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- nihilville, on 04/04/2009, -13/+28You guys were fine with Bush using the Constitution as his own personal man diaper, but two months into a Democratic Presidency you're calling for a violent revolution? LOL
You sound like a bunch of sniveling whiners and I'm confident your anti-social delusions of relevancy through violence will be proved just as empty as your delusions of competency turned out to be. - evilawesome, on 04/04/2009, -12/+27WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE WERE ACTUALLY GETTING OUR RIGHTS TRAMPLED ON.
YOU CAN'T COME LATE TO THE PARTY AND ACT LIKE YOU STILL DESERVE A KEGSTAND. - BigBalledOX, on 04/04/2009, -5/+20So let me get this straight . . . eight years of bending over and taking it up the ass from Premier Boosh and Overlord Cheney's regime as they stole elections, ruined our financial system, spent money like it grew on trees, ignored issues such as social security and the insane cost of health care, trampled all over the civil rights of Americans . . . and 70 days in to the new administration's tenure, the new administration chosen by an overwhelming majority of Americans, you treasonous, ***** ***** start talking about armed rebellion? You cowardly pieces of ***** who hide behind your computer screen and try to incite civil unrest because you've suddenly found yourself decidedly in the minority of Americans are gonna be in for some big surprises if things ever actually do come to any kind of civil uprising.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/04/2009, -7/+21"America does not need to conform to the socialist, elitist standards of European, Middle Eastern, and Asian royalty. They need to conform to ours!"
Is there a particular reason why they need to conform to ours? From one army vet to another, I think you're talking out of your ass joe. - Diefree, on 04/04/2009, -10/+22I find it funny they want to revolt now that a black man is president not when the good ole boy Bush was wiping his ass with the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I smell hypocrisy at it's finest.
- ThermiteTerrace, on 04/04/2009, -11/+22these are just right-wing extremist morons whose 'hot buttons' (gay acceptance, equal marriage, stem-cell research, a turn away from Dominionist Christianity, black people, and a foreign policy not based on '***** you') have been pushed en masse.
- BillE3, on 04/04/2009, -17/+27Our troops are sworn to uphold and protect the constitution.
Our police are sworn to enforce law and protect the court.
At least the troops will be on our side. I hope the police do too. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/04/2009, -22/+32Not citizens. Just nutjobs. More specifically, uberconservative extremists who have no interest in equality or freedom for all, just equality and freedom for them.
- TheSwashbuckler, on 04/04/2009, -6/+15"Many believe that Obama and his enablers in Congress are pushing citizens to the brink of this type of deadly rebellion."
Many people are idiots. - akhomestead, on 04/04/2009, -2/+11Before you do go look up how the constitution clearly says war is supposed to be declared by congress. Not by congress giving the president that power. You've been fighting for tyranny for a long long long time. But people ignore it when it's the kind of tyranny they like or only care about it when they don't like it.
- evilawesome, on 04/04/2009, -9/+17WAIT. WHAT?
from the article:
Author: Anthony G. Martin
Anthony G. Martin is an examiner from Columbia, South Carolina.
from the submitter's profile:
Anthony G. Martin (Welshman007)
A male who joined Digg on February 17th, 2009
you're writing your own ***** opinion articles and then making your own ***** submissions to digg! you slimy fat neocon *****!
I CALL SHENANIGANS.
by the way, are you really proud of your *welshness*, anthony? does it make you even more hot and sweaty than you must already be in that suit under the south carolina sun? i've pretty solidly come to the conclusion that people who are more proud of where their family comes from than who they are as individuals are generally douchebags. - induren, on 04/04/2009, -6/+14Lame.
Buried. - LouisCipher777, on 04/04/2009, -26/+33someone's gotta light the match. When that happens, the fire will burn out of control. When the spring comes, life will spring anew.
- MacEnvy, on 04/04/2009, -9/+16Indeed. Funny how these douchebags had no problem with the stripping of the Bill of Rights while Generalissimo Bush was in charge, but as soon as we get a guy who is trying his hardest to put things right, it's time for revolution.
How many times were liberals called "traitors" for disagreeing with Bush on the Iraq War? How many times did we hear that anyone who questioned the president was unAmerican? How many times did these absolute retards say the words "Love it or leave it!"
Hypocrites, liars, ignoramuses, and now treasonous pigs. That's what the vocal right has become. - lolsrsly, on 04/04/2009, -10/+17wtf is wrong with these people?
