Brown vs. Coakley = Liberty vs. Tyranny
A video gone viral states in clear, unmistakable language what Tuesday’s U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts is all about: “Today our liberty is threatened by another tyrannical government.”
The run-up to the 2008 presidential election and the first year of Barack Obama’s administration represent a virtual case study in how authoritarian rule begins to take root. History surely will recite a lengthy litany of freedom-restricting and/or government power-enhancing laws, regulations, actions, and statements that have come from Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their swelling ranks of apparatchiks since they assumed one-party control of the U.S. government and Congress early last year. But the Bay State’s beleaguered electorate need only focus on three dangerous developments since 2010 began to understand the overarching importance of their choice on Tuesday.
The first definition of “tyranny” at Dictionary.com tells us that it is the “arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.” All three items that follow, and so much else that has occurred in the past year, fit that primary definition to a T.
First, there’s the president’s proposed bank tax — er, “financial responsibility fee.”
This sentence in the White House’s related “fact sheet” gives away their game (bold is mine):
It is our responsibility to ensure that the taxpayer dollars that supported these actions are reimbursed by the financial sector so that the deficit is not increased.
Note that the statement does not attempt to identify the specific people or entities in the financial sector who are supposedly responsible for the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s shortfall. No, no, no. That would be hard work; and besides, they wouldn’t like the answers. Instead, Barack Obama considers the resources of an entire industry fair game for plunder and is playing the so-called responsibility card to whip up ordinary citizens’ emotions against it. This is how tyrants think and act.
Yes, that is precisely the thinking and behavior of a tyrant. Obama’s method differs only in degree, not in kind, from Chavez’:
Chavez Seizes French-Owned Supermarkets for “Price Gouging”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8464741.stm
Congratulations, Sir.
Tens of pundits spend a lot of time and words on this blog inventing the fanciest definitions of what is happening in America, while you say the plain and simple truth in plain and simple words.
We need leaders like you.
If the GOP leaders were telling the truth, the totalitarians would have a lot of problems in their job of regime building.
Unluckily, we have a lot of useless politicians who are politicians ONLY because they are unable of earning a life with an honest job, therefore they never say the plain and simple truth because that would entail some risk.
Congratulations again.
Godspeed America !
This is an excellent essay, and it is a crying shame that the MSM won’t tell the truth about the Obama’s and the Democrat Pary’s neocommunists.
Is it not obvious that the long struggle is nearly over?
Is it not obvious that the triumph of Islam is inevitable?
There is little time left.
Cease provoking the soldiers of Allah (swt).
Cease your blasphemies against Allah (swt) and His Messenger Muhammed (saw).
Cease oppressing Muslims.
Renounce your false religions.
Embrace Islam now and live in peace in submission to the will of Almighty Allah (swt).
Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
Allahu akbar!
Sinclair Lewis said, “when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross” This sums up the teabagger movement quite well.
A vote for Scott Brown is a vote for fascism. A vote for Martha Coakley is a vote for freedom and liberty. It’s really that simple.
#4 American Muslim: Your grandchildren will be Muslim.
Allahu akbar!
Sorry to disillusion you, but my grandson, the son and grandson of American soldiers, will likely also be an American soldier, and will laugh while your female cousins (you are not going to survive to have grandchildren) frolic on the beach wearing skimpy bikinis.
And you can keep posting your calls to Allah (spt) as long as my relatives guarantee the freedom of speech that you would so callously deny to others. Why not call me a Crusader, too? I have a very large, sharp and combat ready sword. Although I’m a lot better with a rifle.
4. American Muslim:
“Embrace Islam now and live in peace in submission to the will of Almighty Allah (swt).”
I’ve got your “submission” right here Abdul El A$$hat.
http://www.screencast.com/users/GooDDaDDy/folders/Jing/media/214fb204-d50c-4e59-a8df-ba5f8e65f6b3
And it’s American made too.
(Why is it that PJM allows this kind of murderous posting from a jihadi cultist swearing the death of every man, women and child in our country?)
Not Over.
American Mooslim …
My children and my grandchildren will worship the One true God, as my parents and grandparents did. And that ain’t the Arab moon-god, bub. You may officially consider this post a “provocation”.
On topic, the tactics and policies of the Obama administration fit neatly into any reasonable definition of the word “tyranny”. “Don’t tread on me” should be the motto of the day, in America.
Vote for Scott Brown. Vote for Integrity!
If Massachussets conservatives were really serious about change, they’d be getting behind the Libertarian candidate, Joe Kennedy. They’re not, its team x versus team y. Its never been about politics, as this election will no doubt, again prove.
Perhaps there is hope. Should the National Democratic Socialist Party lose in Ma., who knows what’s possible?
