Obama is Scared, He is on the Run . . .
I recently read the above headline in an email from Newsmax. Yes, I do sometimes read that rag, although it leaves me needing to wash my hands every single time. I actually get news from dozens of sources, domestic and foreign, leaning left, right and even toward the Twilight Zone. I attempt to compare and contrast them and boil them down to something resembling truth, which is frequently found by noticing what is not even mentioned in the MSM (mainstream media, for the uninitiated). Of course, I do have my most valuable news sources, the very best of which is the Wayne Madsen Report. Mr. Madsen is one of the very last of a dying breed – an honest-to-goddess investigative journalist. So is Greg Palast. So what if both tend to lean a little left? It doesn’t make the facts they turn up any less real or valid. As John Galt said in Atlas Shrugged, “A equals A.” Facts are still facts, even when we don’t like them. I have been capable of distinguishing fact from opinion since I was ten years old. These two journalists have excellent sources and excellent brains, and they dig up real facts with unrelenting excellence. Their personal politics couldn’t interest me less.
Obama is indeed scared, as is the entire federal government, and they very definitely should be scared. The level of rage I am sensing from my fellow Americans has reached new heights in the last few months, between Obama mortgaging our great grandchildren with the trillion dollar gift he delivered to the Federal Reserve and his attempts to federalize our health care system. I caught a brilliant quote on the latter – and I am ashamed I cannot remember the source – but whoever it was said that this would result in “DMV service at Pentagon prices.” I couldn’t have said it better myself, which is a shameful thing for any writer to admit. While I freely admit that our health care system is badly broken, government meddling is NOT the answer! On the contrary, government meddling caused the current problems, and more government meddling will only make matters worse than they already are.
Yes, our federal government is terrified, and the planning for countering “civil unrest” (media speak for shootin’ revolution) are becoming more and more transparent. One of the ways our frightened federal government is trying to hit back is by lumping all dissatisfied and unhappy Americans into one big group – right wing fanatics, militias, domestic terrorists – many different names, all with negative connotations to the sane. Negative connotations even to me, frankly, as I despise both racism and Christian fanaticism.
All media confusion aside, even at the most basic level, we are two different groups.
The first group – Group A, for convenience – are right wing conservatives. Most are Christian fanatics, who would prefer that evolution not be taught in public schools (they’ve forgotten the A equals A lesson). Many believe in conversion by the sword – i.e., those who are not Christians and who are unwilling to convert to the one true faith should all be killed. Many truly believe in Armageddon and the Rapture and honestly do believe these things are almost upon us (yes, some of these folks need medication to cope with reality at all). Many are very racist and are either KKK or would have been KKK in past decades. They can be spotted fairly simply by pretty much any one of the following methods:
1. Excessive Bible quoting (out of context, of course).
2. “Praying about” everything from what car to buy to when to go to the bathroom.
3. Serious discussion of creative design as if it were a scientific principle.
4. An insistence that all of the U.S. founders were devout Christians (historically untrue).
5. Racial hatred against both blacks and hispanics.
6. Vocal defense of torture as an interrogation method and aggressively informing the rest of us that we should be grateful for the men and women who have and do use it, supposedly on our behalf.
7. Loud and irrational defense of our Middle Eastern wars, stating that they are “keeping America safe for democracy” – as if America was a democracy, which it isn’t, and democracy was a desirable political form, which it isn’t (being two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner).
8. Loud and irrational defense of the cruel behavior of INS in incarcerating and deporting illegal aliens, even when they are being deported to starvation or even far worse.
Despite calling themselves gentle and loving Christians, this right wing group can be characterized at the most basic level by a sociopathic lack of compassion or empathy for anyone outside their select group – and a fundamental desire to control others. When these people talk about “freedom,” freedom is most definitely not what they mean. “Freedom” is about doing what they believe you should be doing, and if you don’t agree with what they believe you should be doing, you become an outsider and therefore fair game.
By contrast, libertarians and other genuine freedom lovers – Group B, for convenience – are a homogeneous group of all races and all religions. At the most fundamental level, their philosophy is to live and let live. They don’t even want to mess with the right wing wackos beyond the extent necessary for self defense. Everybody should be allowed to live and pursue happiness in their own way, without interference from others or from government – even nutcases, so long as they harm no one. Some libertarians are certainly Christians, but they aren’t trying to cram their beliefs down anyone’s throat. Some are Pagans. Some are atheists. All will defend to the death your right to believe anything you choose.
How these two groups can be confused is honestly beyond my understanding. Libertarians are the political and philosophical descendants of Thomas Jefferson, and their most cherished ethic is never to initiate force to achieve political or social goals. Initiation of force, however, is not the same thing as response to force. Libertarians tend to be soft spoken pacifists carrying very large .45s – but they don’t start trouble, ever. They are merely willing to finish trouble if someone else sends it to visit.
So if there is ever “civil unrest” started or led by libertarians, you can count on it being a real question of self defense. Frankly, I’m not so sure about that other bunch.
Posted under Civil Rights, Freedom, Injustice, Politics
This post was written by Kate on August 12, 2009
