Conservative radio host Michael Savage has high hopes for a Donald Trump presidency, urging the GOP nominee yesterday to “rule by decree” and to pick Savage for a post in his administration if he is elected.
Savage said Trump should launch a “crusade” against the “radical left-wing fringe controlling this country,” even if it means undermining their civil rights. Savage said that Trump should launch inquiries into “treasonous” organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, “the head of the serpent” that “must be broken apart,” with a renewed “House of Un-American Activities Committee investigation.”
“The left wing will go insane,” he said. “They’ll say, ‘Savage, you’re violating our civil rights.’ They’ll say, ‘You do not have probable cause to bring people in to investigate them.’ They might be right. But we need to do exactly that for our survival.”
He continued: “Tell me how a society that is open like ours, that is democratic like ours, can survive when enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place because of the U.S. Constitution?”
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“Tell me how a society that is open like ours, that is democratic like ours, can survive when enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place because of the U.S. Constitution?”
I agree. This is the reason why you must be defeated wherever your ilk rear their ugly skinheads.
That's funny; looking into the US from the outside, I see one right-wing party and then one even-more-right-wing party. Where is this "radical left-wing fringe" who's supposedly controlling your country?
What's so treasonous about protecting the Constitution?
You can't have a democracy if you're going to undermine people's civil rights.
YOU are clearly the enemy of democracy.
“Tell me how a society that is open like ours, that is democratic like ours, can survive when enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place because of the U.S. Constitution?”
they hate us because of our freedoms, thus we must destroy our freedoms? how does it work exactly?
"radical left-wing fringe controlling this country"
LOL
"They might be right. But we need to do exactly that for our survival."
It's not like the U.S. has ever respected or cared about human rights so this would just be business as usual.
"“Tell me how a society that is open like ours, that is democratic like ours, can survive when enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place because of the U.S. Constitution?”"
Considering your radio show, that's a good question.
You know, the more these idiots hope for Trump to win, the more I can't wait to see the butthurt come November.
But apparently Savage is apparently adopting the ideology of "We need to violate the Constitution in order to save it!" You know, what he's claimed that Obama has been doing for the past seven years.
@Swede
That's funny; looking into the US from the outside, I see one right-wing party and then one even-more-right-wing party. Where is this "radical left-wing fringe" who's supposedly controlling your country?
When you're so far on the fringe right that even Hitler looks like a liberal, then of course the center-right running the country looks like the radical left-wing fringe.
Rule by decree? Has your fantasy life gotten so out of hand that you've forgotten that you live in the United States, Savage? Well, you are chasing after a job, so I suppose that this is your idea of a resume. You're still a crazy idiot who has apparently never heard of irony.
It's truly infuriating to see someone who is incurably infected with the right wing brain virus given a national platform in which to spread the disease. This miserable little wiener should be cornered & put down like the living dead that he is.
As if the US doesn't have enough to deal with.
“The left wing will go insane,”
The left wing might go a little more than insane. It never ceases to amaze me how right wing morons never seem to realize that, if attacked, people will fight back.
Remember, freedom for all except those we don't agree with. They can go fuck themselves...
Michael, please retire. Get off the air. And while we're at it, look up a Venn diagram for "freedom" and "civil rights". I'm sure you'll be in utter shock.
“Tell me how a society that is open like ours, that is democratic like ours, can survive when enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place because of the U.S. Constitution?”
So, enemies like yourself, then?
Sure, he'd go after the ACLU, which is all about preserving the individual rights and liberties of every person in the US. Because, yeah, that's super destructive, treasonous and un-American, alright.
Who's the enemy of freedom, hm? Pretty sure a real threat to the US is all the fringe right wingers who want to take rights away from the people they dislike. This is pretty darn openly fascist.
"enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy are destroying society by using the very freedoms we have in place"
Enemies of freedom are destroying society by using......freedom?
Seems to me, the real enemy of freedom is the one that wants to DO AWAY with freedom, like Savage just said he wants to do.
Hell with Michael Savage, I'd rather have Dan Savage in somebody's administration. Or fuck it, Randy Savage, even though he's dead (RIP)
"pick Savage for a post in his administration"
Well, someone has to run the Ministry of Truth. I get the feeling that Wiener is aiming more for Miniluv, though.
Trump should launch inquiries into “treasonous” organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union
You want to shoot the messenger. The ACLU is just a bunch of lawyers. All they do is bring lawsuits into courts (see the 1st Amendment, where it talks about the right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances"). The courts make the decisions; not the ACLU.
Also, see the Constitution's definition of "treason". It was purposely made specific to prevent the banana-republic habit of bringing treason charges against anyone whose politics the rulers disagreed with (exactly what "enemy" of the US has the ACLU "adhered to" and given aid?).
Confused?
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