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Title: Nugent Says He's Insulted By Concert Cancellation
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic ... /04/27/national/a141033D75.DTL
Published: Apr 28, 2012
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2012-04-28 13:58:30 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 40969
Comments: 91
(04-27) 21:35 PDT LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Ted Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama. Commanders at the Fort Knox, Ky., post nixed Nugent's segment of a June concert after the rocker and conservative activist said at a recent National Rifle Association meeting that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama is re-elected. Nugent told The Associated Press this week that his words were not intended as a threat against the president. "To think that there's a bureaucrat in the United States Army that would consider the use or abuse of First Amendment rights in determining who is going to perform at an Army base is an insult and defiles the sacrifices of those heroes who fought for the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights," Nugent said. Nugent said he had received messages of support from troops and noted that the Secret Service had met with him and closed its case about the remarks. "There is nothing in my spoken word or written word that could be even wildly considered by any stretch of the imagination to be a threat to anyone," Nugent said. Asked to clarify the remarks at the NRA convention, Nugent said: "A whole bunch of us ... believe ... we are in danger of being improperly and criminally jailed — I mean criminally on the part of the government." Earlier in the week, Nugent pleaded guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska, saying he was sorry for unwittingly violating the law. He told the AP that he advises fellow hunters, "even when you are aghast at a maniac, inexplicable, illogical law, please abide by those laws at all costs." Nugent said the prosecution in U.S. District Court was the result of a "witch hunt" by federal officials over his activism. "We the people are turning up the heat," he said. "And that's why I'm being singled out by certain fish and game agencies and certain U.S. attorneys." The AP was not successful in obtaining comment from Jack Schmidt, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Nugent this week in Ketchikan, Alaska. An email seeking comment from Karen Loeffler, the U.S. Attorney for Alaska, was not immediately returned.
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#2. To: Brian S (#0)
Poor wittle rich baby is getting paranoid in his old age.
Your jealousy and envy are on full display.
Thanks Boof, I'll forgot that you worship pedophiles and serial adulterers. Maybe you can run Teddy for office as a perfectly qualified GOP candidate.
You liberal slags are a hoot. Say 'hi' to your boyfriend Bernie Ward next time you visit him in prison.
ming produced her children through pedophilia acts. She/it has 3 kids from screwing her/its brother. Yes ming is a pedophile rapist.
Yes ming is a pedophile rapist. Another Sunday morning hang-over?
No just tit for tat.
Your remarcks are as FUCKED-UPPED as you are, Stone. You are doing two things that are clearly out of order, 1) you are further dividing the chit-chat forum and 2) you are alienating potential posters from signing on. You are increasingly becoming nasty, vile and uncivil.
Thank You. No reason to be nice to the Obama supporters.
You were a FUCKED-UPPED McCAIN supporter. Whats the difference? More hot-aire?
I supported Palin, and possibly would again.
You voted for McCain in the last election as the President. What are you doing attempting to whitewash your own hogwash?
Yeah. And you didn't vote against Obama. You wont vote against him next time. You must like Obama. You and he have a lot in common.
Oh boy! I feel the power of ZOT coming on because you "think" in hyperscopic profiles according to Herr Goebbels.
Oh boy! I feel the power of ZOT coming on because you "think" in hyperscopic profiles according to Herr Goebbels. You like Obamas supreme court picks don't you. A could more and he is president for life. You will never get someone who agrees with you on everything. You are just a constant whiner and complainer. You're never happy no matter what.
Romney could do worse as his record at picking supremes in MA shows. You're promoting queer Marxists by voting for Mitt Satan(R). In 2005, The Boston Globe ran a story on Romney’s judicial appointments. The article stated: Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans, has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters (75%) of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced, instead tapping registered Democrats or independents – including two gay lawyers who have supported expanded same-sex rights. Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show. In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters, and 14 registered Democrats.
How could anyone be worse then Kagan and Sotomoyer?
Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Megan McCain, and Arnold SchwartzenKennedy's lawyers.
I've noticed 'this one' popping up all over the place as of late...
