OBAMA THUGOCRACY WATCH!!11!

Dude still has two months before taking office, Concerned Citizens were already freaking out about the "OBAMA THUGOCRACY".

Hell, a month before his election, and dickholes were already writing shit in the National Review actually called The Coming Obama Thugocracy with paragraphs like

...Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech that they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.

Either way, going to be a long eight years...

you know when some people see use word "thug" they don't immediately think Trick Daddy.

i would love to type that sentence again.

you know when some people use the word "thug" they don't immediately think Trick Daddy.

Dammit. Mods to plz fix url in OP.

Also, even the idiot political cartoonists are into the act:

http://www.patriotart.com/images/11_09_08/TheThugs.jpg
And so begins America's first Thugocracy.

Democracy does not work

If Rubin, Volcker etc aren't thugs, who are?

that cartoon looks like Obama's Vulcan Gimpocracy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/showcase/submitted/images/gallery/120331267010768901718_1.jpg

Also, how much of this is kinda clueless racism, and how much is just full-on projection?

I'm kinda with Whiney here -- I think race operates in this accusation far less than the long-running conservative paranoia/love of feeling persecuted and oppressed by liberals. They've been complaining about liberal "thugs" since the 90s at least . . .

i really love the right-wing argument that the dems are trying to clamp down on speech they don't like, which is just about the funniest bunch of bullshit that is continually run out as a talking point

well that t-shirt incident in the video actually was a violation of the 1st amendment (which has to do with people being free to express their political views without reprisal).

generally speaking, i think that talking point is more of a strawman or a weird defense for--imo--horrible backass ideas and options that aren't actually being shut down, but rather spoken out against by the left in strong terms. it's kind of coming up a little bit with prop 8 in cali now, here and there, "oh the left wants everyone to express whatever they want except when it etc etc". this argument usually is filled with false equivalences.

and the Fairness Doctrine...

well that t-shirt incident in the video actually was a violation of the 1st amendment (which has to do with people being free to express their political views without reprisal).

yelling fire in a crowded theater is not protected speech.

and that's about the nicest looking "arrest" I've ever seen.

this thread is basically going to be flamebait for concern trolls and I really, really wish you hadn't started it, kingfish, but because I am a big gushy liberal who believes in free speech I will just have to let it stand

So it'll be locked in about 3 minutes then?

yelling fire in a crowded theater is not protected speech.

unless there was some provocative behavior not shown in the video, dude was just arrested for wearing a shirt with the names of his candidates.

it was a nice-looking arrest, but they could have just said "ok kid, move along."

i highly doubt that was why he was arrested

well, shame on the philadelphia police for not knowing the law or how to do their job. wait, surely they do know those things!! it must be evidence of a conspiracy

kerm do you have the video of the skater kids and that fat baltimore cop

dude it's on youtube

It looks like the guy was treated unfairly, but I don't that a youtube video with no before/after context is really evidence of anything by itself. Philadephia police probably aren't in on some pro-Obama conspiracy either, and if anything, they probably though the dude was causing a public disturbance, which usually isn't defensible with free speech.

I was in the local democrat election party hq on election night and I think the dude probably would have got a lot of "hah, sorry man" comments and not much else.

"there it is. it's everywhere."

I think the lesson we can learn here is that cops do not like white dudes with toys, period.

if someone doesn't release an album called thugocracy soon i'm going to be disappointed.

chinese thugocracy

That t-shirt/bad cop video looks like a scene from Cloverfield. With the guy being deliberately provocotive standing in for the creature.

that fella blatantly did something to wind everybody up apart from just wearing the t-shirt. funny how the video doesn't show any of events before the actual arrest, isn't it?

yup

I'm not sure he'd have to do much with emotions running high in the crowd, than just get in their faces. Though I don't know what carrying a toy sword was all about.
Still, he got what he was looking for.

i can't watch the video in my current situation but cops suck imo

this thread is basically going to be flamebait for concern trolls

I started it b/c I thought it was amusing & kinda stupid if not telling that all these idiots were running around yelling "thugocracy" with mad amounts of projection going on

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3990/obamaballinbd5.gif

Man encounters people celebrating in the street: "see the lawlessness under Obama!"
Man encounters some police: "see the police state under Obama!".
Make your mind up, mate.

http://www.2news.tv/news/local/34274374.html

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Sweetie December 11th, 2008 2:19 pm ET

As a Texan who did the two step I can attest to the fact that what happened in these caucus states had nothing to do with Democracy!

It was a full on Thug Event, in our state alone more then 2,000 complaints where filed!

The Chicago Thugs know how to intimate a crowd into seeing things their way!

Them Chicago Thugs intimated me all night

Sounds like Chicago's newest sporting franchise.

nug lyfe

who r the biggest thugs on the chicago thread

more then 2,000 complaints where filed!

http://www.alternet.org/environment/111956/right_winger_paranoia_that_environmentalism_is_a_stealth_police_state_project/

http://i40.tinypic.com/5yxcu0.jpg

original was best:

http://www.superpoop.com/013009/presidential-snowball.jpg

Yeah, I hadn't even seen that. Further evidence that memes are ruining the internet.

Maybe not all memes, but the memes that consist of, hey, that was funny! Let's do it 10000000x times so that it's not funny at all anymore!

I don't even consider something an internet meme unless it's something that's been run into the ground.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTsdiIlN_8s/SZzmnn534sI/AAAAAAAAHgE/Y1vDO--uNpQ/s400/ComradeObama.jpg

lol 'arkansasgopwing'