At the core of representative democracy is the idea of the secret ballot: when you go into the booth to vote, you vote YOUR values and YOUR will; not the values and will of someone who is out to intimidate you into voting any other way.
But Democrats and unions think that kind of individual freedom is dangerous and unfair: better that everyone be forced to vote openly and publicly, so that their version of the fascist blackshirts can pay a visit to their home and “persuade” them to vote their way.
‘Card Check’ in Action
Matt Milner works as a “tracker” for the Colorado Republican Party: He follows Sen. Michael Bennet, a newly appointed Democrat, around and videotapes his public appearances. The Denver Post reports what happened when he went to an AFL-CIO meeting where Bennet was speaking Saturday:Milner, with his tripod and video camera, garnered the attention of event organizers just as Bennet bid his adieu to hundreds of audience members, some of whom had grown passionate over politically tricky labor issues, such as the Employee Free Choice Act. . . .
The 5-foot-6-inch Milner found himself surrounded as the event wound down, he said.
“This hulking guy comes flying at me, and he’s yelling ‘Who are you with?’ There’s a flurry of F-words,” Milner said. “They circled around me. I’d try to move, and they’d move to block my path.”
[Mike] Cerbo [executive director of the Colorado AFL-CIO], one of the five men who spoke to Milner after Bennet’s speech, disputed that version of events Sunday. He said the young interloper was aggressive and tried to provoke a confrontation, though he declined to say how.
“He came in uninvited. . . . I’d call him a trespasser,” Cerbo said. “He didn’t get the incident he wanted, so he’s clearly lying about what happened.”
Milner says the men demanded that he erase his recording, and one of them took his camera, while Cerbo claims, in the Post’s words, that he “offered to erase his tape because he hadn’t been invited to the event.” No one disputes that Milner was outnumbered, or that it was he who called 911.
If this is what happens to a man at a public event, what do you expect a woman to do when these guys show up at her house with a card to sign?
That WOULD be an excellent question: “What DO you expect a woman to do when these guys show up at her house with a card to sign?” Except we ALREADY have our answer, thanks to UAW card check thuggery.
A working mom was repeatedly intimidated by union organizers. They approached her going to work, leaving work, at breaks, at lunches, saying, “You’ve got to sign this card. We’ve got to have your information.” Telling them “NO” meant nothing to them. They came to her house. They waited outside. She had two small children in the house. She said, “We have a secure vote to elect the president; why can’t we have one when it comes to our paycheck and our home and everything else?” She also said, “If this is my livelihood we should be able to have a choice – and card check isn’t a choice.”
The same intimidation happened to workers at Dana Corp. in Albion, Indiana when UAW organizers came to harass and intimidate them.
‘Card Check’ is flagrantly undemocratic and unAmerican – and so are the liberals who are trying to push it onto working people.
Meanwhile, we are learning that our new president is just as much of a union thug as the union thugs. He’s refusing to allow banks to repay loans that many of them were pressured to accept in the first place. The Obama administration is literally threatening investors who hold secured Chrysler bonds. La Cosa Nostra has moved into the White House.
You might find the following unrelated. I personally believe it is just another example of the same sort of ‘Card Check”-like crap that the left is trying to shove down our throats in the name of warped and redefined “fairness” and “tolerance.”
This kind of ruthless assault on people’s private beliefs being “outed” – and attacked if it doesn’t measure up to the left’s agenda – goes on all the time.
The campaign against Miss California Carrie Prejean is an example of this liberal pressure by intimidation. Similar to what liberals want to do through Card Check, Carrie Prejean was forced to answer a question by a liberal that she clearly would never have wanted to publicly answer while running for the crown in a beauty pageant. For a liberal, Perez Hilton’s question was a chance to shine with the politically correct answer that beauty pageants thrive upon; for a conservative, it amounted to being forced to answer the McCarthyesque question, “Are you now, or have you ever been, a Christian?”
Prejean gave her honest answer. And you would have thought she had said she liked eating babies (when we all know it’s liberals who favor baby meat). And thus the left pounced, following the lead of the homosexual activist who forced this issue by demanding Prejean answer his question (only to call her “a stupid bitch” because he didn’t like her answer).
Media Matters called Prejean “dishonest” because she said, “Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage.” On their view, every state that doesn’t allow homosexual marriage doesn’t allow their citizens to choose. But in fact, THEY are the ones who are throwing out falsehoods: Carrie Prejean – as Miss California – represents a state where citizens CHOSE to define marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Then came the beauty pageant blackshirts to get Prejean to “reconsider” her answer:
Miss California Carrie Prejean, who became the bombshell of the Miss USA pageant by saying gay couples should not be allowed to marry, said her state sponsors urged her to apologies afterward but she rejected the advice.
Ms Prejean, 21, said officials from the Miss California USA pageant were worried that her comments would cost their contest financial backing and tried to prepare her for a string of post-pageant media interviews by discouraging her from discussing her religious beliefs.
“You need to apologize to the gay community. You need to not talk about your faith. This has everything to do with you representing California and saving the brand,” Ms Prejean recalled being told.
