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struggle4progress

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Sun Apr 24, 2016, 01:18 AM Apr 2016

Liberty for bearded, beer-bellied white guys with assault rifles, at everybody else's expense

By Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Sat, Apr 23rd, 2016 at 7:55 am

... Imagine your neighbors, but all decked out in military gear and carrying assault rifles and patrolling your neighborhood like it’s a banana republic. The problem is, this wasn’t their neighborhood, and they’re not your neighbors ...

In this case, a bunch of people loaded for bear showed up not only in another neighborhood but another state, and tried to take over and bully the locals, even going so far as to set up a “committee of safety” to co-opt control of the area from its actual elected government, a strange species of liberty indeed ...

... Sheriff Knezovich .. said, “I’m sorry, folks — they’re not patriots, they’re thugs. They are, in fact, the true tyranny.” Ward agreed, saying that he was constantly looking over his shoulder ...

It’s liberty all right, but only for bearded, beer-bellied white guys with assault rifles, and only at everybody else’s expense.


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/23/massive-bait-switch-liberty-movement.html

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Liberty for bearded, beer-bellied white guys with assault rifles, at everybody else's expense (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2016 OP
K&R 2naSalit Apr 2016 #1
Domestic terrorists like this scare me a hell of a lot more than ISIS. (nt) Paladin Apr 2016 #2
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