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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 03:58 PM
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Christian Right group says make them mad one more time and they'll start blowing stuff up
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer had not yet weighed in on the House's passage of health care reform legislation when I put together my round-up of right-wing reactions earlier this morning.

And that turned out to be a good thing, because his response deserves its own post, as he declares 4:07 p.m. on March 7, 2010 to be the exact moment that the United States died.

Fischer followed that post up a short time later with a new post calling on the states to resist Congress and "stand up against the tyranny of the central government" while comparing the government to trespassers and squatters who should be shot and warning that only the 10th Amendment can save this nation from bloodshed:

Thus what Congress did yesterday in passing the monstrous MussoliniCare bill, will not only bankrupt America, it is flatly and unequivocally unconstitutional and is hated by a majority of the American people. Something is being crammed down our throats that makes us gag and vomit.

The last remedy left - other than bloodshed - is the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the states any power not delegated to the federal government. The central government is exercising a power that it does not have, and can only exercise by usurping that power from the states.

State governments can legitimately and constitutionally decide not to cooperate with the central government on the legal ground that Congress has transgressed the boundaries marked out in our founding document. The central government is trespassing on the sovereign territory of the states, and the states have every right to throw them off their property.

Trespassers can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Squatters can be evicted. If they won't leave, they can be tossed. And in the worst case scenario, if they won't surrender peacefully, they can be shot.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-fed-govt-should-be-shot-trespassing-states-rights
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 04:04 PM
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1. We already had this argument.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 04:11 PM
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3. Yep the teabaggers are revealing their true Stars and Bars secesh colors.
That is what this is about, make no mistake. Not all teabaggers, but many of them, in my opinion.
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safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 04:07 PM
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2. Then if you look past the 10th Amd.

"The last remedy left - other than bloodshed - is the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the states any power not delegated to the federal government. The central government is exercising a power that it does not have, and can only exercise by usurping that power from the states.

State governments can legitimately and constitutionally decide not to cooperate with the central government on the legal ground that Congress has transgressed the boundaries marked out in our founding document. The central government is trespassing on the sovereign territory of the states, and the states have every right to throw them off their property."


and read Article I, Section 8. it doesn't look that clear. How do you think that they made Social Security and Medicare, federal mandatory programs?
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 04:27 PM
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4. IIRC there's something in the, wait, that's it, something in THE CONSTITUTION about
"promote the general welfare" that has been construed rather liberally by the courts......
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