‘Gather your armies’: Is GOP candidate stoking armed revolt?

By Daniel Tencer
Monday, June 14, 2010 21:56 EST
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Add another to the growing collection of strange and disturbing political ads coming out of Alabama these days.

Rick Barber, a candidate in the Republican primary for the state’s second district, has released a one-minute ad in which he implies he supports impeaching President Barack Obama, then goes on a protracted criticism of the IRS, concluding with an actor dressed as George Washington declaring, “Gather your armies.”

The ad begins with the Tea Party-backed Barber implying support for Obama’s impeachment. “And I would impeach him,” Barber says in the ad’s opening line as he sits at a table with actors dressed as Washington, Sam Adams and Ben Franklin.

And if that’s not enough — some of your men own taverns. Sam, you were a brewer, Mr. President, a distiller. You know how tough it is to run a small business without a tyrannical government on your back.

Today, we have an Internal Revenue Service that enforces what they call a progressive income tax. You’ll love this. Every year, if not every quarter, we’re basically required to spy on ourselves. Report what we earn, who we hire and fire, with an all powerful separate court system. Without representation they could increase taxes, add costly regulations, or perform malicious audits.

Now this same IRS is going to force us to by health insurance. Cram it down our throats, or else. Now I took a took an oath to defend that with my life [points at copy of Constitution] and I can’t stand by while these evils are perpetrated.

You gentlemen revolted over a tea tax. A tea tax. Now look at us! Are you with me?

At the end of the ad, George Washington responds with the words, “Gather your armies.”

It’s “the first TV ad this reporter can remember that advocates taking up arms against the United States,” writes Rick Barber at MSNBC’s First Read blog.

Responding to controversy over the ad, Barber told TalkingPointsMemo’s Evan McMorris-Santoro that the ad has been misunderstood.

“They need to not look so deep into things,” Barber said. “It’s definitely not an inciteful call to arms.”

Nevertheless, McMorris-Santoro reports that Barber “stood by his ad’s message” that “the founding fathers would be absolutely appalled” by the current state of the US.

But David Weigel at the Washington Post suggests that Barber’s interpretation of the founding father’s attitudes doesn’t make sense.

“President Washington presided over, and approved, the first tax levied by the federal government — the 1791 whiskey tax,” Weigel writes. “When the tax met resistance, he approved the assembling of militias to enforce the law and mobilization of agents to collect the revenue. So the Barber daydream of Washington angrily ordering a ‘gathering of armies’ to oppose a tax is… well, entertaining, I guess.”

Barber garnered 28 percent of the vote in the June 1 primary to be the GOP’s House candidate for Alabama’s second district. But he held leading rival Martha Roby to below 50 percent of the vote, meaning the two face off in a run-off primary on July 13.

This video was posted to YouTube June 13, 2010.

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  • Winski

    In every US LAW statute reference I can find, what he's advocating is called TREASON. His next stop should be a federal prison.

  • Voteindependent

    I agree, it doesn't look like there is a whole lot of ambiguity here.

  • dennycrane

    These tory-tea-baggers are only an inch away from being assholes.

  • Atilla

    Reagan, Bushco/Cheney, the ENRON criminals, All of the Christer churches, the Papists, all of the Neocons are without question guilty of treason. There has been a slow moving coup in this country since Jan. 1981. Treason is just no big deal anymore. Anyway Obama won't allow anyone to be tried unless they ripped off the Jewish community by investment fraud.

  • wiseturtle

    what the fuck will this kracka impeach him for?

  • carver

    I would say they are several feet into assholery already.

  • justadumbfireman

    I'd love to see these crackheads actually do it and pay the consequences. Mother Nature keeps trying to get these people out of the gene pool, and for some reason we keep saving them.

  • RadicalCaveman

    This guy is an ignorant nut.

  • RadicalCaveman

    That's gotta be the shortest inch I ever saw.

  • Clevelandchick

    How come the Republicans' incendiary BS somehow miraculously always ends up 'not really meaning' exactly the blatant and literal interpretation when they are called on the carpet about it?

  • dennycrane

    “Scar” tissue?

  • CarlPagan

    They are “tainted” with a certain hubris…

  • apoorcitizen

    As usual a DUMB Repub with no command of History or understanding of his own presentation?????? Where do they get these asses?????

  • bickle2

    Immediate arrest and trial for sedition. Yes, advocating open war against the government is sedition and treason.

    If only the South had been properly punished after the Civil War, they wouldn't even think about it

  • gypski

    This candidate needs to go for a psychiatric examination to determine his fitness for holding public office. We don't need more moonbats and beam me up types.

  • http://www.gatheryourarmies.com/ poker-pauly

    Have you looked at what I did with Gather Your Armies?
    http://www.gatheryourarmies.com/

  • theghostpony

    Whoa. That's a whole lot of crazy, even for Alabamy!

  • oktoss

    The founding fathers would be appalled at the number of Catholics in the SCOTUS. The founding fathers would be appalled at how intrusive religion has become in our gov't and lives. The founding fathers would be appalled at just about everything the GOPS did when they held all that power for over 8 years. The founding fathers would be appalled at the number of times the name *Bush* has appeared on presidential ballots.

    Don't try to hand me that sh*t Mr. Barber I can smell it from here.

  • lincolnparadox

    Wow. You said “papists.” Don't forget the orthodox Jews in your list.

  • http://lureenslaw.com Tom

    We need this whacko in government like we need a comet impact. I may never be able to wear a plaid button collar shirt again.

  • Obooboo

    I should relocate, for he would have my vote!!!!
    Obooboo has committed treason and violated the Patriot Act.
    Although I will not post here these findings as they are being drawn up with filing approaching in a Federal Courthouse near you sheeple.. enjoy the incrediblu kool-aid while it last.

  • John7

    Um, which part of CONTINUING AND EXPANDING ALL of GWB policies did you not get?

    OF COURSE, oBUSHma MUST be impeached, as GWB should have been.

    just because millions of dopes delude a man who worked for Kissenger, and Business International Co, a CIA front company, who continuing the trend of FOUR narco junkies in a row: GWB- practically RAN Iran-Contra, along with his family fortunes, Clinton-MENA, Arkansas Cocaine ring, plus admitted pothead, then GWB, a drunk, a retard, and a cokehead, oBUSHma, an admitted CRACKHEAD.

    Way to go America.

    Principled CONSISTENCY would be a REAL CHANGE, for America.

  • scytherius

    The man is a traitor. You can not be a conservative anymore without being a traitor.

    And it amazes me these idiots don't think the Left is armed as well.

  • MagnusTheDestroyer

    Oh god, what a hysteric. You wouldn't have dared made this comment when I was calling for GWB to be strung up on a light pole in DC,

    The fact is the government is indeed tyrannical and we really need to be thinking about removing it and replacing it with a true servant of the People.

  • MagnusTheDestroyer

    God damn, what a bunch of screeching children commenting here tonight.

    Why not focus on the message, which concerns excessive taxation and aggressive IRS audits, forced participation in government health care schemes, etc. Are you squawkers saying that you like being an indentured servant to the IRS? Actually, slave is more accurate, because indentured servants had a limit to their service, whereas income taxes are forever, or else.

    And who the fuck wants to buy in to this turd of a health care bill?

    Come on, now. Stop being fucking hypocrites. Wake up out of your stupor. Enough with the kneejerk reactions just because it's foreign to your political conditioning. This guy cares about the country and his fellow citizens as much as you chattering boobs do. What makes you better than him? I'll tell you: nothing.

    Stop with the boorish reactionary ad hominem and THINK.

  • Ffakr

    I've never seen a nutcase actually point out HOW Obama supposedly committed treason.

  • Ffakr

    I don't suspect you realize that we have THE LOWEST tax rates in 30 years.
    Americans [and I'm one] are the greediest, most self-centered people on the planet.

    If there's one thing that is universally true of conservatives, it's the paranoid persecution complex. Greed is probably tied.
    You've got it so god damned bad.. historically low tax rates while we're in TWO FREAKING WARS. During WWII Americans actually gave a damn. The top tax rate was in the 90 percentile. 94 freaking percent. I don't recall a mass-movement threatening to overthrow our government during WWII.

  • cliffhammond

    Yeah! “Stop this boorish reactionary ad hominem and THINK,” you “bunch of screeching children,” “squawkers,” “indentured servants,” “slaves,” “fucking hypocrites” and “chattering boobs.” “Who the fuck wants this turd of a health care bill?” Yeah, stop this ad hominem right now!

    Gee, I guess we need a little more time to “THINK” about this.

  • motorfingaz

    Conservative confederate trash wants their ass kicked again???

  • Lyman

    The only reason these wack-tards hate Obama is because he is a “NEGRO”.
    If he were “CAUCASIAN”, they would love him. Our president is “Bush-Lite”
    (No pun intended). All of the hopey-changie crap was pure bullshit.
    Unless Diebold intervenes, we've got ourselves a one term president.

  • gracekelly015

    Health care (transformation) is one of the best issues this current administration has done thus far. With this change individuals will have the opportunity to seek professional and quality health care services. Who would want to return to the days of the horse and buggy, b/w tv sets, manual typewriters, pac man, you get the point? That's about how old the health care system was in the USA. Each day the news is filled with social tragedies in which lives are taken at the hands of known acquaintences and/or family members. Our society is stricken with the institutions of white collar crime permeating throughout this great nation and greed which tends to strike at the very fabric of our country. If you are looking for affordable health insurance check out http://bit.ly/9sfoMb . I hope everyone will soon recognize and use the resources made by this transformation to seek professional medical attention as the need arises rather than turning to illegal and criminal activities to resolve their issues.

  • Will

    Each and everyone of these politicians are traitors.

  • Wiseandawake

    GREAT …I love it

  • Jjaycott

    Your parents want you to clean your ROOM!

  • WatchingTheInbredArmy

    Attention. Here comes the all Goober militia. Suck in that huge ass beer belly soldier. Do you have all your guns strapped on? Is your napsack full of fried food? Good now march.
    What a sight inbred hydroencehalitic heads bobbing to and fro. Goober struggling to count to four. Imagining their victory over the black and brown man. They are proud hillbillies serving their white inbred people.

  • Albert

    Thats cause your looking at Statutes….try reading the constitution. Hes spot on. All statues OUITSIDE of the constitution are ILLEGAL.

  • Lyman

    Hell they ARE getting their butts kicked again.
    Their Grand Ole Oprey is under water.
    Flash floods are drowning campers in Arkansas.
    Oklahoma is flattened by tornadoes.
    New Orleans…well that's a done deal.
    The pristine gulf beaches are covered with slime balls.
    Dead turtles and dead birds are everywhere.
    The fisheries are finished. They look out upon the Gulf of Death and worry for tomorrow.
    With each passing day it certainly appears that god hates the red states.
    It's so weird. With all of their bibles, you would think think that god would love the shit
    out of them.

