Posted on 08/07/2009 10:23:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Dems Fear Town Hall Meetings
by Allen West
08/07/2009
We are witnessing something really disturbing in America. Our Congressional members -- coming home to enjoy their taxpayer funded recess -- are facing angry constituents at town meetings. These people -- most of whom are voicing concerns we all feel about the economy and what the Democrats are doing to it -- want the congress to rein itself in.
But instead of listening and understanding the constituents’ concerns, some congressmen and the Obama White House are condemning the voters and saying that they’re just shills for Republican groups.
On Wednesday Congressman Ron Klein -- whom I will oppose in 2010 -- and his staff invited constituents to a townhall forum on healthcare issues forum in Lighthouse Point Florida. An email from his office stated that constituents could present Congressman Klein with their questions on healthcare. Some 200 people showed up, but Klein didn’t.
What was he afraid of?
What is of concern is not the reaction of concerned American citizens but rather the response from the liberal media and the DNC. It seems they are resorting to their normal Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” tactics; Rule #5, Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
The Democrats are again lowering themselves to calling Americans a mob and trying to depict concerned Americans as sore losers. We have a Constitution which affords its citizens rights such as free speech, freedom of expression, and freedom to petition the government.
What they fail to realize is that in America we live in a Republic where we respect rule of law, not being ruled.
It is amazing to me that when the opposition to President Obama’s very socialist policies expresses their dissent they are castigated as “tea baggin’ rednecks”, racists, or dumb. What the liberal socialists had best recognize is that their venom is no longer effective, we are anesthetized to their bite. Seems we found anti-venom and we all have been injected to produce anti-bodies.
As well, the DNC is running insidious advertisements and the White House has launched its “Great American Snitch” program at flag@whitehouse.com.
It’s almost comical that the same folks who brought you the professional community organizer president are attacking citizens organizing. We have seen anti-war protests by Code Pink, PETA tossing blood on individuals, enviro-terrorist groups attacking SUV dealerships, ACORN and SEIU protests, and even voter intimidation at polling stations. Yet, concerned American citizens are called extremists.
President George W Bush was constantly attacked from his inauguration in Jan 2001 to the day he departed office Jan 20, 2009. (And some still criticize him if they can’t think of anything else to say or write.) But dare you speak of the anointed one and you are a racist.
Left wing blogs attack Governor Sarah Palin and made allegations that her young Son Trig is not hers.
Left wing news media attacked former First Lady Laura Bush reference a traffic accident when she was a teenager. No one is questioning the law license inactive status of First Lady Michele Obama. And what is up with twenty-two staffers for the First Lady Michele?
The Bush twins were regularly part of media attacks, dare no one speak of the Obama daughters who attend wonderful -- and very expensive -- Sidwell Friends private school. A school that is not available to other children in DC, who are just as qualified but whose families are less fortunate and unable to pay for them to attend.
What is happening is that some of us read the book “Rules for Radicals” and we are turning the table on the liberals. Here are some examples;
Rule 1: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have”
Rule 3: “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat”
Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this……”
Rule 8: “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions……”
Rule 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself”
Rule 11: “If you push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break through into its counterside”
Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”
It seems to me that the liberals are great at dishing it out but intolerant of taking a punch.
I will say what may not be politically correct but the future and legacy of our Country is at stake. Get out there and go to the townhalls. Tell your congressman and senators -- respectfully but firmly -- that you will work hard to defeat them next year if they continue on the liberal path of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
As a 22 year US Army combat veteran I can tell you when I smell fear, and the left wing liberal socialists are stinking up the place.
My admonition is to be like a shark which senses blood in the water and attack. They truly felt that since they won, we would lie down and not fight back against their dangerous agenda. They are wrong, and August is the month to prove that fact all over our great land.
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Allen West is retired as a LTC after 22 years in the US Army, and he holds two masters degrees. He is married with two daughters and resides in Plantation, Florida.
Republicans should too.
I agree and smell fear, but even a cornered animal might do something completely irrational, like pass this smelly p.o.s legislation. That is what I am afraid of seeing. I hope we can break these mofos and break that smarmy excuse of a human being they call president. That dude needs to be knocked down a few pegs back to reality.
