Comments on: THIS is what they voted for: “Shoot Them in the Legs” https://habitablezone.com/2019/10/01/this-is-what-they-voted-for-shoot-them-in-the-legs/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:51:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2019/10/01/this-is-what-they-voted-for-shoot-them-in-the-legs/#comment-43791 RL Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:04:44 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=78668#comment-43791 <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-mocks-gop-jokes-they-want-border-moat/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">However, he thought he was making a joke... </a> <blockquote>"We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement," Obama said. "But even though we've answered these concerns, I gotta say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time." "Maybe they'll need a moat," Obama said mockingly to laughter from the crowd. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat."</blockquote> However, he thought he was making a joke…

“We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement,” Obama said. “But even though we’ve answered these concerns, I gotta say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time.”

“Maybe they’ll need a moat,” Obama said mockingly to laughter from the crowd. “Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat.”

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2019/10/01/this-is-what-they-voted-for-shoot-them-in-the-legs/#comment-43790 ER Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:03:40 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=78668#comment-43790 Start jailing the Republican businessmen that hire them. Start jailing the Republican businessmen that hire them.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2019/10/01/this-is-what-they-voted-for-shoot-them-in-the-legs/#comment-43789 RL Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:28:31 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=78668#comment-43789 <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/30/constitution-doesnt-protect-immigrant-killed-police-city-says/3822559002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Police go to wrong address while searching for a suspect, and "accidentally" shoot resident in the back of his head. Now they argue they didn't violate his civil rights, because he was undocumented and has no civil rights.</a> This is what they voted for.... <blockquote>"Ismael Lopez may have been a person on American soil, but he was not one of the 'We, the People of the United States' entitled to the civil rights invoked in this lawsuit," wrote the attorney for the city, Katherine Kerby of Columbus, Mississippi. Kerby represents former Southaven police officer Zachary Durden, who investigators concluded fired the fatal shot.</blockquote> Police go to wrong address while searching for a suspect, and “accidentally” shoot resident in the back of his head. Now they argue they didn’t violate his civil rights, because he was undocumented and has no civil rights.

This is what they voted for….

“Ismael Lopez may have been a person on American soil, but he was not one of the ‘We, the People of the United States’ entitled to the civil rights invoked in this lawsuit,” wrote the attorney for the city, Katherine Kerby of Columbus, Mississippi. Kerby represents former Southaven police officer Zachary Durden, who investigators concluded fired the fatal shot.

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