Conservative solutions for the impotent Peck caracter

Atticus was properly trained in the use of firearms as a boy, something frowned upon by a segment of the population. I suppose I would just send my kids inside to protect them and call the cops. Too much chance of getting in trouble walking onto a town street and shooting a rabid dog.

Where I live, if the Conservatives really believed in the Law, they would be following the speed limit out on the roads. Unfortunately, many of them don't.

Greetings from the most Conservative part of Canada!

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Jim Hutton: talented gorgeous hot hunk; adorable as ElleryQueen; SEXIEST ACTOR EVER

You're either too ignorant, too stupid or a liar who actually knows the bloodsucking and bloodletting Conservative drains the treasury through corporate welfare, unnecessary military binging for profitable wars and tax breaks wealthy an-American conservatives benefit from.

~ Native Angeleno

No, you began this post by saying Atticus engaged in typical liberal malarkey and could not protect his children. I pointed to an instance where he did protect his children, and you countered that you suppose you could have stayed in the house. Unlike you, Atticus didn't. There is no doubt in my mind, had Atticus the liberal been in the woods that night, he would certainly have defended his kids. I am having difficulty understanding your point. Didn't Atticus protect his children or not in your opinion?

Care to comment on anything happening in the last 6o years?

Actually JFK was not a liberal, and, in fact, his personal views of African-Americans, as well as those of "moderate" Ike were racist and far less generous than those of "conservative" Nixon who was raised in a Quaker family. But Kennedy was an adroit politician.

You say: "All the civil rights progress in the south was the result of the actions of white and black liberals" Well, not exactly, most African Americans in the early 60s were personally very conservative and religious. Sad but true, while 100 years of extreme violence and racism and Jim Crow could not destroy the black family unit, only 30 years of the white liberal great society managed to do the job in no uncertain terms(by about 1995 "mission accomplished"). The voting rights act was the key to equality, the "Great Society" tagged on a couple years later has been a disaster(for everybody, BTW, any 17 yr olds pushing baby carriages around in your neighborhood?). Can you suggest any other reason for the destruction of the black family unit? Are whites perhaps more racist and violent then 50 years ago? Don't think so.

"Extreme" republicans in the 1840s, 50s & 60s were the driving force toward black emancipation. And many of these men were extremely conservative. In fact, Grant, late in his presidency, went to congress to call for troops to crush southern attempts to dismantle reconstruction. Congressional democrats and weak kneed republicans rebuffed him so the Grant "surge" never took place. If extreme republicans had got their way Jim Crow would never have come to be.

The Klan was founded by Democrats, Democrats resisted freeing the slaves, and Republicans were behind the Civil Rights act. Spout your liberal propaganda elsewhere.

Microfishe! MICROFISHE!! MI...CRO...FISSHHE!!!

This is arrant, Orwellian nonsense. Spare us your self-righteousness, your venting and your selective false retelling of history. You don't get to define "conservative" as your bad guy responsible for all the racist evil in America. Most conservatives today are Republicans, who were historically responsible for opposing the old, white racist structure in the South that set up Jim Crow laws, the KKK, and the lynchings. (BTW, the lynchings were only possible after the Democrat white racists passed gun control laws prohibiting blacks from owning guns after the Civil War.) Each of those were done by white Democrats. The Civil Rights Act finally passed in Congress was uniformly opposed by white Southern Democrats, who were the majority power structure in the South at the time. Northern Democrats and Republicans were responsible for its passage.

Go spread your lies somewhere else.

And all of those conservatives in the south were right thinking "Boll Weevil" Democrats.

The "liberal" President John Kennedy initiated our involvement in Vietnam by sending advisors. The liberal President Lyndon Johnson increased our involvement and sent in heavy ground forces.

The "liberal" President Jimmy Carter "bailed out" Chrysler and the "liberal" President Barack Obama "bailed out" General Motors.

So, stew on your labels awhile and think about it.

Your post is so full of ignorance. Republicans supported every civil rights act since the Civil War. Segregationist Democrats were NOT conservatives, but liberals.

On what crazy pretext do you say they were "conservative"? Because they wanted to keep the segregationist status quo? Conservatives wanted to go back to the pre-Plessy v Ferguson era before they had segregation. If they were segregationist Democrats, they damn sure weren't conservative.

What the hell are you talking about ? The Democrats were the ones trying to keep the status quo in the south, rejecting civil rights legislation into the 1960s !!!
Yeah, thats the damn truth. Either your one of these young skulls full of mush that bye
into the liberal lies (in which case. I guess your 'lies' are somewhat understandable as
public school teachers ....well, its understandable. But, if you're an older balding pony tail marxist lying liberal theres NO excuse for you and your BS !! I suspect its the later but I have no way of knowing. In any case, if its the former, have fun learning the truth now that you've been pointed in the right direction. If your of the smelly, ponytailed
old school hippie type, eat excrement and expire - the USA and the world really, will be better off with out your lying azz. Now go take a bath, you stink !

Well said - a good history lesson for those who prefer to forget the civil rights struggles of the 50's and 60s.

I'm not sure if you are being sardonic or what, but if your post is serious (I kniw that it's old, but I just came across it), I would just like to point out how wrong it is. If you were to replace all the incidences of 'conservative' with 'liberal Democrats', then your post would be accurate. The KKK was founded by Democrats, Civil Rights Act of 1964 was pushed thru by Republicans and opposed by Democrats, Civil Rights Act of 1957 was proposed by Republicans, Jim Crow laws were passed in the vastly Democratic south, the fire hoses and snarling dogs used against the civil rights marchers weer in the hands of Democrats. I could go on and on, but you should study your own history, maybe you'll learn something.

I agree. I never like threads like this. To me, trying to paint Boo as a conservative shows that someone is trying to put their agenda on top of things. That character could not be further from having any social or political views. He was just doing what any decent person who was there would try to do. Today, those kids would never be walking home alone, but times were different. Also, Atticus doesn't want Boo to be in trouble. Wasn't it he who said it was a clear case of defense? Worrying about the potential legal ramifications is only what most responsible people would do, especially a lawyer . All this shows is he respects the law. Again, he is a lawyer.

Lastly, Atticus is a crack shot and would have defended his children, had he been there. He got rid of Bob when he was there.

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Five 'ill get ya ten, lola, every member of that jury was a Democrat. Beginning long before the depression, and long after, Democrats, Northern and Southern, were the great defenders of segregation and Jim Crow. It changed when the Dems. took a look at the number of blacks who were voting in the 50's and 60's. . . Like many, many others -- you've been taken in.