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Government Ministry of Thought
The White House is now asking publicly for ordinary citizens help it rain in what it calls disinformation about the Presidents healthcare program. They have published an email address flag@whitehouse.gov for people to write to snitch on people expressing their dissatisfaction with the program. Check out this Public Service Announcement by the White House HERE. What has come to this country is CHANGE, but I’d prefer to retain my freedoms such as speech, thank you. It is interesting that from the same people that made sure that George Bush wouldn’t tap the phones of overseas Jihadists calling their operatives in the USA we are getting and executive branch campaign to collect names of dissenters from the Presidents programs.
Anyone that has a bit of common sense can examine statements by the White House and Members of Congress as well as past video comments by Barry and realize that this is indeed designed to move us to a “single payer” Canadian style program ultimately. Their claims to the contrary about the plan is in fact the real disinformation campaign. They are even lying about the language itself that is contained in that 1,000 page monstrosity. But that is what a democracy is all about. People have preferences. If you are for the Canadian system and all that this may mean like Barry, then so be it. But they should be honest about it and not so surreptitiously conniving to force something down your throat through the strategy of dying by a thousand small lashes.
This country is founded the principle of freedom of speech and political thought and it is clear that the administration is trying to crush this. He has ordered his lieutenants to hit back twice as hard. They were smart, they charged the opponents at the Town Hall meeting preemptively with wearing swastikas and rough house and intimidation in disrupting the meetings even though this was not so according to many police reports around these events. This was a couple of days before they launched their own Brownshirt activity by loading the Town Halls with SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and ACORN affiliates to intimidate the old people attempting to enter the halls. Of course those preemptive comments about the opponents would serve to permit the Administration and Democrats in Congress to say the opponents were striking back and making it up. Too bad this time it is on tape.
Reports are that many opponents at many town meetings were told it was full while SEIU members were ushered to alternate doors for entry. This is flat out suppression of speech. This whole thing is becoming rather Orwellian in the manner that Obama is running this thing. This is much like the “Black Panther” intimidation during the election that the White House got the charges dropped on after they got into office. Let me tell you there is one hell of a storm brewing folks.
The most interesting and hypocritical thing of it all is that Barry is calling out those voices of protest as noise makers interrupting his work. These are people that are voicing their objection to his plans. Here you have the Organizer (scratch that) Agitator and Chief that spent his career organizing protest now using strong arm tactics to stomp it out. But I don’t mind in the least, because I believe he is making mistakes that will lead to death (of his Administration). I guess Rush was correct when he hoped for Obama to fail (as to his programs) even though the left media tried to distort the truth of what he actually called for.
Be sure to cancel your subscriptions to all newspapers and periodicals that are supported by the State Controlled Media and be SURE to cancel your memberships to AARP who has sold out their membership in favor of their blind acceptance of this direction. Send the message. Now go ahead and report this “fishy” blog post to the Government Ministry of Thought.
Blood for Votes (and other musings)
Obama claims that he doesn’t want to nationalize U.S. businesses, but as I see it, Obama has been in office a little over 4 months and he has turned our legal system upside down and stole the property that belongs to the “secured” and senior lenders to GM and Chrysler in order to essentially “give” those companies to the unions, his largest political financial supporters which are junior and unsecured. Nice payback payoff ……what is it they say; “elections have consequences.” This is more adept than the Russian Revolution of 1917. Remember the misery this brought Russia and others for nearly a century following that little experiment?
To the surprise of the executives in the car industry and dealers, he has dictated the closing of many car dealers nationally without a mechanism to insure that the survivors are not Political Favorites of Obama while many “successful and profitable” dealers are being closed outside of the parameters set up by the auto industry for continued existence. The only significant justification that you can deduce from this is that they are (as most in fact were) Republican supporters. He fired the head of GM and replaced him with an “Obama friendly” retired communications executive, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., who claimed on the day of the announcement that he “doesn’t know anything about cars.” Go figure.
Now he is running the banks and deciding how much their executives can earn. He has even hired a salary “czar” to establish their pay grade. He likes this idea so much that he is looking into expanding this to other industries. Steve Ballmer, CEO and co-founder with Bill Gates of Microsoft has been a supporter of Obama but stated that they will move Microsoft “offshore” if Obama continues down this punitive path of taxes and making companies non-competitive in foreign markets. While attacking US corporations that do business overseas and receive tax benefits for it and wealthy taxpayers not paying enough tax, he himself (according to his published personal taxes for 2008) almost exclusively invested those millions of book royalties U.S. Tax Exempt offshore companies and tax exempt bonds….check it out yourself.
