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Protesting Veterans Tear Down DC Barricades, Chant "Shut Down The White House"

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The "Million Vet March" in Washington D.C. appears to be escalating as reports of barricades being torn down, police in riot gear and snipers being deployed, and a growing crowd at The White House chanting for its shut-down suggest the people are growing restless.

 

Veterans take back the Vietnam Memorial

 

Via Epoch Times,

Protesters have gathered in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, according to reports.

 

 

Park police in riot gear were deployed in front of the building.

 

“US Park Police have arrived in front of WH. Some in riot gear! Tea party/veteran protesters start booing,” wrote CNN’s Jim Acosta on Twitter.

 

A rally took place at the World War II memorial and headed to the White House, reported NBC Washington. Several thousand demonstrators came out, it said.

 

NBC reported that people were carrying barricades that were likely from the WWII memorial to the White House area.

 

The DC Police Department said its officers are on the scene.

 

“MPD is on the scene at White House with USSS & USPP concerning protest – marchers using sidewalk,” it wrote on Twitter.

 

Commentator Sarah Palin and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) were on the scene and spoke to demonstrators.

 

The organizers of the protest described themselves as the “Million Vet March.”

 

It said that veterans and military members are “being used a political pawns in the ongoing government shutdown and budget crisis,” its website reads.

 

Jeff Tompkins, a protester, told NBC that  “it should be open to everyone to come down here and see this … this is not just and not fair,” referring to the WWII memorial.

Snipers at the ready atop the White House as the crowds gather...

 

Via Twitchy,

 

Amazing.

Now, the protest continues outside of the White House.

 

 

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Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:04 | 4050450 wisehiney
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That would be best for you.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:12 | 4050486 thedrickster
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+1. What he said

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:10 | 4050671 The Thunder Child
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Gotta love the shills trying to draw their partisan lines. Too bad this is a non partisan grass roots protests dickweed, try again!

Mon, 10/14/2013 - 00:51 | 4051942 Freddie
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LOL!  You are an idiot who still watches TV.  My guess is low IQ.  Enjoy douchebag.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:01 | 4050435 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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Some "people" are terrified of our veterans.

Like the senior Senator from Cali. And her ilk.

Disarm them all.

And if they are armed, to present a thin veneer of quasi constitutionality, let them have weapons designed in the 1800s.

Many in power hold the people in contempt. Tragic, but true.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:28 | 4050727 Totentänzerlied
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Many Romans were terrified of the Legionaries. I wonder why?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:58 | 4051065 Things that go bump
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Because it was recognized that the legions were loyal to their generals, not the Senate of Rome. Sulla used his legions to grab power. So did Caesar. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:38 | 4051167 wisehiney
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I want to thank you for recommending "Elements of Style". Some days my content is good, but I do need to brush up on my grammar. My wife saw my reminder note "Thank Guy Kiss" and sorta tripped out. But she KNOWS better. Thanks for that and the Roman history.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:42 | 4051188 Things that go bump
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My pleasure.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 13:59 | 4050436 FieldingMellish
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Seriously? Snipers? That's some fucked up shit right there. Serve your country, not your government.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:32 | 4050743 Yukajub
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FWIW, they are always up there. Anti-sniper snipers, serving the gov't 24/7. Walking tours love to point them out. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:00 | 4050439 JR
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Republicans: Notice who is blamed for the government shutdown; veteran protests are not targeting the Tea Party or the House of Representatives, it’s the house where resides the man who decided on their punishment – the White House. And it was the call for the protest yesterday that identified the target.

Here’s an excerpt from the call that went out on COMING: 'Million Vet March on the Memorials'...:

MILLION VET MARCH ON THE MEMORIALS: National World War II Memorial | VetMarch.com

[H]elp “circle the wagons” …to help protect and defend our brave veterans who risked their lives for our freedom – and now are being barred from visiting the memorials erected to honor their deeds.

In a mean-spirited fit of selfish anger, Barack Obama has shut down our nation’s war memorials. And he has declared open war on our honored veterans!

The World War II memorial … the Vietnam Veterans Memorial … the Korean War Veterans Memorial – Obama has shut them all down to force his will on the House of Representatives and frankly, to get revenge on the American people who oppose Obamacare and his other naked power grabs.

Let’s put it plainly: Barack Obama is behaving like a vicious tyrant. And if he succeeds in this assault on the democratic system, the Republic we love is at mortal risk. It’s just that simple.

