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Has the First Amendment Become a "National Security Threat"? (The last sentence says it all)
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| September 12, 2010
| Austin Hill
Posted on 09/12/2010 7:20:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:20:04 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin
“Rather than honestly acknowledging the serious problems of Muslim culture, the Obama Administration has instead chosen to define American freedom as a problem.”
It is a problem when you don’t acknowledge individual rights and liberty. This is perfectly logical to the Communist mind.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:25:14 AM PDT
by
vanilla swirl
(We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
To: Kaslin
This could all be set right if it were acknowledged by the courts that any ideology, religious or not, loses any constitutional protections it may claim to enjoy if it advocates the violent overthrow of the government or poses a clear and present danger to national security.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:27:38 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
Who would have “standing” to bring that before a court?
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:29:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 596 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Kaslin
Describe the Pastor and his plans in whatever derogatory and demeaning terms you wish. Stupid. Inflammatory. Insensitive. Intolerant. Misguided. Ill-advised. My observation is that the man seems quite inarticulate, and a bit nutty, and I wish the Obama Administration and the worldwide media industry had not drawn so much attention to him (notice that I am not stating the mans name it makes no sense for me to give this character more attention). I fine this quite condescending and unnecessary. Whether someone is adept at public speaking or not doesn't make some one nutty.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:29:20 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Kaslin
Why isn’t the City of NY using eminent domain to “confiscate” the property and set up a homeless shelter.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:30:05 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(marty60)
To: Kaslin
Yet this nutty guy is merely speaking his mind and in America, we regard this as constitutionally protected free speech. For much of our nations history, Americans have possessed an attitude that says I may disagree with what you say, but Ill fight to the death for your right to say it..But we now seem to have turned a corner on this type of freedom. In this instance, some of the most powerful people in our government determined that if this one private citizen were to exercise his legal right to burn copies of a particular book such an excursion in human liberty would threaten the security of Americans both domestically, and abroad and thus,this one private citizen should not exercise his legal rights. This is collectivism and the evil theory of "Greatest good" gone amok. By saying what's best for the collective is always what's more important, regardless of how small the decision, we have and will continue to lose freedom after freedom.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:30:22 AM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
("In a time of universal deciet, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
To: vanilla swirl
One Queston. Why have there been more terror attacts under 0 appeasement policy than GWB?
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:30:29 AM PDT
by
barb-tex
(Nov. 2!(Election Day) Dia de los Muertas. ( Day of the Dead), Them or Us. Nov 5, Guy Falkes Day)
To: Kaslin
Kaslin this is an EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!!! THANK YOU for posting it!!!!!
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:31:58 AM PDT
by
NordP
(COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVES - Love of Country, Less Govt, Stop Spending, No Govt Run Health Care!!!)
To: Kaslin
We have a set of unintended consequences when radical Islam hides behind our Constitution and Bill of Rights and exploits a warped sense of social "tolerance".
If a movement uses our "rights" to practice a religion which calls for the destruction of the very country and seminal documents that protects their "rights", they will destroy us and implement Islam and Shari'a Law.
This is the perverted view that Islam is the "Religion of Peace" - a peace which will occur, in their minds, only when Islam is the sole accepted religion, and only when Shari'a Law is used on our shores...then there will be peace, under their definition.
When is enough enough?
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: Kaslin
Every liberty, every freedom comes at a cost. If the cost of our freedom of speech is an increased need to be vigilant and protect ourselves from those who don’t share, and deeply resent, that freedom then so be it. And that includes the President of the United States and any members of legislative or judicial body whose actions make them an enemy of out freedoms.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:32:35 AM PDT
by
jwparkerjr
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Kaslin
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson
Only the insecure strive for security.
Wayne Dyer
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
And to this August list, we add...
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/SwN6Hg4sdDI/AAAAAAAAB38/6SOBJ60J1UE/s400/Abandon+Hope1.jpg)
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama
To: Marty62
Yeah and Bloomberg would go along with this. /s>
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:33:22 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
The response from multiple “leaders”, especially the “leader of the free world” (how do you lead what seems not to exist) is far “nuttier” than the pastor in Florida.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:37:38 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: Kaslin
Of course we have free speech, citizen.
Here’s is your list of approved words and phrases. Feel free to say any of them.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:37:58 AM PDT
by
seowulf
("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
To: barb-tex
<< One Queston. Why have there been more terror attacts under
0 appeasement policy than GWB? >>
You might not have realized it, but you answered your own question
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:40:21 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
the fact that mere rhetoric can incite death to America demonstrations in Afghanistan and can rise to the level of a national security threat says something about the predominant Muslim cultureThis was one of the points the pastor was trying to make*. There's a difference in the way the two religions recommend dealing with insults or harm. Christians turn the other cheek. Muslims react violently.
*As heard in his interview with Hannity last week.
Disclaimer: I am not advocating Koran burning, just relating a salient point.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:42:18 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Compact Theory)
To: NordP
You’re welcome, and I thought it was too.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:42:27 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
I know. It is just a comment on the hypocracy. Has anyone heard if these provacateurs have paid their taxes on this property?
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:45:05 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(marty60)
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