Contributed by Fritz Mehrtens
fjmehr@usa.net 

“They can pat down the old lady if it will keep us safe.” That pronouncement from a good friend as we watched news coverage of the recent failure to detect the Nigerian who boarded a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit with explosive in his clothing.

Yes, that’s where we are in America today. Our safety is paramount. We willingly throw grandma’s right to privacy under the bus in the interests of our individual well being. It should be noted that the friend quoted above is no flaming liberal, but a conservative American who wouldn’t think of violating anyone’s rights and who regards the Constitution as the cornerstone of our democracy.

Of course, our government is complicit in this thinking. President George W. Bush was fond of proclaiming that his first duty as president was ‘to keep the American people safe.’ This mantra was quickly assumed by Obama because it fits well with his philosophy that the government is in charge of, and therefore responsible for, everything.

But in fact, the primary presidential obligation is the one mentioned in his oath of office, “to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Somehow, that obvious fact is lost in the hubris about security now that we Americans are vulnerable in our homeland. Jihadists willing to die for their ideology must look with disgust at Americans so willing to give up their principles in the interest of personal safety.

Surely Americans remember the concentration camps for our Nisei citizens during WWII. These Japanese-Americans were subjected to that harsh treatment in the interests of safety, too. If we value security more than liberty, perhaps soon there will be a camp for grandma.

I always felt that Ray Stevens was somewhat of a genius.

Nice to see Ray is on our side.

Like everything Ray Stevens ever did, this is a lot more clever than you first realize.

The Deaths in the American Public Health System

Dear Michael,

Although you and I are often on different sides, I have always admired you.

Along with Rush Limbaugh, you are one of the top two communicators in the United States.

Unlike Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, I think you actually have honest altruistic motives.

So Michael, why not a movie about all the people who have been killed in the American Public health system?

I mean, why not tell the truth about how many people die when you trust the government with their health care?

Don’t you think that’s an important thing do to before we start down the slippery slope of putting the Government 100% in charge of health care?

Start with the death of 50-year-old Steven Howard Sabock who sat unattended for nearly 24 hours while workers at North Carolina Cherry Hospital danced, played cards, laughed, talked on cell phones, and watched TV. It’s all on video.

Then take a trip down to Georgia and read a series that appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, titled “A Hidden Shame”. Read about Sarah Crider, one at least 115 patients from Georgia’s state psychiatric hospitals, who died under suspicious circumstances according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Sarah Crider, dead in a Georgia public hospital
 

Michael, have you ever served on a Board of Directors of a Public Health Agency? I have.

People talk about accountability, but in public health care, there is no accountability.

Supposedly, the public health care system is more accountable, because it is run by Boards of Directors consisting of ordinary citizens.

But such is not the case.

In the mid nineties I was a member of a Board that supervised Central Virginia Community Services, a public mental health agency.

One day a young man named Barry Bohannon came to our local hospital emergency room for mental health treatment. Upon being turned away, he went home and he shot both of his parents and then committed suicide.

At our next meeting, the treatment related double homicide suicide wasn’t even on the agenda. It wasn’t something the Board President or the Executive Director cared to share with the board.

Why didn’t the Executive Director and the Board care to investigate the unnecessary death of a young man and his parents?

That should be the subject of your next movie, Michael. It is as significant as the events in Columbine Colorado?

But I wish you would make your movie first, Michael. I wish you would find out why government health care kills so many people first, before you try to convince us to turn over the rest of our money and power and self determination to a few elitists in Washington DC, who are cosmically indifferent to the number of deaths they are going to cause by their bullying incompetent takeover of the American health care system.

Thanks Michael. I know you could get to the truth if you wanted to.

Regards,

Sam Mela
circulationdown@gmail.com

Speaking to ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, President Obama said that Medicare and Medicaid are on an “unsustainable” trajectory and no the government “will go bankrupt” if Congress does not pass a health care bill.

It is most ironic that liberals, on the one hand have said we need government health care because medicaid and medicare have been so successful and on the other hand we need government healthcare because medicaid and medicare are bankrupt.

So the government needs to operate more of the healthcare system to cover their losses operating part of the healthcare system.

There’s business opportunity that only congress would be stupid enough to enter into.

It’s kind of like lending money to a compulsive gambler who owes money to the mob and thinks he can pay off his gambling debt by more gambling.

The Tea Party Movement is initiating a nation-wide AARP Card Burning, on the first day of winter, December 21, 2009. This is in response to AARP’s duplicitous stance in support of Congress’ attempted thievery of ample health care away from the American people. This response is being called for due to the fact that Congress has turned a deaf ear to the will of the American people, one of the most vulnerable groups of our society, our American Seniors.

Contact info and sponsoring a card burning

AARP’s quid pro quo, and subsequent complicity in the advancement of legislation that will ultimately limit the availability of appropriate health care to their membership, America’s seniors, is beyond reproach. Not only will this Health Care legislation make medical care a commodity, but it will create a repressive tax burden upon already cash strapped seniors in addition to all other segments of the nation’s population.

To add insult to injury, both houses of Congress as well as the present White House Administration continues to arrogantly ignore those who write their paychecks, the taxpaying citizens of the U.S.

Therefore, it is necessary for the grassroots Tea Party Movement to call upon American’s of all ages to gather together in visible defiance of Congress’s henchman, the AARP. With the strength of numbers, we must delineate our opposition to obvious, deceitful greed of the AARP that assaults the country’s wellness of being.

We must send a concrete message, not only to the AARP leadership, but also to Congress and the administration by taking to the streets and burning our AARP cards. We must then cancel our AARP memberships in numbers that will not and cannot be ignored any longer. We must demonstrate to the powers that be, that we will not tolerate this legislative abomination, which will plunge the entire country into a severe “Winter” of medical depravation.

Unless we act in solidarity, the AARP will assist Congress in bringing about scarcity in cutting edge technologies and medicines. Unless we act definitively we will see a lack of availability to timely and appropriate medical attention, delivered by competent medical staff, which will heartlessly strand frail infants, seniors and infirmed in the desolate cold of a medical winter.

On December 21, 2009, ….join your local Tea Partiers and Seniors in the 1st Tea Party Winter Fest for Health Care Freedom & AARP Card Burning. Don’t forget your lighters, AARP cards and any other AARP printed material/mailings; home made cards a/or signs…you could even dress up like Santa, or his elves, Scrooge, Tiny Tim, whatever your favorite Christmas character…don’t forget your cameras & video recorders! If YOU don’t send this message NOW, the die will be cast!

Here is our editorial position on Michael Steele — we like Michael Steele.

But frankly, it’s time for the Republican Party to take the battle for the heart and soul of America to the streets.

Copyright Sam Mela 2009

Contact

Sam Mela
(703) 652-5436
circulationdown@gmail.com

To Sponsor an AARP Card Burning

1. Pick a time with your friends
2. Wear seasonal attire.
3. Stand in front of a Christmas Tree or Sleigh or other background of your choice. Use your imagination.
4. Take photos

 
Send photos to

Sam Mela
circulationdown@gmail.com