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| May 13, 2015
| John Stossel
Posted on 05/13/2015 9:01:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Something In The Air (by Thunderclap Newman)
Call out the instigators
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here
And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now
Lock up the streets and houses
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here
And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now
Hand out the arms and ammo
We’re going to blast our way through here
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here
And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:25:13 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: zeestephen
Murray wants to overwhelm the enforcement agencies of the Fed Agov. He wants to start an organization that will take on cases where the government fines individuals and small businesses for frivolous infractions. Kind of like the landmark legal foundation but an organization that would take on cases more broadly. The group would pay the fine if they lose the case so that the government would be on notice that the taxpayer is not going to suffer from draconian enforcement. He already had one individual ready to give $5 million to the cause.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"Ignoring the Law? Works Like A Charm! I Am The State! Oh, and Death to America!"
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:34:16 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: sauropod
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:35:44 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I don't think the book author, Charles Murray, will appreciate Stossel’s suggestion that principled Conservative civil disobedience is somehow similar to the mindlessly violent, destructive, and racist riots in Baltimore and Ferguson.
To: Kaslin
Of course I noticed, I am an admirer of Charles Murray but I also noticed that John Stossel (whom I also admire) was not fastidious in indicating which of the observations were Murray's and which were his own. I assume some of them were Stossel's, such as his remark about Ferguson.
In any event, my reactions are not dependent on the name of the author of the observations recounted in the article.
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:41:06 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: Kaslin
It was about 15-20 years that I started seeing the phrase "IT'S THE LAW!" appearing on posters on government walls or in public service announcements on television.
That was - I think - one of the first overt manifestations of progressive statism. I never recall seeing that slogan when I was growing up in supposedly more authoritarian times, as opposed to our - so we are told - easygoing, tolerant progressivism.
Whenever I see "IT'S THE LAW!" I imagine a Nazi sergeant lining up Jews alongside a pit, and saying, "IT'S THE LAW! Never mind about the machine guns and bulldozer."
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:42:03 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:42:50 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:43:36 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Reddy
Hard to believe that Prohibition WAS constitutional at the time (although arguments could be made that it violated the Bill of Rights).
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:43:40 AM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
To: Kaslin
The federal government violates it’s own laws every day. It also plays favorites, and picks winners and losers.
I have paid taxes for 35 years. For 2014 I paid $42,000 dollars in federal income taxes. I’m a veteran. I comply with the law.
But I’m just about at the point where I will simply ignore the federal government and any laws they pass. I simply will not comply when other, less responsible citizens are constantly given a free pass. I’ve done my part.
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:47:21 AM PDT
by
navyguy
(The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
To: dware
Like the Founding Fathers, we need a serious political strategy, a serious legal strategy, and serious financial resources in place BEFORE we start encouraging other Conservatives to break the law.
To: Responsibility2nd
You obviously didn't even bother to read the article and John Stossel wasn't the subject of the article but Charles Murray.
News Flash the font size was 12 not 20 and another thing. Name calling is not necessary.
Now get lost and don't post on any of my threads again. Got it?
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:49:45 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:50:54 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
To: Kaslin
I agree with Stossel. What he doesn't mention is that one needs to be prepared to be made an example by government to cow others into obeying. That can range from fines and asset seizures to jail and possibly even being murdered.
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:51:50 AM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
To: SoCal Pubbie
Excellent - thanks for the update.
To: Kaslin
What???
Conservatives willing to take a risk???? Actually, RESIST?
Where would we find such conservatives???
Conservative businesses defy the Chamber of Commerce????
Where would we find those???
We live in the compliance era, after all. This is not a generation of Boston Tea Party types. We tolerate anything and everything. Hell’s bells, we FUND it! We are complicit in our own oppression, we send our kids and grandkids to indoctrination camp, willingly, no less, and wonder why our universities rule.
I mean, we’ve got keyboards and cell phones and stuff. It takes a lot of time to tend to these electronic pacifiers of ours. Keeps us out of the streets showing any resistance. It’s so much easier to sit and belt out the chorus line— all together now, “ain’t it awful”.
Shocking.
/S /S
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posted on
05/13/2015 9:54:59 AM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
To: SoCal Pubbie
Murray wants to overwhelm the enforcement agencies of the Fed [G]ov.Cloward-Piven put to a constructive use.
To: ifinnegan
Civil disobedience works within civil societies and peoples. Good point. How would Gandhi or MLK have fared under Stalin, Hitler, or Mao?
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