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9119495 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:24 AM
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If this happened at the Haymarket in 1886, Sarah Palin and
Sharon Angle would be "hanged from the neck until dead." I guess I am glad times have changed, but I suspect neither of the people I have just mentioned know anything about how people used to handle matters such as these.
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:30 AM
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1. If they called themselves Socialists or Anarchists, they would be.
Edited on Sun Jan-09-11 08:32 AM by leveymg
I don't think times have changed, at all, in that respect. Can you imagine what the response would be if Bernie Sanders had been sending out the tweets and suggestions to murder that Palin and the rest of the GOP baggers have, and it was John McCain who got shot?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 10:13 AM
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3. let's see ...
Edited on Sun Jan-09-11 10:18 AM by zbdent
guy makes a joke about a "burning bush", pre 9/11 ... arrested. Convicted of being a threat to the (Republican) president.

edited to add: Richard Humphreys, Portland Oregon. Made the joke in March 2001. Convicted September 2002. 37 months prison sentence.
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90-percent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:36 AM
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2. Angle
Has there been any comment on the tragedy from "Second Amendment Sharon" yet?

-90% Jimmy
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