The Politicization of the Dept of Justice- Investigates Parade float

[Statistikhengst]

I find nothing wrong with the float in terms of the 1st amendment. It is stupid, and with a racist tinge, and therefore is a perfect fit for the Republican party. But the people who are that stupid have the right to be that stupid and uncouth and I vigorously support their right to be stupid and uncouth, just as I support yours.

The DOJ did it's job in responding to complaints, but that doesn't mean that it investigated. Had it not done it's job, you would then have bitched that it didn't do it's job.

Oh, and next time, you could try a news source that doesn't froth at the mouth so much. Just sayin'. I mean, the video went out of it's way to pick a complaintant who was, as they claim, from "Kenya". LOL....

Though we both agree on the right of freedom of speech, I question why anyone in the DOJ would feel a need to investigate, while ignoring Fast and Furious and the Benghazi debacle. Political humor is no threat to national security, yet it would be a threat to a tyrant, now wouldn't it?

Uh, as another member already very aptly pointed out, the sub-department listed doesn't even do investigations....

 

[Jarhead]

Nothing, in fact they are counting on it. All of the major expansions in executive power since Nixon have occurred under the republicans and the republican base defended it to the hilt and then freaked out when those same powers got used by our three democratic presidents.

Hey Stoopid, your boy king is the biggest abuser of all. I can't stand partisan hacks like you liberals who NEVER look in your own backyard but screen and scream about the other guy.. No one listens to you..

You must have been drunk during the Bush years and blacked out when he did everything you are wetting your pants over these days. The battle to scale back those powers was lost before you even heard of Barack Obama.

So, once again, we have the left defending who they claim to be the best president in recent history by saying he does exactly what the man they call the worst president in recent history did.

It is their defense every time they try to defend the man.

"Bush did it too"

The irony is amusing.

 

[BillyV]

It works both ways; people with an opinion about the President have a right to voice it in the way they see fit without fear of reprisal from DOJ or any other federal agency. It often isn't pretty or civil, but you wouldn't need to protect the right to free speech if everyone agreed with you.

 

[BlindBoo]

And now for the real story

The Department of Justice (DOJ), under the Bush Administration,............

Politicization of Department of Justice | Center for Public Integrity

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I find nothing wrong with the float in terms of the 1st amendment. It is stupid, and with a racist tinge, and therefore is a perfect fit for the Republican party. But the people who are that stupid have the right to be that stupid and uncouth and I vigorously support their right to be stupid and uncouth, just as I support yours.

The DOJ did it's job in responding to complaints, but that doesn't mean that it investigated. Had it not done it's job, you would then have bitched that it didn't do it's job.

Oh, and next time, you could try a news source that doesn't froth at the mouth so much. Just sayin'. I mean, the video went out of it's way to pick a complaintant who was, as they claim, from "Kenya". LOL....

What exactly is racist about it?

 

[XPostFacto]

I find nothing wrong with the float in terms of the 1st amendment. It is stupid, and with a racist tinge, and therefore is a perfect fit for the Republican party. But the people who are that stupid have the right to be that stupid and uncouth and I vigorously support their right to be stupid and uncouth, just as I support yours.

The DOJ did it's job in responding to complaints, but that doesn't mean that it investigated. Had it not done it's job, you would then have bitched that it didn't do it's job.

Oh, and next time, you could try a news source that doesn't froth at the mouth so much. Just sayin'. I mean, the video went out of it's way to pick a complaintant who was, as they claim, from "Kenya". LOL....

Though we both agree on the right of freedom of speech, I question why anyone in the DOJ would feel a need to investigate, while ignoring Fast and Furious and the Benghazi debacle. Political humor is no threat to national security, yet it would be a threat to a tyrant, now wouldn't it?

Uh, as another member already very aptly pointed out, the sub-department listed doesn't even do investigations....

That's why they are called CRS, Can't Remember Shit.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

It works both ways; people with an opinion about the President have a right to voice it in the way they see fit without fear of reprisal from DOJ or any other federal agency. It often isn't pretty or civil, but you wouldn't need to protect the right to free speech if everyone agreed with you.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

This article sums it up rather nicely..

Progressive Illiberalism | National Review Online

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Good article on Hot Air

Department of Justice now involved in story of man who built Obama-mocking parade float « Hot Air

 

[idb]

Over-reaction by some folk - maybe.
Investigation by DOJ - definitely not.

Racial perceptions, realities and concerns.
For about five hours Thursday afternoon and evening, those were the focus of discussion during a meeting between Norfolk officials and representatives of the Iowa-Nebraska branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

That outcry led to four representatives of the NAACP, along with a “conciliatory specialist” from the U.S. Department of Justice to seek Thursday’s meeting in Norfolk.

