2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTom Coburn inciting to riot with hysterical, Repugnant-speak.
.. Tom Coburn, obviously feels being a Republican, he enjoys a wider lattitude in terms of what he can say. Coburn said that people might react with violence to the PResident's using a Presidential Executive Order to keep some people from being deported - until their situation is clarified with some Immigration legislation.
Apparently Coburn feels since he's a Republican he is allowed to speak irresponsibly. That people will just say: "Oh it's just another insane Repugnant hysterical rant." But given that he is a member of the Government, he is giving some legitimacy to the idea of committing acts of violence. This is nothing but inciting people to riot. Coburn should be censured by the Senate and since he made these statements off the floor of Congress, he should be charged with inciting to riot. Even if you are a Republican there are some minimum standards of responsible behavior to be met.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/19/usa-today-capital-download-with-tom-coburn/19263969/
WASHINGTON Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn warns there could be not only a political firestorm but acts of civil disobedience and even violence in reaction to President Obama's executive order on immigration Thursday.
"The country's going to go nuts, because they're going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it's going to be a very serious situation," Coburn said on Capital Download. "You're going to see hopefully not but you could see instances of anarchy. ... You could see violence."
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Historic NY
(37,458 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)From Ghost Busters:
Ray Stantz (Dan Akroyd): "What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff."
Peter Venkman (Bill Murray): "Exactly"
Ray Stantz: "Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!"
Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis): "Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes..."
Winston Zeddamore (Ernie Hudson): "The dead rising from the grave!"
Peter Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)Is Tom Coburn a cynical politician callously lying to throw his Teabagger base the red meat they demand or is he such a complete fucking idiot he really thinks the President's actions will start the next civil war?
You decide...
onenote
(42,821 posts)The law in this area is clear and this isn't close to actionable incitement to violence. It's protected free speech. That doesn't mean we have to like it. There is plenty of speech I don't like but that's why there is a first amendment. Because there's other speech I like that other people don't.
Midnight Writer
(21,830 posts)If he had a rational point, he would make it. Instead, it is more bully and bluster, threats and name calling, from the team that tried to bluff and were called on it.
No doubt the Republicans would love to see a "white riot", but it will only backfire on them very rapidly. If you want to see public opinion shift radically on the immigration issue, news stories of immigrants being attacked by white thugs will turn things swiftly to the side of the immigrants.