FARK.com: (6737563) Karl Rove to Occupy JHU: If you believe in free speech you can demonstrate it by shutting up and waiting for the QA session. Until then[Garble] act like you're not the only one with a 1st amendment right to be heard

		Karl Rove to Occupy JHU: If you believe in free speech you can demonstrate it by shutting up and waiting for the QA session. Until then[Garble] act like you're not the only one with a 1st amendment right to be heard (articles.baltimoresun.com)		284
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Walker

2011-11-16 09:46:21 AM

Aren't you in jail yet Turd Blossom?
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sammyk

2011-11-16 09:55:07 AM

FTFA:After they chant "occupy America," Rove counters the protesters by saying, "Who gave you the right to occupy America? Nobody."

um, the constitution turd blossom

Brandyelf

2011-11-16 09:55:34 AM

Karl Rove, I love you!

/Twisted movie

Soup4Bonnie

2011-11-16 10:04:47 AM

Poor Karl. Had his time in the limelight as Turdblossom and now he can't get any respect.

keylock71

2011-11-16 10:31:15 AM

What Karl Rove thinks is of little importance to me.

However, I do love that Liz Warren has that tub of lard and his merry band of simpletons' panties in such a knot they're already attacking her and she hasn't even won the nomination in MA yet...

usernameguy

2011-11-16 10:49:45 AM

This would be the guy that bussed people in to healthcare townhalls to scream constantly and prevent anyone else from speaking, right?

jigger

2011-11-16 11:29:11 AM

Crunch61

2011-11-16 11:30:05 AM

I never thought I'd feel any sympathy for Karl Rove, and so far I'm right.

derpdeederp

2011-11-16 11:32:49 AM

sammyk 2011-11-16 09:55:07 AM

FTFA:After they chant "occupy America," Rove counters the protesters by saying, "Who gave you the right to occupy America? Nobody."

um, the constitution turd blossom

Umm, I think we lost that during the civil war when the south tried to occupy their own states and lost.

Because People in power are Stupid

2011-11-16 11:33:05 AM

Karl Rove said he created the internet.

stlbluez

2011-11-16 11:34:14 AM

usernameguy: This would be the guy that bussed people in to healthcare townhalls to scream constantly and prevent anyone else from speaking, right?

Um...
NO.

Tremolo

2011-11-16 11:34:42 AM

If Rove wants to be heard he can get on farking Fox News. The Occupiers can't do that unless they're being called lazy or communists.

EWreckedSean

2011-11-16 11:36:23 AM

Rove is evil, but he's an evil genius. You're not gonna beat him like this. It just made him look better to the rest of the people in the room.

N. A. Coffey

2011-11-16 11:36:24 AM

Is funny. I was led to believe Rove was some kind of mastermind. He handled himself like a 12-yr-old with that crowd though. "I know you are but what am I"? Jeez....

/had me fooled

Geotpf

2011-11-16 11:37:35 AM

What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

JammerJim

2011-11-16 11:37:40 AM

Karl Rove is a dick but not allowing people to speak is not using your first amendment rights, it's preventing others from using theirs. The government is not the only entity that can abuse its power.

Geotpf

2011-11-16 11:38:58 AM

Fark has no edit function, so when you leave out a couple words in your post you have to post it again. Here we go (new text in bold):

What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law they want passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

The Homer Tax

2011-11-16 11:39:22 AM

What Rove doesn't understand is that rights aren't "granted" by anyone. They are inalienable, and the Constitution serves to explicitly protect certain ones.

Ironically, the whole point of the Constitution is to protect those rights...from people like Karl Rove.

Lost Thought 00

2011-11-16 11:40:37 AM

Blathering Idjut

2011-11-16 11:41:10 AM

usernameguy: This would be the guy that bussed people in to healthcare townhalls to scream constantly and prevent anyone else from speaking, right?

That would be "Koch" not "cock" so confusing Rove would be understandable.

Fart_Machine

2011-11-16 11:41:19 AM

JammerJim: Karl Rove is a dick but not allowing people to speak is not using your first amendment rights, it's preventing others from using theirs. The government is not the only entity that can abuse its power.

The First Amendment only regulates what the government can do. So in that case, yes it is.

N. A. Coffey

2011-11-16 11:41:34 AM

The Homer Tax: Ironically, the whole point of the Constitution is to protect those rights...from people like Karl Rove.

And dimwit trolls who freely express themselves on Fark whenever the mood hits.

FlippityFlap

2011-11-16 11:42:16 AM

derpdeederp

The pro-slavery platform is heard from!!!!