That’s why I am asking you now to take two decisive moves to show Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi – and all of their oppressive ilk in Washington – that “We the People” are still in charge. And we won’t rest until we take back our memorials and monuments! …

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:29 | 4050716 Emergency Ward
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What's really grotesque is that after today, some time in the future, Commander-in-Chief Obama will be praising some elite military unit for a kidnapping, targeted assassination or child-bombing somewhere in Africa or Asia.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 20:22 | 4051453 butchtrucks
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 What an insane crock of shit.   

The shutdown and debt limit fights are about whether the extremists in a losing party can set policy by threatening to blow up the global economy.  Everything else is just noise.

 

The open question is how long it's going to take for the Koch boys and the rest of the US plutocracy to get some control over the Tea Party Frankenstein monster they helped create.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:02 | 4050442 Brazen Heist
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How about a fucking general strike for one week, bring the ponzi bitch to its knees. For that to happen, a critical mass of enlightened individuals must arise, people who consciously choose to withdraw their consent from the broken system.

We're getting there slowly!

FUCK THE RICH, THE CORPORATIONS, THE BANKERS, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LOBBYISTS!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:36 | 4050562 Tall Tom
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Brazen Heist wrote, "How about a fucking general strike for one week, bring the ponzi bitch to its knees. For that to happen, a critical mass of enlightened individuals must arise, people who consciously choose to withdraw their consent from the broken system. "

 

Pull your money from the Banks and Financial Institutions tommorrow. Sell all assets, especially Real Estate, and buy Gold and Silver.

 

If there was a concerted effeort to do that the Elite will lose everything that they have. It will all come crashing down.

 

That is how you bring the Ponzi bitch to her knees.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:13 | 4050846 Legolas
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Banks are closed tomorrow.

Mon, 10/14/2013 - 01:02 | 4051967 Freddie
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Unplug your TV and Hollywood plus their theme parks, casinos and other BS.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:04 | 4050443 nasa
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Send in the troops and gun down these sorry fucks.  

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:09 | 4050462 Meat Hammer
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May you be stricken by a terminal disease and suffer a slow, excruciatingly-painful death.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:14 | 4050494 wisehiney
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Hey Meat, that fucker is already diseased and mostly dead anyhow. The chickenshits are coming out today.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:37 | 4050574 NemoDeNovo
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Naw lwt me have him for a bit, after a few tours in the sandbox, this Quiet Professional here could teach him some manners.....

 

De Opresso Liber

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:42 | 4050596 wisehiney
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No teaching that moron. Just snuff it and move on to the next one.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:17 | 4050500 FieldingMellish
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The irony in that statement is just overwhelming. Troops?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:28 | 4050540 dognamedabu
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I am going to assume you meant those inside the WH not outside.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:58 | 4050941 Emergency Ward
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"POTUS, is that you or the VP texting us generals from the golf links?"

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:25 | 4051004 Kelley
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Didn't you mean Home Land Security?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:17 | 4050501 LawsofPhysics
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Wake us when they start executing political puppets and "K-streeters".  Absolutely nothing changes otherwise.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:18 | 4050503 Sid James
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Big trees from small acorns do grow.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:19 | 4050516 Transcendental_...
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Nevermind. Keep watching football. Nothing to see here.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:51 | 4050806 Transcendental_...
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BTW, the football team in Houston doesn't deserve the name, "Texans." I propose the Houston Sheila Jackson-Lees, Houston Tolls, Houston Sweat, or the Houston Gang Related.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:19 | 4050517 SendMeYourWorth...
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Nice. So-called veterans acting just like the enemies of our country. Slimebags all of them.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:27 | 4050535 Unstable Condition
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Wow, the trolls are angry today.

"How dare they protest our Messiah"!!!

Fucking puke.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:35 | 4050568 Meat Hammer
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It's those assholes that think since Obama was elected that he's now bulletproof.

Pun intended.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:41 | 4050588 NemoDeNovo
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@SendMeYourWorth, why don't you go and slide your asshole up and down a cactus for a bit, you piece of shit, its COWARDS like YOU why 'merica is in the shape its in.....

