For as long as I can remember liberal democrats held a monopoly on protests, sit-ins, marches and demonstrations as most conservatives were usually too busy building businesses and working to support their families to attend massive exhibits of civil unrest. In all that time - and with a great many events held by liberals - I do not recall Republican politicians claiming that these people were puppets of a "Democrat machine", but I do recall the indignation liberals displayed when they were called idiots for marching or unpatriotic for burning the American flag.
Perhaps the conservatives were perceived as weak by the left for their failure to engage. My, how things have changed. Now that conservatives have begun to vent their rage at the slow destruction of America, liberals and democrat politicians and their sycophants are apoplectic over our gumption, our gall, our absolute insolence. They simply cannot fathom the depth of our horror over what this administration is doing and, incredibly try to tell us that what we are seeing is not really happening.
It began with the "Tea Parties", groups of people who were fed up with the spending orgy by a federal government and party who claimed to be aghast at the deficits of the George W. Bush administration. They were labelled as right wing kooks and derided in juvenile diatribes by sophomoric cable pundits. Worse, some major "news outlets" even joined the chorus in jeering the "tea baggers".
Now, however, with the spate of eruptions at town hall meetings across the country, the stakes have been raised. It's bad enough that liberal elites and the State Run Media cannot comprehend the spontaneity made possible by modern technology, they have no choice but to believe that the Republican party is actually busing people to attend town halls on health care. What they forget is that we are new to this game - veritable rookies - and we have not yet graduated to the concept of busing people to events, much less to the polls. Hey, Robert Gibbs, our "astroturf" actually has some dandelions sprouting out of it. 
Here's where we start to get into the danger zone, though. The White House is actually asking people to report "fishy emails" to its website. One can only surmise that they are not content with subterfuge, smoke and mirrors in their efforts to bamboozle the American people, they now want us to start "turning one another in", so to speak.
For anyone on the left who cried wolf during the W years over privacy issues and personal liberties, this must be an awfully tumultuous time, provided that anyone on the left has an ounce of intellectual honesty. In the meantime, as conservatives continue to spread their new found "protester wings", there is one area that liberals can still claim as their own.
No matter how badly Obama and his cohorts screw up this country, the one thing you will never see at a Tea Party is an American flag on fire.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The Shoe's On The Other Foot
Living In The Matrix
I'm going to show you a video from 2003. After you're done watching and listening, I'm going to tell you that you didn't see it and didn't hear it. That is the tactic that Obama and his minions use today. If we let them succeed, it is at our own peril.
Obama has turned to the internet to attack Matt Drudge, using Linda Douglass, White House Office of Health Reform communications director, to try to convince people that what Obama has said - on numerous occasions - is not what he said. Drudge, in return, posted this video on his site - The Drudge Report - purposefully mentioning that it is uncut. So here we go:
He didn't plainly say that he wants universal health care, and he didn't say and repeat that he wants to acheive a single payer system. There must have been wax in your ears, but don't bother running for the syringe and the Q-Tips™ because no matter how times you play that video back, you will mis-hear Obama, every time.
Monday, August 3, 2009
The Price Of Life Too High
Pragmatism is one of the things that separates the human from the rest of the animal world and yet the only demonstration of pragmatism in evidence by lower animals involves death... at least the death of others. While animals are completely emotionless when leaving the weak behind to die or neglecting imperfect offspring, they will always fight to the last breath to save their own lives. There is much to be said for self preservation in both kingdoms, for even when bleeding profusely and beating back certain death, a human also relies on emotion to bolster the will to survive, considering those they love as they inevitably fade from the world, clutching and clawing until strength fails and breath abates.
The Human kingdom is then divided into two separate camps; those who cherish life beyond their own and those who exhibit an emotionless pragmatism. To be certain, it is not beyond one of either camp to experience less trauma when the person at risk of, or in the throes of, death is not a familiar person, but still, one camp does not actively advocate for the demise of the stranger. And the journals are replete with examples of selfless sacrifices by humans in efforts to save complete strangers from death at the risk of their own lives. Further - and while perhaps less heroic - are the warriors who fight for life as a matter of principle.
Case in point: the Terri Schiavo case of 2005, in which the two camps collided in a bitter contest, with the suffering woman the football. At 41 years of age and in a "persistent vegetative state" for a decade, Ms. Schiavo's estranged husband won the battle to ultimately kill her over the fierce objections of the camp dedicated to life, as well as those of her own parents. The pragmatic ultimately prevailed and Terri Schiavo was killed by starvation and dehydration over the course of several days.
Liberals were emboldened by that heinous "victory" and have now deemed that theirs is an ideology ripe for harvest, allowing their culture of death to emerge from the shadows and bear the light of scrutiny without the need for explanation. While they have vociferously defended their wanton disregard for the lives of the innocent regarding abortion - citing ad nauseam Roe v. Wade - they are now poised to foist upon the American people their own insipid versions of Logan's Run and Soylent Green
To accomplish this feat, liberals have patiently and successfully fomented in the American people a herd mentality, using the guise of "unity" to acquire the acceptance by their subjects of things destined to destroy them. All the while they have applauded as seals at democrat rallies - and Obama speeches in particular - Death has been clapping his famous sickle directly over their shoulders.
The state of Oregon recently offered a shining example of a health care system administered by a government entity, a microcosm of a federal version. It epitomizes the town crier being ignored as a fool, because all that seems to be necessary these days is for Obama to flash his white smile into the camera lens while declaring that he would never lie to us. Still, there is one state bureaucracy that is already telling a citizen that they would be better off dead.
Usually, I make a concerted effort to remain somewhat subdued in my writings, but I find myself increasingly creeping toward the precipice of panic, and the more I dig in my heels, it seems that the pressure exerted on my back increases, just like in my worst nightmares.
Liberals have succeeded in fostering a herd mentality in their disciples - admittedly an odd comparison - and have also incubated an ideology devoid of genuine human compassion, all the while seizing the mantel of benevolence. From a purely tactical point of view, it has been a brilliant campaign, but I still fret over whether we will eventually facilitate our own end...for our own good.
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