Des Moines Register Allows Retired Columnist To Spew Violence & Threats

[jnevis]

Not if you burn his presses , and dynamite the newspaper office.

Ummm, so we respond to a threat of violence by using violence?  Good plan Tom, that'll win over the undecided.
Although it is the "Chicago way."

[tombogan03884]

J, the "undecided don't matter.
They are sheep who will do as they are told.
The only ones who matter are the "activists".
If we are to return America to it's original course they need to be either imprisoned, exiled, or killed.
Just like after every successful Revolution.
Just for laughs, were do you think the population of New Brunswick Canada originated ?

[twyacht]

The Chicago Way cuts both ways. As very well illustrated by the video.

We are Americans. We have the right to spout out stupid sh**. Burn the Flag in protest, condemn dead soldiers via Westboro, and take what comes in retaliation.

For now, it is peaceful.

It may soon not be.

[tombogan03884]

Does the Constitution protect the "right" of subverting the system it is designed to protect ?
Is it in fact a suicide pact ?
I think not.

[Solus]

Ummm, so we respond to a threat of violence by using violence?  Good plan Tom, that'll win over the undecided.
Although it is the "Chicago way."

I guess that means we can't tie him to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag him around a parking lot either?

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[tombogan03884]

Have to use a Ford.
Nothing from Government Motors.

[Magoo541]

Have to use a Ford.
Nothing from Government Motors.

I don't know... Kind of poetic justice draggin' a bunch of statist around the briar batch with a .gov subsidized vehicle.

[tombogan03884]

Smart car doesn't have enough horsepower to pull the stem out of a baked apple.

[jnevis]

Smart car doesn't have enough horsepower to pull the stem out of a baked apple.

Neither does the wife's Jeep

[MikeBjerum]

My pre government motors Silverado would leave brown streaks anyplace you would like me to drag them    Hell, my Ohio built Goldwing would as well 

Had an interesting discussion concerning this this morning with our local Sheriff.  I included one of our local radio announcers and his comments the Monday following Sandy Hook.

Sheriff's response was as I thought:  What this columnist did is a terroristic threat; it is illegal; it is not protected by the First Amendment's protection provided to the press - It is just like screaming fire in a crowded theater; however, no County Attorney would back law enforcement up on the arrest; they would not file charges; and if the Sheriff pushed his authority the Courts would throw it out.

Small town law enforcement is always accused of playing favorites and having the "good ole boys club."  The media has their own version of this, and the legal community and the judicial branch do their best to ignore it.

Our Sheriff is very pro gun and pro carry by citizens, but he does not flaunt it.  He will speak when it is appropriate, he will openly support us when pressed to get rid of our rights, he supports rights groups and instructors, and he expects us to exercise our rights.  His recommendation is to keep fighting in the same tone we have been:  Polite, coherent, to the point, offering solutions, and stating facts.  Like many of us he has had rants from others, and from his experience and knowledge of others the pro-Second Amendment group is a professional reasonable contingent, even though we are acting fairly independently; but the anti-gun side is acting like a bunch of adolescent boys strutting their stuff and showing off their tough vocabulary.  Sheriff said he would be running for the hills if the people who have guns were threatening the way the "non-violent" crowd is acting.