  • AltNights

    An investigation ought to look at the possibility of this being sedition.

  • quincyscott

    Which People are you talking about? The majority of voters who choose the president every few years. Are they the People?

    Unless the president commits some high crimes (see Bush, George W.), he can do what he wants. We are free to criticize, to voice our opinions. We aren’t free to kick him out because we disagree with his policies or actions. In that case, we vote for a different candidate next time.

    This is the way our system is set up. Calling for “thinking about removing it” is no different than what the moron in Alabama said in his commerical.

  • Anonymous

    That’s right. Their was no national debt before Obama showed up all those many years ago.

  • Anonymous

    You are Correct. They blame EVERY problem on a President 16 months in office.instead of taking responsibility for their own lives.
    They are Idiots.

  • quincyscott

    Papists? The last time I encountered the word “papist” I was reading an essay written in 1729 by Jonathon Swift.

    We need rational criticism of our government, and we need open debate about real issues. What we do not need more of is paranoia. All those groups you name are guilty of treason? Jesus, dude, catholics and “Christers” make up like eighty percent of people in this country. Are they all guilty of treason?

    Having ideas, even ideas that disagree with yours, even ideas that are stupid ideas, is not an act of treason.

  • Plotius

    Your are also a stinking racist you bloated bag of excrement.
    Does your wife know you masterbate when she is not around?

  • tonybinca

    Treason is what the current government has been engaged in for decades. Pull your head out.

  • tonybinca

    “What are you prepared to do!”

  • tonybinca

    Wow, what a racist piece of work you are.

  • quincyscott

    I like the way you combine “dumb fuck” and “sir.” Very gentlemanly of you.

    Barack Obama was elected by a majority of American voters. He’s a president. He isn’t any closer to being a king than any other president we have ever had, from George Washington onward. We pay taxes to the federal government, and have been for a long time now. Obama doesn’t collect all that money for himself.

    If you have some actual, specific gripes about the president, then I wish you would make them. This incoherent hyperbole isn’t doing anyone any good, and it’s downright un-American.

  • http://www.tommyjonestheband.com RantingTommy

    right wingers are so ignorant

  • Anonymous

    This just in: Obama has just issued orders to dispatch the black helicopters to round up all the White people and send them back where they came from.

  • revolutioncoming

    There is a breakdown and revolution coming, but the Republicans won't be leading it.

    The great unwashed middle is fed up with both parties and their elitist destruction of the rule-of-law, constitution, and democracy. The middle still believes that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed and they are withdrawing their consent.

    The king(s) and their self-selected aristocrat class have no clothes. They have lost contact with reality and think that politics, propaganda and paper can solve all problems from finance, through justice, to the physical world. They can solve neither.

    They are incompetent and unfit to rule, much less, represent the people of this country.

    The people are fed up with non-constitutional two party system that gives them choices between bad and worse, the two candidates approved by their vetting system that depends on loyalty to ideology first and competence last.

  • Anonymous

    With an attitude like that, I guess we can count you out of the revolution, coward. Though you’re mostly right, it’s only mostly. Always there comes a tipping point, when even the most bone-headed amongst us must recognize that the status quo cannot continue.

    The Foudners even recognized this in the Declaration of Independence:

    “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

    However, they also recognized that ultimately the abuse must end and the People must take matters into their own hands:

    “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

    We are the People. WE are the government, not the government. We can tell them to pack up and go home whenever the fuck we want to. It’s you pussy-assed coward hold-outs that think things will get better if we just pick the right figure-head to run things that are keeping us trapped in the mire of modern day America.

    Grow a fucking spine and take a stand for once. Stop believing in idols and false prophets. No one is going to come along and fix this because it’s not in the interests of power to shed power. Power only seeks more.

    Stop being prisoners in your own country and start fighting back god damn it.

  • Anonymous

    With an attitude like that, I guess we can count you out of the revolution, coward. Though you’re mostly right, it’s only mostly. Always there comes a tipping point, when even the most bone-headed amongst us must recognize that the status quo cannot continue.

    The Foudners even recognized this in the Declaration of Independence:

    “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

    However, they also recognized that ultimately the abuse must end and the People must take matters into their own hands:

    “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

    We are the People. WE are the government, not the government. We can tell them to pack up and go home whenever the fuck we want to. It’s you pussy-assed coward hold-outs that think things will get better if we just pick the right figure-head to run things that are keeping us trapped in the mire of modern day America.

    Grow a fucking spine and take a stand for once. Stop believing in idols and false prophets. No one is going to come along and fix this because it’s not in the interests of power to shed power. Power only seeks more.

    Stop being prisoners in your own country and start fighting back god damn it.

  • Anonymous

    If this guy above thinks his mocking words are going to hold back further government assault on his liberties then he’s sadly mistaken, and a stooge.Why don’t you idiots finally see through your political conditioning and realize that you’ve all been had? The people packing guns are the ones you should respect and revere, not the idiots in government who have caused such consternation amongst Americans that they would feel compelled to go out and arm themselves to protect against a constant encroachment on our rights.Get a clue!

  • Anonymous

    If this guy above thinks his mocking words are going to hold back further government assault on his liberties then he’s sadly mistaken, and a stooge.Why don’t you idiots finally see through your political conditioning and realize that you’ve all been had? The people packing guns are the ones you should respect and revere, not the idiots in government who have caused such consternation amongst Americans that they would feel compelled to go out and arm themselves to protect against a constant encroachment on our rights.Get a clue!

  • Anonymous

    No, they blame their problems rightly on a government out of control and impinging on every last right that we have. Whatever happened to the right to be left the fuck alone?

    Or do you prefer to be treated like an infant and told what you can and can’t do for the rest of your life?

    If that’s what you prefer then please take the next exit from society and go live in this government controlled utopia that you seem to advocate for in every comment I see you post.

    Your continued advocacy of a failed presidential hopeful who ended up being mired in ridicule and controversy is clear evidence of your mental ineptitude. edwards.com? Really?

    Sad.

  • Anonymous

    Toture, illegal war, occupation, banned weapons, indiscriminate killing of civilians, etc. etc. the list goes on.

    These are all things that Obama has not only adopted but embraced when he took office. So he’s as guilty as any asshole before him.

    Stop defending the indefensible. Grow a pair already. Wake up and realize that you are putting your support behind the same policies you railed against for 8 years under GW Satan.

    Your government has been coopted by terrorists. Osama bin Laden is a ghost. He’s a fairy tale character in a narrative spun to keep you afraid and hiding under your covers. Stop being a pathetic child and start taking bold action to capture your country back from the evil that has taken it hostage.

    The enemy is the government.

  • Anonymous

    Divert Divert Divert

    You ignore everything I say because you’re too cowardly to take action otherwise.

  • Anonymous

    Irrelevant. You are focusing on the wrong issue.

    Wake up and look around you: is this the country you thought you would grow up to live in?

  • Azazel

    Amen brother.

  • Crjudge1

    Spot on, Clevelandchick. If a Repubican says he wants to gather an army and unseat an elected president, the media allows him to explain it all away as if he was just speaking “figuratively.” You know, the same “figurative” way Morgan and Prescott Bush and the other traitors were “just fooling around” when they recruited Smedley Butler and bankrolled him to raise an army of veterans to take over Washington, D.C. (Alas for the Nazi sympathizing saps, Butler was a genuine patriot who refused the offer and ratted the bastards out to Congress.

  • Hsdhd

    …quite a good ad….would have been better if Washington was played by Mel Gibson

  • Anonymous

    Do you not like Socialism ?

  • Anonymous

    Er, hut, um, two, ah hum, three, er, ah, eh … Oh hell! Hut, two, three. Hut, two, three. Hut, two, three.

  • Anonymous

    The angry inch

  • Anonymous

    McCain Lost ..
    GET OVER IT

  • Crjudge1

    Don’t be so quick on the trigger. Being an asshole doesn’t qualify as treason, and while he is surely the former, he’s not smart or important enough to be the latter. As for sedition, nope, not that either. He’s got a stooge in a uniform saying some silly crap in response to the silly crap he said to the stooge. It’s make believe — even if there be folks in the state of ‘bama who might be stupid enough to be willin’ to take up arms. And Pennsylvanianne has a point: Alabama wasn’t even part of the Union when the Constitution was created (by men a hell of a lot smarter than this fool. Come to think of it, Alabama, great State that it may be, was once peopled by racist traitors responsible for killing thousands of Americans back in the 1860′s. I guess that the ugly, murderous spirit that led to the Civil War is still extant in good ole ‘bama, huh?

  • Crjudge1

    I agree. But, face it, he didn’t say this crap during Bushie’s ersatz presidency because he, like all other tea-baggers, loves Corporate Fascism, hates people of color, deplores knowledge, and dreams sweetly of the slaughter of Liberals, minorities, and smarty pants Int-eye-leckshuls.

  • Angry Vet

    No. What is actually strange is that there are a lot of people who actually believe that blue helmeted UN peace keepers are going to impose martial law on the white citizenry of the US.

    And what is actually strange is the way that, after 8 years of a failed and misbegotten presidency, people like you are now creeping up from under rocks to cry “treason! treason!” Where the heck were you and your kindred when Bush and company stole 2 elections, pushed through a Patriot Act that made us all vulnerable for Federal snooping, created a “no fly” list that tacitly accused millions (yes, millions) of Americans of being terrorist-suspects, waged at least one completely illegal war based on lies that the president and VP knew were lies — and as a result causing the deaths of more American than died on 9/11. Where the heck were you when they introduced torture and bragged about it? Where were you when they dismantled the regulatory system that caused the crash of 2007-8? Where the heck were you and yours when the pitiful State of Arizona passed a law tha requires — yes requires — the police to stop and demand papers from those they think someone might somehow suspect of being here illegally? Don’t you dare talk about treason until you read — yes read — the Constitution. Don’t you dare make childish accusations against the current administration if you stood by, not just silently, but praising the bastards who circumvented the Constitutional process with signing statements and led this once great nation to the brink of bankruptcy — moral and financial.

  • Smcearfoss

    “The enemy is the government.” . . . which is owned by Wall Street (read corporations). Refocus, then redirect venom in the right direction.

  • Julie

    What is actually strange and disturbing is the fact that the US Constitution is being systematically dismantled…

    What is actually strange and disturbing is the fact that Hillary Clinton has signed a treat with the UN to dismantle every Americans right to bear arms….

