Silencing the Critics

Mr. Sekulow, I disagree with other bloggers and believe your analysis to be spot on. When it comes to sensitive issues regrading personal liberties I believe it best to err on the side of caution and protect freedom at all cost. The white house website is a slippery slope at best, and a better forum or tool could have been utilize to address misinformation. Some would stereotype those that do not support socialized medicine as somehow irrational. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are shouting at these protest because no one in washington is listening. Some seem to fail to mention the president and his advisers own words concerning organizing supporters from Acorn, etc to be at these townhalls to hold signs and shout down the protesters in an attempt to stir passions. but, somehow this is free speech and the other is "un-american". I choose to stand on the side of freedom. That is why I have flagged myself along with thousands of others that we stand opposed to socialized medicine. Join us...

If people had FAITH, there would be NO NEED for a health care system...
2Ch 16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
2Ch 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
1Co 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

LeftisLost: I find it rather ironic that you state that one side is spreading lies about the national health plan when you do not even both to mention what one of those lies is. "I would have found your message much more believable if you had also spoken of the blatant lies and true disinformation that many on your side are spreading about the healthcare proposal" - right back to you.

It is never right to sin even when the ends justifies the means. To tell a lie and no you are telling one is sin. God agenda can happen with out God's people having to lie. When we as Christian stoop down to other level and get in the dirt with them that makes us no better than them. Stop the lies everyone, both sides but especially us the Christian.

It is sad that people spread rumors and people lie about others. I do my best to tell the truth at all times. People have thought I have lied in the past, to the best of my knowledge I do not lie. I tell the truth from my understanding.

Cara

Oh! Didn't you know that it's okay to lie (aka bearing false witness) as long as you do it for Jeus, Ronlad Reagan and the corporate wallet?

How is Pelosi's (admittedly ill-advised) "un-American" comment any different from Mrs. Palin's "real Americans" comment?

Leftislost,

Re: "protect[ing] freedom at all cost".

Address for us please the freedom to choose one's own health care insurance plan, yes, even a public one. Why is the 'right' so against that? Especially for those who have no coverage whatsoever.

Husband that is the picture they want to paint that will sway the weak minded people to there way of thinking. I am glad to live in America where I can have different ideas and not be thrown in jail. I remember one time the right was mad because people who were not paying taxes were voting. You vote because you are an American citizen but the right feels you should not be able to. That would silence a group of people but they dont see it that way because it would silence a group that does not side with them. We all need to stop and pray. Let the lies stop now.

Golly, Cara. Just this morning I heard that scientists know... not think, but know... that there are at least one hundred million planets just in our small Milky Way galaxy that are capable of sustaining life similar to ours on earth. Suddenly, my brain doesn't seem quite so special.

Mary-Lee,
Your brain is still special despite the other parts of the universe. I was only pointing out to Boris that, we are indeed created. Since he is a self-proclaiming athiest, I believe he wrote. The theory of being an athiest is purely impossible at this point, we are too complex of a being with too much capabilities to have been a blog of matter fusing into a regenerating organism with complex molecules which sustain life through blood and oxygen and thinking with reason of mind in tact. Nevermind, it is pointless to point it out to those who want to believe that garbage.

Cara

Here is what Nancy Pelosi REALLY said, in contextIn the meantime, as members of Congress spend time at home during August, they are talking with their constituents about reform. The dialogue between elected representatives and constituents is at the heart of our democracy and plays an integral role in assuring that the legislation we write reflects the genuine needs and concerns of the people we represent.

However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue. These tactics have included hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress in Maryland and protesters holding a sign displaying a tombstone with the name of another congressman in Texas, where protesters also shouted "Just say no!" drowning out those who wanted to hold a substantive discussion.

Let the facts be heard

These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades."

Please note that she did not call the PROTESTORS "un-American" but she did call some of the BEHAVIOR un-American, the behavior in question is SHOUTING down opposing views so that they can't be heard. IOW, using free speech to suppress free speech. And boy, people on the right had NO PROBLEM throwing around the phrase "un-American" when people opposed Bush policies. All those who opposed the war in Iraq were called un-American.

tnxerf

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There is a God, Boris. I am sorry that you don't realize that your heart and your lungs have to be going at the same time for you to exist. Which just the reason of thinking involved to make resonable decisions for processing information accumulated in your grey matter and stored for memory when needed, is impossible to be simple. You are very complex. Take for instance when you were originally conceived and the sperm hit the egg, notice the complexity of design when the great master designer at work starts processing your DNA into an eye, a brain, a leg, a heart, a nose, an eye. Take for instance your eye. Study your eyes and then get back to me. How light reflects back with an rainbow of colors. You have a sence of what is right and wrong built into you, who gave you that process? Simple, I think not.
Cara