Former Michigan GOP Spokesman Asks If ‘Armed Rebellion’ Needed Over Supreme Court Ruling
6:55 pm - 06/28/2012
Like many conservatives, Matt Davis, the former spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, was upset that the Supreme Court upheld most of President Obama’s health care law on Thursday.
But unlike those who simply saw it as a rallying cry to elect more conservatives in November, Davis wants to know whether an “armed rebellion” will be necessary to overturn the law.
Michigan Capitol Confidential got a copy of an email the Michigan attorney sent to fellow conservatives after the ruling. The news service posted it online:
If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?
God willing, this oppression will be lifted and America free again before the first shot is fired.
Davis told the news service he was serious about his email.
“You can’t have people walking with lattes and signs and think the object of your opposition is going to take you seriously,” he told Capitol Confidential. “Armed rebellion is the end point of that physical confrontation.”
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But unlike those who simply saw it as a rallying cry to elect more conservatives in November, Davis wants to know whether an “armed rebellion” will be necessary to overturn the law.
Michigan Capitol Confidential got a copy of an email the Michigan attorney sent to fellow conservatives after the ruling. The news service posted it online:
If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?
God willing, this oppression will be lifted and America free again before the first shot is fired.
Davis told the news service he was serious about his email.
“You can’t have people walking with lattes and signs and think the object of your opposition is going to take you seriously,” he told Capitol Confidential. “Armed rebellion is the end point of that physical confrontation.”
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right, okay. you're goin on my shit list, pal. fuck you.
Now that's a good question. Because the Congress and the States are doing a dandy job intruding into my private decisions about my body.
But of course my body isn't as nearly as important as his wallet.
edit for grammar fail. -_-
Edited at 2012-06-29 01:43 am (UTC)
Good point. This is a really scary sign. Any day now, pacifist taxpayers will start having to fund wars they oppose, opponents of capital punishment will have to fund executions, sex-positive taxpayers will have to fund abstinence-only education in public schools, and voters will have to fund the salaries of elected officials they didn't vote for.
...Oh wait.
Edited at 2012-06-29 03:36 am (UTC)
So just fuck off, you asshat.
I mean, the government makes you buy car insurance, so that in case you destroy someone else's car you have the money to fix it. If some 26-year-old libertarian douchebag doesn't buy insurance and then gets into a car accident, needs a $50,000 surgery, and skips on the bill because he can't afford $50K in a lump sum - we all bear the brunt of that cost on both ends. Higher premiums before because his money wasn't in the pot, and then higher costs later because we have to cover his $50K and all the other kids who thought they wouldn't need health insurance until they did.
That being said, there are people - The Sovereign Citizens Movement- that are against State authority as well. They believe the highest authority the have to obey is the county sheriff. And they haven't hesitated to use violence when local officials have stepped on their lawns. And no, the Republican mainstream hasn't disavowed them either.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/i
Hi, I'd like to talk to you about war, capital punishment, abstinence-pushing in public education, the salaries of politicians I dislike, the level of enforcement of speed limits on freeways, big agriculture subsidies, airport security theatre, and the practice of paying police officers while they are under suspension for brutality, deadly negligence, framing people, et cetera.
In other words, WELCOME TO AMERICA, you privileged, ignorant piece of shit.
If government can mandate that I pay for something I don’t want, then what is beyond its power?
Really? I mean, really? Maybe my 'really' should be: FOR GODS SAKE, REALLY?
I'm aiming not to live long enough to need a retirement, so I don't want to pay into SS. I've never had a car accident or even pulled over once and I'm 31. Been driving for YEARS! I don't want to pay auto insurance. My tax dollars are going to war and subsidies of companies (eg, oil) that I don't want them to go to.
Should I go on?
Excuse me? This is seriously coming out of the mouth of someone who wants to tell me what to do with my uterus? Who wants to make MY family planning decisions FOR ME?