    What is actually strange and disturbing is the fact that that the First Amendment of the US Constitution is being stripped….

    What is NOT strange is the fact that the American public seems to not notice these things…

    What is NOT strange is the fact that there is absolutely no difference between Bush and Obama…

    New World Order is upon the American people and only the American people can stop it…

    What those in charge in DC are doing is nothing short of TREASON

    Julie

  • Julie

    Obama has committed treason by being the Chairman of the UN

  • Julie

    what if someone thinks they are one in the same, Bush and Obama?? Same agenda, which is to lead the New World Order?

  • grindermonkey

    The tavern owners and distillers stand to benefit the most from this candidate. Gather your army of drunks and let's go get 'em. Of course beer and liquor are illegal in Alabama so I think this has no place to go.

  • Sha'neequa

    This maroon doesn't realize that if he had said this crap while GWB was in office, he'd be rotting in Gitmo right now, and for the rest of his life. If nothing else, Obama has given us our freedom of speech back.

  • enorceht

    I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
    John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1

  • http://www.zoombits.co.uk/ micro sd card

    I hope that humanity is reason and wisdom does not feel the need to control our political minds. He turns inward toward the light of knowledge that resides there, and conscience, to create a new world, we must turn to people like Mr. Barber, who want to immerse themselves in our world back to the dark period of ignorance.

  • tim34994

    I believe this is close to sedition. Perhaps the FBI had better speak to this bozo

  • Pennsylvanianne

    You'll have to forgive Mr. Barber and the state of Alabama, which was not even IN THE UNION during the Revolutionary War, Constitutional Convention and Whiskey Rebellion. Maybe they don't teach the details of those important elements when they teach history in Alabama, like the fact that Washington SENT TROOPS to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. Maybe Obama is just going to have to take a tip from Founding Father Washington and send troops to Alabama to quell Barber's armed revolt.

  • chrisinva

    This is no more outrageous than Obama's command to his troops to “get in their face” (followed by left-wing violence at the polls and at anti-Obama rallies).

    Grow up, Lefties. Obama buddy Bill Ayers bombed buildings and killed people, and he's not in jail. You want to reconsider that case?

    “Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.” The current crisis invites a deeper study of the American Revolution and the Founding. The taxes of King George were miniscule compared to those today, even before Obama's unprecedented tax hikes.

    And the imperial policies of Bush, perpetuated by Obama, are much more far-reaching than those of King George.

    Why not gather our armies? Let's start by bringing them home! ALL of them!

  • Orangebeach1

    Excuse me, he IS as much “CAUCASIAN” as he is “NEGRO” and was raised by his “CAUCASIAN” family members!

  • Albert

    Who gives a crap th left is armed as well? What kind of panzi nonsense is that? Had the founders thought that way your be speaking with a British Accent . LIVE FREE OR DIE!

  • Peter

    Another right wing histo-tard. Please step into the convolutatorium, where everything is turned upside down and backward from dipshits that never paid any attention in school, never opened a book. They are “authorities” among only fellow ignoramuses. Love how the kook disparages the actual historical event so he can ass-ure his fellow misinformed while painting themselves as knowledgeable heroes of modern day fictional unreality… And they are armed. Enemies domestic and foreign.

  • John

    Arrest, prosecute and imprison, if he were non-European, no less would be expected and received!

  • sewollef

    “There is a breakdown and revolution coming…”

    Sorry but that's delusional thinking. As long as all Americans are fed, watered and entertained and occasionally have trinkets waved in front of their noses, they'll be happy enough. Sure there's always the nutcases on the fringe who will wave their “god given right” to bare arms and rail against government, all government. But they are largely ignored by all except of course the FBI and NSA.

    No, unless there is a huge sea change in thinking, there will be no revolution in the United States, primarily because Americans like to whine a lot, but are routinely afraid of their government. What happened in Greece over the debt issue, with a general strike by organised labour, street battles against the police, barricades and attacks against corporate entities would never ever happen in this country. Ever.

    The majority of Americans have turned away from unions — and indeed emasculated — those organisations who could coordinate any such mass action.

  • Coachellaboy

    Political theater. And par for the GOP course.

  • shalomjaye

    Armed Revolt? No way, just because BP destroyed our coasts, We are in 3 different Wars, the Tea Bag Party is very, very upset, the Economy is in a certain shape, our freedoms are being taken from us, our leaders are corrupt and the Military, the CIA, the FBI and the Police all work together spying on US in “Fusion Centers” and they want to fly Killer Drones in the US, does not equal armed revolt. That's the craziest thing I have ever heard, crazy man, crazy. Love ShaJ from Wired

  • Annie

    Dear Mr. Barber,
    i like your spirit and the direction you say you want us to follow. I too dislike this entire administration and we need more people who will undertake to uphold the Constitution. However, please be very careful in your advertising as you will run the risk of looking like a war monger or worse. tone it back a little about the arming yourself. that is just playing into their hands. i'm sure you can find other ways to get the poing across.
    how about having Washington, Adams, Franklin etc follow you across the nation or LA showing their emotions as to the shape we are in. just a suggestion and don't think anything of using it. hope you win.

  • Steve

    Agree…and that was no accident. “Keep them distracted with shiny things and TV”

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BXAID5YQT6YF5MQRPSMFHVT6TA sacha

    i love this add

  • Frankca6

    This is a republican terrorist regime, and if the FBI don't look into this Rick Barber, innocent people are going to get hurt.this individual is dangerous and suspicous.GOD help us all.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BXAID5YQT6YF5MQRPSMFHVT6TA sacha

    playing the race card again huh bullshit

  • Lyman

    Damn….You got me.
    But don’t try to tell me that your beach is half-white.
    You’d have to clear all the dead turtles and pelicans off it to even see the sand.

  • Lyman

    Damn….You got me.
    But don’t try to tell me that your beach is half-white.
    You’d have to clear all the dead turtles and pelicans off it to even see the sand.

  • Mikethedog

    Tea Party & Glenn Beck followers are nothing more than a small group of people pissed off about the way the lives have turned out. People like this ass and Beck give the disgruntled someone to blame instead of taking responsibility for the shity decisions that they have made in their own life’s.

  • Sleazyrealtor

    And keep them well fed. Just like big cats, they aren't dangerous when they're fat and happy.

  • tonybinca

    Even if he was calling to arms, what's wrong with that? Does anyone remember how this country was born? (Sound of crickets)

  • Talk1370

    These elitists who don't want to pay their fair share are getting downright violent, aren't they?

  • icenine

    Just another redneck crying because he didn't get his way and now he wants to take his ball and go home. Boo hoo.

  • tonybinca

    They're in the union NOW numbfuck

  • jeffery1949

    Annie,
    Specifically, what part of the Constitution is not being upheld?

  • wilson

    good.

    to hell with the jewish administration that we all call 'obama'.

  • jeffery1949

    Julie,
    Just exactly what part of the Constitution is being dismantled? I must have missed that part, being one of the American public. And, just exactly what is going on in D.C. that is treasonaous?

  • tonybinca

    If you paid attention in school you are a brainwashed idiot. Hurry up to kiss the government's collective ass.

  • RantingTommy

    wow, the delusions of the paranoid are strong in this one

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Where were you in the sixties, my friend?

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Where were you in the sixties, my friend?

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    And what would your solution look like, Magnus? Anarchy? Communism? Something along the lines of the Soviet revolution of 1917? That worked out well, didn’t it… Please grow a brain to go with your spine. Stop preaching a revolution that will never happen and concentrate on real, lasting, intelligent change within the system.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    And what would your solution look like, Magnus? Anarchy? Communism? Something along the lines of the Soviet revolution of 1917? That worked out well, didn’t it… Please grow a brain to go with your spine. Stop preaching a revolution that will never happen and concentrate on real, lasting, intelligent change within the system.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Fortunately this is the good old USA and we have freedom of speech. I may not agree with his seditious ideas, but I would die for his right to express them. When he starts actually taking up arms, though I would die defending my country and the Constitution against him and his ilk.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Fortunately this is the good old USA and we have freedom of speech. I may not agree with his seditious ideas, but I would die for his right to express them. When he starts actually taking up arms, though I would die defending my country and the Constitution against him and his ilk.

  • Beck

    I agree, lets get rid of the GOP and religion.

  • Beck

    I agree, lets get rid of the GOP and religion.

  • quincyscott

    Enough with the three corner hats and the knee breeches. This is the twenty-first century, people. The folks who wrote the constitution (I notice you make no mention of Jefferson, but he helped a little bit), they were just men, ok, mortal, flawed men. They were trying to break away from establshed tradition. If Ben Fricking Franklin were alive today, you think he would want us to constantly look backwards and emmulate the founders? Ben Franklin would want us to think for ourselves, to tackle the problems we face today, in the present, with all the modern science, technology and know-how. Things change, the earth rotates. The founders created something flexible, something that can change with the times. All this backward looking hero worship is just a way of avoiding the reality of the present. Please, for the sake of your country, get out of your dream world and lend a hand. Your country needs you today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Magnus, I think that you’re mistaking respect for fear and loathing. I fear your guns, I don’t respect you for carrying them. Any idiot can carry a gun ( I live in NC) it takes a brain to actually bring about meaningful change.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Magnus, I think that you’re mistaking respect for fear and loathing. I fear your guns, I don’t respect you for carrying them. Any idiot can carry a gun ( I live in NC) it takes a brain to actually bring about meaningful change.

  • quincyscott

    Excellent!

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Hear, Hear!

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Hear, Hear!

  • quincyscott

    “What happened in Greece over the debt issue, with a general strike by organised labour, street battles against the police, barricades and attacks against corporate entities would never ever happen in this country. Ever.”

    Dude, have you ever heard of a little thing called the Great Depression? The Veterans Riots? The Civil Rights movement? There is a long history of civil disobedience in America. The sixties wasn't all about free love and dropping acid.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Are you as stupid as you sound?

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Are you as stupid as you sound?

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Sacha, at least you spelled democratic corectly. You’re as wrong as edwards, but maybe slightly smarter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Sacha, at least you spelled democratic corectly. You’re as wrong as edwards, but maybe slightly smarter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Do you even know what socialism is?

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    Do you even know what socialism is?

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    No, it’s pretty entertaining; in a sick kind of way. Kind of llike the three Stooges….

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    No, it’s pretty entertaining; in a sick kind of way. Kind of llike the three Stooges….

  • Beck

    No need, just send Barber to gitmo. He sounds like an enemy combatant.

  • Beck

    No need, just send Barber to gitmo. He sounds like an enemy combatant.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    one has to wonder if Mr. Barber is in contact with the world. President Obama has signed a ton of bills helping small businesses

  • Anonymous

    NO
    You Are

  • Anonymous

    NO
    You Are

  • Anonymous

    You are afraid to answer the simple question.
    Do You or Don’t you like Socialism ?

