Ah, The Good Old Days

Like before last November. ‘Way back then, dissent was “patriotic”. Now, we are assured by the same Democrats and the media (redundant) that dissent is outright Nazism. Just ask Nancy Pelosi:

The truth is that for my adult lifetime, “protest” has been a kind of Kabuki engaged in by organized groups on the Left with help from the press — as in the recent bus tour of AIG executives that was organized and paid for by an ACORN affiliate and in which the protesters were heavily outnumbered by the media, who nonetheless generally treated it as an “authentic” expression of populist discontent.

Things like that tour led President Obama to warn bankers that he was the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks, one of a number of thuggish statements he’s made along these lines.

Funny how fast the worm — or maybe it’s the pitchfork — has turned. Now that we’re seeing genuine expressions of populist discontent, not put together by establishment packagers on behalf of an Officially Sanctioned Aggrieved Group, we’re suddenly hearing complaints of “mob rule” and demands for civility.

Civility is fine, but those who demand it should show it. The Obama administration — and its corps of willing supporters in the press and the punditry — has set the tone, and they are now in a poor position to complain.

Whether they like it or not — and the evidence increasingly tends toward “not” — President Obama and his handlers need to accept that this is a free country, one where expressions of popular discontent take place outside the electoral process, and always have. (Remember
Martin Luther King?)

The Obama administration has become increasingly thuggish it its behavior, issuing threats and dire warnings. Obama’s hirelings have been openly coordinating the increasingly vicious attacks on dissent. They are trying to silence debate or dissent, not the opposite.

This is loathsome behavior by the administration and their congressional and media allies.  It also appears to be backfiring in a very big way as people come to realize exactly what Obama and his thugs are trying to do. Good. 

Push back people. And bring your video cameras for when the hired goons show up.