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To: DCBryan1
Michael Pfleger

"..In May 2007, Pfleger received criticism for his comments at a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition protest outside a suburban Chicago gun shop. According to the Americans for Gun Safety Foundation, the store, Chuck's Gun Shop, had sold over 2,000 weapons that were traced to crimes committed between 1996 and 2004. It had been a longtime target of protests by Pfleger and Jesse Jackson.[16] Addressing the owner of the shop, Pfleger announced, "We're going to find you and snuff you out. Like a rat you're going to hide. But like a rat, we're going to catch you and pull you out." Cardinal George rebuked Pfleger, saying, "Publicly delivering a threat against anyone's life betrays the civil order and is morally outrageous, especially if this threat came from a priest." Pfleger responded that he did not intend to use the word "snuff" as a slang term for "kill", but rather as a substitute for "pull", as he used later in his statement. [17].."

14 posted on 05/29/2008 2:53:46 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This man is seriously deranged. No one should have to put up with that. Why is he still allowed to call himself a Catholic priest?


20 posted on 05/29/2008 3:00:24 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

“Pfleger responded that he did not intend to use the word “snuff” as a slang term for “kill”, but rather as a substitute for “pull”,”

Snuff is a substitute for pull? So he’s a liar as well? Anyone who trusts someone like Pfleger is a fool.


25 posted on 05/29/2008 3:09:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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