More On Leftwing Violence Against Conservatives

John Hinderaker writing today at Powerline describes his experiences with Leftwingers doing their protester thing, September, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota:

“The Democrats have tried to change the subject away from their health care debacle by claiming that conservatives are threatening violence against them. Their complaints are pathetic where they are not out-and-out lies (e.g., Clyburn and Lewis), and they have taken a lot of well-deserved criticism. It is liberals, not conservatives, who rely on ad hominem attacks, outrageous allegations and violent imagery. We talked about this on our radio show today, and several callers reminded us of a particularly sorry episode of liberal violence that, for some reason, has not gotten much attention: the 2008 Republican convention in St. Paul.

I attended the convention and remember the terrorist acts that were carried out by anti-Republican protesters very well. They threw bricks through the windows of buses, sending elderly convention delegates to the hospital. They dropped bags of sand off highway overpasses onto vehicles below. Fortunately, no one was killed.

These were anti-Bush and anti-Republican protesters. Is it a stretch to think that some of them, at least, may have been inspired by over-the-top, hateful attacks on the Bush administration by Democratic Congressmen, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Michael Moore, who was a guest of honor at the Democrats’ own convention, various show business personalities, and many other leading liberal figures? I don’t think so. We haven’t seen that sort of hate campaign since the Democrats went after Abraham Lincoln. It seems unlikely that none of the “protesters” who tried to commit murder were inspired by those liberal voices.

Yet, hardly anyone seems to be aware of the violence that took place in 2008. At most, the story was treated with a ho-hum attitude in the press. For some reason, political violence was not a concern less than two years ago. Yet today, we can hardly imagine what would happen if a group of tea partiers were to drop sandbags off a highway overpass, trying to kill motorists below. Liberal reporters’ heads would explode. Yet this is exactly what anti-Republican Party protesters did in 2008, and no one cared. To my knowledge, not a single Democratic politician condemned this anti-Republican violence or attempted in any way to distance the Democratic Party from it.

Keep that in mind next time you hear a Democrat whining about the Republican effort to “fire Nancy Pelosi.”

Comment:  I also attended the convention.   I was working security at the convention.  Being inside I didn’t see much of the more violent protesting.  I had to walk through some of the indimidating crowds numbered in the thousands.  Conservatives would have to go through fantastic changes in their ages, sizes, drinking and drug habits, costumes, clothing, lack of clothing,  face and body paintings,  piercings,  to go with the inventiveness of this type of Lefty expression. 

I found them amusing.   I arrived early and left late.  I missed most of protester aggression which seemed  done to provoke the police.  That would prove newsworthy on lefty media since it would be picked up as police brutality  “bought’ by Republicans.   The pictures would show how violent the police and their conservative allies are. 

I stopped by one group of those costumed being questioned by an attractive older lady.  The costumed, gals in their twenties, admitted they were hired to do protesting from time to time…….and yes, they were paid to come to  St. Paul.   They said they didn’t like Republicans anyway.   I asked if they knew any……They giggled.

I don’t ever remember seeing a conservative demonstration against Democrats…..until Obama’s Marxism came to the White House.   They didn’t look at all like lefties on protest.  Some of them looked my age.

Peggy Noonan wrote her view in her Wall Street Journal column today.   She writes about the verbal violence in general.  For proof of conservative talk violence, she refers to phone calls made to Representative Stupak, the guy from Michigan who pretended he wasn’t going to vote for Obamacare because of its government paid abortion clause.   I use the word ‘pretended’ here because I didn’t know anyone who thought he would not support Obamacare in the end.   His pretense was a facade.

Peggy Noonan lists  a series of what you’d expect from the vile who don’t have to identify themselves.  But  Peggy Noonan did identify them….all the vile callers to Stupak, as “These are the people whose professed mission is to save children.”……and “These are messages left by individuals who appear to be pro-life activists-that is, people who have put themselves on the line to support generous and compassionate treatment of the unborn.”   She matches the vulgarity with these associations.  

