White House call to 'flag' dissent loathsome

THe Morning Journal (Ohio)
August 9, 2009 Tom Skoch

"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

NORMALLY, I'm not one to get fired up about political issues, but this White House crowd is getting to be more than a little overbearing. The paragraph above comes from an Aug. 4 entry on the White House blog.

I'm sure my good and liberal friend, columnist Rich Osborne over on the other page, reads that paragraph as a benign public service announcement from a benevolent administration.

When I read it, I blew a gasket. The White House, basically, is asking me and you to rat out anyone who disagrees with the Obama version of the "truth" on health reform. Free speech? Not if it's something "fishy" that you hear in a "casual conversation" with your neighbor or co-worker. The White House wants you to report those deviant thoughts to "flag@whitehouse.gov" because they just can't keep up with all the people who disagree with them.

Talk about KGB tactics, Chicago-style.

Please don't chime in now about "Bush spied on us."

Neither one of the Bush presidents ever asked Americans to turn in people who disagree with policy proposals. Neither Bush, nor Bill Clinton, ever called here to complain about one of our daily "Our View" editorials.

"Flag" this column to the White House if you want, but they've already got our number.

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NOTE: Looks like Americans are waking up to who they elected to the White House. No dissent welcome because "I am the President" or "I Won" mentality is repeated over and over again. Unfortunately, we know he won and don't have to be reminded. Now those voters who voted for him out of "white guilt" that kept hearing if you don't vote for him you are a racist, are waking up to the Chicago thug tactics of this Administration.

Now we have a KGB like operation out of the White House. What comes next?

Pelosi is accusing the protestors to healthcare of being Nazi but the Nazi's were a far LEFT socialist organization. Is she talking about herself and the occupant of the WH because she sure cannot be talking about the protestors who are conservative. Looks like the Democrat leadership has a void in their study of history or they cannot comprehend what words mean as they throw them around.