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Washington Post columnist claims opposition to Obama is 'insurrection'
The Houston Examiner ^ | April 4, 2015 | Mark Whittington

Posted on 04/04/2015 9:28:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Colbert King published an odd piece in the Washington Post on Friday that was equal parts hysteria, constitutional ignorance, and alternate history. He suggests that resistance to some of President Barack Obama’s executive orders amounts to nothing more than “insurrection.” Indeed, he compares this resistance to the actions of white southerners to President Abraham Lincoln. The assessment is bone chilling since the proper response to insurrection is to send in troops and start shooting people, just as Lincoln did when the Southern states tried to secede and form their own country.

King focuses on legislation being passed by the Arizona legislature that seeks to nullify some of the more constitutionally suspect executive orders regarding illegal immigration. One can argue whether this move is the most appropriate strategy, but it hardly constitutes raising the Stars and Bars. At worse, the legislation will set up a court battle over whether the supremacy clause, which states that federal law trumps state law, also applies to an executive order.

In the meantime, a number of states are seeking relief in the federal courts, asking that the executive orders be overturned as an unconstitutional overreach of executive power. This little bit of “insurrection” will likely be decided in the Supreme Court and not on the battlefield....

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


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: amnesty; arizona; civilwar; colbertking; idioticopeds; immigration; insurrection; liberalagenda; obama; tedcruz; totalitarianagenda; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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I wonder who actually wrote that WaPo column?
1 posted on 04/04/2015 9:28:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How'd I know?

2 posted on 04/04/2015 9:30:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The response is also stupid.


3 posted on 04/04/2015 9:33:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Opposition to Obama and his ilk is the highest form of Patriotism.


4 posted on 04/04/2015 9:33:58 PM PDT by PROCON (It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled -- Mark Twain)
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To: Lazamataz

These idiots have lost all credibility when they write stuff like this. This is the kind of writer who shouldn’t be writing for a high school newspaper.


5 posted on 04/04/2015 9:34:13 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t even have to look, Colbert King is black.


6 posted on 04/04/2015 9:35:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How Progressives view Obama:


7 posted on 04/04/2015 9:35:25 PM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dissent is Patriotic - 2008

Dissent is a Crime - 2015


8 posted on 04/04/2015 9:35:32 PM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What did he classify his opposition to George Bush as? Insurrection? Rebellion?


9 posted on 04/04/2015 9:36:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another affirmative action hire that shows his abject ignorance of our history and our form of government.. Chances are excellent that he never read the documents of the founding of our nation, but this offensive jerk gets a fat paycheck from the Big Government believers at the Compost because he fills a quota for them. That is why the Democrat media has no credibility.


10 posted on 04/04/2015 9:38:22 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Anyone who does not love The State must be criminally insane, and should be forcibly detained and medicated until they are no longer a threat.” -Stalin ... or the Washington Post?


11 posted on 04/04/2015 9:40:37 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did he leave out the “racist” part, huh, did he, did he?


12 posted on 04/04/2015 9:41:38 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does it seem that we are rapidly heading to a point where every expression of traditional Christian morality and every criticism of statism is considered a crime, even treason? And that the MSM are not pushing back against this trend, but are fueling it?


13 posted on 04/04/2015 9:43:01 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle
Does it seem that we are rapidly heading to a point where every expression of traditional Christian morality and every criticism of statism is considered a crime, even treason? It seems that we are heading toward a point where one half of the population has absolutely nothing in common with the other half.
14 posted on 04/04/2015 9:47:02 PM PDT by okie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“If this be treason, make the most of it”

Patrick Henry’s words are more than appropriate again.


15 posted on 04/04/2015 9:48:46 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How come I think it would be a safe bet that he also believes that opposition to George Bush was patriotism. There are way too many racial elitists in America and surprise the vast majority are not White!
16 posted on 04/04/2015 9:51:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

This “writer” exemplifies why affirmative-action is a complete farce.


17 posted on 04/04/2015 9:54:31 PM PDT by ogen hal (First Amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is sad that the media still insists on calling them executive orders.


18 posted on 04/04/2015 9:54:56 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
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To: Lazamataz
That buffoon has been like a mushroom on a stump at the ComPost for as long as I can remember. And I moved there in '85.......


19 posted on 04/04/2015 10:18:33 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So what? Resistance to a tyrant is the responsibility of citizens and patriots, acquiescence and cooperation is treason.


20 posted on 04/04/2015 10:25:16 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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