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Title: Sharron Angle Floated Possibility Of Armed Insurrection
Source: WP PLUM LINE
URL Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/pl ... on_angle_floated_possibil.html
Published: Jun 15, 2010
Author: Greg Sargent
Post Date: 2010-06-15 16:33:51 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1281
Comments: 5

Here's another one that could be tough for Sharron Angle to explain away: In an interview in January, Angle appeared to float the possibility of armed insurrection if "this Congress keeps going the way it is."

I'm not kidding. In an interview she gave to a right-wing talk show host, Angle approvingly quoted Thomas Jefferson saying it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years -- and said that if Congress keeps it up, people may find themselves resorting to "Second Amendment remedies."

What's more, the talk show host she spoke to tells me he doesn't have any doubt that she was floating the possibility of armed insurrection as a valid response if Congress continues along its current course.

Asked by the host, Lars Larson of Portland, Oregon, where she stands on Second Amendment issues, Angle replied:

You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.

I hope that's not where we're going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

Larson says Angle was floating the possibility of armed insurrection if Congress keeps it up under Reid et al.

"If it continues to do the things it's doing, I think she's leaving open that possibility," Larson said. "And I think the founders believed that the public should be able to do that when the government becomes out of control. It just matters what you define as going too far."

The most charitable interpretation here was that Angle was floating armed insurrection -- or "Second Amendment remedies" -- as a defensible response if electoral politics fails to change where things are headed under the current regime.

Also, the larger context is key: TPM reports this morning that Angle was a member of the far-right Independent American Party, a pro-gun, states-rights party that warns against the threat of global government.

She has also said she's a member of the patriot group "Oath Keepers," though she's since disavowed that bunch.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Thats okay, Harry Reid has floated the idea he's not a whining little man thats suffering from delusions of grandeur for two decades...despite all evidence to the contrary.

Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-15   16:41:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Badeye (#1) (Edited)

AN apt comparison, Boofer...(eyes rolling)

This one works better tho:

Dueling Boofers:

"Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass..."

"Damn shame the Obama administration granted all those exemptions for the previous 12 months worth of inspections."

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-15   16:44:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S (#0)

And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.

Is Angle confusing his Jefferson quotes?

"One generation is to another as one independent nation to another.... No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.... The constitution and the laws of their predecessors [are] extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being.... Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right."

lucysmom  posted on  2010-06-15   16:54:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: lucysmom (#3)

Yes.

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-15   16:56:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Brian S (#0)

Completely lost on you regressive dolts is the sad fact that such thoughts even see the light of day to the extent they do now.

Whatever you do Grasshopper....remain oblivious to the undercurrent of discontent present under the slimeball regime leader and his enabling bitches......post some fluffiness on the booming recovery or something you are "good" at.

Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf

e_type_jag  posted on  2010-06-16   2:54:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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