out of the way of business, no micro-managing the market and picking winners who are “too big to fail.” That’s cronie capitalism and is the dire opposite of laissez-faire capitalism. Shoot, even within our quasi-free market, they sure tried to make Microsoft out to a monopoly, but ultimately failed after they couldn’t prove how they were coercing consumers to buy their products, fact is, they had superior products over their competi
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:05pm
  COSMIC DOGMA posted: “There is hope! Not long before conservative is the new trendy way to live! It will be so rare and unique, as to be stylish!”
  
  No, don’t let Mamet fool you. Liberalism is a carefully designed cage to keep the goyim where they belong. Mamet is attempting to release some pressure only because he is clever enough to see that unlike the, uh, “kosher” Americans, the filthy, shortsighted goyim Americans actually believe that somethings are worth dying for, you know, like Liberty, our children, etc. We goyim don’t abandon our kids to a society that hates and loathes them in order to save our own hides. We goyim don’t abandon our public testimony of our God and Jesus Christ to make life easier for ourselves. And we, stupid, stupid, goyim don’t let policemen come shove their way into our houses and take our stuff just so that we can live to see tomorrow. And some like Mamet are smart enough to see what will happen if Bloomberg et al really do push for gun confiscation. SORRY TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS THEBLAZE. LET THE CENSORING BEGIN!
  
  Oh, and by the way, “pulitzer prize winning” just means that this turd is an expert propagandist.
  
  “Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying too much, but much too little. For I see in their writings how they curse us goyim and wish us all evil in their schools and their prayers.” Martin Luther
  
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- bored2
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:28pm
  Whether one likes it or not, @valiant1776 tends to be the most right in his discussion on the topic. Anyone who thinks the US has the largest disparity between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ is a fool. The only reason they feel comfortable in saying that is that the statistic exists. You’ll never get true facts from the communist countries, or dictatorships, for that matter, so it’s a little bit ‘impossible’ to make a true comparison.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:43pm
  jeffersonian1776 says, in caps, “THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS MONOPOLIES IN LAISSEZ-FAIRE MARKETS, it’s impossible.”
  
  jeffersonian1776, I stopped reading your post when I read that. Monopolies form in a laissez-faire market. That’s where they are allowed to form, to the benefit of the owners and to the detriment of everyone else. Is this backwards day? Why the The Sherman AntiTrust Act of 1890? Why are there any anti-trust laws?
  
  jeffersonian1776, “impossible?” You’re kidding right? The fight between monopolies and the US government extends over a significant part of American history and American law. Are you getting your “facts” from the college of an internet evangelist?
  
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- Obamainpeepee
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:00pm
  Again, Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art, the next time you feel compelled to leave a comment, don’t…just don’t. Or, in the least, please find a different name. I came up with the name first, and you’re just ignorant. So, find a different name to post under, or just don’t comment please.
  
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- Zejaybee
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
  @Meteors – Methinks you confuse the fairy tale of the Marxist regime used to gain popular support with the real outcome. Hence the reason many accuse Mr. Obama of being a Marxist as he follows the play book rather closely.
  
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DAGNY
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:53pm
Touche’ but why does everyone fall short of explaining the “why”. WHY do liberals love phantom statistics? Until those with a public voice or presence start connecting the dots for those of low information (i.e., the majority of those who came out of public education in the last 30 years), nothing will change. The logical debate will continue to be hijacked by emotions and off we go, running in a completely different direction than the topic with which we started!

I’ve long been accused of acting child-like because I always ask “Why?”. I was told that asking “why” is a form of criticism. No. The “why” is vital to fully understand a situation. Those who shrink from it have something to hide.

