This Is What's Wrong With Government

When people try to determine what is "wrong" with our government, they generally look for acts that they think most people will disagree with. But I think "the problem" with government is a mindset, a governing philosophy.

What is that mindset? Simply put, our politicians think that they are our rulers. Instead of representing us, they believe they rule over us.

Think they DON'T have that mindset? Think again.

Muslims want to build a Mosque in a building that was damaged by debris from the 9-11 attacks... continuing a long tradition of building Mosques on sites of great Muslim victories. Many people oppose the mosque on precisely those grounds. It may be legal, but it's clearly unwise and provocative.

And what is the response of our government? I don't mean PresBo's sort of maybe approval, nor Harry Reid's opposition. At this moment I'm referring to Nancy Pelosi's reaction: use the police power of government to investigate the protesters.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41204.html

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said she supports an investigation of groups opposing the building of a mosque near ground zero in New York.

Pelosi told San Francisco’s KCBS radio that “there is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some.”

“I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” she said. “How is this being ginned up?”

You can't make this stuff up, people.


She, and other Democrats, are concerned that Republicans will use this issue to hurt Democrats in the upcoming elections... and she can't let THAT happen! So she wants to use the police powers of government to investigate the protesters... a move that is clearly designed to threaten and intimidate those protesters from expressing their opposition.

Whatever happened to the first amendment? Do we not have the right to express dissent anymore? Since when did dissent become evidence of wrongdoing sufficient to start a police investigation?

That's what I mean, here. The attitude, the mindset, is that they are our rulers and can do whatever they want. One thing that rulers often do is silence dissent, silence any opinion that conflicts with the "official" opinion held by the government majority.

In this case, it's the Democrats. They are more than willing to ignore the Constitution, ignore individual freedom, ignore anything they have to in order to protect their phony-baloney jobs and the power that goes with it.

Make no mistake, this is a dictatorial mindset... Use the police to punish those pesky individuals who don't fall into line or who cause political problems for the ruling elite. And it's a mindset that is anathema to the concepts of individual freedom and representative government that our nation is SUPPOSED to be founded upon!

It's up to us how we respond to such abuses and outrages.

UPDATE: Pelosi has released an official written statement on this issue. She wants to know "who is funding the attacks against" it. I can't speak for anybody else, but nobody paid me to write this post. Why must opposition to something be "organized" and "funded?" Is it not possible that a lot of people could take a stance ALL ON THEIR OWN?