The Cost of Freedom
Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) took place the night of November 9, 1938, and into the morning of the 10th. This anti-Jewish pogrom raged across Nazi Germany and Austria, leading to 25,000 Jewish men being arrested and sent to concentration camps, 7500 businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, and 91 Jews killed. Horrible? Certainly. Yet it merely foreshadowed the Holocaust.
Although pogroms occurred in Europe throughout history, the seeds of this event had been carefully planted over the previous decade. Jews were singled out and blamed for everything that went awry. In August-December, 1935, the Nazi Party’s Central Propaganda Office issued a series of “Talking Points Against the Jews”. These were distributed to Party officials and NEWS outlets, to be used to characterize any and all stories regarding Jews. “Jewish greed and arrogance” was the predominant theme, and became the basis for Kristallnacht.
By the 1938 the German people were convinced that ANYTHING done to the Jews was well deserved! Well deserved because they were resisting National Socialism by arrogantly retaining their private enterprises, and daring to make profits while many non-Jewish Germans were not.
Now, the Left in Amerika is using Saul Alinsky’s teachings to start teachings to accelerate the isolation and demonization of those who oppose them: US.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
Over the last few days the media has fallen into perfect lock-step, Goosestep really, with the Obama Regime. Across Amerika middle-aged folks in Bermuda shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops are being characterized as “thugs of the Insurance Companies”. We who DARE to oppose Obama’s policies are called “Nazis”, and our right to dissent in ANY way is being openly questioned!
Intimidation is the order of the day, as huge sections of Town Hall meetings are being “Reserved for SCIU representatives”, and the middle-aged Bermuda shorts clad “thugs” are starting to be openly pushed around.
To sell some future “Kristallnacht” the demonization will need to continue and accelerate…as it appears to be doing. The “thugs” pictured below are the menace that must be silenced for the good of the State!
The Cost of Freedom becomes more apparent each week. At the moment it’s the cost of a pair of Bermuda shorts, a 3×3 piece of poster-board and a Sharpie. Obama and Pelosi feel that is too cheap…and thus the price is going up, dramatically!
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Some of our citizens are already paying the price:
Black Conservative’s Attorney Sends Out Letter After Brutal Attack At Carnahan Town Hall Meeting
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Patrick Ishmael at the Greenroom in an update link:
BREAKING: Carnahan staffer admits to causing trouble?
There’s a photo of her in cuffs.
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Justrand, some of my friends think that I’m turning into a Right Wing Yahoo (no offense to Right Wing Yahoo). They are really believing that the “unruly mobs” are indeed “payed insurance company shills” who need to listen less to “Rush” and more to “NPR”. I have a feeling I’ll be losing some friends over this coming months as the rhetoric against those on the right ratchets up by the Dems and amplified by the MSM. The subtle hint that we are against Obama because of race is also becoming not so subtle anymore. Any resistance to the slander is seen as just more evidence against me.
Of course, like you, I live in the SF Bay Area where leftism is rampant. I certainly hope that my experience isn’t representative of people in more normal areas of America.
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At the risk of being redundent, conservatives must escalate the war with the media and do everything in our power to discredit it.
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I am just stunned at how quickly this ratcheted up.
If you haven’t seen this Hot Air post, read it:
Obama: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking”
Even Ace is stunned at what’s happening.
Here’s the video from Hot Air:
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The more they poo poo and promote ignoring constituents the worse it will get for them.
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One of the best posts I’ve seen today comes from a poster over at HA:
“Captain to crew of the Titanic: “Good news. We are sinking at a slower rate than before!”
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KH, I hope so.
I saw this at RedState yesterday.
James Carville’s New Poll is so Bad For Democrats He Doesn’t Want You to Know it Exists
Their embedded link takes you to some of the data.
I know it must seem as if all I’ve done the last couple of days is link upon link. My apologies if it’s getting tiresome, but it is just mind-boggling how quickly the mask has slipped and the narcissistic meltdown is taking place. He really wants this bill and he knows it’s the key to his power.
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I know what you mean, about “losing friends.” I lost a few towards the end of the ‘08 election too.
When I was talking to liberal friends about the misgivings I had about Obama, I would be asked where I got such information. I then would provide links or documentation, and it was ultimately too much for them to hear….some of those friendships changed, radically.
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A few “conspiracy” notations of mine:
The building of so-called “detention camps” has been discussed here and elsewhere. I’ve have not been worried about such camps, as it seemed too out-of-this-world that our country could turn to such punitive actions. What could get so bad that the public would literally be rounded up and put in such camps???
Now, we are having growing discord in these townhalls meetings, and the dims are coloring them, distorting them to be something other than honest public dissent — swastikas, “snitching” on people and Obama saying —> ‘I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess’… My mind is now wondering, does getting people out of the way to “clean up the mess” have anything to do with “detention camps?”
Another strange occurrence is that this week Chief Wm. Bratton, of the Los Angeles Police Dept, quite suddenly announced his resignation. This was preceeded, a little earlier, by the Chief of police in San Diego, just south of Los Angeles. Why are we having these sudden resignations of top cops, and importantly who is going to replace them — maybe people more tied to the govt?
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Barack Obama is Dr Jekyll (kindly and sane doctor as candidate) and Mr. Hyde (tyrant monster as President/Fuhrer).
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This is it. Everything.
As Yahoo said last night, much sooner than we all thought.
It’s time.
Right now.
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The forests will sing, the oceans will cry
The protests will soar through every sky
Sister INC will carry the flame
While justrand will throw down the lightning and rain
Upon the dragon boats, the tyrant we will assail
BeJohnGalt’s battle-call will wail
Storming ashore with torch in hand
Claiming back our cherished land
To one day view the Cosmic Tree
And hang from it the same as he
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INC —> I am just stunned at how quickly this ratcheted up.