Semper fi Tom, Semper fi
Tom: Sorry to disillusion you, but my grandson, the son and grandson of American soldiers, will likely also be an American soldier, and will laugh while your female cousins (you are not going to survive to have grandchildren) frolic on the beach wearing skimpy bikinis.
At best “American Muslim” was a left wing troll trying to get you all to fall over yourselves with bigoted reactions. Which you certainly obliged. There are American muslims, some of them are even in the military. Some of them have even died in this silly war you’re jerking off to. I fwhat I’m reading is serious, then you think this is a football game or something. I feel sorry for your children.
Great read and so very true. Now is the time for all good Americans to stand up and vote them out to save our America. Be afraid, be very afraid of this “new” change!
I am happy for the the moderate wing(s) of the Republican party. Snowe, Collins and Arnie have worked very hard, without much gratitude to stop the party from total collapse among the electorate in the “must win” states on both coasts. If Brown wins, it will solidify the moderate wing in the northeast that will not be ignored in the upcoming mid-terms and the convention in 2012. OBama remains at 60% approval ratings, but three years is a long way off and if he and the dems dont come up with the answers to the disaster they inherited in 2008, America may take another look at the conservatives…. Ya never know…
Judging by some of the posts here, lefties are getting testy.
12. Blovis:
“…fall over yourselves with bigoted reactions.”
First of all Blovis, nothing I’ve read here said anything that was “bigoted”.
A bigot is someone that has a hatred or dislike for a person or persons because of their race or skin color. Radical “Islamists” come in all races and all skin colors. There’s radical Islamists of Swedish decent, there’s radical Islamists of German decent etc., from every country on earth.
Telling some religious fanatic who threatens me, my way of life, and especially my kids safety to get bent and get back under the rock they crawled out from under, is a form of self-defense in my book.
“I will NOT submit!”
Ever…got it.
Not Over.
For Praetorian:
“A vote for Scott Brown is a vote for fascism. A vote for Martha Coakley is a vote for freedom and liberty. It’s really that simple.”
Yes, indeed, giving more power to the federal government (which is what Martha supports) would give us more liberty from the federal government. And surely we both understand – small limited government is so fascistic. In fact, Hitler and Mussolini, Stalin and Mao, Pol Pot and Castro were all libertarians.
Americans liberals are so bright, it’s amazing.
Time is short. Cease your rebellion against Jesus, for He is coming back to judge the living and the dead, and to smite the wicked soldiers of Allah. Jesus is Lord! Repent or perish by His mighty sword.
#12 Blovis, how can expressing one’s love and allegiance to America or being proud to be part of a military family be bigoted reactions?
It’s clear you’re of the apologists-for-America camp, like Obama, Reid and Pelosi who blame America for everything that’s wrong with society and the world.
Isn’t it so elling and tragic that commenters on this and other PJM articles and Internet blogs on the Brown vs Coakley election, are bringing up ACORN, SEIU, lawyering up, dead voters, denying the overseas military votes, recounts, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc., etc., etc.? Why do we continue to mention these things? Because America knows how the Democrats would go to any lengths to steal this election, like they did for Al Franken and Obama.
Blovis, instead of blaming conservatives and the GOP for what’s wrong with America, blame the Democrats and the liberal (progressive) establishment for trying to “fundamentally transform” this great, generous, wonderful country of ours.
Tyranny is not a distant abstraction, and there is no single-shot vaccination against it. Tyranny is the typical state of social “order” over most of the planet and has been so during the quasi-totality of history. America as we can still fondly remember it today has been the one miraculous escape from tyranny. But freedom is by no means guaranteed to be permanent. Simple neglect is enough to kill freedom because its enemies need only wait for us lose faith in who we can still be if only we care enough.
Don’t just stand there and let the shiny city go downhill!
Meet you at the tea parties, and let’s together stop the steamroller of the return to tyranny. Pelosi, Obama and Reid are the three locomotives of the grand train wreck, but let’s remember the steam comes from us, not them. Let’s reassert the sovereignty of WE THE PEOPLE. Just visualize Scott Brown’s black pick-up truck as the mechanical rendition of Paul Revere’s old horse, and hear our brave Scott Brown yelling “The aristocrats are coming back!”
@5. Praetorian: – Sinclair Lewis…
…was wrong, obviously. Fascism came to America the same way it has come to every other nation: as a populist ruse preaching entitlement, promising to redistribute wealth and promoting itself as above the law.
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@14. Poor Citizen: – OBama remains at 60% approval ratings…
Still drunk? You desperately need to get out more.
#4.my middle finger, represents the I in islam
Brown vs. Coakley is the Pickett’s Charge of left/liberalism! As Nixon said in ’68: “This time, vote like your whole world depended on it.” It does.
