Do you fear your government yet?
I know, fear tactics from a right-wing, reactionary conservative, but I submit a couple of videos for your consideration.
Here is the first. It’s an interview with the deputy White House press secretary who fails repeatedly to answer the question. Fortunately Fox seems to have a few more legitimate journalists on staff and she makes him squirm… a lot. But as you watch this think for a minute. If the purpose of all of this “fishy email” stuff was to get “misinformation” on the healthcare system and “correct the mistakes” then they could have had a dozen or so White House staffers cover twenty or thirty of the top right-wing blogs and then put together a webpage that gives the “myths” and then their side of the story. Then there would not have been any issue with retaining emails or giving the “big brother” appearance. For all of their faults, these are smart people, I’m sure that came up. So why have people send in emails?
You know I went to a class on running for political office a while back and one of the things that they really emphasized was building databases of voters. Both those that will vote for you and those that will vote against. It can be useful information. If a junior staffer hasn’t been told to list and catalog the email addresses they have received I would be SHOCKED.
But watch.
Hmmm….
This next one I really have no explanation for. I’m not a huge GB fan, although I agree with most of the stuff that he says. This, quite frankly, is just strange and at the very least, extremely disturbing. Please do not try this at home. Just think of all of the things that you have on your home computer from TurboTax records to personal emails… even fishy ones.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Are you afraid?
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4 comments:
The whole thing really is like big brother is watching you-the white house guy finally said that yes they keep all those emails-if we think that they are NOT compiling a list-we are dreaming and the second video was really scary-how many people have gotten on that innocently?! History shows that most civilations with democratic government last about 200 years and then become dictatorships-Keith are you forwarding this email to the white house? :)
Okay, but come on do you all think this is new????? Really??? This has been going on for some time and you know that under the Bush admin. similar stuff happened they were just better at hiding it. The O-admin just seems more arrogant and blatant about what they can get away with. There is nothing new under the sun...
I can agree with ,some of that, but for an administration that gives itself props for transparency and openness and restoring the faith of the American people... I had HOPED for a bit more accountability.
I definitely agree with the arrogance of the 0-admin, but if they are being blatant with this it makes me wonder what they are hiding.
To answer your question in the header: YES. A quick perusal of the healthcare initiative by the House shows me three things: 1) it is loaded with a great deal of convoluted references and generalizations that will allow any interpretation one wishes. 2) it is overly long and inspires one to either fall asleep or give up trying to understand it due to its length. 3) it seems to contain very serious social legislation embedded in such a way as to be easily missed or overlooked.
This is, to me, an indicator of the perfidious nature of the Administration. BTW: it appears to be a revival of the Clinton effort from the mid 90's.
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