Posted on 08/09/2009 7:10:04 AM PDT by OK Right
Fear of communism permeated American culture in the 1950s. Neighbors turned in neighbors for suspicious activities. Libraries turned in book checkout lists to the government. Everyone was in each other’s business.
Leftist historians like to demonize Joseph McCarthy and there’s a certain degree of good reason for that. He took his communist searches to extremes and made mistakes – but he was also right more often than liberal history books would have us believe. There were officials in power with communist/socialist links.
Imagine what McCarthy would think of Washington now. At least in the past, one had to dig deeply to trace the connections. So many people in government today have virtually transparent past affiliations with socialist groups.
In fact, in many respects, the commie with-hunt 1950s are back – except that this time, the hunted are the hunters.
The Obama camp has set up a website for watchdog citizens to turn in what they perceive to be misinformation about the healthcare plan. Ostensibly, they want to know who’s misleading the American public and – um, correct – these poor misinformed souls.
But anyone can see that this is a 21st century spy-on-your-neighbor operation designed to silence all Obama dissenters.
This comes from the same administration that regarded phone surveillance against suspected terrorists as a gross violation of human rights; from the same administration that wants to go after Bush 43 administration members who saw fit to waterboard three terrorists in order to glean information from them and prevent future attacks on American soil.
So now the Obama camp resorts to intimidation tactics that are themselves a form of aggression. It shouldn’t surprise us. Camp Obama has never hesitated to resort to threats. Note his violent rhetoric during the presidential campaign. At a stopoff in Elko, Nevada, Obama implored his supporters to help him turn uncertain and Republican voters: “I want you to get in their face and argue with them” (Kathleen Hennessy, “Obama mocks McCain in Nevada stops,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 17, 2008, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/17/politics/p185733D40.DTL&type=politics).
Imagine that kind of belligerent suggestion coming from Senator John McCain – or President George W. Bush or VP Dick Cheney. The lamestream media would have roasted them up one side and down the other.
Yet it’s even more disturbing: At a June ’08 Democratic fundraiser, Obama promised to outdo the Republicans in any way possible: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl” (Ben Smith, “Obama brings a gun to a knife fight,” June 14, 2008, http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Obama_brings_a_gun_to_a_knife_fight.html).
But now the battle goes stealth, to be fought in subterranean depths. Turn-in-thy-neighbhor is clearly designed to stoke fear in all Obama dissenters and silence those who dare oppose the current administration’s actions.
So we shouldn’t protest another loan to Fannie Mae. We shouldn’t oppose the 40-plus Obama-czars. The birthers – wacky or not – shouldn’t have a voice to protest a president they see as a usurper. And we damn well better stop questioning Obamacare and just let it sail through.
In fact, Americans shouldn’t dare voice a whisper – let alone a cry – against any action undertaken by our government.
Take a good look and assess how radically the American tables have turned in just a little over half a year. And how 1950s paranoia has been resurrected by those in power.
Yet what irony. The watched have become the watchers.
“Somebody, somehow needs to monitor the czars.”
Well, if Michael Steele was anything other than an affirmative action, lightweight stiff, the Republicans would have already filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of the proliferation of czars under this Administration. This would be a slam dunk winner in the Supreme Court. But no, let’s wait for the 2010 elections, the ones that are already being ‘fixed’ by ACORN and the international left.
“Then the children will turn you on and you will spend the rest of your life in a gulag.”
Like Parsons being proud that his son turned him in to the Thought Police in 1984.
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I need to get around to reading that some time.
Its a good book. Very creepy though. Re-read it about a month ago. It had been a while.
Boy you are right on that one. All 100 senators are so full of themselves and yet they stand on the sidelines while the guy who plays president on tv is snatching their power away from them dialy. I would expect even dimrat senators to be raising hell about now. Why are they silent?
Frightened? Hardly. If she's breathing, she's plotting. As SoS, she should be strongly supporting her president. Instead, she's silent.
The dog is not barking in the night-time.
“If she’s breathing, she’s plotting.”
She has more experience. Perhaps she is hoping Obama will screw himself, she will resign just before primaries, and hope that Obama has failed so miserably that she gets the nomination.
Let’s end this thing!
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