Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., Heroic US Senator

[Jedi Knight]

The heroic US Senator, Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., pictured below,

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..has called for Peter Arnett to be tried for treason against the United States! (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31856)

As quoted from the article:"I think Mr. Arnett should be met at the border and arrested should he come back to America," said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. "We all firmly believe in the First Amendment which protects the freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. However, no U.S. citizen should be allowed to provide aid, and comfort, through false information, to the enemy during wartime."

Bravo Senator! I am with you!

But above that, I simply cannot believe this next quote by the Senator from Kentucky: In a scathing indictment on the Senate floor, Bunning called Arnett a "useful idiot for Saddam," saying "traitor" was a more befitting term than "journalist"

That is simply incredible! The Senator understands how Stalin called leftists outside the Soviet Union who propagandized for him "useful idiots".

My hat is off to the Senator from Kentucky and I hope he gets reelected in the next election cycle. Senator Bunning understands what it means to be an American.

JK

If Arnett should be tried for treason for giving his opinions, then Rivera should be as well for actually giving away troop positions.

One was an opinion, the other endangered the lives of soldiers.

Your bias blinds you, JK.

[Jedi Knight]

Originally posted by Estimated Prophet
If Arnett should be tried for treason for giving his opinions, then Rivera should be as well for actually giving away troop positions.

One was an opinion, the other endangered the lives of soldiers.

Your bias blinds you, JK.

I wanted Geraldo on the front lines. That is not being biased. That is putting him where the enemy was going to show up to the coordinates he gave.

As for Arnett, he is too fat to survive on the battlefield so he couldn't be sent there.

JK

Right. When there are calls from heroic senators for Rivera's trial for treason, let us know how happy you are...

[Tmy]

How ironic that the biggest flag wavers always start their speechs on how they believe in free speech and at the end want to throw people in jail for using those freedoms.

[corplinx]

The last thing I would want to do is make a martyr out of that jackass by putting him on trial.

[headscratcher4]

Why is it that I suspect that the irony of demanding that a reporter be tried as a "traitor" escapes Sen. Bunning, who, I assume, has also voiced support for this war because of the need to liberate Iraq and secure for its citizens the benefits of liberty, like freedom of speech, dissent and even the freedom to be stupid and wrong....

I like the visual image of Sen. Bunning lecturing Iraqi's on the values of freedom and liberty and wanting to try reporters who say stupid things that he doesn't agree with...

If not a great American, it clearly demonstrates that he is following in a great American tradition...hubris and hypocracy...:rolleyes:

[jj]

How about trying Bunning for attempting to usurp the constitution, too?:mad:

He, Jerry Rivers, and Petey deserve each other's company. Maybe they could share a cell at Gitmo? (err, do I need the sarcasm warning here, or is it obvious?)

[Tmy]

I just noticed the guy is a Senator!!! Id expect as much from a kooky Congressman but a SENATOR.

Then agian he is from Kentucky.

"We had quitters during the Revolutionary War. We called them "Kentuckians"!!" - George Washington (via the Simpsons)

[Skeptic]

I tihink Peter Arnett is being a world-class assh--e, but if that is illegal, only I an a few friends would not be in jail...

Aome "bravery" on Bunning's part: asking to put on a trial a reporter for daring to not like the war. I'll put that on the same level of the representative who wanted to try all war protestors as "traitors", or the guy who suggested moving all the war memorials for American troops in WWI and WWII out of France.

It's just a cheap attempt to appear "patriotic" to potential voters without actually doing anything, nothing more. Even those who suggest it know it's just talk.

[The Fool]

JK....I completely agree with your plan to crack down on these traitors that speak out against the USA! We should adopt your system If only for the fact that the Iraqi people will have a much easier transition from the Saddam regime to the bush regime. The rules regarding speaking out against the government would be so similar they will hardly notice the changeover.

Plus you don't want these Iraqi people being free, they may disagree with you. I would suggest carefully screening them so that freedom is only ever enjoyed by those that deserve it.....we can't allow people with evil opinions the right to voice them can we! Where would it end? They may form a popular government and throw out our guys!!!!

[arcticpenguin]

Is Arnett a U.S. citizen? He was born in New Zealand.

Never mind, I'm finding reports that he is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

The Fool wrote: Where would it end? They may form a popular government and throw out our guys!!!!

Like that would ever happen. Get real, if it hasn't occurred before, what makes... you...think... (suddenly remembers)

Oh yah. Sorry.

[susheel]

Originally posted by Estimated Prophet
The Fool wrote:

Like that would ever happen. Get real, if it hasn't occurred before, what makes... you...think... (suddenly remembers)

Oh yah. Sorry.

All together now "I R A N":cool:

[Crossbow]

Jedi Knight is just the type of person that people like Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, et al, count on to carry out their orders in the name of the state; people like him are always egar to turn the abstract leadership principal into action on the ground.

One can easily see his thoughts at work based on the numerous and repeated calls for the killing of women who give men bad grades at school, the killing of anti-war protesters, the killing of anyone who publicly speaks against US policy, the killing of ... (well, you get the idea).

Ugh!

[Jedi Knight]

Originally posted by Crossbow
Jedi Knight is just the type of person that people like Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, et al, count on to carry out their orders in the name of the state; people like him are always egar to turn the abstract leadership principal into action on the ground.

One can easily see his thoughts at work based on the numerous and repeated calls for the killing of women who give men bad grades at school, the killing of anti-war protesters, the killing of anyone who publicly speaks against US policy, the killing of ... (well, you get the idea).