Conservatives may legitimately question Romney's pro-abortion and sexual-radical appointees: the judges, high-level staffers, and policy makers whose goal is to undermine traditional social values and radically transform society. Homosexual and transgender activists played major roles in Governor Romney's campaign, transition team, and Departments of Public Health, Social Services, and Education. They pushed their policies and propaganda into state agencies, medical offices, and public schools at every level. [9] The Boston GLBT newspaper Bay Windows happily catalogued Romney's "gay" appointees, knowing that they would use their offices to promote their causes. Their "sexual orientation" was not just a private matter, as Romney would have us believe, but carried a political agenda. The lead attorney for "gay marriage" in Massachusetts explained, "As feminists in the 1970s rightly noted, and other civil rights and social justice movements found out, the personal is political, or at least it can become so." [10] Yet as Governor, Romney chose to ignore this obvious fact. Romney appointed at least two homosexual activist judges, and even bragged about it: I've appointed approximately 60 judges, one or two of whom... one of whom I'm quite confident is gay, the other may be gay as well. I think he probably is, and there may be more for all I know. But I've never asked a judicial candidate, "are you gay?" and discriminated against them on that basis. Nor, if I look in their resume and there's an indication of their being gay, I don't then delve into it and say, "Gee, are you gay yourself, or are you in support of gay issues?" I believe that in America, we should not discriminate against people on the basis of our differences. [11] A pro-Romney web site (AboutMittRomney.com, "Gay Judges") [12] proudly notes his outreach to pro-gay-rights legal groups. The Governor encouraged their members to apply for judicial openings. Supposedly, the chairman of Romney's judicial nominating committee could be counted on to be conservative as a member of the Federalist Society. However, he was complicit in this alliance with feminist and sexual-radical attorneys: Romney's appointee to the chairmanship of the Judicial Nominating Commission, Boston lawyer Christopher D. Moore, has reached out to minority and women's bar associations to encourage members to apply. He's done the same with the state lesbian and gay bar association, which also has a seat on Romney's joint bar committee... [13] [Emphasis added.] The inclusion of these bar associations certainly satisfied the Governor's new requirement that all nominees had to be members of the bar. But it gives the lie to his claim that his new selection process would be free of politics. What are radical feminism and gay rights advocacy about, if not politics? The Women's Bar Association included many radical feminist members, revealing its stripes in 2000 when it honored GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders) lesbian activist attorney Mary Bonauto, who would argue the Goodridge "gay marriage" case before the courts .[14] And certainly many of the Women's Bar members were promoters of the long-standing pro-woman gender bias in the family courts regarding divorce, child custody, and restraining orders. [15] Was Governor Romney ready to listen to the other side? The Fatherhood Coalition cofounder, Mark Charalambous, said in February 2003: While we are hopeful that in the long run Mitt will turn out to be a good Governor for the Commonwealth as a whole with respect to the state's financial and economic woes, the state's non-custodial fathers in Massachusetts have no reason to be optimistic. Mitt has not responded to any of our overtures for a dialogue, neither during the campaign nor since taking office. He is apparently continuing the pattern of his Republican predecessors in viewing fathers' rights as some kind of subset of women's issues. We have been told that he is putting our issues in Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey's domain -- which is bad news for us since Healey is a victim/feminism partisan who claims some kind of authority/expertise in domestic violence. This is bad news not just for non-custodial fathers, but for all males. Romney's refusal to respond to our overtures indicates to me that he intends to follow in Weld and Cellucci's footsteps. He has so far ignored our concerns about the anti-father bias in the courts and the domestic violence, child abuse, and child support regimes that are crucifying fathers in the name of protecting women and providing for children. He has instead gone so far as to appoint Judith Beals, the discredited former spokesman for Jane Doe [ultra-feminist group against 'domestic violence"], to his transition team. [16] [Emphasis added.] Things did not improve for fathers in the family courts during Romney's tenure. The Massachusetts Lesbian & Gay Bar Association (MLGBA during Romney57;s term), has recently added 60;transgender61; and "queer" to its name: It's now the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association. [17] Through that group, Romney was effectively seeking candidates who (in MLGBA's own words in 2006) were "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated." [18] The MLGBA attorneys had argued for years that the statute criminalizing sodomy ("the abominable and detestable crime against nature, whether with mankind or with a beast," Ch. 272, Section 34) should be overturned. Romney seemed to agree in an interview with the Boston homosexual newspaper Bay Windows (in 1994). [19] And he was on record since 1994 as supporting "gay rights" and non-discrimination on the basis of "sexual orientation." So it's not surprising he reached out to this group to apply for judgeships. In 1999, the MLGBA had honored Justice Margaret Marshall of the Massachusetts high court (later the Chief Justice behind the 2003 Goodridge "gay marriage" ruling) as keynote speaker at their annual fundraiser dinner. There she advocated extending rights for homosexuals and transgenders. This clearly exhibited her partiality on the "gay marriage" issue. The Massachusetts Constitution clearly states that judges must be impartial. [20] Yet Governor Romney chose to ignore this, refusing to support the grassroots activists' call to remove her from office after her clearly biased and unconstitutional Goodridge ruling. Though Romney held the country's attention in 2003-2004 during the "gay marriage" constitutional crisis, he failed to lead as a conservative and check the errant judges. That may be all one needs to know about his true commitment to constitutional