Comments on: Republican Senator Calls for “Civil Disobedience” In Opposing Democrats and President Obama https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: khan https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532850 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:25:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532850 Every man opposed to abortion should have a pineapple shoved up his rectum and kept there for 9 months and labeled an inconvenience.

I have nothing but contempt and loathing for the forced birther misogynists.

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532849 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:39:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532849 Once I saw that he is a Senator from Oklahoma, it explained a lot. My sympathies go out to the rational people there (my sister lives in the Tulsa area).

How does one “disobey” a change in the law that removes prohibitions?

That was my thought as well. I’m guessing that either he intends to support more direct demonstrations and obstructions at clinics, or he wants to propose legislation at the federal level (and support similar legislation at the state level) that imposes illegal restrictions. He’s a nutjob, so it’s going to be difficult for rational people to understand him.

]]> By: Mankel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532848 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:35:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532848 “Civil disobedience”, as Paul Browne hints is meant here to convey the meaning of terrorism.

How it works is very easy: first, the republicans equate a perfect civil behavior (Civil disobedience) to acts of violence and terror. Then, after a variable interval, they use the legitimate label to convey the behavior that they were attributing to their “enemies”.

In short, Sen. Tom Coburn is calling for acts of terrorism against abortion clinics and women who choose to have an abortion.

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532847 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:01:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532847 “Dr. Death” is “pro-life”?

I’m buying my next irony meter from Oklahoma – theirs have to be extra heavy-duty!

]]> By: Mike Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532846 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:35:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532846

Mandatory abortions for everyone!

I’m not sure how I’ll do this, but if you say so!

]]> By: Spiv https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532845 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:35:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532845 1: you’ve got to warn us before sending us off to wingnut links like that. That crap is just straight up disturbingly stupid.

2: I think I’m with the rest of the troop here- very confused. Either he has no idea what “civil disobedience” means, or perhaps he’s advocating everyone having babies double-time and making sure they don’t get an abortion?

Summary: I have a big head, and little arms….I just don’t think this plan was very well thought out.

3: anyone notice the hideously racists jokes on that site that are adapted to read “libral” instead of “colored?” Yiiiiikes.

]]> By: Paul Browne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532844 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:36:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532844 I suspect what the Senator means by “civil disobedience” is more like what the Animal rights extremists in LA refer to as “direct action” than anything that Martin Luther King would have recognised.

]]> By: The Science Pundit https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532843 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:24:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532843 Civil Disobedience??? What would that look like? Would they be chaining themselves to the doors of clinics so nobody can get in? I’m not sure that that’s really civil disobedience. Besides, they do that already.

]]> By: jake https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532842 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:18:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532842 “Our way of life is threatened.”

Mandatory abortions for everyone!

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532841 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:05:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/19/republican-senator-calls-for-c/#comment-532841 Interesting concept. “Civil disobedience” usually means doing something that the law prohibits. How does one “disobey” a change in the law that removes prohibitions?

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