Posted on 09/13/2009 8:25:18 AM PDT by GVnana
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sunday, September 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama flew to Minnesota on Saturday to rally support for his health care plan, a sea of protesters filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National Mall on Saturday in the largest rally against Obama since he took office, a culmination of a summer-long season of protests that began with opposition to the health care overhaul and grew into a broader dissatisfaction with government.
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Dissatisfied with government
The demonstrators in Washington came from all corners of the country, waving American flags and handwritten signs explaining the root of their frustrations. Their anger stretched well beyond the health care legislation, with shouts of support for gun rights, lower taxes and a smaller government.
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The demonstrators numbered well into the tens of thousands, though the police declined to provide an estimate of the size of the crowd. Many of the participants came on their own and weren't part of an organization or group. The magnitude of the rally took the authorities by surprise, with throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours.
How fitting that the failed president would fly off to visit
with constituents of the failed comedian, while real Americans
are trying to save the country.
Thousands...? Why doesn’t the Times try hundreds of thousands....? Didn’t want to upset Obama with the truth...
How about that! 2 million people show up and NYT says tens of thousands!
Were there many pro-obimbo folks at the rally?
I count 35 people in that picture.../s
How to distinguish Liberty from Tryanny:
| Liberty | "Soft" Tyranny | |
| 1 | Rights are inherent in, and unalienable from, individuals | Rights are granted/rescinded by the majority through the government |
| 2 | Fundamental rights are life, liberty, and property (absence of coercion) | Fundamental rights are food, housing, and healthcare (absence of necessity) |
| 3 | Property is owned by individuals who make decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer | Property is owned by 'the public' with government officials making decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer |
| 4 | Government exists to protect the rights of individuals | Government exists to plan and direct the resources of society |
| 5 | Government authority is decentralized in a federal system with limited and enumerated powers | Government authority is centralized in a national system with broad and necessarily intrusive powers |
| 6 | Government action is prescribed by rules fixed and announced beforehand | Government action is arbitrary and at the descretion of "czars" and planning boards |
| 7 | Economic activity is driven by a large number of small entities interacting according to simple rules | Economic activity is driven by a small number of large entities operating within the constraints of complex regulations |
| 8 | Effective innovation results from contrarian thinking, individual initiative, and the voluntary exchange of property | Efficient implementation of government planning requires conformity of opinion, collective action, and the coerced transfer of property |
| 9 | Standards of living for the many increase permanently as they utilize improved products and services conceived by the few | Standards of living for the many increase temporarily as they utilize property redistributed from the few |
| 10 | Altruism is using one's own resources in concrete acts to help specific individuals | Altruism is obligating the resources of others for broad-brush programs to help mankind in the abstract |
Rights exists solely as a way to fairly decide whose will shall prevail in cases where two or more people disagree. They do not exist for the purpose of enslaving one person for the benefit of another (e.g., the "right" to free medical care.)
Liberty is the right to do whatever does not infringe the rights of others. Rights empower you to help yourself, free from interference by others.
Tyranny makes you a serf to be used by the elite to further their own power. Once upon a time, the nobility used religion to convince the serfs they had to serve the nobility. Modernly, the elite use good people's feelings of altruism to convince them to enslave both themselves and their neighbors. It's basically the same con game, just using a more sophisticated hook.
Fox was doing the same thing yesterday: tens of thousands over and over.
Don’t know what they are saying today...
Who do you believe, the NYT or your own lyin’ eyes? LOL.
“, though the police declined to provide an estimate of the size of the crowd.”
,though most of the MSM have declined to announce any real estimates of the size of the crowd.
File under: THINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
Apparently, there are some non-counting idiots working at the NYT...
What a headline and vile comparison:
* 15,000 paid union thugs, assorted government “workers,” and recipients of our largesse are bussed in to support monstrous, all-consuming government in Minneapolis
* 1,000,000 Americans give up their time and their own money to protest against the collectivist, tyrannical overthrow of their government
And the two are morally equivalent in the headline writer’s mind?
Give me a break.
Well, the NYT would have said 10 people, but even they know that their readers, using both hands and feet, can count up to 20.
Once again the Community Organizer votes 'Not Present'.
I can’t imagine that they’d have the guts to show up.
That is very thoughtful and well-written. Great post.
So the New York Times, it all comes out about equal. Never mind that in Minnesota, Obama drew 15 thousand (locals who received free tickets) vs 1500 thousands in DC (people who had to make major commitments of time and money to attend).
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