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http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17151The former spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party sent out an email that said armed rebellion was justified over the Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare.
Matthew Davis, an attorney in Lansing, sent the email moments after the Supreme Court ruling to numerous new media outlets and limited government activists with the headline: Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?
Davis added his own personal note saying, heres my response. And yes, I mean it.
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You cant have people walking with lattes and signs and think the object of your opposition is going to take you seriously, Davis said. Armed rebellion is the end point of that physical confrontation.
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still_one
(92,554 posts)GarroHorus
(1,055 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)These people are crazier than a sack full of cats.
NYC Liberal
(20,140 posts)...
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385
Time for this guy to get a visit.
I'd actually be more alarmed if he didn't. He's advocating armed insurrection. I don't want some idiot like this out there speaking like he is speaking for anybody but his deranged self.
Bake
(21,977 posts)When things don't go our way, we live with it. When they don't get their way, they want to shoot somebody.
Good luck with that armed rebellion. You will lose -- probably your LIFE.
Bake
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)highplainsdem
(49,141 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)You can't have people walking around, whether they are in suits and ties or drinking lattes, screaming about armed insurrection without the Secret Service getting involved.
Just a friendly reminder, Davis. Most of us in the United States respect our legal process and our representative process. We respect the legislative process. If you take the law into you own hands, expect most of us to disagree with you and demand justice.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)FBI and U.S. Attorney would be the ones bringing charges of 'sedition' or 'insurrection'.
But definitely cause for an investigation and indictment, imho.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)against the President, which directly involves the Secret Service. Other than that, yes, I'm sure the FBI and US Attorney's office would be involved. In any case, this kind of bs needs to be nipped in the bud. I'm getting tired of seeing people threaten President Obama and get away with it. It's disgusting and not only shows a lack of respect for our President, it shows a lack of respect for the office.
These people should be ashamed of themselves. When they disrespect the President this way, they shouldn't dare call themselves patriots.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)didn't turn out so well for the last bunch that tried this.
Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)is treason, and is punishable by death in Marion, Indiana.
Do you want that, punk?
I'm sure death will welcome your useless ass.
highplainsdem
(49,141 posts)I hope she'll mention that former GOP spokesman on her show tonight.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)No, I am not surprised.
BootinUp
(47,235 posts)Mister Ed
(5,953 posts)Just wonderin'...
LiberalFighter
(51,405 posts)Then it would be appropriate for Davis to receive the gelding process.
salin
(48,955 posts)This is the logical conclusion of his statement.
The only way to curb such incendiary statements is to publiclly call out the logical extension of the statement - and let those making the statements support (yep - that is what I said and what I meant) or back off from it.
What else is an 'armed rebellion' than the start of a civil war?
Put his words into their real extension and put that into the public discourse. Are people ready to start killing one another over health-care reform? If not, than ridicule such rhetoric for the vacuousness that it represents (all trying to manipulate emotions, but nothing about really ready to participate in a war against neighbors.)
47of74
(18,470 posts)He's probably one of those guys who thinks the entire military would defect to the teabagger side. News flash for this fucko, there are a good many people who take their oaths seriously, especially the part about obeying the orders of the commander in chief, and the part about defending this nation even against domestic threats.
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)and say the FBI investigating this type of behavior. Freaky bastard.
lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)can't he be disbarred for this?
Anyone have the addy of the Michigan Bar Association?
TIA
jpbollma
(552 posts)Shouldn't he be getting a visit?