We don’t know who these callers were.  We could guess the sex by the guess of sound.  It could be that every one of the vile calls were from anti-abortionists.  But we don’t know, nor does Peggy Noonan.   

 It is commonplace among  leftwing campaigners to plant callers to stage phone calls to their own “innocent” candidates having them shout obscenities and threats hoping the Peggy Noonans of the world would  pick up the scene  and report it exactly  as she did.  How did she know Stupak didn’t stage the calls?

Which Party Would You Vote On As The One More Honorable?

Americans should all remember that with Marxists, god is government.  The very meaning of this sentence answers the question why leftists are so dishonorable, often despicable not only in the legislation they propose, but the means used to achieve their political goals.

They are taught at university that everything is relative; that there is no God, and therefore no good, because all is a matter of a point of view.   Democrats are the product of this teaching.  They lie, because they want to believe the lie as a tool to help advance their cause.

They are convinced conservatives are just as deceitful, because Lefties  judge every action on how they, themselves, would behave ……..after all, what’s a lie for a good cause.  “Yeah, it’s true, he didn’t spit, but he meant to.  That’s as good as doing it.”

An  impartial judge, should make listings of accusations of spitting, lying, name calling, obscenities, charges, defamations, destruction of property, firebombings, beatings graffiti, and identify both sources and alleged victims.   Then identify the cause they advance as they pillage, shout and burn.  Publish the results of this impartial investigation only after bets are required from the top 25 financial contributors of each Party……a million dollars per entry.   

The winner of the bets would be the Party of fewer atrocities.   Those top Party contributors who bet on the winner  get their money back  plus half of the bettings on the loser Party.   The other half of the loser’s money goes  to the Party aggrieved to be used  as seed money for future elections.  If all the bets go to the winner, everyone gets their “Obama Tax investments” back.

Don’t forget the movie circulated a few years ago celebrating the assassination of President Bush.  No one, neither lefty or conservative were recorded as protesting.  Everyone was silent.

  We Americans have never seen conservatives demonstrating. 

 The lefty mainstream media haven’t seen it either.  It claimed that  at the huge  gathering of Tea Party people in Washington, D.C. , the mainstream…. Nazi types were at work and used a ;picture  of the swastika to prove the extremism of the group…….They didn’t mention that the swastika was used as an emblematic symbol  of Obama’s designs to redistribute the wealth by fiat. 

There is  no doubt  that over  90% of the  viscious and foul quotes actually uttered at any public political scene are made by leftists…….for a number of reasons.   Their demonstrators are often paid.  They are much younger and often become riotous.   Their fans are more likely to be young and souped up.  Youth is  far more vulgar and otherwise disrespectful and often act without remorse.    Conservative have property at home they don’t want to risk.  Ownership of something makes them more conservative in nearly anything they do politically, and they have never demonstrated before. 

Democrats at home watching television wouldn’t act like the rioters who represent them politically.

Up to this point the conservatives and Democrats who make up the Tea Party population used to be like Democrats watching demonstrations on television at home.  These grandparents, however, are now the folks on television protesting.   

It is easy to believe that in contrast to left wing demonstrators, none of these protesters are Marxists……so their god is not the government.   It is also likely to believe they aren’t being paid to riot.   They are either retired or have to go to work tomorrow. 

Since Lefties believe they are doing god’s (government’s) work whether rioting or simply voting or passing legislation in Congress, they view their  opponents as criminals….hateful…..traitors……the enemy and must be hated for their racism, homophobia, sexism, and all the other victims Democrats have invented over the past generation.

Many conservatives strongly believe Obama’s Marxism threatens the American way of life….I am one of them.   We  have a right to be angry, but being angry isn’t going to get anywhere…..We  have a duty to our cause and our God, if we  have one, and most do, to be civil adults devoted to defending an honorable America.  The process getting their must be honorable.

There is no honor to behave like Obama and his fellow Congressional Democrats did in the writing, bribing, lying, and buying their way to passing Obamacare legislation.   There is no honor to behave like  all those leftis who have rioted, disrupted, threatened, falsely accused or  imprisoned their opponents, whether on the streets or in the classrooms.   

