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Monday, August 31, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
"flag@whitehouse.gov"
I'm actually happy to see the fights and arguments breaking out all over the country about the healthcare bill. Recall that during the (most recent) Bush administration, our liberal friends were quick to remind us of the importance and inherent patriotism of dissent. When we see people shouting at each other in a town hall meeting, or confronting a suddenly, and for the first time in his life, silenced senator, what we see is discussion rather than indoctrination. The Obama administration and its congressional allies have already forced an historically expensive spending bill on us, intentionally not allowing time to even read it. They would have happily done it again if the Republican minority hadn't stood up and slowed the liberal rubber stamp machine of Reid/Pelosi. Now they are facing questions and challenges from the people who will pay the bills and cast the votes.
I also find it quite ironic that the same people who were insisting that we slow down and talk while the Bush administration was going its own way in Iraq now suddenly tell us that there isn't time, if we wait too long we're doomed, don't read it, just sign it. Well, I say what a growing number of voting Americans say: How are you going to pay for it? Or better yet, how am I going to pay for it? Even worse than the "Don't take the time to read this thing that you're great grandchildren will be paying for" bill is the idea that the White House wants you to listen and report... not on potential terrorists, as that might violate their civil rights, but your email friend who passes something on to you that wasn't reported by the mainstream media, or by a coworker who heard Glenn Beck talk about this thing that we're supposed to pay for somehow without reading through. Sound paranoid? This is from Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House's Health Reform Office: "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 can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for some 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."
There's a little thing called the first ammendment, Mister Obama and Miss Douglas. It allows us to disagree and dissent and argue and even question our government without fear of being regulated by government czars. It might sound fishy, but it's there, and you can't change it. And if that's too vague and old-fashioned for this 'progressive' White House, there's this: "According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, shall 'maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Ammendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to an authorized law enforcement agency."
For the moment, sir, unless and until you manage to change it, even that law applies to you.
I also find it quite ironic that the same people who were insisting that we slow down and talk while the Bush administration was going its own way in Iraq now suddenly tell us that there isn't time, if we wait too long we're doomed, don't read it, just sign it. Well, I say what a growing number of voting Americans say: How are you going to pay for it? Or better yet, how am I going to pay for it? Even worse than the "Don't take the time to read this thing that you're great grandchildren will be paying for" bill is the idea that the White House wants you to listen and report... not on potential terrorists, as that might violate their civil rights, but your email friend who passes something on to you that wasn't reported by the mainstream media, or by a coworker who heard Glenn Beck talk about this thing that we're supposed to pay for somehow without reading through. Sound paranoid? This is from Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House's Health Reform Office: "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 can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for some 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."
There's a little thing called the first ammendment, Mister Obama and Miss Douglas. It allows us to disagree and dissent and argue and even question our government without fear of being regulated by government czars. It might sound fishy, but it's there, and you can't change it. And if that's too vague and old-fashioned for this 'progressive' White House, there's this: "According to 5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, shall 'maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Ammendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to an authorized law enforcement agency."
For the moment, sir, unless and until you manage to change it, even that law applies to you.
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