{"id":4740,"date":"2009-05-06T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:59","slug":"compare-and-contrast-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"Compare And Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of Americans, driven by a campaign that started on Twitter, drew endless defamation from the mainstream and lefty (pardon the redundancy) media; some, when not taking part in juvenile giggling, insinuated that the Tea Parties had roots and followers with various violent groups (indeed, the DHS report was released just in time for the run-up to the media’s suspiciously synchronous campaign of defamation).<\/p>\n

Nationwide, the arrest figures were extremely low – about half a dozen, mostly for the kind of petty-drunkenness and public urination sorts of things that’ll happen anytime 600,000 people get together around a nation like this; the typical evening at “Drinking Liberally” draws more drunk and disorderly and public urination arrests.<\/p>\n

Compare with The One, threatening a group of legal investors<\/a>, with all sorts of extralegal sanctions, including siccing his mobs of drooling fanboys and fangirls on them:<\/p>\n

A group of lenders to troubled automaker Chrysler asked a bankruptcy court judge Tuesday to keep their identities secret, saying they could face “public attack” and “threats to their safety.”The petition was filed by the group that objected to a government plan to reduce the ailing company’s debt to help create a partnership with Italy’s Fiat…Represented by lawyer Gerard Uzzi of the firm White & Case, the group said its members may be subjected to threats and intimidation in part because of comments made by President Barack Obama, who chastised the opponents of an attempted deal to keep Chrysler out of bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

“Never before has the president of the United States announced a chapter 11 filing in a national address,” the petition said.<\/p>\n

“The president publicly chastised these secured creditors for having the temerity to enforce their constitutional rights in this court of law…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hinderaker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is important to understand what is happening here. Many think that Obama is merely engaging in crony capitalism, favoring his political supporters (most notably the Auto Workers Union) at the expense of others. That’s true, of course, but it is much worse than that: Obama has tried to bully those who have not bought his favor–Chrysler’s non-TARP secured creditors–into giving up their legal rights by threatening to use the powers of the White House to damage their businesses<\/em>. This sort of lawlessness is common in some of the more corrupt Third World countries, but it is brand new to the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We just spent eight years with the left claiming conspiracies against the Constitution under every rock – and now we have an Administration that’s actually giving them to us; the DHS blacklisting Americans; the government running roughshod over the law and, let us not forget, looking for loopholes to carry out the very same policies (tribunals, “aggressive interrogation”) that the left spent the last eight years howling about.
\nJust remember Berg’s Seventh Law; “Whenever lefties defame conservatives’ ethics or commitment to liberty, they are projecting”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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