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:02pm
  If we are wrong about the Government’s motives to destroy us, then show a sign that it is not true. One sign that this Government is dedicated to protecting its people. Just one sign.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:37pm
  if you want to understand…….look up fabian socialism………..things will begin to make sense…………also besides the million of abortions this administration seems to love they also have people in that group that have actually written about how to put contraceptive in our water supply………
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:40pm
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:00pm
  Many of us are prepared to die defending the US Constitution but that is what we pledged to do to God when we took that oath that we were compelled to take by the Government. Its like the Book of Ruth, the oath the Government forced use to take to God will be the Government’s downfall. We are not Evil people and its impossible to make us live in Evil. Whether we are right or wrong we believe our Government is Evil. So be it.
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:29am
  To hell with dying.
  
  I’m prepared to win, at any cost. More than that, We, deserve to win. We’ve put up with this BS for too long.It’s no longer just us, it’s the legacy of our generation. It’s our children’s and grand children’s inheritance. Will we fail them, and give them dust, when we ourselves were given the jewels of freedom?
  If my enemy expects me to stand tall, and die a brave martyr’s death then he’s SOL. It looks pretty in the history books, but only the winner gets to write em. Let them die a heroes death for their utopia. I just want to win.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:52am
  You’re damn straight Ranger. F’ that dying crap. Just like Patton said “No dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won by making some other dumb bastard die for his” (para). I am prepared to win, not die for my country. As are most other patriots. Good post.
  
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- 1stKENTUCKYREGULAR
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:22am
  @ ranger,mildot, and all true patriots
  The true written word of the CREATOR is the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES.
  That being said, untill all unalienable rights have been liberated from the DISTRICT of CORRUPTION permission to die will NOT be granted.
  OOOOOrahhh!!!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:34pm
This man was an admitted ‘former brain dead liberal’ and this regime in part caused him to become a conservative. We need many more conversions like this until we stamp out the collectivist ideology once and for all,they’re rotten to the core the lot of them.

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skippy6
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:25pm
Love common sense, won’t find it in the progressive world….

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EgoLacuna
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:01pm
I grew up in a very anti-gun household, and I drank the cool aide until my 20′s. The first time I went to a range I was hooked. Having been on both sides of this issue, I’m pretty sensitive to what works and what doesn’t when it comes to explaining the value of firearms to people who have never shot, and can’t imagine why someone would “need” a gun. I think honesty and knowledge are the most important factors in persuasion. Mamet does a good job on both counts with the exception of claiming that cities with the most gun restriction have the most crime. Because crime rate is determined by multiple factors (age of the population, weather, unemployment rate, etc) it is possible to statistically determine how much each factor “weighs” in determining the outcome. That type of analysis shows that gun laws have minimal impact on crime rate when compared to factors like poverty, unemployment, and education. It seems like a small point, but a lot of anti-gun people are aware of it, and there is no reason to make weak arguments when there are so many better ones.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:34pm
  except for the fact you leave out is most of the least violent areas of the nation are comparatively poorer than the violence wracked cities. The difference is more along the racial make-up of the citizenry, but that is an issue we are no supposed to talk about.
  
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- XPat
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:40pm
  How about facts jackwagon rather than Democrat/Commie propaganda, assclown. I hope nobody was injured when you had possession of a firearm. We can all agree that mentally unstable people should not handle firearms. That means you!
  
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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:45pm
  “The first time I went to a range I was hooked.”
  
  As a firearms instructor I have seen this time and time again. Even with folks who were very reticent to try shooting. Nine times out of ten, when someone shows up at the range for the first time, they leave with a different perspective altogether. Many find themselves experiencing an epiphany. I am amazed at how many come back for advanced training and remark that they were very intimidated by guns prior to their first visit, yet are now enthusiastic about shooting and gun ownership. It all comes down to education. Unfortunately there are those who do not want to be enlightened for fear “compromising” long held beliefs. They just like the kool-aid way too much. I as one might guess, many of our first time shooters are folks who were victims of crime or close to someone who was. Frankly, we prefer to have them come to us prior to buying a firearm. That said, guns aren’t for everyone. Education often helps determine what they actually need, be that a firearm, dog or some other means of defense.
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:58pm
  When I hear someone ask why I would need an AR15 I ask why anyone would need a Corvette.
  
