Anybody who honestly thinks that the Obama Administration with its, "Tell us about things you hear that are said about the Health-care proposals that you think are a little "Fishy" message," is trying to violate Free Speech is wrong. They may be arrogant and have virtually Fascist desires to control the society, but they are not stupid. To issue such a message so overtly with such an intent would be arrogance and ignorance beyond comprehension.
In my view, this does however, clearly reflect the "Marginalize the enemy" tactic that the community organizers are taught. The effort is to get intelligence, yes; but the real effort is to communicate that those who are arguing against the Obama-care plan, are not credible. There arguments must be "fishy" hence we need to expose them, so please let us know what they may be saying so that we can call them out.
There is also no doubt, that this was a terrible mistake on the part of the Administration, especially to use a White House address. It has the smell of a violation of the ability to exercise free speech; even if it was not. In this case, the right approach for the opponents, is to marginalize the Obama administration by saying just that; they are attempting to invalidate the 1st amendment. This is fire with fire. They attempt to marginalize; get after them by doing the same thing when the make a major miscalculation.
ON ANOTHER SIDE OF THIS: the Obama-care Opponents must not make it easy for the left to attack the opposition. The attendance at these public forums must be aggressive, but not unruly. The proponents are looking for ways to show that the opposition is a bunch of radical extremists, essentially a mob. That can not be allowed to happen. Participants must come out in force; demand answers, but act in a manner that shows respect for reason and control Violence must not happen, and unruly, mob like behavior, will only harm the cause, not help. Nazi symbols, even when used to accuse Obama of that thinking, simply makes for photo ops that look like the opponents are carrying Nazi symbols.
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