Evilspeak
Posted By Russ Emerson on August 13, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Years ago, immediately after I’d graduated from high school, I was an extra in an eminently forgettable movie. It was being filmed in my hometown, and they needed people who knew how to march and wear uniforms, so they approached our JROTC department and asked for volunteers.
Having nothing better to do, I and some of my fellow cadets signed on. It was interesting to see the “behind the scenes” working of a movie location shoot, and we all pocketed a few dollars for mostly sitting around and waiting.
But no, I never saw the movie; I heard it was really truly awful. I have no idea if I ever got any screen time.
Oh, you want to know the name of the movie? “Evilspeak.”
Forward to today. The excruciatingly tedious Senator Harry Reid has described vocal town hall protesters as “evil-mongers.”
Pelosi earlier this week called protesters un-American.
Not to point out the obvious, but it takes one to know one.
I used to subscribe to the notion that one should never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. Now, I’m not so sure. I sense malice galore — malice towards and hatred of the principles on which this nation was built, the fundamentals which made this country what Lincoln rightly and presciently described as the “last best hope of earth.”
Just how morally bankrupt does one have to be to suggest that people talking — or shouting, even — at their elected representatives is evil or un-American? Particularly when the one making the suggestion is one of those public servants?
Reid and Pelosi need to be reminded that they work for the people. (Given recent poll numbers, though, I suspect Reid won’t be representing Nevada much longer.) They are employees, not our rulers. And they seem to have a moral blind spot you could drive a Peterbilt truck through.
Speaking up to your representatives is neither evil nor un-American.
Sending thugs to silence dissenting opinions is evil and un-American.
Forcing people into a medical care rationing system they neither need nor want is evil.
Denying people the opportunity to seek medical care because “it isn’t worth it” is evil.
Lying about the content and effect of bills that you are trying to enact into law — that’s evil and un-American.
Chattel slavery — the worst evil of the 19th century.
Statism — the worst evil of the 20th century.
And yet what Reid, Pelosi and Obama and their cohorts continue to press for is nothing less than the enslavement of the entirety of the population to the will and the whim of the State. The mere fact that this is now the 21st century changes the equation not one whit.
They call it “reform,” an effort at equality, and a way to address social ills, but the equality one has under the yoke of the State is still slavery. And that is evil.
As, I believe, are its primary advocates — nothing more, nothing less. I ascribe no positive motives to any of them. Mere stupidity can explain some peoples’ willingness to “sign on” to the program, but it very definitely cannot explain the depth and breadth of what the leaders of that movement are attempting to do to our health care system, to our economy, and to our liberty.
It is evil, and un-American.
Update: Please, flag me. I insist.
Yes…you said it well. I am starting to feel encouraged by the American people coming forward…acting American!
Nancy Pelosi … total moron with sharp elbows. I’d love to meet that power hungry elitist broad in a dark alley. Love to.
Still frustrating that some people I know, all democrats, are so naive. “We’ll happily foot the bill as long as all Americans have health care! Europeans are so smart!”
*exasperated sigh*
Plus, you are so smart, Russ! Love you.