{"id":3174,"date":"2010-10-23T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2010-10-23T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T09:04:06","slug":"oh-those-2nd-amendment-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/oh-those-2nd-amendment-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Those 2nd Amendment Solutions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2001, I was called a traitor kicked out of an MSN community, because I posted a message expressing concern that GW Bush would use the 9\/11 attack as an excuse to invade Iraq and curtail the civil liberties of US citizens.  In 2003, I was called a traitor and kicked out of two MSN Communities, because I posted messages that I thought Bush was manufacturing evidence to invade Iraq  and curtailing the civil liberties of US citizens.  Today candidates for our nations highest offices are proposing the violent overthrow of the government of the United States, if they do not get their way in the coming elections.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23broden\" Stop being mean! All Americans <\/span>respect democracy<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table." […]<\/p>\n

In the interview, Brad Watson, political reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8), asked Broden about a tea party event last year in Fort Worth in which he described the nation’s government as tyrannical.<\/p>\n

"We have a constitutional remedy," Broden said then. "And the Framers say if that don’t work, revolution."<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watson asked if his definition of revolution included violent overthrow of the government. In a prolonged back-and-forth, Broden at first declined to explicitly address insurrection, saying the first way to deal with a repressive government is to "alter it or abolish it."<\/p>\n

"If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary," Broden said, adding the nation was founded on a violent revolt against Britain’s King George III.<\/p>\n

Watson asked if violence would be in option in 2010, under the current government.<\/p>\n

"The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms," Broden said, without elaborating. "However, it is not the first option." <\/p>\n

Like Sharron Angle and her "Second Amendment remedies", the intent is clear — if democracy doesn’t give the teabaggers the result they want, then violence is on the table<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I\u2019ve heard yammering in his intent and on what he meant, but what he said is crystal clear.  Keith Olbermann and David Corn discuss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The entire Republican Party is complicit in this.  They are endorsing his position through their silence.  You can believe that, if today\u2019s Republicans take power, they will jump to call us traitors at the slightest complaint about their abuse of power.  And that abuse will be so severe that we will remember Crawford Caligula as a saint, by comparison.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2001, I was called a traitor kicked out of an MSN community, because I posted a message expressing concern that GW Bush would use the 9\/11 attack as an excuse to invade Iraq and curtail the civil liberties of US citizens.  In 2003, I was called a traitor and kicked out of two MSN […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}