“6. Tom:”
Well done Sir. But you left out one thing. Our grandkids will be playing with marbles made out of the kaaba stone. First ten thousand get a set free you see. A marketing gimic from Disneyland Mecca.
The cross and the flag? I am so proud to be an American and a Christian, as my parents and grandparents were who escaped Stalin’s Russia in the late 1920′s – they lost many family members and believe me the leftist commenters above have no idea about any of the ‘isms’. They need to go live under these dictatorships to learn what it is really like – but of course they will never leave this land of the free and this home of the brave – they would be thrown in prison for speaking their minds.
Ok, y’all, it’s time for another…
Massachusetts Miracle
Great blog, well said Mr. Blumer. I always look forward to reading your blogs here and at AT. We have much work ahead of us to begin to put an end to this tryant in office.
BTW: Just to be safe, you should start making up excuses for why “it’s different this time”:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/republican-leader-threatens-to-block-seating-of-franken/
In not too many hours, the polls will open and voters will express themselves in Massachusetts. Then the polls will close and the hacks will get busy in the back rooms stuffing ballot boxes and casting votes for dead people in an effort to clinch a win for “Marcia” Coakley… it seems the only voters excited about her campaign are dead people, who are excited enough to get up from their graves and vote.
Nice to note the whining and vitriol of the lefties. Serve no whine before it’s time!
Not the first time I’ve encountered the muslim call from Internet trolls, nor will it be the last. This exchange has been going on for at least 10 years, so trying to interject leftist whining and chastising insults into the picture just gets ignored. Time for the anteater to go hijack another jihadi website!
28. Maybe because people are inclined to doubt the legitimacy of ballots pulled from an election worker’s truck several days after the election.
28. skeeziks:
Big difference. Your article was from more a year ago; when the election was still contested and Franken had not yet been certified as the winner. Seating him on a provisional basis with a race that close would have been absurd. It’s obvious you didn’t even seem bother to read beyond the lead paragraph.
Jon stewart hit the nail on the head – to republicans, tyranny now means “losing an election”
Most Massachusetts voters are INDEPENDENT and leaning towards the Democrats.
Anything else is disinformation.
Let’s wait 24 hours and see who tells the truth.
Watch for dirty election tricks: an old tradition in the USA. A new trick: code ‘mistakes’ in ballot counting, those silly programmers . . .
Let the game begin. If Coakley loses and the Democrat’s in Massachusetts stall the instatllation of Scott Brown and force through the Obama Health bill, then 2010 election will be a total blowout for the Republicans. The patriot citizens are getting more and more involved and they are against this Obama administration and its Chicago thug politics.
The shots of liberty and freedom are being be heard all the way down here in Aus.
Say No to Statism, Fascism, Marxism, and to U.N Global governance.
No to enforced misery and economic oppression, and govt. largess.
Yes to Liberty!
Stick it to those slimy backroom scheming (Dems) statists! They want to enslave you all, all while they enjoy their junkets, caviar and chardonnay. Don’t be taken for granted stand up with dignity and let them know your hard-working tax dollars won’t fund their power grabbing whims, recklessness and utter contempt for you.
Purge the bastards out office, for the survival and good of your nation! Your framers were wise beyond their generation, prove them right once again.
Go Patriots Go!!
Prayer to End Abortion
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all,
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
Praetorian,
Such an appropriate name, as you stand guard for the corrupt and decadent emperors.
I was on vacation in Boston in 2008 when John McCain announced that Sarah Palin would be his running mate. I looked high and low throughout the city to find a button to put on my purse, but couldn’t find one. Everything was about Obama, EVERYTHING. Every other person on the street had an Obama button on. This past October I went back and noticed that no one was wearing an Obama button and the souvenir shops had limited Obama souvenirs. I did notice however, the large stock of “Don’t Tread on Me” flags/hats/shirts that were selling in almost every souvenir shop. What a difference a year makes.
31. MisterH:
Big difference is right. The election hasn’t even happened and you’re claiming foul. THAT is the difference. But if Brown wins and we contest it, demand a recount, and threaten to not seat Brown if he’s the provisional winner, then . . . !
That would be news to the Amirault family…
Coakley must be a pathological liar for believing in and defending up and down the testimony in those cases. The alternative is that she is so utterly insane that she should be committed.
Matthew #32, sorry, but do you mean that Jon Stewart hit the nail on the head, or hit his head on a nail, or has a nail in his head, or can’t tell the difference between a nail and his head ?
Keep it from Jon or he’ll have one of those screaming fits that his audiences love so much, but safe to say when a central government seeks to use force to require that an entire population be subject to & controlled by said government in an area basic to their lives, that at the least it’s a step towards tyranny and is tyrannical in it’s essence and approach.
But Screaming Jon needs his producers to write this out for him.
On the other hand, maybe he likes a government that walks all over it’s people.
