Posted on 04/22/2010 3:14:55 AM PDT by Dr. Abulafia
As the MSM falls all over itself trying to paint the Tea Party folks as radical, potentially violent insurrectionists, a vital point has been completely missed: they’re not the revolutionaries. The true revolutionaries are in the White House and Congress. They are the ones “fundamentally transforming” this nation. It’s kind of a tough sell for Obama to push for government takeovers of the auto industry, national healthcare, student loans, banks, the financial system, energy- and then point at those protesting these changes and call them revolutionaries. No, that would be you, Mr. President. And Speaker Pelosi, Rep. Frank, Senators Reid and Dodd, Mr. Holdren, Mr. Sunstein, etc.
Technically, the people at the Tea Parties are the counter-revolutionaries, dedicated to stopping the insurrection now taking place in the halls of power in DC. It’s not treason to attempt to stop out-of-control leaders from ruining the country.
Forget Obama; let’s imagine the stakes are higher. Imagine some un-named, charismatic radical in the future (with the media on his side) who manages to fool or intimidate enough people to gain control of some un-named democratic nation. Imagine that he’s from the “right”, if it helps the analogy. He then sets out to drastically change virtually everything that makes this country function , legally when he can, illegally when he must, even though the new direction is clearly opposed by a majority of the population. He rapidly transfers power from the people to the state, thus removing “democracy” from the picture. (I think this has even happened once or twice throughout history). Are the people obliged to accept the destruction of their own nation without a struggle when a madman has seized power because they fear being labeled insurrectionists? Who is the actual traitor? At what point does it become OK to defend yourself? Would history have condemned Europe’s Jews if they had fought back before they began to be shipped off to the camps?
I’m clearly not insinuating that President Obama is a madman; I’m using an extreme example to ask: how far down the road to ruin must we allow the USA to go before we reclaim it, peacefully, from the idealogues who foresee a very different future for us all? We should all counter-revolutionaries, now.
Nicely said! Yes, we are “counter-revolutionary” PATRIOTS! And, just a bit of a correction: Bowrama is a madman!
Maybe we can adopt the old Jefferson Airplane song "Volunteers (Counter-revolution)" - wouldn't that just drive the Libs (even more) nuts......
I see the temptation to make this statement, but I really advise against surrendering to it. The man is obsessed with power and convinced that the only way to properly administer a nation is to fully control it. You may well say this isn't enough of a distinction to separate what I see with what you said, but I contend that a madman will be both illogical and irrational. I think that the president is neither but goes about his business in all seriousness and sanity. That makes him evil rather than mad.
I would much prefer to simply think him mistaken, but that would require that he be willing to admit errors and to correct himself. What he appears willing to do is to change his diction in order to continue to acquire power, thinking that the only necessity is to find new ways to fool us into thinking he isn't doing what he is doing. (A recent VDH article pointed out it was only last fall he was strongly supporting Goldman Sachs and Wall Street. See how he changes course when he wants to?) Hard to think a madman could be capable of such subtle subversion. What think you?
You're probably correct! He is evil...to his very core! Not to mention delusional, psychotic and schizophrenic!
This relates to this topic.
I was emailing with a serviceman [AF] who says “they don’t feel much support, these days”.
I tried to explain that since the [hypocritical] anti-war protesters have pretty much shut up, we have no thing and no where to counter-protest *them* to show our support for the troops.
He was not aware of FR.
Is there nothing we can do [rallies, etc] that would show the troops [whose info from home may be getting “filtered”] that we do indeed support them wholeheartedly?
It tore me up to read his words and to think that he believes they’ve been abandoned.
He was, however, overjoyed by the Tea Party movement and is looking forward *very much* to coming home in a few months to join in.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Last time I looked, megalomania was considered a mental illness. Socialist megalomaniac describes "o" perfectly.
I think Ted Nugent has founded an organization to do exactly that. I haven't looked into it myself yet.
Well, at least that part of is that isn't in the hands of the revolutionary fellow travelers and their astro-turfers.
Thank you for replying.
I think he looks that way to people not raised in the fever swamp that was his grandparents and their friends. I’d expect that we look delusional, atavistic and downright mean to them, given they have little of the historical background and Christian moral instruction with which we have been imbued. It may sound relativistic, but is more an observation that the abstract things in life really are a matter of the perspective from which you contemplate them. Sad thing about liberal progressives: they can’t distinguish between things in the abstract and things in the concrete. That’s why they keep confusing the map for the territory, for one thing, and keep thinking that every outcome is only a matter of what you think about it, rather than partly determined by the innate nature of the thing (you know, like actual concrete and steel, as opposed to the concepts of solid rock aggregate and refined iron).
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