 

Oh and I'll send ya my worth if you want it, its all in Brass, Lead and Copper, I'll even send it one at a time if ya like!! Have a nice Day :)

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:10 | 4050677 The Thunder Child
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The Federal Government is the enemy of the country.....try again.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:20 | 4050688 Emergency Ward
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Well, SendMe, you are probably comforted by the sight of snipers on the roof.  A few dead protestors would make your day.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:53 | 4050799 JR
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The veterans are not there not for benefits with their hands out; they are not protesting the breakdown of the EBT network; they are there for honor, for what they thought they were fighting for. They are there because of their comrades who could not be there, who are recognized with those closed memorials.

Never mind that you died for your county, eh? Never mind that your country raised money to honor you and your dead.

The man in the White House does not understand that. He has to shutdown these memorials to protect his legacy. Not his life, not his honor; his Obamacare.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:01 | 4050813 ThisIsBob
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Get back to work, Barry.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:10 | 4051095 Chaos_Theory
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I thought the left dug protests on the National Mall?  Are you telling me it's just partisan...only honoring protests that support their causes?

I say the opposite.  These guys, the EBT card FSA,  OccupyWallStreet and every other protest group need to band together, even if they only agree on on single thing.  End the corruption between this government and Wall Street, K-Street, MIC and the rest of the TPTB. 

Preferably with rope. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:30 | 4050524 f16hoser
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"Shut Down" the White House! That's is FUCKING BRILLIANT!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:22 | 4050529 Frankie Cokeupt...
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U mofo's didn't support Occupy who wanted some kind of revolution but you will suport vets. Bullshit. Anonymous support on a website is all u r good for. Why aren'nt u on a bus to Washington? Get off the freaking internet and get real. Afterall, u all got guns, ammo and are reql tuff guys.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:33 | 4050555 Wyatt Junker
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Fuck Occupy.  They were just Free Shit Army Fag Holes.  Their 'revolution' was of the French variety, nothing more than looters after a Laker' game.  The American variety OTOH, was all about leaving us the hell alone.  Not more welfare for drug addicts.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:42 | 4050592 Quinvarius
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You will get a mix of people in any group.  The core idea of stopping a failed and corrupt banking system is noble.  You can't pick out a few people and say the whole group is collectivism when they are actually protesting collectivism.

Wiki:

The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, refers to income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters acted on consensus-based decisions made in general assemblies which emphasized direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:53 | 4051380 RebelDevil
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Agreed, Though OWS failed due to incompetence and lack of plan. Protesting means nothing unless you have a plan to change shit.

They should have marched on the FED, demanding the end of QE!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:13 | 4050684 roadhazard
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fuck you, son.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:37 | 4050572 Quinvarius
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True Occupy and the Vets are going after the same corrupt cancer.  Your false dichotomy is nonsense.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:39 | 4050573 Unstable Condition
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Fess up, you miss the rape tents and free drugs, don't you?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:52 | 4051375 LFMayor
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Those were all fine and dandy, but it was the Feet Sniffing that really packed the freaks in.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:12 | 4050643 Emergency Ward
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I call a bullshit.  Occupy never "occupied" the WH or Congress, which should have been the #1 and #2 targets for protest.  Is Occupy coming out now to show support for the people that are doing that now?

Well, snipers are a little different than pepper-spray wielding storm troopers.

Fuck the war-criminals-in-charge that reside in DC [and I have no sympathy for the vets who back the war machine, either].

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:33 | 4050729 roadhazard
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Yes, That is why they called it Occupy Wall Street, That's WALL STREET. You hated them because they didn't go to the White House. You only care about the person in the White House. Limited vision is the winger problem.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:31 | 4050857 Emergency Ward
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There were a lot of Occupys and they were not all Wall Street and I generally support Occupy (for their role in exposing the police state), except for their paid insiders who concentrated on Starbucks instead of Warbucks.  The big banksters got trillion-dollar bailouts with other people's cash but the ones that gave it to them are the DC thieves.  I would have loved to have seen an OccupyBushWhiteHouse Or OccupyHouseOfObama.

Obama folks, ya gotta learn to hate Obama more than you hate Bush.  Bush folks, ya gotta learn to hate Bush more than you hate Obama.

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:18 | 4050987 Kelley
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Do you know who was behind the Occupy Wall Street farce? 

Obama.

The protest was held on private property. The owners of that land had every right to kick the protestors off. 

But when they allowed the protestors to stink up the property, the parent company was given a loan gurantee by the Obama admininstration for over $100 million dollars.

