Connect The Dots
By Mitch Berg
So let’s break it down:
- Large group of Americans gather to protest taxes, spending and a rapacious government.
- Leftymedia large, small and anonymous embarks on concerted effort to paint protesters as “extremists” and “radicals” (when not tittering like a bunch of seventh-graders), spending hours and pages of media time and space attacking protests that, let us not forget, don’t matter.
- DHS releases a report that depicts pretty much every American to the right of Arne Carlson as a slavering Bircher.
Coincidence?
April 17th, 2009 at 8:03 am
And there will first be a listing of “extremist” organizations (Hey, look, they’ve already been all lumped together in the public’s little mind.) – in a “Risk Report”, if you will.
And then – amazingly enough – because times are tough and as it is “in the best interest of The Republic”, few people will be surprised or even offended when anyone in “the opposition” is labeled extremist.
And then there will be laws enacted to make it impossible for there to be any physical opposition.
And then there will be a banning.
And then comes the round-up.
Knock-knock. Anybody been here before?
April 17th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Note a follow-up to your recent posts on controlling the language.
Left commentators refer to these evets not as TEA Parties, but always as “teabaggers.”
TEA is an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already.”
TEA Party elicits The Boston Tea Party in which Americans protested high taxes.
A “teabagger” is a sexual deviant.
By re-labelling the movement as Teabaggers instead of TEA Parties, leftists insult, demean, belittle, snear, smirk and giggle. Which means they don’t have to think, reason, debate or defend tax policy.
Coincidence?
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April 17th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Teabagging’s not enough for me. I’m doing the full secession thing. Declaration of sovereignty and everything.
Staying off federal highways and avoiding government inspected meat.
/jc
April 17th, 2009 at 10:29 am
As usual, Slash, your misdirection isn’t even close enough for Colbert’s blooper reel.
We already pay taxes. NOBODY is talking about NOT paying taxes (and yes, i”m sure somebody was, but it was a vanishing minority).
Strawman shot in face as friends looked on in mute horror (and God Bless Davejames, whereever he is).
April 17th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Tomato, TomAHto, Mitch.
Tom DeLay’s got the Texas Secession Authority treaty language all set and ready to go the minute Governor Perry pulls the trigger.
Meanwhile, as a declared natural flesh and blood man, I’m totally exempt from the IRS, the Fed, the IMF, and the Law of the Sea.
Sovereignty, it means you’re sovereign.
/jc
April 17th, 2009 at 11:06 am
“I’m totally exempt from” any semblance of humor or wit.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
The important part of this whole “tea party” business is that it demonstrates, once again, the political ineptness of Obama. If he had managed to get a significant number of Republicans on board to pass his budget it would have fizzled. He didn’t get any House GOP’rs to vote for his budget because it contained a) too much spending b) not enough tax cuts.
Backlash was avoidable, but is now inevitable. Poor politics, but what can you expect from a guy with no track record of governance, statesmanship, or political savvy outside of intra-party wheeling and dealing?