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- GJPinks
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:46pm
  I don’t know why you need a corvette. When handling criminals, especially in the home, you’re likely to hit walls and load bearing structures, damage the floor areas, not to mention bullets cost far less than replacing quarter panels, plus the hassle of cleaning parts of the criminals from the under carriage.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:49am
  Defense against criminals is a secondary purpose of the right. Hunting is a tertiary purpose. The primary right is self defense against government. The purpose is to shoot political leaders, and their fascist lackeys that would presume to deprive you of your natural rights as a human being. There are no significant genetic differences between the Chinese of the 50s, the Hutu’s of Rwanda, and indeed the National Socialists of Germany, and those in Washington today. To think that they lack the possibility of murdering their own people shows an extreme ignorance of politics, history, and the human condition.
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:19am
  We are a family that shoots together. My daughter in law wasn’t exactly anti-gun, but swore she would never own one. Then they moved out of Texas to New Mexico with the Military.
  
  One night leaving base to grab a bite to eat, they were nearly car-jacked (thank God for V-8 engines). In talking with their friends on base, every single one of them has said they have been “held-up” at gun point at least once while grocery shopping etc.. My son and daughter in law are expecting their first child and she is now asking to get and be trained with a gun. Amazing how your perspective can change.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:03am
  Cavallo,
  Your post=hit nail on head squarely and with great force. ‘Nuff said.
  
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- EgoLacuna
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:17am
  @Warm
  
  I don’t think that’s actually the case, but I could be wrong. Could you provide some examples? Typically violence varies directly with poverty, and that relationship is stronger than the variance of violence and race.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:35am
  OUR “Great Deppression” had less crime than a few weeks in Chicago. My grandma–grandpa–mother–father all went through this shitz for tenyears! no neighbor was killing each-other! After this “depression”, my grandma told me that they finally had to put locks on the doors for the first time in their lives—–and they LIVED IN CHICAGO at that time!! As money became more previllent, crime and crimminals took over the government(maffia, etc..). Then eventually allong came a HOOVER(J.Edgar) and began to suck-up most of the crimminals. After he “left” office the crimeloards came back and are sitill here in Chi-twn.
  
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Jake Dog2
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:54pm
Wow! The-Jerk must have suffered a concision with Hillary. Did he really make a backhanded positive comment about a Jewish person?

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- ep8568
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:54pm
  Awww……. Does it just hurt your feewings when a perfectly good brain-dead liberal becomes not brain dead ?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:53pm
  EP, he was speaking of our resident nazi: The Jerk, or Jihad Jerk, or SillySally’s boyfriend, or TechEngineer69′s reach around pal. Read a few previous posts by said nazi, the read his current one hear actually calling Mamet “brother”. Perhaps better living through chemicals, but I doubt it highly, as most nazis whether back then or now actually needed attending to like rabid dogs. Perhaps he is just on his 9th stein of the evening. Who knows.
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:51pm
I’m sure most of you guys will find this minute an a bit message says it all.

It is pretty stirring stuff from Steve Vaus. I hope it goes viral…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vcr5-QvMdY

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:00pm
  Incidentally, they are looking for donations to get this onto radio and television (it’s in the description).
  
  I think that this might just be the thing to frighten your lawmakers into temporary sanity…
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:59pm
  Hi NZkiwi,
  
  Thanks for the link. : )
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:00am
  No worries, Monk. I see that the view counter has been stuck on 675 for quite some time now.
  
  That’s interesting, don’ you think?
  
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- TO_THE_LOST
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 2:09am
  I got to see this a little while ago and it was AWESOME! It went down though…. hopefully not permanently. Thank you!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:28am
  Hi NZkiwi,
  
  I watched it. Didn’t look at the counter. I wonder if it’s broken?
  
  It’s on 704 now…. watched it 3 more times and it stayed on 704. ???
  
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- theBru
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:33am
  Nice link, don’t mess with Texas!!!
  