- cnot3, on 04/04/2009, -2/+8Jefferson did own slaves, but he was one of the only politicians of his era that tried to put the US on the path towards eventual abolition of slavery. He once said of slavery, "We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." Jefferson recognized that it was a controversial issue and would have to be handled delicately. It should be noted that he could not free his own slaves, since he was deeply in debt all his life. He did however, educate them and teach them how to read and write, treating them far, FAR more fairly than most slaveholders of the time.
- thefarside420, on 04/04/2009, -9/+15What are all these republican losers doing on Digg today?
- jayjayjoni, on 04/04/2009, -12/+18our president Barack Obama is reminiscent of the great founding fathers. I'm glad we got rid of the Bush tyrants and went back to the old principles of government :)
- lisa3711, on 04/04/2009, -6/+11Idiot, the writer of the article doesn't even say why. The bailout started under Bush folks... so what is the reason you think armed rebellion is called for. If ever there was a US Tyrant, it was our "Imperial" President, Bush.
- tzvika613, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5Washington treated his slaves much better than Jefferson did. Washington announced to his slaves that he would not sell any of them without their consent - which none of them consented to. Also - he would not break up families. Toward the end of his life the care for his elderly slaves became a great financial drain on him.
Yes - the constitution did allow slavery. But it set in motion a society that would eventually outlaw slavery.
The compromise under which slaves counted as 3/5 of a person was really an anti-slavery measure historically. It was not a reflection on the humanity of the slave. Congressional representation was allotted by population count. If a slave counted as a full person - since they could not vote - there would be more seats allotted in the House of Representatives to slave owning states. And if a slave counted as nothing - there would be fewer. The pro-slavery interests wanted them to count as a whole person. The anti-slavery interests wanted them to not count at all. - inactive, on 04/04/2009, -22/+27I believe we are on the verge!
"Change" is coming but I don't think it is the kind the "Bots" were chanting about! - Brotoi, on 04/04/2009, -34/+39I concur! I am coming home this year to work within the system and reverse the rise of national socialism in my beloved United States.
When I joined the army in 1980, I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic! I hope and pray it does not come to that, but if it does, my oath still holds true.
America does not need to conform to the socialist, elitist standards of European, Middle Eastern, and Asian royalty. They need to conform to ours! - fadeout, on 04/04/2009, -14/+19Guffawing at the amount of Timothy McVeigh-ish articles in the que these days... but at least you're keyboard warriors and not shooting up police stations like in Pittsburgh today.
- Witchboy, on 04/05/2009, -7/+12This is article is evil. It's a veiled, cowardly threat intended to incite violence. Bush infringed upon the Constitution more than any President in my lifetime. Where were you then? Obama is actually doing something for those of us who aren't rich and he's not against the 2nd Amendment. Grow up and take some responsibility for the consequences of threatening editorials like this, that are intended to set the crazies in motion. I don't see any tyranny. If you do, you're paranoid, or you have no conception of what oppression is. I have more freedom now, under Obama, than I did under Cheney.
- inactive, on 04/04/2009, -19/+24It smells like treason in here...
- scottknick, on 04/05/2009, -3/+7I've found that burying anything that Welshman007 posts is rarely a bad idea.
- blackhole005, on 04/04/2009, -8/+12"Increasingly I hear more and more voices insisting that Barack Obama and his administration, along with his enablers in Congress, are pushing patriots in the heartland closer to the brink of the type of resistance depicted above in the timeless words of great men."
I think he meant to say "....are pushing ignorant rednecks in the heartland closer...". - evilawesome, on 04/04/2009, -3/+7DING DING
- LordBalderdash, on 04/04/2009, -6/+10buried for retardation
- nihilville, on 04/04/2009, -3/+7Were you advocating for violent revolution against Bush too?
Didn't think so.
Next! - LeeJunFan, on 04/04/2009, -1/+5I was about to suggest the same. Like many things in life, liberty is only appreciated when it's either lost or earned. They never lost it because they didn't have it, and it's not up to us to force it on them. If they really want it let them get up and get it themselves.
- Brotoi, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3
I never intended to imply that I felt the United States should be in the business of overthrowing despotic governments. Absolutely not. As far as I can ascertain, every war since the Civil War has been unconstitutional and did not justify the calling out of the militia. Although Congress does have the power to declare war, the power to send the militia into foreign theaters of war is not included. There is even some doubt whether or not the Civil War itself was justifiable.
When I said, "They need to conform to ours!" I meant it, but I did not mean we need to force it on them. There is a powerful desire among the world's wealthiest to institute a global government. This would benefit them greatly because it would allow them to manufacture goods in areas with little or no protection for the workers (or even better, in their minds, eliminate all these standards entirely), little or no regulations to protect the environment, and no regulations to protect consumers. Since these people control the majority of the world's wealth, they also have the strongest influence in modern governments. When I see something like this:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Breda_Fallacy_Th ...
