Be Bolder

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.“- Thomas Jefferson

The assault on American morals and values continues. The unrepresentative representatives continue openly in their quest to seize all power from the people. After weeks of sometimes contentious town hall meetings where every day Americans have expressed their anger and fear over a poorly designed piece of health care legislation that is being marketed as health care reform, Charles Rangel, D-NY recently said that bias and prejudice are fueling the opposition to health care reform. He went on to say, “Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is President of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, ‘how did this happen?’” This is a member of the United States House of Representatives, stating out loud, in front of God and everybody, that anyone who opposes the health care control bill is a racist. When you can’t get your way, marginalize the opponents, any way you can. Even if they are the people that elected you to your current position.

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-MI recently said, in regards to criticism from the people that congressional members had not even read the bill that they voted for, “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” If Mr. Conyers’ own extensive legal background is not enough to comprehend this thousand page monstrosity without the aid of two more lawyers, then either Mr. Conyers is not qualified to hold his position as the House Judiciary Chairman, or the bill is flawed as written and needs to be overhauled. Or maybe both.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA penned a column with one of her colleagues where she called Americans who were critical of the health care bill “un-American.” She and her colleague also said that an  ugly campaign is afoot to misrepresent the legislation, disrupt the public meetings and prevent members of Congress from conducting a civil dialogue on the topic. She also recently said, “Do you think there’s legitimate grass-roots opposition going on here? I think they are Astroturf . . . you be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare.” This of course is the complete opposite of her thoughts on protesting when the protesters fit into her view of the war on terror, when she said this, back in 2006, to a group of war protesters who interrupted a meeting, “It’s always exciting. This is democracy in action. I’m energized by it, frankly.” And at another event in 2007, she said,  “just go for it, I respect your enthusiasm.” Perhaps Ms. Pelosi should heed her own words and respect the enthusiasm of all Americans and not just the ones who follow her political ideals.

Popular Fox News personality Glenn Beck has spent two weeks intensely scrutinizing the  President’s Green Czar, Van Jones. Kudos to Mr. Beck for exposing Mr. Jones as the Communist, activist, and fear-monger that he is, and for insisting that America speak up about this radical man’s affiliations with questionable groups in his past. Mr. Beck also demanded that Americans question with boldness their government. It looks like America responded with boldness. Kudos to America. Mr. Jones tendered his resignation today, saying in part, “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.” Seems that the smear campaign that Mr. Jones experienced was the one he waged with his own words. Rather than accept defeat or challenge criticism, Mr. Jones also attempts to marginalize the opposition.

All of these examples of our unrepresentative representatives serve to remind us that our freedom of speech is working. It must be working or else we would not be witnessing the implosion of the Democratic Party. They would have you believe that it’s the angry Republicans and Conservatives who are impeding their progress, but it’s really their own myopic vision of their flawed policies that is slowing the advancement of their agenda. They own this mess and they have no one to blame but themselves. They are steeped in their own ridiculousness and the American people have stood up and called them on it.

Congratulations, America. Keep up the good work. Stay ever vigilant and don’t loose sight of the fact that there is even more ridiculousness afoot. They seek to inundate us with ludicrous proposals and antics in the hope that we will let down our guard and tire of the onslaught and grow weary with the weight of their policies. We will not surrender. We will not acquiesce. This is our country, and we will now be even bolder in our defense of her.

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”- Thomas Jefferson

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