Anti-Gun Rally in Oregon Draws a Crowd… of 20 People (Which Includes Members of the Media)
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An anti-gun rally in Eugene, Ore., drew a crowd on Saturday afternoon — just a really small one. The Washington Times reports that 20 people, including the media, attended the rally supporting a ban on so-called “assault weapons.” It wasn’t clear how many members of the media were covering the event.
Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy also showed up at the rally held at the Eugene Wayne Morris Free Speech Plaza. The event was hosted by Ceasefire Oregon, an anti-gun lobbying group.
Ceasefire Oregon spokesman Baldr Odinson argued semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines have “no place in the civilian sector” and urged lawmakers to ban them. The anti-gun group also holds year-round gun buyback programs.
The crowd was lacking in enthusiasm and excitement, an atmosphere that was “bordering on complacency,” the Examiner reports. The site writes that the poor turnout “mirrors the sentiment of the majority as to pending heightened state and federal gun control.”
Lawmakers in Oregon recently proposed legislation that would make it illegal to possess or transfer an so-called “assault weapon” or large capacity magazine. Violating the law would be punishable by up to 10 years of imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Last week, the National Rifle Association held a massive pro-gun rally in Albany, N.Y., where thousands of people protested the state’s strict gun laws at the State Capitol.
In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.
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338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:26pmTHIS IS NEWS! This proves that the “war on SCAW” is pretty much over. If you cannot get more than 20 people IN EUGENE OREGON to protest evil guns……stick a fork in it, its done. YEAHHHH!
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:44pmIt is not the PEOPLE that wants to take your guns, it is the INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT.
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:01pmAs long as Obama, Holder, et al, are in power the war against our second amendment rights will NEVER be over.
Never live like a cow! Never give-up your guns!
“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:06pmIt is not the PEOPLE that wants your guns. It is the INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT that wants them.
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@johnpaulkuchtajr
Obama and Holder are just minions. There are people that hide behind them, that want your guns.
These people controlled Bush, and would have controlled Romney.
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Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_ArTeest_Glenn
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:22pmPART 2
‘Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious. But the time would not be long before the courage and enterprise would come, and pretext be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least sharing it equally with it’s present possessors. Debts would be abolished first, taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others, and at last a downright equal division of everything be demanded and voted. What would be the consequence of this? [asked John Adams]‘
‘The idol, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not a sacred as the Laws of God, and that there is not a force of law at public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If “thou shalt not covet” and “thou shalt not steal” were no commandments of Heaven, they must be made invaluable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.’
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:23pmMichael,
When Holder sells guns to Mexican drug cartels to foment violence along the border with Texas, he ain’t no minion. The man is dangerous and must be stopped (at a red light, of course).
And, when his boss has so intimidated the military that not one swinging deck launches a rescue for those four men, he’s no minion, he has to be hung (in effigy, of course).
“Remember Benghazi and All the Traitors!”
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:26pm“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.â€
– Theodore Roosevelt
“This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President Wilson signs this bill, the INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.â€
– Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913
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The men that own the invisible government are the same men that own the United Nations.
The U N. is ONE curtain they hide behind, in addition to the curtain you call “Representatives”.
The New World Order can not be enforced as long as Americans “Cling to their Bibles and GUNS”.
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Cavallo
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:32pmSo .. in the bastion of anti gun laws of NY, the NRA draws 5000, a legion, a brigade, and in their own stronghold of liberal oregon they draw.. 20.. not even a platoon.
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dwsmokin
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:32pmMaybe they can join up with the folks at a Sandra Fluke rally-then they’d have enough for a touch football game, or maybe a poker tournament. Gotta love the support from these liberal “grass roots” movements.
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mercenary4freedom
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:46pmI hope everyone is keeping track of every one these legislators are that pushing to strip us of our rights. I hope they know there is a nice cozy dungeon that awaits them the gallows are being constructed.