No doubt use of the park was part of the deal even if it wasn't written into the contract.

Meanwhile, Obama received record donations from places like Goldman Sachs, etc.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:23 | 4050530 f16hoser
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Better yet, shut-down the Cunt Vallerie Jarrett. BRILLIANT!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:14 | 4051106 lakecity55
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If a terrible, fatal accident, gosh forbid, befell Valerie Jarrett, the Bath House would see the TOTUS go dark.

By the way, she is a communist/Iranian agent and she controls the Suit.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:29 | 4050539 vegas
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Snipers? These are Vets for Christ's sake. We are getting very close to absolute panic time for Chalky and his thugs.

Dear Libtards,

Please name for me any other President that has intentionally tried to inflcit pain on a group of Americans for potential political benefit? This is your "Hope & Change"? It's only going to get worse.

 

http://vegasxau.blogspot.com

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:32 | 4050546 FieldingMellish
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Mainstream news is not covering this story for the most part. Those that are are calling it a "Biker Rally" and burying it.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:43 | 4050548 Hongcha
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Take heart; consider what I at least think were (2) profoundly important losses the Messiah, et al. have taken this year:

1. The Admin failed to rile the public into an anti-gun stance after several flawed false flag events;

2. The Admin failed to rile the public into support for a Syrian Crusade;

. . . and a third to follow soon . . .

3. The Admin failed to turn the tide of odium following the enactment of the Affordable Care Act.

The Obama Administration is the instrument of truly damnable, accursed influence.  I realize these words smack of Old Testament and look silly in the era of tweets and so forth; but I use them in the full scope of their meaning.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:22 | 4050707 Withdrawn Sanction
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Exactly so, Hongcha, esp. #3.  The absurdity of the ACA (a perfect Oxymoron if ever there were one), was driven home recently when I finally was able to get some data for some 20-something friends of mine on ACA plan costs from the govt's website (in b/w crashes of course).

Turns out in their city a sampling of catastrophic plans (meaning something aproximating real insurance) cost a 27YO b/w $125 and $185 per month w/a $6350 deductible.  That means they'd be out roughly $8K (after tax) before seeing dime one of effective coverage (add about 50% for a family of 4).

BTW, if your employer drops coverage (either by cutting your hours or canceling coverage outright), he aint raising your pay to compensate you for the loss of benefits.

Either way though, Americans' disposable income just took a major hit to the broadside on Oct 1.  When people wake up to their diminished circumstances, and they will, they're going to be pissed.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:56 | 4050931 Kelley
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The real name of the ACA is ObamaTax.

Care delayed is not really care.

Unaffordable is not affordable.

But it has been confirmed that the law is a tax.

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:53 | 4050924 Kelley
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The Old Testament never grows old. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:42 | 4050549 smartstrike
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Do you think that any of those in attendance actually know anything about WWII? I bet they couldn't name the main adversaries or who and why the WWII was started. They were probably brought in by 'Swift Boaters' and Americans for Prosperity sham organizations.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:11 | 4050662 Emergency Ward
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Wait, I thought the real Swift Boater himself was just yesterday urging his boss Obama to bomb the fuck out of Syria.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:37 | 4050571 Mad Muppet
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Troops are considered to be: Untrained, Trained, or Practiced (as in they have actually been out shooting people for a living). We have the largest pool of practiced vets on Earth.  We the People are the most heavily armed society on Earth.  Gunowners as a group have been arming themselves to the teeth for at least the last six years...................I hope that isn't lost on the Bamster, or Congress.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:43 | 4050591 smartstrike
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Most of these guys couldn't run 50 feet.  Americans are the most obese people on earth. A black fat woman could out run majority of middle-aged white men, and probably knock-them senseless with a fist. You are delusional.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:43 | 4050599 Quinvarius
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Yes the cops are very fat.  It will be easy.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:03 | 4050652 DosZap
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A black fat woman could out run majority of middle-aged white men, and probably knock-them senseless with a fist. You are delusional.

 

Maybe some, but you think they can outshoot them?,you haven't thought this through champ.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:22 | 4051123 DoChenRollingBearing
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Ha ha, I think your comment landed well within the "10" circle there, DosZap!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:29 | 4051149 A82EBA
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Exactly!

AppleseedUSA.org

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:57 | 4051401 CoolBeans
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YOU are delusional.

