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ARIZONA SHOOTINGS: NOT WASTING OPPORTUNITY FOR RULING CLASS TO ATTACK CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
THE FREEDOM POST ^ | January 17, 2011 | Matthew Burke

Posted on 01/28/2011 6:16:09 PM PST by TheFreedomPoster

Never to let a "good crisis go to waste" (i.e., as an excuse to transfer more power and control to federal politicians and bureaucrats), thehill.com reports (my emphasis) that mere hours since the Arizona mass murders: "Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that COULD BE PERCEIVED as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress."

"Perceived"? "Could be"? And who gets the arbitrary, unbridled power to "perceive" what "could be" threatening? Him? Or, some other politician, bureaucrat, or board of self-annointed and proclaimed free speech experts? Maybe judgment would come down from a newly created, Orwellian, totalitarian, Free Speech Czar...

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: arizonashooting; giffords; paulkrugman; peterking; reichstagfire; robertbrady

1 posted on 01/28/2011 6:16:12 PM PST by TheFreedomPoster
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To: TheFreedomPoster

Somebody needs to bitch-slap this boy awake.......


2 posted on 01/28/2011 6:19:10 PM PST by Concho (-)
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To: TheFreedomPoster

The guy’s an utter doofus.


3 posted on 01/28/2011 6:22:53 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: TheFreedomPoster
Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that COULD BE PERCEIVED as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress."

Hey Bob!

FU!

4 posted on 01/28/2011 6:56:11 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: TheFreedomPoster

Bobbie Brady introduced this bill?

I wonder what Marsha, Greg, Cindy, Jan and Peter think about it?


5 posted on 01/28/2011 7:13:11 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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To: TheFreedomPoster

Some animals are more equal then others- Orwell (Animal Farm)


6 posted on 01/28/2011 8:26:16 PM PST by Bullish (Obama's obviously drunk at the wheel and should be taken off the road before he gets people killed)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!


7 posted on 01/28/2011 8:27:05 PM PST by Bullish (Obama's obviously drunk at the wheel and should be taken off the road before he gets people killed)
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