In Texas, Stephen Broden, a pastor and Republican congressional candidate, appears to have a back-up plan if he loses to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson in Dallas 30th Congressional District. Broden refused to rule out armed rebellion if the elections to do result in a suitable change in leadership.
Broden said a violent uprising “is not the first option,” but it is “on the table.” Broden insisted that, absent constitutional changes, there may be no alternative. Quite simply, “the Framers say if that don’t work, revolution.”
He added “[i]f the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary.” He does reassure fellow citizens that “it is not the first option.”
Broden previously argued that the housing and economic crisis were contrived by the Obama Administration.
For Johnson, Broden is Godsend. As we previously discussed, she has been criticized for giving 23 scholarships over five years to two of her grandsons, two children of her nephew, and two children of her top aide in Dallas. Broden has been running on the issue until he decided to add rebellion to his platform.
Rev. Broden appears to have been the subject of the Beatles decades before his run for Congress:
You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We’d all want to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We’re all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you’ll have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright [x4]You say you’ll change the constitution
Well you know
We’d all love to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
Source; Dallas New
Bdaman- You give us 5 posts in a row of a conversation between two (or more) people you don’t identify- with no attribution of your source. This stuff is worthless and wastes everyone’s time.
SM:
then he is a nut jobber with shit for brains. Did he say why he wanted Jefferson banned? Not that it would change my opinion if indeed he called for the ban.
Gyges I hear it is close in Colorado.
Gyges:
“I’m grouchy today.”
go fishing or hunting. I prefer fishing because you can let them go to enjoy another day. Does that make me a bad conservative?
Byron I don’t think Obama is radical. He governs from the center. This guy Broden is part of the crew that wanted Jefferson banned from the textbooks.
Gyges:
If he thinks Obama is a revolutionary then maybe it is germane to the topic. He (Obama not Bdaman) certainly has radical ideas that do not represent the way a majority of people in this country think.
As far as Broden is concerned he is in good company:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787.—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 12, p. 356 (1955).
“persevering lying. the British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. yet where does this anarchy exist? where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? and can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. they were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the past which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure. our Convention has been too much impressed by. . . ”
When the majority of the letter is read, it softens the quoted statement. But dont you think the government is being “warned that their people preserve the spirit of resistance”?
SM,
I think I may actually wear out the “scroll wheel” on my mouse skipping all his copy and pasted crap.
I’m grouchy today.
Gyges I asked him if he were going to get a promotion after the election. I think he is working overtime now.
Has anyone else noticed that there’s a certain person that always seems to steer even completely unrelated topics around to either global warming or how bad President Obama is?
If only there was a word for someone who intentionally disrupts online communities.
On the plus side, this guy in Texas loves what the U.S. stands for so much he’s willing to start a armed rebellion against it. Sort of brings a tear to your eye.
Dr. John Drew was a classmate of President Obama’s at Occidental College. He was interviewed last week by Paul Kengor on The Glen Meakem Show.
A: …Well, I think I can knock down some doors here but stating that he had a very consistent ideology, I think, probably from the time he was in [Hawaii] to the time he was with Palmer and Ayers in Chicago. I think his current behavior demonstrates that he still has some ideological convictions. When ever he talks about taxing the richest two-percent? I think he knows that will harm the economy. To him, the redistribution of wealth is extremely important. And he never took economics or science like I did. He went straight to law school, never had any business experience, never had a payroll to meet. And I think he’s locked in a very dangerous mindset, where if he didn’t fight to redistribute the wealth that he’d be violating [his] ideology.
Q: So, what about Obama. That’s the… trillion dollar question? …We have to know this stuff about our Presidents, you can’t leave this about biographies…
A: Well, I think that he, I’ve challenged President Obama to explain how he evolved this Marxist-Leninist viewpoint he had in his sophomore year of college. And he’s just never articulated how he changed. In fact, he’s buried and, I think, lied about his ideological convictions of his youth. And we can trace it all the way to Alice Palmer, I think, in 1995 [the Illinois state senator who he replaced]… who attended the Communist Party “Politburo” event. Or she was part of a big international Communist convention in Moscow!
Q: …And Palmer was with Obama in the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn when — and The New York Times even wrote about this — there was sort of a political blessing, where Palmer identified Obama as his chosen successor…
…I was a comrade, but I was more… the Frankfort School of Marxism at the time. I was, I felt like I was doing him a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and Caroline and Shandu were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream. And that there was nothing in European history, or the history of developed nations, that would make that sort of fantasy, that Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution, come true.
Q: So you had a realistic sense that, even though you liked these ideas, that you knew they wouldn’t really work?
A: Right… [There were some] who were puzzled why they didn’t see Marx’s predictions come true, and weren’t interested in the role of psychology or false consciousness in preventing a revolution from happening. I was a card-carrying Marxist, but I was more of an east coast, Cornell University Marxist at that time.
Q: But Obama thought it was practical. He thought it could happen in America?
A: Oh, yeah! He thought I was a little reactionary… or insensitive to the coming needs of the revolution! He was full-bore, 100% into that very, kind of simple-minded Marxist revolutionary framework.
Q: …You said that Obama was introduced to you at Occidental as a Marxist because you were one at that point.
A: Yeah, that’s embarrassing, but I had studied Marxist Economics at Sussex College in England. I had a junior year scholarship over there, and did my senior honor’s thesis on Marxist Economics when I was at Occidental College. And I actually founded the Democrat Student Socialists’ Alliance, under a different name, in 1976… it was as Marxist as you could get, but they come up with a more general name while I was away in England.
Q: …John, you had told me before, and I’m reading from my book, that “Obama was already an ardent Marxist in the fall of 1980 when I met him. I know it’s incendiary to say this, but although he said in Dreams From My Father that he’d ‘hung out with Marxist professors’, he did not explain in that book or clarify is that he was 100% in total agreement with those professors.
A: Yeah, you’ve got that exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him, this was probably around Christmas time in 1980. I’d flown out on Christmas break from Corness, where I was in grad school.
And Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, literally a movement where the working classes would
OVERTHROW
the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist Utopia in the United States. I mean, that’s how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college.
This guy beat his opponent in the Republican runoff primary in April … 67% to 33%. There is no republican in that district who can claim they didn’t know what a crackpot he is.
There was a Youtube video of an appearance on a small AM radio station. During that program Broden physically threatened Goldstein with a vase … the video has been removed from Youtube and the audio removed from the station’s archives.
This is one of the underlying themes of the Teapublicans and when and if some of these radical nutjobs actually get into office, the country is in trouble.
And this surprises you exactly how…..
If Broden loses the election, maybe he can get some military advice from Rich Iott of Ohio.
eniobob He is funded by very wealthy ultra right wing Highland Park business men.
Looks like a BFF gathering,and quite a panel to boot: