Also add:
These rolling ad-hominem attacks confess intellectual weakness. These officials and their media proxies are afraid.
They should not fear their fellow citizens. It is, though, appropriate for them to wonder if perhaps all this attention threatens their boondoggling and bad ideas.
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of conscience to remain silent.”
We are well past the foothold stage. What are you prepared to do with your voice?
[source: Nate Beeler’s “In Defense of Dissent on Health Care Reform” via Washington Examiner, HT Instapundit]
Some artist might as well add Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Bush to this campaign, no? It’s time to admit that the US has been a (somewhat and increasingly) socialist nation at least since FDR. A demographic bubble, soon to pop, has supported Social Security and Medicare etc. The New Society and Vietnam required a final shift to fiat currency. And the clock keeps ticking with the debt of the US Treasury looking more and more like the bubble of all bubbles.
These boondoggles and this artificial global bubble system will work just fine, right up until the moment that they don’t.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
— Herbert Stein
This is no joke.
Read the battle plan of this peaceful but powerful operation:
Again, let me emphasize that Operation EMBARRASS YOUR CONGRESSMAN is a peaceful operation. We don’t condone violence in any way. Don’t harrass, intimidate, or otherwise do any thing threatening towards anyone! (No sense in acting like a community organizer or a member of ACORN). Simply use your freedom of speech in public forums to accomplish our mission. The Mission is this: “To expose the arrogance, ignorance, and insolence of our elected representatives.” We want to do this on a LARGE SCALE - NATIONWIDE! These arrogant, ignorant, and insolent people have embarrassed America, trampled the Constitution, and ignored their constituents for far too long. Attend their townhall meetings during recess and press them with intelligent questions (unlike the main stream media), asked in an intelligent manner to see if they are really in touch and on board with “the will of the people.”
This operation should be almost as easy as pointing a camera at these folks. For instance, see the prior post here.
I hope thousands of peaceful participants come up with tons of creative ways to embarrass these thieves.
HT Instapundit