America In Danger – The Blog

I for one am not very moved by Nancy Pelosi’s near tearful plea that we curb our enthusiasm in the political debate because there could be violence.

Nancy please! If you are referring to the tea party attendees or the town hall protestors, these are essentially everyday citizens that you’re talking about. It’s not the rabid leftists of the 60s and 70s or the union thugs and provocateurs hired by the DNC, ACORN, and other tax funded organizations to disrupt townhall meetings.

… and what’s with the near tearful delivery??????????

Nancy Pelosi is tough as nails and if anyone thinks she is that emotionally broken up by the non-existent threat of violence you really need a healthy dose of reality.

Ms. Pelosi, like all liberal/leftist is simply upset that the ordinary citizens of this nation are fed up with the likes of her and her cohorts in Washington.

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One has to ask, is it not clear yet that this government sweeping take over of health care is untenable? The America people overwhelmingly are opposed to such dramatic and over-reaching government intrusion into health care.

While most agree that reform is needed, a majority remain rightly skeptical of the government’s attempt to shotgun a poorly planned, excessively intrusive, and extremely expensive piece of legislation out there without considering the myriad unintended consequences that will wreak havoc across America.

Those of us who oppose such hastily composed expansion of government are not hysterical, we are not swayed by the fringe spouting exaggerations of the provisions, nor are we biased because of race or party. The fact is that many understand the ramifications of giving the government such far reaching authority to intervene in our lives. Many of us have seen the disastrous and failed attempts of our local, state, and federal government in such matters. Many also understand the spectrum of costs associated with such bureaucracies.

It seems that finally and only because of public outrage, we are seeing some Congressmen and Senators backing away from this disaster in the making.

It is obvious that our Congress and the Administration are out of touch with not only the American citizen but with reality itself.

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If you disapprove of the current administration’s actions, policies, or direction and chose to post that information to the internet, you may well be on the list of people doing so.

Long reported by various fringe groups, there are in fact lists that have been and are being compiled by various federal agencies. Some of us may remember the controversy when Nixon used federal resources to compile a political enemy list, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI were/are fond of lists, the Clintons accessed IRS records to compile their list, we have no-fly lists, potential domestic terrorist lists, and (no pun intended) the list goes on.

Now, as reported by the Washington Times, we have an administration appearing somewhat paranoid in their twisting of federal law to say they are required to compile and maintain a list of those objecting to administration policies.

I don’t have a problem with the administration surfing the internet to get a feel for public opinion, I don’t have a problem with the administration putting together packages of internet content for use in accessing the amount of opposition or support for policies, I don’t even have a problem with the administration saving some of the information for later reference in determining course for future policies. I do, however, have a serious problem with the compilation of lists that can be used to single out individuals or groups.

However innocent the gathering of this information may seem initially, there will always be those in the government who will gain access to and use such lists for nefarious purposes.

Governments like those of Chavez in Venezuela, Castro in Cuba, Ahmadinejad in Iran, etc. generally compile lists of their detractors, in the United States this is unforgivable.

Add this to the attempts to force radical over-reaching growth in government and we appear to have a government that is out of control and rapidly attempting to establish a totalitarian regime.

Oops… I guess I just earned another entry on the list!

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