Jihad Against Us

I have never particularly worried that an al Qaeda member would turn up on my front lawn, gleaming scimitar in hand, and despite today's audio release of a threat against Americans being issued supposedly by Osama bin Laden himself, I still do not. But I am beginning for the first time in my life, to greatly fear the hand of my own government. Two statements by major Democrat figures, not backbenchers, but senior members of the US House of Representatives have only reinforced my worries. First Representative John Dingell in an interview with WJR's Paul W. Smith let the truth slip out that it would take a while for the government to initiate the mechanisms in the new health care regime that would enable the government to "control the people". Was this moment of clarity not a signal that we need to banish our new-found masters from office as soon as is possible? The second statement came from Barney Frank of Massachusetts and revealed his determination to "wipe out the shareholders" in large companies. So the Democrats at senior levels are openly admitting that they are both anti-freedom "control the people" and anti-capitalism "wipe out shareholders", and this ought to scare the hell out of liberty lovers and individual investors alike. Ad to this the seeming determination of Democrats to criminalize criticism by terming dissent as threat as they are doing in the wake of the health care debate, and we are well on our way to Russia.