Comments on: Sen. Thompson’s warning about dissent: ‘Be afraid. Be very afraid.’ http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/09/09/sen-thompsons-warning-about-dissent-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:13:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sam Smith http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/09/09/sen-thompsons-warning-about-dissent-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/comment-page-1/#comment-7068 Sam Smith Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:51:40 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/09/09/sen-thompsons-warning-about-dissent-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comment-7068 Our nation is overrun with people who think it's wrong to dissent. Wrong to criticize the president. Wrong to voice complaints about the government. Funny thing is, I don't remember these same people believing these things prior to the election of George Walker Bush. I especially don't remember hearing these opinions from about January of 1993 up to Dubya's inauguration. Let's keep track. I want to see if dissent remains an evil, anti-American activity if Hillary is elected. Our nation is overrun with people who think it’s wrong to dissent. Wrong to criticize the president. Wrong to voice complaints about the government.

Funny thing is, I don’t remember these same people believing these things prior to the election of George Walker Bush. I especially don’t remember hearing these opinions from about January of 1993 up to Dubya’s inauguration.

Let’s keep track. I want to see if dissent remains an evil, anti-American activity if Hillary is elected.

]]> By: Jim Booth http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/09/09/sen-thompsons-warning-about-dissent-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/comment-page-1/#comment-7067 Jim Booth Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:21:56 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/09/09/sen-thompsons-warning-about-dissent-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comment-7067 Denny wrote: "Sen. Thompson is certainly right that today is a 'different' time — but the role of dissent by citizens is written into the Constitution and transcends political and historical eras. He has begun his campaign by arguing that dissent — and not incompetence or cowardice on the part of Republican and Democratic leaders — is at the root of the nation’s problems of perception at home and abroad. "That’s not a credible argument, and no one should swallow it." The second part of that first sentence is as clear a statement of what citizen responsibility is as I've seen in a long time, Denny. Thanks. And that zinger closing - that his claim that dissent is the problem is not a credible argument - should be part of every news story on Thompson that appears from now until he drops out of the race in humiliation for having said such a thing. As Sherlock Holmes used to say, "There's evil afoot" - and we should be fighting it as hard as we can.... Denny wrote: “Sen. Thompson is certainly right that today is a ‘different’ time — but the role of dissent by citizens is written into the Constitution and transcends political and historical eras. He has begun his campaign by arguing that dissent — and not incompetence or cowardice on the part of Republican and Democratic leaders — is at the root of the nation’s problems of perception at home and abroad.

“That’s not a credible argument, and no one should swallow it.”

The second part of that first sentence is as clear a statement of what citizen responsibility is as I’ve seen in a long time, Denny. Thanks.

And that zinger closing – that his claim that dissent is the problem is not a credible argument – should be part of every news story on Thompson that appears from now until he drops out of the race in humiliation for having said such a thing.

As Sherlock Holmes used to say, “There’s evil afoot” – and we should be fighting it as hard as we can….

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