Kazoo Objectivist: Boston Tea Party

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Organized or Spontaneous - A Citizen Uprising is an Uprising

It is amazing that in the United States today some citizens who voice their disgust and outrage with what is going on in Washington are dismissed as organized hooligans. But they know and we know and they know that we know that it DOESN'T MATTER if these were organized or spontaneous uprisings against government run amok. Remember the Boston Tea Party? Wasn't that an organized protest?

The candidate who told his supporters "to argue with them and get in their face" now finds the shoe on the other foot. So they're taking names and encouraging you to turn in your neighbors.

So this is hope and change — telling American citizens who in a democracy disagree with you that they are mind-numbed robots participating in mob action and expressing "manufactured" outrage.

Considering that upward of 80% of those hooligans like their doctors, like their insurance and like their care, anger over your government-run health care was not that hard to assemble.

It was not that long ago that Barack Obama told a crowd of 1,500 supporters in Elko, Nev., to challenge those who disagree with them and him: "I want you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independents or Republicans. I want you to argue with them."

President Obama spoke then as the community organizer he was — a true disciple of Saul Alinsky who worked with and for Acorn in the days when they were storming banks and government meetings to force them to ditch creditworthiness as a criteria and forcing them to issue loans to those who couldn't afford them...(Read at IBD).