How long till the shackles of the left be loose?
I think that if I were going again, I would take pepper spray and hold it in my hand. Wearing a billed (5th Cav. Army) cap seems to help because that kept people from getting straight nose to nose with me. Plus, I would redo my sign so it wouldn't be as heavy!
The following is a link to an old thread about an even older booklet, entitled “The Revolution Was”, by Garet Garrett, written in 1938 about FDR and the New Deal. The entire booklet can be easily viewed in the light of 2009 - 71 years later!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
The following excerpt is of interest in view of Government Health Care and the liberal’s response to protests:
PROBLEM SIX
THE DOMESTICATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL
... But it was as if in every case the question was, “Which course of action will tend more to increase the dependence of the individual upon the Federal government?” and as if invariably the action resolved upon was that which would appeal rather to the weakness than to the strength of the individual.....
No individual life escaped, unless it was that of a desert rat or cave dweller. It was thus that the hand of paternal government, having first seized economic power, traced the indelible outlines of the American Welfare State. In the welfare state the government undertakes to see to it that the individual shall be housed and clothed and fed according to a statistical social standard, and that he shall be properly employed and entertained, and in consideration for this security the individual accepts in place of entire freedom a status and a number and submits his life to be minded and directed by an all-responsible government.
When New Dealers speak in one breath of a welfare economy and with the next breath bitterly denounce pressure groups [Tea Parties!] it may seem that they involve themselves in an ironical dilemma. It is easy to say: “What would you expect, since you have made division of the national income a matter of political bargaining where before it had been always a matter of economic bargaining?”
Yet they are right, the New Dealers. In the welfare state, pressure groups [Tea Parties!], representing willful political action, cannot be tolerated. They will have to be suppressed at last, because in the welfare state the government cannot really guarantee social security until it goes to the logical end, which is to ration the national income in time of peace just as all goods and satisfactions are rationed in time of war.
All well and good, but it's bound to be a bad trip with them running the country.
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Actually, there are a couple of pix of demonstrators with swastikas. They are union fellows who hold up the swastikas for pix then swap them for their pro Hussein-o-care signs or go back to beating up on the better dressed demonstrators.
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You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until the fools start pushing amnesty.
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