GOPer: I Shouldn’t Have Said I Prefer Terrorist Attack Over TSA Screenings

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A Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Georgia said he’d rather see another terrorist attack than continue to submit to airport searches by the TSA, though he later backed away from those remarks.

“Now this is going to sound outrageous, I’d rather see another terrorist attack, truly I would, than to give up my liberty as an American citizen,” Bob Johnson, a doctor and candidate in Georgia’s first district said, according to a video obtained by Politico. “Give me liberty or give me death. Isn’t that what Patrick Henry said at the founding of our republic?”

Johnson said that the TSA has been “indoctrinating generations of Americans to walk through a line and be prodded and probed by uniform personnel, agents of the government, like sheep.”

In a statement to Politico, Johnson apologized for and clarified his remarks.

“In the heat of the moment, while making the point that I would much rather fight the enemy than our federal government, I said something stupid and should have chosen my words more carefully,” he said. “As a Constitutional conservative, it angers me that we are giving up our liberty to the bureaucratic TSA and spying on our own people in the name of false security and that has to stop.”

Johnson is running for the seat currently held by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), who is running for the open Georgia seat in the U.S. Senate.

Image via Dr. Bob Johnson for Congress on Facebook

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  1. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Phrased stupidly, and his base will eat him alive for it, but the way American society was upended by a few thousand killed means that they really did win.

  2. I’m very sorry for telling the truth about what I think and I hope the base will forgive me for my weakness in apologizing.

  3. ““As a Constitutional conservative, it angers me that we are giving up our liberty to the bureaucratic TSA and spying on our own people in the name of false security and that has to stop.””

    As a pandering dillhole conservative, it angers me that we have a black man in the WH in control of the bureaucratic TSA and spying on our white people in the name of false security and that has to stop until a white male GOPer/Teatroll is put in the WH.

    FIFY

  4. “In the heat of the moment, while making the point that I would much rather fight the enemy than our federal government, I said something stupid and should have chosen my words more carefully,” he said.

    Which is why he’s running for office and not volunteering to join the service. Or something.

  5. “Give me liberty or give me death.” – Patrick Henry (1775)

    “I said something stupid.” – Bob Johnson (2014)

    Truer words were never spoken by two of our greatest statesmen.

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