  • Anonymous

    You are afraid to answer the simple question.
    Do You or Don’t you like Socialism ?

  • Jackie

    Well it seems each of the Southern States have nuts running for office and people are willing to vote them in. When the South supported bimbo Sarah Palin and her cry for drill baby drill and insighted violence the rest of the wacko idiots joined in. The Founding Fathers were educated men and these nuts are stupid and uneducated. The Tea Party made up of a group of people who use Govenment services call for no Govenment and the KKK have blended in for their racist reason to help fuel the Revolution. The shock to deep rooted racist has them dealing with the fact they have to call a black man Mister President. For many Americans that's just called respect but for others it hits their heart.

  • Corporate Indu$trial Complex

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    TEA BAGGERS GET ARMED INSURRECTION IDEA RIGHT, BUT AGAINST WRONG ADMINISTRATION
    .

  • Barber for president

    Nobody seems to see that the real enemy to “The People” is the IRS, that Barber mentions. Income taxes are unconstitutional. The govt steals from productive people, their labor and gives it to an all intrusive and wasteful govt., who then gives it to lazy entitlement hungry americans and poor performing corporations, etc.

  • morty62

    I don't understand this furor over taxes all of a sudden, as if Obama popped up and invented the idea. Where was all this indignant outrage when George Bush was in office running the deficit sky-high and presiding over an IRS that was just as aggressive as it is now, if not more so. These lard-asses have been quietly and meekly paying their taxes all their adult lives but all of a sudden a black president comes in and it's all “keep paying your taxes to king obama boy.” The guy gave the middle-class a tax cut! It's thinly-veiled racism coming from people who can't stand to see a black man way more intelligent and well-spoken then they are in the White House.

  • roy_T

    The Real enemy of the people is a jack ass like rick barber and ass holes like you who back him. Let the rebellion begin against the blood thirsty right who only know how to kill people with their security blankets (guns)
    Zieg heil rick

  • Luminosity

    We on the Left must arm ourselves NOW.

  • roy_T

    FIGHT THE RIGHT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT and win

  • Barber for president

    Get a real job you govt troll. Stop stir'n up trouble. Blood thirsty right? WHere do you trolls think this stuff up, the Saul Alinsky skool for radical dimwits?

  • Barber for president

    Get a real job you govt troll. Stop stir'n up trouble. Blood thirsty right? WHere do you trolls think this stuff up, the Saul Alinsky skool for radical dimwits?

  • Scuby

    “, even before Obama's unprecedented tax hikes.”

    Uh….Obama CUT taxes for the VAST MAJORITY of people, so I'm going to ask you to please cite and provide links to these “unprecedented tax hikes” of which you speak!

  • Barber for president

    Yeah, thats right, throw down the racist card. What else ya got jack?

  • usmcr

    I betting he wins too. What does that tell you?

  • Cfsgtest

    Your argument is similar to the Washington Post's article

    Weigel writes. “… So the Barber daydream of Washington angrily ordering a 'gathering of armies' to oppose a tax is… well, entertaining, I guess.”

    Ever heard of the revolutionary war?

    I mean seriously you'd have to be delusional to not get how dumb Weigel's statement is.

  • Mekongkayak

    If Ben Franklin was alive today he'd be enjoying a tasty homebrew with his Mistress while acting as ambassador to those Damn French who saved our ass in the Revolutionary War.

    Washington would be watching this treasonous fellow very closely.

    And Samuel Adams would be saying “Why'd you put my name on this shite beer?”

  • Guest

    ADD to what? or do you mean AD?

    What a moron.

  • Cfsgtest

    There has been much more violence coming from Obama supporters than from tea parties

    here is a video of an obama supporter:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZ5X0JMd3Q

    Then you can look at videos of illegals attacking a 62 year old for protesting illegals.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekW3HmlnYS4#watc…

    You will NEVER be able to find a video of a violent tea party protester, but it is easy to find violent people on the left. What do you think of them apples?

  • Jt_mnm

    A genuine domestic terrorist. Ugly.

  • Mekongkayak

    Look i understand this Tea Party anger-there is alot to be angry about. but anger like we have seen originates in a mind that wants to deny its own culpability. Faced with facts (Clinton brought deficit down, Reagan and Bush blew it up) the Tea party mind goes Nonononono and turns everything upside down, turning to any source that will reinforce its world view-however crazy (Rush, Fox, this guy)- and grabs onto it. 30 years of Atlas Shrugged, Reagan-worship and Rush/Fox have polluted our political waters…like BP the mess is so extensive there's little that can be done to save the people who say “Keep Gov't out of My Medicare-No Single Payer!)

  • roy_T

    most of us got a brain, what do you have besides a third grade education and a gun?

  • Guest

    FOUNDED dumb ass and the ORIGINAL calls were to PETITION THE KING FOR FAIR TREATMENT AND RESPECT FOR THE COLONIAL LEGISLATURES ENACTMENTS idiot.

    Calls to arms were made AFTER BRITISH TROOPS KILLED COLONIALS after we had sent the KING a DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, double revisionist dumbass.

    And what is wrong with a call to “armed insurrection against the lawful government f the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”? Do I really have to spell out what is wrong with insurrection? cause that what this call to arms is.

    It is a criminal act and an act of treason to call for armed actions against the GOVERNMENT of the UNITED STATES.

  • roy_T

    All the stupid fucks like wilson are pouring out of the wood work, God help us!!!!

  • C.P.T.L.

    It is disturbing all right, but perhaps not so strange; not in this day and age in America:

    He appears to be angling towards the Christian right.

    “I have heard a message from the Lord.
    A messenger has been sent among the nations to say,
    ‘Gather your armies and march out against her!
    Prepare to do battle with her!’”

    Jeremiah 49:14-16 (from net.bible.org)

    What is disturbing about it is precisely as stated, “Barber's interpretation of the founding father's attitudes doesn't make sense.”

    The founding fathers worked to limit religion's sway over government, but the Christian right intends to reinterpret what faith the founding fathers' did display, and make us a Christian nation.

  • Guest

    YES AND DOUBLE YES, a call to armed insurrection against the UNITED STATES does in fact make him an unlawful enemy combatant taking up arms against the UNITED STATES,

    And he got a uniform so he dont ever get out under republican standards.

  • Guest

    Barber Bachmann & Brewer are just a “three of a kind” stooges, I can hook three stooges republicans together al day long if I want, we could come up with hundreds of three republican stooges should there be a need .

  • pist

    forcing people to buy medical insurance was a republican idea

  • Guest

    Not if the OATHKEEPERS (who will not keep faith with the real oaths of allegiance) have there way cause they don’t think secession is wrong, in spite of the laws and the CONSTITUTION.

  • Guest

    Calling for armed insurrection is TREASON and it is an act of sedition to advocate armed actions against the United States, ALABAMA had to RATIFY the US CONSTITUTION to join the UNION.

  • Barber for president

    Taxed Enough Already = TEA Party. You must love paying your taxes while the government wastes it on bs wars and a swelling WELFARE STATE of worthless eaters. You must not have a clue as to the wasteful reward our govt gives to TOO BIG TO FAIL banks like AIG who took reckless risks and your tax money in bonuses for themselves. Oh, but I guess everyone wants to blame someone else. Yeah, thats right, take a look in the mirror, you folks who are asleep are to blame.

  • roy_T

    Don't get a swelled head, I accidently hit the Like button

  • Barber for president

    Are unions synonymous with communism, I’ll have to look that up.

  • chrisinva

    Scuby wrote, in response to chrisinva:

    “, even before Obama's unprecedented tax hikes.”

    Uh….Obama CUT taxes for the VAST MAJORITY of people, so I'm going to ask you to please cite and provide links to these “unprecedented tax hikes” of which you speak!

    Obamacare raises taxes AND health insurance costs, and penalizes monetarily those who don't sign on. His inflationary spending and entrenchment of government unions at the expense of the rest of us will hurt the poor more than anyone else — that is, the half of American households who pay no income tax now.

    Furthermore, there are approximately 25 million unemployed workers. The sad facts of economics dictate that, when I start a business and want to hire people, if my taxes increase, the funds I have for hiring and keeping employees diminishes accordingly.

  • Anonymous

    Nice Mr. Barber, I know these are not your words, you are just parroting what Flush Limbag and Glen Pecker funnels in to your under nourished brains. You tea baggers are just the noveou selfish Psudeo rich americans who finally had the bottom fall out due to your wild credit spending sprees (swimming pools, houses with mortages beyond your means three cars, etc) the keep up with the jones mentality. Look in the mirror boy and see a loser.

  • Barber for president

    What, the funny papers? You know about as much news as Sarah Palin.

  • revolutioncoming

    If these comments weren’t about to be lost to the archives forever, I’d give a lengthy answer but…

    The “revolution” of the sixties did away with the draft and turned the American public against the war, but without many other beneficial results – witness the two terms of Nixon and Ford, the flight to an outsider in Carter, then the backlash of the conservatives that launched us on the crash course we’re on. That’s when the Democrats caved in and started giving the ideological economaniacs all the rope they wanted, being satisfied to cycle and recycle New Deal policies and write them larger. We are at the end of that run and have been severely damaged in almost all areas.

    What I allude to – and what others here despair of – is the lack of realization by the public that the options presented to us are almost all false dichotomies. If you’re not for unregulated free-market capitalism in all respects, you must be a Stalinist, if not for “health-care reform” as they see it, you must be for leaving the system as is, if not for legalizing 10s of millions of illegal migrants and encouraging more to come, you must be racist and against human rights etc etc etc. They are all complete lies and only fomented by the two parties to further divide Americans so the craven power-mongers can keep the deception going. Whether Americans “wake up” and do something before complete breakdown or after is the question. If the former, the nation may be saved, if not, there is no hope.

  • Anonymous

    The Bonus Marchers [as in the 'veterans riots'] were not attacking police or government institutions, they were attacked by General MacArthur’s goons to clear the tent city that had built up in DC. That was not an insurrectionary movement. The civil rights movement was anything but a riot or insurrection, since its leading figures, from MLK down, advocated peaceful protests. Again not an insurrectionary movement.The Draft Riots of 1863 were anything but an insurrection, since the proponents were mostly racist Irish immigrants newly enlisted into Boss Tweed’s democratic machine and they were mostly protesting the ‘$300 Clubs’ the rich joined to avoid being drafted. The result of that “riot” was federal troops brought back from the front line in Pennsylvania to quell the protestors, who had proceeded to attack any black person or building they could find. As bad as it was for the union it was merely a white race riot and had virtually no impact on the war against the south.So what’s left of your long history of civil disobedience [which, by the way is a far cry from an insurrectionary movement that can overthrow a government]?You’ve got the Newark Race Riots of ’67, the ‘Stonewall Riots’ of ’69, The Rodney King Riots of ’92 and the Chicago democratic convention riots of ’68. All bad, all destructive, but none of them organised, and ultimately none of them a direct attack against the ruling regime. None.Even the factory sit down strikes of the 30′s were dispersed by anti-union goons watched by the police, with virtually no support from the population at large that was equally affected by the shut downs. The disputes melted away and changed nothing. If anything it hardened the anti-union stance of big business American-style.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Read any good Ayn Rand nonsense lately?