We passed a $800 Billion pork laden program under the guise of “emergency stimulus” to save us from the “Bush economy” [see my link HERE on Obama and the “Community Reinvestment Act” that I posted this past October revealing the real cause of the financial meltdown] and used this urgency as the cover to violate his own campaign promise of posting legislation for 48 hours on the White House website so all could see its contents. He called it his “new transparency.” Instead he delivered the 1,000 page bill to the Republicans for first review at 11 PM with a final vote scheduled on it the following morning at 9 AM. Is this the transparency he promised? The only thing transparent is that we were played for fools.
The way we know that this bill has nothing to do with “emergency stimulus” (even as it was designed and written) is the fact that 2/3rds of it wouldn’t be spent until 2010 and 2011 with most of that being in 2011. But it couldn’t wait another 48 hours on the website for proper disclosure. After it was shot gunned through Congress, Obama took a vacation and didn’t even sign it till mid (the following) week. Heck, not even the rank and file Democrats had a chance to read it. But this has all turned out even worse than that because they have only spent 5% of it to date, but you probably recall that part of its sales pitch was that we had plenty of “shovel ready” projects ready to go to effect an immediate stimulus……….not so. The economy is now beginning to recover without much Federal Stimulus money and even though it will likely be a protracted recovery, maybe we should revisit this spending and cancel it and save our children and grandchildren much grief.
He further emphasized the urgent need of the “stimulus” package in order to avoid the unemployment rate from going over 9% this year. Well, that strategy worked and that ill designed “stimulus” package did pass and almost exclusively by Democrats but the unemployment rate already hit 9.4% last month. Now just yesterday he has fired the Inspector General who investigated some suspicious illegal activities of a crony of his own.
Every despot in the world is testing Obama and they are learning that they can get away with anything and they include not only Iran and Venezuela but N. Korea as well. N. Korea tested nuclear bombs and missiles in contravention of US and UN warnings and yesterday the UN passed a resolution permitting UN member countries to “interdict” N. Korean vessels suspected of caring weapons. Obama stated yesterday that he intends to challenge such vehicles on the open seas, but wouldn’t use force to board them………… Do you see what I see here? He has essentially neutralized even the weak action of the UN and stated IN ADVANCE that we wouldn’t actually stop them. What kind of leadership is this? Do you think N. Korea will be inclined to cooperate with the “spirit” of the UN action since we have notified them that we won’t enforce it?
He has been on a world wide tour apologizing for the “misdeeds” of America without mention the countries we saved, the poor people we have fed, etc. and he has even unilaterally stated to the nations of the world that the United States is NOT a Christian nation. Ok, I can live with that maybe if he let it go at that, but then he goes onto Moslem soil and states that the United States is one of the largest Moslem nations. Truth is, even by those metrics we are not. We would be far down that list. You may have noticed that he managed to exempt his own culpability from all these woes that America has brought on the world.
Obama and his party are doing everything to release real terrorist that we have captured while simultaneously strategizing to prosecute real Americans that protected us from them. Now Pelozi wants to release photos that even she agrees with U.S. Generals will cost American’s lives. People don’t understand why she would do that, but it is an easy assessment. She is playing to the political left in San Francisco that is demanding this. She has placed her reelection and position ahead of Soldiers lives. The Deomcrats once (often) said “Blood for Oil” as they criticized Republicans. I think this is much more clearly Blood for Votes. (You can’t come up with any other analysis of it.)
What is the cost of all this…………..? Essentially every economist (eliminating those with a White House connection) feel that the Obama program will bankrupt the country and leave our children with an insurmountable debt at a time they will already be going broke over the existing Social Security and Medicare problems. Obama said last week “you ain’t seen nothin yet.” With Cap & Trade and Cap & Tax he will permanently make the US non-competitive with the rest of the world so we can be seen as “politically correct” in solving a problem (global warming) that either doesn’t exist or is not caused by people. The primary Charlatan and Elmer Gantry of our era is Al Gore. He has already made $100 million propagating his junk science that he won’t debate with opposing scientists and he is on the threshold of making Billions by becoming the primary “broker” of carbon offset credits. Understand this is a Ponzi scheme that moves around the production of carbon but doesn’t reduce a single pound of emissions. Did I tell you that C02 is NOT a toxic substance and is necessary in the photosynthesis process? You breathe C02 in and out with every breath. If you didn’t you’d be dead.