I almost think “stunned” is a mild word to use for this whole situation.
It’s like getting measles and having those red spots start to pop up everywhere! It just changes the body’s landscape, quickly. That is what these townhalls are doing, politically!
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Did you all hear that Mel Martinez is resigning the Senate early, a year early. Now it is up to Charlie Crist to name a successor to a job Crist is running for.
Another interesting scenario unfolding….Maybe he should name Rubio! LOL
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The Strange Case of Professor Obama and Mr Hussein is a real life drama playing out in the aftermath of the Presidential election of 2008. It is about the dilemma of the American citizen who sees strange dissonances between the new found Messiah, Professor Obama, and the ever more emerging misanthropic, pyromaniac (reference note #1) Mr. Hussein. It is a vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is, or was, both an apparently good and an ever more emerging evil personality each being quite distinct from the other. In mainstream culture the very phrase “Obama and Hussien” will come to mean a person who’s words are vastly different in moral character from his actions.
Reference note #1: Such individuals who lack ulterior motive have traditionally been referred to in layman’s terms simply as a variation of a pyromaniac. Most such maniacs lack conscious motivation although they are fully aware of the acts they are failing to stop or they themselves are committing. Typically they will feel intense pleasure, gratification, or relief when causing destruction or when witnessing or participating in the aftermath. Motivation is also classified as pathological and non-pathological. Some research suggests that feeling such joy at horrific situation is pathological. Other research suggests that some motivation for this comes from rational thought. Taking joy in horrific situations for envisioned gains in political power and/or the concealment of the imposition of devious plans are examples of supposed rational decision making.
Further research is needed into this very disturbed man’s psyche, of course, but in layman’s terms, we can already conclude that Barack Obama is becoming more and more like a rabid dog.
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Thanks, blakeney!
Sigy, I think it’s a narcissistic meltdown. He can’t take the challenge to himself–and the meanness came through really quickly.
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Peggy Noonan has it right, for once.
“You are terrifying us!” Link
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Sigy — a troubling post, but one that has lots of merit.
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Washington Examiner Editorial:
Mr. President, Americans are not an ‘angry mob’
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…sorry INC. I didn’t notice that you already posted the Noonan post on an earlier threat. That’s what happens when you start catching up, from the top going down.
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Doesn’t matter, Jan. People may have missed it. Maybe Peggy is started to wake up from the Kool-Aid.
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Obama throws a match on the American powder keg
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Doesn’t matter, Jan. People may have missed it. Maybe Peggy is started to wake up from the Kool-Aid.
What Kool Aid?
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Well there are three corollaries to the rule –
A) “If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.” – Sun Tzu. To heap ridicule without form, purpose and facts of the one ridiculed is a pointless maneuver.
B) You must be assured that your opponent cannot best you in the reply.
C) The ridicule must resonate with a larger audience than just the one ridiculed.
So far from what I can tell Obama’s OFA tactics fail on all three counts. We outnumber them in every town hall save one, and that one had the fix in (Tampa). They know to best their opponent as they don’t know the Americans who are showing up. The head honcho does not even know himself let alone his opponent.
Keep screaming America!
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Obama Kool-Aid–Peggy seemed to think everything would be puppies and fuzzy hugs.
The Kool-Aid reference is to the toxic drink cult leader Jim Jones gave his followers. It’s used constantly as a metaphor.
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An example of a government-led society —> Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short
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Meet the mob!
Is any of this stuff showing up in the MSM? I think this is funnier than 95% of what gets on John Stewart’s show.
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I don’t know. The irony is delicious, but I don’t know what’s getting through the filter.
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I did find that Tapper asked Gibbs some Qs and Gibbs as usual gave non-answers. For someone who works in the WH Gibbs is certainly “unfamiliar” with the antics going on.
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The picture with the 2 ‘mobsters’ wearing USA flag shirts is priceless. Either the lady is really short or I want the guy on the right to be with me when the goons breakout.
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“Maybe Peggy is started to wake up from the Kool-Aid.”
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Dont count on it.
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Watch this — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfaO2dm8774
If we can put our heels on the government the kids will be alright…
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meet the mob links was great thanks mpt.
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Was just made aware of a anti-obamacare rally set for Sat. Aug 15th in Atlanta’s centennial park. I’m so there.
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Be aware and take care!
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chekote
“Doesn’t matter, Jan. People may have missed it. Maybe Peggy is started to wake up from the Kool-Aid.
“What Kool Aid?”
Peggy has a reputation of being “somewhat of a lush.”
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knighthawk….wear protective gear.
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mpt, Newsbusters must have seen your photoshop!
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Democratic National Committee Accuses Eric Cantor of Stoking Nazism
These people are increasingly desperate and irrational. They have lost any sense of subtlety and their words are acting like a 2 x 4 waking people up.
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Great observation about the state-run media and the Left by Ace:
‘50% + of the public disagrees with them, and there is no getting around that, so they’ve simply decided to make overt and a binding “rule” what they’ve long believed silently — 50% of the public will simply need to be disenfranchised if we’re ever to “get things done” and impose our progressive agenda.’
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Fabulous video, take a look if you haven’t seen it.
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What is happening? It was crazy last week, but I feel like I’ve awakened in an alternate universe today.
I wonder what civilized countries are thinking about this?
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PG, like minds, posted it earlier….
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Once again I find myself reading this poem
We have arrived.
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Sorry, Dr. Dog. I’ve been offboard for several days and haven’t had time to catch up to prior posts.
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Nothing to be sorry about. Probably be viral by tonight. Done by a 15yo teenager. That kid got a bright future in graphic arts if nothing else tickles his fancy.
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Perhaps this has been posted as well, but the dripping elitist arrogance of John Dingell at the end of this clip is jaw-dropping.