...And there a few of us gals that will be alongside our men.  I am a fine shot despite my "petite flower" looks and a patriot through and through.  I'm my long-passed and injured veteran-father's daughter when it comes to not suffering fools, like you.

While I'm a good-natured gal normally, I'd say to anyone, black fat woman, white man or whoever, fucks with me, I can turn into their homicidal nightmare.  You apparently are speaking from YOUR OWN perspective having had to look in the mirror at yourself.  A good-sized woman can probably put you down, eh?

Don't you dare to presume that any patriot, regardless of age, does not have what it takes to get the job done when their heart is in it 100%.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 21:02 | 4051556 Seize Mars
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CoolBeans

I am kind of erect right now. Let's call it a "partial." I'm not sure if it was your words you typed, or the salacious ad on the sidebar for the online game "Wartune," featuring a battle-princess with a mighty sword and voluptuous breasts.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 21:37 | 4051635 CoolBeans
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Ooooh my goodness!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 21:55 | 4051677 moonstears
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lol! good sport, beans +1

Mon, 10/14/2013 - 00:24 | 4051923 Seize Mars
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Sorry Beans, just teasin'. You were on kind of a rampage there.

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:57 | 4050810 Jethro
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Why don't you go give it a shot then cupcake?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:31 | 4050882 lotsoffun
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michelle gonna cover he pretty boy well then!!  'eat your peas'

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:36 | 4051020 kayl
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Yes, but they have nano and electronic technology that will be hard to resist. They have nano domestic quell and ELF technology to control the masses.

This is a veterans instigated, infiltrated, and orchestrated event. The fact that it occured on a 13th day is the tell.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:47 | 4050605 loveyajimbo
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I think it would be wrong for these guys to drag the Dear Leader out of his spider hole and Saddam him... very wrong.  But if they do, we must all try to have forgiveness in our hearts.... and move Forward.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:51 | 4050615 Moe Howard
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Fuck Obamao. Hat tip to those vets for taking down the obamao barrackcades.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:53 | 4050622 the mighty jimbo
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Do you think these guys would ever think fucking snipers on the white house aiming at them?  After what they sacrificed for this ass wipe to sit in it?  We truly have fallen. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 14:55 | 4050629 Sandmann
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"A DEAD STATESMAN

I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?"

 

RUDYARD KIPLING

 

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:10 | 4050837 tvdog
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Kipling was talking about WWI.

Le plus ca change.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:01 | 4050639 putaipan
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ain't no smedley butler this time .....

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:27 | 4050723 Zadok
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Perhaps one of the fired generals that has character and is still breathing...

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:02 | 4050943 Hengist
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It was General Douglas MacArthur who fired on the Bonus army in Washington the man was evil.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:31 | 4051327 Seer
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Nor a Daniel Shays...

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:02 | 4050648 The Persistent ...
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banksters walking free. NSA spying on every one of us. Massive corruption in every branch of government and the two big parties. Indefinite detention and and the fed and on and on and on.

Yet the protesters are pissed because the memorials are shut down? With all due respect to the veterans, their priorities are fucked up.

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:14 | 4050689 smartstrike
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This is a staged event. Welcome to Iran.

The real crisis is that jobs offshoring by US corporations has permanently lowered US tax revenues by shifting what would have been consumer income, US GDP, and tax base to China, India, and other countries where wages and the cost of living are relatively low. On the spending side, twelve years of wars have inflated annual expenditures. The consequence is a wide deficit gap between revenues and expenditures.

Who said this? Not I,

Paul Craig Roberts

The rich have cleaned out the wealth of this country. There is nothing left to steal other than Social Security, IRAs and 401k plans, but, the bankers' gang that co opted Zerohedge lexicon has only three letters: E B T.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:29 | 4050733 booboo
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The rich could not have cleaned out the wealth, we have our beloved government watchdogs with their ever vigilant eye watching for such criminal activity and at the first hint of lawlessness on Wall Street aimed at the lowly U.S. citizen the Just Us Department will swoop down and round up the rich perps in a dragnet of epic justice the like the rich have never seen because our government will not tolerate this.

 

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:09 | 4050833 tvdog
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LOL. Best joke all day!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:55 | 4050895 therevolutionwas
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The blame belongs to government not the bastards who take advantage of it...as you say.  But let's not throw out the capitalism with the crony;  capitalism goooodd!  government baaddd!

