Bill Maher on 2nd Amendment: "We're like a strip club with a million bouncers and no strippers!"

[kpete]

Maher: ‘It’s not your Second Amendment rights that are under attack — it’s all the other ones’

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Yeah, both parties compete mightily to appear to be the greater champion of our freedoms, but the only thing that still has bipartisan support in Washington is not giving a shit about privacy.

And when you talk to the NRA types, as I like to do down at my local moose lodge, they actually believe that what protects their rights isn't laws, or courts, it's that they have a gun. They think that's what keeps the government from going too far. Without guns, Obama would become an emperor and force everyone to gay marry, but he can't because a guy in Kentucky named Skeeter has a .22.

(audience applause)

Except that, you know, while you guys were buying guns to protect your other guns, sittin' up on the porch there, waitin' for Obama's Negro Army to come confiscate your weapons and go all Django Unchained on your ass — that's when we lost all the stuff in the Bill of Rights, about trials and juries and warrants.

You see, the Redcoats — they never wanted your gun. They wanted your liberty. And that's why the Founding Fathers said you could have the gun, dumbass! And now the only right we have left is the guns, and left nothing left to use the guns to protect! We're like a strip club with a million bouncers and no strippers!

the rest:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/19/maher-its-not-your-second-amendment-rights-that-are-under-attack-its-all-the-other-ones/

[cantbeserious]

1. Profoundly On Point

eom

[Fumesucker]

2. K&R

[etherealtruth]

3. Maher: ‘It’s not your Second Amendment rights that are under attack — it’s all the other ones’

That is exactly how I view it!

[pasto76]

6. not a single gun nut or right winger I know cares that my 4th amendment has been destroyed.

exactly as Mahrer says

[We_Must_Organize]

4. Bill has this incredible ability

to put things in perspective. Guy is amazing!

[bvar22]

5. THat was a piece of art,

...and well delivered.

Do yourself a favor.
Tune into HBO this week and catch a replay of Bill Maher's Real Time.
You will be glad you did.

[Cleita]

8. I always record his shows because he has gems like this

in his monologues. I like to go over them to make sure I heard him right.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

7. There's no rights I don't have now that I didn't have in August 2001. nt

[former9thward]

10. The ACLU may disagree with you.

Of course given your sentence is a triple negative it is hard to tell. Warrantless wiretapping has quadrupled under President Obama. http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/warrantless-wiretapping

[dickthegrouch]

11. Then you haven't been paying attention

Your right to a trial is in serious question
Your right to appear before a judge within 24 hours is in serious question
Your right not to be searched has been eroded
Your right to be considered innocent until proven guilty is in serious question
Your right to an abortion if you want one has been curtailed in some states

There are probably others I've forgotten that have vanished into thin air since Sept 11th 2001.

[WillyT]

9. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!