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Frankschoenburg
Posts: 178
Incept: 2011-08-05
Northbrook, IL
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Widgeon
Posts: 13481
Incept: 2007-08-30
Region formerly known as the United States
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The plain fact of her saying that, in her position, is treason.
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Berkleyreindeer
Posts: 665
Incept: 2008-07-22
Minneapolis , MN
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no taxation without representation.
if all the voters care about is the taxation part, what's the big deal?
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It'll get worse. Just wait.
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Throxxofvron
Posts: 10345
Incept: 2009-02-17
Hyper-Speculative Psycho-Facsistic Parabolic Blow-Off
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Isn't the utterance in and of itself SEDITION if not TREASON? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeditionQuote:In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition.
Typically, sedition is considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. Where the history of these legal codes has been traced, there is also a record of the change in the definition of the elements constituting sedition at certain points in history. This overview has served to develop a sociological definition of sedition as well, within the study of state persecution.
The difference between sedition and treason consists primarily in the subjective ultimate object of the violation to the public peace. Sedition does not consist of levying war against a government nor of adhering to its enemies, giving enemies aid, and giving enemies comfort. Nor does it consist, in most representative democracies, of peaceful protest against a government, nor of attempting to change the government by democratic means (such as direct democracy or constitutional convention).
Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one's state. Sedition is encouraging one's fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one's country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws. I don't think that the vast majority of American Citizens have any ****ing idea how serious such a statement is... IF cancellation of Congressional Elections is being contemplated -wouldn't it be logical to assume that cancellation of the Presidential Election is being contemplated? When are the Troops being brought back from Iraq? What can the American People, -and People all over the World- expect THE US MILITARY TO DO if Elections are simply cancelled?
For God's sake: WHO the hell LEGITIMATELY holds 'THE FOOTBALL' if this **** goes down?
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DIONYSUS: " Thou hast no knowledge of the life thou art leading; thy very existence is now a mystery to thee. " -from 'The Bacchantes' By Euripides “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell
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Eighty6thebs
Posts: 4184
Incept: 2007-06-26
It's contained to sub-prime!
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Maybe add the comment drudge has from O's former director of OMB. Basically, " we need less democracy to get things done"
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"Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies" - Billy Ray Valentine
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!" - Iraqi Information Minister
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Janedeaux
Posts: 287
Incept: 2009-09-16
Mississippi
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this doesn't surprise me at all. Our political leaders have become so corrupt that its "reelection at any cost." I've become so pessimistic that I wouldn't be surprised if Obama tries this if he see his attempts at reelection fading.
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A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.-anon
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Flappingeagle
Posts: 1229
Incept: 2011-04-14
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Beverly, here's what I expect my representative, senators, and president to do: GROW A PAIR.
When you put this load of crap with Lindsay Graham's attempt to exempt the military from any spending cuts what do you get? Answer: you get proof that the most right-wing-crazy-tea-bagger politicians, were in the right on blocking the debt ceiling increase and on insisting on gun ownership rights.
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Here are my predictions for everyone to see:
S&P 500 at 320, DOW at 2200, Gold $300/oz, and Corn $2/bu.
"You can't build a house of cards on a shaking table." - Tony Johns
The January 2015 AMZN put at $130 (cost $4.25) will be a winner.
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Mrbill
Posts: 7857
Incept: 2008-10-19
North Carolina
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****. Do I need to move again?
She's trying to claim hyperbole now. Yeah right.
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Genesis
Posts: 130807
Incept: 2007-06-26
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Ticker updated.
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Eighty6thebs
Posts: 4184
Incept: 2007-06-26
It's contained to sub-prime!
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Jane- I'm even more pessimistic. I'll go so far as to say it doesnt matter who is in the white house...republican or democrat. Both parties only know 1 solution anymore...more government. I thank Karl for all his work but I think we're past the point of return and whatever gets us to the reset that's coming the fastest, I'm for. if that's 4 more years...so be it.
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"Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies" - Billy Ray Valentine
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!" - Iraqi Information Minister
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Mrbill
Posts: 7857
Incept: 2008-10-19
North Carolina
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"depoliticized commissions"
I'm pretty sure North Korea has a lot of depoliticized commissions that are not harmed by "legislative inertia".