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:49pmWhatever. Actually, most Americans support gun control, by a large margin. Do you guys actually get your news here?
“A strong majority of gun owners and non gun owners support stronger restrictions on firearms, according to a national survey conducted by Johns Hopkins University.
A sizable 89 percent of all respondents, and 75 percent of those identified as NRA members, support universal background checks for gun sales. Similar surveys by Pew Research Center and Gallup have also found background checks to be by far the most popular gun control proposal in the aftermath the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/28/strong-majority-of-americans-nra-members-back-gun-control
The idea that Americans don’t support gun control is false. Very false, despite this silly thread. 75% of NRA members support universal background checks if you ask them, as these polls do. One thing is for sure, the NRA leadership does not represent the views of their members. They support the views of gun manufacturers. And, indirectly, they support the views of terrorists and wanna-be mass murders. When those commit to the murder of Americans on a large scale, they want their high capacity guns without jumping through a lot of hoops. Thanks NRA.
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 9:14pm@Sendinthemediocre
Once again, you put your ratiocination on display.
“The event was hosted by Ceasefire Oregon, an anti-gun lobbying group.”
ANTI-GUN is NOT GUN CONTROL !!!!
In addition, any type of “Control” is an Infringement !!!
75% of these “representatives” in D.C. are Lawyers.
A Lawyer knows the difference between ‘May’ and ‘Shall’, is of the same contrast as black and white.
Had the Bill of Rights promulgated that the right of the people “may not be infringed”,
gun “control” would be constitutional.
The Framers used the word ‘SHALL’. That means it is not up for debate or interpretation.
I had to get a background check to get my firearm.
As long as we are under the tyranny of the state to conform, I would prefer that thugs and criminals not have access to guns at gun shows, without background checks.
That is the only thing I agree to, as far as regulations go.
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dmerwin
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:11pmSmall chunk of space dust. Hundreds of thousands of background checks and a handful of prosecutions for attempting to purchase a firearm illegally. Why do you now think this will work? If a criminal has a record they will purchase through a legal friend or family member OR STEAL it. Fast and furious proves that the doj does not take this seriously. ASSCLOWN. The answer is mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes that liberal judges cannot deviate from. Jay himself stated that he and ASSCLOWN believe that most gun owners are “responsible” so why not prosecute the criminal felons????
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JohnofOregon
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:27pm@meators , I just love how you DC staffers just make stuff up. Maybe you should know the twenty protesters were kitty showing up because she thought it was a pot rally, the 4demonstrators doing this for college credit a dozen reporters because this spot is the entry to the courthouse and there are a couple of important trials going on and of course a couple of the homeless hippies in tie die thinking this was a sixties sit in.
5 days before there were hundreds of pro gun ralliers in the same spot.
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Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_ArTeest_Beck
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:50pmPART 2
‘Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious. But the time would not be long before the courage and enterprise would come, and pretext be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least sharing it equally with it’s present possessors. Debts would be abolished first, taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others, and at last a downright equal division of everything be demanded and voted. What would be the consequence of this? [asked John Adams]‘
‘The idol, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not a sacred as the Laws of God, and that there is not a force of law at public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If “thou shalt not covet” and “thou shalt not steal” were no commandments of Heaven, they must be made invaluable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.’
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Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_ArTeest_Beck
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:51pmPART 3
Isn’t it amazing, John Adams is talking about modern day socialism and marxism and at the time he didn’t even know it. What do you think John Adams would think at the way Obama preaches about class warfare, about “the rich” this and “the successful” that? What do you think John Adams would say? He’d say Obama’s a tyrant. He’d say he’s a tyrant and not just him. All the others who think and act the same way.”