  • Anonymous

    Learning how to be a grown up and a radical, organising within my print union [in the 70's], building a grassroots anti-fascist movement [ANL & RAR], oh, and fighting real fascists [not the imaginary republican versions] on the streets of London and elsewhere. Where were you?

  • Mike

    That’s like saying you deferred your payments on your credit card, so therefore you “got a break”. You still owe the money and it will have to be paid at some point. Americans will still have to accout for the ~$14 trillion and rising in debt at some point as deficits are not a freebie.

  • Anonymous

    Barber for sewer worker: If what you are saying is a typical Tea party response. I see that you and your comrads are really full fledged ass holes. I guess I better shut up or you will put on the camaflage , strap on the 45, load up the AK 47, jump in the humvee and come after me.

  • Guest

    Now that was so……stupid, I AM A VETERAN and I can promise you that in a battle of wits your carrying a rock and I have NUKES, wanna try me go ahead.

  • Barber for president

    Ohh, I know the answer to that one: Socialism SUCKS! Basically, its a PONZI scheme.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    /Cowers in the corner. “Mommy, the bad man called me a socialist!”

    My great-grandfather was a blinking Communist. My grandfather was a socialist. I am a progressive. These are not dirty words you little creationist nitwit. And armed insurrection is still a federal crime even all these years after the War of Southern Stupidity.

  • Guest

    Oh you want to play the who is right about the factual history of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA game, go ahead go first and then I go and you get to be made to look as stupid as you are.

  • Anonymous

    you should hit the soap opera circuit

  • Guest

    WHAT TREATY WITH THE UN as it is a body and not a NATION we cant sign treaties with the UN, DUMB ASS.

    So where is this treaty of the US & the UN at that takes away the SECOND AMENDMENT of the CONSTITUTION?

    WHEN was it ratified by the US SENATE?

    WHEN was it signed BY PRESIDENT OBAMA?

    PROVIDE ANY REAL FACTUAL PROOF OF ANYTHING IN YOUR POST NOW.

  • Anonymous

    “pussy-assed coward hold-outs” Wow, so quick to resort to insults. I can tell you’re a real inclusive kinda guy. So tell me Magnus The Destroyer, when you’re not talking in tired old cliches, what have you sacrificed for this ‘coming revolution’? Are you a union organiser, or maybe a street activist, member of a revolutionary political party, perhaps you donate a portion of your salary to the “Cause” every week? Flexing your manhood on the keyboard doesn’t mean an awful lot. So what is it.But seriously, if you think Americans are going to give up their barbeques, their Sunday ‘football’, their fucking SUVs and their gluttony, for a mythical ‘revolution’ you’re proselytising, well good luck getting their fat lazy asses off the recliner.

    And I speak as a socialist. A real one, not a faux ‘news’ version.

  • Anonymous

    This is typical bama (thats alabama) tea bagging. Mr.barber appeals to the 60 and lower IQ

  • Barber for president

    Whoa, you forgot ALEX JONES! CHUCK BALDWIN! RON PAUL! PETER SCHIFF! GERALD CELENTE! ad nauseam! Forget Limabugh and Beck! You dont know squat, ROY! We mock what we dont understand!

  • Guest

    You are defective in so many ways, COWARD, how is it going to SINK small businesses to end a $10,000 dollar tax credit for the PURCHASE OF A LUXURY NON COMMERCIAL WATER CRAFT VALUED AT TIME OF PURCHASE OVER $100,000? how does that tax credit help PEOPLE? the TAX CODE was just over 2000 pages in JAN 95 by JAN 07 it was over 13,000 pages, now who wrote those 11,000 pages of taxes and tax exemptions? REPUBLICANS and they filled the tax code with conflicting taxes and counter productive tax breaks they even designated certain ONE PERSON OR SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL CORPORATIONS tax breaks into the code.

    PLEASE PUSH FOR YOUR STATE TO RE-ENACT DUELING LAWS, i WILL COME THERE AND YOU AND I CAN SETTLE THINGS, Oh and buy a plot cause you will need it.

  • Guest

    It was registered REPUBLICANS in the HUTAREE it was registered republicans arrested trying to kill presidential candidate OBAMA, it was a registered republican and his son arrested for trying to kill a DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE it was……DOZENS OF RETHUGS ARE BEING PROSECUTED how many DEMOCRATS have been arrested or prosecuted for acts of terror and violence?

  • michaelvalentine

    Ignorant pig ain't he?

  • Anonymous

    Are you posting for him ?

  • Serfdom

    Now Now Mike, don’t disturb the condescending fun with those nasty little economic statements. Don’t you know that if you do you are a racist tea-bagging troll who had no problem with taxes, monetary inflation, or fiscal deficits during the Bush Administration?

    Mike, aren’t you aware that government has all the money it ever needs…always? We will NEVER have to worry about the debt…NEVER. If we need more money, we can print it without ever having to worry about any stupid ramifications. We can pay for everyone to have everything. So shit man, get out of the way.

    I can’t wait. Pretty soon we’ll all have track mansions, foreign luxury cars and free everything. It’ll be great. It’s really stoopid for people to want to change anything in Washington. I can’t wait for my new rights to kick in…yeah buddy! Don’t let none of them constitutionally minded fiscal conservatives take over, they’ll ruin everything…This is gonna be great! Go Dems! Go Repubs! Get me my shit!

  • Guest

    TEA= two extra assholes, you got one on your face and the one you let ROVE enjoy.

  • Buck

    It’s more than just the GOP. BOTH parties are corrupt and answer to the highest bidder. This entire system needs to change.

  • Guest

    YOU FINALLY HAD THE FREUDIAN SLIP THAT SHOWS YOUR TRUE SELF

    AND IT IS SO TRUE AND HONEST OF YOU TO ADMIT “WE MOCK WHAT WE DONT UNDERSTAND” NOW ISNT CONFESSION OF THIS DEFECT OF YOURS MAKING YOU FEEL BETTER?

  • Serfdom

    LOL! Good luck with that!

  • Barber for president

    Do you need someone to drive you miss Daisy?

  • Guest

    No we only have to get rid of religion, that breaks the power of the GOP which we keep around to show our children why eating lead paint is a bad idea.

  • Barber for president

    its a rhetorical question to begin with, move on.

  • Guest

    no you have to REMOVE THE OIL to see if the beach is Caucasian.

  • Serfdom

    So….what’s yer brain say? Please. I’;d love to know the exact path to “meaningful change” through the use of the brain…especially since what you want to change is holding the REAL guns. Really..what steps are we to take to get the guys with the guns to lay them down, stop telling everyone what to do “or else”, give up their power, reverse what we don’t like, and institute what we do?

  • Guest

    And it was a republican president who ordered the study to create the IRS dumbass his name was LINCOLN.

  • Barber for president

    An armed insurrection to rid this beautiful land of commies, socialites and progressive scum bags, sound like an endeavor that Americans could be proud of. Mother nature doesnt act quick enough.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t be a coward
    It’s a yes or No.

  • Barber for president

    Uh, go watch Cfsgtest’s youtube, thug G!

  • Serfdom

    Methinks he hates McCain even more…you see Edwards, “government out of control” includes “ALL of the Above”. try addressing his very apt description of your blind pederasty for the kind old man in the Red, White and Blue suit with the tophat sporting a jackass pin proudly displayed on the front.

    Sometimes, when people say “government”, they aren’t playing the Repub/.Dem game you so love to play. Both “parties” are a blight on us.

  • Barber for president

    GO back to school, Thug G!

  • Serfdom

    One of the worst of all time….

  • Guest

    Where and when, most especially WHERE and WHO, I can make when ASAP.

    My wife sez she’ll drive so I can be rested up for the ten steps and turn and fire parts after that she sez I get the best ………ever.

  • Guest

    Only to you and the rest of the republicans, us real Americans think very well of him.

  • Guest

    just because your mothers abortion failed does not make INSURRECTION a thing to be PROUD OF, cause it will be AMERICANS putting it down and it does come with HANGINGS and Prosecutions of people like,,,,you.

  • Satan

    “Is GOP candidate stoking armed revolt?” – Never heard of the guy, report some news.

  • Anonymous

    Why needs those damm people that created our middle class …

  • Guest

    I don’t watch paranoid delusion shows nor do I believe the “HEY LOOK WHAT I JUST MADE UP” BS you are addicted to.

    Bet you don’t believe the US born children of illegals are AMERICANS BY BIRTH do you?

    in spit of those words in the CONSTITUTION that say “ALL PERSONS BORN…”

    btw: ALL RATIFIED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION ARE “THE CONSTITUTION” THERE AFTER.

  • not fooled

    wait until the economy collapses… when the average person cant afford food or shelter any longer the shit will hit the fan.

  • sandi2

    Check out the cigarette tax lately? Since it is mostly the poor who smoke (poverty is stressful and there's no incentive to live a long life) this was actually the first promise Obama broke–”No tax increases for the poor”.

  • Guest

    Just so you know I got my 1st college degree 1 day before my high school diploma, and I am one of those you hate them life long learners.

    And as for someone needing some schooling you don’t know what TREASON is or INCITEMENT or insurrection or Constitutional or the rule of law and not he rule of men or etc.etc.etc.(that’s Latin which I also know)….

  • Guest

    AND WHERE IS THE PROOF OF THIS???

  • Guest

    NO name is a coward and he will not tell me where he is and who he is cause i will drag him somewhere dueling is legal and SETTLE his problems.

  • sandi2

    Income taxes and the IRS are not government entities but of the Federal Reserve–a private banking cartel. You are paying interest on what the government borrows from this bank so that you have the privilege of using their made up money.

    The government is YOU! You cannot steal from yourself. You can only be ignorant enough to vote in people who support the banking cartel rather than you, me, and all your friends, also known as a government for the People, by the People. Know your enemy.

  • Guest

    It's just the rich playing these tea baggers like puppets. The rich's taxed have increased. Dick Army doesn't like that. So, he gets people to fight for him. People whos taxes have lowered under Obama.