It is so unfortunate so few Democrats believe in civil free expression any more.  They also have apparently forgotten how important an honorable  process through life must be in a country to be made beautiful.

Our New American Experiment

The times they are a-changing.

At the heart of our American experiment as it once was called, is the idea that we are created in God’s image and therefore we have inalienable rights.  Inalienable, as in, we cannot be separated from them nor them from us.  Thus these rights are not given to us by governments which can then also take them away, but rather we have them by the very fact that we are human beings. We are free people with free will.  We own ourselves and therefore cannot be owned by another. (with respect to the institution of slavery this is something which took eighty more years after the founding and a civil war to finally live up to, but that’s another subject). If you own yourself, it follows that you also own your labor and the fruits of your labor.  After all, the definition of a slave is someone who doesn’t own himself and doesn’t own his labor.  So when we buy something we are in effect trading a portion of our labor in exchange for a portion of someone else’s labor.  We can do this because we are free.

So the basic system that the founding fathers gave us was one where you give value to get value, or to put it in more familiar terms, an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.   Therefore the founding fathers understood that the freedom to own property was essential to the very notion of freedom itself. Remember, Jefferson originally wrote his most famous line ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ as ‘life liberty and the pursuit of property’.  To our modern ears this sounds strangely materialistic, but the concept is an important one to understand.  If you can’t use your labor as you wish, to buy property, then you aren’t really free.

So what does all this have to do with what’s happening now?  Well, you would be hard pressed today to find anyone who thinks that slavery is a good thing, but what about the idea of taking from someone something that you didn’t pay for?  This notion is becoming more and more accepted, through the corrosive effect of leftwing teachings.  You hear educated people everywhere including politicians talking of wealth inequalities and the injustice of the gap between the rich and the poor.  The way to address this, they suggest, is through the use of government to take away a portion of your freedom, that way we can have more equality. But far from being the duty of government to address these inequalities which naturally occur in a free society, it is in fact their first duty to protect the system which allows these inequalities to occur.  Namely, it is their duty to protect freedom from the intrusion of government.  This is something most politicians are no longer interested in if they even understand it.

Washington famously said of government: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Because we don’t bother to teach people to understand the basic principles that underlie our free society, they easily fall prey to accepting ideas that destroy freedom. In the socialist welfare state which we have been busily building for some time this is essentially what we are doing.  We are building an edifice of force for the purpose of destroying our freedom to use our labor, our sweat as we wish.  The freedom to pursue happiness, property, health, wealth, without the invasion of government to say otherwise.  We are making government our master.

Obama and Biden told the truth when they talked about fundamental change.  Fundamental change in the modern Obama world means at its core going from a system based on freedom and the notion of giving value for value, to one based on coercion and getting something for nothing.  All for the supposedly noble goal of forced equality.

Abraham Lincoln, often considered the last of the founding fathers spoke in his second inaugural about the notion of “wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces”.  He was talking about slavery of course, but it could be more broadly understood as the detestable idea that you can use the force of law and government to take from one man and give it to another.  This is an age old idea.  Is this where we really want to go?  It doesn’t sound very ‘progressive’ to me.

I think the founding fathers got it about right. Freedom is the highest value, and we are trading it away piece by piece.  We lost a big piece this past week.

Obamacare, Democrats, Feminism and the Real Battle Between the Sexes

David Paul Kuhn writes an interesting piece in the Albany Times Union. 

Albany?   What is Albany?………It’s a place.  It is the capital of the state of New York where Democrats run their traditional show of spending  all the money they can and even money they can’t spend…..It’s the state where Charlies Rangel and Schumer live.

I often look for Mr. Kuhn’s articles.  I found this one at realclearpolitics.  Look it up.

