Protesters Carry Guns Outside Obama Phoenix Speech, Police Say

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Permalink Reply by Susan Acito on August 18, 2009 at 4:48pm

When people showed up at a Bush town halls with the wrong T-shirt on, they were kicked or arrested and the righties said they were disrespectful and had no right to wear such a shirt.
This is pure and simple intimidation and implied violence. They should be arrested if they get anywhere near a crowd with loaded guns.

Permalink Reply by Eric Pearson on December 14, 2009 at 11:36pm

Hello Susan:

Our Nation already has over 10,000 gun laws.

From what you say, we should not abide to The Second Amendment (Amendment II) of the United States Constitution that protects the right to keep and bear arms.

Also, never mind what the founding fathers of our United States Constitution said:

Patrick Henry - Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Samuel Adams - The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Gouverneur Morris - Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Benjamin Franklin - Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

James Madison - Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Permalink Reply by Mike Lawson on December 22, 2009 at 2:17pm

Where were you, Eric, when protesters wearing T-shirts were arrested, kicked, beaten at anti-Bush rallies? Where were your patriotic quotes then, Eric? Something you should consider, too. Not all liberal Democrats are anti-gun, afraid to use or own them, etc. I'm an avid hunter, was raised on firearm use, belong to a gun club for access to a range and skeet shooting facility (where ironically my rights to speak my mind are strongly discouraged), and should I be called upon to defend this country from a foreign attack, you'd find me in the same fox hole you'd occupy fighting the same enemy. I'm smart enough to know one should not try to make enemies out of my fellow countrymen, but you seem hell-bent on it if your postings are any indication of your true feelings about those on the political left of the isle.

So tell me, Eric, where were you standing up for Liberty when this happened? Can you point me to some message boards you posted on back then, with quotes like "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" when these people were arrested for wearing anti-Bush slogans on a t-shirt? Where were your warnings against loss of liberty then? Oh, but NOW you're a patriot and all worried about loss of liberties. Okey doke.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc082007

This faux outrage post-Obama by right wing zealots is so revealing of the meaning behind Samuel Johnson's famous quote that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

This tendency to polarize, throw out extremes like you just did and leap to dramatic conclusions because Susan brought up the sheer irony, even hypocrisy of the right wing to applaud the arrest of verbal protesters and protesters wearing slogans vs. right wing nut cases showing up at town hall meetings with firearms to talk about the right to afford to see a doctor is very telling of why you are posting on the TN Democratic Party's message board.

I'm left guessing its some kind of hobby for somebody who clearly is against everything the Democratic Party actually stands for, and I'm wondering now, having read a lot of your postings, if you don't come here simply to cause strife, negativity and contrarian points for the sake of amusement. Just because somebody has a right to do something, does not mean they should do it. Bringing firearms to town hall meetings with our nation's President yards away, this is despicable behavior that, while legal in its jurisdiction, is something the right wing would have screamed about had it happened under Bush, and the person bearing the arm would likely have been shot, if the results of wearing a t-shirt with an anti-Bush slogan was any indication.