4. American Muslim.
10. Moho.
12. Blovis.
A Cesspooler speaks!
We have the Pee Wee moho – kochevnik – Shawn Ondeen skeeziks Blovis American Muslim Alice Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy ranting about the impossibility of any form of thought other that what the funhouse mirror instructs.
This multiple personality gig exists simply to talk back and forth to itself. There really are no political positions, the commenting by the multiple moho’s only serves the purpose of ideological reinforcement. It knows nothing else. When the Queen of Diamonds dissent appears, the spinal column dictates action in the form of self-aggrandizing rap spewing from the Modern Liberal Cesspool of do what I say or else. Or else what?
This is not about politics by any stretch, this is about anger, rage and resentment. And the feeling that degradation is cool.
12. Blovis.
“…in this silly war you’re jerking off to…”
This is a trademark of the Cesspooler, a reference to Pee Wee moho – kochevnik – Shawn Ondeen skeeziks Blovis American Muslim Alice Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy’s pamphlet, Onan the Wannabe Jihadist. Maybe Pee Wee moho will find some peace with his damaged Inconvenient Truth in hairy palm, while watching Nurse Nancy in a dark movie theater in Saudi Arabia. Maybe.
In the mean time, it gets off by recommending its own brand of recreation to others. It’s ok for Modern Liberals, but if you’re anything else and get caught, it will be NY Times headlines.
And what about this one?
5. Praetorian.
“Sinclair Lewis said, ‘when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross’. This sums up the teabagger movement quite well.”
Yeah, “quite well”. Really now, do all Tea Partiers look the same to you? They must be some different race, right?
Oh well, just another Cesspooler with Mr. President Orbs in… Where?
Curl up with your curling irons Modern Liberals, a good warming up does wonders for Cesspooler love. Give yourself something concrete to agonize over. Come on now, plug it into the wind generator. Quick!
Hey Cesspoolers, why is Mr. President so unpopular?
How about some Cesspool talk, you know, about how well Mr. President is doing. Put up his poll numbers, do something, he needs your help, in the form of more idolatry and money.
Might you even pray for him?
In lieu of that, just call somebody stupid. Then blame whatever on Bush. Go for it! It’s all you have.
Van Jones is has some counterfeit carbon credits for you. Muggers like it when you resist with your “Courage and Intelligence”. Whatever. Cesspoolers.
#4 American Muslim
As I repeatedly tried to explain to you, God is Infinite Love and whoever denies this Truth denies the perfection of the Infinite Being, therefore is an atheist.
You shouldn’t spend time on a machine invented in America (=computer), using American technology (=Internet), to spread threats in American English.
You could use some time doing some good around yourself, and learning to love your neighbor. Such are the deeds of the true believer.
Threatening people and trying to scare them are the deeds of evil.
Don’t do that, it is very bad for you and you cooperate with the beast and the shadow.
God blessed you with Life, with Reason, with the Wonder of the Eternal Creation, don’t reject God and God’s Love by using your life to do bad things, you make God suffer.
BARACK OBAMA AND THE “CURSE” OF THE KENNEDYS
When Caroline Kennedy believed that she heard the voice of her father in the words of Barack Obama and anointed him the “new JFK” with her uncle Ted and 15 family members Obama’s fate was sealed: The “Kennedy Curse” was upon him.
Google ApolloSpeaks (one word) and read my small new blogbook: Barack Obama and the “Curse” of the Kennedys.
BARACK OBAMA AND THE “CURSE” OF THE KENNEDYS
When Caroline Kennedy believed that she heard the voice of her father in the words of Barack Obama and anointed him the “new JFK” with her uncle Ted and 15 family members Obama’s fate was sealed: The “Kennedt Curse” was upon him.
Google ApolloSpeaks (one word) and read my small new blogbook: Barack Obama and the “Curse” of the Kennedys.
If true, then it is a shame that liberty or tyranny could hang on one small special election. Outright tyranny and other politically driven forms of denial of personal freedom should not be allowed – even with a legislative super majority. That’s what the Constitution says anyway.
I will be surprised if we can stop this slide into socialism in a conventional political manner – we’ll see. But if not, it is going to take a revolution based on refusal to pay full taxes, mass disobedience of healthcare, cap and trade and othe4r regulations, assertion of State’s rights over federal government and citizen class action lawsuits against fraudulent legislation of all types.
If this is what it comes to, count me in. Let the Vivo’s and Moho’s of the country pay for their delusional world view without our help.
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Your elected officials to let them know you will not tolerate this!
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And post on any and all blogs!!!
Keep the light shining on these crooks and don’t let a single issue slide!
47. No need to worry about that, we just won!
Hey it is all over Scott Brown is now the new senator from Massachusetts and did so with a 5% lead!
It is a great day for the whole country except for the democrats!