The article in Time Online, “Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama’s ‘Deadly Doctor’, Strikes Back,” by Michael Scherer, August 12, 2009, seems like a spin control piece by an Obama supporter. If Mr. Scherer would read Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s book, The End of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity, he would know that Dr. Emanuel has very radical views not aligned with main stream America.
Emanuel’s statements and writings have not been taken out of context. That’s the standard defense of anyone who’s been caught by the truth. Case in point, the YouTube video of Obama in 2007 stating that he favors a single-payer health care system in America. He has no defense. He’s caught. He can’t say that he didn’t say it, so he shifts to, “I was taken out of context.” That’s the usual defense when caught.
America should ask the question, “Why does anyone have to decide what kind of care and how much care any other human being is allowed to have?” There’s no need. Keep the government out of our most personal decisions. We’ll make them for ourselves. Then it won’t matter how radical Emanuel is or isn’t.
And as for those awards that are supposed to validate Emanuel’s statements, well, just remember that Yassar Arafat, father of modern day terrorism, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! Awards mean very little now days.
BTW, Americans should know that Chicago politics has moved to the White House. “No one has leveled with the public about these dangerous views. Nor have most people heard about the arm-twisting, Chicago-style tactics being used to force support. In a Nov. 16, 2008, Health Care Watch column, Emanuel explained how business should be done: “Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda. If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration’s health-reform effort.”
Do we want a “reform” that empowers people like this to decide for us? Betsy McCaughey, New York Post, http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm?page=2 Betsy McCaughey is founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former New York lieutenant governor.
Follow up to the posts, “Fourth Amendment/Cash for Clunkers Program” and” Cash for Clunkers – A Gov’t Worm Hole”: Why we should be suspicious of the government disclaimer that any computer logged on to the Cash for Clunkers Program web site becomes the property of the Federal Government and they take all rights to anything on the citizens’/car dealers’ computers.
On April 27, 2008, Marbie’s Blog wrote about Larry Lessig, an Obama friend, colleague and Obama’s technology expert/advisor during his presidential campaign. See the original post below.
Today, the referrenced web sites have been cleansed of everything controversial, but I personally saw what I wrote about on April 27, 2008. Larry Lessig would not be a Christian’s choice, and Obama claims to be a Christian, and the film maker, Javier Prato, was a self-proclaimed Marxist with Che Guevera faces all over his web site. All gone today. His current web site describes Prato as a digital guerilla.
Bottom line for today’s post is that there is reason to be suspicious of the Obama administration’s intentions and possible actions when citizens log on to government computers for any reason, especially in light of the disclaimer posted on the Cash for Clunkers program.
Glenn Beck, after reporting about the government disclaimer last week, has checked today and the disclaimer has changed to a much less threatening blurb, probably as a direct result of flack from citizen’s who heard Beck’s program. But does this action ensure our Fourth Amendment Rights will be protected now? It’s not clear, since Obama is over-riding previous bans on government computers using tracking cookies to store information about citizens and companies.
“Computerworld – Privacy advocates are raising questions about a proposal to revamp the use of tracking cookies on federal government Web sites.
Under the proposal, U.S. government agencies would be allowed to use single-session and multi-session cookies, including persistent cookies, to track users — as long as security and privacy standards governing the collection and use of tracking information are met. The agencies would have to post clear notice of data collection and allow users to opt-out.”
“If the plan is adopted, it would mark a departure from a policy first put in place in 2000 and updated in 2003that prohibits government sites from using persistent cookies “or any other means” such as Web beacons to track visitor activity, unless agency heads authorize their use. When tracking cookies are used, agencies must conspicuously post the reasons for collecting information, spell out the sort of data collected and detail privacy safeguards.
Privacy advocates have for some time maintained that such restrictions protect site visitors from being tracked and profiled. They have argued that users should reasonably expect privacy when visiting a government site and that any attempt to dilute the protections is ill-advised. Those concerns have grown in recent months, with many worried that the Obama Administration’s espousal of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking tools will affect long-held privacy protections.
