Do we now have *Government by Distraction*?
This story from the examiner.com, Atlanta is an example but my main question is about tactics and manipulation. Distractions.
Think back on the battle over amnesty for illegals. Once we bacame distracted and moved on, they didn’t give up the fight. They’ve simply ‘attached’ pieces of the original bill to other legislation. Sort of the ‘death by a thousand cuts’ approach.
Cap n Trade, Universal Health Care, etc…these will probably be handled in the same ‘back door’ way once we drop our defenses and become distracted with something like, oh Idon’t know….an investigation of CIA abuse. Just a thought.
for example only…..
In spite of the fact that there is no movement in Congress to re-implement the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ that would silence conservative talk radio, the Obama administration and Democrats on The Hill are working behind the scenes to accomplish that very goal without the Doctrine.
With the appointment of Mark Loyd to the FCC as the nation’s very first ‘Chief Diversity Officer,’ Obama hopes to accomplish the very things that the Fairness Doctrine would mandate.
The main focus would be to force commercial radio stations to offer a ‘diversity of opinion,’ meaning of course that liberals would get equal time to promote their causes and concepts. Rather than get mired in the swampland of rules and regulations concerning how to do that, radio stations will simply cancel programs such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck.
But this is not the only thing Loyd would do as Chief Diversity Officer.
Loyd wants public broadcasting to be the dominant force in radio, overshadowing commercial stations. And, as we have cited before, he would do this by forcing commercial radio stations to pay a fee equal to their entire operating cost to the government in order to directly benefit NPR.
However, more danger lurks just under the surface with regard to Loyd.
Today, we discovered this:
Lloyd draws on his experience lobbying the FCC during the Clinton administration, counseling would-be revolutionaries to follow the tactics used by other left-wing movements, such as the followers of Saul Alinsky and the people who ran the campaign to block Republican Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.
"We understood at the beginning, and were certainly reminded in the course of the campaign," wrote Lloyd, "that our work was not simply convincing policy makers of the logic or morality of our arguments. We understood that we were in a struggle for power against an opponent, the commercial broadcasters …."
In addition, Loyd makes it clear that the concepts pushed by extremist Saul Alinsky in his book, Rules for Radicals, would serve as the inspiration for his war on commercial broadcasting:
"We looked to successful political campaigns and organizers as a guide, especially the civil rights movement, Saul Alinsky, and the campaign to prevent the Supreme Court nomination of the ultra-conservative jurist Robert Bork," wrote Lloyd. "From those sources we drew inspiration and guidance."
In order to wrest control of broadcasting from private commercial interests to place it under government control, Loyd outlines 6 goals, which include vastly expanding NPR with money collected from commercial radio stations, expanding the FCC by setting up powerful regional hubs, and ‘clear regulations over political commentary and advertising.’
In other words, good-bye freedom of speech.
But Loyd has an answer to critics who cry foul over his plan to muzzle First Amendment rights. He thinks that concern over the First Amendment is ‘exaggerated’:
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” he said. “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”
These examples make it clear that Obama intends to wage all-out war on conservative talk radio, free speech, free commerce through private radio broadcasting corporations, and new government regulations that control broadcast content. The First Amendment is simply an exaggerated concern that gets in the way.
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So…Do we now have Government by distraction?
@ David – http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Obamas-diversity-officer-at-FCC-to-use-Alinskys-confrontational-tactics
Thanks Cat
Thanks people. Gotta go to work but I’m interested in reading your responses this evening.
Man I’m in trouble on this one. Too many good answers to choose from! I know I’m not telling you folks anything you don’t already know. Great answers..thanks! We’re gonna to have to work overtime to beat this crowd. They may be fools but they’re energetic fools!
Excellent question – at first, they underestimated the American people and didn’t expect the outpouring of anger over their proposals. So they are now on Plan B – back door everything, like you said – they’re doing the same thing with the international bankers in secret meetings between Bernanke and Geithner in Belgium and Switzerland.
We’re being deceived and lied to about everything – including their most important issue – global government. Everything that has been going on is merely groundwork for integration into a global system and you are absolutely correct – no First Amendment, in fact, no Constitution – only what the global authority approves, and free speech is not on the agenda!
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For this administration it is called "Smoke & mirrors", and many fall for it.
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"This story from the examiner.com…"
Can I have a link to it. I would like to read it rather than place blind faith in your summary.
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uh, actually government by distraction is when you raise the terror alert level just before an election (twice…)
Tom Ridge admitted to it three days ago – so don’t bother with the thumbs down- you can’t change history just ’cause you don’t like it.
