Friday, March 19, 2010

Sit Down and Shut Up or I’m Calling the Cops

Evidently being against ObamaCare (DeathCare), and attempting to articulate your reasons why directly to your representative, in this particular case to Rep. John Garamendi’s (CA-10), on multiple occasions, may now be a matter for the cops.

Yesterday, I decided to call Rep. John Garamendi’s (CA-10) office in Washington, D.C. He’s my representative and I wanted to voice my opposition to the Senate Health Care Bill. I spoke with a female staffer and politely told her that, while I support health care reform, I oppose the Senate Bill because it wasn’t true “reform.” She said the Congressman thinks it’s a good bill and that he campaigned on health care reform. I told her I knew that. I also mentioned that I voted for him. When I tried to give her specific reasons why the Senate Bill would harm our system rather than reform it, she refused to listen. She said she was very busy and hung up on me. Being the persistent person that I am, I kept calling back. Each time I tried to finish my point, she hung up.

I called one more time. This time she said, “If you call one more time, we will notify Capital Police.” I asked why my conduct warranted involving federal law enforcement agents. She said I was “harassing” her. I tried to explain that trying to convince a representative to change his or her vote didn’t constitute “harassment.” Before I could fully explain, she hung up again.

I called back. This time, I asked to speak to her supervisor in order to report her repeated hanging up as well as the threat she made. I was placed on hold. Thinking I was holding for her supervisor, I was shocked when a Federal Agent with the Capital Police picked-up the telephone.

There’s more, and you can read it at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government in a post headlined The Heat is On: Congressman’s Office Says Constiuent Calls are ‘Harrassment.’

Via Drudge.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/19 at 12:19 PM
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Did Your Mom Teach You to Steal?

What did your Mom teach you about stealing?  What about generosity?  I recall my Mum’s lessons quite clearly, and though those lessons were were greatly influenced by biblical teachings, none-the-less those lessons are decidely secular in nature.  You don’t steal.  Simple enough.  Help those less financially fortunate, if your means allow you the luxury of voluntary generosity, be generous.  Also simple enough.  Forcing individuals, to do anything, was never part of the lessons.

Evidently Representative John Boccieri (D-OH) is confused about the lessons his mother taught him in regards to stealing and generosity, and Billy Beck decisively, and unsqueamishly, points out the error of Boccieri’s confusion in a post titled “Look Into My Eye”, after Boccieri’s news conference announcing that he has caved in to Pelosi and Obama’s political machinations to force ObamaCare (DeathCare) on America.  From Billy’s post.

This morning during your little presser, in which you could only hardly admit what you are going to do, I listened to you invoke your mother. I have questions for you. As she was rearing you, did she teach you that it was okay to steal from others? Hmm? You, in your singular person, could never claim a right to summarily intrude on my life and take my money for anything. What makes you think that this changes just because you sit in that assembly in Washington? Where do you get the right to do this to me?

And this.

Do you understand? I don’t care: you sonsofbitches are pricing me right out of the market for “care” every single day, now.

This will be your vaunted “legacy”—the presumptive and pretentious ego-stroke of your kind in this age: you will go down in history with the spilled blood of the original American generosity on your hands, and its destruction forever attached to your name.

Clearly understand what Billy clearly notes.  The State is pricing every American out of the market for caring, the “original American generosity,” about their fellow Americans “every single day” in their blind march to socialism.  Why will or should individuals care about their fellow individuals if the State is setting itself up as the great benefactor of all?

Posted by John Venlet on 03/19 at 11:16 AM
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Obama and Congress Don’t Care What You Think About ObamaCare (DeathCare)

Via Titantic Deck Chairs, a link to a Jared M. Rhoads piece at The Lucidicus Project titled 21 musings before the vote.  A couple of the twenty-one (21) musings.

6.  How would President Obama answer if someone asked him, “What would Americans have to do in order to convince you that they do not want your health reform bill?” The Tea Parties weren’t enough. Town Halls weren’t enough. The election of a Republican to finish serving Ted Kennedy’s Senate term wasn’t enough. What if we stood on our rooftops and held signs—how many signholders would be sufficient?

And this.

11.  I fear that under socialized medicine, it will be primarily the older doctors who will decide to quit. The younger ones coming out of the universities have been trained to be self-sacrificial, but that doesn’t make a good doctor. In five years, your primary care physician could be essentially a social worker. (bold by ed.)

Posted by John Venlet on 03/19 at 09:11 AM
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Sobering Quote for the Day

From a post by jomama, at to herd or not to herd, titled Fundamentally it’s all over.

“If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.”—Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Posted by John Venlet on 03/19 at 07:10 AM
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It Couldn’t Be More Clear

Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA).

“if you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.”

Do you honestly think that the attitude articulated by the above alleged representative of the the people of the State of Virginia is not pervasive throughout the entire Congress, right into the White House itself?

Dem Congressman: “If You Don’t Tie Our Hands, We Will Keep Stealing” (1:04 viddie)

Via Reynolds.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/19 at 06:56 AM
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