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Tx4obama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 03:14 AM
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Roseanne Barr makes a case for bringing back the guillotine in American society - VIDEO

Roseanne Barr: Rich Should Be Beheaded If They Don’t Give Up Wealth

Appearing on RT, Roseanne Barr argued in favor of beheading any wealthy American making over 100 million dollars, and made a case for bringing back the guillotine in American society as a form of justice for big banks and Wall Street.

Previously, while she was participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests, she said that if corporations were people (as decided by the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling), then Goldman Sachs should be executed for financial crimes against the American people. Today she stuck by those comments, and insisted that “the guilty must be punished” and Americans are seeing “their leaders get away with murder.”

Then, in a move Robespierre would have applauded, Barr called for the return of the guillotine in the United States, but added it would only be used on “the worst of the worst of the guilty.” She explained how this incredibly medieval process would work:

“I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay… back anything over 100 million in personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of 100 million dollars and if they’re unable to live on that amount then they should go to the reeducation camps, and if that doesn’t help, then be beheaded.”

SNIP

VIDEO: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/roseanne-barr-rich-should-be-beheaded-if-they-don%e2%80%99t-give-up-wealth/




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patrick t. cakes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 03:16 AM
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1. Robespierre lives!
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 09:51 AM
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7. The very last thing we need is a Robespierre.
while in the beginning, he tauted that he was going to try and kill all the royals, in the end, only. 6.8% were actually killed. How do I know this, I literally just finished a book entitled, "The Terror", last night.

By the end of the two years of his reign of terror, he turned into a paranoid dictator. Killing anyone who so much as looked at him wrong. (and he actually did have people killed for looking at him wrong, under the delusional belief that they were thinking murderous thoughts about him).

Our laws work perfectly well when actually applied and used.

bringing back whole sale bloodletting is just completely stupid to cheer about.
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patrick t. cakes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 12:43 PM
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8. whoa! LOL, no ones cheering old Robes.
Danton's my man anyway

One of my favorite periods in history,

T'was :sarcasm:


(got a link for the book, would love to check it out)
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 03:30 AM
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2. Re-education camps don't work.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 04:22 AM
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5. They work in Comedy!
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 03:54 AM
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3. Problem is...with our rich, if you cut off their heads, they'd just grow back
as even scarier replacement heads, with digital eyes, Ginsu teeth that can bite through skulls, and missile-launching foreheads.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 04:21 AM
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4. LOL
So this is her in Campaign Mode.
:rofl:

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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-11 05:50 AM
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6. Goodbye Warren Buffet!
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