Capitol Hill Security Taken to New Levels – Constituents Righteously Indignent
August 7, 2009 by Capt. Karl
The following is from Lee Bellinger:
As “Obamanomics” continues to accelerate the economy’s collapse and with it, the destruction of millions more jobs, the corrupt U.S. political class is circling its wagons in dangerous and disturbing ways. Here are some very recent eyebrow-raising developments:
- The White House is compiling a political enemies list. On Wednesday, an official White House blog urged users to forward the names of any and all Internet critics of the Administration’s proposed plan to crush private medicine and force Americans into government-run healthcare. Specifically, White House allies are being urged to forward the names of anyone spreading “fishy” information on the Internet about their healthcare plan to flag@whitehouse.gov.
- In the last week, the White House launched an attack against the Drudge Report for airing a YOUTUBE segment of a 2003 Obama speech before a union audience where he explicitly called for an end to private insurance. The White House launched a video of its own to counter Obama’s comments, completely ignoring that’s exactly what Obama had said in 2003. Additional comments by Rep. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi calling for a “single payer” socialized medicine system have also found their way onto YOUTUBE.
- Members of Congress conducting town hall meetings are being met by angry voters who oppose the imposition of national “communal medicine” run by the same kind of bureaucrats who run DMVs. Town hall meetings from Austin, Texas, to Philadelphia to California have seen record attendance by angry constituents opposed to the hard-left agenda being pursued in Washington. Meanwhile, union bosses at the AFL-CIO and the SEIU have stepped in to chill voters from expressing their opposition, dispatching union operatives to town hall meetings with orders to pressure attendees into signing documents promising they will not get angry. (Kinda ironic, considering Big Labor’s especially ugly reputation for militancy.)
- Within the last 48 hours, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has joined with other Democrats to denounce the angry citizens who are showing up for town halls. In a short scratchy video caught on someone’s camera, Pelosi could be heard denouncing the voters, launching a false claim they were sporting Nazi logos as part of their protest. (Major thought-control legislation now looms before Congress – Pelosi and other Democrats catching heat from the public strongly favor “hate crimes” laws, “free-speech zones,” and the like.)
- The Capitol is rapidly being converted to White House levels of security. The much-ballyhooed Capitol Hill “Visitors Center” ends a 230-year tradition of broad public access to the U.S. Capitol by the general public. (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was overheard complaining about having to deal with the “smell” of citizens visiting the Capitol.) Members of Congress are also quietly talking among themselves about the need to add their own personal security at future town hall meetings back in their districts.
- The House of Representatives has quietly purchased an initial fleet of three luxury Gulfstream G550s so top members of Congress can avoid public exposure on commercial airplanes. (Even after raising a stink about “carbon footprints” and corporate executives flying in their own jets.)
I haven’t come out and said this in Independent Living yet, but the fact is – based on close examination of Barack Obama’s actions so far and his planned legislation – he is clearly an ideological nut… probably the most Far Left wing president ever to occupy the Oval Office.
Hang on tight folks, because it’s only a matter of time before the political establishment resorts to more extreme measures to stifle dissent and crush opponents.
From The Liberty Tree Lantern:
A large segment of our fellow countrymen are starting to pick up copies of The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of The United (but independent and soverign) States and finding out that according to our cardinal law the Federal Government is authorized, by We The People, to have the power to do seventeen things ONLY. Beyond the fact that the “Public Option” or any other form of healthcare is not one of them, they are finding out that the vast majority of what the Federal Government has been doing is against the LAW that we drafted, established and ordained on them.
