Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Tarkenton: Mickelson was right on taxes

usatoday via Instapundit

Mickelson was telling the truth. If there's anything that should upset or insult Americans, it's just how much of their money the government takes.

Comment:

That business about Mickelson reminds me of something that I almost forgot about.

The Mickleson and Culliver episodes lead me to believe that there is an ongoing attempt to silence opposition or even the hint of opposition. This is a rather chilling development because it means that the regime will not tolerate dissent.

It means that they will find a way to get to people in order to shut them up. It could take relatively mild techniques at first, but if resistance starts to mount, then what?

Do you remember the Dixie Chicks episode in the Bush Administration?  The Dixie chicks were claiming censorship then, but the Bush Administration had nothing to do with that.  If is arguable whether there was any censorship at all from any quarter, much less the government, at that time.

The constant and relentless hounding of the media against the Bush administration turned the people against Bush.  Yes, Bush made mistakes, but those mistakes were being magnified all out of proportion to their significance.  Yet Obama's mistakes are minimized or covered up.  The end result is that we are getting a more state controlled economy that is strangling personal initiative in its crib.

There should be concern about the integrity of our information and political systems.  The propaganda combined with the censorship is distorting the political process and I think it is yielding an ominous result that will end in tyranny.

Update:

It is all about the conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid.


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