After learning last week that MIT Professor Jon Gruber would be hauled before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform this past Tuesday to testify about his remarks regarding the stupidity of the American voter & the advantage BO obtained in passing ObamaCare by the lack of transparency of the entire process I was certain that @ least some of the news media would have been full of reports on Gruber's testimony immediately upon its completion – if not before.
How wrong I was because the long delayed Democrat majority Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA detention & interrogation practices in the wake of 9/11 (over thirteen years ago) was released simultaneously with Gruber's testimony. It is a reestablishment of Gruber's stupidity comments about Americans to think that the citizenry would believe that the $40 million 500 page summary & the 6,700 page report just happened along @ the very moment that Gruber's damaging testimony would dominate some airwaves. We find out more & more every day just how stupid BO thinks we are.
As we all know it was, is, & will continue to be the aforementioned Democrat majority report that dominates the airwaves as Gruber fades into oblivion. MSNBC, not even mentioning Gruber that I saw, was all over the possibility that Americans used torture against Islamic Fascists who would behead Americans as soon as look @ them while other outlets like FNC & the WSJ offered scant coverage of Gruber.
Now while everybody these days is offended @ the least little old thing I am offended to think that it is possible that the U.S. government did not do everything it could to protect the country not only after 9/11 but any time or does not conduct interrogations to obtain the most information possible by whatever means. I don't think it is a political winner for BO to think that Americans are more concerned about the safety & comfort of hard core terrorists intent on killing us than it is to protect the country by whatever means possible.
The problem over the decades is that America has fought too many wars not to win. Whether it was seeing our troops killed in Iraq by IEDs (improvised explosive devices) with signs on them that said "made in Iran" or currently having our citizens humiliated @ airports by assuming they are guilty until some TSA screener pronounces them innocent using a government scan is just another sign of the complacency & apathy that overrides our country.
Over the past week I have gone through stores & heard Brenda Lee sing Rockin Around The Christmas Tree or Bobby Helms sing Jingle Bell Rock so many times I am certain we are losing the war on Christmas if we haven't lost it already. The constant playing of these songs, nice as they are, represent a movement away from the traditional Christmas carols we used to hear all month long this time of year including after December 25.
People hear Brenda & Bobby sing these songs & think it is Christmas when it is Christmas that is being taken away with no one noticing except our enemies.
But getting back to Gruber, before even I forget him, the deliberate news drop @ the time of Gruber's testimony of the Senate report that has become known as The Torture Report removed Gruber's damaging testimony about ObamaCare from the news cycles & ensures it will fade in memory.
This emphasis on alleged torture by the CIA is part of a concerted plan by our enemies that includes disarming & hampering the military & police. Who would want to be in the military, border patrol, or a policeman, where the morale has to be very low, with all the vilification they have encountered as evidenced by the three recent police cases where unarmed people, none of whom were cooperating with the police, were killed? Extend this to CIA officials where not only is the morale also very low – @ a known dangerous time – but their concern down the line is very real especially when they remember that one of BO's promises made to John Conyers was to indict Bush officials for war crimes – including Bush & Cheney.
I have listed on RTE The Five Points Of Citizen Control. We lost the first four points a long time ago – poor government school system, hostile anti-American media, judges who cannot tell right from wrong, & Hollywood where a weak, free with no responsibilities, & non-wealth creating society is portrayed as the norm.. The fifth point of citizen control is to gain control of the military & police forces so that the people will have no choice but to capitulate any remaining rights not already lost under the first four points.
A lot of what we see today in Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland, airports, department stores, the Democrat Torture Report, & our healthcare system under ObamaCare continues the undermining of America – if we let it.
Doug - totally agree with your excellent analysis. We have a Marxist revolution under way, controlled by the BO admin elites such as Valerie Jarrett and Samantha Powers and MO. Too bad maybe only 1/10th of 1% of the population realizes this.
ReplyDeleteIt is also amazing BO approval rate persists at 42% despite all the chaos. but BO is master of damage control and deception. Yes - timing of the Torture report was spot on as you pointed out to take attention away from Gruber, thus protect ObamaCare.
What can stop this madness? A quick idea: smart Democrats who can spot this Marxist strategy with courage to call it out by name and communicate how it is destroying the traditional American way of life. Senator Joe Manchin: please take note and step it up! On the Republican side, can great debaters such as Mike Huckabee or Rand Paul step it up?
I really don't know what happened to this world. I feel that you can't even talk to people today without them getting bent out of shape. What happened to freedom of speech? I feel we are raising spineless jellyfish. No backbone to stand up for what's right.
ReplyDeleteDoug – This post is so thought provoking I need to respond a second time.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for reminding us of the 5 points of citizen control, the first 4 of which have been accomplished, and the fact that 5th point (control of military & police) is in process by BO. We desperately need to publicize this more broadly. We must also encourage journalists to confront BO as follows:
Mr. President: Rarely do you speak positively about our private economic sector or innovative risk-taking private entrepreneurs, our military, state and local police forces, intelligence specialists, and CIA staff. Instead your rhetoric typically attacks and may be demoralizing these professions. Is this part of your ‘fundamental transformation’ of the US? What then is your end game sir? Is it to level the global playing field by weakening the US economically and militarily, as a prerequisite to create a new world order?
Provocative – yes; but well overdue. The Leftists falsely accuse Paul Ryan of throwing granny over the cliff, falsely accuse conservatives of launching wars on immigrants, the poor, blacks, and falsely accuse conservatives as being racists.
Action item – let us contact journalists with access to BO such as Ed Henry to ask the questions above. No matter how BO answers, it will start a much needed debate about what appears to be a radical transformation of the US.
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