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and BTW don’t feed the trolls … :D
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Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_ArTeest_Beck
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:58pm[sorry about the order; TheBlaze doesn't like the word "docúment" because it's got "cúm" in it; must use the "ú" character to get a docúment in edgewise]
Mark Levin 02/21/13
http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930
@01:10
PART 1
“So, while we do, and will today, get into the teeth of what is going on around us — because we have to be aware of it and we need to deal with it — I want to start by taking a look at some broader thoughts on the program today. First. While doing research, and I do a lot of it, I found a quote from John Adams in John Adams’ own book. John Adams’ ‘Defense Of The Constitutions Of Governments Of The United Staes’, chapter 16, docúment 15, 1787.”
“John Adams, of Massachusetts, he wrote:
‘Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, 10 millions in number, all assemble together, not more than 1 or 2 millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property. If we take into account the women and children, and even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property except a small quantity of clothes and a few trifles or other moveables. Would Mr. Needem [with whom he was dealing with] be responsible that if all would be decided by a vote of the majority, the 8 or 9 millions who have no property would not think of usurping over the rights of the 1 or 2 millions who have?’
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mecanic
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 11:22pm@SendTheMeteors…..you are a liar and idiot. no one here believes you’re bu!!$h!t, you F#%KING TROLL.
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mecanic
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 11:31pm@SendTheMeteors……hey stupid 2700 people is not a majority on this subject, you moron……The survey polled about 2,700 respondents across the country and was conducted this month by Johns Hopkins University. you really are an idiot.
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AUsername
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 11:37pmeven the loser mitt romney gets bigger crowds than that.
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wldbil
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:26pmWOW!
Twenty?
I suspect astroturfing…
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shorelineliz
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:07pmpathetic. lame. losers.
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CatB
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:09pmProof that the anti-gun “crowd”…. is OUT GUNNED by freedom loving Americans!
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theBru
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:22pmDoesn’t matter how many show up for the rallies, it is how many vote when the bill comes up…problem is, there is nothing but progs in gov’t these days…and they vote like they want to vote, not like “We the People” want them to vote…or am I the only one who has noticed that???
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catty
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:34pmThe only problem with your statement is that they were voted into government in the first place by “we the people”
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:36pm“The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has OWNED THE GOVERNMENT since the days of Andrew Jackson.â€
– President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
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nighttrainno9
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:20pmIt’s very representative of a very small percentage of the people who
insist on forcing their unconstitutional will on a large percentage of
the people. Liberals are extremely noisy and forceful and even violent
if they don’t get their way. They are comparable with 6 year old children.
This country would look like nazi germany if the citizens were not armed.
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javasport
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:19pmWeird because my little podunk town got over 200 to show up at a PRO 2nd amendment rally. http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-southeasternpa/Concerned-gun-owners-hold-rally-in-Bucks-County/-/121434/19153052/-/yqm6fyz/-/index.html
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The Big Mick
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:18pmEven I can draw better than that. What is that “Street Person” Art? Looks like an AK and an AR-15 had a menage a trois with a Fire Hose.
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nc_writer
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:12pmRight, throw them in jail! They drew (gasp!) a PICTURE of a gun! Zero tolerence!
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 5:22pmMick
This is what the gun the boggy man under their bed carries.
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:15pmWill you Choose to Die if they attempt to Confiscate Guns??? Or will you wish you would have Died when they started taking Guns??? WOW! Kenyans Slaughtered with Axes and Machetes over their Election. Bet those killed Wish they had a Gun.
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The Big Mick
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:19pmIsn’t the Issue whether one is prepared to KILL to KEEP ones Sacred Liberties?
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Beachmastermax
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:14pmTen reporters and ten payed lobbyist. Why are they hiding their faces?
They are about to jump the shark.
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The Jewish Avenger
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:37pmFonzie would be proud… LOL
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BlackCrow
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:10pmCouldn’t draw flies with a wagon load of _______.
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MisterSarcastic
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:08pmFree speech plaza…
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The Big Mick
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:21pmThere is no Plaza in The Republic that is NOT a Free Speech Plaza.
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msjoe43
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:57pmThe crowd of 20 Oregonian who took part of an anti-gun rally really supports the gov’t in taking away other citizens Civil Rights.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:07pmIn other words collaborators.
