Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, March 26, 2010 8:51:54 AM
Violence has no legitimate place in the arena of modern American politics. If it
is encouraged or condoned by either side in a heated political debate it is acceptance
of de facto civil war. Democrats have insinuated publicly that Republicans who
questioned their motives during the healthcare reform wrangle are responsible for
threats against them and damage to some of their offices. strongly hinting that the
Tea Partiers may be to blame. There is, of course, no evidence to corroborate either
claim, but that has never stopped Democrats from stating it as though it were fact, or
the liberal media from embellishing the claim in print.
One-sidedness in media accounts is once again the order of the day, with voice
mail threats to Bart Stupak (D-MI) and a brick through Louise Slaughter's (D-NY)
branch office window overshadowing the gunshot triggered through Eric Cantor's
(R-VA). Never mind the order of magnitude of the threat or the obvious parallel that
if Republicans or Tea Partiers are responsible for the threats to Stupak and Slaughter
then Democrats and their supporters must be equally to blame for the gunfire that struck
Cantor's office. But not once was that parallel drawn by any of the mainstream media
who were salivating at the chance to indict conservatives for unlawful behavior.
Media and congressional Democrats likewise characterized healthcare protestors
at the capitol as "crazed," "right-wing extremists," "racists" and "unruly radicals". But
they never mentioned the intimidation and assault tactics regularly practiced by
Service Employees International Union thugs, and quickly quelled reports of voter
intimidation tactics employed by New Black Panthers in Philadelphia or the cover-ip and
dismissal of charges AFTER CONVICTION by the Obama Justice Department. The
inequity is astonishing!
One thing is certain: there IS a lot of anger out there over healthcare. It is anger
based on the substitution of the arrogance of a single political party for the clear will
of the people they were elected to serve, and the bastardization of process used to
one-sidedly guarantee the outcome. When government no longer represents the people
then the people have the right to protest and ultimately remove the government. It's in
the Declaration of Independence. Now it is certainly possible to argue that this does not
include lawbreaking. But that is precisely how Martin Luther King and his followers
got segregation laws changed. They methodically and systematically disobeyed them. It
is how illegal aliens are trying to change immigration law, by simply disobeying it
and daring the government to try to stop them. You don't hear many Democrats
whining about that now, do you? No, it's only when THEY feel threatened that they
rise to point the finger at others in righteous indignaion, seeking to dodge the consequences
of their own chicanery.
Eric Cantor called out Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) and DNC National Chairman
Tim Kane for using the threats against Democrats, real, concocted and assumed as
tools for political capital. They angrily responded that it is the Republicans who stirred
up the people against them, and who thus must condemn the threats publicly. In truth,
the people I know didn't need any help from the Republicans to see through the utter
mendacity of which the healthcare reform act reeks to stoke their anger. They got there
on their own.
People who break the law, whether Republican or Democrat, should suffer the penalties
prescribed by the law. But let's not be so dishonest as to pretend that the public's anger
is somehow misplaced or misdirected, or that the Pot is not just as guilty as the Kettle
of stirring elements of the public with whom they hold sway to rise up. It is, in fact,
difficult to see the SEIU gangsters in their vomit purple tee shirts pushing, shoving and
ranting at Tea Partiers without at the same time entertaining visions of the White House's
most frequent visitor, SEIU president Andy Stern, sitting in the oval office with his feet
propped up, smoking cigars and yucking it up with his creation and patron, Barack Obama.
The one-sidedness of the media is nothing new, nor will it change, since liberal bias has
created a streak of dishonesty a yard wide right up the spines of most of them. But
PUH-LEASE, don't pretend that the incitement to violence, the plotting, the scheming
or even the talk about repeal is one-sided. Since the Bush tax cuts were implemented
liberal Democrats talked about nothing else. The truth sometimes hurts!