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Singer Tony Bennett Says Other Countries Will Invade U.S. to Stop Gun Violence
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Posted on 02/07/2013 9:05:42 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver

Shut up and sing, Bennett. Your opinions only serve to prove that you are a moron.


41 posted on 02/07/2013 10:05:54 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Sub-Driver

America is 1st in private gun ownership, but 28th in gun violence on a per capital basis. There are 27 other nations that would need to be invaded by the rest of the world before they got to us.


42 posted on 02/07/2013 10:06:09 AM PST by Richard Axtell (Comming: The Abyss.)
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To: tractorman
Must have left his brain in San Francisco.

Well said, tractorman.

Bennett is certifiable... what a bizarre statement.

43 posted on 02/07/2013 10:07:08 AM PST by nutmeg (FUBO!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bennett is a member of the TIAPWWGAI (The International Association of People Who Won’t Go Away).


44 posted on 02/07/2013 10:09:22 AM PST by GSWarrior (To activate this tagline contact the Admin Moderator.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bennett must be as stupid as he looks..


45 posted on 02/07/2013 10:12:33 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Sub-Driver
the rest of the world would “take care of us in a really bad way,” just like they did in World War II to Germany.

This clown, aided by senility, has a totally scrambled brain. Nazi Germany was stomped flat for visiting violence on all of Europe, not for any concern by the rest of the world about internal violence. It was institutionalized mayhem By the national government!

If he isn't aware of this tiny detail, how can anyone take him seriously?

I stand by my estimate that 25% of all "americans" are clinically insane, and at least 75% of all actors and entertainers.

46 posted on 02/07/2013 10:13:40 AM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: Sub-Driver

They will? Bring it on! I need more 7.62 ammo anyway!


47 posted on 02/07/2013 10:17:26 AM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: Sub-Driver

DANNY BENNETT: Well, I was raised a pacifist...


Pacifism: The Ultimate Immorality by Raymond Kraft

Last week, Jack and Jill Pacifisto were walking home through the park after dinner with friends, during which they had spent a few hours discussing the immorality of violence and war and their commitments to send more money to progressive activists over the next year. Suddenly, Tony Thug stepped out of the shadows and pointed a pistol at Jack and said, “Give me your wallet,” and, pointing the gun at Jill, “Your purse.”

“What?” asked Jack, incredulous, “Hey, we don’t want any trouble. We’re pacifists. We aren’t going to hurt you.”

“Not my problem,” said Tony, “Gimme your money.”

So Jack and Jill did, and then Tony said, “And now gimme your watches, rings, jewelry, everything worth anything.”

“Hey,” said Jill, “This is my wedding ring!”

And Tony said, “Not my problem.”

Jack and Jill handed over their wallet, and purse, and all their jewelry and Rolex watches, and then Tony shot them both twice in the chest and picked up the loot and stepped back into the shadows.

As Jill lay dying she whispered, “Jack? Why didn’t you fight back? Why didn’t you have a gun?” Those were her last words.

“I couldn’t,” whispered Jack. “I’m a pacifist.” Those were his last words.

A few days later, Bill Thaxton and his wife were walking home through the park after dinner, when Tony Thug stepped out of the shadows.

“Give me your wallet, your purse,” said Tony, pointing his gun first at Bill, and then at his wife. He did not know that Bill was an old lawman, and had been a Marine sniper when he was young, and was active in the Single Action Shooters Society and had a concealed-carry-permit. Tony assumed that the old man was just an old man with some money and a few credit cards in his wallet walking home from dinner.

“Sorry, friend, I don’t like guns, and I don’t want any trouble,” said Bill.

“Not my problem,” said Tony, “Gimme your wallet, your purse,” he said, waving the gun at Bill’s wife, “Rings, watches, everything.”

“And what if I don’t?” asked Bill.

“I’ll shoot you both. Her first,” said Tony, pointing his gun at Bill’s wife again.

“Well,” said Bill, “Okay, honey, do what he says.”

She tossed down her purse. Bill reached slowly for his left lapel with his right hand and then, like lightning, did a cross-draw with his left and came out blazing with his trusty little 9, nailing Tony three times.

As he lay on the sidewalk dying, Tony Thug was heard to mutter, “Damn, I shoulda stuck with the pacifists . . .”

An acquaintance wrote me last week to tell me proudly how he had been a pacifist since the ‘60s. His letter set me thinking about pacifism, which is the ultimate and vilest form of immorality.

If you are Hitler, or Saddam, or Osama, or Ahmadinejad, your desire to kill those you dislike is at least honest and open. You wear you hate on your sleeve and we know who and what you are. But the Pacifist wears his refusal to resist evil as if it were a badge of honor, and claims it as a sign of his or her absolute moral superiority. The Hitlers and Osamas are at least honest about who they are, the Pacifist is not. Not even to himself.

The German Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote a poem circa 1946 about the quiescence of German intellectuals in the face of the Nazi rise to power that has become famous. Translated, it reads:

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent,

I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists

I did not speak out,

I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews

I did not speak out,

I was not a Jew.