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RaydocX
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:21pm
His comments are accurate and i’ll be sure to lift some for future use in debating my biased friends…

have had too many i though logical thinking people saying ‘i don’t know…’ and ‘but we have to do something…’ when the topic comes up… or ‘i just don’t think people need those…’

facts and statments to capsize their emotion laden arguments are always welcome.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:11pm
‘We individuals are **guaranteed** by the Constitution the right to self-defense. This right is not the Government’s to “award” us. They have **never** been granted it.’

Bravo…!!

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- Do The Right Thing
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:00pm
  ‘Like’ button pressed!
  
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- Rob_M
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:37pm
  That’s why the constitution says endowed by their creator. By giving the rights to god they were intended to be beyond the grasp of government. The left is getting around that by training everyone to think god is an imaginary sky man and the constituiton is a rag written by racists. If nobody cares what it says nobody will care when they ignore it.
  
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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:05pm
‘Brain Dead Liberal’

Nothing further needs to be said…

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- gyro
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:42pm
  a very good argument
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:39am
  “Brain Dead Liberal” is redundant..
  
  It’s like saying “Big Huge Giant”
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 7:57am
  East
  Or a stinky fart.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:11am
  SURF..
  
  or “Holy Cow!” (if you’re a Hindu)
  
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Carlinpa
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:00pm
WOW! hard to believe this guy was ever a liberal. That was the best argument and review of the attempt at gun control I’ve ever heard.

RE:”Similarly, we modern Solons delight in passing gun laws that, in their entirety, amount to “making crime illegal.””
That’s brilliant.. never thought of that..

RE”What possible purpose in declaring schools “gun-free zones”? Who bringing a gun, with evil intent, into a school would be deterred by the sign?”

LOL yeah really..
He has done What I’ve just started to learn to do, zoom out from the issue and the talking points and view it as objectively as you can. That’s when you get these kinds of perspectives.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:16pm
  @CARLINPA
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:00pm
  WOW! hard to believe this guy was ever a liberal.
  ———————————————————–
  True converts are always the most strident advocates.
  Its not always easy for someone who has always been conservative to understand
  the mindset of a progressive. If you’ve been there you get it loud and clear.
  
  Im not sure it is possible to “convince” a prog how wrong they are. The individual
  has to realize for themselves.
  
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- rjtaurus605
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:07pm
  I was a liberal, my metamorphosis was slow, first I started target shooting, then I ran into my lib friends that were appalled at my new hobby. Then the blinders came off and I saw how the libs worked, and little by little I peeled of flayer by layer the falsehoods of my liberalism. It is like being heathen and finding God, you can not understand how you lived in that evil brainwashed world.
  
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Gunlovinmomma
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:52pm
Wow! Someone who understands what it’s all about. You know my son is a Junior in High School and I noticed his American HIstory book laying on the floor so I decided to pick it up and check it out. Well the first thing I did was go to the section on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to read what it said. Well let me tell you I was pissed and will be raising hell Monday. It gives the regular verbage on the Second Amendment and has side bar notes telling students what it means and here is what it said “Each state has the right to maintain a malitia; an armed force for it’s own protection – Today the National Guard. The National Government and States can and do regulate the private possesion and use of firearms”. What the “H” No wonder we end of with all these people who have screwed up ideas about the Constitution and our rights.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:26pm
  This must be what Moochelle meant when she said that we’ll have to change our history, our conversation, etc. By your comment it looks like the history books have already been manipulated. Damn them!
  
