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President Obama Will Have Death Panels?
Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is claiming that President Obama is going to have Federal “Death Panels” that would enforce euthanasia on seniors or the disabled if his health care proposals are passed by Congress.
Say what?
No Sarah, there won’t be any Death Panels. No one is going to decide if Grandpa and Grandma Palin should be put to death, or if little Trig should be smothered by his own pillow.
Enough of the shrill, right-wing, fear mongering.
Enough of you Sarah as well, get thee to that Nunnery already.
Right Wing Radio is Fading
For two, count em two, consecutive election cycles right wing talk radio has attempted to swing the votes of the American public, and failed.
During the 2006 Congressional elections, Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, etc, made wild accusations trying to scare people into continuing to support a conservative political agenda responsible for Iraq, Gitmo, the Patriot Act, Abu Ghraib. They failed. In 2006, the Democrats took control of Congress in-spite-of Hannity and company claiming America couldn’t afford Nancy Pelosi, and her “San Francisco Bay area ideals”.
In 2008, the Right Wing tried again to scare America with a non-stop litany of wild accusations against Barrack Obama. They claimed he “palled around with terrorists”, “didn’t support the American Military”, and that he “hated America”. Well. Rush, Sean, Neil, etc., you were all wrong again; and you couldn’t manage to sway anyone into the McCain/Palin camp. In fact the Republican party lost states in the last election.
What does this mean? It means that by-and-large the bulk of the American public aren’t buying it anymore. Your brand of hate, doom and fear simply isn’t popular. You’ve outlasted your usefulness to the Republican party and to Reagan Conservatism.
Hannity continually likes to say things like, “What would Ronald Reagan do?” Well, Sean, for one thing Ronald Reagan would never have invaded Iraq. He would never have allowed the Federal Government to balloon as George W. Bush did. He would never have allowed secret prisons in Europe where basic human rights were forfeited, and he would never have allowed America’s Military to be used to torture prisoners. You claim to be a Reagan conservative, and yet you supported so many Bush/Cheney initiatives that Reagan never would have supported.
Sorry guys, but the only people you have paying any attention any longer are the die-hard, religious, right wing fanatics who actually thought someone like Sarah “I can see Russia from my house” Palin was ready for prime-time. Oh wait, but people who listen to right wing radio generally are the types who share the believes of folks – like Sarah – that man and dinosaurs co-existed together; or that women who are raped, and become pregnant, have no choice but to keep the spawn of a rapist. And people – like Bill O’Reilly – who will attack Jamie Lynn Spears for being a pregnant teen, but will celebrate Bristol Palin’s teen pregnancy.
Time’s up.
Liberty should not be traded for safety
Benjamin Franklin once said, “They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” So, do those who would rush to the banner of McCain/Palin deserve either liberty or safety?
Do those who have begged for civil liberties to be eroded so that they can feel safe in their homes deserve it?
Do those who stand idle and watch the said erosion deserve either?
I would say that safety at the expense of ones personal freedoms and liberties is not safety. It may hold at bay the wolves who would feed upon the flesh of patriots, but it is not safety. Those who would wish to do us harm from without, have done far less to our country than those who would usurp our civil liberties in the name of safety, and under the guise of homeland security.
What does it profit us to live safe, but to lose each day a small portion of freedoms until there are no more? Be not deceived. Your rights and privileges are being slowly eroded. The sweet breath of freedom for which countless soldiers have given their last full measure is slowly turning to the stench of slavery all in the name of safety.
Four years of McCain/Palin is four more years of erosion. Four more years of corruption. Four more years of torture and unlawful imprisonment. Four more years of rights, liberties and truth being suppressed. McCain/Palin is a ticket set up to continue what Bush/Cheney began in the name of keeping us safe. Do not my fellow citizens give in to the rhetoric of fear. The rhetoric of hate. The rhetoric of ignorance. Better to hope for a newer America, than to live in the old. Better to die free, than to live safe. Better to vote for the future of our country, than for the past.
The Liberty Tree 