When they came for me

there was no one left to speak out.

The Pacifist says something like this, but, unlike Niemoller, without apology. He says:

When you come for my allies

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my countrymen

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my neighbor,

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my mother,

my father, my brother,

my sister, I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for my wife,

my husband, my son,

my daughter, I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

When you come for me,

I will not fight you,

for I am a Pacifist.

The Pacifist claims that he (or she) is too good to fight against evil, and this is the catastrophic intellectual and moral failure of Pacifism. In the guise of being too good to oppose evil, the Pacifist invokes the ultimate immorality by aiding and abetting and encouraging evil, on the pretext of being too pure, too wise, too sophisticated to fight evil, thereby turning the pretense of goodness and purity into an invocation and license for evil to act without opposition.

The moral stance of the Pacifist is, unwittingly perhaps, homicidal, genocidal, fratricidal, suicidal. The Pacifist says, in effect: “There is nothing good worth fighting for. And there is nothing so evil worth fighting against.”

The Pacifist is willing to give evil free reign, because he or she thinks or feels that fighting against evil is even worse than evil itself . . . an intellectual and moral equivocation of monumentally staggering proportions. In order to be a Pacifist, one must hold that Nazism or Islamism or Communism or any other puritanical totalitarian ideology that seeks to slaughter or oppress all the Jews or all of any other race or tribe is no worse, is not morally inferior, to the existence of Jews and Judaism, or whatever other race or tribe is the whipping boy of the day.

To be a Pacifist, one must hold that acquiescence to a Jihad that seeks to destroy Western Civilization is no worse than Western Civilization, even though the Jihad seeks to extinguish intellectual freedom, religious freedom, political freedom, and ultimately even the freedom to be a Pacifist.

As the English philosopher Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The Pacifist replies, “I am so good that I will do nothing, I will hurt no one, even if that means that good will be destroyed and evil will win. I am so peaceful that I will not discriminate between the goodness of good and the badness of evil, certainly not with enough conviction to take up arms, literally or figuratively, against the triumph of evil over good, of totalitarianism over freedom, of barbarianism over civilization.”

And so the Pacifist, perhaps unthinkingly, unwittingly, mistakenly, is deeply mired in his intellectual confusion, but surely and unequivocally, the epitome of evil itself, For the Pacifist devoutly believes that by refusing to fight against evil he is affirming that he is good, too good and pure to oppose evil, too good and pure to fight evil, to good and pure to kill evil. But in the end, he is the enabler without whom the triumph of evil would not be possible.



48 posted on 02/07/2013 10:19:34 AM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Sub-Driver

By his worldview logic, the forcibly disarmed Jews in 1930s Germany were Nazis. And the Nazis that disarmed them were the good guys.

Tony, Tony, Tony...somebody took out a hit on your brain.


49 posted on 02/07/2013 10:20:05 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Having served in WWII and just missing combat deployment by a few days I can tell you that not all men and boys in uniform were fierce soldiers. If they want to push his ‘Battle of the Bulge’ heroics I would like to hear more about his actual participation. However, the guy has to be given his due for even being in the vicinity at the time and I suspect he was into the fight.


50 posted on 02/07/2013 10:20:40 AM PST by noinfringers2
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To: Sub-Driver

FWIW, Bennett reached the front lines in March 1945. The Battle of the Bulge ended in Jan 1945.


51 posted on 02/07/2013 10:23:48 AM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“...behind every blade of grass.”

No need for other countries to invade. Thanks to the low information, single digit IQ “voters”, we’ve already been taken over!


52 posted on 02/07/2013 10:25:50 AM PST by Dick Bachert ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." T. Jefferson)
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To: noinfringers2

Hey Tony, we can’t be invaded by other armies because we “have these things called air craft carriers”. To quote BO.


53 posted on 02/07/2013 10:26:59 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

The ignorance of celebutards is mind-boggling.


54 posted on 02/07/2013 10:27:39 AM PST by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: Sub-Driver

A truly WTF moment.


55 posted on 02/07/2013 10:27:44 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Sub-Driver; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

Maybe Antonio Bennetti’s homeland of fascist Italia can invade us?


56 posted on 02/07/2013 10:28:31 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Asked what message he had to people who like his music but who disagree with his position, he responded: “Well, that’s their ignorance.”

Easy way to spot a Lib. if you disagree with them, it's because "you're ignorant". Note hat they will call you ignorant, but not attempt to back up their position with facts and references. They will just proclaim you ignorant is you don't agree with them.

57 posted on 02/07/2013 10:30:59 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: dfwgator
Tony's right but I'm not worried. After reptilian Not Sees bombed our fleet at Gettysburg, UN stepped in and saved our bacon.
58 posted on 02/07/2013 10:31:15 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Nice to see Pat Robertson finally has some competition for the title of Most Outrageous Senility-Driven Public Statement”.


59 posted on 02/07/2013 10:33:02 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

It is a tragic fact that in our society entertainers as mere entertainers are given credence. In saner times all societies controlled the words and deeds of performers.


60 posted on 02/07/2013 10:33:29 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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