Paul Broun: Obama’s ‘socialist elite’ is planning to ‘declare martial law.’ | ThinkProgress

The Athens Banner-Herald reports today that Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) told constituents yesterday that he thinks Democratic leaders are planning to declare martial law:

 

Harry Reid (D-NV), United States Senator from Nevada and Majority Leader of the United States Senate (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

He also spoke of a “socialistic elite” – Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – who might use a pandemic disease or natural disaster as an excuse to declare martial law.

 

“They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over,” he said. “We’ve seen that historically.”

 

Prison Planet.com » Video: Ron Paul supporters say GOP cheated them out of delegates

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Athens Banner-Herald

March 17, 2012

Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are complaining that other Clarke County Republicans shut out their slate of delegates at the county convention Saturday.

The libertarian-leaning Texas congressman’s supporters are trying to win election as delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in August, libertarian activist Carter Kessler said.

They claim the Clarke County GOP broke its own rules by electing a slate of delegates that excluded Paul supporters over their objections.

The tactic of contesting delegate nominations is part of Paul’s longshot strategy to win the Republican nomination despite not winning a single state so far, according to ABC News. His campaign is also “accused of muddying county conventions in Colorado and Iowa last weekend,” the network reported Thursday.

The dispute highlights tension between Paul supporters, many of whom are young and newcomers to politics, and veteran Republican activists. State party Chairwoman Sue Everhart referenced similar conflicts in an email to party members Wednesday. Many longtime Republicans didn’t show up to county conventions, while many new activists did, she said.

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Paul supporters gathered a quorum Sunday and elected a competing slate of delegates, Kessler said.

Ore. bus driver suspended for Confederate flag

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An Oregon school bus driver has been suspended for refusing to remove a Confederate flag from his personal vehicle.

The Mail Tribune reports that 28-year-old Ken Webber of Medford says he’s worked for four years at First Student School Bus Transportation Services, a contractor for the Phoenix-Talent School District in the Medford area.

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Georgia Lawmaker Is Asked: When Will Someone Shoot Obama?

Talk about lack of civility. Georgia Rep. Paul Broun couldn’t have expected this question as he opened the floor for discussion at a recent town hall meeting in the college town of Athens.

One unidentified man in the crowd reportedly asked him: “Who’s going to shoot Obama?”The Republican lawmaker said Friday he was “stunned” by the remark and chose “not to dignify it with a response.”

He said the culprit was an elderly man in the audience.

An Athens Banner-Herald reporter covering the event Tuesday couldn’t make out the precise wording in the crowded Oglethorpe Couty Commission chamber, but heard the laughter that followed it. There is some dispute about what exactly happened next.

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Latest Evidence Nothing has Changed in post-Tucson America:”Who is Going to Shoot President Obama?”

“Here’s the latest evidence that nothing has changed in post-Tucson America…” Writes Justin Elliott in Salon:

A person at a Tuesday town hall with Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., got up and asked, “Who is going to shoot President Obama?”The exact wording of the question is not clear because, the Athens Banner-Herald reports, there was a lot of noise at the event.

If you don’t know the “exact wording,” why do you have some words in quotes? This non-quote has gone viral in the leftosphere, the leftosphere where no one seems to mind all the violent and over-the-top language and imagery at the week-long Wisconsin protests.

If you don’t have that quote, why are you spewing it out there? Maybe what hasn’t changed post-Tucson is you?

Seriously. Why put out a quote that you don’t have? You’re trying to stir people up and create discord! You are the problem you are talking about? Do you have any self-awareness at all?The question prompted a “big laugh” from the crowd, in Oglethorpe County, Ga., according to the Banner-Herald.

Broun, for his part, did not object to the question. He said in response:”The thing is, I know there’s a lot of frustration with this president…”And now, you want to attribute incivility to Broun, but you don’t know what he heard.

He mentions the president, so presumably, he caught that it was something anti-Obama, but beyond that you are making stuff up.If the crowd was so big, and it was a planned event, where’s the digital video?

Don’t tell me the crowd was too noisy for anyone to record it AND that the crowd heard it.

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Artwork with Confederate flag removed in Ga.

Free RepublicBrowse · Search Pings · Mail News/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments.Artwork with Confederate flag removed in Ga.Associated Press ^ | Feb. 4, 2011Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 3:51:54 PM by Free ThinkerNYOAKWOOD, Ga. AP –

A college president in Georgia says she ordered an instructor’s painting that featured a Confederate flag removed from a faculty art exhibit.The Athens Banner-Herald reports the flag was superimposed on images including a hanged black man and a hooded Ku Klux Klansman.Excerpt Read more at hosted.ap.org …