Big Brother wants you to do the watching for him

I read a ton of news, but this is easily the scariest I’ve read to date.  What’s so disturbing about this particular story is the manner in which this WhiteHouse blog post so nonchalantly lies to Americans, and then asks you to spy on your fellow Americans for them.  There’s nothing to read in to here - it’s in black and white:

On Tuesday, the White House posted a blog that asked supporters to report “fishy” information they come across about the health insurance debate. The appeal was made at the end of the blog, which showed a video that countered a set of online clips that made it look like Obama wanted to eliminate private coverage.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/06/critics-accuse-white-house-playing-big-brother-health-care-debate/

And if you don’t trust fox, here it is straight from the WhiteHouse blog:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/

Facts are stubborn things.  It’s a fact that H.R. 3200 will banish private health insurance as we know it today.  It’s a fact that the White House consistently lies to you about this fact - they even do it in that blog post.  How ironic.

Now, I beg of you - my listeners, my readers, and anyone who has stumbled across this site:  If you feel that anything said on this show, or posted on this website, could be considered “disinformation” or “fishy”, I urge you to e-mail the address mentioned in that blog post.  Tell them about this show.  Tell them about what we’ve said. And I promise, I’ll document everything they do in response - and expose this lying, disgusting excuse for an administration for what it is.  If you’d like, you may have them e-mail me personally, at jim@sheepdogradio.com

Assuming this post doesn’t get me thrown in some federal prison, I’ll be posting more about this scary trend.  Yeah, it’s that serious.

Oh, and here’s one more stubborn little fact:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It’s from our Bill of Rights.  Obama and his corrupt administration should read it some time.

UPDATE 1:

I was so disgusted after writing this post, that I decided to send the whitehouse an e-mail, at the address mentioned in their blog.  I wanted to tell them about the widespread disinformation on their own website, here’s what I wrote:

Subject: Fishy information regarding health care reform on popular blog

I read the WhiteHouse.gov blog post entitled “Facts are Stubborn Things” and am fulfilling your request to notify you about fishy disinformation on the Internet.

I’ve read several posts on a popular blog - the WhiteHouse.gov blog - including the very post containing this e-mail address, and have watched several videos on the same website, that claim that health insurance reform will not eliminate private coverage.  This is an outright lie, and seems quite fishy.  The following is Sec.102(a)(1)(A) of the health reform bill (H.R.3200):

“(A) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.”

There are other sections of this bill that further restrict private insurers.  From that one excerpt alone, however, it is clear that any claim that this bill does not eliminate private coverage is a complete fabrication.  I feel it is my patriotic duty to notify you of this behavior, in hopes that you can correct it.  This should be quite easy, since the primary source of these lies are your own office.

Regards,
Jim Ryan
Sheepdog Radio

UPDATE 2:

For comparison, here’s the video from the WhiteHouse blog:

And here’s the video she is referring to:

While this video does contain clips from several different videos, it is impossible to take these sentences out of context.  It is clear that our President, as well as other key players in health reform, want to eliminate private health insurance in favor of a single government plan.  It’s what they’ve all said and it’s what’s in the actual bill. It’s all here in this post.  You decide who’s lying.