But then there is the MSM/educational system definition of 'capitalism' which might as well be crony.    ....all this 1984 double- speak googily-gop.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:30 | 4050734 Zadok
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It appears you get paid by the post, quality of trolling not withstanding.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:21 | 4050709 Lost Word
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Symbolic of the wider corruption.

Easier to protest at a Symbolic site than at something invisible and unknown to the general public.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:05 | 4050948 Bazza McKenzie
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So where are you protesting?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:39 | 4051347 CoolBeans
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The Persistent Troll, uh Vegetable is a troll with very small genitalia.  He was able to sign up to Fight Club, 4 weeks and 8 days ago so he can try to play with the Big Boys and Girls here.  Clearly a shrill who will get on his knees for Barry in a heartbeat.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:05 | 4050658 The Heart
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Sorry if this has been posted already.

Interesting on the scene video in which it seems all the right things are happening. There are no confrontations because EVERYBODY except for the "exceptional" ones is on the same side! Why? Because, it is the Way!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151930503779441&set=vb.787509440&...

Lets see here, ah, we have 99.999% against the .001% of the babylonians. Hummmmm....

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:06 | 4050661 jonjon831983
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Eh, curious to see the final word: "Tree of liberty getting very ..."

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:23 | 4050712 Zadok
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Dry?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:48 | 4051209 Balanced Integer
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Correct. Not enough space left on the sign for words longer than three letters, so I'm assuming it says Dry.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:33 | 4050744 Nimby
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Thirsty.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:08 | 4050670 kchrisc
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These pictures look like the first step in guillotine construction:

Gather the needed materials together at the construction site.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:10 | 4050679 roadhazard
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I have always believed that until the ex military people take the lead there will be no revolution. There needs to be a whole lot more of them though and not just concentrated at one place.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:20 | 4050701 QQQBall
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Vets are frustrated with Republicans shutting down government

 

Signed,

Obomber 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:19 | 4050705 lasvegaspersona
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Snipers??? really?

Obama is prepared to shoot vets just to continue inflicting maximum pain for the people during the shut down?

Snipers??? really Mr President? shame on you!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:57 | 4051064 One of We
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Those guys standing up on the roof look a lot more like targets than snipers.......

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:35 | 4051341 CoolBeans
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This President has no sense of shame.  

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:29 | 4050721 VyseLegendaire
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Funny how the newly-militarized police are gearing up to snipe any would-be ex-military on a whim.  Gotta love the psychotic szchophrenia of the Police States of 'Merka. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:41 | 4050763 Jethro
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The first vet that gets shot is an instant martyr. Then, it's not long until the gloves come off.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:00 | 4050816 CoolBeans
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I would love to be there supporting our vets - GOD bless them and God bless the true American patriots across this land who want this horrific presidency and its evil administration to end.

If they dare to shoot a vet, we're loading up the van and driving there... no way should these vets take on this evil alone.  I would encourage all to do the same at that point.  As you said - gloves off.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:28 | 4050877 CoolBeans
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Downvoter troll, kiss my ass. My father endured the horrors of WWII and was the sole survivor of one battle - he fought for my country and I'll be damned if I'll sit at home if some socialist piece of shit puts an "ok" stamp on shooting at veteran marchers.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:45 | 4050910 The Persistent ...
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Ummmm... You actually are sitting at home. And all of you imagininig that the veterans are going to be fired upon and the great adventures that will ensue are just clowns.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 18:51 | 4051212 Gilligan's isle
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 “Always and Never statements are always false and never true.” Please don't aim "all" your hyperbole at me!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:31 | 4051321 CoolBeans
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YOU are an ass clown, dumb shit.  Your parents must be so proud (not).

Is this your contribution to the discussion?

You don't even make any sense.  Duh.  Hey stupid...I hope they come for the likes of you someday and no one lifts a finger to save your sorry apathetic, unpatriotic ugly ass.  You definately are a persistent vegetable - perfect name for you - at least you admit you're a weak little mind fuck. 

It is the likes of you that will drop to your knees in your own pool of fear-laced pissed when the goobermint trolls tell you to. More likely, you will do whatever they tell you to do - because you're a little shrill.  You go ahead and bend over and take it and when they are done with you, I will spit on your vegetable brains.  

