{"id":2170,"date":"2013-05-07T14:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:19:25","slug":"comrade-dick-durbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/07\/comrade-dick-durbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrade Dick Durbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This past May Day (AKA &#8220;Victims of Communism Day&#8221;), Illinois Senator Dick Durban attended and spoke at a rally with anarchists, international socialists, and the Communist Party USA, that was promoted by Occupy Chicago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When questioned about his choice of company, Durban offered the lame excuse that he spoke at the rally because he &#8220;believe[s] in the Constitution&#8221; and that because the protesters had a right to free assembly and speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9AbJokS7OA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, if <em>any politician<\/em> were to attend a KKK rally or a Furry convention, and tried to use that excuse, he\/she\/it would be hounded out of office.\u00a0 Yes, all those groups have a right to assemble and to speak their mind, but supporting their 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment right to do so does not require outright endorsement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But then, to the far left, &#8220;<a title=\"You can\u2019t have \u201cAnti-Gay\u201d Bullying if Everyone is Gay!\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/25\/you-cant-have-anti-gay-bullying-if-everyone-is-gay\/\" target=\"_blank\">anything that is not illegal in a socialist state will be mandatory<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/05\/rebel-pundit-squares-off-with-dick-durbin-over-may-day-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Insurrection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This past May Day (AKA &#8220;Victims of Communism Day&#8221;), Illinois Senator Dick Durban attended and spoke at a rally with anarchists, international socialists, and the Communist Party USA, that was promoted by Occupy Chicago. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When questioned about his choice of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/07\/comrade-dick-durbin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,15,22,48],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-democrats","tag-fail","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}