Wisconsin Like Greece, Not Egypt

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As the protests continue in Wisconsin, the protesters like to compare themselves to the protestors and rioters in Egypt, protesting an oppressive regime which did not allow their people to hold free and democratic elections, and repress the people via suppression of free speech and high taxes. While they are both protesting, the comparison is false, and is in fact the opposite: while Egypt was attempting to reduce government repression, these protesters are looking to increase it, to gain at the expense of others. If you want to compare this to other protests, this is more like what happened in Greece, where government workers were asking for more handouts, when there wasn’t nay money left. That’s a bit less noble, don’t you think, but true, nonetheless. These protesters want more money out of OUR pockets, not freedom. BIG difference, if you ask me.

No Fight Against Tyranny

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So here we are: after the somewhat successful ouster of Mubarak in Egypt, the rest of the middle east, who have suffered under the yoke of tyrannical regimes for a long time, start looking to affect the same kind of change in their countries. This can only be a good thing, as these regimes have suppressed and stolen from their people (as well as the rest of us through foreign aid) for far too long.

What’s Obama’s response to the unrest? Is he flying the banner of freedom and democracy? Is he actively helping the people throw off their tyrants? No. I wonder why Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t do anything when people revolt against these tyrannical regimes? Is it that he doesn’t believe in America? Or is it that he sees more in common between himself and the tyrant?

Change In Egypt?

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As some people as saying regarding the ousting of Mubarak in Egypt : “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. The military has been in power for the last 30 years, and Mubarak has simply been the figurehead for that military. Will it really make any difference if there is a new face on the same old regime? Will there really be free and open, democratic elections in that country? Will the current regime really allow themselves to be voted out…assuming that a true government by the people for the people, like our system, can actually survive and thrive in the middle east?

Maybe any change is good. Maybe any change is an opportunity for democracy to flourish. Either way, one thing is true, if it weren’t for the Internet giving voice to the protesters, none of this change could have happened. The internet will probably be the biggest weapon against tyranny the world will ever know.

Rip Van Obama

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In todays Thomas Friedman article in the New York Times, he describes how Mubarak is a lot like Rip Van Winkle meeting Facebook, a leader completely out of touch with his people.

I’d argue that similarly, Obama is about as out of touch with what everyday American go through as much as Mubarak was with the trials and tribulations of the Egyptian people. Not a day goes by where Obama does not propose some ridiculous new government program which will cost us millions or even billions, and truly net us nothing in return: no jobs, no prosperity, just more and more cash for his crony friends. For someone so supposedly intelligent, he seems amazingly out of touch and ill informed.

It’s too bad we can’t depose Obama. At least not yet. We’re working on it though.

Obama Weakens Us

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What a disaster for the Egyptian people. After reports that the American supported tyrant Mubarak was going to step down, millions took to the streets to hear him do just that. And he then does the exact opposite, and feeling safe in his power, throws the crowd a few bones and goes back to his life.

In all this, where is our President? In all this, where is he? Is he strongly supporting the Egyptian people against tyranny? Is he helping the cause of freedom and democracy in Egypt? Is he giving the world an example for the Egyptians, and countless other countries unhappy with their regimes hope?

No. In fact, the Whitehouse didn’t even know what was going to happen. Reports say that most of the intelligence gleaned and decision making Obama came from watching MSNBC – likely the Obama’s favorite network. Does anyone else find it appalling how little we knew about what was going to happen in Egypt? We look like idiots.

Mubarak Forced Out

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The latest news from Egypt say that Mubarak was forced to step down by the military, who really have been in power all along. Mubarak was simply a figurehead. I doubt if anything will really change.

I think I have some insight as to why Mubarak didn’t step down. As I mentioned in my earlier post on how to get a dictator to step down, its usual for these kinds of tyrants to only step down IF they are sure that their personal safety is in danger. Mubarak obviously believes that, despite the fact that millions of Egyptians want him out of office and yearn for freedom and democracy, like most tyrants, its all about THEM. If they don’t feel personally endangered, nothing else matters. After all, its all about the leaders want and needs and life, isn’t it.

This is why we say things change in Tunisia and thing not change in Egypt. Mubarak felt that he was still surrounded by enough of his supporters that he can stay in that bubble until some specified future time. By then, the protests would have petered out, and he can go back to being his old self.

Obama Was Told Not To Humiliate Mubarak

I guess when it comes to foreign policy, Obama is completely out of his element, or truly does believe that a weak America is a good thing. A story has been leaked that he was told by a number of high powered leaders in the middle east not to “humiliate” Mubarak. Conceivable, this is the root of his terribly weak handling of the Egyptian crisis.

