Man Carrying Semi-Automatic Assault Rifle And Pistol Outside Obama Event (VIDEO)

Huffington Post by Lila Shapiro | Aug. 17, 2009 (News Report)

This is the third report in a week of someone bringing a gun to an event where the President was speaking. Last Tuesday a man was arrested before Obama's New Hampshire health care town hall for carrying an unlicensed loaded gun. Also outside the New Hampshire town hall, a man was seen with a (legal) handgun strapped to his leg, holding a sign referencing the famous Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 18, 2009

Poorly edited and repetitive, but important news. The article fails to bring in the incitements to riot being broadcast on the national right wing media; nor does it report on the under-manning of the secret service.

Freedom of speech does not protect incitement to riot or incitement to commit murder.

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by BOB CALAME - Aug. 18, 2009

You can take the second ammendment about the right to bear arms and twist it to what ever you want. Does it guarantee the righ to ownenough weaponry to start a small war. What about a limit on ownership of automatic weapons, you don't need an AK47 to go deer hunting, at last look they haven't armed the deer yet. As for these Racist Pigs who show up with weapons this nothing more than intimidation, it worked very well back in the early 1930's for Adolf Hitler. This is just the ... More »

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Obama in Physical Danger from Crazy Rightwingers

The Progressive by Matthew Rothschild | Aug. 17, 2009 (Opinion)

Obama is facing more than 30 death threats a day, the paper said. And the Secret Service doesn’t have the resources to handle them all. “We have half the agents we ...

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