The criminalization of political opinion

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The criminalization of political opinion

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Remove ACB fr society. @KeithOlberman in YouTube rant: “Trump can be and must be expunged....His enablers...the Mike Lee’s, the William Barr’s and the Sean Hannity’s and the Mike Pence’s...and the Amy Coney Barrett’s must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society”
How many here would agree that Trump supporters and voters need to be prosecuted and put in prison? I can already think of several who would if they could.

As the justice department becomes a political weapon, a civil war of some kind looks inevitable. A peaceful mediated secession/divorce between the two sides would be the best case scenario.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
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Are you disappointed Trump hasn't locked Hillary up?
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Analytics wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:05 pm
Are you disappointed Trump hasn't locked Hillary up?
That never mattered much to me.

I wore my "Not Tired of Winning," shirt to the park yesterday. I saw some nasty looks but I wasn't arrested. Do you think I should have been?

The gulag is real. And right now we're about as defenseless against people in government like Olbermann as the Russian people were against the Bolsheviks.
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It never mattered much to you that Trump promised to lock up his political rival if elected? Why not?

I don't know if you should have been arrested. Were you committing a crime?

In any case, it is weird that you simultaneously think you are winning AND think that the government is in the process of committing genocide against Republicans. If this is your view of America now, I can only imagine what you'll say after you lose the white house and senate.
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ajax18 wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:35 pm
The gulag is real. And right now we're about as defenseless against people in government like Olbermann as the Russian people were against the Bolsheviks.
Keith Theodore Olbermann is an American sports and political commentator and writer. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism.

Also, regarding the comment about Bolsheviks and the Russian people:

The revolution erupted in the context of Russia's major military losses during the War, which resulted in much of the Russian Army being ready to mutiny. In the chaos, members of the Duma, Russia's parliament, assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government. This was dominated by the interests of large capitalists and the noble aristocracy. The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution, and Emperor Nicholas II abdicated his throne. Grassroots community assemblies called 'Soviets', which were dominated by soldiers and the urban industrial working class, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias.

A period of dual power ensued, during which the Provisional Government held state power while the national network of Soviets, led by socialists, had the allegiance of the lower classes and, increasingly, the left-leaning urban middle class. During this chaotic period, there were frequent mutinies, protests and strikes. Many socialist political organizations were engaged in daily struggle and vied for influence within the Duma and the Soviets, central among which were the Bolsheviks ("Ones of the Majority") led by Vladimir Lenin. He campaigned for an immediate end of Russia's participation in the War, granting land to the peasants, and providing bread to the urban workers. When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting the war with Germany, the Bolsheviks and other socialist factions exploited the virtually universal disdain towards the war effort as justification to advance the revolution further. The Bolsheviks turned workers' militias under their control into the Red Guards (later the Red Army), over which they exerted substantial control.[1]

The situation climaxed with the October Revolution in 1917, a Bolshevik-led armed insurrection by workers and soldiers in Petrograd that successfully overthrew the Provisional Government, transferring all its authority to the Soviets. They soon relocated the national capital to Moscow. The Bolsheviks had secured a strong base of support within the Soviets and, as the supreme governing party, established a federal government dedicated to reorganizing the former empire into the world's first socialist state, to practice Soviet democracy on a national and international scale. Their promise to end Russia's participation in the First World War was fulfilled when the Bolshevik leaders signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918.


By saying, "The gulag is real" I can only hope you mean the gulag of ignorance?
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By saying, "The gulag is real" I can only hope you mean the gulag of ignorance?
I've already seen school teachers who don't believe that every child is privileged just based on the pigmentation of his/her skin, forced to spend way to much money on "reeducation classes," to keep their license.
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It never mattered much to you that Trump promised to lock up his political rival if elected? Why not?
I didn't really care to see Hillary locked up. But she did lie about wiping her server (with a cloth). She destroyed evidence when she destroyed her harddrive as part of the cover up.
I don't know if you should have been arrested. Were you committing a crime?
My shirt was in support of Trump just like a MAGA hat. Many on the left see that as equivalent to wearing a swatiska and view it as a crime punishable by jail time. All it's going to take is to get a few more liberal justices to legislate this from the bench, and Olbermann's views will be put into action rather quickly. We saw what the leftist media tried to do to Nicholas Sandman for wearing a MAGA hat and smirking at an old Native American beating a drum in his face. With Trump in office, the media paid a price for it. With him out of office in the future, they'll get away with it.

And wanting to enforce the border and voting against hiking taxes to pay for illegal immigrants coming to have babies and live off social welfare benefits. That's a crime to people like Olbermann and most on this board. Once Trump said he was going to enforce the border, that's when all this started.
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ajax18 wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:51 pm
How many here would agree that Trump supporters and voters need to be prosecuted and put in prison?
I don't recall stupidity as a reason to be put in prison, but those who break the law should. I suspect there are quite a few who have been breaking the Law.
As the justice department becomes a political weapon, a civil war of some kind looks inevitable.
I suspect Biden will not follow Trump's lead in using the justice department as a political weapon, but he will let that department follow the evidence.
A peaceful mediated secession/divorce between the two sides would be the best case scenario.
How do you create a geographical area for a country and decide who gets to live in this one party state?
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ajax18 wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:54 pm
By saying, "The gulag is real" I can only hope you mean the gulag of ignorance?
I've already seen school teachers who don't believe that every child is privileged just based on the pigmentation of his/her skin, forced to spend way to much money on "reeducation classes," to keep their license.
Well if you have already seen then you must have a source to give us.
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"It never mattered much to you that Trump promised to lock up his political rival if elected? Why not?"

Nice. And the point is missed, of course.
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