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A Republican candidate in the U.S. Congressional elections has claimed that an armed overthrow of the Obama government is 'on the table'.
In an outburst in a TV interview, Pastor Stephen Broden said that if the Democrats did not lose their majority in Congress next month, some would look beyond the democratic process.
'Our nation was founded on violence,' he added. 'The option is on the table. I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.'
Broden, who is seeking to unseat the Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson in Dallas, said however that armed revolution was 'not the first option'.
Opinion polls predict a big Republican win on November 2 when voters elect all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 senators in the Senate.
Broden, who is running for election to the House of Representatives, was endorsed earlier this month by the influential Dallas Morning News.
'Tyrannical': During a Tea Party event in Forth Worth last year, Mr said people had the right to remove governments that were not working
The black pastor is frequently controversial and has long been a popular speaker at conservative rallies.
Last year he suggested that President Obama's healthcare legislation was intended to send elderly people to early graves to save money.
In January, Republican Sharron Angle, who is running neck-and-neck with Senate Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, said Americans might seek 'Second Amendment remedies' to their problems with government. The Second Amendment refers to the public's right to bear weapons.
Jonathan Neerman, head of the Dallas County Republican Party, told the Dallas Morning News: 'It is a disappointing, isolated incident.'
Ken Emanuelson, a Broden supporter and tea party organiser in the city, said he did not disagree with the 'philosophical point' of removing a tyrannical government.
In June 2009, Mr Broden described the financial crisis in banking, housing and manufacturing as 'contrived' and 'set up' by the Obama administration.
He also criticised Americans for not being more outraged at government intervention, and compared them to Jews 'walking into the furnaces' during the Holocaust.
But he distanced himself from the remarks during the interview and said he had mistakenly linked the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
The Republican candidate has sought to make political gain from Mrs Johnson over her misuse of scholarship funds from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
In August, the Dallas Morning News reported that Mrs Johnson provided 23 scholarships to two of her grandsons, two children of her nephew and two children of one of her aides.
None of them was eligible under the foundation's rules or residency requirements.
She has since repaid the foundation $31,000.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Obama-government-table.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
In an outburst in a TV interview, Pastor Stephen Broden said that if the Democrats did not lose their majority in Congress next month, some would look beyond the democratic process.
'Our nation was founded on violence,' he added. 'The option is on the table. I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.'
Broden, who is seeking to unseat the Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson in Dallas, said however that armed revolution was 'not the first option'.
Opinion polls predict a big Republican win on November 2 when voters elect all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 senators in the Senate.
Broden, who is running for election to the House of Representatives, was endorsed earlier this month by the influential Dallas Morning News.
'Tyrannical': During a Tea Party event in Forth Worth last year, Mr said people had the right to remove governments that were not working
The black pastor is frequently controversial and has long been a popular speaker at conservative rallies.
Last year he suggested that President Obama's healthcare legislation was intended to send elderly people to early graves to save money.
In January, Republican Sharron Angle, who is running neck-and-neck with Senate Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, said Americans might seek 'Second Amendment remedies' to their problems with government. The Second Amendment refers to the public's right to bear weapons.
Jonathan Neerman, head of the Dallas County Republican Party, told the Dallas Morning News: 'It is a disappointing, isolated incident.'
Ken Emanuelson, a Broden supporter and tea party organiser in the city, said he did not disagree with the 'philosophical point' of removing a tyrannical government.
In June 2009, Mr Broden described the financial crisis in banking, housing and manufacturing as 'contrived' and 'set up' by the Obama administration.
He also criticised Americans for not being more outraged at government intervention, and compared them to Jews 'walking into the furnaces' during the Holocaust.
But he distanced himself from the remarks during the interview and said he had mistakenly linked the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
The Republican candidate has sought to make political gain from Mrs Johnson over her misuse of scholarship funds from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
In August, the Dallas Morning News reported that Mrs Johnson provided 23 scholarships to two of her grandsons, two children of her nephew and two children of one of her aides.
None of them was eligible under the foundation's rules or residency requirements.
She has since repaid the foundation $31,000.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Obama-government-table.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