Let me conclude and say I smell that Obama is on the threshold of betraying the Israelis in a fundamentally existential fashion and he is headed in the direction of being the biggest elected disaster in the history of the country………..stay tuned.
The Fairness Doctrine
To bring you up to speed on this controversial issue that the Democrats so artfully call the “Fairness Doctrine” (an interesting title much like the serpent in the Garden so subtly misrepresented the mandate of God to Eve). This is a policy that had been in force throughout most of the era of the FCC which was established in 1934 by an act of Congress. The Fairness Doctrine was a “regulation” of the FCC to require Broadcast licensees to present controversial issues of public importance in an a) honest, b) equal, and c) balanced manner. Let me pause here to state that the FCC like the IRS establishes “regulations” in order to effectuate their interpretation of the law and good public policy. Regulations are not laws and can be challenged on the basis that they are not in conformity with the law. I have done this myself in the context of the IRS only to initially lose but eventually be vindicated in the Federal Court of Appeals that the particular IRS regulation did not serve the purpose of the IRS Code but hindered it.
In the same matter the FCC voted in 1987 on a 4-0 ruling to overturn the long standing “Fairness Doctrine” on the basis that the regulation had grown to inhibit rather than enhance debate. This position of the FCC followed a 1986 DC Appeals Court ruling that stated that Congress never made the so called doctrine a “binding requirement” of the FCC. This decision is understood to be operative and accepted by all sides of this issue.
The Conservatives considered this FCC ruling a victory and opening in the otherwise Liberal Domination of other media outlets such as Newspapers, Cable New, Network News and Read more
Ron Paul Continued Discussion
I am setting up this post as a location to transfer some off topic discussion that has ensued about Ron Paul as it relates to the war question which stemmed from the abortion question. I don’t have much to add here other than a link to the video that spawned this thread, posted by Jim here at the Helvidus, a Pachyderm site. I am transferring the posts on my blog and cross posting a couple off topic comments at the Helvidus blog to this location to be on topic.
Post Debate Fox Interview of Ron Paul: HERE
Freedom of Speech (only for the Left)
If you live in Baltimore and you engage in vandalism and defacement of property you might receive praise from Robert Murrow, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Public Works. Gee I remember when city officials were the first to condemn the defacement of private property. But I guess it is ok now so long as it is related to the destruction of Conservative matters. You see this praise came after a vandal threw a can of paint on a billboard advertising the Rush Limbaugh show. Just what did Mr. Murrow say about the antic? He said, “It looks like they took globs of paint and threw it on his face. It looks great. It did my heart good,” Well if you are the advertising agency that owns the Billboard you can’t expect to receive “equal protection under the law” in Baltimore now can you?
My opinion is that the left have become the defacers of society in general and this is just another piece of their work and city officials approval thereof. Don’t look for any arrests due to this vandalism, but maybe they will issue a civic award. On the other hand maybe this is approved behavior now, so I encourage you to forward this post to your friends in Baltimore urging them to deface property of the Baltimore Department of Public Works. Apparently they won’t mind. But maybe on the other hand freedom of speech is only for the liberals and their pets that they like to protect such as the Jihadists.
MORE: Baltimore Sun
2nd Amendment (another victory)
Can you imagine that the City of Council of Washington DC passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of handguns or any firearm for “lawful” self-defense. The Federal Appeals Court correctly struck it down, but I hope that the DC Council appeals this so that this decision can pick up the weight of the Supreme Court of the United States along the way and we can start talking about this as “settled law” such as the Roe v. Waders.
By: David Nakamura and Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, March 10, 2007; Page A01
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the District’s longtime ban on keeping handguns in homes is unconstitutional. The 2 to 1 decision by an appellate panel outraged D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and other city leaders, who said that they will appeal and that gun-related crimes could rise if the ruling takes effect. The outcome elated opponents of strict gun controls because it knocked down one of the toughest laws in the country and vindicated their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s language on the right to bear arms. The panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit became the nation’s first federal appeals court to overturn a gun-control law by declaring that the Second Amendment grants a person the right to possess firearms. One other circuit shares that viewpoint on individual rights, but others across the country say the protection that the Second Amendment offers relates to states being able to maintain a militia. Legal experts said the conflict could lead to the first Supreme Court review of the issue in nearly 70 years.
MORE: Washington Post