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I can't believe how wildly liberal you are that you want jack-booted government thugs coming into my church, my bedroom, my kitchen, and my schools telling me how to worship, how to love, how to eat, and how to think.
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My wife is a citizen of France, a non-visa country, and her experiences transiting through the jack-booted confines of U.S. airports with security administered by the Homeland Security goons are reminiscent of third world police states.
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My wife is a citizen of France, a non-visa country, and her experiences transiting through the jack-booted confines of U.S. airports with security administered by the Homeland Security goons are reminiscent of third world police states.
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In a now-infamous fundraising letter sent on April 13, 1995, LaPierre warned his members about the "jack-booted government thugs" of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who have the "power to take away our Constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us ...."
Dennis A. Henigan: Right Wing Militias and the NRA: Second Amendment Soulmates Dennis A. Henigan 2010
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My wife is a citizen of France, a non-visa country, and her experiences transiting through the jack-booted confines of U.S. airports with security administered by the Homeland Security goons are reminiscent of third world police states.
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My wife is a citizen of France, a non-visa country, and her experiences transiting through the jack-booted confines of U.S. airports with security administered by the Homeland Security goons are reminiscent of third world police states.
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It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition.
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Perhaps the life-experiences of the President and his appointees tell them that when jack-booted riot cops confront protesters (in their experience, liberal eco-nuts, anarchists, weather underground and black-panther types), there is always anger, confrontation, bottle throwing, burning cars and violence.
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Maybe he thinks civil servants have a “Democratic tilt” because the Republicans have spent the last several decades painting them as lazy, nameless faceless bureaucrats and/or jack-booted thugs.
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In a now-infamous fundraising letter sent on April 13, 1995, LaPierre warned his members about the "jack-booted government thugs" of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who have the "power to take away our Constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us ...."
Dennis A. Henigan: Right Wing Militias and the NRA: Second Amendment Soulmates Dennis A. Henigan 2010
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