Posted on 10/21/2010 8:20:52 PM PDT by Ira_Louvin
Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.
In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising “is not the first option” but it is “on the table.” That drew a quick denunciation from the head of the Dallas County GOP, who called the remarks “inappropriate.”
Broden, a first-time candidate, is challenging veteran incumbent Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson in Dallas’ heavily Democratic 30th Congressional District. Johnson’s campaign declined to comment on Broden.
In the interview, Brad Watson, political reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8), asked Broden about at a tea party event last year in Fort Worth in which he described the nation’s government as tyrannical.
“We have a constitutional remedy,” Broden said then. “And the framers say if that don’t work, revolution.”
Watson asked if his definition of revolution included violent overthrow of the government. In a prolonged back-and-forth, Broden at first declined to explicitly address insurrection, saying the first way to deal with a repressive government is to “alter it or abolish it.”
“If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary,” Broden said, adding the nation was founded on a violent revolt against Britain’s King George III.
Watson asked if violence would be in option in 2010, under the current government.
“The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms,” Broden said, without elaborating. “However, it is not the first option.”
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The elections will result in a GOP majority and bear in mind there is DUers who use the same line whenever they can’t get their way.
But yeah if things keep going the way their going.....there is going to be blood in the streets.That is what is been happening all through 2010 with the postal attacks and it is only going to get worse.
This cannot go on any longer.
"We have a constitutional remedy," Broden said then. "And the framers say if that don't work, revolution."So, where was this so-called journalist when John Kerry et al were calling for regime change in the US? Thanks Ira_Louvin.
I don’t want either, but each is preferable to some kind of neo-Soviet America.
Old school federalism would completely eliminate this impetus, but the one-size-fits-all legislation and jurisprudence from D.C. kills federalism and local mores.
What kind of oath do successful candidates have to take when they are sworn in?
Soap box, ballot box, bullet box.
All options are on the table.
Broden could have won this, imo. I’m very disappointed.
Eddie Bernice is pretty weak...I guess he might still have a chane.
Nah, that district is overwhelmingly Democrat. It was tailor made for the woman who gives away government money to her and her staffs family members.
PATRIOTS are not "Revolutionaries" trying to overthrow the government of the United States.
PATRIOTS are "Counter-Revolutionaries" trying to prevent the government of the United States from overthrowing the Constitution of the United States. - Unknown Author
What brings the PATRIOTS out of the woodwork?
When the constitutional process, the system of checks and balances set up by the Founders, has not just been thrown out of kilter, it has been thrown out the window. These socialist maneuvers are what attracts PATRIOTS to the streets of America.
chane=chance
OATH of OFFICE
The oath of office required by the sixth article of the Constitution of the United States, and as provided by section 2 of the act of May 13, 1884 (23 Stat. 22), to be administered to Members, Resident Commissioner, and Delegates of the House of Representatives, the text of which is carried in 5 U.S.C. 3331:
“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/oathoffice.html
chane=chance
If the guy wins, he may have to "revise and extend" his remarks on revolution before he takes that oath.
And what is the response of the Dallas County GOP? They run like the cowards. The GOP has become a party run by P.C. cowards so I don’t think it could be counted on in the event of a revolution to restore the liberties taken from our citizens.
>That drew a quick denunciation from the head of the Dallas County GOP, who called the remarks “inappropriate.”
The GOP has to say & believe such things - they are going to be right along with the rest of the politicians run out of power on a rail.
They also think that the Tea Party movement is going to evaporate after November & then its back to business as usual
I heard there was some other wacko TEA Party candidate who said that the sun rises in the East.
LOL! Maybe you should read the Declaration of Independence.
In case you have forgoten, it goes something like this:
when in the course of human events it becomes necessary to sever the bonds...
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Is it not true if the dems steal these elections, then we do indeed have tyranny? We then have an obligation to water the Tree of Liberty. Steel yourselves and prepare. . . I do hope we get 100 house seats and 50 senate seats. If we do not, we have some decisions to make. .
No one can honestly take that oath of office while harboring plans to overthrow the government.
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