“Millions of white men who voted for Barack Obama are walking away from the Democratic Party, and it appears increasingly likely that they’ll take the midterms elections in November with them. Their departure could well lead to a GOP landslide on a scale not seen since 1994

For more than three decades before the 2008 election, no Democratic president had won a majority of the electorate. In part, that was because of low support — never more than 38 percent — among white male voters. Things changed with Obama, who not only won a majority of all people voting, but also pulled in 41 percent of white male voters.

Polling suggests that the shift was not because of Obama but because of the financial meltdown that preceded the election. It was only after the economic collapse that Obama’s white male support climbed above the 38 percent ceiling. It was also at that point that Obama first sustained a clear majority among all registered voters, according to the Gallup tracking poll.

It looked for a moment as though Democrats had finally reached the men of Bruce Springsteen’s music, bringing them around to the progressive values Springsteen himself has long endorsed. But liberal analysts failed to understand that these new Democrats were still firmly rooted in American moderation.

Pollsters regularly ask voters whether they would rather see a Democrat or Republican win their district. By February, support for Democrats among white people (male and female) was three percentage points lower than in February 1994, the year of the last Republican landslide.

Today, among whites, only 35 percent of men and 43 percent of women say they will back Democrats in the fall election. Women’s preferences have remained steady since July 2009. But white men’s support for a Democratic Congress has fallen eight percentage points, according to Gallup.

White men have moved away from Obama as well. The same proportion of white women approve of him — 46 percent, according to Gallup — as voted for him in 2008. But only 38 percent of white men approve of the President, which means that millions of white men who voted for Obama have now lost faith in him.

The migration of white men from the Democratic Party was evident in the election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. His opponent, a white woman, won 52 percent of white women. But white men favored Brown by a 60 percent to 38 percent margin, according to Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates polling.

It’s no accident that the flight of white males from the Democratic Party has come as the government has assumed a bigger role, including in banking and health care. Among whites, 71 percent of men and 56 percent of women favor a smaller government with fewer services over a larger government with more services, according to ABC/Washington Post polling”

Read more:
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=915922&category=OPINION#ixzz0jOPGtVlR

Comment:  Never before throughout the rituals and trials of the human species has its female and male popultation been so divided and at odds than in today’s Western culture.  Yin and yang are in turmoil.  In America its culture has been decaying inexorably to the rule and personality of Obama Marxist care and its drive to feminize the nation.

The battle between the sexes is overwhelmingly manifested by the female world of the Democrat Party.   Obamaworld and its obedient victimhood vassals, particularly its gays and  blacks, feminized Hollywood and the American education industry are sculpting “The New Soviet Citizen”. 

The model and form of this sculpture is today’s battle between the female nanny state selling security by  emasculating the human male to drone status serving the government queen bee, male or female,  and selling  touchy touchy love and friendship within one great family of female chatter……..versus  the masculine and his inate drive reaching into the unknown with his imagination to cause  problem solving.

Sorry ladies……..oh, I can’t use that term anymore….gals……no, not that one either…..well, females, the truth of the matter is  guys invent things….gals enjoy the results and often make these things prettier.    The only way this male advantage can be removed for equality’s sake is through extermination or Marxist governments.  Modern Sweden advertises the latter.  As Dennis Prager reminds us, the Swedes reinvented nude bathing….their contribution to modern life.

The human female shuns problem solving.  She was not born to be a problem solver, but a problem soother.   Her nest duties have not included the dimensions of problem solving.   Polishing them up is more likely.

The female by nature used to ask sweetly and politely, “Can you help me?”  when her car won’t start….or in school where  students are expected  to learn knowledge, “Can you help me with this algebra problem?   I can’t seem to get to the  answer.”   (I won’t describe how arousing these questions used to be for me.)   Those in the know call it  pheromone  release.  Men so love to be needed.

But politically correct girls and women aren’t supposed to ask such questions of boys and men anymore.  So they don’t.  Nor do many have any men around in their world.  Democrat women tell us we all would be better off without men.  They play by the strict codes of Marxist  culture taught by their American  university priests and these days, priestesses.

