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Assume for a moment the unlikely, that a terrorist actually ESCAPES.
What are we worried about him doing? Does he have his bomb-making equipment stashed somewhere? Wouldn’t we be able to put his photo on a million TVs and computers in a matter of moments?
Will a conservative please explain to me why the right are all cowards, worried practically to insanity about terrorists, when Americans with Second Amendment protected guns have killed 40 times as many Americans SINCE 9/11 as the terrorists got on that day?
Statistically I have a lot more to fear from drunk drivers and American citizens with guns than I have to fear from terrorists, but it’s not like I wet my panties every day over those dangers either.
Easy answer, Repack. “Conservatives” are a) scared shitless of terrorists because they lack sufficient mental power to evaluate reality or b) they want you to be scared shitless so they can then take advantage of your panic to take advantage of you.
They are idiots or opportunists.
They are idiots or opportunists.
You forgot “psychotics.”
All three?
Will a conservative please explain to me why the right are all cowards, worried practically to insanity about terrorists
Meanwhile, those in the reviled among conservatives Blue States have and continue to face the real threat of terrorism without giving in to fear. How many times have we heard the very same people who blather on about how scared they are of terrorism talk shit about New York City.
History tells us that if a red state has any reason to fear terrorism it is thanks to Glenn Beck’s militia buddies, not some religious fanatics living in caves.
The idea that conservatives were wetting their beds over Gitmo is ridiculous. They were wetting their beds long before Bush ever used Gitmo.
How many times have we heard the very same people who blather on about how scared they are of terrorism talk shit about New York City.
Those idiotic, despicable STRAWMEN! They’re always doing dumb stuff, aren’t they?
Don’t count me in that group. I’m the guy YOU cross the street to avoid having to pass on the sidewalk.
They think Arabs will escape and steal their white women
Those idiotic, despicable STRAWMEN! They’re always doing dumb stuff, aren’t they?
Don’t count me in that group. I’m the guy YOU cross the street to avoid having to pass on the sidewalk.
So you complain about a supposed “Strawman” (which is in fact referring to repeated comments we’ve all heard repeatedly) by forming your own strawman? You don’t have the least motherfucking idea how I’d react to you. If people cross the street to avoid you it’s probably got more to do with the insane look in your eyes and the stench of stale urine on your clothes than it has to do with your politics.
If people cross the street to avoid you it’s probably got more to do with the insane look in your eyes and the stench of stale urine on your clothes than it has to do with your politics.
More likely the people I’m with.
As opposed to liberals who wet their beds over a golf announcer who makes a weak take on an old joke about two politicians stuck in an elevator with Osama bin Laden.
Like that scenario is likely to ever play out.
Barack Obama laughs at a washed up comedian who wishes a conservative dies from kidney failure and bed-wetting liberals who displayed their usual faux outrage at the golf announcer suddenly fall silent.
They are idiots or opportunists.
Whaddya mean “or”?
Didn’t we do this dance months ago?
Shorter Dennis: Look over here!
Shorter Oliver: When we wet our beds, it’s only because it’s for an important cause.
The only threat I could imagine is that terrorists still at large might target the town with a prison holding a terrorist for some revenge or something. But the fact that it hasn’t happened for the Ts currently incarcerated makes that worry seem slight.
I also don’t remember hearing any threats in that avenue either, so I’ll count it as shameless fear mongering.
If you guys can legalize them and get them on welfare soon enough, I’m sure they’ll vote for Obama in ’12. Get on it real quick and they’ll support you in the ’10 campaigns.
Hurry hurry, no time to waste.
The only threat I could imagine is that terrorists still at large might target the town with a prison holding a terrorist for some revenge or something.
Which movie was that? “Air Force One”?
Will a conservative please explain to me why the right are all cowards, worried practically to insanity about terrorists, when Americans with Second Amendment protected guns have killed 40 times as many Americans SINCE 9/11 as the terrorists got on that day?
I realize that was rhetorical, but you reference the answer to your own question. The constitution requires that the government protect us from terrorists, while allowing us to have guns. Plus, terrorism can be fought directly and proactively, whereas murder can not.
The constitution requires that the government protect us from terrorists,
Really? Can you cite the passage, because I’m very familiar with the Constitution, and I am not aware that it mentions terrorists anywhere.
And when you say the Constitution “requires” this, what is the punishment for failing to fulfill this “requirement?” Remember that the Constitution requires a declaration of war to be enacted by the Congress before invading sovereign countries, and we invaded Iraq in violation of that Section. How do we “punish” Congress for that failure?
terrorism can be fought directly and proactively, whereas murder can not.
Do you have any idea why President Bush didn’t choose to “[fight terrorism] directly and proactively” if there were means to do it?
If murder cannot be fought “directly and proactively,” how is it that countres where guns are not easily available have very low murder rates? Doesn’t that suggest a correlation between gun ownership and the use of guns on others, and if so, doesn’t it further suggest that restricting the ownership of weapons would have a positive effect on the murder rate?
And before you go off on my lack of patriotism, I am an Army vet and I shot a lot of holes in a lot of stuff when I was younger, but I haven’t fired a weapon since I got out in 1968. Have you served in the military?
Barack Obama laughs at a washed up comedian who wishes a conservative dies from kidney failure and bed-wetting liberals who displayed their usual faux outrage at the golf announcer suddenly fall silent.
I know you got all up in arms when Rush Limbaugh made fun of Michael J. Fox’s crippling disease.
No you didn’t. Ruh got exactly what he hands out every day, and sudde3ntly you are
Pelosi and Reid do not spend fifteen hours a week spewing hatred. and they are elected officials. The golf announcer should be fired in exactly the same way I would fire any of my employees who embarrassed me like that.
I’m not sure what this commercial is trying to prove anyway? I mean, everyone they have shown in the piece are still in prison, which I guess would mean that the system works. And, of course, all of these prisoners were put there before Obama even ran for president.
Also, is it suppose to be serious if your group is for sending criminals into outer space? The last time I saw a prison planet in outer space was when Kirk and McCoy were sent to the Klingon prison planet, and they escaped.
This ad is just about raising fears – the very opposite of protecting people.
Aptiva,
the ad is a parody that mimics a real ad both as to music and much of the content. My guess is that Oliver preferred to air the parody rather than give air time to the real one. Just a guess though.
FYI – here is the ad being parodied:
http://tinyurl.com/qjbzqc
This is along the same reasoning or lack thereof wherein a much-publicized but unlikely threat (e.g., swine flu or stranger abduction of a child) is more feared than a less-publicized but much more likely threat (regular flu or molestation by a family member or friend) is disregarded.
See Tabeb’s excellent “The Black Swan” for more details.
Or even a swine abduction of a child.
Or a stranger abduction of a pig.