They have no idea how pissed off people are at them.
They don’t fear us.
Yet.
But they will.
When the commie ‘RATS threw their jackbooted, union thugs into the fray at the town hall meetings, they fired the first shots in their war on America. The way I see it, everything is fair game from here on out. It’s Americans against the Commie ‘RATS.
**Dems Fear Town Hall Meetings**
They just don’t want to hear the truth.
Seniors will kill this bill.
They are elected as representatives of their particular constituency. Instead of looking out for the interests of the people who sent them there they are completely ignoring them. Saddling them with taxes, debt, regulations. Trying to take away their fundamental freedom to choose where to go and what their options are in matters of health, life, and death. Gee, why would people be upset about that.
An American Mother posted a Nazi emblem on another thread — it was so similar to this that it was absolutely frightful. Maybe she will post it for you.
Godspeed LTC West. We are praying for you.
Actually yes, they should fear their constituents - after all, they only elect them. Hopefully, this will be enough to persuade them - not hoping this year (land of the strange).
What most don’t realize is that they have awakened a giant! Most of the public (party be dammed) could care less about party and just want what is best for America. Well, they have not only gone overboard, but have begun sinking ships! This group (Both Congress and Senate) have begun to believe that they are not only invincible, but beyond reelection problems! Well, I am here to tell them that they are not just wrong, but DAMN WRONG! We will vote these creeps out of office at the next election!
You Democratic believers that can’t seem to see what is happening...hide and watch!
What we’ve learned is when the American people don’t pay attention, Washington gets into a whole lot of mischief,” Obama said. “And when we do pay attention, good things happen.”
Barack Obama, on the campaign trail in Claremont, NH, 3/19/07
Then-candidate Obama encouraged voters to “get engaged.”
Yes they will, and in self-defense if for no other reason. All of us who aren't Seniors must stand with them or...
It's truly amazing isn't it? Moonbat Democrats, who DO form mob like groups, like Code Pinko's, Cindy she-mans mob of terrorist loving communists,, Mobs of racists lead by race baiters Al Sharpton and fake "reverend"(or Satan's apostle) Jackson, and other mobs of professional "protestors" who take their freak show from city to city, destroying all public and private property in their path,
cry out that it's "freedom of expression", and "freedom of speech" if anyone tries to say anything about their crimminal behavior, and lack of anything intelligent to say. Democrats like Nazi Pelosi cry out about their right to protest.
But when it comes to normal everyday citisens wanting to question their representitives in town hall meetings, these same people call it a mob, and lump them into what they call groups of "right wing extremists", and then they attack them with their own communist union mobs, and corrupt or very stupid police.
They just don’t want to hear the truth.
Seniors will kill this bill.
I wouldn't be all that surprised if some senior figures he (or she) has nothing more to lose and kills more than just a bill.
Might even become something of a national sport.
Not advocating, just observing.
Prsidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: "Yes Joanne, President Obama said that, but that's so 2007, the President has moved on".
Bump for later reading.
Have you noticed that the media are pretending that this is only happening to the democrats?
This is not a partisan happening, the AMERICAN people are ticked off, not just republicans.
Cash For Geezers
Hi, y’all.
Ping test.
This is for posting and pinging about any elected reps and their schedules. I just went through the FR Member list on the state page and copied all of your names.
We have to counter these cowards.
If you want off, please let me know?
Have a great weekend.
I’m going to email that to my friends...and flag@WH.
Fearing Town Hall meetings...they best fear the voting booths across this nation come 2010!!!
Thank you.
Is there one in Colorado Springs any time soon?
That's because we are.
I don't know, but whitehouse.gov under it's current management is certainly obscene.
Nope.
(I bravely went over there and checked it out. However, I remember hearing that it was a porn site at one time.)
If I recall correctly, that is the eagle standard of the "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" - the SS regiment that was Hitler's personal bodyguard. The metal plaque directly under the eagle reads "Adolf Hitler", and the banner underneath reads "Deutschland erwache" - Germany awake.
That's simply their version of "Hope and Change"...
Am I the only one who sees a gorilla’s face and a baboon’s ass in this logo?
I’m in. Thanks and keep ‘em coming!
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