Paul Gosar is Censured

[CowboyTed]

There was no crime.

It's fine and proper to fire a co-worker who makes such a video. But not to throw him in jail.

You need to think very carefully about what you are advocating. Your attitude is a far bigger threat to free speech than Gospar is to AOC.

Agreed... It is over extending, if he continued then AOC is in her rights to ask for a restraining order but I would expect multiple infractions...

Does he deserve to loose his job? Hell yes... Anyone doing this at work gets fired...

As for GOP voting, it actually works for Democrats... They said GOP were unreasonable and they have just made there case...

This is the tagline:
If you did what a Republican did at work you would be fired... Republicans live by different rules to you and me.. They can threaten colleges and get away with it, is this what we want for the future of America...

 

[Chillicothe]

Perhaps you have never held a job, but I can assure you that if you tweeted a video of you killing a co-worker you would no longer have that job.

If you did this at work, you would expect t to be fired...

I quite agree with Gator and Ted. At least that is the way it would've worked at our firm. The nutter woulda been canned.

Gosar is at his own special crazy-place. He got reprimanded and lost Committee assignments. Cool.
That is a message that should've resonated with him.
I thought.
Then the dick re-posted the damn thing.
A special crazy-place? Yupper.

I don't think we need fuss over Gosar much longer on this venue. He's been dinged over this. He's not taken seriously by anyone of gravitas. Few would want to co-sponsor a bill with that jerk.
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Democrat Rep. Omar merely apologized for anti-Semitic remarks.

I guess she did. I didn't pay much attention. She doesn't represent my district.

However, I'm pretty sure whatever her "anti-Semitic remarks" were, they were not directed at any of her colleagues in the House. Nor was there implied violence?
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"That dem muslim from Mich is gonna be in deep shit come 23."

That would be, I believe, Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan's 13th District?

Why?
How is she involved in this Gosar goat-ropin'?

 

[g5000]

In his district (THE most conservative in AZ) he could literally have killed AOC on the floor and been reelected. I think that's sad, and not unlike Donald's claim that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his minions would still love him.

Long before Trump made that Fifth Avenue comment, I frequently made this joke:

My Congressman was filmed throwing live puppies into rush hour traffic, but he will vote the way I want him to in Congress and we just couldn't find anyone else better who would.

 

[g5000]

Gosar's parody video was not a threat.

Geezus, some people literally cannot take a joke.

 

[Red Storm Rising]

So the disgusting socialist POS who has called for the destruction of Israel cannot handle a little cartoon. Oh poor little AOC, dishing it out but can't take it. She is a scum worm and when the GOP takes back the House they should sweep her into the dust bucket.

And the GOP WILL take back the House for sure.

 

[bendog]

Gosar's parody video was not a threat.

Geezus, some people literally cannot take a joke.

imo it was an effort to detract from the seriousness of threats citizens have made against her. And imo i'm safe from Karma for hoping Gosar is struck by lightening or a bus or gets food poisoning on an ebola level. But he should not have been censored.

 

[rightwinger]

Gosar's parody video was not a threat.

Geezus, some people literally cannot take a joke.

Hey everybody
Watch me cut off AOCs head
So freaking funny…..spread it around

 

[bendog]

The dems have issue with their elitist leftists, but the gop seems to have little problem with their actual elected leaders endorsing violence to achieve political "gains." Thankfully, it doesn't fly where I live.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I do hope this is the new normal, anyone that does anything like Gosar did should have the same punishment.

Hurt your feelings? Christ, we’d be prosecuting 6 year olds if that’s the case.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Hurt your feelings? Christ, we’d be prosecuting 6 year olds if that’s the case.

Nobody has been prosecuted nor should they be.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

"We will use it for better reasons".................

Unintended consequences is a mofo.

 

[Circe]

Prosecuted for what? Bad taste?

Should we round up all the people who have hung Bush and Obama in effigy, too? Send them to Gitmo?

You know ----------- that's a good point. LOTS of people advocate violence if those sorts of Internet pix are counted. What do people think?

 

[Circe]

Should this be illegal? Forget about Gosar --- this is straightforward and clear, unlike his bad effort.

 

[bendog]

You know ----------- that's a good point. LOTS of people advocate violence if those sorts of Internet pix are counted. What do people think?

Did democrat pols say it was OK?

 

[Circe]

Did democrat pols say it was OK?

Apparently it's okay to hold up a bloody mock decapitated head of Trump --- but not that confusing, too-fast video that I really couldn't see any violence in because it was incomprehensible. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm-----

Something very wrong there. Seems to me the head-hunting lady ought to be in jail if this Gosar was censured.

 

[Dana7360]

There was no crime.

It's fine and proper to fire a co-worker who makes such a video. But not to throw him in jail.

You need to think very carefully about what you are advocating. Your attitude is a far bigger threat to free speech than Gospar is to AOC.

I can see you didn't read my post that gives the exact law that makes what he did a crime.

Go back and read post number 82.

Yes there was a time in our nation when all of our police forces took your attitude with this sort of thing.

Women kept ending up dead.

Then I think it was in the 90s when laws began to be passed that helped prevent this.

One of them was the Violence Against Women Act.

It is a crime to threaten or intimidate an elected official.

My post number 82 quotes the law. I can't help it if you chose to ignore it.

Yes, I want people who think it's ok to threaten and intimidate elected officials to be prosecuted and put in prison for their crimes.

You aren't a woman. You don't know what it's like to live in fear.

I am. I know what it's like to live in that fear so I'm not going to be accommodating to anyone who does what gosar has done.

Promoting violence, threatening and intimidating anyone is wrong and some of it is illegal. Both civilly and criminally.

There are women's shelters all over our nation filled with women and children fleeing violence from a man. Mostly because the police in their towns or cities won't lift a finger to protect them from the violent man who has threatened and intimidated them.

It needs to be taken seriously.

Not taking it seriously perpetuates the violence, it gives the violent people the belief that they are perfectly free to continue to terrorize people through threats and intimidation.

 

[g5000]

I can see you didn't read my post that gives the exact law that makes what he did a crime.

Go back and read post number 82.

Yes there was a time in our nation when all of our police forces took your attitude with this sort of thing.

Women kept ending up dead.

Then I think it was in the 90s when laws began to be passed that helped prevent this.

One of them was the Violence Against Women Act.

It is a crime to threaten or intimidate an elected official.

My post number 82 quotes the law. I can't help it if you chose to ignore it.

I did read it. It does not apply. Gosar did not communicate a threat. He made a joke. One in bad taste, but it was not a threat. You are a fool if you think he did.

 

[Dana7360]

Gospar did not threaten to do any of those things.

Anyone who thinks Gospar was threatening AOC is, quite frankly, dead wrong and deserving of the appellation "snowflake".

That video is threatening and intimidating.

Which is illegal.

That law clearly says that it's illegal to intimidate and threaten an elected official.

You aren't the person who determines what is threatening and intimidating.

Our courts and judicial system does.

I want our courts and judicial system to have their say.

You don't seem to want that.

 

[bendog]

Apparently it's okay to hold up a bloody mock decapitated head of Trump --- but not that confusing, too-fast video that I really couldn't see any violence in because it was incomprehensible. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm-----

Something very wrong there. Seems to me the head-hunting lady ought to be in jail if this Gosar was censured.

Who held up Trumps bloody decapitated head, and which Dem congressperson or senator said it was OK?

 

[bripat9643]

I doubt McCarthy's constiuency would be bothered by his defending a fellow goper for veiled support of violence against AOC, whom I pretty much loath btw, but even idiot socialists have a right to not be attacked physically.

No real person was attacked, you fucking imbecile.