Sharron Angle Floats Possibility Of ARMED Insurrection

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" Here's another one that could be tough for Sharron Angle to explain away: In an interview in January, Angle appeared to float the possibility of armed insurrection if "this Congress keeps going the way it is."


I'm not kidding. In an interview she gave to a right-wing talk show host, Angle approvingly quoted Thomas Jefferson saying it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years -- and said that if Congress keeps it up, people may find themselves resorting to "Second Amendment remedies."


What's more, the talk show host she spoke to tells me he doesn't have any doubt that she was floating the possibility of armed insurrection as a valid response if Congress continues along its current course.


Asked by the host, Lars Larson of Portland, Oregon, where she stands on Second Amendment issues, Angle replied:


You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.


I hope that's not where we're going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.


Larson says Angle was floating the possibility of armed insurrection if Congress keeps it up under Reid et al.


"If it continues to do the things it's doing, I think she's leaving open that possibility," Larson said. "And I think the founders believed that the public should be able to do that when the government becomes out of control. It just matters what you define as going too far."
The most charitable interpretation here was that Angle was floating armed insurrection -- or "Second Amendment remedies" -- as a defensible response if electoral politics fails to change where things are headed under the current regime.


Also, the larger context is key: TPM reports this morning that Angle was a member of the far-right Independent American Party, a pro-gun, states-rights party that warns against the threat of global government.


She has also said she's a member of the patriot group "Oath Keepers," though she's since disavowed that bunch.



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[gratuitous]

1. Seems to be a recurring pattern among Republican candidates

Thankfully, they're all white, so we don't have to worry about the GOP being a terrorist organization. Like all those fucking terrorists in the anti-war and peace groups.

[SpiralHawk]

2. TeaBaglicans (R) are revolting, that's for sure

Why do they hate America?

[atreides1]

5. They don't hate "their America"

The one where people of color know their place and don't get uppity!!!

[dgibby]

3. Vote him out or TAKE him out?

I'm guessing she wasn't talking about voting. Wonder if the FBI is looking into this?

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7. I was' misquoted or misunderstood ' is what she'll say. Its a nudge-nudge, wink-wink call to arms.

[elehhhhna]

9. Meets the textbook definition of a terroristic threat.. Classic. Arrest that woman.

[NC_Nurse]

4. Thank you, God, for such a dipshit candidate. If Reid loses, he has only himself

to blame. She's a wackadoodle.

[AlinPA]

6. Her 2nd amendment remedy: "I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."

Angle is suggesting that someone kill him with a gun. Play this on TV? Media won't.

[lpbk2713]

8. Will someone kindly get this nice lady a straight jacket?

I feel she is in dire need of one.

[leftofcool]

11. She's a teabagging nutball who's just crawl out of it

[David__77]

10. She's definitely a fascist, a member of the "white nationalist" movement.

She's in the mold of the Liberty Lobby. Not family? Please, then, look it up. She represents a strain of US politics that was ever-so-briefly ascendant in the later 1970s. It is anti-Semitic, racist, and fascist to the core. We must have no illusions about this scum. She deserves unending confrontation and exposure.

[old mark]

12. I wonder how much Harry reid contributed to her campaign.....he could not have asked

for a better opponent.

I am hoping every republican candidate in November is just like Angle.

mark

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. Seize her!

she's dangerous to democracy

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15. She is part of a larger ' same thinkers ' Cabal who have taken over the Republican Party.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. we know what they are up to and they should be stopped NOW

[TheKentuckian]

14. Folks on the left need to be armed and ready to use them at great need

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Kievan Rus]

18. I hope the FBI is keeping a good eye on her

[Scurrilous]

19. Me too. n/t