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Obama protests in AZ
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival | Mesa Arizona News - Mesa News - Mesa AZ news | eastvalleytribune.com
Presidential protesters made their voices heard in chants and signs Wednesday outside Dobson High School. The protesters, about 500 to 600 strong and growing, began arriving as ticket holders walked in. Mesa police set up a protest area along Guadalupe Road. They held their signs up high: “Don’t tread on me,” “Spend all you want, I’ll pick up the tab,” “I’ll keep my freedom! You keep the change!” “Free fertility drugs now.” And “B.O. smells and so does Socialism.” A Gilbert woman, with a sign that said, “Fund bikini wax now,” said she is entitled to the beauty treatment. “It’s a self-esteem issue and hygiene issue, which makes it a health care issue. I think we’re all entitled,” said the woman in jest. She only gave the name JoAnne, because she is skipping work. Critics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio showed up in force, as well. At one point about 15 members of Somos America, in striped jail garb and linked by chains, marched passed the presidential protesters. Those protesters responded with chants: “We love Joe!” Rob McElwain, spokesman for Somos, said they want an end to laws that allow local police to enforce immigration laws, an end to Arpaio’s immigration sweeps and a federal investigation into Arpaio. The Mesa Police Department stationed four neutral observers outside the school, including Phil Austin, former president of the Mesa Association of Hispanic Citizens. Austin said things went smoothly, except for a few vendors trying to sell goods without a permit. As protesters held their signs high, they exchanged cheers with the honking cars that passed. The general message of the protesters was that Obama’s policies would lead the country toward socialism. “I’m out here to exercise my First Amendment rights while I still have them,” said Tim Guiney, 52, a Phoenix sales manager. “Everything that man stands for is the antithesis of what this country was founded on. He’s a Marxist, fascist.” Lee Bauer, 53, a social and fiscal conservative, said she doesn’t believe in the $787 billion stimulus package signed by Obama Tuesday in Denver. “Obama’s stimulus package has only mobilized the opposition,” she said. Former Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth of Arizona also was in attendance. He called the bill a “trillion-dollar boondoggle.” A man shouted over a megaphone, “I want to see if the president is driving a (Toyota) Prius or an electric car.”     |
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02-20-2009, 10:10 AM
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Recommended reading for our little piggy..
Product Description In A NATION OF SHEEP, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and freedoms that are the foundation of American democracy. He challenges Americans to recognize that they are being led down a very dangerous path and that the cost of following without challenge is the loss of the basic freedoms that facilitate our pursuit of happiness and that define us as a nation. Judge Napolitano reminds readers what America is all about, that the purpose of government is to protect freedom, and freedom is the ability to follow your own free will and not the will of government bureaucrats. He asks the simple question, which are YOU, a sheep or a wolf? Do you blindly follow behind where you are led, or do you challenge the government at every pass, forcing it to make decisions that will protect our freedoms? Judge Napolitano asks the questions that no one else will, challenging readers to rethink why they are blindly following a government that has only its own interests in mind. He asks: * Why is the government using the war on terror as an excuse to sidestep the Constitution? * Why are Americans not challenging and questioning the government as it continues to limit more and more of our freedoms? * What part of "Congress shall make no law..." does the government not understand when it criminalizes speech? * Whatever happened to our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that are proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, guaranteed by the Constitution, yet ignored by the governments elected to protect them? * Why does every public office holder swear allegiance to the Constitution, yet very few follow it? * Don't we have rights that are guaranteed and cannot be taken from us? |
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02-20-2009, 10:15 AM
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what do you call a cross between a weasel & a sheep?
SHEEPLE?
 
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02-20-2009, 10:21 AM
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you just don't get it do you. I don't agree with Bush, and I think he was one of the worst presidents ever. Just because I supported Ron Paul and he ran on a Republican ticket doesn't mean I support Bush. But you just keep up your little tirade against me. Only an old kook would continue hanging onto the dream that Obama is gonna bring about "change". Get the book by Napolitano and read it then get back with me.
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02-20-2009, 10:39 AM
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02-20-2009, 11:48 AM
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It's no shock protesters go where presidents visit. It's a way to be heard even if they agree with his platform. I'm sure there was a legelize weed guy and someone else who want to marry his goat.
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02-20-2009, 03:56 PM
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02-20-2009, 04:40 PM
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"B.O. smells and so does Socialism"
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