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The-Monk
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:57pmActually this is what happened….
They read about a progressive gun law proposal that gun owners would only be allowed two 10 round mags and after smoking some pot they got confused and thought their protest could only have a maximum of 20 people. : )
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338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:30pmEugene is the birthplace of some of the finest pot in the world. Guess even stoners understand liberty. Good Job Eugene!
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Magyar
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:54pmComplacency –they say? I suggest it was more like absolute rejection of the ANTI-GUN premise
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509Ptrooper
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:53pmThis isn’t even news so why cover it?
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Gremlin1974
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:01pmBecause it is what I like to think of as Anti-main stream media news. It isn’t that it is actually that “news worthy”, but it does help to refute the claims made by the MSM and the Anti-gun sector. They scream that they have broad support, then they have a rally that draws 20 folks. At least that is why I think it is ok to report on stuff like this underwhelming rally.
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13th Imam
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:18pm509
When I went to DC for Restoring Honor , about 300,000 +++ were at the Lincoln Memorial. The MSM news divisions couldn’t seem to find this gathering. Yet they did find the Al Sharpton counter rally for mo monie, where about 250 Takers assembled. I rather like to hear these stories.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:47pmThe anti freedom law the progs are designing is unconstitutional and it’s good to see they had such a huge crowd.
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:11pmHey, give them some credit. They drew 13 more people than Sandra Fluke outside a Chick-Fil-A
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:47pmâ€A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who would attempt to abuse them, which would include their own Government.— — George Washington on the 2nd Amendment
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galaxie_man
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 9:33pmHave capable weapons and copious amounts of ammo. Keep your powder dry and your weapons clean. When the traitors come, give them the ammo first……very hot and at very high velocity.
ΜΟΛΩΠΛΑΒΕ!
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:46pm“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress … to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms…. ”
–Samuel Adams
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banjarmon
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:45pmI am Holding Bill Nelson, senator from Florida responsible for any anti-gun laws… I sure there are millions of others in the state that will do the same!!
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mercenary4freedom
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:03pmI don’t trust Nelson as far as I could throw him!
If they had offered from freebies at this rally like free kool aid punch & obama phone cards they may have assembled another 20.
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DLV
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:45pmI’m kinda surprised, I mean it is in Oregon, a pretty liberal place.
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drs1969
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:57pmI guess they were too ‘high’ to attend.
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Fubared
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:58pmWhole Foods was having a granola sale.
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:45pm“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:10pm“When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed (Reserve) to conceal its powers but the truth is — the Fed has usurped the government!â€
Congressman Louis McFadden, Chairman of House Comm. on Banking and Currency from 1920 to 1931
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:43pm“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”
–Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
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DYNA
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 10:04pmAbout 1.5 years ago the city council of Eugene voted to stop saying the pledge of allegiance to the United States. They no longer pledged their allegiance to the USA. One of the council women said this was because they saw themselves more as being citizens of the world.
Think of this. Can they be trusted with our taxes as USA citizens when they see themselves as being citizens of the world?
What happens when the world demands that the we, USA citizens, give up our freedom?
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:42pm“[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
–James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46
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Zarapachi
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:41pmTwenty people eh. -_- Nuff said.
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BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:41pm“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.”
– Adolph Hitler, Hitler’s Secret Conversations 403 (Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens trans., 1961)
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ONEUNDER
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 6:40pmThe Mayor, attends the rally and 20 people ?? attend. Kinda gives you an idea how UNPOPULAR this view is here in Blue Gene.
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:13pmHopefully this will also be the Mayors last term since voters now see their character.
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leftcoastslut
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 7:16pmyes blue gene is quite different than portland where the OWS protested. besides look at the snow. I’d rather be inside listening to Dr. Zivago’s “Somewhere my love, there will be songs to sing, although the snow covers the hope of spring……
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