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CNN Host Asks If FBI Should Have ‘Shut Down’ Trump Supporters Chanting ‘Lock Her Up
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Posted on 04/02/2019 3:46:16 PM PDT by MNDude

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour called "lock her up" chants by Donald Trump supporters "hate speech" in a new interview and asked James Comey if he wished he had "shut down that language" in his capacity as FBI Director at the time.

Amanpour recounted the frequent chants at Trump 2016 campaign rallies about imprisoning Hillary Clinton for her perceived crimes and wondered if they should have been legal, but Comey responded it was not the role of government officials to censor that speech.

"Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language, that it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it's kind of hate speech? Should that have been allowed?"

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1 posted on 04/02/2019 3:46:16 PM PDT by MNDude
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Once again, the left shows it’s ignorance of the freedom of speech and advocates for censorship of those with opposing views.

shame


2 posted on 04/02/2019 3:48:08 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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To: MNDude

Free speech. Yeah, conservatives have it,too, Commie News Network


3 posted on 04/02/2019 3:48:39 PM PDT by madison10
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Comey was FBI Director in name only. His subordinates ran the bureau, and ran into the ground. All he did was pick up his paycheck.


4 posted on 04/02/2019 3:49:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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"Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language

Where does she think she is ? This isn't the UK where they no longer have free speech.

5 posted on 04/02/2019 3:50:13 PM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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LOCK HER UP!

And Comey too.

5.56mm


6 posted on 04/02/2019 3:50:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: MNDude

I think every post made on FR should be routed through Christiane Amanpour first. Sure, it’ll take longer and most posts won’t get through, but it’s the right thing to do.


7 posted on 04/02/2019 3:51:33 PM PDT by Rastus
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In their perfect world the Gestapo is real. They forget that the first amendment isn’t exclusively theirs.


8 posted on 04/02/2019 3:51:44 PM PDT by Spok
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I thought we had free speech in this country...


9 posted on 04/02/2019 3:53:15 PM PDT by Innovative
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Christiane Amanpour needs to have her citizenship revoked so she can be deported back to the Iranian cesspool she crawled out of.


10 posted on 04/02/2019 3:54:36 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: MNDude

Every DAY the Leftists accuse me of some sin against them or call me a bad name.

Keep it up! We’ll MAGA without you! I don’t mind one tiny little bit. :)


11 posted on 04/02/2019 3:55:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: MNDude

Leftist ignorance of the 1st. Amendment. They want it for themselves but deny it to others who disagree with them.


12 posted on 04/02/2019 3:57:50 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Wonder what her reaction to

We are going to impeach the MF’er(I am being polite)

Or the F bombs that HRC and her ilk drop as easily as saying ‘the’


13 posted on 04/02/2019 3:58:26 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: MNDude

Those in power define what “hate speech” means.


14 posted on 04/02/2019 3:59:14 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: MNDude

why not, Obama-Clinton locked up several filmmakers for making films critical of Mohammed and Clinton.


15 posted on 04/02/2019 3:59:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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The list.


16 posted on 04/02/2019 4:00:03 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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The enemies of the first amendment have the wrong idea about what constitutes hate speech. Just because they hate it, doesn’t make it hate speech.


17 posted on 04/02/2019 4:00:06 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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Nope, ridiculous question.

Next ridiculous question.


18 posted on 04/02/2019 4:00:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: taxcontrol

How was Comey or ANYBODY going to enforce the “hate speech” clause in the New World Order dictates? He could not very well “lock them all up” or put them into exile. This is not exactly a concept well rooted in the US law code, and if enforced at all, is only in a very capricious manner.

The First Amendment is such a thorn in the side of the command-and-control advocates.


19 posted on 04/02/2019 4:01:00 PM PDT by alloysteel (Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin)
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Christiane Amanpour is of course antiAmerican against the First Amendment and so is a spokeswoman for antiAmerican CNN.

She and CNN have no allegiance to the US Constitution,

She should be expelled as an agent of sedition!


20 posted on 04/02/2019 4:01:48 PM PDT by A strike (My attitude indicator may be inop .)
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