Remember when protest was patriotic?

[Veritas]

On March 16, USA Today reported that Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum "was among dozens of members of Congress who ran gantlets of demonstrators and shouted over hecklers at Social Security events last month. Many who showed up to protest were alerted by e-mails and bused in by anti-Bush organizations such as MoveOn.org and USAction, a liberal advocacy group. They came with prepared questions and instructions on how to confront lawmakers."

This was just good, boisterous politics: "Robust, wide-open debate." But when it happens to Democrats, it's something different: A threat to democracy, a sign of incipient fascism, and an opportunity to set up a (possibly illegal) White House "snitch line" where people are encouraged to report "fishy" statements to the authorities.





Whether they like it or not -- and the evidence increasingly tends toward "not" -- President Obama and his handlers need to accept that this is a free country, one where expressions of popular discontent take place outside the electoral process, and always have. (Remember
Martin Luther King?)


LINK (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Remember-when-protest-was-patriotic-52767517.html)

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[Veritas]

I wonder if Hilary still agrees with herself now?

LINK (http://www.americasright.com/2009/08/i-cant-believe-that-i-agree-with.html)

[redundancy]

LINK (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Remember-when-protest-was-patriotic-52767517.html)

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Now, now - introducing common sense into the argument and exposing another Liberal double standard are you?

We'll have none of that!!!

[True2Blues]

"All Tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

Thomas Jefferson

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"All Tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

Thomas Jefferson



But then we're not really dealing with the Jeffersonian Model anymore, are we?

I would suggest that what we are now enduring has it's roots more in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

[Patriot]

Now, now - introducing common sense into the argument and exposing another Liberal double standard are you?

We'll have none of that!!!

LOL. None of that, indeed. It's so unpatriotic. :wink:

Good post, Veritas. :thumbup:

[ABC]

LINK (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Remember-when-protest-was-patriotic-52767517.html)

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Right On. The American people have a habit of deciding for themselves what is their business and expressing their agreement or disagrement.