Denying Lips, Doing Hands

We should all understand what propaganda is. Propaganda is the art of denying with your lips what you are doing with your hands. Our leaders have been doing this for a very long time. Before this they tried to keep their actions a little more secret fearing the possibility of being reported on by the media. Now they have the media fully behind what they're doing.

Even Fox News which is better than the others has largely fallen into this trap. The parts of their show that are considered hard news are so busy being fair and balanced that they essentially say nothing. They work very hard on "fluff" stories and bring them to our attention for days at a time, but ignore the really big stories. They allow the congressional elite to deny them any access and so they don't report anything about what's going on behind the scenes. As a result they don't stir the pot about such things as this cap and trade bill. They leave that up to the op-ed people. They know if even they treat it as editorial it isn't taken seriously as news. The truth is that the only real news we get now is from the op-ed people.

Yesterday our leaders voted overwhelming against the American people and against capitalism. Oh they picked and chose who would make the vote in the democratic party and even in the republican part so they would get just the votes they needed. They picked the people to make those votes they were willing to sacrifice. They treated the 20-1 ratio of calls against what they were doing as nothing more than special interest groups, but then how often have they catered to special interest groups. Even so these were not special interest groups. They were people genuinely opposed to what they're trying to do. Even if half the people calling were from special interest groups you still have a ratio of 10-1 against a margin that should be paid attention to by our leaders.

They think we are so stupid that we can figure this out for ourselves. They voted against the will of the people and they all would have voted that way if it had been needed. The democrats most certainly have enough votes to push through what they want. People who had voted yes to the bill initially later changed their vote to no when it was determined those votes were no longer needed.

We have spineless leaders when it comes to answering to the people, but very bold leaders when it comes to doing things the people don't want. We need to realize these leaders of ours view themselves as RULERS not representatives. They feel they are immune from being voted out and so far that has proven true. If we don't do something to show them this isn't true on the next election or if we don't take some other major stand such as a tax revolt before them we will watch them calmly dismantle our entire economy and snatch our freedoms as though we don't deserve them.