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:36 | 4051336 CoolBeans
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Persistent Vegetable = Member for 1 week, 4 days.

Troll.  This is Fight Club, troll.  You are not welcome.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 21:02 | 4051548 The Persistent ...
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Actually, I am welcome here. I believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. Amendment number one of said document guarentees the right to free speech. Sad that the only amendment you support is the second, otherwise you would welcome me with open arms, no matter how violently you disagree with my views.

zero hedge is for people who love freedom, not for facists.  You may be beans, but you certainly aint cool.

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 21:29 | 4051596 CoolBeans
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OMG...that was hysterical - you seriously believe you have a Constitutional Right to spew from your few brain cells here?  Seriously! Tell it to someone who wants to hear you spew your ignorance.  Go research the Freedom of Speech.

Ooooohhhhh, you don't think I'm cool.  Go back to high school, if you ever left.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 22:12 | 4051725 Trucker Glock
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Actually, the Constitution doesn't guarantee jack shit.  It's simply a piece of paper with words on it that most people, including the three branches of .gov, don't care to read or be told what it says.  Further, the First Amendment has nothing to do with where you are and are not welcome.  It simply says .gov is not supposed to chill your speech.  But, we all know .gov does, proving the first point.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:34 | 4050741 1Inthebeginning
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The veterans are taking the high moral ground.  They are insisting that this is a peaceful protest.  They are demanding that the opposition remember their oaths.  They are reminding the DC people that they are public servants.  They are being assertive.  Good for them.   

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:44 | 4050772 Madcow
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maybe the bankers can bring in the UN or Chinese Red Army to crush these uppity US military veterans - 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:49 | 4050786 VyseLegendaire
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I believe we should call on Russia and the UN to back up a no-fly zone over DC in case one of our vets gets shot.  Then they can arm and foment rebellion among the East Coast's disconents and we may even have a coup on our hands.  We may even have to oust Obama's 'chemical weapons' stash for safe keeping. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:54 | 4050794 Jethro
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Oooooh! Bring it! Did you know that UN helmets look better with a. 308 hole in them?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:42 | 4051032 Zadok
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Perhaps they're already here, just not activated yet...

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:49 | 4050779 SoNH80
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Good job, Vets.  D.C. definitely needs an enema.  My grandfathers, and great uncle, Allied WWII combat vets now in the afterlife, salute you.  In the 1950s, they also took brave stands, as vets, against idiotic pettyfoggers and toadies.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:49 | 4050780 Zadok
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Perhaps the Free Stuff Army call-up yesterday (EBT shutdown) was an attempt to stimulate a distractionary event. Wonder how that is going?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:50 | 4050787 Jethro
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It'd be better if the vets surrounded Jamie Dimon's house, and not the public housing on Pennsylvania Ave.  

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:34 | 4050892 Kelley
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Dimon is evil, but this one is all on Obama. 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:52 | 4050793 Trucker Glock
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Maobama and MaoCain are probably making arrangements to fly in some FSA to put down this insurrection.  And maybe some one-way flights to Guantanamo for Vets.

Fuck you, .gov

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:55 | 4050797 geotrader
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Wonder if anyone brought a few firecrackers?

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:02 | 4050822 CoolBeans
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Hope not - those itchy sniper fingers would likely set up an irreversible situation.

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:50 | 4050920 20-20 Hindsight
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"Hope not - those itchy sniper fingers would likely set up an irreversible situation."

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One can only hope.  As others have posted: BRING. IT. ON!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 15:58 | 4050812 insanelysane
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Taking back the govmint one barricade at a time.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:12 | 4050829 The Count
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OMG! Is this civil disobedience?

Can't wait for the WH press secretary spin on this...

"Disgruntled misguided Vets", "Home grown trouble makers", etc etc

The O is big on telling all other nations what freedom is! 

 

UPDATE: A search on CNN.Com on the Million Vet March results in NO HITS! CNN is now officially the Pravda propagande instrument of the US government.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:49 | 4050918 20-20 Hindsight
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"A search on CNN.Com on the Million Vet March results in NO HITS! CNN is now officially the Pravda propagande instrument of the US government."

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How utterly shocking! CNN is hiding the truth now?  /sarc.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:04 | 4050947 djsmps
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Careny will probably say, "The President will never negotiate with terrorists."

