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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Only Constitution That Barack Obama Upholds Is The Soviet Constitution"
I think my role is to uphold support and defend our Constitution, he said.
The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution. I dont know what Constitution that other members of Congress uphold, but its not this one. I think the only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution, not this one. He has no concept of this one, though he claimed to be a constitutional lawyer.
Rep Paul Broun (r-GA)
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/23/1486241/gop-rep-the-only-constitution-that-barack-obama-upholds-is-the-soviet-constitution/
This is the Congressman who said that the theory of evolution was a lie straight from the pits of Hell.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)These people have no shame.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)srican69
(1,426 posts)Before they are allowed to run for office.... This will keep the idiots out
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)BainsBane
(53,012 posts)Shouldn't there be one for serving in congress?
Turbineguy
(37,285 posts)pretty smart and still be a fucking moron. Where do they find these idiots? How do they get elected?
near perfect comment
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)The thing is, they don't march around flouting it or everyone would notice. Only those who have risen up against the corrupt banksters who obviously run this country, have run into that particular effect. And the hacktivists and whistleblowers as well. I want my Democracy back. And I want Wall Street punished. 7400+ Occupiers arrested to date with nary a word from the WH beyond the NDAA and HR347. And DHS and the FBI lying about having spied upon us from the beginning. These are all easily searchable facts, many of which have been discussed here in GD.
demwing
(16,916 posts)you are living proof that the 1st and 4th amendments are alive and kicking.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)and nuisance arrests thrown around at whim. I've seen police break the law repeatedly and then chide us for what they call breaking the law. Occupy is still alive but it's had the hell beaten out of it, been ransacked and tempted by the FBI, spied upon by DHS, systematically attacked by cities/encampments cleared by force...the message is clear. Speak up against the powers that be, get beaten and arrested.
I believe the 99% have gotten this message loud and clear.
Cop repeatedly rams an Occupier, who is being held on the ground, with his baton.
LAPD grab Occupiers with no warning while they are looking entirely in the other direction, give them multiple felony charges.
On May 1 as we assembled for our march, LAPD showed up and brought out a shotgun against two citizens who had done nothing, and were later released. Dozens of cops showed up. It was intimidation. I've seen them do the same thing on an Oakland livestream; selecting random people to aim guns at where they know Occupiers are gathered. Note the smile on the face of shotgun guy as he leaves, at 1:10.
Here's my report on LAPD butting a young lady in the breast with a baton, and grabbing the livestream cellphone out of the hand of another.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100257744
At a recent Los Angeles Artwalk social gathering, a few Occupy members handed out =water-soluble children's sidewalk chalk=. Easily vanishes with a touch of water. LAPD quickly arrested multiple Artwalkers for any instance of using the chalk, then send riot cops to taser and shoot rubber bullets at the righteously irate crowd. What do LA police chief Beck and mayor Villain have to say about arrests and rubber bullets for the use of water-soluble children's chalk?
This is just Los Angeles. Oakland mayor Quan let slip that 18 mayors had conference-called about what to do about Occupy encampments. Shortly thereafter, a systematic removal. 7400+ Occupiers arrested for peaceful 1st Amendment expression and not a single word out of the White House, excepting the NDAA with its provision for indefinite detention of US citizens without trial or representation, and HR347, which makes it a 10-year Federal crime to protest where there are Secret Service present. Guess what? Obama just signed life time SS protection for himself and W Bush. This is now a Federal crime. The voice of The People has been silenced:
It's not Democracy when they don't listen.
And where are the investigations and arrests of the corrupt banksters and Wall Streeters who took our tax dollars and crashed the economy, which still benefits them and increasingly, not us?
Yes, I can talk about these things, but actually get out and show up and demand something be done, and you'll meet militarized police and the prison-industrial complex (which is increasingly for-profit via the phony as hell "war on drugs" .
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)Whovian
(2,866 posts)Ain't no n==r gonna be president over me.
The ignorance is strong in this one.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)of the Constitution. Broun apparently does not have knowledge on lots of subjects and probably most of all the Soviet Constitution and is probably not aware the Soviet Union has not existed since 1991. Hey, he is another smart repub.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)and use it as an excuse for their racism.
bayareamike
(602 posts)are so stupid. It's just becoming comical. Can't wait to watch many a GOP heads explode over the next four years.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)because they have to be hurting themselves pulling so much bullshit straight out of their collective asses every day.
Claybrains
(132 posts)catbyte
(34,332 posts)ODS is alive and well, I see.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Evolution is "lies straight from the pit of hell";
End Birthright Citizenship; no more anchor babies;
No EPA regulation of greenhouse gases;
Deauthorize funding for Obamacare;
NO on expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program;
NO on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation;
Declare preborn as persons under 14th amendment;
YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion
(There are many, many more...)
http://www.ontheissues.org/GA/Paul_Broun.htm
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)I'm 26 and have no memory of the USSR, this red-baiting is just noise to my generation.
Initech
(100,034 posts)It's probably beyond their reading comprehension level.