Wait until a small asteroid collides with these people.  A little one big enough to shake the leftwing political world of Marxist forced sexism into oblivion.   God help us all when that happens.  There won’t be time for females to ask questions.   They will be needed and used.  Use your own imagination painting the picture.

According to Dennis Prager the human male is born to be a sexual predator.    Those male who have bothered to think rather than merely to do, know well the total and nearly universal truth of this rule of living animal species.    He quickly reminds us (as quickly as possible because his feminist and leftwing enemies will assault him in the ways Marxists usually assault)  that because of this male drive,  civilized society must spend a great effort to acculturate its males to regulate the drive. 

The leftwing Westerner has decided to acculterate males to become female, hence its love for the unisex over the past twenty years.  This fantasy is not yet over. 

Another solution is to drive the human male out of the university community, where womanish thinking and attempts at understanding begin to dominate.  Research becomes chatter to satisfy the romance of the researcher.  Man-made climate change must be shown to be caused by western men…….a threat to world peace and security.  It must be proven to be true because among the womanish, it is felt to be true, wanted to be true, therefore must be true even before research begins.  To feel is to rule truth……..to hell with knowledge and honest inquiry.

 Human males are still around.  Whether black, white or anything in between.  Pheromones still exist.   I don’t see the Western male happy and content living in these Marxist nests of  female life for very long.  Men may love women all right, but they run from  female chatter.  They are still male after all, and not just white males.  

The human male seeks to be free and cherishes liberty.  The human female disdains freedom in favor of security………Is this not  the major attraction of  the evening’s match, the battle between the sexes?

……at least until the fall of the asteroid….God forbid!

Obamacare Icebergs Already Sinking Corporate Ships?

It may be a surprise to the Obama population of this world, especially to its government worker union corps and its Democrat Party’s army of victimland creations,  that in order for a business to remain in business, it must rely upon  making a profit. 

I didn’t realize that Truth of Human Life, except in the prisons called Marxist dictatorships,  until nearly too late in my late-in-life attempt at private enterprise.   I had to learn to do more than simply pay bills.

After all, I had been a lifelong Democrat.  I was dedicated in my earlier role when I was Executive Secretary of a small semi-state enterprise, and was primarily responsible for its existence for 14 years, but was never pressed with some disasterous tsunami like Obamacare swamping our offices.

I have learned since, that Corporations must make a profit to exist also.  Otherwise we enter the Dark and Evil Zone of Marxist Rule such as occurred in the good old Soviet Union.

Some American corporations are already facing Obamacare caused tsunamis.  Obama ink on this new and foreign law of the land (temporarily, hopefully) is barely dry.  Already some corporations are facing downsizing versus disaster……an may be forced to consider mass layoffs due to Obamacare……Just what America needs….more unemployment.

Old time friend and colleague at this previous career, Mark Waldeland, sent me the following article he found at the Wall Street Journal:

“Its been a banner week for Democrats:  ObamaCare passed Congress in its final form on Thursday night, and the returns are already rolling in.  Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what has become a wave of such corporate losses.

This wholesale destruction of wealth and capital came with more than ample warning.  Turning over every couch cushion to make their new entitlement look affordable under Beltway accounting rules, Democrats decided to raise taxes on companies that do the public service of offering prescription drug benefits to their retirees instead of dumping them into Medicare.  We and others warned this would lead to AT&T-like results, but like so many other ObamaCare objections, Democrats waved them off as self-serving or “political”.

Henry Waxman and House Democrats announced yesterday that they will haul these companies in for an April 21 hearing because their judgment “appears to conflict with independent analyses, which show that the new law will expand coverage and bring down costs.”

In other words, shoot the messenger. Black-letter financial accounting rules require that corporations immediately restate their earnings to reflect the present value of their long-term health liabilities, including a higher tax burden. Should these companies have played chicken with the Securities and Exchange Commission to avoid this politically inconvenient reality? Democrats don’t like what their bill is doing in the real world, so they now want to intimidate CEOs into keeping quiet.

