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Why Isn’t The Right Defending Freddie Gray?
The Federalist ^ | 05/05/2015 | Michael Graham

Posted on 05/05/2015 12:31:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Guess the writer hasn’t visited FR!


61 posted on 05/05/2015 1:34:09 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: x

By whom in particular?

Nobody thought of him as a Reagan type, to be sure. His sympathies lie with European political Catholicism more than with the US Constitution, and he’s quite the Beltway insider.

Back when he worked for Nizon, he was in charge of crafting a strategy that would make his employer attractive to Democrats. He needed his sister’s influence to join Reagan’s camp too.


62 posted on 05/05/2015 1:59:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SeekAndFind

Given that cops are now blindly executed on the streets now by muzzies and other dark skinned people, I might be inclined to give police a little more leeway. As to the facts of this case. ..who knows? I would think that in a sane world the good citizens of this community should be glad that a drug dealer is off their streets.


63 posted on 05/05/2015 2:02:25 PM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: SeekAndFind
Before I take sides regarding Gray, I want some facts. How was he secured in that paddy wagon, if at all? Who made the decision about how to secure him? How much of a fight did he put up while being secured? Is it true he already had been treated for spinal injuries?

Once I get some facts instead of rumors, I'll know what position to take.

64 posted on 05/05/2015 2:07:48 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: Olog-hai

Mr. Graham was ran out of WMAL a few years ago because he was attacking Islam. He’s got more balls in that regard than most of the ‘conservative’ talk show hosts that are held in high regard here.


65 posted on 05/05/2015 2:09:12 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Olog-hai; Ingtar
The issues then were NAFTA, the tax increase, immigration, maybe affirmative action. On those issues, Buchanan was to the right of Bush.

Nobody thought of him as a Reagan type, to be sure.

The idea of "a Reagan type" is hard to pin down. A lot of people who claim to be Reagan types aren't really that.

Some new fissure always opens up and whoever is on the other side of it becomes a RINO. I'm not even sure Ronald Reagan himself would pass muster as a Reagan type today.

Back in 1992, there were plenty of people who thought they were continuing in Reagan's footsteps by following Buchanan -- or at least in voting for whoever was running against Bush.

I didn't vote for Buchanan, but like a lot of people I was tempted.

66 posted on 05/05/2015 2:11:14 PM PDT by x
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To: lovesdogs

Cop shooting deaths are far down over what they used to be, and they weren’t very high back then and ‘cops” means everyone, from city cops to Secret Service and the Port authority, and FBI.


67 posted on 05/05/2015 2:11:21 PM PDT by ansel12
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Backing Buchanan (of the Nixon RINO crowd) is about as RINO as one gets.

Well then, maybe he "evolved" since 1992. All I can tell you is that he was one of my top favorite talk show hosts for years, and I was sorry to see him go.

See if you can find any of his columns online. He definitely is not a RINO. I know, because I can't STAND RINOs, and was chastised by many here on FR during the 2014 mid-terms for arguing that conservatives should not vote for any member of the GOPs establishment.

68 posted on 05/05/2015 2:14:22 PM PDT by Maceman
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Lots of RINOs attack Islam out of one side of their mouth and then vilify the enemies of Islam out of the other. Graham’s former boss Buchanan is like that too, and of course other people like Michael “Savage” Weiner.


69 posted on 05/05/2015 2:14:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Buchanan will go down in history as being correct about society, 'free' trade, and immigration.

He was always correct on such issues, and the RINOS are the ones who failed to hold the line.

The modern day GOP is the embodiment of being on the other side of such concerns.

70 posted on 05/05/2015 2:18:13 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: SeekAndFind

Freddie Gray was a thug and a troublemaker.

The cops may have overstepped procedure. But there is no way on God’s green Earth that a murder charge is justified, and I’m pretty sure even Little Girl Mosby knows it.

If they broke the law, they should be punished, but let’s see the evidence.

However, with the kind of jury pool they have in Bawlmore...


71 posted on 05/05/2015 2:19:29 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am curious if Freddie Gray could legally purchase a gun in Mariland. Only because the author argued the 2nd amendment.


72 posted on 05/05/2015 2:26:14 PM PDT by Rad_J
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To: SeekAndFind

We haven’t paid much attention to Freddie Gray because we have been distracted by mobs, thugs and thieves destroying private property. No one at the stores that were destroyed by looters and arsonists had anything to do with what happened to Freddie Gray. Freddie Gray has simply become the latest excuse for violent, destructive anarchy.

Why was Freddie Gray’s switchblade illegal? Who made it illegal? Why didn’t the arresting cops call for a SWAT assault to deal with that fully automatic knife? There are a lot of questions that need to be answered, but how can that be done with all this noise going on?


73 posted on 05/05/2015 2:35:28 PM PDT by pallis
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RE: Why didn’t the arresting cops call for a SWAT assault to deal with that fully automatic knife?

I didn’t know Freddie Gray had an automatic rifle...


74 posted on 05/05/2015 2:38:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Exactly.

I don’t even know what the arrest charge was. It will all come out later, but too early to jump on the ‘illegal arrest’ bandwagon.


75 posted on 05/05/2015 2:44:22 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Me neither.


76 posted on 05/05/2015 2:51:07 PM PDT by pallis
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"Why Isn’t The Right Defending Freddie Gray?"

Leaving aside that we'd be taking the word of a lawyer with a very vested interest in the case that the knife was completely legal in Baltimore, why do I need to defend anyone here? Can't I find fault with everyone involved?

77 posted on 05/05/2015 3:49:20 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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