Prejean has since had her private medical records exposed and “outed” for having had breast implant surgery. There was nothing improper with this; pageant officials actually paid for the procedure. It was nothing more than harassment.
And listen to how MSNBC went after her – and realize – for nothing more than providing her honest answer to a question that was forced on her:
OLBERMANN: There it is here, Miss California is opposed to same-sex marriage, which is at least marriage between two human beings, but she has fully endorsed now marriage between a man and a woman who is partially made out of plastic.
MUSTO: Well, she’s dumb and twisted. She’s sort of like a human Klaus Barbie Doll. I mean, you tell Perez Hilton you’re against gay marriage? That’s like telling Simon Cowell you’re against screeching a show tune. This is the kind of girl who sits on the TV and watches the sofa. You know, she thinks innuendo is a Italian suppository.
Can I keep going? On the pageants now, they really should have easier questions, like what’s your middle name or what show was Seinfeld on. I mean, this girl’s a ding-dong. I didn’t even like her earrings.
OLBERMANN: The cruelest cut of all. The outcomes here, too. Perez Hilton looks like an intellectual titan and some sort of civil rights leader. And the new poster girl against same-sex marriage is not just a boob, but a fake boob. This is a real win for this cause, is it not?
MUSTO: Well, Perez is the new me, let’s leave him alone. And using the C word is something I wouldn’t do. But yes, Carrie Prejean, however you say it, she’s getting something off her chest. But what she really needs to get off is the price tag there.
The “girl” was dumb and a ding-dong, Michael Musto explained, as he struggled with her last name. (Olbermann fake-mispronounced her name too, right at the start of the segment. He added the fact that the girl is a boob.) Did we mention that Prejean’s position on the issue at hand resembles that of almost all major Dems? Resembles that of President Obama, to cite just one example?
At any rate, the boys went on and on—and on—with their clever boob jokes. Musto proved he was a progressive when he announced that he wouldn’t call Prejean a “c*nt” (or even a “b*tch,” one might assume), as Perez Hilton has done. Because the gentlemen were so clever, we offer you more of their minstrelsy:
OLBERMANN: Now, the moral in this is what? Never cross a beauty pageant official who knows you’ve had implants?
MUSTO: Yes, exactly, that’s it. This has escalated to a public shaving. I mean, and what Moakler has left out, Keith, is they also paid for Carrie to cut off her penis, and sand her Adam’s Apple and get a head-to-toe waxing. I know for a fact that Carrie Prejean was Harry Prejean, a homophobic man, who liked marriage so much he did it three times. Now he’s a babe who needs a brain implant. Maybe they could inject some fat from her butt. Oh, they have?
How could Keith Olbermann or Musto have been more vicious or more vile? If this isn’t the kind of propaganda attack that would have made Nazi Joseph Goebbels proud, I don’t know what is. They certainly have been doing everything they could to dehumanize her and make her an object of mockery and hate.
One might ask where the feminists were to defend this strong, independent, successful woman who is being so attacked just for having the courage to stand up for her convictions. But feminist Gloria Feldt actually used the same reasoning in attacking Carrie Prejean as a fake person with breast implants when she came on the O’Reilly Factor.
Even as activists who could care less about the intent of the voters immediately went to work nullifying the will of Californians so they could impose their own will.
They immediately flooded the courts so that a few judges could throw out the will of Californians. It’s not about the will of the people. Liberals don’t give a damn about the will of the people. All they care about is power, and their ability to impose their will upon the people by any means necessary.
But even more to the point: they used vile intimidation tactics to punish people for their “Yes” vote on Prop 8. Threats, harassment, intimidation, vandalism. Homosexual blackshirts did to thousands of voters exactly what they would do to millions of workers if Card Check were to pass.
The left loves to call conservatives “fascists,” and have been shouting the label for years. It is time they look at the mirror and recognize that THEY are the fascists, and always have been.
Fascism comes from the left, being a form of socialism. “Nazi” was an abbreviation for “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,” which means, “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” If we had a “National Socialist American Workers’ Party,” would it be filled with conservatives or liberals? The Nazi Party’s platform and its underlying philosophy were decidedly leftwing.
And the point is that the big labor “workers’ parties” in America are every bit as fascist as the German “workers’ party” that gave fascism such a horrible reputation in the first place.
And homosexuals themselves – who ultimately ended up being persecuted by the Nazis – were themselves instrumental in bringing about Nazi power. It was they who filled the ranks of Ernst Roehm’s SA (also known as the stormtroopers or the Brownshirts) and brought Hitler to power. The fact that Hitler later turned on them does nothing to mitigate that role.
The same players, playing the same fascist games, yesterday and today. The left constantly scream and whine about being victimized, when THEY are the victimizers. THEY are the attackers. THEY are the sick, twisted freaks who continually harass and intimidate the innocent and the helpless to impose their will upon society whether that society be the majority or not.
Liberals and Democrats have become fascists. If they don’t like being called “fascists,” they should quit acting like fascists and let people express their consciences in their opinions and their votes.
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