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I'm just wondering here, how many of you cons who assert that Hannity can't be responsible at all because he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger agree with the claim that Dinesh D'Souza puts forth in his book "The Enemy Within"?
So some nut-o goes out and shoots something up it's my fault because I believe in the second amendment....WOW...... Next you'll be blaming me for your car wreak....
Do you even know why there is a second amendment ????
Wishing to protect our rights and freedoms in the 2nd amendment, according to the OP, are akin to encouraging neo-Nazi lunatics to kill people, but supporting the likes of Obama or Feinstien to take away our guns is not encouraging neo-Nazi lunatics to kill people?
We need some responsibility from those who flap their pie holes on national television.
...and we need to hold our government responsible when they over react and send a hundred armed federal agents onto a rancher's property over the issue of not paying for cows eating grass growing on the wind swept prairie.
According to Liberals..... much of the glorified negativity in Hip-Hop music DOESN'T encourage impressionable adolescents to go out and emulate their vivid imagery. We DON'T need to hold these people accountable.
But, news outlets opinions cause rational adults to go out and kill...
According to Liberals..... much of the glorified negativity in Hip-Hop music DOESN'T encourage impressionable adolescents to go out and emulate their vivid imagery. We DON'T need to hold these people accountable.
But, news outlets opinions cause rational adults to go out and kill...
Lol.
So are we independent thinkers or not?
This is way worse than some Hip-Hop music!
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What Hannity is doing by relentlessly validating Bundy and his militia buddies’ armed standoff with the federal government — providing them, night after night, with a big sloppy kiss and a phalanx of Fox News’s powerful Marshall stacks to amplify their neo-Confederate rhetoric — is helping to push this whole thing further and further toward a violent confrontation. Hannity is protected by the First Amendment, of course, but as a professional broadcaster with a national audience and lot of influence, he should be held to a higher standard than simply the basest definition of what’s acceptable speech. Just because he has the right to say something doesn’t mean he should be saying it; there’s a difference between what’s legal and what’s right.
This isn't about natural rights. This is about people saying if we think the government is a dictatorship we have a right to armed rebellion, and people like Hannity and Palin et al saying yes you do. It's about these very same people saying we not only have the right to armed rebellion we have the obligation, and people like Hannity saying yes you do. It's about these very same people saying that Obama is a dictator and he's going to take away all the guns and people like Hannity saying yes he is. Do the math here
The Declaration of Independence is what says that.
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Originally Posted by The Declaration of Independence, in part
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 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.
(emphasis mine)
Right now, you argue the case of King George III, as a loyalist. Lots of folks in the Colonies did the same thing after Jefferson paraphrased Locke and penned the official "go pound salt" memo to His Majesty. The most famous Loyalist would be Benedict Arnold, but he was certainly not alone, as maybe 20% of the Colonies' population were loyal to His Majesty.
Nothing particularly wrong with being a loyalist I guess, as every argument needs at least two sides to continue being an argument, but history typically favors the revolutionaries, not those defending tyranny's status quos.
But always remember that one of your inalienable rights, as in a right granted to you merely from existence, is liberty. Government does not grant that right, it can only abridge, oppress or violate it. And our nation's government, at any level (per the US Constitution) is constructed with the order of sovereignty being individuals, then states, then nation, and our government serves us, it does not rule us. Don't take my word for it, take Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and Jefferson's words for it. Read Washington and Adam's inaugural addresses. Read Patrick Henry's anti-Constitution speeches in defense of individual and state's rights.
Saying no to the government, even if it involves saying it forcefully, is the most fundamental, quintessential aspect of what it means to be an American.
Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin didn't come up with any of that, a bunch of landowners and lawyers in the 18th Century did...and they wrote it all down, and all those RWNJs did was READ IT.
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