January 5, 2013 - 12:21 am
Are we a nation ruled by laws, or has our government been taken over by a group of modern-day marquis and baronettes who simply pretend to govern, while robbing us blind? On this week’s Afterburner, Bill Whittle likens the recent “fiscal cliff” crisis to kabuki theater. So how can one person come out on top in such a system? Find out.
I really fear that our government has slipped away from us. Just look at this horrid “fiscal cliff” bill that was passed. It was passed at around 3 AM on New Years Day and NOBODY had a chance to actually see the bill, let alone read it or debate it. This was a deal cooked up between two people, Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the country was simply supposed to go along with it and have absolutely no say in the matter. The problem was just as bad in the House. The entire bill was rammed through in a matter of hours after almost no debate. Not one committee looked at this bill and nobody could even offer an amendment. Some guys just thought up these terms that over 300 million people will get stuck with and nobody else had a say in the matter. What was that “quaint” little phrase that came out of the American Revolution, “No taxation without representation?” Well, we were just taxed to death last week and we had absolutely no say in the matter. I’m just surprised that the bulk of the population has not rebelled up until now, which tells you just how much junk the American people are willing to swallow. Maybe THAT is the problem. We don’t make our voices heard, so they keep pulling stunts like this.
May 2, 2009 Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere on the bed, on the floor, on the wall.
But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held on a criminal complaint that he made a bomb threat from his home on the night of Feb. 15.
USA using Patriot Act against its own citizens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFVQ0HZz2mc
The reason Harry Reid has not passed a budget out of the Senate in nearly 4 years can be explained by two words: baseline spending. That is Washington’s way of doing budgets. They take all the services the government is currently providing, assume they will continue providing all of those, add a bit for inflation, say 5% and then if anyone proposes an increase of only 2% they start shrieking about how you’re cutting the budget, or taking credit for budget cutting depending on the optics you want. With no budget, Washington has been spending at the 2008 level which has all the “temporary” stimulus spending baked into it and operating on a series of continuing resolutions. If they wer to pass a budget in line with 2007 our deficit would be nearly erased but it won’t happen because the stimulus spending is being used as a giant slush fund that Obama is using to reward his favored constituencies.
More on how baselin budgeting works here.
Meant to say Washington has been spending at the 2009, not 2008, level.
Here’s what is particularly insidious about the new tyranny: it maintains a patina of credibility because of so-called elections. They do all these things, and their apologists simply say “Well, they’re just conducting the People’s business. They were elected after all.” Heck, the Communist Party always won elections in the USSR too.
Right now we have the superficial trappings of a once-representative government. Elections are held, but are increasingly meaningless. They are meaningless either because they are the result of fraud, or the bribing of a dependent class, or even because legislative bodies have handed over their own authority to an unelected quasi-4th branch of government known as the regulatory bureaucracy.
The result is the same. We have an out of control government that is absolutely contemptuous of the people it supposedly serves. Don’t let them, their apologists in the media, and their dependent clients get away with convincing you that all this treachery is legitimate just because they were supposedly elected to do it.
BILL CLINTON: OBAMA SHOULD IGNORE CONGRESS ON DEBT, INVOKE 14TH AMENDMENT July 19, 2011 by Billy Hallowell
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/debt-limit-showdown-bill-clinton-advocates-obama-ignore-congress-invoke-the-14th-amendment/
2012 – The Commission on Presidential Debates is a private corporation headed by the former chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties. The CPD is a duopoly which allows the major party candidates to draft secret agreements about debate arrangements including moderators, debate format and even participants. The result is a travesty riddled with sterile, non-contentious arguments which consistently exclude alternative voices that Americans want to hear.
This documentary also reveals the big corporations who “sponsor” the CPD and how third party candidates are purposely excluded. One of these sponsors, Annheiser Busch, is partly owned by Senator John McCain’s wife. Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura’s election as an independent candidate proves that opening up debates can lead to real change – something the entrenched Republican and Democratic Parties don’t want to see.
Who’s Afraid of an Open Debate? The Truth About the Commission on Presidential Debates (Full Version)
http://undergrounddocumentaries.com/whos-afraid-of-an-open-debate-the-truth-about-the-commission-on-presidential-debates-full-version/
Obama’s Secretary of State Candidate Has Significant Financial Stake in Tar Sands Companies Business / Environmental Policy November 28, 2012
http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/obama-secretary-state-candidate-has-significant-financial-stake-tar-sands-companies.html
Well, because it is former VPOTUS Al Gore …. just SHUT UP you racist hater!
It’s nice everybody’s still chatting in Comments. You did heard the man out, right? Don’t you get it? Like Rush, immediately after the election, Whittle has just announced his own obsolescence. If what he says is true, and I suspect it is, then there is nothing left to say. And what truly is to be done will not be discussed in public. And so, from where I sit, this sort of site is sad now and mostly services old conservatives scoring pointless talking points in a clear, confident voice while the darkness settles down around us.
Actually, I don’t think anyone would disagree with you. Prior to the election many of us said an Obama re-election would be the final nail. I don’t think any different now that that has become reality. What continues to drive traffic at these sites, in my opinion, is people seeking two things: 1. the knowledge that others are interpreting events the same way, and 2. the desire for the moral clarity for what is coming, i.e. that which you have alluded to as “(will) not be discussed in public”.
you got the darkness part right