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blueseas

(11,714 posts)
30. Excerpt is telling
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:55 PM
Aug 2016

SNIP :

"Some gullible people listen to the endless flow of arguments, peppered with “freedom” and “tyranny,” and come away believing they do not have to pay taxes, or have money to cover the checks they write or otherwise obey the law. As a result, lots of sovereign citizens end up under criminal investigation, leading to trials in which judges rub their temples while listening to droning about some grand conspiracy.

But in the worst cases, all that simpleminded gibberish drives believers to violence, particularly against law enforcement during traffic stops. The most famous of those cases: the two Arkansas police officers killed by sovereign citizen Joseph Kane in 2010 after they pulled him over. Kane mowed them down with a variant of an AK-47."


http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html

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No question. onecaliberal Aug 2016 #1
Absolutely ghostsinthemachine Aug 2016 #2
They always have been Warpy Aug 2016 #3
republicans can never deal with this problem safeinOhio Aug 2016 #4
+1 Shankapotomus Aug 2016 #32
matter of perspective. BowlLikeAChicken Aug 2016 #5
^^^yes mopinko Aug 2016 #17
Proven time and time again, Wellstone ruled Aug 2016 #6
Recommend inanna Aug 2016 #7
K&R sakabatou Aug 2016 #8
Well, at least some news outlet is saying so... LakeArenal Aug 2016 #9
Duh! malaise Aug 2016 #10
The Bundy Bunch. 'Nuff said. Initech Aug 2016 #11
I thought this was common knowledge MynameisBlarney Aug 2016 #12
K & R mountain grammy Aug 2016 #13
Disagree superpatriotman Aug 2016 #14
don't buy it. The American right isn't made of the same stuff as ISIL. AlbertCat Aug 2016 #15
Sharia law lark Aug 2016 #18
The "American right" referred to by Time are individuals our founding fathers would call traitors. 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #16
Naked it, 1st Stingray! gregcrawford Aug 2016 #20
Compare body counts of American civilians at the hands of the right win LanternWaste Aug 2016 #26
` Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2016 #19
Wasn't there a government study a few years ago that said the same thing? Chicago1980 Aug 2016 #21
"...spinning words into a convoluted kaleidoscope of claptrap." Sentath Aug 2016 #22
Available evidence contradicts this pediatricmedic Aug 2016 #23
You then believe body count is the only metric? LanternWaste Aug 2016 #28
The list you posted isn't holistic at all... dead people aren't the only metric uponit7771 Aug 2016 #31
Couldn't agree more. (nt) Paladin Aug 2016 #24
K&R... spanone Aug 2016 #25
Yes Jim Dandy Aug 2016 #27
Who is in control of the Republican Party ?? mrJJ Aug 2016 #29
Excerpt is telling blueseas Aug 2016 #30
I can't agree. They're all Cheeto-munching losers. Oneironaut Aug 2016 #33
NSS. I have been saying for decades that the reichwing crazies in this country worry niyad Sep 2016 #34
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