Yes, let's put lots of power into the hands of a few people who can be unresponsive and unaccountable to people they are working for.
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Duc888
Posts: 7368
Incept: 2008-11-06
CT, the UNconstitution State
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Like Bill Clinton stating "maybe Americans have too much freedom".
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...burp
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Etz
Posts: 13893
Incept: 2007-06-26
LA
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Quote:On October 22, 2010, Perdue revealed that her 2008 campaign was under State and Federal investigation. Federal authorities looked into 41 confirmed private flights Perdue took dating back to 2005, which her campaign did not report until 2009. The state Board of Elections in August fined Perdue's campaign $30,000 for the flights aboard campaign donors' planes but concluded that the Perdue Committee did not intentionally violate the law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Perdue#....
The law is for little people.
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Legal chicanery and beneficent darkness are the banker's stoutest allies - F.Pecora.
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Phantomace
Posts: 6393
Incept: 2009-03-16
Las Vegas, NV, and your screen
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Make no mistake people, the 2nd Amendment is the ONLY reason this hasn't been tried yet. This worthless piece of skin even floating the idea now just shows that any concern they may have had in the past regarding violence is waning. Perhaps that is because 1/2 of the country is now on the gov't tit?  Regardless, if they try this ****, whether it comes from the left or the right, there WILL be blood, mark my words. Too many people are way too*****ed off and twitchy these days. You want to see a "black swan"? There it is, right there at the top of this page. This is double-plus-ungood...
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"That was a little trick I call math. Oops, now I'm not emotionally invested..." - Dilbert
The only good thing I have to say about Barney Frank is at least he's not breeding...
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Digalert
Posts: 217
Incept: 2009-09-19
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Remember the 2009 Honduras constitutional crisis? They've had a constitution that says the prez gets two terms. Well this dictator wannabee Zelaya didn't want to play that, choosing a life term presidency. So they ran him out of the country and guess who runs to this exiled presidents aid? You guessed it already, Obama.
We've seen our constitution trashed repeatedly. I don't put it passed any of the corrupted bastards in office to pull this crap. Suppose Obama don't wanna honor an election?
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Mdporter
Posts: 560
Incept: 2008-02-26
San Jose, CA
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If this had been uttered by a repuke you would hear the shrill screams of liberals all over the country and it would be national news that would never go away.
In fact these very groups routinely claimed that Bush would suspend elections, though he never publicly made that comment. Yet here it is out of the mouth of a Dem.
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Mo
Posts: 12158
Incept: 2007-06-26
Pa.
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Let them try.
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Welcome to Pottersville
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Eighty6thebs
Posts: 4184
Incept: 2007-06-26
It's contained to sub-prime!
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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"Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies" - Billy Ray Valentine
"No I am not scared, and neither should you be!" - Iraqi Information Minister
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1lumpor2
Posts: 2649
Incept: 2011-05-01
Banned
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-- Done
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Scottyb
Posts: 300
Incept: 2008-09-26
USA
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She's an idiot. It's not sedition or treason because fools like her are the established order.
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Ben
Posts: 6231
Incept: 2009-10-09
The Distant, Glorious, Past
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Germany, 1932.
We are right on schedule.
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"Why are you going to learn French?"
"Because I'm going to France," says Joe.
"I'm from the future. You should go to China."
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Darth
Posts: 2182
Incept: 2009-07-07
SWVA - US
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First time I've ever seen a governor, sitting or otherwise, call for a dictatorship.
Find this bitch a lamp post....
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Azcaliente
Posts: 45
Incept: 2009-03-03
Arizona
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Now I am getting a little "edgy". I have been reading about the possibility of martial law in Greece. But, it can't happen here in the good ol' USA....or can it? Uh-oh.
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Roundabout
Posts: 53
Incept: 2009-10-16
South Side of the Sky
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"We won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make"
Whaever decisions? Do anything you want with impunity?
Sounds like dictatorship to me. How is this woman still gov of NC?
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