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Matthews Perverts Tea Party Movement: Participants View Federal Government as British Occupiers
Newsbusters ^ | June 9, 2010 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/09/2010 12:27:27 PM PDT by Rufus2007

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Grasping for straws...
1 posted on 06/09/2010 12:27:27 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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"You know that Gadsden flag, the ‘Don't Tread on Me Flag' with a rattlesnake is so important," Matthews said. "They believe, a lot of people in the right - that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America and they have to be ready to fight it. It's serious business."

From Tingles lips to God's ear....

2 posted on 06/09/2010 12:29:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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“They believe the Federal Govornment is London...”

No, Chris, the Feds have become far worse than London ever was - get it right.


3 posted on 06/09/2010 12:32:26 PM PDT by Dansong
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To: Dansong

Actually he may have a point: Kenya was a British possession I believe.


4 posted on 06/09/2010 12:33:51 PM PDT by Mouton
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To: Rufus2007
"You know that Gadsden flag, the ‘Don't Tread on Me Flag' with a rattlesnake is so important," Matthews said. "They believe, a lot of people in the right - that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America and they have to be ready to fight it. It's serious business."

Obama has said on tape that the Constitution limits the powers of government. In the same passage of tape, he indicates that this poses an obstacle to some of the agenda items he would like to advance. He indicates that the Supreme Court can be used to push through the laws that would otherwise be unconstitutional.

It is about personal liberty and limiting the power of government. This is no call for the "establishment of a new government" or "rejection of the existing Constitution", both of which Communist Party USA and other Left Wing groups ROUTINELY call for via violent revolution.

Chris Matthews is a revisionist historian, partisan hack, and useful idiot.

5 posted on 06/09/2010 12:34:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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King George and his ministers never dared dream of doing what our masters in D.C. do to us.


6 posted on 06/09/2010 12:35:31 PM PDT by all the best
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"You know that Gadsden flag, the ‘Don't Tread on Me Flag' with a rattlesnake is so important," Matthews said. "They believe, a lot of people in the right - that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America and they have to be ready to fight it. It's serious business."

Matthews interpretation is not so perverted of version of it. I was a little shocked at a Tea Party I went to last year where a section of the Declaration of Independence was read.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,..."

The biggest applause line was "or to abolish it". When a crowd that is primarily middle-aged, middle-class and white is cheering abolishing the government, then something big is brewing in the country.

7 posted on 06/09/2010 12:35:40 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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Matthews finally got one right. The subversion of the Constitution of the United States of America is serious business. If the socialists in power want to violate our Constitution, the proper process is to pass an amendment first so that their immoral actions will at least be legal. In the absence of such an amendment, many of their actions are unconstitutional. If our Constitutional republic is being governed in an unconstitutional manner, then we do have an occupying force, and we have reason to question the legality of their actions and to resist illegal government actions.


8 posted on 06/09/2010 12:36:10 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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You have that right. The size and the reach of our tyrannical government is much greater.


9 posted on 06/09/2010 12:36:25 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Tyranny thrives when the people are silent.)
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To: Rufus2007

What can you say about someone who gets tingles down his leg about another guy?

(Apologies to my gay friends - I know you guys are OK.)


10 posted on 06/09/2010 12:36:26 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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11 posted on 06/09/2010 12:42:20 PM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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Chris is really R E A C H I N G in his effort to misrepresent the Tea Party groups.

He lets himself get so confused because he is forever tripping over his own bias.


12 posted on 06/09/2010 12:44:20 PM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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"[T]the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America...."

That happened a long time ago; it's just that more people are waking up to it now.

13 posted on 06/09/2010 12:45:55 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (The Left is suicidal, but why are they so determined to take the rest of us along with them?)
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Chrissy thinks the reason people don’t listen to him is because they are stupid, so he keeps getting stupider and stupider.


14 posted on 06/09/2010 12:45:59 PM PDT by pallis
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15 posted on 06/09/2010 12:46:35 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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16 posted on 06/09/2010 12:48:30 PM PDT by Scythian
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Talking about kicking ass - I’d pay to get the chance to kick his!


17 posted on 06/09/2010 12:48:40 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The 0bama regime represents an "Clear and Present Danger" to the US - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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He indicates that the Supreme Court can be used to push through the laws that would otherwise be unconstitutional.

He's right, and it's been done before. DWI and now seatbelt roadblocks ARE unconstitutional, but allowed via SCOTUS ruling.

18 posted on 06/09/2010 12:49:50 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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He is right about one thing. It is SERIOUS business.


19 posted on 06/09/2010 12:50:13 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: SMARTY

He’s also forever slipping on his own slobber.


20 posted on 06/09/2010 12:52:43 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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