    Americans are a sad lot these days. A sad, sad lot.

  • chabuka

    What Barber is suggesting is Treason..plain and simple Benedict Arnold was hung for Treason against the “Crown”. and this a**hole should be hung for Treason against the U.S. Government…hang his ass…

  • http://www.facebook.com/CoffeePartyWinstonSalem Bill Clement

    The News, fool.

  • Anonymous

    No.
    A coward is one who runs from a challenge.
    The poster is a coward

  • Pakaal

    “Every year, if not every quarter, we're basically required to spy on ourselves. Report what we earn, who we hire and fire”

    Yes, and that's intolerable, since all business owners are lily-white innocents who never cook their books (Goldman Sachs), hire illegal aliens (Sizzler Steak House) falsify safety records (West Virginia mine disaster, etc.

  • Pakaal

    It says a lot that 98% of all Americans can get a tax break under the Obama Administration, and the remaining 2% can so thoroughly brainwash everyone to think that we're all suffering from an overbearing, dangerous government–since Jan 20, 2009.

  • 5by5

    Obama REDUCES taxes for 98% of America, and the rightwing flips out over high taxes.

    That right there, is proof that Conservatives have either lost their damn minds, or are dumber than a brick.

    Either that, or it's proof that they really, really, REALLY, want to call the President the N-word, but can't anymore in polite society, so they are literally pulling BS out of their ass to try and blame him for something, ANYTHING, even if it isn't real, just so they can rail against the black guy in public.

  • Anonymous

    Racism ain’t a god damned card game, dude!

  • Anonymous

    Projecting onto others what you really are! Trailer trash kkk/nazi scums!!!

  • Anonymous

    Nothing but a Mosad disinformation agent. Trying to create confusion on the site. Go back and fuck with stormy front or some other punk -assed racist site; or watch fox fake “news”.

  • Guest

    I assume you incorrectly attribute the following quote to Barber:

    “It's 'the first TV ad this reporter can remember that advocates taking up arms against the United States,' writes Rick Barber at MSNBC's First Read blog.”

  • Anonymous

    Yeah right. Barney Fife and his friend were enough for you dumb fucks in Tennessee earlier this Spring.

  • Anonymous

    Are you synonymous with Dumbo?

  • Thomas G Williams

    He has very clearly advocated an act of insurrection against the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.

    The democrats of ALABAMA need to run ads “REPUBLICAN WILL SEEK TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHEN HE GETS ELECTED” that was one of the reasons republicans began to lose seats beginning in 1998 and LIZARD GETTINRICH was forced to resign. People do not want to see PRESIDENTS THREATENED WITH IMPEACHMENT for partisan political reasons. This can be a big win for the national Democrats and the ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC PARTY in state wide elections.

    HATING HIM AINT GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT, so hang all the ALABAMA rethugs with this, and use it like a club on them or any states rethug candidates who try to play the IMPEACH HIM BE CAUSE WE HATE HIM card on the electorate.

    People will not vote for an impeach the president candidate, it makes even republicans with a sense of right and wrong angry to hear this kind of stupidity as a campaign issue.

  • Guest

    Hey DUMB ASS what he is calling for is defined in the CONSTITUTION and since thousands have seen it ( tens of millions) he can be CHARGED and TRIED as specified by the CONSTITUTION.

    I am so tired of you subhumanoids claiming to have a real understanding of the CONSTITUTION or even the basic ability to READ IT CORRECTLY.

    BET YOU DONT BELIEVE THAT THE 14TH AMENDMENT APPLIES TO THE AMERICAN BORN CHILDREN OF ILLEGALS DO YOU?

    Section 3 – Treason Note

    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

    The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

    do you want more cause we got a lot of laws that cover this, RAISING AN ARMY IS AND CAN ONLY BE TO WAGE WAR ON THE UNTIED STATES AND NO CUTESY WEASEL CLAIM OF “IT WAS A CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL” ALLOWS FOR IT TO BE DONE OR NEGATES THE FACT THAT IT IS AN ACT OF TREASON TO PROMOTE THE RAISING OF ARMIES AS A CURE TO A POLITICAL DIFFERENCE IT IS JUST NOT DONE…..EVER.

  • Thomas G Williams

    WHAT KIND OF LIE DO YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH?

    How many people have been prosecuted for violence or threats of violence and just who are they?

    I can find DOZENS of rethus and baggers and white racists and neocon radicals being prosecuted but not one mention of a prosecution being brought against a supporter of the President or the Democratic party, now why is that?

  • Guest

    Coward as in he HIDES who he really is, was my point. plus someone alledges that some states have DUELING STATUTES on the books and I challenged him and he ran.

  • iamtodd

    that was a lot lamer than i thought it'd be!

    jesus, the people these ads pander to…….

  • Thomas G Williams

    I gots these cards: “your stupid and cant remember to ride the 'lil' bus” card and the “your a lying scum bag” card and the ” I see you are a no name coward” card and the double trump card of “your igno'rant'ing” card.

    FULL HOUSE I WIN,

  • Thomas G Williams

    HE HAS HIM A KEYBOARD OF LIES AND IGNO'RANT'S.

  • Richglo638

    Rick Barber obviously no longer loves America. The solution is very simple.LEAVE.

  • tommy1733

    Sometimes I wonder – the Internet news comments feeds are probably a very democratic thing, right? Letting all the readers voice their opinions? Then why is it that almost without exception commentators write the most incendiary, hostile, uncivilized commentary that can be imagined? Can this be said to advance our understanding of an issue? I mean, isn't the purpose of debate to convince others that your opinion is correct? So why is it so rare for an Internet commentator to work toward this goal? Instead it seems that everyone just wants to make others angry. This does not get anyone anywhere.

  • gary2515

    LOL

  • Barber for president

    Didnt know Marxist Obamanoids were such enthusiastic card players…card carrying Nazies!

  • allenallen

    Dimwitted to use George Washington (image of) in the ads, given that GW put down an armed tax revolt as one of his first major actions (Whiskey Rebellion).

  • hounddogg
  • Serfdom

    Republicans? LOL!

    So what on earth is it about Lincoln that you Mr. American, “think very well of him”?

  • Olin

    It most assuredly IS an inciteful call to arms. He is right about one thing though, the founding fathers are likely crying over the state of affairs here today. But this idiot is one of the principal reasons for their tears.

  • Barber for president

    Impeach, Impeach, Impeach!

  • Barber for president

    Who said I had a gun, I gotta keyboard that bits better than a gun, you socialist!

  • Barber for president

    we’ve all heard of the broken light or something that needs repair, but the union electrician is the only one that can do it and takes his sweet time for weeks or months…yeh, give it up for the unions!!! Holding up progress! You say they created the middle class, and what about GM?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Why is it always idiots from states with a net surplus of federal aid that want to end the IRS? It is just mind boggling.

  • hounddogg

    You are a prime example of why the teabagger party is the party of fail. Why don't you do us all a favor and move to AZ and secede from the U.S.

  • Barber for president

    Nice, Obama supporter caught on tape! Stop the violence!

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    But they don't know that. They went to school in Alabama. Might as well have gone to school in Afghanistan.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Nobody forced the yahoo wazoo to make his incendiary remarks. Don't shoot the messenger.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Mike Malloy was going on about Alabama a few weeks ago. The major candidates are in an ongoing battle to see who can be more against evolution.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Alabama should have on its license plate:

    THE LUDDITE STATE

  • Blip

    That ad looks like a high school history project gone horribly stupid. But you know what…. there are a lot of stupid people. And they will lap this up as sure as a dog will eat a pool of vomit.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Try to secede please. we can then legally go in and HANG a few and PROSECUTE the rest.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Um, if you haven't heard about it, then it's news to you.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    I love your explanation of why people smoke. Would you tell us the one about the four humors and why bleeding people with leeches is a good idea? I always liked that one.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Must be using test editions of the REVISIONIST TEXASS REPUBLICAN school books there.

    The people of Georgia are grateful for Alabama being there, ALABAMA sucks so much that it keeps GEORGIA from floating out to sea.

  • Thomas G Williams

    No we do not let traitors leave we HANG THEM.

  • Barber for president

    Obama tax cuts? What about the Bush tax cuts that are ending soon. Why doesnt Obama extend them in 2011? How about shrinking govt spending? And to add insult to injury, the Obamacare plan is gonna sink those small business owners hes trying to help.??? Or is he trying to help? Obama loves the corporate leaders who sign his paycheck.

  • Thomas G Williams

    We are just as armed as they are and even more so when you consider we are armed with real intelligence and actual evidence of there stupidity, a stupid republican may fire a gun but it takes a righteous cause to win and hating OBAMA aint a righteous cause and considering how good a shot I am they will die if they try.

  • Barber for president

    Americans putting what down? Panty waste like yourselves doing something? Please. You couldnt get your limp ass off the couch to do much more than cram your face with cheezy poofs. Youre living in the twilight zone. Oh yeah, go duel your shadow, loser! And your sister, I mean your wife can hold your hand.

  • Barber for president

    Really?

  • Barber for president

    Your stuck in the matrix (established system) bud. Youve been conditioned to accept it as the only means to exist and seek change. Thats why this govt wont change no matter who gets elected. The power of the vote is useless as long as the establishment controls the propaganda machine that gives you the talking points and the people to vote for and how you should feel about them. Thats the way its been and always will be, unless we change the system. One must look no further than the founding fathers for guidance on that matter.

  • Barber for president

    What AZ secede? How about the socialists secede from the US and go live in your utopian CHINESE slave labor cities, pay high taxes, receive sub standard health care and earn a couple a pennies per day. Dont worry, your one child will be taken care of at the re-education camps by your loving government. Damn hounddog, a dog that dont hunt.

  • Barber for president

    SocialObamanoids sure are full all kinds a hate…and people wonder where they get the types that carried out torture during the Holocaust.

  • dot

    Daniel Tencer: Please reread your article — at one point you are confusing [MS]NBC's Mark Murray with Hell's Rick Barber, to the great discredit of the former!

  • Guest

    I never heard that and I am 50 so be careful with your we alls’ jerk, just because you hate them…… that means THEY’RE GREAT.
    AND IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED YOU HOLD UP PROGRESS, you have made it perfectly clear you are not a progressive SO DON’T TRY TO CLAIM YOUR FOR PROGRESS CAUSE YOU HATE PROGRESS.

    BTW: Unions have lifted more people out of poverty and republicans have pushed more people into poverty, guess them unions make more sense than you want to admit, cause you have been supporting the creators of poverty.

  • Guest

    so you say and i say different.

