Aug

15

2009

More Pictures from Obama’s Healthcare Forum – The Pro-Confiscation Crowd

by Skip

Oh, I’m quite sure that there will be those that will get all hot and bothered by the title of the post – too bad if you are.  For you see, I am of the persuasion that Rights are inalienable – they are endowed upon us, as the Founders declared, by our Creator.  Rights are ours to use – and when we do, it takes no action by our fellow citizens to exercise. 

Yet, many on the opposite side of this vehemently maintain that healthcare is a right.  Well, the obvious question is "and it is in the Constitution….where?" and ignore the fact that all Rights are to the individual – not to society at large.  In fact, society itself has no rights except those granted by the governed (unless one is a Statist that believes that Rights, unlike what the Constitution says, flows only from the State.). 

If healthcare is a Right, and that society has to provide for it, why isn’t the Government paying for my Colt M1911 .44?  Or the bullhorn that I want to better express my Right to Free Speech?  And if I wish to exercise my Right to Free Assembly, is Government going to round up other people so that I may do so?

In other words, do I have the right to have Government coerce others of their time, their talent, and their private treasure so that I would have the "right" to healthcare?

These people do.  It is ALSO clear that these are not homemade signs – these are commercially produced.  Now, some of those that oppose this encroaching socialism also have commercially printed signs but they are not the norm. 

So, who has the real Astroturf operation going on?

 

Are you starting to see a pattern here?  No, not just the one about hating profits (umm, do you think that any of these folks understand where the tax money comes from to PAY for this stuff?  Or are they depending on Obama pixie dust to "make the medicine go down"?).

Yeah, me too – preprinted is a word that comes to mind…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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  • http://www.timothyhorrigan.com Timothy Horrigan

    These pics were selectively chosen: there were many handmade signs on both the left and the right hand sides of the street.
    But in all fairness the signs on the righthand (anti-Obama) side of the street were much less professional. There were only a few preprinted signs. And the handwritten signs on that side of the street were much more likely to be overly wordy, illegible or just plain incomprehensible. Those signs’ un-readibility is, evidently, a sign of sincerity. The handwritten signs on the left side were obviously thoughtfully designed to be comprehended at a glance: evidently, a sign of Astroturf-ness.

  • Skip

    I was there – I took the pictures. These pictures were, by FAR, the majority of the signs being held by the Pro-Obamacare folks.
    I also take exception to the categorization of the signs on the Right – it just shows that these are ordinary people trying to say their mind – the antithesis of Astroturf.

  • NH

    Skip is right… there were VERY FEW handmade signs on the ‘left’.
    Most were astroturfed from the groups who bussed and paid these people to come out that day.
    The advertisements for these paying jobs are everywhere…
    Not one person on the right was paid to be there. NOT ONE PRINTED SIGN was seen.
    The signs on the righthand (anti-Obama) side of the street were much less professional and that is why…. they are from real people who understand what they were there for, unlike the people on the LEFT.
    They were only incomprehensible to people who don’t understand what this administration is doing to destroy America.
    Great photos Skip!

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