Ugh!

You are emotionally overreacting to my moderate political positions.

JK

[Advocate]

Arnett did not just speak out against America. He gave an interview to a state-run TV station that belongs to an enemy nation. During this interview he made statements in support of the Iraqi military and against the US military, which encourage Iraqi resistance and the killing of US soldiers. It is not his opposition to the US government or his expression of this opposition that is at issue. The problem is that he willing aided the Iraqi government in producing propaganda to encourage Iraqi resistance. This is giving aid to the enemy. As long as you consider a state agency of the Iraqi government as part of the enemy, I don't see how it could not be so.

[Jedi Knight]

Originally posted by Advocate
Arnett did not just speak out against America. He gave an interview to a state-run TV station that belongs to an enemy nation. During this interview he made statements in support of the Iraqi military and against the US military, which encourage Iraqi resistance and the killing of US soldiers. It is not his opposition to the US government or his expression of this opposition that is at issue. The problem is that he willing aided the Iraqi government in producing propaganda to encourage Iraqi resistance. This is giving aid to the enemy. As long as you consider a state agency of the Iraqi government as part of the enemy, I don't see how it could not be so.

Very nice, Advocate. I couldn't have said it any better.

JK

[Lurker]

Originally posted by Jedi Knight


You are emotionally overreacting to my moderate political positions.

JK

JK, you owe me one BS detector. Mine just broke. :D

Lurker

[Lurker]

Originally posted by Advocate
Arnett did not just speak out against America. He gave an interview to a state-run TV station that belongs to an enemy nation. During this interview he made statements in support of the Iraqi military and against the US military, which encourage Iraqi resistance and the killing of US soldiers. It is not his opposition to the US government or his expression of this opposition that is at issue. The problem is that he willing aided the Iraqi government in producing propaganda to encourage Iraqi resistance. This is giving aid to the enemy. As long as you consider a state agency of the Iraqi government as part of the enemy, I don't see how it could not be so.

I agree with Arnett being fired. He is entitled to his opinion but to be interviewed by Iraqi TV was pretty ill-advised.

Lurker

[Crossbow]

Originally posted by Jedi Knight


You are emotionally overreacting to my moderate political positions.

JK

No JK, you are not a political moderate. You simply enjoy being hateful, angry, and dogmatic while safe behind your computer.

Here are just a few samples of your efforts:

Previously posted by Jedi Knight

He took the leftist global media head-on and is doing very well with Fox News. He deserves a medal for breaking the Stalinist Red construct of the leftist media monopoly in the United States.

Where were all these "peaceniks" at when we kept asking Iraq to disarm for 12 years? Oh wait, what am I thinking! They were praying (to Marx) that Iraq would build more arms.

Leftist incorrectness said that US forces were "bogged down" and "were going to lose the war." But that was typical Marxist anger and lashing out at the spreading of the idea of America.

Do we ignore the millions of subversives that claim peace but seek to destroy America just because thirty or fourty support peace without seeking to destroy the country?

Iraq is already finished. The leftist media just hasn't come to grips on that reality yet. It is hard reporting on such matters though when the leftist media sees one of their hero nation-states on fire and spiraling into destruction.

As the heroic capitalists George W. Bush and Tony Blair give their press conference today, it becomes clear that the UN is a Marxist focus group filled with people who do not understand what the UN charter is about--the very basic foundation of what the democratic ancestors who created the UN envisioned.

The UN, under the leadership of Annan, tried to subvert US national security policy from day one as the US was dealing with the Iraqi crisis.

Just don't say Annan and the other Marxists in the UN have valid opinions about US national security. They don't and that is why Annan should resign in shame. The free world needs a capitalist as Secretary General, not a commie.

The protesting-left in the United States are all part of the American Medina Division, traitors, communists and cowards.

Look at the commie in that picture advocating a revolution against the US government. I think it may be prudent to keep about 50,000 National Guard troops standing by with flame-throwers and M-16's and tanks ready in case these commies act on the violence they advocate and attack our government. Communists are very, very dangerous people and only an army can repel their dangerous call to actions.

It is leftist cultural terrorism against Americans that seeks to provide sympathy for the terror Iraqi state while our soldiers are deployed overseas. It is shameful cultural terror and anti-American.

This proves what I have been saying all along--that Saddam Hussein was interlinked with Al Qaeda. The leftist denial demonstrated by leftists to this new truth can no longer be tolerated.

Allah is pissed that people are using his name as a venue for violence. Allah loves America.

I guess Hans Blix was out to lunch when the Iraqis were flying in the tons of chemical weapons from Russian chemical war factories.

Everyone who protests the war in Iraq in America on the streets of our cities (especially the Saddomonites in San Francisco), is an ally of Iraq purposely and provides Iraq aid and comfort as US troops fight for their lives to free the Iraqi people.
Something may need to be done about the severe subversion in this country. I don't really know what the remedy should be, but something needs to be done. Maybe a mandatory 1 year in prison would do the trick.

Don't f-ck with the United States unless you want to reap the whirlwind. The only thing the US stands for is freedom. If you have a problem with freedom, then get ready because the gates of hell are going to open up because no one kicks ass like a free people.

[Advocate]

Originally posted by Jedi Knight


Very nice, Advocate. I couldn't have said it any better.

JK

Uh oh! JK is agreeing with me. I am in trouble now. ;) ;)