10-30 Million People Reported Missing in Washington, D.C.
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[QUOTE]Operation American Spring, billed as a Friday morning multi-million patriot march on Washington, D.C., to oust leadership from the nation’s capital — from President Obama to House Speaker John Boeher — has proven woefully below expectations.
“It’s a very dismal turnout,” said Jackie Milton, 61, a Jacksboro, Texas, resident and the head of Texans for Operation American Spring, to The Washington Times. He said hopes were high when he arrived in Alexandria, Va., a day or so ago and found motels and hotels were sold out for 30 miles around.
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[url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/16/operation-american-spring-falls-flat-very-disappoi/[/url][/QUOTE]
The gubmint used their RFID Mind Control and Fluoridated Water to make them not show up. It's all the gubmint. [I]The gubmint![/I]
[quote]Operation American Spring was billed as far back as six months ago as a rally call for patriotic Americans to force leaders in Washington, D.C., to return to a more limited and constitutional style of governance — and to oust those leaders who weren’t listening. Among the group’s targets: Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, vice president Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.[/quote]
Six months ago? They didn't do a good job, I only heard about it first this past week.
[QUOTE]...several attendees could barely contain their dismay at the low-key affair. "I took a day off from work to come down," said Art Skillman. "Where they are, I don't know."[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/05/16/3438826/american-spring/"](ThinkProgress)[/URL]
:v:
From the joke of a website.
[QUOTE]Concept of Operations:
Phase 1 - Field millions, as many as ten million, patriots who will assemble in a peaceful, non-violent, physically unarmed (Spiritually/Constitutionally armed), display of unswerving loyalty to the US Constitution and against the incumbent government leadership in Washington D.C., with the mission to replace with law abiding leadership. Go full-bore, no looking back, steadfast in the mission.
Phase 2 - One million or more of the assembled 10 million must be prepared to stay in D.C. as long as it takes to see Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi, and Attorney General Holder removed from office.
Consistent with the US Constitution, as required, the U.S. Congress will take appropriate action, execute appropriate legislation, deal with vacancies, or U.S. States will appoint replacements for positions vacated consistent with established constitutional requirements.
Phase 3 - Those with the principles of a West, Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Lee, DeMint, Paul, Gov Walker, Sessions, Gowdy, Jordan, should comprise a tribunal and assume positions of authority to convene investigations, recommend appropriate charges against politicians and government employees to the new U.S. Attorney General appointed by the new President.
*All actions in Phase 2 & 3 will be consistent with the U.S. Constitution.[/QUOTE]
But start with unconstitutional action? :v:
Yes, there's probably some small thing, real or invented by these idiots, that isn't explicitly spelled out in the Constitution for protest and Occupy-style political change, but it's an odd remark to make.
Laughed at this protest, for me it was like.
"Operation American Spring, billed as a Friday morning multi-million patriot march on Washington, D.C"
Yeah!
"to oust leadership from the nation’s capital — from President Obama to House Speaker John Boeher."
What?
It's like my dad's Tea Party right wing wet dream protest, I'd love to see some nice protest, but "To get obummer out of office!" is retarded, he's out of office in a couple years anyway.
[quote]It ain’t no millions. And it ain’t looking like there’s going to be millions. Hundreds is more like it.”[/quote]
Oh, this is schadenfreude at its finest.
I read that headline and I [I]fucking knew[/I] it was going to be about this
[QUOTE]Phase 3 - Those with the principles of a West, Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Lee, DeMint, Paul, Gov Walker, Sessions, Gowdy, Jordan, should comprise a tribunal and assume positions of authority to convene investigations, recommend appropriate charges against politicians and government employees to the new U.S. Attorney General appointed by the new President.[/QUOTE]
I love how fucking transparent these people are in their projection.
They dislike the current government and see it as tyrannical so they want to tear it down and set up tribunals made up of people on their team to investigate and charge politicians on the other team.
Now that's some tyrannical Russian style bullshit right there.
Heh, the first comment on that article:
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On their website they warned that Obama would unleash drones on the masses. Allegedly the president was going to fire missiles into the crowd---but the "patriots" were ready to face that!
But rain! Dear lawd---no one told them there would be RAIN!
RETREAT! RETREAT!
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I still find it funny and suspicious how Russia Today was where I heard about this protest from originally.
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Phase 3 - Those with the principles of a West, Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Lee, DeMint, Paul, Gov Walker, Sessions, Gowdy, Jordan, should comprise a tribunal and assume positions of authority to convene investigations, recommend appropriate charges against politicians and government employees to the new U.S. Attorney General appointed by the new President.
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Ahahaha. So you idiots planned to march on Washington, eject the elected people you don't like, and appoint a bunch of Tea Party douchebags to run the country and punish Democrats? Fucking delusional. Wait until the next election and get in line at the polls like everyone else whose votes you apparently believe aren't worth being counted.
I'm quite proud of my country right now for not letting these idiots get any real traction. They deserve to be ignored.
Also, thread title was excellent.
