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Dems blast Maine governor for "Gestapo" comment
Associated Press ^ | July 8, 2012

Posted on 07/08/2012 11:28:18 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

AUGUSTA, Maine—Democratic lawmakers are calling on Maine Gov. Paul LePage to apologize for his remarks comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo.

The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate issued a statement Sunday calling LePage's language "intentionally offensive." Rep. Emily Cain and Sen. Justin Alfond said Holocaust survivors and Word War II veterans who witnessed the terror of the Adolph Hitler's secret police "should not be trivialized for political shock."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: gestopo; irs; maine; nazi; paullepage
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This faux outrage from the people that have repeatedly called Republicans “Nazis” for years?

Ha Ha Ha. The governor should hold a press conference and point that out.


41 posted on 07/08/2012 12:32:54 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Might I suggest the party designation ‘Democrat’ no longer be used here at FR? Let’s call them ‘SOCIALIST’ and not allow them to hide behind a false moniker!


42 posted on 07/08/2012 12:35:32 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The Gestapo was more brutal, but the IRS is more efficient.
43 posted on 07/08/2012 12:36:11 PM PDT by MCF
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Keep article handy:
"Cain announced she would seek to replace fellow Democrat Elizabeth Schneider in the Maine Senate in 2012. Schneider is unable to run due to term-limits, as Cain is unable to run for the House of Representatives again because of the same limits."

Justin Alford must do the same this November....he and Cain should take this time to learn about the Gestapo and their duties...both these politicians are fairly young...Main should be embarrassed..............

44 posted on 07/08/2012 12:36:31 PM PDT by yoe (Proud to be part of the Tea Party movement.....!!!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Keep article handy:
"Cain announced she would seek to replace fellow Democrat Elizabeth Schneider in the Maine Senate in 2012. Schneider is unable to run due to term-limits, as Cain is unable to run for the House of Representatives again because of the same limits."

Justin Alford must do the same this November....he and Cain should take this time to learn about the Gestapo and their duties...both these politicians are fairly young...Maine should be embarrassed..............

45 posted on 07/08/2012 12:36:59 PM PDT by yoe (Proud to be part of the Tea Party movement.....!!!!!)
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To: MCF

I sear if Obamataxcare succeeds somebody is going to greet the tax man at the front door with a shotgun.

Or they will attack them openly.

Or do a suicide attempt like flying an aircraft into a local IRS office.


46 posted on 07/08/2012 12:41:53 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Going mobile, posts will be brief. No spellcheck for the grammar nazis.)
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To: Houghton M.

If he doesn’t back down I will be pleasantly surprised.


47 posted on 07/08/2012 1:10:37 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: Eye of Unk

Didn’t that happen in Dalls or Houston a couple of years ago?


48 posted on 07/08/2012 1:14:06 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Choose, a communist, socialist or Patriot)
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To: Gabrial

Perfect response to the all the squealing of piggy when pinched. Love it.


49 posted on 07/08/2012 1:25:40 PM PDT by RitaOK (NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

After eight years of “Chimpy McBushhitler”, the Dims can take their “outrage” and shove it!


50 posted on 07/08/2012 1:28:21 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Bikkuri

Yes it did, a father despondant with IRS threats flew his plane into a Federal building.

The MSM promptly ignored it, and will do so again, even if it occurs in much larger numbers.


51 posted on 07/08/2012 1:33:53 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Going mobile, posts will be brief. No spellcheck for the grammar nazis.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I agree.It's disgraceful to compare the IRS to the Gestapo.However,the Stasi...which combined all the best points of the Gestapo and the KGB...would be a much more appropriate comparison.
52 posted on 07/08/2012 1:34:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A governor with a set of cods.......he should have been in the primaries!!!


53 posted on 07/08/2012 2:21:05 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial oversight. The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, however, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. The SS officer Werner Best, onetime head of legal affairs in the Gestapo, summed up this policy by saying, "As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally."

the comparison sounds pretty accurate. Why do the 'rats have a problem with it?

54 posted on 07/08/2012 2:26:55 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Madame Dufarge
LePage: IRS is new Gestapo.

Besides, everyone knows the real Nazis are the TSA.

Why couldn't it be the Border Patrol instead?

55 posted on 07/08/2012 2:32:46 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: GreenHornet

Of course, they would have feigned outrage My point was that KGB serves the purpose just as well and they cannot use THIS PARTICULAR line of “trivializing the Holocaust.” Sure, they’d have used a different rationale for outrage, but the “Holocaust” riposte is a hanging pitch waiting to be hit out of the park. Why make their job easier?


56 posted on 07/08/2012 2:36:14 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: muawiyah
Proof that there are Democrats who imagine taxes are collected without the use of firearms.

So do lots of taxpayers. Legally, taxes are forced transfers of wealth; I don't need to dwell on that. Pretending that they're "voluntary contributions" quiets some people's nerves. It's like they pretend that the local bully's their friend because he only whales on them once a year.

57 posted on 07/08/2012 2:43:45 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: Houghton M.
I hope he doesn’t back down, but he should have used “KGB” instead. It would have precluded this particular line of faux-offendedness.

I understand your point -- and it's probably true. But I'm tired of catering to the faux-outrage crowd. The Gestapo existed, everyone knows its reputation, and so I say let's end the one-sided agreement to refrain from Nazi comparisons.

They can certainly be overdone -- this case might be one where it was. But if we're to be racists, then let them be Nazis.

58 posted on 07/08/2012 2:43:52 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: TexasTransplant
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59 posted on 07/08/2012 3:08:56 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If you are recieving flak, you must be over the target!


60 posted on 07/08/2012 3:14:12 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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