principles. [21] These two radical groups -- the Women's Bar Association and the MLGBA (later the MLGBTQ Bar Association) -- were later instrumental in pushing the "transgender rights and hate-crimes" bill (passed in November 2011). [22] Yet they had been full-fledged participants in Romney's judicial selection process. One of Romney's known homosexual judge appointees to district court was Stephen Abany (in May 2005). [23] Romney would have known Abany's "sexual orientation" because he was an activist for gay-rights causes. Abany, a board member of the MLGBA, had testified at the State House in 1999 advocating repeal of the Massachusetts law criminalizing sodomy. [24] Such activism and glaring opposition to Romney's stated support for traditional marriage apparently did not keep him from making this appointment. A second homosexual (or at least, openly pro-gay-rights) judge was Marianne Hinkle: Another Romney choice for the bench is Marianne C. Hinkle, a registered Democrat who worked as an aide to Governor Michael S. Dukakis in the late 1970s and prosecuted John C. Salvi III in the 1994 Brookline abortion clinic shootings. Hinkle, in her application for the bench, describes herself as a longtime active member of Dignity/USA, a group that advocates for expanded gay rights in the Catholic Church and society generally. [25] There was likely a third "gay" appointee, since Romney told the National Journal that his second likely "gay" appointee was a 60;he.61; Romney said he paid no notice to "his nominees" political leanings or sexual orientation" Governor Romney insisted that "his nominees' political leanings or sexual orientation" did not concern him. With increased attention on judicial nominees after President Bush's nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. to the US Supreme Court, Romney said Friday that he has not paid a moment's notice to his nominees' political leanings or sexual orientation or to the impact his choices might have on a future presidential run. He said he has focused on two factors: their legal experience and whether the nominees would be tough on crime". Observers in the Bay State legal community, meanwhile, said they see a contradiction between Romney's judicial choices and his conservative rhetoric, including his stated opposition to same-sex marriage". The governor said that, so far, he has had few chances to appoint judges to the highest state courts, where his criteria would change to include "strict construction, judicial philosophy." 60;With regards to those at the district court and clerk magistrate level, their political views aren't really going to come into play unless their views indicate they will be soft on crime, because in that case, apply elsewhere," Romney said. [27] [Emphasis added.] Romney has tried to deflect conservative criticism of his appointments of gay-rights advocates by claiming that lower-level judges would not have their "political" opinions on GLBT issues come into play. A pro-Romney operative in Iowa posted this at RedState (in 2006): The above is a key point. Ziuko on Red State commented: '"If Federal courts are the major leagues, state [and district] courts aren't even the minor leagues, they're a pick up game of tee ball"... Who gives a rip if a small-time criminal court judge is gay!?!--especially if they have a judicial record of being tough on crime and are working in criminal courts! [28] But this is disingenuous. Some very consequential cases have been in district courts where a judge's pro-homosexual bias would be highly significant. One example: In 2005 in Lexington, Massachusetts, David Parker was charged with "trespassing" at his son's elementary school for demanding his lawful right to be notified in advance of homosexual curriculum. That trespassing case went to Concord District Court. Another example: During the marriage amendment debate in Massachusetts in 2006, Catholic Vote staffer Larry Cirignano was falsely accused by an ACLU agitator with "assault and battery" and "civil rights violations." That case went to Worcester District Court. [29] Furthermore, the "hate crimes" cases clearly involve criminal courts and a judge's bias could color his rulings.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"We the people are turning up the heat," he said. "And that's why I'm being singled out by certain fish and game agencies and certain U.S. attorneys."
#5. To: mininggold (#2)
Poor wittle rich baby is getting paranoid in his old age.
#6. To: Thunderbird (#5)
Your jealousy and envy are on full display.
#8. To: mininggold (#6)
Thanks Boof, I'll forgot that you worship pedophiles and serial adulterers.
#9. To: Thunderbird (#8)
#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)
(Edited)
ming produced her children through pedophilia acts. She/it has 3 kids from screwing her/its brother.
#11. To: lucysmom (#10)
Another Sunday morning hang-over?
#12. To: A K A Stone, mininggold, lucysmom (#11)
ming produced her children through pedophilia acts. She/it has 3 kids from screwing her/its brother.
#13. To: buckeroo (#12)
You are increasingly becoming nasty, vile and uncivil.
#14. To: A K A Stone (#13)
#24. To: buckeroo (#14)
You were a FUCKED-UPPED McCAIN supporter.
#25. To: A K A Stone (#24)
#28. To: buckeroo (#25)
You voted for McCain in the last election as the President. What are you doing attempting to whitewash your own hogwash?
#31. To: A K A Stone (#28)
And you didn't vote against Obama. You wont vote against him next time. You must like Obama. You and he have a lot in common.
#33. To: buckeroo (#31)
And you didn't vote against Obama. You wont vote against him next time. You must like Obama. You and he have a lot in common.
#45. To: A K A Stone, buckeroo, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#33)
(Edited)
You like Obamas supreme court picks
Romney’s Judicial Appointments
#46. To: hondo68 (#45)
#47. To: A K A Stone (#46)
(Edited)
How could anyone be worse then Kagan and Sotomoyer?
#54. To: hondo68 (#47)
Liz Cheney
#56. To: Brian S, A K A Stone, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#54)
Only a homo would like Romney's judges
Mittens is only a "conservative" in Mass., Alaska, and San Fransicko. The "Gay Judeges" link is SO special!
Romney's radical judge appointees
If Romney were truly supportive of traditional values, he would not have made these appointments. A RedState blogger commented (in 2007), "From 2005, the heart of his governorship, Romney's appointments tilted left. Yet conservatives are lining up behind this guy? His one power to move Mass to the right a bit and he didn't. And we're to trust him?"
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