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.
Does this seriousness make my brain look fat?
Excellent work, Laz!
No, your brain looks fine
*eyeroll*
*ducking*
But seriesly. Hell Care - cuts in Medicare, cuts in Social Security, health care rationing, death panels, over a HUNDRED new bureaucracies, huge tax hikes, imprisonment and fines for not buying health care. What's not to like about it?
I want a refund.
Well done.
THX TONS.
Now you’re blowing both our covers! LOL.
LUB
All too true. Even when we’re being “informationed” to death (presidential speeches every other day, White House press sessions, MSM spin, the truth still pokes through mire; and it’s impossible to ignore.
Needs more nekkid wimmins.
Our challenge always remains to keep the lines of communication and information open. We must anticipate early how the forces of tyranny will next try to restrict the information that defeats them; they will never give up.
Love your points and thoughts well said; well presented.
I wish I had the confidence that such events and trends will be more than a few garden hoses against a forest fire.
However, we must support all such that we can as vigorously as we can as long as we can.
Lives depend on it.
I don’t know how much longer the information flow . . . will be available at what levels of coverage and at what levels of reality/truth/accuracy etc.
I do believe that God Almighty will be exposing more and more evil wherever it is—first in the Christian circles as He has been doing for a few decades . . . but also amidst the globalist satanists as your examples outlined.
I think the publicizing of the globalist evils by God Almighty has barely just begun in the tiniest degree. I do think we can look forward, in a sense, to God crashing the doors down with spotlights and cameras blazing, so to speak—to all manner of orgies of evil amongst the elites and power mongers in high places.
EVERYTHING EVIL THAT’S HIDDEN WILL BE BROUGHT TO VIVID LIGHT. How much of that in this time/space dimension remains to be seen.
Actually, Scripture indicates that EVERYTHING will be exposed period—everything. I believe a LOT of that is at the point of or after death or at some future point in our “history future.”
Yet, I’m convinced that the evil doers at the top are very unprepared to have their bone marrow motives and their evil deeds paraded publically well before they think they will ever be found out.
Information helped, Laz... but what got people moving was *fear*.
The economy is crappy, and it is getting worse. Democrats were off talking about non-economic things (e.g. healthcare).
The public just took the Dems out to the woodshed and spanked them.
If we ignore the economy, they’ll spank us next.
/johnny
END TIMES PING LIST PRAYER CALL.
Please pray for Laz.
Something must have hit him on the head.
Here’s a wonderful, serious editorial.
But I’m concerned for his health. What could have happened?
Did he get hit by a Mack truck?
Did he run into OThuga’s ego head first?
Did Helen Thomas sit on him?
Did Pelousey’s finger go off?
Did Barney Frank [we won’t do there]
Did Reedy Reid’s acid spittle splatter?
Did Bella Abzugggy sit on his funny bone?
Did BoxerFace slug him one?
Ahhhh well. It’s a good read.
Nevertheless, I suspect prayer would still do him some good.
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LUBBRO.
Naw.
Just alarms your medical team.
LOL.
Well done, FRiend.
A refund?
I didn’t know there was a market for his . . .
flatulance.
A good editorial too. Keep it up and ping me to them.
Jesus IS coming.
A God-Bless-The-Internet BTT. That’s the real leveler, the incredible ability of the common citizen to be heard. It is the single most profoundly egalitarian influence in communications since Gutenberg was pressing out bootleg Bibles. And yet there is a cold meritocracy at work here - good stuff is harder to produce - you’re certainly right about that - but it does get read more. The difference is that it is the consumer who makes that choice, not the Church or the State. That’s why the latter would love to start pulling the levers and applying the filters - again. And that’s why we have to resist that.
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