  • Barber for president

    Because the IRS is the new mafia for the Federal Reserve that steals from the public to line their pockets with, you mindless govt troll! The majority of our taxes go to service the interest on the national debt. The shareholders at the FED represent international banking interests. What is American about that! We pay taxes to make foreign elites filthy rich. So remember that when you lovingly pay your taxes, cause its your duty, you know.

  • 46545610056

    And what would your solution look like, Magnus?

    Not listening to idiots like you anymore, for starters.

  • Guest

    If you want to know more try reading a book not censored or revised in TEXASS his contributions to this nation out weigh yours, i myself am a lot closer to his contribution level than you will ever be.

    And why do you even want to know you make it clear you hate what America is and what it will become once we put down the rabid red menace, you hate people like me A US VETERAN PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL WHITE DEMOCRAT IN THE SOUTH.

  • Guest

    YES REALLY

  • Barber for president

    First of all, youre a tard, second, I like how you hold up your argument with your opinion instead of facts, third which piggybacks on your being a tard, is that, just cause you call yourself a progressive, has nothing to do with progress. It is what GEORGE ORWELL called DOUBLE SPEAK in his “1984″ book. You should try’n read it sometime! You would then wake up and realize youre on the wrong side of tyranny. Dont help create it. Fight it!

  • Lyman

    Republicans are such douche bags.
    The sad thing is that they make the Democrats look good.

  • Guest

    Did you serve? Americans will put down any and all treasonous scum like YOU and you would be very surprised at what I have done in my life.

    you on the other hand have no claim to valor or glory and you can not have honor as you advocate the dis-honorable acts of treason.

  • Barber for president

    This is great, using racism to protect your boy and deflect inconvenient criticism. There were lots of better people of color to fill the shoes for POTUS. Alan Keys or how about a two for one deal, a woman of color, like Cynthia McKinney…awesome pics. But, instead, we get the neo marxist who surrounds himself with socialists and marxists and the occasional tax evaders, which I believe is a prerequisite to be in his cabinet or to be a CZAR. Who had czars before, oh, only former enemies to the US. We got change alright, commie change to destroy freedom. Oh, and Bush sucked too, but it was Obamas socialist agenda that has woken up the sleeping giant, biaches!

  • Guest

    kerrrrrect, also they originally proposed national health insurance pools to cover the poor and the as they called them UN-INSURABLE S

  • lloydhart

    Let it rip baby! KillinCrackers is my middle name. If lefties like me shot one of you stupid lead poisoned racist crackers, the rest of you would pee you coward ass pants. You lynching mother fuckers never had the courage to fight a brother one on one.

  • lloydhart

    Let it rip baby! KillinCrackers is my middle name. If lefties like me shot one of you stupid lead poisoned racist crackers, the rest of you would pee you coward ass pants. You lynching mother fuckers never had the courage to fight a brother one on one.

  • Guest

    DON’T FORGET THE TWO PUT DOWN IN Arkansas its just sad some good cops had to die first

  • hounddogg

    It sounds like you just got out of the troll re-education camp. You are probably one of the people who want to rewrite the school texts to reflect your warped values. We already receive substandard health care. The $50 Tylenol work a lot better than the ones you buy in the store. I think you need to lay off the Glenn Beck as well. You sound just like him.

  • Guest

    WTF? you tell insulting lies about me and then try to recruit me?

    PROGRESSIVES are dedicated to MAKING PROGRESS stop using BECKTIODS they are not true or factual.

    that is why you can not admit you are a no nothing ‘tard’, man how old are you 12?
    BTW: you are mis-applying the lessons of 1984 and you should not try to use a cliff notes understanding of the book to make your argument.

    You are truly a pseudo intellectual, I and respect that about you, your trapped in a delusion wherein you believe your an intelligent mammal and your so desperately hiding the scaly nature of your real self TOAD. and yes that’s mucus on your skin not sweat.

  • Guest

    is that your prison number or your personal tally of failures.

  • Guest

    don’t forget the 1890s

  • Guest

    Come south man and you will all sorts of things like and even more out of step with this modern time of the 19th eer 21st century.

    I know this DOCTOR by the name of PRICE who will argue that the sun is YELLER and claims the color YELLOW is a liberal plot to undermine his edumication thingy

  • Guest

    And what guidance is that?

    Still pushing treason?

    want the rope now?

    or a bullet later?

  • Thomas G Williams

    WHERE DID THEY GET THEM? a study of YOUR FAMILY TREE may yield some clues as to where the perpetrators of the Holocaust came from and who they are now, go practice your goose stepping cause you can do it on the way to your TRAITORS reward.

  • Thomas G Williams

    well put

  • Thomas G Williams

    How about exceeding 50 miles per hour on the ground will explode you lungs or that an aircraft diving will blow your eyeballs out of your head

  • Thomas G Williams

    Now why set yourself up for the standard rethug ambush? I'll watch your back and as you set them straight or stretched out as it were they can wail about me being a white man and i can freak them out by shouting I AM WHITE????? WHY HAVE THE REPUBLICANS BEEN SCREWING ME ALL THESE YEARS?

  • morty62

    Obama is about as “socialist” as Richard Nixon. His largest campaign contributors were Goldman-Sachs and other investment banks which, the last time I looked, aren’t particularly fond of socialists. Obamacare is practically the same plan developed by the Heritage Foundation, and we all now what flaming libs they are. Cynthia McKinney, on the other hand, actually is pretty much a socialist, which makes me wonder why you’re saying that she would be a better candidate. I agree with you, but that’s because I’m pretty much an anarcho-socialist. Why you would say anything positive about McKinney is beyond me. Requiring small businesses to buy health care won’t hurt a bit. People who want to make money operate within the set parameters. As long as everyone is required to do it then the playing field will remain level and the cost will be passed on to the consumer as a sort of indirect tax. If you’re curious, go to The World Socialist Web Site and read the various commentaries there about Obama. He is slammed almost daily for taking positions that are antithetical to socialist ideals. The reason he is characterized as a socialist is so that true socialist ideas like single-payer health care are never even put on the table. And by the way, what do you think Social Security and Medicare are? They are government-run safety-net programs and they are both extremely popular, even among those who characterize themselves as Tea Party supporters. Let Rand Paul advocate the dismantling of either and see how fast they send him back to private practice.

  • Anonymous

    The Lazy NON Union Engineers

  • Anonymous

    You’ll get the bullet. But it won’t be from one of us, that’s for sure.

    You’re a sheep. Sheep get sheared or slaughtered. Take your pick. There is no option 3.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, and thank god McCain lost because otherwise we’d be in a global thermonuclear war right now. As it is, we’re only mired down in the same bullshit wars that the previous moron started.

    You people are so fucking simple. “Vote for MY candidate and everything will be set right!”

    NO you asshole! They’re ALL corrupt.

    Pull your head out of your ass and wash the shit off your face.

  • Anonymous

    They’re all one and the same under corporatism.

  • Anonymous

    I pray that you see that the Dems are bad at many things. The GOP is a Disaster. Dems are a party. the GOP is an Ideology as were the NAZI’s.
    There is a difference the two sides.

  • Anonymous

    I hope you find that fear & anger are the exact same thing if you are honest enough to look very deeply. Insults (ass) is just your fears. Like it or not.. the two ‘parties’ represent us. To end corruption …It starts in the mirror.

  • Guest

    you gonna try?, another no name coward being all that impotent.

  • Jimbo701

    What an unmitigated fucking moron.

  • Serfdom

    Good for you. I’m happy for your surety. Good luck.

  • Serfdom

    LOL!

  • John M Conley

    Most of these people are, by definition, cowards and bigots. It's the same MO: These Timothy McVey wannabes are inciting others to take violent action while they hide behind trees and watch. They hate our country and representative form of government and have shown themselves to be of the character that they would burn the Rembrandts to heat the castle. So I think it would be nice to round them up and show them the door. We'll buy and give them a Fiji Island or something….far away. Either that, or arrest them for threatening our country. And, if they offer armed resistance, just call on us old combat veterans….We'll show these imbeciles what a 'sleeping giant' truly is.

  • Anonymous

    Hee
    Hee
    Hee

  • Serfdom

    Again, and especially since you read so many non-Texan books, what “contributions” to this nation did he make? I’m sure this won’t be hard for you since you seem to be “up” on all things Lincoln and “smarter” than all other Raw Story posters.

    As to your “contribution level” being closer to Lincolns than mine…given your “progressiveness” and all of your “more intelligent than thou” diatribes here, I’m sure you are right. I only fought brown people in Southeast Asia…not much of a contribution to “the nation”.

    Oh…a progressive? Great! Now that we’ve cleared that up, maybe you can define what a “Progressive” is…at least to you.

    My understanding of it, is based upon the agenda of it’s leadership, much like the actions and rhetoric of the Neo-Con/Neo-Lib leaders in Congress clearly spell out what they are about. Given that the funding for the “progressive” stuff (NGO’s and Congressional leashes) comes from George Soros and others of his ilk,…maybe…given your massive intellect…you’ll re-examine what the “progressive agenda” really is. I’m sure as such a smart Red, White and Blue American veteran, you would be happy to stand up next to this guy and his cronies while fully lauding his agenda.

    Do you know what this guy is all about? Here try this compilation on his history, it’s rather succinct and revealing and it won’t tax you too much…although taxes are hardly a problem for you. I’m sure that such a great American as yourself will sleep well knowing you are firmly ensconced behind this guy and supporting such noble “American” ideals. Hopefully, he won’t be as successful here as he has been elsewhere…but with smart people like you in his corner…I’m sure he has a good chance of succeeding. Good luck.

    http://www.bobpearcy.com/george-soros-obamas-puppet-master/

  • Serfdom

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

  • Serfdom

    No!!!!!! Not school again! That’s where he learned civics!

  • Thomas G Williams

    NAILED IT!!! but no exile type things, they wanna go they get to go otherwise they have to just be good little powerless thugs

  • Thomas G Williams

    Is that nice? you should ask your muther if thats nice cause she will whip your ass for you.

  • Serfdom

    Why not…the school texts were re-written, (and curriculum redesigned) to institute the warped values we now have.

    NY State Teacher of the Year and author of The Underground History of American Education:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz9_o76zYQ8&feat…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/3768227/Dodd-Report-t…

  • Anonymous

    No, it starts with guns and lots of bullets. You’re delusional if you think more politics is the way to solve this. Fuck you and your ballot box you ignorant dupe.

    Get out of the way and let intelligent people fix this.

  • Anonymous

    What are you two dipshits blathering about now?

  • Anonymous

    Look at me! My name is Bill Clement! I’m a total stooge for the Powers That Be

    I love that they let me get a refund on my taxes because I’m too stupid to realize its my own money that I’m being “refunded”.

