Anonymous wrote:While you're at the mangling of ideas by the Right, how about the Libertarian congressional candidate in Mississippi (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/mayors-chick-fil-a_n_1730168.html) who thinks the mayors of Boston and Chicago should be removed from office for exercising their First Amendment rights because he thinks they are limiting Mr. Chick-fil-a's First Amendment rights by daring to disagree publicly with his bigotry (aka "religious rights").

And to top it off, he said they "need to be introduced to the Second Amendment." That sounds to me like an exhortation to violence, which, as I understand it, is not covered by the the First Amendment. I do not think this guy has any real understanding of the Constitution.

Yes, there have been several instances of people, in reaction to something political that they don't like, talking about exercising second amendment rights recently. What is your point? Are you saying that because a Libertarian said this horrible thing, that invalidates the absurdity of the original link? Is a Libertarian the same as a Democrat now? Shall we refrain from pointing out troubling or absurd hyperbole because, hey, everybody does it!

And how exactly are the ideas of the right "mangled"? Did or did not the congressman invoke Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and link them to this day that will live in infamy, birth control pill day?

"I know in your mind, you can think of the times America was attacked," he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. "One is Dec. 7, that's Pearl Harbor Day. The other is Sept. 11, and that's the day the terrorists attacked. I want you to remember Aug. 1, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."

While you're at the mangling of ideas by the Right, how about the Libertarian congressional candidate in Mississippi (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/mayors-chick-fil-a_n_1730168.html) who thinks the mayors of Boston and Chicago should be removed from office for exercising their First Amendment rights because he thinks they are limiting Mr. Chick-fil-a's First Amendment rights by daring to disagree publicly with his bigotry (aka "religious rights").

And to top it off, he said they "need to be introduced to the Second Amendment." That sounds to me like an exhortation to violence, which, as I understand it, is not covered by the the First Amendment. I do not think this guy has any real understanding of the Constitution.

http://wonkette.com/479787/actual-united-states-congressmen-free-birth-control-sinks-their-battleships

Happy National Slut Pill Day!