Conservative Fear

[_mentalgymnast]

Here is an IM conversation that I received from a good friend of mine. He is pretty conservative, but is not by nature a conspiracy theorist. I can vouch for his complete sincerity (although, like me, he is prone to hyperbole). I have changed his name to protect his purported "innocence".

(12:11:52 PM) Steve: Heil Obama
(12:12:06 PM) Steve: the modern day Hitler
(12:12:37 PM) John: Hitler?
(12:12:43 PM) Steve: yes
(12:12:57 PM) Steve: You understand history
(12:13:02 PM) Steve: it is repeating itself
(12:13:06 PM) Steve: Hitler was elected
(12:13:19 PM) Steve: Just as obama was
(12:13:33 PM) John: That is your parallel?
(12:13:52 PM) Steve: Hitler then built up an army that reported directly to him
(12:13:58 PM) Steve: just as obama is proposing
(12:14:24 PM) John: What proposal? The President has been Commander and Chief since Washington.
(12:14:25 PM) Steve: His chief of staff is using terms such as when obama begins to "rule"
(12:14:51 PM) Steve: he is propasing a militia that is independant of the armed forces
(12:15:03 PM) John: You have gone off the deep end. Are you even listening to yourself?
(12:15:11 PM) John: I'm serious. You need help.
(12:15:22 PM) Steve: read what he says
(12:15:41 PM) Steve: those that have gone off the deep end are those that voted for him
(12:16:12 PM) Steve: when our rights are taken away don't cry to those of us who voted against him
(12:17:11 PM) Steve: oh but I forgot you believe in socialism
(12:17:19 PM) Steve: government run healthcare etc

Do you think this is just post election tub thumping, or is there a real wave of fear going through our conservative friends?

Here is an interesting conversation with Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff on FORCED CIVIL SERVICE:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e4qGSU8z2G

Just something to add to the mix.

Regards,
MG










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[_Trevor]

Here is an interesting conversation with Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff on FORCED CIVIL SERVICE:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e4qGSU8z2G

Just something to add to the mix.

Regards,
MG

CHILLING!!! (not)
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[_John Larsen]

Here is an interesting conversation with Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff on FORCED CIVIL SERVICE:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e4qGSU8z2G

Just something to add to the mix.

Regards,
MG

You mean like they have in Israel, the "banner leader in the Marxist movement today"? Israel, the US's #1 ally? Such a program would clearly lead to mass food shortages and vodka drinking.

[_antishock8]

I think forced civil service can be construed as a nationalist sentiment. And we know what nationalism leads to...

Nazis!

[_The Dude]

I think forced civil service can be construed as a nationalist sentiment. And we know what nationalism leads to...

Nazis!

But forced labor is a mark of a communist Gulag system.

[_Some Schmo]

Here is an interesting conversation with Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff on FORCED CIVIL SERVICE:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e4qGSU8z2G

Just something to add to the mix.

Oh no, that conversation didn't seem hacked to death to remove all context... not at all. I believe it 100% at face value, and now I'm scared! And so should all of you. Be scared... be very, very scared...

*rolls eyes*

Moronic.

[_TAK]

I think forced civil service can be construed as a nationalist sentiment. And we know what nationalism leads to...

Nazis!

And Israeli ..

[_antishock8]

Yeah, I was being cheeky. Among my friends and I we think Federal service should be compulsory. And they're pretty Conservative. So it's funny to see a Conservative bitch about compulsory national service. Frankly, I think we, as a nation, should implement it. From street cleaning to border patrol... I don't care... We should do something that contributes to something bigger than ourselves; in this case it's for our nation.

[_Sethbag]

One conservative fear that *may* have some basis in fact is that Obama and the Democratic Congress are going to go hog wild with gun control, and reenact the assault weapons ban and all that jazz, and even take that a lot further. I'm not sure that they will, since they remember what happened in 1994 when they did that. It would be stupid for them to do it like that again.

But that is at least one fear that is in fact reasonable, since the Democrats did in fact do all of this stuff, and tried to do more, before.

Gun sales have absolutely spiked since Nov. 5th, in reaction to it.

[_Droopy]

Do you think this is just post election tub thumping, or is there a real wave of fear going through our conservative friends?

Yes there is, and for good reasons. One is Obama's public and stated historical ideological positions on various issues. Another is his long associations with some of the most radical, extreme individuals in modern American society and politics.

Yet another is the fact that a clear cult of personality is already forming around Obama, not only here, but overseas as well, and that alone (especially as he as of yet has done or achieved nothing politically and we still have no direct idea who and what he really is) is uniquely disturbing.