Here we have literally millions of people crying out for freedom and democracy, and instead of holding up the United States as an example and a beacon to the Egyptian people, and encouraging the Egyptians to seek freedom, his reaction was muted. Was it muted by the “advice” of these Middle Eastern leaders. Probably. I guess since Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism, he figures that he should just do whatever they ask. No longer are we a force to be reckoned with, we are now the wimpy kid being shoved around by the playground bullies.

Breaking News: Mubarak IS Not Stepping Down...

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BREAKING NOW FROM EGYPT: Mubarak is NOT announcing his resignation. He is not stepping down. The sounds of the crowd is getting louder and louder. He slammed Obama in his speech, proposes a number of amendments to the Egyptian Constitution. The tyrant, feeling strong now, isn't going anywhere. So much for freedom and democracy in Egypt.

Mubarak has just finished his speech, and nothing has changed. Like most dictators who feel omnipotent, he will simply promise changes and reforms in order to stay in his role, placate the masses, then probably pass on the torch of tyranny to someone else.

This guy is about as deaf to the concerns of his people as our president is. In this we can feel kinship with the Egyptian people. We know too what its like to like under repression. Its of a different kind, but repression it is.

Mubarak To Step Aside: Good News or Not?

Good news from Egypt? Mubarak, according to two sources, has decided to step down and his VP, Omar Suleiman, would be stepping into his place. The question is: does it matter? This is why I wonder, is this really good news for Egypt? Will Suleiman simply continue the same policies under a different name? What will life be like under someone from the same administration. Will this really lead to more democracy and freedom in Egypt?

In my opinion, its doubtful. Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss? Could this just be yet another tactic for Mubarak to maintain his grip, but use Suleiman as a figurehead in order to deflect the rage away from him personally? Who knows, but all signs points to yes.

Let’s hope that is this is not the case. But if it is, let hope that  the masses yearning for freedom wont be fooled and continue to pressure whoever is in charge for freedom and democracy.

How Do We Stop Fueling Our Own Repression?

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It's happening in Egypt, it's happening here. One of the big problems with protesting against a huge, overarching government, is that its resources are limitless. It has the guns, it has the money (stolen from the people in taxation) and it has the minions (military, police, etc) to suppress us for the long haul.

Depressingly, the state uses our own money to buy the guns and troops and police to keep us in check. As it's been shown in Egypt, as the protests have worn on, and as the current government continues to spend the people's stolen treasure on suppressing them, then the protesters, who I'm sure aren't getting paid to protest, and probably need to get back to their homes and lives and jobs will eventually have to give up.

So, the question is, how do you starve the state of the resources it needs to keep us repressed?

Is The Window Of Democracy Closed In Egypt?

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Looking at the current state of affairs in Egypt, I wonder if the ship of democracy and freedom has sailed there. I mean there was a very strong sense at the beginning that Egyptians would finally see some relief from tyranny, a US backed tyranny as well, for once. But as the protests have worn on and on, it's taxing on the protesters, who probably need to get back to their homes and lives and jobs will eventually have to give up.

We could have done, well Obama could have done, SO much to try to help the cause of freedom and democracy there, but it was a shamefully wasted opportunity. Any other president would have probably leaped into the verbal fray and defended the causes of freedom and liberty and actually helped the Egyptian people realize their freedom. But alas, I don't think it will happen, not with Obama at the helm.

How To Make Dictators Step Down

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I've got some ideas on how to get dictators to step down.

First, keep the pressure on. They always have more money and guns and time than you do. You are most likely someone who is very unhappy with the situation, and are unhappy enough to protest it in order to change it, but if you just go back to work because you have to survive, well they've won.

Second: hope that the current President of the United States is not Barack Hussein Obama. With any other president, you may actually get some pressure from him to put in some real democracy and freedom. But since Obama doesn't really believe in those things, and actively works to stop democracy and freedom here, then well I guess you have to take your chances. Course, this point does not apply if Obama is the Dictator-In-Question.

Three: scare the dictator so much that they think that they will wake up dead one day with a knife in the back. The only way to kick out a dictator is to make them think that they only have two choices: out or dead.

If these don't happen, watch them hold on for dear life, promise some reforms, but then eventually go back to the same thing they have always done. Repress and suppress.

908 - CPAC:Focus On The Fiscal - Defund - LOL:High Speed Rail

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On Today's Show:

• I hope that they focus on the fiscal issues at CPAC and don't get distracted by things like gay marriage and abortion. We just need to agree that none of these things shoudl be funded by the government and in turn our tax dollars


• We need to continue to defund ObamaCare until we can elect Obama out of office and repeal it


• I can't believe that Obama is thinking of bailing out the states and of building high speed rail lines - what the hell is wrong with this guy. He simply does not have a true understanding of reality does he. Talk about living in a bubble


• And on Egypt, unfortunately it looks like those with the money and the guns will win out. So much for democracy and freedom. So much for our president being a democracy and freedom supporter


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905 - Obama Causes Blackouts - Egypt - Unemployment

On Today's Show:

• Obama's terrible energy policy keeps new plants from being built, so that when the sysmte is under stress, like it is during this storm, it can't keep up. Why does the Obama administration continually hold up the building of new plants? Global warming, whcih has already been proven patently false


• Egypt continues to undergo change - today the protests are peaceful. The Egyptians want and need freedom, just like the entire human race. Why is it taking forever for us to help them get to that ideal?