    I’m a total idiot who votes because I’m too deadened by high fructose corn syrup and too mesmerized by American Idol to realize that my vote goes straight into the shredder since the anointed figurehead was already pre-determined for me.

    I want to “change the system” from within using the system itself, because the system that wants me to have no voice in my own government and no way to change the status quo is somehow going to miraculously allow me to change it.

    I’m intelligent because I have knowledge of historical events that have no relation to the subject at hand, but I throw them out there anyway to demonstrate that I am of superior intellect and therefore I should be listened to because I’m an old fart who likes to sit around looking at teenage ass on the internet, and that will bring about change you can believe in.

    Look at me! Just look at me! I’m Bill Clement!! Has a finer American ever been carved out of the raw materials of America by God Himself? I say NO! For I am Bill Clement: Douchebag Extraordinaire!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, good luck with that socialism thing. You know: that outdated and flawed concept that never worked and will never work at a national level, because it’s only suited for a limited sized group consisting mainly of familial connections in a multi-generational community.

    Don’t say I didn’t warn you when the shooting starts.

  • http://www.balmorheaprogressive.blogspot.com/ BaileyWuXiang

    I’m not ignoring anything you said. I don’t like taxes either. Corporations aren’t paying their fair share and we’re spending over a trillion annually on defense. In addition to that, since the neocons lied us into Iraq to on behalf of the security interests of Israel with added bonuses to the the oil and defense industries, we’ve now spent over 1 trillion on the “never ending” neocon wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. If you are conservative, I hope you’re not stupid enough to be a Republican. At least support Ron Paul. But don’t harp about ad hominem and then call people names. That either reveals you as a hypocrite, one who has an amazing lack of personal insight or both. Now go have your revolution and leave me out of it; I believe in active non-violent resistance.

  • StatistsSuck

    Great commercial! Though he should have used Jefferson and not Washington – who was a douchebag.

    This country is full of pathetic cowards who'll never have the balls to stand up to an oppressive government. America is home of the bitches.

  • American Star

    I'd like to ask all of you making a comment here, what in God's name are you all doing to make change or whatever idea you have to help. Instead of labeling, and wasting your time name calling? I am appalled that some use timothy mcvey wannabes in this at all. Thats CRAP and you know it! Don't cast stones unless you yourself have made any difference in this country. By the way ever heard of people working together, meaning no matter what party you support, we are all Americans! unfortunately, the Ideology part gets in the way and we are then on our way to Civil War II. There is too much BS on websites with ALL Talk and NO WALK! Other words alot of Traitors and Wusseys!

  • http://www.lebanon-dems.org SgtCedar

    There is another problem with Rick Barber's ad. He tries to portray Washington, Franklin, and Sam Adams as small business men. None of them were by the time of the Revolution.

    Franklin may have started out running a one man print shop but by the 1770s he was the owner of a major business. Franklin held the contract to do all the printing for the government of Pennsylvania. He also did the printing for the new federal government. He also had major income from training and setting up new printers.

    George Washington was a surveyor. That may sound like a small business but in a new land he would have been one of the busiest men in Virginia. He used his travel all over the colony to become a major land owner. There is nothing like using inside information being paid for by others for personal profit. By the time of the Revolution Washington had inherited though his wife one of the larger plantations in Virginia.

    Samuel Adams is an even clearer case. Barber called him a brewer. Apparently he has been watching too many Sam Adams Beer commercials. Adams was never a brewer. In fact he was never a business owner of any type.

    Adams was the Harvard educated son of one of the wealthier merchant families in Boston. He tried to become a business man but was fired in a few months by his first employer. His father gave him 1000 pounds to start a business (a major sum in colonial America). He frittered it away with nothing to show for it. His father took him into the family business. One of the businesses was selling malt. Adams was never a brewer; his family sold the malt which all the brewers in Boston used. The only think in life at which Sam Adams was ever a success was as a politician and political writer.

  • Ross Wolf

    Could Obama Be America’s First Defacto President?

    Innocent Americans increasingly are sent to prison based on false evidence manufactured by police forensic crime labs. Now President Obama wants the power to incarcerate U.S. Citizens not on evidence, but for what they might do.

    Compare: Two days after the 1933 burning of Germany’s Parliament Building, blamed on communists, Hitler responded with a powerful speech before Parliament. Hitler asked Parliament to suspend sections of the Reich Constitution that protected Citizens’ Rights and Civil Liberties. Hitler said the suspension was necessary so government could protect the homeland from being destroyed by communists. Hitler promised Parliament the Constitution would later be restored. After Parliament passed Hitler’s Discriminatory Decrees and Hitler signed it February 28, 1933, Hitler immediately used the news laws to abolished Parliament. See Hitler’s 1933 Discriminatory Laws below:

    Obama gave a speech in May 2010, that proposed incarcerating in indefinite prolonged detention without evidence, any person government deemed a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future; that would include U.S. Citizens “without evidence of wrongdoing.” With that amount power Obama like Hitler could arrest members of Congress, drag U.S. Citizens off the street and from their homes to be imprisoned indefinitely based only on Government’s claim they are a “combatant” or likely to engage in a violent act in the future.
    If Congress approves Obama’s categories of people likely to engage in violent acts, overnight millions of lawful U.S. activists could be subject to arrest, Indefinite Prolonged Detention. When you examine Obama’s speech, it appears Obama wants retroactive power to incarcerate anyone government claims (prior) supported violent acts on the premise that person is likely to support violent acts in the future: U.S. activists would be extremely vulnerable because no activist can control what another activist or group might do illegally they network with domestically or overseas. Government would only have to allege a person; group or organization might commit a violent act in the future to order Preventative Detention of lawful participants with no evidence whatsoever. Americans would be afraid to speak out. See: Obama Sound-Video http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.html

    It is foreseeable any “individual” who writes on the Internet or verbally express an opinion against or entity of U.S. Government or its coalition partners could be deemed by authorities a “Combatant” or likely to engage in or cause violent acts: government too easily could claim an author’s writings inspired people in the past and will in the future to commit or support violent acts. It is problematic that indefinitely detained U.S. Citizens not involved in terrorism or hostile activities, not given Miranda Warnings or allowed legal counsel; interrogated, will be prosecuted for ordinary crimes because of their alleged admissions while held in indefinite Prolonged Detention. Obama wants the power to override the U.S. Constitution. Obama wants the power to detain indefinitely any American without probable cause or evidence, based on conjecture someone might do something violent in the future.

    Obama similar to Hitler is centralizing power in the federal Government by getting passed legislation the U.S. government could potentially use to intimidate and threaten corporations among others. Hitler got passed similar laws shortly before the burning of the German Parliament building blamed on the communists. Immediately after the fire, Hitler used his new laws to coerce corporations and influential Citizens to support passage of fascist legislation that suspended provisions of the German Constitution that protected Citizens’ freedoms and civil liberties. Obama is now approaching a position where he can use similar new laws, including the Patriot Act and 200 asset forfeiture laws to seize any corporation or individual’s assets; and force U.S. corporations and other institutions like Hitler did to support legislation that threatens or curtails rights of Americans.

    More recently Obama has moved forward to crush Free Speech, silence his critics by pushing passage of HR 5175: this abomination will choke the 1st Amendment, denying the right of free speech to ordinary Americans. Under Title II: groups like Gun Owners of America and other groups including bloggers that only mention “public officials” within 60 days of an election, could be required to file onerous disclosures–and potentially have to disclose their membership lists—despite the Supreme Court ruling in NAACP v. Alabama that held membership lists like those of GOA's) are off limits to government control. Is Obama’s support of HR 5175 similar to what Hitler did to shut up his critics? In the run up to Parliament passing his police state laws including the 1933 Discriminatory Decrees that abolished Citizen’s Free Speech, Hitler employed thugs to beat up reporters, arrest anyone who had courage to criticize the Fuhrer or his Nazi government or expose introduced legislation. Is Obama by supporting HR 5175 to shut up his critics, trying to take American to the same place?
    Alarmingly the Obama Government recently employed a vendor to search Internet social networking sites to collect information about Americans that could potentially be used by this government to injure Americans, for example, if you apply for a federal job, your name might be crossed referenced by the Obama Government with comments you made at Websites against Obama; or if you make application at a bank for a loan the Government has control since the financial crisis, could your Internet comment(s) prevent you getting that loan? Obama’s monitoring of the Internet sites can too easily be used by Government to intimidate Citizens from speaking out. Obama Top CZAR Cass Sunstein prepared a 2008 paper that proposed spying on Americans, infiltrating groups and organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question government. See: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884
    To hear Obama proposing Indefinite Detention without evidence, access sound video at following web address: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/630.html

    See Hitler’s 1933 Nazi Laws below:

    DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE

    Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7

    In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:

    Section 1
    Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

    Section 2
    If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.

    Section 4
    Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishable—insofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reichsmarks.

    Whoever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.

    Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.

    Section 5
    The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).

    Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:

    1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;

    2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;

    3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.

    Section 6
    This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.

    Reich President
    Reich Chancellor
    Reich Minister of the Interior
    Reich Minister of Justice

  • MemMom

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    Our biggest enemies are white, were born here, and call themselves “Liberals” and progressives to hide their evil communist tendencies.

    It will take many expensive suits hanging along Penn. Ave. to fix this mess if it can be fixed, and an extensive “Liberal” season whereby we force the amerikan communist insurgents out of the country or kill enough of them to restore Liberty.

    It's way past time to plan for the attack that must come, and to stop hunkering down for the apocalypse.

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    First of all I think the article has confused the names here. I doubt Mr. Barber is himself the “reporter” making this quote. However, WHOEVER this reporter is, he, she, or it is a COMPLETE IMBECILE. How is it, that the idea of taking up arms against the U.S. GOVERNMENT is construed as “taking up arms against the United States” The socialist biased media in the U.S. cannot seem to separate the “U.S. Government” from the “United States of America” We DO NOT NEED the U.S. Government to exist. Case in point, France. This country has had NUMEROUS governments, but France still exists as it always has, and will probably still exist when the NEXT government comes along to replace the present one.

    So I hope the lesson is well ingrained here: Governments DO NOT make countries. They only SERVE countries, and they serve well or badly. Our present government serves badly and has done so basically since its inception in 1787 [Read the ANTIFEDERALIST if you want to know what's REALLY wrong with American Government] yes it needs to be completely overthrown, a new constitution is in order based more on the older [and BETTER] Articles of Confederation with a DECLARATION OF RIGHTS [not a puny "Bill of Rights"] and then AND ONLY THEN might we see a restoration of the TRUE American Dream.

    Sincerely,
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