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Originally posted by Exuberant1
There's a Revolution coming.
I have a feeling it will be quite a thorough one - thanks to information technology. We have their names, we have their faces, we have their addresses and we have the Constitution on our side.
Oh yeah, We're angry too.
[edit on 7-8-2009 by Exuberant1]
...Taking a page right out of a Nazi playbook, organizers bus in professional protestors and arm them with instructions on how to take over meetings, shut down discussion, shout over any pro-health care reform speakers, and then post video of the resulting chaos on YouTube. It's mob rule, pure and simple.
Having encouraged viewers to show up, sympathetic anchors on Fox News then pretend these are "grassroots" protests springing up spontaneously across the country in opposition to President Obama's plans for health care reform. Nonsense. There's nothing spontaneous about them. They're not grassroots protests, they're "Astroturf" protests. Just look at who's paying the freight, who shows up and what orders they're given.
The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.
Originally posted by Wimbly
Bill Press claims the protesters using tactics "from the nazi playbook" and Washington Post columnist says the GOP are "political terrorists".
Is anyone else starting to get uneasy?
www.courant.com...
...Taking a page right out of a Nazi playbook, organizers bus in professional protestors and arm them with instructions on how to take over meetings, shut down discussion, shout over any pro-health care reform speakers, and then post video of the resulting chaos on YouTube. It's mob rule, pure and simple.
Having encouraged viewers to show up, sympathetic anchors on Fox News then pretend these are "grassroots" protests springing up spontaneously across the country in opposition to President Obama's plans for health care reform. Nonsense. There's nothing spontaneous about them. They're not grassroots protests, they're "Astroturf" protests. Just look at who's paying the freight, who shows up and what orders they're given.
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www.washingtonpost.com...
The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.
You sir, have become a state propagandist.
Originally posted by DrMattMaddix
reply to post by Wimbly
The Obamatrons need to place blame on 'someone' or 'something'.
How do you demonize a housewife carrying a baby?
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by DrMattMaddix
reply to post by Wimbly
The Obamatrons need to place blame on 'someone' or 'something'.
How do you demonize a housewife carrying a baby?
I'm guessing the same way the right demonized mothers against the war, or country music stars who speak their mind at their own concerts, or anyone who was against the Iraq war.
I think you and I and everyone else just need to wake up to the fact, that climates completely flip upside down when power changes hands in this country.
Originally posted by Clark Savage Jr.
I wonder how long it may be before organized Union lackeys are attempting to disrupt threads such as these with off topic 'birther' videos, etc.
On a more on topic note: any stifling of dissent is always a bad thing and can only lead to an escalation of differences.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by Eurisko2012
Hopefully it will be the citizens taking back the house and the senate in 2010.
The Republicans simply create problems the Democrats pretend they can solve. The Democrats simply create problems the Republicans pretend to solve.
Nothing has gotten better in America under either dysfunctional party.
Both have employed shameless and unconstitutional tactics.
Here is a novel idea, since America is now wired to Internet and Cellular Phones, let the people start representing themselves.
Let the people vote on each issue and weigh in on each issue and watch how fast Special Interest gets out of government and out of the government's budget.
Want to see the deficit reduced, sensible legislation, laws that work for the citizens instead of the corporations...stop electing corruptable congress people.
Stop engaging in a two party divide and conquer identity system.
Make people actually aware of government by allowing them to function as the government by a majority rule based on the actual people instead of corrupt politicians and media moguls, corporations and special interests groups.
The technology exists and it's probably the only way we are ever going to be rid of the edemic corruption in Congress and the Body Politic.
Originally posted by DraconianKing
Maybe if you lunatics would act like respectable adults you would be allowed in but instead you whine and bitch like stupid children. These opinions are not your own, most of you have been hired to act like thugs and lunatics so don't start crying foul.
80% of foreclosures are due to health care costs, and most of these people are insured. So according to you, you would rather lose everything you own and die from a treatable disease for what exactly? Because it is the GOP way? You people are sick in the head.
[edit on 7-8-2009 by DraconianKing]