On top of AT&T’s $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million; and Valero Energy, up to $20 million. Verizon has also warned its employees about its new higher health-care costs, and there will be many more in the coming days and weeks.

As Joe Biden might put it, this is a big, er, deal for shareholders and the economy. The consulting firm Towers Watson estimates that the total hit this year will reach nearly $14 billion, unless corporations cut retiree drug benefits when their labor contracts let them.

Meanwhile, John DiStaso of the New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week that ObamaCare could cost the Granite State’s major ski resorts as much as $1 million in fines, because they hire large numbers of seasonal workers without offering health benefits. “The choices are pretty clear, either increase prices or cut costs, which could mean hiring fewer workers next winter,” he wrote.

The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don’t make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. But their bill was such a shoddy, jerry-rigged piece of work that the damage is coming sooner than even some critics expected.”

Despite Dem Huff and Puff Pride, Obamacare Must Be Repealed

The following article is from Weekly Standard.com…written by Yuval Levin:

In the days since the enactment of their health care plan, Democrats in Washington have been desperately seeking to lodge the new program in the pantheon of American public-policy achievements.

House Democratic whip James Clyburn compared the bill to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Vice President Biden argued it vindicates a century of health reform efforts by Democrats and Republicans alike. House speaker Nancy Pelosi said “health insurance reform will stand alongside Social Security and Medicare in the annals of American history.” 

Even putting aside the fact that Social Security and Medicare are going broke and taking the rest of the government with them, these frantic forced analogies are preposterous. The new law is a ghastly mess, which began as a badly misguided technocratic pipe dream and was then degraded into ruinous incoherence by the madcap process of its enactment. 

The appeals to history are understandable, however, because the Democrats know that the law is also exceedingly vulnerable to a wholesale repeal effort: Its major provisions do not take effect for four years, yet in the interim it is likely to begin wreaking havoc with the health care sector—raising insurance premiums, health care costs, and public anxieties. If those major provisions do take effect, moreover, the true costs of the program will soon become clear, and its unsustainable structure will grow painfully obvious. So, to protect it from an angry public and from Republicans armed with alternatives, the new law must be made to seem thoroughly established and utterly irrevocable—a fact on the ground that must be lived with; tweaked, if necessary, at the edges, but at its core politically untouchable. 

But it is no such thing. Obamacare starts life strikingly unpopular and looks likely to grow more so as we get to know it in the coming months and years. The entire House of Representatives, two-thirds of the Senate, and the president will be up for election before the law’s most significant provisions become fully active. The American public is concerned about spending, deficits, debt, taxes, and overactive government to an extent seldom seen in American history. The excesses of the plan seem likely to make the case for alternative gradual and incremental reforms only stronger. 

And the repeal of Obamacare is essential to any meaningful effort to bring down health care costs, provide greater stability and security of coverage to more Americans, and address our entitlement crisis. Both the program’s original design and its contorted final form make repairs at the edges unworkable. The only solution is to repeal it and pursue genuine health care reform in its stead.

Obama’s Offense Against Israeli Sovereignty

Obama’s contrived crisis with Israel should be a concern to all Americans.  But it probably won’t disturb any on the American Jewish Left.  Their devotion to Marxism is its religion.

The rift is of Obama’s choosing……or should I say, Zbigniev’s.

Obama is fresh from his phony, but pompous agreement with Putin to reduce the American nuclear weapon count.   The college graduate student believes strongly in a world without such weapons……despite the fact Iran now has one and has no intention of dispensing with it despite all of Obama’s teeth showing.

This Israeli crisis the president has morphed is of great concern………Israel MUST go ahead and build its apartments in Jerusalem.   It must rely on enough American people to undermine this most unAmerican of all our presidents.

The following is an article from the Jerusalem Post regarding Obama’s offensive against  Jewish sovereignty  the other day.

“Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened his senior ministers in Jerusalem on Friday afternoon to discuss the demands made by US President Barack Obama and his overall trip to Washington – a trip that, because of negative atmospherics and amid a paucity of hard information, has been widely characterized as among the most difficult in recent memory.