It infuriates me to no end. There is no reason for our president to ever behave as the inferior of any world leader, regardless of that leader's sphere of influence.
If there is going to be a New World Order, if we have no choice and we must have a global governing body, then that body needs to represent the freedoms and obligations inherent in the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. Any effort to subordinate our liberties or infringe on the sovereignty of the American people must be rejected. Until such time as the world is able and willing to embrace the liberties won for us by generations of blood spilled in the name of freedom, there can be no "New World Order", regardless of how deeply Gordon Brown, the Saudi King, the United Nations, or even an American president desires it and seeks to bring it about. Until the people of the world embrace their natural right to retain sovereign rule over those who seek to govern, we cannot allow a global government to form because that government will inevitably be despotic and tyrannical.
If we do not speak up now in defense of our sovereignty and our inalienable natural rights, they will be lost to us forever. - buckrogers1965, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Buried for treason.
We Republicans screwed the pooch for the past 8 years. The position we find ourselves in is entirely our own fault and only by being helpful and constructive are we going to stop our decline into the dustbin of history. - RonPauls, on 04/04/2009, -5/+8freestateproject.org
- inactive, on 04/04/2009, -5/+8Or when push comes to shove does the military take their marching orders from the commander in chief?
There's the conundrum. - inactive, on 04/05/2009, -1/+4Yes and "getting over it" resulted a lot of deaths in the last century. Something someone above seems to casually overlook.
- squatz, on 04/04/2009, -14/+17The question is, who's the patriot and who's the tyrant?
They were elected. Get over it. - rewinn, on 04/05/2009, -2/+5Uhm, they lost an election, so now they want to shoot their way into power.
That's not freedom, my friend. - inactive, on 04/04/2009, -20/+23I'm ready for some gardening.
- Commonwealth, on 04/04/2009, -6/+9The hypocrisy is staggering... None of you gave half a ***** when the constitution was completely ignored the last 8 years.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/06/2009, -1/+4Being an army vet, I'll thank you not to lecture me on the importance of being willing to fight for freedom. Note however that my freedom and liberty are not under attack here. Among my chief disagreements with conservative extremists is the extent to which they think they're speaking for a majority when in fact they aren't.
The founding fathers revolted against a government that oppressed them without letting their voices be heard. They tried to fix the system from within but had no avenue with which to do so, hence the revolution. That's not the case here though. Here you have a president who was elected by a majority of the populace and who is kept in check by two other branches of government. There is no taxation without representation going on here. - Brotoi, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Intriguing idea. I'll be looking into this more closely. My initial impression is very favorable.
- Jordan117, on 04/05/2009, -4/+6That's the M.O. for all the right-wing spammers that have been flooding Digg lately. Examiner.com, the Patriot Room, the Liberal Heretic, the BNP -- most of these articles are submitted by their authors and dugg by the same group of sycophants (coordinated through third-party sites like DiggCons) until they hit the front page for a few moments, bringing in sweet, sweet ad revenue.
- angryfirelord, on 04/04/2009, -6/+8Thank you for your troll of the day statement.
- Commonwealth, on 04/05/2009, -4/+6It's interesting that he's so proud of his "welsh" heritage since the people that would back his article are horrified how America is "slipping into vile European socialism".
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Thank you for restoring my faith that there are in fact intelligent, rational conservatives on Digg. Your louder brethren tend to drown you guys out sometimes.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Welshman: you sir are an oxygen thief and a disgrace to your species and a countrymen. You don't want liberty for all, you want liberty for you. The founding fathers were under the thumb of a government that didn't give them a voice, and in the face of repression they fought as a last resort. Can you say the same for your belligerent rantings? You're advocating the overthrow of a government that was established of, by, and for the people. President Obama was elected in accordance with the Constitution, by a mandate that was far more clear than the one that ushered Bush into office.
If you think Obama doesn't belong in office than push for impeachment. If there isn't widespread support for impeachment then I guess you'll have to come to terms with the fact that you belong to an statistically and intellectually insignificant minority.
Speaking as one of the people whose liberty you claim to be fighting for: ***** off. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2You say Obama is lighting the fuse, I say it's a fuse that is looking for an excuse to be lit. The rednecks and the good ole boys need to sit down and shut up while their betters get the country in better shape.
- inactive, on 04/05/2009, -1/+3Who thinks McVeigh is a patriot?... I don't know a single person that even has the most remote sympathy for that terrorist.
- evilawesome, on 04/05/2009, -3/+5heh.
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