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Excellent question – at first, they underestimated the American people and didn’t expect the outpouring of anger over their proposals. So they are now on Plan B – back door everything, like you said – they’re doing the same thing with the international bankers in secret meetings between Bernanke and Geithner in Belgium and Switzerland.
We’re being deceived and lied to about everything – including their most important issue – global government. Everything that has been going on is merely groundwork for integration into a global system and you are absolutely correct – no First Amendment, in fact, no Constitution – only what the global authority approves, and free speech is not on the agenda!
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Just another example of the kind of people Obama wants close to him.
My God, if the people who voted for Obama had know who his ‘closest’ advisers were going to be would they have voted for him? If they had known that is wasn’t going to be the legislators who drafted the bills but The Apollo Alliance would they have voted for Obama.
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Yes. Just because the cause celebre isn’t in the news at the moment, doesn’t mean they aren’t still pushing it hard. Microchips, universal I.D’s, that "special"census, the give and mostly take of universal healthcare, still not drilling for more oil, still not building Nuclear power plants, still not increasing our military, still pushing abortions, still pushing unconstitutional gun control, still attacking Christianity and so on. They know if they give us a moment to focus they are doomed. Keeping us divided is the surest way to conquer us.
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Barbarians at the gates and traitors within.
A short answer:they know absolutly how to handle the unwished laws and let pass the bill under the table.
Do you use unwished for non wished? may be possible the meaning of
distraction is a few different-in French distraction distrait you don’t take care…
but to it’s to amuse
in your case Lervon I may think both meaning are good they amused the poeple and deturn their thoughs from veritable troubles….
X pert here they rubb off our constitution by accepting the Lisbonne bill for Europa! during holidays into the bargain they are rouckies in the States or have to care more!
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I have to check the spelling of rouky they will learn quick the tricks to do what they want and let look like if the poeple was asking for …
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It seems as each issue comes up with Obama and his administration, something happens to distract the nation from the issues. This time it is Kennedy. Obama needs 8 years to complete his quest to turn us into a socialized nation. Distractions or not, the American people are now onto him, his lies, the radicals and thugs that he has surrounded himself with. If he manages to silence talk radio it will be a real wake up call to the media. Either go along with the obama agenda or you too will be silenced. When you look at what he is doing and getting away with it is scarey. At least the mafia just shot you, broke your legs or got you a pair of cement boots. The Obama thugs do worse, they take away all your rights and control your life. I’ll take the mafia any day over the obama thugs.
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Here in Detroit some radio stations are running their own ads encouraging people to oppose this agenda, which is really surprising because people here are so pro-Obama. I actually heard about this while listening to a local country radio station! Interestingly, the radio stations here that are owned by CBS are not talking about this issue at all. Instead, they are telling us the economy us doing great, which I think is part of their plan to convince people to accept the governor’s plan to raise our taxes. We are in the fight of our lives for freedom and we can’t give up now.
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If this were 1881 I could easily see this ending in a shoot out at the "DC Corral" because the Obama boys are in serious need of being run out of Dodge. (Not that the shoot out was in Dodge, but you get the point).
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Good Point ; so lets keep the issue up front and in the faces of Obama supporters : Health Care Reform: A study by the British Patients Association tells the true story about socialized medicine in Britain. It’s one of willful and woeful neglect of millions, missed diagnoses, and elderly patients left in pain.
While reading this disturbing analysis of the pitiful state of medical care in Britain in the Daily Telegraph, the Vincent Price horror classic "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" came to mind. Price portrayed a man who used bizarre methods to dispatch his victims.
The abominable British National Health Service, based on this report, is only slightly better.
The Patients Association’s primary focus was the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Health Trust, where it was found that up to 1,200 people died through failings in urgent care the past six years. Their analysis was prompted by an avalanche of complaints of shameful care at the hands of the NHS.
Claire Rayner, president of the group and a former nurse, said: "For far too long now, the Patients Association has been receiving calls on our help line from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses."
There was the case of 82-year-old piano teacher Pamela Goddard. She was suffering from cancer and was left to suffer in her excrement as her condition deteriorated due to bed sores.
Before Florence Weston died at age 85, she remained without food or water as her scheduled hip replacement operation was repeatedly canceled.
Katherine Murphy, director of the Patients Association, said: "If this was extrapolated to the whole of the NHS from 2002 to 2008 it would equate to over 1 million patients. Very often these are the most vulnerable elderly and terminally ill patients. It is a sad indictment of the care they receive."
