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The good news is you'll be able to stop saying "they hate us because we're so free" -- if 850 KOA's "Gunny Bob" has anything to say about it.

Discussing the breakup of an alleged terrorist plot to attack U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix, Newsradio 850 KOA host "Gunny" Bob Newman said on his May 8 show that "every Muslim immigrant to America who holds a green card, a visa, or who is a naturalized citizen [should] be required by law to wear a GPS tracking bracelet at all times," and that the government should "bug their places of work and their residences" and monitor "[a]ll mosques and community centers." Newman added, "If they don't like the idea, or if they refuse, throw their asses out of this country."

Newman also suggested refusing Muslims entry into the United States by imposing a "moratorium" on visas for them. Speaking directly to the Muslim community, Newman warned, "You better get control of your own people. Once you get control of them, then come see us again and we'll think about -- however many decades down the road it is -- we'll think about maybe opening our doors to you again. But you are doing absolutely freaking nothing to help ... this nation."

Awesome, "land of the free" lovers -- and if we turn a couple million Americans and foreign visitors into a mass-surveilled underclass with no rights to privacy...based on their religion...we'll be even...free-er...

If you're thinking to yourself "wait a minute, I don't live in the same country, let alone state, as this whackjob fascist pinhead--do I?" I'm sorry to disappoint you.

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Wow!!
By Doc May 9th 2007 at 6:24 pm EDT
The upside is that at least you can kind of make a GPS unit look like a walkman... the Jews only got yellow stars from the Nazis.
  
A Menace without Conscience
By Ralph T May 9th 2007 at 6:37 pm EDT
Once upon a time in a Colorado, and throughout the Western US, Denver's KOA was an honored and respected radio station. The deplorable antics of Bob Newman and his ilk have forever tarnished and destroyed that reputation.
  
Here's a link to the original Colorado Media Matters item
By Bill Menezes May 10th 2007 at 1:10 pm EDT
For the full, shameful transcript and audio, go here. This also links to contact information for station management, who should share in the explanation of such egregious statements:

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