I had not seen the HuffPo (I don't read the site) video though I had seen the TPM article. I was actually talking about her unedited statement there. I didn't think she really meant "take Reid out" as a mafia-style thing either. I knew that she meant defeat him at the ballot box. But when I read that quote again, she seems to be definitely saying "If I and others like me are not elected, I think that people are going to be going for armed insurrection" and while she does say "I hope it doesn't come to that" she seems very sympathetic to the idea if not outright supportive of it.
I agree that her involvement in the political process is a good thing. On the other hand, I have a hard time looking at that quote and not seeing it as saying that if her supporters don't get the electoral result they desire, they will resort to armed revolution. Saying "I hope it doesn't come to that" isn't anywhere near the same thing as denouncing the entire idea of armed revolt in a functioning democracy. If you are pointing that out as a mainstream "meh" sort of point of view, I'm a bit worried. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:47 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Had not heard of it before you mentioned it and I think I see why - > looks like HuffPo pulled a BriteBart on what she said and posted an > edited clip I found this follow-up in TPM: > http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/angle-i-was-speaking-broadly-about-second-amendment-remedies.php > > Which includes her complete statement: > "You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in > there for a good reason, and that was for the people to protect > themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas > Jefferson said, it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 > years," Angle said. "I hope that's not where we're going, but, you > know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really > looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying, my > goodness, what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you, > the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out." > > She backed away from the "take Harry Reid out" comment, insisting that > she meant, "out of office" rather than maffia-style. Also, the bit > that was edited out by the original HuffPo piece appears to be her > including the phrase, "I hope that's not where we're going" > > In the end - it's a "meh" statement. The very fact that she's running > for an elected office and wants to try and make changes happen from > within the confines of the rules as they are currently written > separates her from the crowd that I'm taking about. > > Hat > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