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:14 | 4050848 f16hoser
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What we need is a Fat-Fuck-Doughnut-Eating-DC-Pig/DHS to shoot a Veteran. Revoution 2.0 Here We Go! Locked and Loaded!!!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:15 | 4050852 TrustWho
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A little Wikipedia History

On July 28, 1932, Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the police to remove the WW I Bonus Army veterans from their camp. When the veterans moved back into it, they rushed two policemen trapped on the second floor of a building. The cornered police drew their revolvers and shot two veterans, William Hushka and Eric Carlson, who died later. When told of the shootings, President Hoover ordered the army to evict the Bonus Army from WashingtonGen. Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered the cavalry to charge them—an action which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"

May God give us the stength to PROTECT OUR VETERANS! History sure does rhyme.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:16 | 4050856 sister tika
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RT news on truckers in DC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXmto-Te9Ms

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:08 | 4050867 Element
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"Mr President! The returned cannon-fodder are getting upity".

"Well chopper-in the beer kegs and water buffalo steaks - NOW John!"

"Well, we've tried that, Sir, but they all wanted a free Humvee as well."

"What?! ... fucking fuckety fuck-fucks!! ... gawd damn-you Oprah! ... you stupid fucking bitch!"

"Can we use the motars and .50 now? ... Sir?"

"What? No you fucking psycho light-weight! Gezzus krist and allah, use your horse-head! Give them an iPad from the stationary closet so we can track them all, and a free 'vacation' to Detroit to pickup their new Hummers, plus two weeks pre-paid accommodation in the outer suburbs."

"Oh my! ... that's ... that's ... truly diabolical Sir!"

"That's what I do John."

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:24 | 4050870 All Out Of Bubblegum
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It's a good thing none of these vets bumped a barricade with a kid inside the car or the cops might have gunned them down in cold blood.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:23 | 4050872 BigRedRider
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Barrycades for Barry!!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:34 | 4050889 dizzyfingers
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JOE AND MARY YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:36 | 4050890 Dick Buttkiss
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"Snipers at the ready atop the White House"

To shoot the very people who fought in their never-ending wars of imperial conquest?

This I gotta see. Not someone killed, understand, as a flesh wound will be enough to make it clear that the USG is scared shitless and on the run.

Bring. It. On.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:45 | 4050908 Peterus
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If snipers refuse the order they'll need to bring in the Cossacs, after all it went so well for Russia when they had to use some hired hands to put down their revolution...

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:37 | 4050898 Herdee
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Thursday possible scenario:no deal,U.S. defaults,bank holiday Friday,maybe into the following week,Yellen does the Japan money flooding experiment swamping the market with even another gigantic pile of paper moula to keep foreign interest on the debt paid.In the mean time,the crooks in NY and Chicago drive the price of gold towards 1,000 bucks as China absorbs all the worlds gold production.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:47 | 4050912 Elliptico
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General MacArthur, career advancement opportunity calling!

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 19:15 | 4051284 DarthVaderMentor
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Unfortunately, today this administration could not trust any military forces or leadership to do what McArthur did with the Bonus Army. He ordered the Secret Service to not even let his Marine Guard unit have working rifles with bolts for the inaugural parade.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:49 | 4050917 Legolas
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Hope that's not Itchy & Twitchy they got up there on top of the WH. 

 

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:52 | 4050928 wtf1369
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To the SS snipers atop the White House:

Ask yourself, is this the moment you'll reflect on with pride when you're old and gray? Will you answer with pride when you're grandchildren asked if you were a hero in the Nations moment of need? Or is it just enough for you to be the dog of whomever occupies that house? Time for some soul searching gents.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 16:57 | 4050932 smartstrike
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This from Yahoo:

On Sunday, Palin and her husband, Mark, appeared at the World War II and Lincoln memorials with Sen. Ted Cruz in Washington, D.C., where she continued her rant against the White House.

So tell me if this is not a staged event held by Tea-Party that has absolutely nothing to do with honoring WWII vets. This is not some kind of a spontaneous event,  but yet again its thrust on American Public by the Koch think tanks. Why is ZH hiding the truth?

Most of these clowns probably think that Germans were our allies in WWII and any history they know ends with their pa Birch Society activities.

Sun, 10/13/2013 - 17:26 | 4051008 shovelhead
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Go check under your bed...

I heard the Koch Bros. are waiting there for you.

Scare em with your Nancy Pelosi mask.

 

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