…living in the midst of a burdensome if not oppressive government, gorging itself on the citizens it was created to serve.
We may find ourselves in the very same predicament the pilgrims of Plimoth risked their lives to flee.
The pilgrims were deeply focused on the Old Testament narrative of Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. William Bradford called King James “the pharaoh.” On The Mayflower the pilgrims said their journey was as important as that of Moses. And the first thing they did upon reaching Cape Cod was get down on their knees and thank God for allowing them to cross their own Red Sea.
How disappointed these reverent, hearty souls would be if they could see us today: millions convinced of their victimhood by and willfully living off the government. As many unborn snuffed in the interest of “privacy” and convenience. Full-time career politicians drawing salaries and pensions from the taxpayers. The press, once vigilant, now schilling for a leftist government. A federal agency confiscating the wealth of those who created it; dolling it out to legions of grovelers, groupies and bootlickers. Their Native-American friends? Running casinos; enslaving ranks of the white man.
And what of God? The God they feared and offered gratitude to for the harvest and their hard-fought and nascent freedoms? That same God now beholds a government hell-bent on removing his word from the public square in the interest of a newfangled concept: political correctness.
And possibly the greatest offense? Tofu.
Had these crusaders, to whom we owe so much, had the ability to see the future, they may have stayed home.
Give me an f’in break.
I usually prefer more reasoned, civilized discourse, but there’s not enough valium in the world to make me respond to this garbage in a civilized fashion.
I’m sorry you feel so horribly oppressed by our tyrannical government that is fighting for all Americans to have the right to affordable health care, and that is also actively fighting for “net neutrality” policies that bolster your right to write screeds like this and everyone else’s right to read it. If you hate it so much, maybe you should vote with your feet and consider a true libertarian paradise.
there’s not enough valium in the world to make me respond to this garbage in a civilized fashion.
So, that video is a civilized response? So what you’re saying is, if government can do one thing right (for argument’s sake) they should do everything, right?
fighting for all Americans to have the right to affordable health care…fighting for “net neutrality” policies
Just exactly where is that spelled out as a right? And do you actually believe that these “fights” have anything to do with health care or free speech?
What flavor is the Kool-Aid in your world?
Jeff, government is fighting to empower the government. It always does.
Why don’t you move to Cuba or Venezuela if you like socialism so much?
This is for Mr. Rosenberg. Please understand that valium only works on people with more than 1 synapse, so I guess you don’t have to worry about the drug effect. Here we have a category 5 moron. When your incompetent government gets done bankrupting the country, NOTHING will be affordable much less health care. And by “Healthcare” did you mean the state funded abrtion-for-convenience or the counseling-for-how-and-when-to-die?
Effing collectivists like you are the people that my sons swear to protect. Good grief.
The Pilgrims were a bunch of religious kooks who believed in freedom of religion only for themselves. They persecuted witches. When you’re looking for role models to cite out of context, Angryclown suggests you stick to Enlightenment figures like Jefferson. He’s got all that rhetoric about overthrowing oppressive governments – very popular with you far-right types whenever there’s a Democrat in office. Then if you ever get a Republican back elected, you can go back to supporting warrantless wiretaps, racial profiling and whatnot.
Jeff R:
Pop just one or two valium (valia?) and riddle me this:
’m sorry you feel so horribly oppressed by our tyrannical government
Where is it written that we give up our right to dissent just because the Prez was elected? Why, wasn’t it only two years ago that dissent was the highest form of patriotism?
that is fighting for all Americans to have the right to affordable health care,
As pointed out above, it’s not a right. A “Right” does not infringe on another’s rights. One person’s “right” to healthcare infringes my rights by taxing me, among many other infringements on many people.
Health insurance isn’t a right; it’s an entitlement. You have to sell entitlements to the electorate, at least indirectly. Y’all are doing a terrible job of it so far.
and that is also actively fighting for “net neutrality” policies that bolster your right to write screeds like this and everyone else’s right to read it.
While I don’t get especially exercised about Net Neutrality one way or the other, please, Jeff; this administration is shaping up to be a terrible one for civil liberties. They talk (not the President, of course, but his minions) about the Fairness Doctrine, Napolitano’s enemies lists, the active assault on a dissenting news organization, and that’s just the First Amendment.
If you hate it so much, maybe you should vote with your feet and consider a true libertarian paradise.
So in other words, “Obama’s America: Love it or leave it?”
Sorry, Jeff. I’ll reserve my right to dissent until Janet Napolitano makes it official that it’s illegal.
The Pilgrims were a bunch of religious kooks who believed in freedom of religion only for themselves.
In which they were the models for modern liberals in Massachusetts and elsewhere, who believe only in freedom of speech for themselves.
They persecuted witches.
Just as modern liberals persecute anyone who’s not like them, especially those whose command of our nation’s real history and civil liberties is so far beyond theirs as to be indistinguishable from magic or witchcraft (like the women in the DFL shirts at the State Fair who, when we asked them what Obamacare was going to add to the deficit, stared at us, glassy-eyed, and then started chanting “Public Option Now! Public Option Now!” before scampering away.
When you’re looking for role models to cite out of context, Angryclown suggests you stick to Enlightenment figures like Jefferson.
“the government that governs best, governs least”.
Then if you ever get a Republican back elected, you can go back to supporting warrantless wiretaps,
I remember complaining about the wiretap, property forfeiture, no-knock search another onerous provisions of the 1994 Crime Bill and 1996 Couhterterrorism Acts (that’d be Clinton), and being told I was a paranoid right winger. Apparently lefties’ concerns with civil liberty are 100% dependent on who’s in power.
Killshot,
With all due respect, while you’re right about the policy aspects of Roosh’s article, Rosenberg’s not a moron. It’s a partisan for the other guys, and he’s wrong about pretty much everything political ( 🙂 ) but there’s no recognized mental defect involved.
And as always, thanks for your sons’ service.
You prove Angryclown’s point, Mitch. You get bent out of shape over Democratic intrusions on civil liberties while professing to remain completely oblivious about more serious Republican abuses.
Clown,
The day I prove your point, I shall send you an invoice for services rendered.
Because when you refer to…
more serious Republican abuses.
…for starters, you’d have a very hard time finding a Bush Administration “abuse” in an area that affected actual American citizens, as opposed to “people trying to kill us”. Am I happy that the Bush Administration allegedly (what the heck, for purposes of argument) stretched the bounds of executive wartime powers in trying to re-establish the same level of power we had in dealing with threats to the United States until the seventies? Perhaps not. Would I rather those (again, what the heck) abuses be heaped upon our nation’s enemies than upon actual law-abiding American citizens, as Democrat administrations are wont to do (the 1994 Crime Bill and 1996 Counterterrorist Acts, property forfeiture laws, huge increase in no-knock searches and seizures and wiretapping to go after drug dealers and “domestic terrorists”, separate but unequal First Amendment protections for pro-life protesters, gun control of all types that impact the law-abiding citizen, enemies lists, and of course the ultimate government regulation of civil liberty, skyrocketing tax burdens)?
I’d love to choose “neither”, but of course the only way to get me (and those like me) out of the government’s cross-hairs is to get Obama and the Democrats out of office.
Do I excuse abuses of power of any kind? No, but then the vast majority of the claims made against Bush were hyperbole for political effect
“Apparently lefties’ concerns with civil liberty are 100% dependent on who’s in power.”
Especially when you consider that Obama is STILL using the warrantless wiretaps that AC found so objectionable under Bush…..
“I’m sorry…”
Jeff, yes, you certainly are one sorry… 😉