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Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:09 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:09 am
Mooch Obama encouraging high school students to monitor their families. Sound like North Korea or the old Soviet Union.
Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
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Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.
To one journalist, this was more than an off-hand comment made by the first lady. In the opinion of Cheryl Chumley, a reporter for The Washington Times and the author of “Police State USA,” Michelle Obama’s remark reflects a growing trend in America to target and attack individuals for committing “thought crime.”
“Michelle Obama’s push for kids around the nation to monitor their family members for perceived racist comments is just another way the government seeks to inject itself into an area it doesn’t really belong — the American home,” Chumley told The Daily Caller Monday.
“Having the first lady wag her finger at us and send America’s youth on some sort of quest to scour the homes and backyards of our nation’s families for any mention of a racist joke, slur or slight is nanny-governance run amok — something that belongs in a George Orwell novel, not the White House, Chumley said.”
Chumley sees a troubling growth of America’s most powerful political figures now singling out private individuals for their beliefs, and using government agencies and public denunciations to intimidate opponents into silence.
“Harry Reid attacking the Koch brothers for the crime of giving money to conservative causes is just as bad. President Obama, Joe Biden and the entire cast of the White House, for slamming lawful gun owners for exercising their Second Amendment rights, and for trying to drum up emotional-fueled support to ram through gun control,” Chumley listed off. “The IRS targeting of tea party and patriotic non-profits and our nation’s highest law enforcement official, Eric Holder stonewalling on a special prosecutor appointment — does it get any more police state than that?”
Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:15 am to SavageOrangeJug
Ever heard of the 'hate crime laws'?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:21 am to SavageOrangeJug
What is the Matrix? Control.....
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:55 am to SavageOrangeJug
My question to Michelle would be this; so what if one of these graduates hear their parents saying racial things and reports them? Once they are reported, now what? And who or what agency are they reporting this to?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:59 am to SavageOrangeJug
Funny, we had this discussion on TD last week. Good to know Yahoo is only so far behind.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:15 am to SavageOrangeJug
How exactly do we target thoughts? Professor X and cerebro?
And yes we all know hate crimes are dumb but they have been around a while, unfortunately.
And yes we all know hate crimes are dumb but they have been around a while, unfortunately.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:12 am to SavageOrangeJug
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Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.
this is NOT what she said, but typical right wingers without a critical reasoning bone in their head, this is what they read on blaze or whatever, so it must be true.
She said when grandpa makes a racist joke, call him out. This is not different than the push to get your parents to stop smoking when I was a kid. This is a fabulously awesome way to get people to be self aware of their actions.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:29 am to SavageOrangeJug
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Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.
Were those her exact words?
Trying to be fair here ... and, I can't seem to find where she said exactly that.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:21 am to SavageOrangeJug
the first count doesn't have any worldly perspective.
She doesn't understand how places like North Korea work, how places like the soviet union worked, she has zero understanding of anything other than her own American experience (and to be honest, she seems to have a very misguided understanding of that)
So I can't really hammer fatty for endorsing very disturbing behavior that always trends in a dangerous direction.
with that said, I've never seen a bigger bozo than barrack Obama. His wife's statements are just another example of how unqualified he is to not only occupy the oval office, but any office.
She doesn't understand how places like North Korea work, how places like the soviet union worked, she has zero understanding of anything other than her own American experience (and to be honest, she seems to have a very misguided understanding of that)
So I can't really hammer fatty for endorsing very disturbing behavior that always trends in a dangerous direction.
with that said, I've never seen a bigger bozo than barrack Obama. His wife's statements are just another example of how unqualified he is to not only occupy the oval office, but any office.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 11:22 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 1:50 pm to SavageOrangeJug
if the first lady made legislation, this still wouldn't be thought policing. There is nothing wrong with encouraging people to be sensitive. There is nothing wrong with encouraging people to encourage people to be racially sensitive.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 2:35 pm to SavageOrangeJug
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Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
Not all of America just the leftist types, but who cares what they think? Nobody. The problem is they in fact seem to care too much about what we think.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 2:38 pm to SavageOrangeJug
It actually should be a crime to think like you and I'd support legislation in a second. Put you away in FEMA concentration camps.
But alas you and Glenn Beck are just nuts and you're wrong. Unfortunately.
But alas you and Glenn Beck are just nuts and you're wrong. Unfortunately.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 3:50 pm to SavageOrangeJug
Moose is calling for reporting of thought crimes as they are not in lock step with the PC believers if that is what you mean. The facts are that "thoughts" are being criminalized all over the spectrum of the nation. The NBA owners case is a blinding with light example of that being the case.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 5:00 pm to SavageOrangeJug
Starting? Where in the frick have you been?
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