Now if you’re deciding whether or not to trust that the Obama administration will not collect, store or use information on your computer, remember the people Obama surrounds himself with. Remember Larry Lessig and the film he uses routinely in teaching seminars, produced by a Marxist film maker, who calls himself a digital guerilla.
This video is over 61 minutes long. You don’t need to watch all of it. Skip the first 12 minutes and begin precisely at 12 minutes and 14 seconds.
I WARN YOU. IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, YOU WILL BE OFFENDED.
Who is the narrator lecturing to Google company employees?
LAWRENCE (LARRY) LESSIG - Who is Larry Lessig? (April 27, 2008)
FORMER FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE AND ADVISER/AIDE OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Obama’s campaign website calls Lessig one of the industry experts supporting his technology plan. Larry Lessig has worked actively on behalf of Obama, explaining to journalists, Obama’s plan to appoint a technology czar to serve in the White House under the title of chief technology officer. Lessig’s website endorses Obama.
“In August 2006, several people in the audience walked out when Lessig showed the “Jesus Will Survive” video in his keynote address to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.” http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62484by Jerome R. Corsi
In the Google lecture, you hear them laughing at the video. Prefacing the video, Lessig warns the viewer that it is sensitive, and says, “I don’t know why”.
I KNOW AND I BET YOU KNOW!
Obama has said many, many times that he is NOT a Muslim and that he IS A CHRISTIAN. That being the case, how can he add someone as his campaign aide who has this anti-Christian sentiment and who uses a video depicting Jesus in this horrible way? I would expect Obama to be just as offended as I am, if he is truly a Christian. An aide’s religious beliefs don’t have to be in sync with a candidate, but when the candidate is a Christian and the aide is using (multiple times) such an offensive video, that does make a difference.
For the record, Lessig says he didnt’ make the film, he just chooses to use it in his lectures. There are hundreds of others he could have chosen, but he didn’t. He chose this one.
The film was made by Javier Prato. His web site is http://www.javierprato.com/. When you visit his site you will immediately notice that he has chosen Che Guevera’s picture to represent himself instead of his own and has used that picture repeatedly for his background. If you’re wondering where you’ve heard Che Guevera recently, it was the controversy over the Cuban Flag and the Che Guevera flag hanging in the Houston, Texas campaign office for Barack Hussein Obama.
Che Guevera was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary terrorist who was involved in efforts to overthrow governments in Guatemala and Cuba. He left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions in Congo-Kinshasa, then Bolivia, where he was captured and executed.
Isn’t it odd how the same themes keep popping up in Obama’s camp?
“Lessig has known president Barack Obama since their days teaching law at the University of Chicago, and has been mentioned as a candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the telecommunications industry.“
What a horrible thought!
According to this Wikipedia article, Lessig, a political activist, decided to focus on political corruption through his wiki, “Lessig Wiki” and has encouraged the public to use it to document cases of corruption. This sounds a lot like Obama’s call for citizens to rat out their friends and neighbors by emailing the government’s new site flag.gov.
How long before Obama’s Opponents will be forced to wear arm bands bearing the tell-tale “OO” mark???
Of course, that is far-fetched, but his actions and those of his administration, are scary at best. We need to regain this country’s freedoms.
The time has come! ACORN has met it’s match. Americans for freedom, individual liberty, small uninstrusive government, lower taxes, individual responsibility and a free market are marching on Washington, D.C. September 12, 2009 to make their voices heard.
No doubt the main stream news media will not cover this event adequately, leaving the impression that nothing of any consequence happened. Go if you are able. Take a video camera and document the entire protest. Post that video on YouTube for everyone to see. Bypass the main stream media.
Call and write the main stream media and demand that they cover the protests against the current government activities that are un-Constitutional, illegal, instrusive, freedom-stealing and downright suffocating.
