Un-American? Protests are as American as Apple Pie (Guest Voice)
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Un-American? Protests are as American as Apple Pie
by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Un-American, disruptive, distorters of truth, manufactured outrage, Astroturf, hired guns, and Nazis are all terms used by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and their liberal allies to disparage those who are speaking out at healthcare town hall meetings.
Rather than address the legitimate questions being raised about Obamacare, the power elite have chosen to attack with personal insults. This is a failed strategy and it runs the risk of creating serious, long-term alienation in the aggrieved victims.
What a difference six months can make. In February, according to the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Obama enjoyed the approval of 65 percent of Americans. Now after his bruising attacks on these activists, his approval rating has slumped to below 50 percent. Alienation is a two-way street.
Obama has not been helped by his allies.
The speaker of the House actually wrote an op-ed in USA Today attacking people who voice their displeasure with Obama’s healthcare reform bill. “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.” What Pelosi fails to realize is that her side is the power elite in control of the process and she is the one “drowning out opposing views.”
The Democrats are rushing Obamacare through without taking time to listen. Americans expect elected officials at every level to give them a voice in the process. When those in power force their agenda down the throats of the people, resistance is natural. Listen to these town-hall speakers; they are frustrated by the arrogance.
No person or organization could pay to create an outpouring like America has experienced. Average American citizens are standing against this healthcare bill. These protests, as the tea party protests before them, are organically organized and coordinated by individuals who want their voices to be heard, community by community.
America is proud of patriots like Mike Sola, the man who wheeled his son with cerebral palsy up to challenge Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. America is proud of the man who got roughed up by thugs from the Pipefitters Union at the town hall of Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla. We are proud of Kenneth Gladney, the black man beaten up by SEIU members in Missouri; and Dr. Brian Hill, the urologist from Georgia who would not be silenced. The examples are too numerous of Americans doing their patriotic duty and participating in the democratic process.
They remind us of other dissenters throughout history — Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Carrie Nation, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr. To say protests are un-American is to demonstrate limited knowledge of America’s grand history of protest.
The most desperate attempt by those in power is charging that these protestors are an out-of-control mob. Watch the video; grandma and grandpa may be agitated, but they don’t constitute a mob.
The irony in this discussion of grassroots activism and Astroturf is that when the liberals toss this charge around it is the pot calling the kettle black. A simple search of online help-wanted Web sites shows hundreds of jobs available as community organizers or Obamacare campaign activists. These left-wing activist organizations have received billions of dollars from George Soros alone. In stark contrast, the opponents of Obamacare are primarily organic and powered by volunteers who actually have real jobs.
America is indeed a nation of laws, but we as Americans have a moral obligation to speak out when our leaders are pushing costly and unconstitutional legislation. Obama and his allies are setting themselves up for future failure if they ignore the voices of their constituents and the will of the American people.
©2009 Floyd and Mary Beth Brown. The Browns are bestselling authors and speakers. Together they write a national weekly column distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. This column is copyrighted and licensed to run on TMV in full.
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The coordinate efforts of MedMob to circulate flyers of Obama's face superimposed with the [now in reality] dead joker from the latest “Batman” are as american as Al Qaida. Can you imagine the turmoil our nearly bankrupt country would be in if these usurpers actually succeeded in their attempts to instigate an assasination of our leader right now? That is like pointing a gun at every person's head in the country simultaneously. It is treason and attempted assasination to take advantage of and whip up irrational fears that are intended to result in our president' [literally our collective] death.
I'm thinking that if Al Qaida itself didn't circulate those posters that they whispered in the ears of someone who did. Are there any Al Qaida on staff of the MedMob movement? How american are their efforts to divide and conquer our country? I'm thinking this anti-health movement has had some infiltrators that are way less american than I am comfortable with. No patriot ever would seek to weaken a country on it's last leg. So I'm thinking there needs to be a cyber team working 24/7 to track down the source of these “american apple pie” death threats to our leaders.
Hold it what legitimate concerns?
I have heard about the socialism, which its not.
I have heard about his birth place, which is not part of the health care debate.
I have heard about the costs, even though they are paying for the costs unlike the Republican habit of the last few years of tacking it onto the debt.
So what “legitimate” concerns are you speaking of because I have yet to hear a legitimate argument short of “the system works fine for me” which is actually a rare sentiment in public but gets decent poll numbers. The only concern I have heard about the bill is about the death panels which is mere propaganda and the Public Option which had around 70% public support last I checked. So other than the Public Option what other concerns exist, please let me know I really want to know because it seems that we just do not like to have democrats pass legislation but costly legislation from republicans is just hunky dory, please let me know I am wrong and why.
85% of Americans do not want any form of governmentrun health care.
Obama and all the senators will still have their deluxe health coverage while the middle class gets the bill for illegal aliens (felons) and those that already suck off the government.
In return for paying higher taxes, the middle class will get sub standard rationed health care.
The real problem with health care as of now is illegal aliens use it for free , the phama companies have far too large a profit, way too much medicare fraud going on , and far too many frivilous law suits or just plain too much money awarded to plantiffs in health care cases.
Also we need all hospitals to go non profit.
The last thing we need is a government that can't run social security, Freddie mac / Fannie may , the Postal service or Social Security to attempt to run health care.
We need the current administration to help with the economy but they seem to not give two chits about that.
Really? I heard quite different statistics Gpt, from CBS news. It runs 72% IN FAVOR of the PUBLIC OPTION.
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Poll: No Dent In Obama's Popularity
(CBS) A clear majority of Americans — 72 percent — support a government-sponsored health care plan to compete with private insurers, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. Most also think the government would do a better job than private industry at keeping down costs and believe that the government should guarantee health care for all Americans. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/19/opini…
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As of June 20, 2009. That was about 7 weeks ago. Now you want me to believe that in that seven weeks 72% of the public went from loving the idea clear down to 15% loving it with 85% hating it eh?
Please do us all a favor and keep your “manufactured information” and put it where the sun doesn't shine.
I usually make it a point to just never respond to Sil's lunatic rants and delusional ravings anymore, but let's use actual, real current data:
34 percent say they support current reform legislation, 49 percent now say they oppose it Aug 15)
American voters disapprove 52 – 39 percent of the way President Obama is handling health care (Aug 5)
46 percent disapproved of Obama’s handling of health care reform, while 41 percent approved. (July 29)
53% Now Oppose Congressional Health Care Reform (July 22)
We're given the right of free speech for times like this. Obama is losing, and he knows it. The attempt to belittle the folks who are protesting is creating more protesters. The actual folks who pay the taxes are refusing to go along with a bill no one understands. Trying to shove this monstrosity thru on a panic mode ain't gonna happen. As a libertarian, I don't trust the government with my healthcare. Such power doesn't belong in government hands.
plumpplumberbalding- As a recovering libertarian that has finally accepted after 30 years of voting republican that they will do nothing but sell us further and further down the corporate river I no longer trust corporations with my health care. Sadly my choices are them and to go without, feel the freedom!! When I get to vote for a libertarian wake me up but a true libertarian would know that corporations are government inventions and just as bad as government but totally unaccountable to the citizenry.
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