Political Protests and Liberal Hypocrisy

The people of Egypt are protesting in the streets of Cairo, and liberals are ecstatic. They are hoping the Mubarak regime will collapse and the people of Egypt will find their political voice. “The whole world is watching” their anti-government protests. There is no place to hide from the watching eye of the new technology. Obama and company are critical of the way Mubarak has turned off the internet, and they’ve told him so. Good for them. But am I living in a dream world? So why are we still hearing calls for an Internet Kill Switch, Net Neutrality, and the regulation of talk radio? Rush Limbaugh said it best: "Isn’t it interesting how much support these Egyptian 'anti-government”'protestors are getting from our media and some officials in the White House?"

The Daily Telegraph reported that “the American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning ‘regime change’ for the past three years.” It’s all about “democracy” and “free expression.” But when ordinary citizens in the United States took to the streets in a peaceful manner to protest our nation’s government policies, they were labeled “kooks,” anti-government radicals, racists, Nazis, storm troopers in Brooks Brothers’ suits.

http://visiontoamerica.org/story/politi ... crisy.html

Why is it so difficult to understand the difference? The people in Egypt are trying to get a democracy......we liberals think that is a good thing, the Tea Party is trying to take down our democracy and turn it into a corpocracy, with the help of those who want a theocracy, we think that is a bad thing. very simple.

The Tea Party knows that this country is a Republic. Maybe you should learn that.

archer wrote: .we liberals think that is a good thing, the Tea Party is trying to take down our democracy and turn it into a corpocracy, with the help of those who want a theocracy, we think that is a bad thing. very simple.

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Nmysys wrote: The Tea Party knows that this country is a Republic. Maybe you should learn that.

Nmysys wrote: The Tea Party knows that this country is a Republic. Maybe you should learn that.

The tea Party knows no such thing, as they promote business and corporate interests over that of the citizens, which is part of the basis for a republic.

From Wiki

A republic is a state under a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government.

The Tea Party has little interest in what the people of this nation want, or need, or even vote for.... only in what they want and what is good for the corporations who they think will take care of them with jobs and salary increases and health care and retirements funds. Yeah right. Placing corporate America above the people is NOT a republic.They are a bunch of fools.

archer wrote:

Nmysys wrote: The Tea Party knows that this country is a Republic. Maybe you should learn that.

The tea Party knows no such thing, as they promote business and corporate interests over that of the citizens, which is part of the basis for a republic.

From Wiki

A republic is a state under a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government.

The Tea Party has little interest in what the people of this nation want, or need, or even vote for.... only in what they want and what is good for the corporations who they think will take care of them with jobs and salary increases and health care and retirements funds. Yeah right. Placing corporate America above the people is NOT a republic.They are a bunch of fools.

You should not post when you are not thinking straight. I suggest you lie down and relax.

conifermtman wrote: You should not post when you are not thinking straight. I suggest you lie down and relax.

This really is getting to be a pattern here....."insult the poster" seems to be the only response that conservatives can muster.

When you post stupid remarks you get insulted by people who point it out to you. Stop taking the stupid pills and get some rest.

Some Egyptian pro-Mubarak protestors delivered a smackdown to CNN's Anderson Cooper today.

Liberals do seem to be happy Mubarak is on his way out, I am closer to guardedly optomistic, they could end up trading a benevolent dictatorship with an evil dictatorship or a religious theocracy that exiles the Coptic Christians.