Meeting takes place on parade float - The Norfolk Daily News : News

 

[Quantum Windbag]

DOJ investigates Nebraska parade float critical of Obama - Washington Times

So the IRS, Benghazi, Fast N Furious all do not warrant investigation but a parade float critical of dear leader does? More and more this NUTTER in the WH is sounding tyrannical. The Constitution protects free speech to include political expression.

Damn, you beat me to it.

I wonder what happened to the freedom to mock presidents.

Free Countries Mock Their Presidents | National Review Online

The best part is the claim that this is the worst thing that happened in that state in living memory. If a parade float mocking the president is the worst thing that ever happened I would say that this country is in pretty good shape.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

LOL that says a lot more about that inbred hillbilly than president Obama, what a shitstain.

It says that the veteran that made that float understands freedom, unlike you. The float was a protest over the treatment of veterans by the VA, something you blame on Bush.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I find nothing wrong with the float in terms of the 1st amendment. It is stupid, and with a racist tinge, and therefore is a perfect fit for the Republican party. But the people who are that stupid have the right to be that stupid and uncouth and I vigorously support their right to be stupid and uncouth, just as I support yours.

The DOJ did it's job in responding to complaints, but that doesn't mean that it investigated. Had it not done it's job, you would then have bitched that it didn't do it's job.

Oh, and next time, you could try a news source that doesn't froth at the mouth so much. Just sayin'. I mean, the video went out of it's way to pick a complaintant who was, as they claim, from "Kenya". LOL....

WHAT THE FUCK?

Can you explain, in detail, why it is the job of the DOJ to respond to complaints when no law was broken and no one rights were violated? If I called them and complained about how my feelings were hurt by the shit you post would it be there job to investigate, or should they simply ignore me because it isn't against the law to hurt people's feelings?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The article is a lie. The CRS sent someone to Nebraska.

From the CRS website:

CRS uses conflict resolution strategies and does not investigate, prosecute, impose solutions, assign blame, or assess fault.

Of course you're free to pretend otherwise.

What We Do | CRS | Department of Justice

Why the fuck are they there? The CRS is chartered to resolve disputes, not to jump into non existent problems that only exist in the minds of idiots that think mocking the president is a right reserved to Democrats when a Republican is president.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

You kooky leftists keep supporting this idiot. It's going to come back to bite you when you're no longer in power and you begin to see someone else abusing the powers of the Presidency. Everything your boy king is doing is setting a bad precedent. The tables will turn.

Actually I will have to disagree with you here. If Republicans win they will not abuse their power like this regime has done. There is little in the history of the nation that would say this abuse is anything but what we see from democrats.

That was funny.

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Actually I will have to disagree with you here. If Republicans win they will not abuse their power like this regime has done. There is little in the history of the nation that would say this abuse is anything but what we see from democrats.

George Bush did. What's to stop the next Republican from doing it?

Nothing, in fact they are counting on it. All of the major expansions in executive power since Nixon have occurred under the republicans and the republican base defended it to the hilt and then freaked out when those same powers got used by our three democratic presidents.

That post would actually make sense if the poster you responded to hadn't just complained about Bush.

Just saying.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I find nothing wrong with the float in terms of the 1st amendment. It is stupid, and with a racist tinge, and therefore is a perfect fit for the Republican party. But the people who are that stupid have the right to be that stupid and uncouth and I vigorously support their right to be stupid and uncouth, just as I support yours.

The DOJ did it's job in responding to complaints, but that doesn't mean that it investigated. Had it not done it's job, you would then have bitched that it didn't do it's job.

Oh, and next time, you could try a news source that doesn't froth at the mouth so much. Just sayin'. I mean, the video went out of it's way to pick a complaintant who was, as they claim, from "Kenya". LOL....

Though we both agree on the right of freedom of speech, I question why anyone in the DOJ would feel a need to investigate, while ignoring Fast and Furious and the Benghazi debacle. Political humor is no threat to national security, yet it would be a threat to a tyrant, now wouldn't it?

Uh, as another member already very aptly pointed out, the sub-department listed doesn't even do investigations....

It is part of the government, force is involved in everything the government does. That makes sending any part of the government to do anything when there is not a problem wrong.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

And now for the real story

The Department of Justice (DOJ), under the Bush Administration,............

Politicization of Department of Justice | Center for Public Integrity

Does that somehow justify what is happening now? You do understand that the person who started this thread has criticized Bush right in this thread, don't you?

 

[NYcarbineer]

The article is a lie. The CRS sent someone to Nebraska.

From the CRS website:

CRS uses conflict resolution strategies and does not investigate, prosecute, impose solutions, assign blame, or assess fault.

Of course you're free to pretend otherwise.

What We Do | CRS | Department of Justice

Why the fuck are they there? The CRS is chartered to resolve disputes, not to jump into non existent problems that only exist in the minds of idiots that think mocking the president is a right reserved to Democrats when a Republican is president.

First acknowledge that the OP lied.