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.
More edicts from the fatherland.
I loath this POS president and his communist congress posse. May they all rot in hell!
Let’s see... Total polarity opposites, McCarthy’s purpose was to protect the Republic while Zero’s purpose is to destroy the Republic.
Is that Rahm's #1 fish?
We are losing our country. I weep for our ancestors, and for those who have bled and died for America. Who would have thought it would have come to this, led by a President who has no experience managing anything, who was mentored by anti-American Marxist radicals, and who hides all his personal records, including his college records and birth certificate. He mysteriously came on the scene out of nowhere, financed into Harvard by some mysterious source, reportedly a Muslim prince. Someone or some organization chose and groomed him for this moment for the purpose of destroying our institutions. And he has a Muslim name.
Like Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Russia, now the White House is taking names of dissenters for a data base. After a complete takeover by martial law, which some believe will be very soon, some of us may hear government goons knocking on our front door some dark night. Those of us who are speaking out may find out what our nation’s founders experienced when they stood up against tyranny and who pledged “their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor” to give us 200+ years of freedom.
Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Exactly. The inmates are now running the asylum.
Somebody, somehow needs to monitor the czars. Even if the dems are voted out in 2010 and 2012, these czars are taking power every day and no one is monitoring them.
I was going to say...........
McCarthy was attempting to protect America from Marxists.
Obama is attempting to protect Marxism from Americans.
The picture you paint of the so-called McCarthy Era is very much over the top.
The Obama Era, however, appears to be leading to our undoing.
“The picture you paint of the so-called McCarthy Era is very much over the top.”
Why over the top? Just out of curiosity.
Folks, the truth is the core group of commies initiating and implementing all this crap is an incredibly small number. At least for now. We could eliminate this cancer in very short order, once we decide things are serious enough, and then once we decide to jettison this passive, ‘civil discourse mindset’, and act like you’re supposed to when you are threatened. I’m there already, let me know when the rest of you decide that it’s time.
If that was your photoshop/HTML work in post #8, I want you to know that I have not laughed so hard in days ... that was good!
I cannot understand the Senators standing by and watching Obama appoint Czars. Obama is taking away the power of the senate to confirm those who are high up in the policymaking portion of the Government.
Either they are blind or refuse to see this usurpation of their Senate powers.Are they so in the bag for this dictatorial president that they can go along with this nonsense.
Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is no more than a traveling figurehead. Yet she is quiet. Are they all so frightened of this arrogant narcissist.?
Sadly, I see us caught in a python's? grip. The more we try to free ourselves and breathe, the snake takes that opportunity to tighten itself until we are suffocated and all life is crushed out of us. Don't mean to sound morbid, but I don't think the options are docile any longer.
If that was your photoshop/HTML work in post #8, I want you to know that I have not laughed so hard in days ... that was good!Yep. Was me. Thanks. Glad I could make you laugh even during very unfunny times.
‘we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Then the children will turn you on and you will spend the rest of your life in a gulag.
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