We’ve been calling the government officials on the carpet, but we’ve forgotten to do the same with the main stream media who are aiding and abetting the Obama administration’s efforts to change America into a third-world country with debt-burdened, unemployed and enslaved citizens, like Cuba.
Every day, let’s all contact the same news media and pressure them to cover Obama’s opposition to the same extent that they covered Pres. Bush’s opposition. Let’s demand that they cover us as much as they covered Michael Moore’s diatribes.
Today’s news media in the cross-hairs is:
ABC
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, California 91521-4551
818-460-7477
abc.g0.com
Tell them you want to see most, if not all, of the Tea Party protests, the 9/12 March on Washington, D.C. and the town meetings. Insist they give accurate attendance numbers and honestly report on the protests without spinning them as insignificant, violent or nut-cases.
This computer worm hole is not a virus created by a teenager to do mischief. This one is created by our government in such a way that the car dealers sign an agreement making it legal. If they don’t agree, they can’t participate in the cash for clunkers program.
Just thought you’d like to be informed. Here’s another opportunity for you all to let your elected officials know that we don’t like KGB tactics in America. Maybe they can force this administration to change it. We can dream, can’t we? Obama does.
(What would be the value of a giant data base, categorized by district, which included information about people who applied for a “cash for clunker” purchase? What possible use would this be for a politician with big plans?)
Hillary Clinton, as Sec. of State representing the U.S., went to India last week and said the following:
“Yesterday’s bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, provide a painful reminder thatthe threat of such violent extremism is still very real. It is global. It is ruthless. It is nihilistic and it must be stopped,”she said.
“We have a great sense of solidarity and sympathy, having gone through what we did on 9/11,” she added.
Her voice rising, Clinton insisted that the U.S. demand for international action against terrorist should not be taken lightly.
“We know how important (it is). We are fighting wars to end the threat of terrorism against us, our friends and allies around the world.”
She said India can choose its own way of contributing but must be part of a broader effort to defeat the threat.
“We expect everyone” who shares the U.S. goal of a more stable world “to take strong action to prevent terrorism from taking root on their soil and making sure that terrorists are not trained and deployed” from their territory to carry out attacks elsewhere, she added.”
Just exactly what is the current Obama administration doing to prevent terrorism from taking root here on American soil? Exactly what strong action is Obama taking to make sure that terrorists are not trained and deployed to carry out their attacks right here in the U.S.?
All I can find is that Obama isreleasing them, ordering that they be read the Miranda rights of American citizens (which they are not entitled to because they are not U.S. citizens and have not paid taxes for any privileges here), is closing Gitmo as soon as he finds a place to release the terrorists to, is giving some of them trials in U.S. courts which requires their lawyers be given secret information and they can’t be convicted because the crime scene was not processed at the time of their arrest (battle field in war), apologizing around the world for America’s wrong-doing,giving fuel to terroristrecruitment groups,releasing photos and documents of U.S. military torturing terrorists (true or not), cozying up to dictators and America-hating leaders, reducing the military budget while giving trillions to everything else,befriending Muslim activists and supporters of Islam – the very religion that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, doing nothing about Khalifah Conferences in American cities (which recruit activists/terrorists), doing nothing about Muslim schools brainwashing generations of children to hate America and Israel.
The Obama administration is allowing – even making easy, terrorist recruiting, training and funding in this country.
What has Hillary Clinton said to Obama regarding this hypocrosy? What is she doing in America to comply with her demands of India? Nothing that I can find!
And let’s not forget that while Hillary is in India saying, We are fighting wars to end the threat of terrorism…” , Obama changed the name “War on Terrorism” to “Overseas Contingency Operation!!!!!!!!!” How absurd!!!!!
It’s “do as I say, not as I do.” It’s talk for the cameras and sound-bytes, not for U.S. policy and actions. Remember these things when it’s time to vote again. Throw out the double-talkers and deceivers. Put America on the right track.
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