Daniel Bates at England’s Daily Mail newspaper reported on one of our favorite examples of the glories of socialized medicine. He wrote about Mark Wattson, who after weeks of excruciating pain was happy to get his appendix removed — or so he thought. Doctors told him the operation was a success and sent him home.
Bates wrote: "Only a month later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be taken back to Great Western Hospital in Swindon by ambulance. To his shock, surgeons from the same team told him that not only was his appendix still inside him, but it had ruptured — a potentially fatal complication." Oops.
Under the NHS system, according to an analysis by the Rare Cancers Forum printed in the Daily Telegraph, about 1,000 victims of rare forms of cancer were denied drug treatment the past three years. Reason? NHS bureaucrats had not licensed them for their particular form of cancer.
Stella Pendleton, executive director of the charity, said: "The NHS is forcing desperate patients into the cruel situation where the chances of their being given the treatment they need depend on where they live. No patient should be denied a treatment recommended by a doctor simply because the cancer it treats is too rare for the medicine to be licensed."
The Daily Mail reports that thousands of British women are forced to give birth outside maternity wards due to a shortage of midwives and hospital beds. Some 4,000 women last year, up 15% from the year before, were forced to give birth in places ranging from elevators to toilets, putting the lives of mothers and babies at risk.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that up to one-third of health care trusts in Britain are importing doctors from as far away as Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland because of a shortage of doctors willing to work in the evenings and on weekends.
An increasing number of British patients are being treated by exhausted foreign doctors with a poor command of English. Alarms went off after a German doctor brought in with just three hours of sleep had two patients die on his first shift in Britain.
Nigerian-born Dr. Daniel Ubani had just three hours’ sleep after traveling from Germany to a shift in Cambridgeshire. He injected 70-year-old kidney patient David Gray with 10 times the recommended dose of morphine, and an 86-year-old woman died of a heart attack after Dr. Ubani failed to send her to a hospital.
Three days after Health Secretary Andrew Burnham falsely claimed on the BBC, "We have no waiting lists now in the NHS, and people have full choice of NHS hospitals," it was revealed that the government’s own figures show that 236,316 people are waiting more than 18 weeks for a range of treatments, including oral surgery, rheumatology and basic geriatric medicine.
It’s no surprise then to discover that while breast cancer in America has a 25% mortality rate, in Britain it’s almost double at 46%. Prostate cancer is fatal to 19% of American men who get it. In Britain it kills 57% of those it strikes. We are not making this up.
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I believe the only way to win back our country is to rise up and fight for it!
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I see a bad moon rising.With the Stimulus debacle and Health Care scam the people are more aware of the sneaky ways of that crowd slipping their agenda into bills in the dark of night.Everyone is wise to their tricks.The people read and they are watching.The best made plan of mice and men.If the powers that be force the cancellation of Rush,Glenn or Shaun it won’t work.That is what lawsuits are for.Mr.Loyd is not a Supreme Court Judge and I doubt if those Judges will interpreter the First Amendment as "exaggerated"Yes we do have a Government of Distraction..But as Abe said "you can’t fool all the people all the time"
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I’ve said it before, and I still contend that whoever "manned" the presidential chair would just be filling a puppets shoes. To be graphically precise, a puppet always has someone with their hand in their backside, making the puppet say & do things that are the will of the puppet master. If that ain’t what we’ve got here, then Howdy Doody was just a human, in a little persons body. The powers that be decided to step up what’s already been in motion for decades, now that they’ve got a person in the seat that defies anyone to defy him. Of course, anyone that doesn’t like what our current president is doing surely must be a racist…after all, why else would they be against such an astute, well-spoken young urbanite? Our government only allows us to hear what they want us to hear anyway, so if you’re hearing about this stuff, just imagine what we’re NOT hearing! I guarantee you, that it’s much worse, and if we knew the truth, there would be buckets of tar & bags of feathers at every railhead, awaiting quite a few government big-wigs. My my, ain’t that such a pretty thought?! Fortunately, "they" haven’t fooled all of us with their distractions. You don’t live as long as many of us have without knowing how the game is played. We’ve seen these games before, so the only ones they’re really fooling are those who don’t know their American history. Too bad kiddies…should’a listened more closely to your History lessons. Oh, that’s right…the powers that be have sanitized your History books, so that stuff ain’t in there anymore. I guess you’d better start asking gramma & grampa about stuff before they’re not around anymore, and the true history of this country dies with them. We remember a lot more than what we’re given credit for. And we’re the ones that our government would like to disappear, as we’re not easily distracted. <*)))><
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