• The unemployment rate goes down, but not due to people finding jobs and jobs being created. The number goes down because people have given up on the job search. We all know that government does not create jobs - its private enterprise. But they act like they don't know that.


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Obama Prays For Peace, Instead Of Promoting Democracy

Obama prays for peace in Egypt at a prayer breakfast in DC. If you ask me, he should be doing much more for Egypt, and every other people being oppressed by its government. We need the President of the United States to do more than pray. We need that president to point out the way to freedom for these people, and that the way to freedom is to emulate the path of the United States of America.

Not only is America and inspiration for a place to actually live, the ideals of America should be an aspiration for other countries to emulate, a blueprint if you will, for other countries to embrace and use in order to develop a free society. Any other president, who believed in America, would do that, would stand and encourage the Egyptian people to create their own free, democratic state, using our own, even with its current flaws, to build their own.

Pro-Mubarak Forces Fomenting US Hatred

Additionally, (see my previous post on the attack of journalists in Egypt) these pro-Mubarak, pro-government forces and gangs are also fomenting hatred against the United States. Which, if you ask me is pretty ironic, since the United States has supported this regime for the last 30 years. In some ways this is probably a way to incite the opposition to sound more anti-democratic and anti-American, so the current regime can get more backing from the US in order to quell the rebellion.

The reality is that we have spent way to much time and effort over the last 50 plus years getting into entanglements we probably should have stayed out of. One of the hopes that many progressives and independents had with Obama was that he may finally start pulling our troops and people out of places where they don’t need to be anymore, and that has not happened.

Pro-Mubarak Forces Attacking Media

The latest word from Egypt is that there are now pro-government gangs, and other pro-government forces swarming the streets, attempts to fight back the revolutionaries who want regime change. These pro-government gangs have taken to attacking foreign journalists and news organizations, while the rebel forces have always treated the journalists more respectfully.

I’m not really surprised. It is usually the state and not the people who are afraid of free speech and a free press. It is the state who has the most to lose when a free press reveals the details of their doings to the people.

Even though our press has always shown its support for a leftist agenda in this country, to the rest of the world, it does represent a freedom which much of the rest of the world does not have. And that is probably why it is such a threat.

904 - People Vs The State Everywhere - Snow = Warming

904 - People Vs The State: America, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Everywhere - Snow = Warming

On Today's Show:

• People all over the world are rebelling against the overarching state: all of these movements have the same source: deep unhappiness with their governments. Whether is oppressive taxation and regulation, supressing freedom of speech, religion and the press, getting in the way of trade and free markets, all the all up to kidnapping, torture and murder, regimes from America to Yemen are under fire. We The People want to be to free. Unleash us.


• A huge snowstorm blankets the US. Of course, global warming is blamed. I've said it before, I'll say it again, short of a global thermonuclear war, we are simply a pimple on Mother Natures Ass. No matter what we do, we do not matter to the Earth. It will always control us, not the other way around.

Conservatives Split On Egypt

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I'm finding the talking points when it comes to Egypt splitting along very interesting lines. It's holding up a magnifying glass to the conservative movement, and really shining a light on who is still a neocon and wants to drag on back down that path, and who really believes in freedom and democracy.

When I see Egypt, I see a downtrodden people attempting to force a government to become more open and democratic. To turn towards more freedom, not less. When these others see Egypt, they concern themselves with keeping a second, possibly worse regime, from taking over, like what happened in Iran.

These are different times, and those are different things. I say, let's embrace and help the Egyptians realize their dream of an open democratic and free nation, not prop up tyrants because "It's always been that way."

903 - Egypt Seeks Freedom - ObamaCare Shutdown

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On Today's Show:

• On the conservative side, theres been this strange split along con/neocon lines, I guess its pretty easy to see now where the neocons are when it comes to Egypt: the ones who want to keep Mubarak in power are the neocons, sticking to the current regime. The rest of us want to see freedom for the Egyptian people. A freedom which they themselves gained, which we should support, not stand on the sidelines and watch.


• Whatever we can do to help them build a democratic society, lets jump in with both feet, but only if they ask us. They need to find their own path, and since most human desires lead to a freer society, lets help them go that way


• And ObamaCare is struck down by a judge in Florida. Struck down so hard in fact that the government should, by all rights, cease enforcing the law, period. I don't doubt that millions of dollars of taxpayer money will now go to defend this law we don't want or need.

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