I am a subscriber to the following thought:

Conservatives think Liberals are wrong.
Liberals think Conservatives are evil.

When I write about a subject, I write about the position the other side has taken, their thoughts about the subject and so on. When people have written about me, they have attacked me personally. My illness has been attributed to the fact that I am a Conservative. In other words, I am Conservative; therefore I have a mental illness.

Then comes along this article: Free Speech or Hate Speech.

The opening says this:

It happened in the thirties, it happened in the sixties, and it’s happening again now. The public dialogue becomes so heated in troubled times that demagogues with media access, and conscience-challenged politicians pit one group against another for personal or political gain. Those who feel ignored and powerless begin to raise their voices and the conflict heats and simmers. Sides are chosen, people march in the street and hold rallies. After a series of frustrations, the extreme element becomes the loudest voice of protest and drowns out any chance for dialogue with the other side, and then the rhetoric turns ugly. As one side demonizes the other, the kettle boils over until some unhinged “law-abiding citizen” decides to alter history, and then somebody gets killed.

The author then disperses throughout the article men who have been assassinated, or had attempts against them. Civil Rights Pioneers, Presidents, college students and so on.

But the article goes on to describe those Americans who are part of the Tea Party movement as racist, gun toting and several other things.

In fact, this passage stands out for me:

I’d like to ask the folks who show up at these rallies one question: who do you suppose is paying for this cartoon caravan to traverse the nation’s highways, organizing pro-anarchy assemblies for the disgruntled elderly to follow around like a bunch of tie-dyed Deadheads? While the poor, oppressed white people howl about “taking their country back” from the evil, Fascist Democrats, they are being financed by ultra-conservative, billionaire families with names like Coors, Scaife, and Koch.

Hm. Kettle, meet pot. I’m quite sure the author has never heard of George Soros, who invested millions of dollars in the Gore and Kerry campaigns for President, and who funds various “grass roots” organizations. I am quite sure that Mr. Soros is not the only multibillionaire Liberal investor, I just don’t have the time to root them all out today.

Then you have this:

While the Tea Party Express rolls into town like a pack of demented carnival barkers and fleeces the “marks” for contributions to help overturn settled law, the calmer three-fourths of the populace look upon the spectacle like watching bad theatre.

Any law can be overturned, especially this one. I mean, we overturned a Constitutional Amendment. If we can do that, we can get rid of “universal” health care.

The author also has his percentages wrong as well. He makes it sound like 75% of the population was for universal health care, when in actuality 60% was against that monstrosity of a law. Why do you think there was such a hue and cry?

My major question at this point, why must anybody who disagrees with Liberals be labeled a racist? I don’t care about your skin color. I care about you say. I care about what you do. When someone starts talking about “spreading the wealth around” that is Liberal codespeak for wealth redistribution. I don’t care if you’re green with orange stripes, when you talk about taking my money away from me and giving it to someone else, well that gets me hot under the collar.

If you take it away from the rich, then they don’t have enough of their money to start or expand businesses and provide jobs for those who are unemployed. By a company getting so much work that they need more positions to handle the increased business. That’s the only way jobs are created. Even the government works that way, except they don’t have to make a profit.

The Tea Party movement is more than just the tip of the iceberg. Just because I’m not out at these parties, does not mean I’m not sympatric with their core beliefs, which are the government should listen to the people, not the government telling people what is good for them.

Final note:

You are defined by the company you keep. I thought I would comment on one of the comments that came through.

Gregg said:

The Republican party in the United States of America in the early 21st Century is beginning to look like the early National Socialist German Workers Party in what remained of a war torn Germany in the 1930s. A bunch of obviously overly frustrated wannabes who never had the intellect to get anything really creative done for society who want to show their dead daddies (who they thought hated their guts and certainly didn’t love them enough) how really strong they really are.

Oh, boy. Just what the world needs. More sad idiots who want power.

I rest my case as to my original premise. I go after positions, they go personal. It just shows they can’t use the truth, as it does not go in their favor.

I wrote back on 10/21/09 and 12/16/09 about “smart grid” technology, where you and the power company can monitor your electricity usage on a minute-by-minute basis. Well, I prophesied that the electric company will take control of your meter and control your house. It turns out I was close: AP Exclusive: ‘Smart’ meters have security holes.

The article goes on to explain about well known and very old security exploits that hackers can exploit to run your bill up, down, or even turn your power off entirely.

