Posted on 01/22/2010 8:09:59 AM PST by Lazamataz
It looks like America, teetering as it was on the brink of a 'kinder, gentler' tyranny, has pulled back.
Between the shocking election of Scott Brown in ploddingly-liberal Massachusettes, the overturning of much of McCain-Feingold's ban on election advertisements prior to elections, and the Russian disclosure that the Global Warming hoaxers were making up data, America emerged from this rather close call with a new direction. It appears that direction -- much to the consernation and dismay of the President and much of Congress -- is back to freedom.
What made this possible? What forces drove back the blitzkreig of Government, Regulation, and Suppression?
In a word: Information.
Information turned the tide. Information about the HellCare dealings was crucial. We found out, through media sources other than the State Organs of Propaganda -- CBS, NBC, ABC, LA Times, New York Times, and so on -- that Hell Care Reform had in it an individual mandate to purchase insurance or be fined. An individual mandate, on citizens! Unfunded, like the many unfunded state mandates! That was truly breathtaking.
We found out, through media sources other than the State Organs of Propaganda, that Hell Care cut Medicaid. We found out that while Hell Care allowed you to keep your current insurance, the act of changing a job would force you to switch to their new plan. We found out that people who had good plans would get taxed for them. We found out that while taxes would be paid for years, no benefits would be paid out until years after that.
We found out that certain Senators got bribed, outright, with our money to vote for this plan -- such as the dodgy Sen. Ben Nelson.
The American people were paying attention, too. It was more than a little amazing to see them rise, in such numbers, in one of the most liberal states of the Union and lay fallow the plans of the Democrats to impose Hell Care on us.
Information flowed freely, too, on the Global Warming hoax, after hackers delivered to the internet-at-large copious reams of emails from some of the key players in the hoax. Their emails showed that they were purposely playing fast and loose with the scientific data -- and then when challenged, admitted that they discarded the original data from which their fraud was derived! This goes against every scientific method ever taught.
This fraud is what was to propel the cap-and-trade legislation, who's ultimate purpose was to make energy more costly, and to achieve a greater Central Planning role for the government in the allocation of energy.
It is thought that the hackers that got the emails and released them were from Russia, which made this author ponder: How ironic it is, that Russia saved us from Communism.
Information will flow more freely, now that McCain-Feingold has been overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States. It was always a little odd that the First Amendment was thought to apply to pornography and offensive speech, but NOT to the free expression of political views -- as McCain-Feingold was intended to suppress.
I have hope for America, so long as information flows freely. It turns out we do pay attention, and that we do act to rein in reckless and out of touch lawmakers. It turns out that we wish to preserve our freedom and the capitalist economy that made us so materially wealthy.
My first true editorial....
My first true editorial....
Attaboy...!
I didn’t do too bad, I suppose. It’s not all shiny and professional like the big boys can do, but if the Incredible John Huang2 — who IS a professional at this — likes it, then maybe I’ll be satisfied.
The key was having alternative sources not only give the information, but connect the dots. You can say for example, we have a green jobs czar, or a radical adviser to the president, but by showing how they’re interconnected, how Mao is their hero, what the 9/12 truthers were all about people not only got but understood what was happening. Rush said this back in the 90s , Conservatives need to keep educating people. Liberalism is easy, you just give away “free stuff”. Conservatives need to show how it’s not really free and it costs you your soul.
Laz- it is sort of frightening to be so in mental tune with you, but I thought the exact same thing this morning.
Good job :-)
Just this once. ;)
Thank you!
NOT satire!
But it's mine.
Thanks!
Yes, your previous ones were bare faced lies, one and all.
LOL cute.
Every now and again I’ll get serious..... which you privately know... read this article I wrote!
Hey guys. Thought I’d try writin’....
LOL! Cute!
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