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;44832463]I still find it funny and suspicious how Russia Today was where I heard about this protest from originally.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/05/16/3438826/american-spring/"]ThinkProgress talked about it before and then after the fact.[/URL]
And their webshite [URL="http://operationamericanspring.org/"]is just hilarious.[/URL]
[QUOTE].....the law of nature rules. A fluffy, cuddly lamb gets eaten by a mean old wolf is not an illegal or immoral event...the law of nature. When some greedy, self-serving occupant of the White House or Congress, or elements outside America, is threatening our existence, our freedom, our liberty, our Constitution, our life resources, our America, then we fight back to destroy the threat and there is nothing immoral or illegal about it. When the government becomes lawless, then "we the people" no longer are obligated to follow the government......there is no law when government picks and chooses for political purposes or personal agenda. At this time the government is performing as a lawless entity......[/QUOTE]
So overthrow the government with open rebellion, and then expect the government to suddenly be good and effective. Don't vote or work within the peaceful, legal confines we've created, but burn it all down and let idiots with guns dictate how things should work.
Can't we just have a big gladiatorial style arena televised on Fox where gun nuts fight each other for cash prizes and a chance to yell their beliefs into a camera for 15 minutes?
what is with people and their hard-on for the constitution
it's a three hundred year-old document that has had to be revised numerous times due to the fact that it was, in fact, not perfect, and no framer ever wanted anyone to think it was.
have "strict constitutionalists" even read the constitution or do they just project their paranoia of "big government" onto it
[QUOTE=joes33431;44833771]what is with people and their hard-on for the constitution
it's a three hundred year-old document that has had to be revised numerous times due to the fact that it was, in fact, not perfect, and no framer ever wanted anyone to think it was.
have "strict constitutionalists" even read the constitution or do they just project their paranoia of "big government" onto it[/QUOTE]
The constitution is like the bible. It can be used to prop up whatever insane bullshit beliefs you have and makes people with said insane bullshit beliefs think they have credibility because they're using something that's OLD and IMPORTANT to support themselves (even though they're ignoring the vast majority of said thing)
[QUOTE=joes33431;44833771]what is with people and their hard-on for the constitution
it's a three hundred year-old document that has had to be revised numerous times due to the fact that it was, in fact, not perfect, and no framer ever wanted anyone to think it was.
have "strict constitutionalists" even read the constitution or do they just project their paranoia of "big government" onto it[/QUOTE]
The Constitution is a Rorschach test, it means whatever the hell people want it to mean. Much like the Bible, anyone can claim Constitutional support for anything. It's just something they use to legitimize their insane beliefs and fantasies about remaking the country with the muzzles of their rifles.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;44834106]The Constitution is a Rorschach test, it means whatever the hell people want it to mean. Much like the Bible, anyone can claim Constitutional support for anything. It's just something they use to legitimize their insane beliefs and fantasies about remaking the country with the muzzles of their rifles.[/QUOTE]
democracy would function much better if everyone realized that the existence of people with beliefs different than theirs is necessary to a functioning society.
pluralism assures that differing sides on complex issues are recognized and accounted for, and traditionally, compromise is what brought about the best solutions to these problems.
for fuck sake, the country was [I]founded[/I] on compromise; the bill of rights was a compromise between federalists and anti-federalists, the existence of two houses in the legislature was a compromise between big states and small states.
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;44833814]The constitution is like the bible. It can be used to prop up whatever insane bullshit beliefs you have and makes people with said insane bullshit beliefs think they have credibility because they're using something that's OLD and IMPORTANT to support themselves (even though they're ignoring the vast majority of said thing)[/QUOTE]
Anything can be like that, I can claim my set of Complete Calvin and Hobbes justifies setting fire to Mosques, that doesn't mean it actually says anything that pertains to it. That's kind of the position the Constitution is in with these nutbags, they use the term as a buzzword more than anything else, claiming it supports their actions and goals when in reality it doesn't, the Constitution of the United States is the foundation for American law and the US government.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;44834242]Anything can be like that, I can claim my set of Complete Calvin and Hobbes justifies setting fire to Mosques, that doesn't mean it actually says anything that pertains to it. That's kind of the position the Constitution is in with these nutbags, they use the term as a buzzword more than anything else, claiming it supports their actions and goals when in reality it doesn't, the Constitution of the United States is the foundation for American law and the US government.[/QUOTE]
The best (except that this is reality) thing is when you get Tea Party candidates or elected politicians who propose laws or make statements criticizing X thing about the Constitution, and they demonstrate they know [B]nothing[/B] about the Constitution because of what they're saying or trying to pass into law.
Bonus points if they manage to self-servingly violate the First Amendment while violating at least two other amendments while claiming the move is to defend liberty and freedom (for the status quo).
[editline]17th May 2014[/editline]
I don't mean, they don't know it as in they aren't law professors with a specialty in constitutional interpretation, I mean they slept through high school civics and cheated off the nerd on the test to pass.
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