JohnAnnArbor

2011-11-16 11:42:19 AM

Heckler's veto. A fave of the left. Closely related to the trash-entire-run-of-campus-newspaper-if-it-hurts-our-little-feelings.

Headso

2011-11-16 11:42:26 AM

Lost Thought 00: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

As near as I can tell, they want to end capitalism

pretty sure those ushering in an oligarchy are not the OWS people.

N. A. Coffey

2011-11-16 11:43:47 AM

JohnAnnArbor: Heckler's veto. A fave of the left. Closely related to the trash-entire-run-of-campus-newspaper-if-it-hurts-our-little-feelings.

Well maybe next time they'll come armed.

The Homer Tax

2011-11-16 11:45:10 AM

Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

They just want their country back.

JammerJim: Karl Rove is a dick but not allowing people to speak is not using your first amendment rights, it's preventing others from using theirs.

A private entity like those protesters cannot violate the first amendment protections of another private entity like Karl Rove. The protesters are not limited by the Constitution, they are protected by it.

The government is not the only entity that can abuse its power.

From a Constitutional Perspective, they are. Words have meanings, and the words "First Amendment" refer to a Constitutional limitation on Government Power, and literally nothing more.

When the Freedom Riders encircle the scum from Westboro Baptist so that their hate cannot disrupt a soldier's funeral, are they (the riders) violating their (the WBCs) "First Amendment Rights?" Of course not, they (the riders) are simply exercising their rights more loudly.

coeyagi

2011-11-16 11:46:10 AM

Lost Thought 00: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

As near as I can tell, they want to end capitalism

1/10. Tell us more about silverbacks, you racist pig.

The Homer Tax

2011-11-16 11:46:48 AM

JohnAnnArbor: Heckler's veto. A fave of the left.

Yes, yes, completely different from how "the right" handles themselves during things such as...HCR Town Halls.

Agneska

2011-11-16 11:48:07 AM

Leftists are the first ones to cry foul when they believe someone is stifling their freedom of speech. Their hypocrisy is only matched in strength by their BO. Take that to the bank and occupy it.

Fart_Machine

2011-11-16 11:48:37 AM

JohnAnnArbor: Heckler's veto. A fave of the left.

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You Lie!

Geotpf

2011-11-16 11:48:41 AM

The Homer Tax: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

They just want their country back.

What the fark does that even mean?

DarnoKonrad

2011-11-16 11:49:00 AM

JammerJim: Karl Rove is a dick but not allowing people to speak is not using your first amendment rights, it's preventing others from using theirs. The government is not the only entity that can abuse its power.

Fark no, the first amendment does not protect a right to a friendly crowd nor should it.

dogdaze

2011-11-16 11:50:28 AM

Headso

2011-11-16 11:51:13 AM

Geotpf: The Homer Tax: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

They just want their country back.

What the fark does that even mean?

It means they are protesting the oligarchy/cleptocracy that our nation is becoming.

struct

2011-11-16 11:53:22 AM

Wow, way to make Karl Rove look like the reasonable one. Idiots.

/That's why you're losing

coeyagi

2011-11-16 11:53:27 AM

JohnAnnArbor: Heckler's veto. A fave of the left. Closely related to the trash-entire-run-of-campus-newspaper-if-it-hurts-our-little-feelings.

Ann Arbor is a whore.

The Homer Tax

2011-11-16 11:53:32 AM

Agneska: Leftists are the first ones to cry foul when they believe someone is stifling their freedom of speech.

When that "someone" is the government, the cries are legitimate. When that "someone" is someone else, they're not.

Good lord, did any of you people pass 8th grade civics (Or 11th Grade US History, or 12th Grade Government)? I mean it's not like this "Constitution" thing is glossed over during the course of the average American Education.

pete1729

2011-11-16 11:53:43 AM

sammyk: FTFA:After they chant "occupy America," Rove counters the protesters by saying, "Who gave you the right to occupy America? Nobody."

um, the constitution turd blossom

Actually it doesn't. It doen't actually say you can be here.

coeyagi

2011-11-16 11:54:23 AM

struct: Wow, way to make Karl Rove look like the reasonable one. Idiots.

/That's why you're losing

If by "losing" you mean "growing in numbers", then yes.

//That's why you're trolling

keylock71

2011-11-16 11:54:58 AM

Headso: Lost Thought 00: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

As near as I can tell, they want to end capitalism

pretty sure those ushering in an oligarchy are not the OWS people.

Bingo... and I think the OWS folks have already accomplished something that's pretty amazing. They've helped focus the public conversation on something that not many folks in power were talking about previously - Financial inequality and the fact that our system is set up to reward avarice and benefit the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the poor and middle classes.

