Comments on: Gang, I think our side of the blogosphere is waaaay overdoing the outrage over this whole “report on your neighbors” thing http://www.skepticrats.com/2009/08/05/gang-i-think-our-side-of-the-blogosphere-is-waaaay-overdoing-the-outrage-over-this-whole-report-on-your-neighbors-thing/ You expect us to believe that? Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Quite Rightly http://www.skepticrats.com/2009/08/05/gang-i-think-our-side-of-the-blogosphere-is-waaaay-overdoing-the-outrage-over-this-whole-report-on-your-neighbors-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Quite Rightly Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:03:13 +0000 http://www.skepticrats.com/?p=2168#comment-739 "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov." A key word here is "fishy." Not "inaccurate," not "incorrect." Princeton University's Web site (they sorta speak the same language as Harvard) defines "fishy" as "not as expected"; "up to some funny business"; "a shady deal"; "suspicious behavior." Tell me again that's not asking Americans to turn each other in for holding views that don't agree with Obama's. “If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

A key word here is “fishy.” Not “inaccurate,” not “incorrect.” Princeton University’s Web site (they sorta speak the same language as Harvard) defines “fishy” as “not as expected”; “up to some funny business”; “a shady deal”; “suspicious behavior.”

Tell me again that’s not asking Americans to turn each other in for holding views that don’t agree with Obama’s.

]]> By: smitty http://www.skepticrats.com/2009/08/05/gang-i-think-our-side-of-the-blogosphere-is-waaaay-overdoing-the-outrage-over-this-whole-report-on-your-neighbors-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-736 smitty Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:01:37 +0000 http://www.skepticrats.com/?p=2168#comment-736 I disagree. This is pure precedent and slippery slope. In the context of the overall project of sliding this country into fascism, this is indeed another brick in the wall. The POTUS has the internet and the media. If he cannot clearly sell this snake oil (and I still don't apprehend why this is not a 10th Amendment violation) then the POTUS needs to put his ideas in his pipe and smoke them. I disagree.
This is pure precedent and slippery slope.
In the context of the overall project of sliding this country into fascism, this is indeed another brick in the wall.
The POTUS has the internet and the media. If he cannot clearly sell this snake oil (and I still don’t apprehend why this is not a 10th Amendment violation) then the POTUS needs to put his ideas in his pipe and smoke them.

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