 [Joshua] Wright said his firm found “egregious” errors, such as flaws in the meters and the technologies that utilities use to manage data from meters. “Even though these protocols were designed recently, they exhibit security failures we’ve known about for the past 10 years,” Wright said.

They are rolling out a couple million of these meters each year, and you could drive a semi- through the security holes, and I’m supposed to feel safe? I don’t think so.

There are few public studies on the meters’ resistance to attack, in part because the technology is new. However, last summer, Mike Davis, a researcher from IOActive Inc., showed how a computer worm could hop between meters in a power grid with smart meters, giving criminals control over those meters.

 A worm is a self-replicating program that does not require human intervention (No one needs to download or run the infected file) and will continue to spread until activated.

 This is certainly not giving me the warm and fuzzies. I keep my systems updated with the latest firewalls, Anti-viral programs and I stay away from websites where there is nothing there but worms and virus downloaders.

 But when it comes down to it, what can you do? It’s not like I have the money to spend on a generator and gas to run it if I tell MLGW to go and take their smart meter somewhere else.

 And hackers are like suicide bombers. They are determined to make to their targets and there is very little you can do to stop them from getting to that target. Once they get there, they cause maximum damage. Imagine a country filled with “smart” meters, and you get control of them. You could shut the entire grid down.

 Like the man said, “Just because you can do something, does not mean that you should do it.”

Let me start off by saying health care is a PRIVLEDGE, not a right. Rights are not provided to us by government. Rights are given to us by God, and can only be recognized (and lawfully, kept away from) by government.

I can remember a time when doctors made house calls. Dr. Rose, our family physician, would come and see me in my bed when I was sick. I wasn’t forced to dress and go to him, where I could be contagious and infect other kids.

I can also remember when cancer was a death sentience. There simply was no cure or treatment to extend your life. The doctor said, “You have 6 months to live” and you went home to die. Now, with modern treatments, you can beat your cancer into submission 2 or even 3 times before it finally gets you.

Today, Americans have access to the best medical care in the world. There are tests, treatments and medications that simply do not exist outside of our borders. The machines used to perform the tests, the people involved in the treatments, and the companies who developed the medications want to be paid are all expensive. They are expensive because they cost a lot of money to develop, and the companies who developed them want to make a profit. That’s the American way.

Now, those who are opposed to people making a profit might point out the “outrageous” profit margins that companies make, but they look at gross product only, not net profit. When you look at net profit (gross minus expenses) the margin is actually quite small. Would you be outraged if I said McDonalds charges a 400% markup on its burgers? A $1 burger generally costs about 25 cents in materials. After you figure in all the expenses, that 75 cents shrinks to about 10 cents, or less. Same thing is true with medical products.

What the Liberals who rammed this bastard of a law down our throats haven’t said that the health care won’t start until 2015, but the taxes to pay for it are going to start now. So, for the next five years, we will be paying for a service that we are not getting yet. But of course, the government will spend that money on other things, not worrying about when the bill comes due. That’s because they will simply raise their own debt ceiling another Trillion dollars to pay for it.

Here’s something to think about. Our European ancestors fled the old ways of doing things found back there. They founded a new country, where the people were citizens, not subjects, complete with the idea that the government should do what the People say, not the other way around.

With that in mind, why are we trying to emulate the very countries our ancestors fled? That’s my $64,000 question of the day.

I don’t have any easy answers. I honestly don’t know what I would do if I was given the choice between dying in 6 months, or bankrupting my family for the chance to live another 5 years. But one thing I can tell you, I want to make that choice, not have it forced upon me. Which is what exactly will happen now.

And then you have articles like this where people don’t realize that the money has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is my pocket, and the pockets of my children, grandchildren, and if we’re around long enough, my great grandchildren.

 You really should read these articles: 20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms because this is just the beginning of what we are going to lose as far as choices because of this health bill. Those things are in the bill, and you can’t deny them. The article lists them by section, so you can see exactly where to look and lose your lunch over it. Then there is Enacting A Lie and A Turning Point In Dismantling Of America. These are just three articles of what is exactly happening and just how far we are up shit creek.

 This country just took a hard Left turn today, and I don’t know if we can right this ship any more. She just might turn turtle and sink. There is no place left to go. The United States was the gleaming city of freedom on the hill. But because of the 60’s radicals we now have in office, our tarnish has started to show. We have rust showing, and we are taking on water. We just might soon become another 3rd world country. If we’re lucky the whole system doesn’t collapse.

 Pray, pray harder than you ever have in your life that this bill will be thrown out totally by the courts, and not leave some bastardized version that does even worse but helps even less.