At What Cost Freedom?

The liberal element of the political cycle is beating the hell out of the conservatives right now and it is frightening to me.

The current Republican minority in the congress is so outflanked that there is no possible way they can move to establish a front on any issue. In clear language…there is no more dialogue on any issue.

The current administration has gone right for the jugular of the conservative voter and has quashed any clear dissent. This was done when the media lost its impartiality to issues and threw their hat clearly in the ring of the current President. So now, when we need debate on costly bills there is none and all dissent is seen as mob behavior.

The Democratic National Committee has released a video saying that the current dissent is from well funded Republicans that are basically a “mob”. Jeanine Garafalo has gone on record as stating that the “tea party” gatherings are all because we hate the black man in the White House. She calls us racist and still no angry protest from the press only the casual shoulder shrug.

I am a Christian conservative Republican that believes in the rule of law, on the founding principals of our founding fathers, in fact even though they were flawed in many ways they were pretty good guys and came up with one hell of a government for their constituents. But with the current strong arm tactics exhibited by the “ruling class” in Washington; little can be seen of any type of public discourse on domestic issues.

I do not hate Barack Obama nor do I care if he is President or not, his skin color is of no consequence to me but his stand on issues is of great importance to me as it has been with ever other President. I am greatly concerned with the thug like tactics that is currently being demonstrated by the administration and its affiliates today.

Let us be cognizant of the power of dissent in all matters and how it works to find a path towards the common good. No power devoid of dissent can of itself be grounded in true fact but rather it is based in uncertain terrain that is subjected to the elements of man’s intemperate behavior.

"Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and that, I am sure, is the ultimate and sincere object of us both. We both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves." --Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815. ME 14:283