Where it goes from here, I don't know, but if they can keep people talking about this issue than I'd consider their efforts successful.

The folks who want to destroy democracy in this country are not the OWS folks, in my opinion, but rather the plutocrats and greedy bastards who see the country and it's people as nothing more than resources to be picked clean for their own financial benefit.

N. A. Coffey

2011-11-16 11:55:15 AM

What an asshole. The only person with a soapbox bigger than Chris Christie's ass, and some people got together and talked over him and hurt his feelings.

And now our resident Fark Independents^™ have their panties all in a wad over it.

Will the suffering never end???

Flargan

2011-11-16 11:56:22 AM

Agneska: Leftists are the first ones to cry foul when they believe someone is stifling their freedom of speech. Their hypocrisy is only matched in strength by their BO. Take that to the bank and occupy it.

Please, both parties have turned "cry foul when they believe someone is stifling their freedom of speech" into a 24 hour news channel.

"First ones to cry foul" depends on what time you tuned in.

//At least some of us remember the Teaparty shouting down public speakers and not waiting for the Q&A.

N. A. Coffey

2011-11-16 11:57:34 AM

keylock71: The folks who want to destroy democracy in this country are not the OWS folks, in my opinion, but rather the plutocrats and greedy bastards...

And stupid people. Don't forget the stupid people.

Geotpf

2011-11-16 11:59:21 AM

Headso: Geotpf: The Homer Tax: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

They just want their country back.

What the fark does that even mean?

It means they are protesting the oligarchy/cleptocracy that our nation is becoming.

So how do they propose to fix...whatever exactly they want fixed...

I'll give an example of a protest that is easy to explain-the protests in the south in the 1960's were about blacks being descrimated against. The solution to that problem was to pass laws requiring equal treatment, which was done.

Riddle me this, Batman: The Occupy Whatever are about ??? The solution to that problem is to ???

I honestly don't get it. "The oligarchy/cleptocracy that our nation is becoming" is so vague as to be completely meaningless.

Agneska

2011-11-16 12:00:20 PM

The Homer Tax: Agneska: Leftists are the first ones to cry foul when they believe someone is stifling their freedom of speech. Their hypocrisy is only matched in strength by their BO. Take that to the bank and occupy it.

When that "someone" is the government, the cries are legitimate. When that "someone" is someone else, they're not.

Good lord, did any of you people pass 8th grade civics (Or 11th Grade US History, or 12th Grade Government)? I mean it's not like this "Constitution" thing is glossed over during the course of the average American Education.

I'll just assume you're either joking or counting to potato.

N. A. Coffey

2011-11-16 12:01:21 PM

OWS should really consider arming themselves. Then it would all make sense.

/jesus h. christ

EWreckedSean

2011-11-16 12:01:55 PM

N. A. Coffey: What an asshole. The only person with a soapbox bigger than Chris Christie's ass, and some people got together and talked over him and hurt his feelings.

And now our resident Fark Independents™ have their panties all in a wad over it.

Will the suffering never end???

I would imagine he was paid quite well to come speak there by somebody. And he offered during the Q&A session that they could come up to the podium and ask any questions they wanted. He is an evil bastard, but the childish tactics of scream over and try to disrupt him are just that. If they had any strength of their ideas, they would have challenged him one on one at the podium.

HeartBurnKid

2011-11-16 12:02:24 PM

struct: Wow, way to make Karl Rove look like the reasonable one. Idiots.

/That's why you're losing

You're saying that Rove is right and the protesters should STFU because their voice is intefering with the people who control basically the entire media in this country, and who have had the unopposed ability to speak for the last 3 decades?

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Philip Francis Queeg

2011-11-16 12:03:04 PM

Geotpf: Headso: Geotpf: The Homer Tax: Geotpf: What exactly are the Occupy Whatever people trying to accoplish? They don't seem to have a particular law passed or repealed, at least not one I can figure out. Yeah, we get it, you hate the banks and Wall Street. Whoopie-farking-do.

They just want their country back.

What the fark does that even mean?

It means they are protesting the oligarchy/cleptocracy that our nation is becoming.

So how do they propose to fix...whatever exactly they want fixed...

I'll give an example of a protest that is easy to explain-the protests in the south in the 1960's were about blacks being descrimated against. The solution to that problem was to pass laws requiring equal treatment, which was done.

Riddle me this, Batman: The Occupy Whatever are about ??? The solution to that problem is to ???

I honestly don't get it. "The oligarchy/cleptocracy that our nation is becoming" is so vague as to be completely meaningless.

You don't know much about the Civil Rights movement, huh? It was about far more than changes in the law.

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