Posted on 08/05/2009 6:58:53 AM PDT by yoe
f you see anybody publicly opposing President Obamas plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP.
From the (White House website)
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we cant keep track of all of them here at the White House, were asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Emphasis added. Of course, as weve seen in the health care debate to date, the term disinformation is used by the Obama White House as a catchall to describe any opposition to the Presidents push for single-payer, government-run health care meaning the White House wants to be informed of any forwarded emails or blog posts or any casual conversations that could be taken as opposition to their health care overhaul plan.
The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy opposition they hope to receive from citizen informers.
Interestingly, as Jake Tapper pointed out on Twitter this morning, the title of that post on the White House is a quote from John Adams 1770 Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials.
(h/t Jon Henke)
The White House is saying that the Town Hall meetings are staged. I don’t think they have seen anything yet. This thing is going to blow up in their face.
This is the longest seven months I’ve ever experienced.
God save the Republic from its enemies (both internal and external.)
Swamp the mailbox with lots of names and address - fake or otherwise. Personally, I like the spam option.
Let’s start a new Obama Youth Group (OYG), open to children ages 6 to 16 whose parents have shown their loyalty to our dear leader. Every member of OYG shall be given a stethoscope attached to a tape recorder, a zip drive, and a two-way radio on a frequency open only to OYG members. With these, they’ll make sure that their parents, their siblings, the neighbors, and even their teachers at school are not spreading disinformation about dear leader and his many glorious changes, all through his many staffers’ mail drops, both e and snail. Oh, happy day! Change is upon us! Hope is alive and...well...
Our communists King Obama and his evil corrupt empire. No surprise here.
PEASANTS AND WORKERS!!!! DEAR LEADER KOMRADE OBAMA WANTS TO SILENCE DISSIDENT COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY CAPITALIST PIGS FOR MAKE BENEFIT OF GLORIOUS REVOLUTION!!!!!!!
The keep this crap up and someone will thank them with a box of free “fireworks”!
After hearing about this outrage, and confirming it for myself, I grabbed a random music album and tossed it in the player. Title, by staggering coincidence - “Tyranny >For You<”.
The White House is saying that the Town Hall meetings are staged. I dont think they have seen anything yet. This thing is going to blow up in their face.
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Yep. First they don’t listen to the people....then they accuse them of being liars. NOT A GOOD MOVE.
Ah, confession is good for the soul. I just flagged myself as against the health care debacle. Just think how busy that bureaucrat will be with everyone that dislikes the socialized plan confessing to flag@whitehouse.gov.
I feel cleansed.
But then I thought... Wait, my family's been turned in before and we survived, in Nazi Germany. We will survive this one too.
Never again: yeah, right.
Under the Email Subject “Is this Nazi Germany?” I wrote the following...
“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we cant keep track of all of them here at the White House, were asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Pres. Obama, take a minute to read the first amendment, please! “Casual conversation”??? What is this, Nazi Germany? My father fought his way across France, Belgium and into Germany itself because of a ruthless regime that used these very tactics you now espouse. No way in HELL will I inform on my fellow Americans.
You are trying to giftwrap this TURD of a healthcare plan and ram it down our throats. A woman in Philadelphia asked HHS Secretary Sebelius the other day if we should believe that a Gov’t that has bankrupted Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, AND can’t run a used car lot (Cash for Clunkers) can manage 1/7th of our Nation’s economy in the form of a healthcare plan. She wasn’t given the courtesy of an answer. We are not a “Mob”, we are concerned citizens who have found our voices. For 8 years we heard that “Dissent is patriotic”. Well, Mr. Obama, I am a PATRIOT. Tell your fellow Democrats that we are HERE, and that we ARE NOT BACKING DOWN. We will remember this behavior in the voting booths in 2010, and in 2012.
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Bayside, NY
“I couldn’t find the part that asks for the reporting of the name of a person or persons spreading misinformation.”
Email and IP addresses from the email chain. Collect enough data and then sort them to see which addresses most frequently show up, bada-bing, chief dissenters are identified.
My simple letter to them:
Dear President Obama,
Wouldn’t turning in opponents of your health care reform plan be against the First Amendment? What will happen to the people who are turned in?
My grandfather was turned in to the authorities once. He ended up nearly dying in Buchenwald. His mother died in a different camp. My other great-grandparents also died in a camp because someone turned them in.
Isn’t free speech allowed here in the United States? Even if we disagree with something our government does?
Respectfully,
It will be instructional to see how many Americans would stoop so low as to Grass out their fellow Americans.
Is your next door neighbor a Supergrass? You’ll find out maybe one day when he grasses on half the neighborhood and you all get taken away in a big buss.
Perhaps we should send in pictures of the “joker” and suggest that here is the source of misinformation.
If the WH is merely trying to identify media sources...it's not quite the same bombshell.
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