Arlo Guthrie vs President Obama

Will this be another respondless thread by me because liberals cannot handle the truth about the world they are building?



http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreen ... dent-obie/

"In 1967, folk singer Arlo Guthrie played a song on a left-wing New York City radio station that was supposed to sum up the cultural difference between the culture and the counterculture.

On one side of the moral equation in Alice’s Restaurant you had Office Obie and the nameless army officers who were rule-bound fascists and on the other side you had the easygoing hippies who believed in community, hanging out and letting things slide. Culture would drag you into court for littering with twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs as evidence while counterculture would shrug and invite you to dinner."...


..."If there’s anyone who’s going to drag you into court with twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs as proof; it’s going to be the Officer Obies of the EPA. Except that a straightforward thing like littering would be much too sensible for environmental enforcement groups to bother with. They’re more likely to arrest you for collecting rainwater on your own property, making a guitar out of unfinished wood or cleaning up trash from your own property.

EPA Administrator Al Armendariaz, whose fiefdom included five states, told staffers that his philosophy of enforcement was borrowed from the Romans.”They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them.”

Compared to the Officer Obies of the ruling counterculture, the original model seems like the soul of reason. If you ran afoul of Officer Armendariz, or Caesar Armendariz as he liked to be called, you would be very lucky to come away with nothing more than a twenty-five dollar fine and a few hours in jail.

A mere two decades after Arlo Guthrie began singing about being arrested on Thanksgiving for littering by Officer Obie; John Pozsgai was sentenced to three years in jail for “discharging pollutants into waters of the United States” for the crime of adding topsoil to his land."...


..."There's a folk song in there alright, but it's not one that a liberal would listen to because every progressive who grins when hearing Arlo joke about a federal case being made out of throwing some garbage off a cliff would want to hang him in real life.

Bill Ellen, a Vietnam veteran and conservationist who ran a shelter for injured wildlife, spent six months in jail for making duck ponds based on a 1989 reinterpretation of environmental law which stated that land which had water on it for seven days was considered Federally protected wetlands.

"That's as close as you can come to restitution for them, the ducks," the judge in the case declared. The judge has since retired to a more fitting post as a member of the Governor's Advisory Panel on License Plate Reader technology. There's probably a folk song in that, but no one would ever air it.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane F. Barrett called it "a premeditated environmental crime" and declared victory even though Ellen was only sentenced to six months in jail instead of three years.

"It might be true that five years ago Ellen wouldn't have to go to jail. But we're living in a different world now," she admitted."...

The answer to this thorny problem is not to break any EPA rules.

BlazerBob, before we can consider your post we must first define the character of the counterculture of the 1960s and the liberal of today (progressive). They are polar opposites.

The 1960s counterculture was anti-government or small government
The progressive is pro-government or big government

The 1960s counterculture did not want to be controlled
The progressive wants to be controlled

The 1960s counterculture was anti-establishment
The progressive is pro-establishment.

Totally different birds!!!!!

Arlen wrote: BlazerBob, before we can consider your post we must first define the character of the counterculture of the 1960s and the liberal of today (progressive). They are polar opposites.

The 1960s counterculture was anti-government or small government
The progressive is pro-government or big government

The 1960s counterculture did not want to be controlled
The progressive wants to be controlled

Funny how that turned around... great point!

Rick wrote:

Arlen wrote: BlazerBob, before we can consider your post we must first define the character of the counterculture of the 1960s and the liberal of today (progressive). They are polar opposites.

The 1960s counterculture was anti-government or small government
The progressive is pro-government or big government

The 1960s counterculture did not want to be controlled
The progressive wants to be controlled

Funny how that turned around... great point!

Yes boiled down, todays progressives are fascists.