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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 11:47 AM
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Rep. Trent Franks Declares President Obama an "Enemy of Humanity"
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-trent-franks-declares-president-obama-enemy-humanity

Speaking at the recent How To Take Back America Conference <1>, Rep. Trent Franks declared that nobody should be shocked that President Obama does all sorts of "insane things" because he is an "enemy of humanity":

Obama's first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries...there's almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.



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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 11:48 AM
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1. Yay! More McCarthyism!
:puke:
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:04 PM
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5. This pukey 'puke deserves more
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: ad infinitum
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:01 PM
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2. Republicans want a church run state. nt
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sasquuatch55 Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:59 PM
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20. Fuck that noise!
nt
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Kaleko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 04:36 PM
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24. Exactly. Not even worth commenting.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-30-09 12:06 PM
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:01 PM
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3. Jesus Christ...do they every stop? I mean have you ever seen the movie "Seven"?
The part where Brad Pitt's character asks the serial killer (Keven Spacey) if they ever just notice one day clear out of the blue while they are finger painting with feces that they are batshit crazy?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:53 PM
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12. No, they'll never stop...only get worse.
So we have to deal with them on that level.

I've been reading on DU lately about how outhouse rat crazy they were when Kennedy was President and we know what that produced. Not saying that will happen, just.. hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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spiritual_gunfighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:04 PM
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4. Wow
I didnt think anything the Republicans could do or say could surprise me at this point. But this does, and this guy is an elected official. Disgusting.
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:20 PM
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6. 'Freedomworks' is giving approval rates?
What the hell kind of degenerate, fascist, loon, do you have to be to get on that list?

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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:27 PM
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7. Here is the main list on project vote smart for FreedomWorks
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2945

Name: FreedomWorks
Year: 2005
Issue: Budget, Spending and Taxes
Website: http://www.freedomworks.org/
Email:
Address:
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest
North Building, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20004
FreedomWorks fights for lower taxes, less government and more economic freedom for all Americans. FreedomWorks combines the stature and experience of America’s greatest policy entrepreneurs with the grassroots power of hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists all over the Nation.
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 02:31 PM
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21. I guess they were busy the last eight years.
Other priorities, or something.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:28 PM
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8. I'd have the Secret Service pay him a visit for a chat
In private, no cameras, no microphones, just a little interview to clarify just what he meant,
and just what he intended to do about it, if anything. Ten hulking, armed, unsmiling guys with
earpieces and guns, and see just what he, as a human, intends to do about he is perceived enemy.

Calling for his lawyer or his mommy is not an acceptable response.
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:33 PM
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9. Dog whistle.
It's the same language the fundies use to talk about abortion providers. He's basically calling for Obama's assassination.
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earthside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:04 PM
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15. Absolutely.
What are we (civilized people) supposed to do with an "enemy of humanity"?

Of course, he is conjuring up pictures of butchers, torturers (irony), brutal dictators, Eichmann, Ted Bundy, etc.

Whether this Congressman realizes it or not (and I think he does), he is laying the mental and emotional framework to justify violence against the President.

The dog whistle is being blown by this guy ... let's hope some deranged zealot does not hear this high pitched tone and decide that he or she would be justified in eliminating this "enemy of humanity."

What the heck is going on in this country?

Really.
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:42 PM
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18. What's going on:
The far right in this country--the fundie nutballs, the racists, the fascists, the pathological wing of the Republican party, don't believe--at all--in democracy. They're only interested in elections when the outcomes, honest or not, keep them in power. When the vote goes against them their immediate impulse is to resort to violence. These fuckers are dangerous, IMO--to ignore them is to court disaster.
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whathehell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 04:17 PM
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23. I agree completely and I am VERY concerned....When will this outrageous shit be
determined as "incitement to violence" and NOT protected speech?..Is anyone even looking into it?

The combination of hate speech and easy access to guns, makes this scary..and very NOT "okay".
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:33 PM
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10. actually buddy, you are your followers are the enemies of the US
it's time Americans make you feel that way.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:48 PM
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11. Is he part of the 'family'?
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:02 PM
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14. Not that I could find but he is a follower of Dobson heading a branch of Focus on the Family in AZ
for 4 1/2 years: http://www.house.gov/franks/bio_introduction.shtml

Trent served four and a half years as the Executive Director of the Arizona Family Research Institute, a non-profit organization associated with Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family for the purpose of advocating public policy to protect children and families in Arizona.

Trent Franks is currently Chairman of the Children's Hope Scholarship Foundation and a Republican Member of The United States Congress. In the 109th Congress, he served on the Judiciary Committee and was the Vice Chairman on the Constitution Subcommittee, he also served on the Armed Services Committee, and is a member of the Republican Study Committee, House Working Group on Judicial Accountability, House Working Group on Waste, Fraud and Abuse, the Congressional Hispanic Conference, the Liberty Caucus, the DUI Caucus, the Human Rights Caucus, the India Caucus, the Refugee Caucus, the Education Freedom Caucus, and is a co-founder of the Israel Allies Caucus (IAC).

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In December of 1987, Trent Franks was invited to meet Dr. Gary Bauer at the White House. Dr. Bauer was the Domestic Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to President Reagan. While waiting in one of the White House Executive Building offices, Trent met Focus on the Family President Dr. James Dobson who was waiting to speak with the President regarding a nomination to the United States Supreme Court. Trent had followed and admired Dr. James Dobson for over a decade and as they talked Dr. Dobson briefly outlined a planned effort to establish state organizations associated with Focus on the Family for the purpose of effecting public policy that would strengthen and protect traditional family values. This conversation led to the establishment of The Arizona Family Research Institute.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 12:53 PM
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13. The right wing republicans have gone berserk. This stuff seems to be everythere, mostly Fox "News".
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Stumbler Donating Member (599 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:33 PM
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16. After 8 years of greed, corruption and incompetence
.. this jackass has the balls to call THIS president an enemy of humanity? Does the hypocrisy never end?
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:35 PM
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17. "they" want to see Obama murdered ..... I can think of no other reason as to
Edited on Tue Sep-29-09 01:47 PM by Botany
speak this kind of hate. Obama is spending tax money to kill little kids that are the face of God.


I just sent it on to the U.S. Secret Service .... I would suggest people do the same. This man needs to answer for
the hate he is stirring up. He simply can not handle the fact a black man is POTUS.

http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/contact.shtml

Secret Service contact link
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 01:58 PM
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19. I'll watch it later
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 02:49 PM
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22. Is this a 'catered lynching'? That's a new one. /nt

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Buck Feck Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-29-09 05:18 PM
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25. "Head to the Mountains!"
DOUCHE!
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