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Stelex
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:48pm
Its ironic, people who have lived or have direct connection to communism are warning us left and right. Hell ….. Pravda has been screaming at us not to give up our guns. But the average Joe just doesn’t accept that it could happen here. I work with lots of smart people ………dumb as a stump most of them at least common sense wise. I truly believe that college is corrupting and indoctrinating our youth. The kids my company hires are just brainwashed………..talking points all the way. Scares the hell out of me

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:37pm
  When I lived in Tampa in the early ’70s I met a few Cubans who had put their lives, and their children’s lives in the face of danger to escape Michael Moore’s Utopia. A short time later while in the Army my unit was sent to the Mariel Boat Lift where I met many more Cubans actively fleeing Castro’s regime. From all whom I could communicate with I heard horror stories that are too many to start telling here. Later in Europe I met more who escaped East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and even a few from Russia. Those who had become American citizens started to warm us what the Clinton administration seemed to them. Naturally, we are hearing more from other immigrants from these countries currently. They know and understand what these wild promises that politicians make while removing freedoms one after another will eventually lead to.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:28am
  Do you want to see some brainwashed idiots? Then go talk to some of your black co-workers. They are the biggest govt lovers of all. They make a white prog look like a conservative. I try to tell them that companies only care about hiring people with the necessary skills, that show up on time, and do not cause problems or act out. They actually believe in their heart of hearts that for some strange reason the white man just doesn’t like the color black or brown. They cannot fathom that is is the behavior of their brethren that the snowman detests. Their attitude, the chips on shoulders, the innate hatred, the loud aggressive mouths, the sense of entitlement, the crime. They just cannot absorb the reality. They really think that we take marching orders from Beck and Limbaugh and such. It is projection at its finest. Accuse your adversaries of doing what you do. Complete imbeciles.
  
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Saxxon
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:47pm
Some wonder why the opposition to the “AW Ban: is much more vehement this time. People have 20 years to wake up. Plus with the various usurpations perpetrated by the administration in the last 4 years, a great many more are cognizant of their right to self defense and self determination.

If not for the voter fraud, there is no way the liberals would have made the gains they did and Obama would not be in office.

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The-Monk
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:46pm
Somewhere there’s a drone with his name painted on an attached sidewinder….

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:01pm
  Hi MONK, No doubt you are right, and wait for a little while to see what our trolls will call him.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:42pm
  The trolls will call him “Bob” and they will throw little pickles at his effigy.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:47pm
  Monk = In WW2 the factory workers that made bombs would paint stuff on the bombs
  They didnt do it for the exploding ones it was for the duds
  The germans would find a unexploded bomb with stuff writen on it
  That was the message that the germans remembered and talked about the next day
  Some simple things work the best
  :)
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:59pm
  Gyro:
  Most of the messages were “Drink your Ovaltine” “For a good time, Call Helga” and “If you find this product unsatisfactory, please call 1-800-eat-crap”
  
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barber2
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:41pm
Perhaps we should hope that some current Jews, whose ancestors were severely punished for the sins of their leaders for so long, could now appreciate the plight of tax paying, lawful , decent Americans who find their rights threatened by an angry, revengeful bunch of Lefties who seek retaliation for the sufferings of their slave ancestors upon people who had nothing to do with the original bad deeds. And retaliation by Communists for the fall of their beloved Soviet Republic. Bad deeds and retaliation create endless circles of suffering.

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- EgoLacuna
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:39pm
  You Sir, are an idiot. Fortunately, that fact will limit your ability to do much damage.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:02pm
  EGO: And you, sir, are an arrogant egomaniac which should also limit your ability to do much damage !
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:05pm
  EGO: And what name did you use, Troll, before your emergence on the Blaze as EGOLUNATIC on December 23, 203 ?! Your comment has such a familar arrogant ring….
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:18pm
  EGO: I really misspoke about your ability to do damage : as an egomaniac you could qualify as an Obama administration cabinet / czar member : that means you aren’t very qualified , but you fit in perfectly with the radical Obama set and , unfortunately, can inflict much damage on the American people and our economy . Proof ? Obama I .
  
