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"I learned that in extreme situations when human lives and dignity are at state, neutrality is a sin. It helps the killers, not the victims." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor who lost his family in the Holocaust - Nobel Prize Author
Socialism - Liberalism Quotation
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas
Conversations like this one leave me speechless. I'll address just one point: Mike Wallace zings Newt for saying Supreme Court Justice, then nominee, Sonia Sotomayor was racist. Sotomayor was absolutely racist. She is a member of LaRaza which wants to take and claim the lower half of the U.S. for Hispanics, and that's not the only evidence of racism. About Shirley Sherrod, Howard Dean doesn't care about the facts in the Sherrod case, and continues to maintain that Fox News is responsible for her firing - it's hilarious. Mike Wallace over and over states the facts. Dean doesn't care. Note that Dean seems surprised that Fox News didn't talk about Shirley Sherrod or air the video until she had been fired and it was widely known that the White House was behind her firing. Democrats don't know &^$#)@*. Apparently they never read anything except their mainstream White House-controlled propaganda squad.
Starts at 3:18
Newt Gingrich, Mike Wallace and Howard Dean on Shirley Sherrod (video)
Breaking: FOX is reporting a 1,000 person pro-health care protest outside the Washington, D.C. Ritz Carelton at about 1 PM EST. Inside the hotel, a meeting of American health insurance providers is underway. The protesters are accusing those in the meeting of "crimes against health care. The reporter I am listening to says the goal of the protesters is to arrest those attending the meeting inside the Ritz-Carleton. Updates as available. Update 2:00 PM EST: Megyn Kelly says the protest is breaking up and the only arrests made, were of protesters.
Apparently, Howard Dean, former DNC chair, whipped up the crowd of protestors as they began their mission at the Dupont Circle.
Megan Kelly reports many union signs outside the hotel, including SEIU. What happens when the luncheon attendees try to exit the Ritz-Carleton? We'll see.
Howard Dean, do you remember him at all...found an audience to share his new-found "public" fondness for socialism. Note, in the first video below, he says our capitalist tendencies arise from our "human nature," but our desire for socialism comes from our communitarianism. What? To Democrats today, capitalism is apparently a lone endeavor. Nevermind that capitalism actually employs people and pay wages from profits. If that isn't a "community" endeavor, I don't know what is. See two videos below - don't miss Margaret Thatcher comparing socialism and capitalism in the second.
Howard Dean
Margaret Thatcher
Howard Dean is a former Vermont governor, a former chair of the DNC, a physician who hasn't had to keep office hours lately, and the founder of Democracy for America.
Many organizations in this country have the word "Democracy" in the title. It's time to drop that like a hot potato. "Democracy" is used as a crutch by those not understanding that we are a Republic, that there is a vast difference between the two, and we lean on the moniker "democracy" at our peril.
We are not governed by a majority, and so it is ironic that Dean says we've decided to settle on a little socialism and a little capitalism. Is Howard Dean the decider? Will Democrats accomplish a little socialism, and then some more, because they are the majority - and as Pelosi and Obama have said - we won? Here's an example of how this works. On Dean's Democracy for America, he has an open letter for reader's to sign advocating the will of the majority over reason or a clear representation of constitutents:
Democratic Caucus Accountability
If ANY member of the Democratic Caucus joins a Republican filibuster of healthcare reform with a public option, the Caucus must immediately strip that Senator of all Committee chairmanships.
Can you venture a guess at how a Congressman or Congresswoman might weight their choice: take a chance that voters will forget your vote, as they often do, by the time the election rolls around, or lose a coveted and powerful chairmanship. They'll choose the power of the committee room without a backward glance.
The Founding Fathers, with infinite wisdom obtained from life experience with kingdoms and parliaments, intended for as much power as possible be granted to, and retained by, each individual. There is no socialism to be found in this intent.
Howard Dean understands completely, however, and he and his cronies intend to use socialism, veiled as democracy, as a club against our republic.
Walter Williams, writing for Capitalism Magazine, reminds of us our Founder's views of democracy:
James Madison, the father of our Constitution, said that in a pure
democracy, "there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the
weaker party or the obnoxious individual."
John Adams said, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes,
exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did
not commit suicide.
And...Justice John Marshall observed, "Between a balanced republic and a
democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."
From Walter Williams:
Our founders intended for us to have a limited republican form of
government where rights precede government and there is rule of law.
Citizens, as well as government officials, are accountable to the same
laws. Government intervenes in civil society only to protect its
citizens against force and fraud but does not intervene in the cases of
peaceable, voluntary exchange. By contrast, in a democracy, the
majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives.
The law is whatever the government deems it to be. Rights may be
granted or taken away.
As effortlessly as Howard Dean threw out the idea that America has decided to share capitalism with socialism, just as effortlessly are Liberals gaining momentum in stealing individual power.
From Bookworm, speaking about Germans in the 1920's, and writing for American Thinker:
They just thought that,
after the utter chaos of the 1920s (especially the economic chaos), the
socialists would calm the economy (which they did), and simply remove
from people the painful obligation of having to make their way in the
world. It was only incrementally that the average German bought into
the ever-more-extreme demands of the state - and those who didn't buy
in were coerced because of the state's unfettered willingness to use
its vast, brute power to subordinate individuals to its demand....
Soft socialism is
better, but it certainly isn't the American ideal. Britain springs to
mind as the perfect example of soft socialism. Britain's socialist
medicine is a disaster, with practically daily stories about people being denied treatment or receiving minimal treatment.
Invariably, the denials arise because the State's needs trump the
individual's: Either the treatment is generally deemed too costly (and
there are no market forces at work) or the patients are deemed unworthy of care, especially if they're old.
British
socialism has other problems, aside from the dead left behind in her
hospital wards. As did Germany, Russia, and China (and as would
Obama), socialist Britain took guns away (at least in London), with the
evitable result that violent crime against innocent people skyrocketed.
Just two years ago, this snippet from Howard Dean would have quickly followed him from Paris to a YouTube debut, but considering "socialism" as a reality, and maybe a better way forward, is a thought shared by many who really do believe that Obama has some stash to share with them.
Howard Dean Socialism and Capitalism (video)
Margaret Thatcher Compares Socialism and Capitalism
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