Bubba Says We Are a Nation of Terrorists

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Mirroring the paranoia expressed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shortly after President Obama’s inauguration, former President Bill Clinton defined what Democrats believe is behind today’s domestic terrorist, “…The belief that the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them,” said Clinton in a New York Times Op-Ed.

Nothing better expresses the imperial mindset stretching from King George III to Nancy Pelosi than the idea that government and its paper-shuffling thralls are above criticism or organized political opposition. By Clinton’s definition, Thomas Jefferson was the granddaddy of today’s domestic terrorist. “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold,” said Jefferson, “is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” The Tea Party movement won’t be silenced or allow government bureaucrats or Obama’s Czarist government to define, let alone defend, our freedoms.

A free people, by definition, are the stewards of their own freedom, and the electoral process allows a free people to restrain the over-reaching ambitions of representative government. That is why the Tea Party is viewed as a threat by status quo politicians. The Tea Party has done an end-run around the two-party, big-government system. The Tea Party threatens to change the political complexion of the Republican Party in the primaries, turning it into a party of limited government. This would overturn the decades-long big-government consensus between leading Democrats and John McCain Democrat-Lite Republicans.

“Civic virtue can include harsh criticism, protest, even civil disobedience. But not violence or its advocacy,” said Clinton. “That is the bright line that protects our freedom. It has held for a long time, since President George Washington called out 13,000 troops in response to the Whiskey Rebellion.”

Now that’s a not so veiled threat. It is clear that the Democrat’s political strategy leading to November is to link peaceful Tea Party protesters with violent militias and white supremacy groups. This is a main theme with columnists at the New York Times and Fox News’ token liberal contributor Bob Beckel.

Clinton may have terminated all the men, women and children at the Branch Dividian compound at Waco, Texas, with extreme prejudice, but the Tea Party is too big and influential a target to fit in the rifle sites of the FBI’s Hostage Negotiating Team.

If Democrats continue to equate the Tea Party with domestic terrorists throughout the campaigns leading to November’s midterms, Democrats will lose by numbers larger than their political strategists can imagine. Can Democrats really be this stupid? The answer, in the words of Obama’s cult followers, seems to be, “Yes we can!”