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- EgoLacuna
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 8:20am
  Ok, I stand corrected. I guess I should say that people who believe stuff like that are idiots. You boys will remain powerless until you learn how to think. It’s probably too late for you, but consider your children.
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:26am
  EgoLacuna
  So let me get this straight if we believe we have god given rights that the government can neither give nor take away we are wrong according to you? If we believe that the government shouldn’t spend 1.6 trillion per year over what they take in we are also wrong according to you, right? But yet you have the audacity to say “you boys” need to learn to think? I may be what you consider to be a gun clinging bible toter but I think you need some education instead of indoctrination.
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:41pm
One can see why the communists select, as their first priority, their former useful idiots for execution when they finally take over a country.

Prominent left-wingers are often very able writers and artists and when, in their disillusionment, they turn against their former comrades, their erudition and articulation can be devastating.

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Iammany1
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:27pm
Doesn’t get any simpler than that. Even a lib could understand.

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- Stelex
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:41pm
  You seem to have very high expectations.
  
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- Uechi
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:43pm
  Not Libs Marxists. Logic is something that escapes Libs/ Progressives/Marxists/commies there are two types. The dumbasses that think with thier emotions and truly believe what there doing is best for all of us, wrong. The other group, the ones that are in power and make the laws have an agenda and that is to disarm America. The reason given is safety, The real reason is control.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:50pm
  UECHI, thank you…….I try to explain that the progressive ellete are using the liberal youth to do there bidding.
  
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- Fecal_Matters
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:54pm
  A lib…is making sense to me! Wow…I think the Mayans were right (they just got their dates wrong)
  
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denkat56
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:27pm
All we want is the same abilities to protect our families as well as the president does and to be able to do it legally . The clown in chief has lost touch or never had it to start with reality.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:17pm
Good news indeed, at last one more former liberal has seen the light and goes on the offensive.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:37pm
  Love this video and this American woman….http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/01/26/Paging-Piers-Morgan
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:44pm
  And they start to slowly awake from their slumber.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:59pm
  JERK : And how about Barak Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden ? Jewish too ?! Please, warped brainwashed, young dude: get some education. Extremist Liberalism is not just a Jewish ” thing, ” it is more of a psychotic thing – just like extreme ” right” or extreme ” Islamic ” or extreme ANYTHING. These are all “extreme ” versions of any belief. Extremism is when one goes from ” I believe” to “I hate.” Very dangerous. Very dysfunctional. And, unfortunately, very Lefty Media / Radical Democrat in fashion.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:20pm
  SNOW: Sorry, my Jerk comment was to the section below.
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:13am
  CIVILWAR: Thanks for the video, I think I’m in love.
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:40pm
  CIVILWAR, Great video, thanks!
  
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HelloWorld
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:13pm
Well said!

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The_Jerk
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:13pm
We need more converted Jewish brothers like David Alan Mamet, Mark Levine, Michael Savage… .

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- drs1969
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:37pm
  And the first to open his eyes, David Horowitz.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:45pm
  David Horowitz, so true… don’t know how I missed him… though he was once left of the left. Thanks.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:47pm
  Jerk, you are a duplicitous POS. Each is an individual in their own right, as all people are. The man did not convert to being a nazi like yourself, just woke up to common sense. Brother? Seriously? Read your drivel wanker.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:01pm
  Fubared, each is an individual, but there are group identities, traditions, and cultures. There is a black culture. There is a Jewish culture.
  
  Jewish culture is commune-ism. It’s no accident that Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Frances Fox Piven, Cass Sunstein, Andy Stern, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Ron Bloom, Don Berwick… are all Jewish.
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:04pm
  The First David Horowitz Book To Read
  January 26, 2010
  http://frontpagemag.com/2010/david-swindle/the-first-david-horowitz-book-to-read/
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:21pm
  Sure Jihad Jerk, Hitler was an ok nazi,but you brother are a super swell nazi. Uh huh. Sure. Sell your crap to Tech and Sally. POS is a POS no matter how you slice it.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:54am
  The first Jew I ever knew personally was a little Jewish lady named Mrs. Kosman. She despised all communists, whites , blacks, Jews, Arabs, Chinese, whatever. She was a Social Studies teacher, and had escaped from East Germany in the early sixties.. I can still see the fire in her eyes when we discussed socialism. She was the kind of person everyone loved. Unlike Feinstein, Schumer , and Bloomberg etc. They are the thieving kind that give Jews a bad name.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 5:21pm
  Remember people, this was the guy who blamed the holocaust on the Jewish citizens of Germany.
  
