The outcomes of political
campaigns
Barry Bright
Feb. 18, 2008
Thanks to
Charlie Reese for my inspiration for this column.
Dear candidate:
As a recruit I was told I’d have ‘free health care’ for life. Now
as a veteran the VA tells me since I own property I have to help pay for
that care even though I already paid for it by being among that tiny
minority that took a chance on our lives and future health so our major
corporations could keep profiting from foreign economies.
Now some of our presidential candidates are promising us ‘free
healthcare’ that may, by the way, have
‘outcomes’ for those who decide not to participate. Of course those
‘outcomes’ will only apply to those who can ‘afford’ it. Funny concept that.
Will their idea of ‘affording it’ include property owners with
small incomes who may be required to surrender their homes and property to
the state for their ‘free’ health insurance before they even need ‘health
care?’
I don’t for a heart beat think they’re not that evil, especially
when I consider the Amerikan Communist Insurgency’s historical efforts to
destroy property rights via the instructions of their prophet, Karl Marx.
This presidential campaign has turned out to be a little different
from those of years past. It is more obvious than ever that the two major
political parties are but
two wings on
the same beast. And
many more seem to have caught on.
Will the candidates and party apparatchiks catch on or will they
continue down the road to hell on Earth? In the hope of spreading these
ideas I’ve concocted my own candidate questionnaire that should be made
available to every politician and their lapdogs in the mainstream news
media.
I’ll try to keep my questions on the same level you keep your
campaign rhetoric but it’s been a few years since I was in kindergarten or
the 8th grade so keep your dictionary handy. Here we go:
- Are you telling
me you promise “change?” If so is this the kind of change Karl Marx
wrote about or are you referring to the old joke about politicians and
diapers needing to be changed often and for the same reason?
- Are you
promising you won’t raise taxes(we’re not supposed to have) or lower
benefits(the constitution never mentioned)?
- Are you
promising that you’re a “conservative”(means “fascist,” or whatever you
want it to mean according to the audience you’re speaking to) or ‘progressive’(trendy
word for modern “Liberal,” i.e. communist, socialist, fascist, or
whatever you think the audience you’re in front of expects to hear).
- Are you going
to promise me: a. ‘free’ healthcare(while being taxed for it at the
point of a government gun); b. security(for which I will have to
surrender more of the Liberty we’re supposed to be fighting for); c. a
job; d. safe children; e. a cleaner environment; f. more ‘opportunity’;
g. ‘homeland security’( just like the Nazis did); h. a false solution to
whatever you think my ‘hot button topic’ is?
I’m not
your average voter. I understand as you do that Amerikan politiks has become
the art of the manipulation of the stupid. That’s why we’re supposed to have
a representative republic, not a democracy that can be easily manipulated by
you and your masters.
I’m part of that tiny minority, and we are growing again. All we
need is to congeal into a force that the next OK city bombing or 9/11 won’t
dissolve or even slow down. We know what your game is now and we will keep
coming no matter what you pull out of your sleeves.
No matter how many civilians you kill, the percentages will remain
the same. In fact, our numbers may even grow. Because we will let it be
known that we will not target the stupid and the apathetic. We will only
target you and your accomplices in the mainstream news media.
We will not fight the war like our ancestors did during the
2nd
American Revolution when they foolishly tried to fight a traditional war
against an army that simply had more bullets and bodies to throw at our
quest for independence and Liberty.
We will fight more like some of the
patriots who
wouldn’t stand still and let the British cut them down. We will fight
more like the Irishmen under
Michael Collins who recognized that their enemies wouldn’t recognize
their cause until they were
made to feel
unsafe in their own homes.
You will not be safe anywhere. More of us all the time understand
that the siege mentality is the road to death for dissidents and to slavery
for the rest. We will not cower in our homes or march defenseless in the
streets like
cockroaches, hoping that tonight is not the night the black-suited Nazis
target us, assuming we will be there quietly waiting for their attack. We
will target. We will hunt. We will destroy.
Your lies, your policies, your laws, your campaign promises, have
already targeted our lives, our properties, our significant others, our
Liberties, our futures. You started this war, we will finish it if it takes
1000 years to hunt you all down, wherever you may slither off to.
Now take your oath of office with the knowledge that you will be
held to it, at pain of ‘outcomes.’
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