  Even if they were communist, they did in no way deserve what happened to them.
  
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Fubared
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:12pm
Jihad Jerk is going to TechEngineer a SillySally over this. A Jew, speaking like a real American. Let hear from the resident nazi’s…

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:17pm
  Already posted my response you spoke. Read and weep.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:41pm
  FUBARED, LOL, right along the lines of what I was just thinking. Where is Jihad Jerk anyway? I haven’t seen his racist remarks for a while now.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:45pm
  FUB: Know what you mean : these Trolls who claim to be conservatives when they are merely hate-filled, anti-Jewish/ anti-capitalist dividers of the conservative cause. Obama loves them ! They helped our presidential Marxist win which proves they are NO conservatives despite their phony comments.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:54pm
  RJJinGadsden, are you not seeing my 8:13 posting? And barber2, I’m far more conservative than you. The difference between us is that I’m not as gullible.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:21pm
  Yeah JERK, I’ve now seen it and after having read so many of your other bitter posts here, that one surprises me.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:41pm
  the important thing is a deversity in thinking
  who is right who is wrong who is a hater who is a lover all depends on point of view
  the important thing is a deversity in thinking
  and every single one of us will agree that if evil wins everyone loses
  I say say what you think as long as you can back up what you say with logic
  Then let reasonable thinking people deside in thier minds what they believe
  Or
  flip a coin like obama
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:34pm
  Sure, none of the brownshirts were gullible at all. Nobody buys your soft core nazi sell Jihad Jerk. Look at what you post day in day out. Zero comments on non Jewish stories, or you insert Jews into stories where they don’t belong. Seek counseling. You are a nazi wanna be in SillySally clothing.
  
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- outlawislamleaches
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 12:17am
  nazis would come in handy right now for the muslem headache. disarm america, got steel got a lathe got guns ya can’t have a ban on needed tools
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:22am
  Fubar: Check out the Jewish Almanac, as far back as 1903 the publication stated socialism has always been an ingredient of Jewish society. However, many Jews despise communists violently. Atheist Jews are the Bolsheviks. The Bolshevik Jews exterminated the religious Jews in Russia and helped HITLER. Ever hear of Soros. Every race has its’ garbage.
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:32am
  Outlaw,if you’re trying to say that Nazis would take care of the Islamist problem you need to check your history again. The Nazis we’re allied with the Islamist during WWII to the point that Iraq even had their own SS unit.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 9:30am
  Katz
  Agreed. Not my issue with our nazis calling all Jews, every day, all day, every post, the chosen people, media owned by Jews, Juden this, Juden that and lumping all jews into Marxism. Jihad jerk never, ever comments on anything but. SillySally cannot comment without using the chosen people or Juden, and MorsiEngineer69 utilizes a sick soft sell encompassing all Jews too. The filters at the blaze have no issue with the hate speach, but don’t cuss. F that, and F the nazis and their Muslim sympathizing. As you have Katz in your handle, how does it feel to be lumped in with the Juden and chosen people these nazis refer to daily? Ask the jihad jerk about women and anyone of color too. He wants to tattoo illegals to better recognize them and women are nannies, better off in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. It gets old and is a distraction from often decent discourse.
  
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Rollo2
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:12pm
Welcome to the “right” side, Mr. Mamet!
We appreciate your input.

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- katzkiner
  Posted on January 27, 2013 at 1:08am
  Our job is to make sure they run out of “gun confiscators” before we run out of guns. A lot of us will not be here but we will leave a better country for our children. These communists have to be defeated by any means necessary. Every generation has to defeat tyranny.
  
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