Except That We WON'T Shut Up About Single Payer Health Care, No Matter What Senator "More Police" Baucus Says
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through the veil of illusion designed to condition us into docile
inaction. For that reason this may be the MOST important alert we
will ever send.
There was such a moment this week, when Senator Max Baucus, chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, having already preemptively excluded
any participation of a credible spokesperson for single payer health
care, laughingly joked "we need more police", when one qualified
doctor and lawyer after another stood up to protest their exclusion
from the debate.
THAT was the real Max Baucus, a contemptuous corporatist, who is as
likely to voluntarily bring forward a real people's health program as
Dick Cheney is likely to voluntarily testify under oath. Perhaps you
have already seen the video clip (it is on the action page below), of
him trying to laugh off consideration of single payer health care.
But you can force Max Baucus to do it anyway, by submitting this
action page.
Single Payer Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum982.php
And it is not just Baucus, the whole Senate panel erupted into
riotous laughter. Even the so-called "liberals", like John Kerry, who
was anxious to get in his own wisecrack about "Is there anybody in
the audience who didn't ... uh ... come to ..." [3:35 on video],
before it finally dawned on Baucus how incredibly bad this would look
on video, as he interrupted Kerry, to try to resume projecting the
usual phony concern and compassion.
Folks, this is who those senators REALLY are. This is the way they
talk about us behind closed doors, in their cloakrooms, snickering
with the lobbyists paying them off about how they pulled off another
fast one under the noses of the people. When they are joking, as when
Bush joked about being a dictator, THAT is who they really are. And
the whole charade DEPENDS on them fooling us into thinking they are
representing us for even one second that they are not FORCED to by
our active voices.
And THAT is why we need you to submit this action page now.
Single Payer Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum982.php
PLEASE BEWARE, there is a MASSIVE industry sponsored astroturf
campaign going on right this very instant. If you are reading this on
a web site, even a progressive one, this very page may be wallpapered
with slick banner ads calling for a "balanced health care debate" or
"fair health care", and it is one of the most deceptive "petition"
actions we have ever encountered, asking you to sign on to a HIDDEN
agenda, WITHOUT even disclosing what you are actually signing on to.
"Fair and balanced health care". Where have we heard an expression
like that before?
In the words of the AP itself, these industry groups are trying to
strike a preemptive deal with Obama "in the hopes they can stave off
legislation that would restrict their profitability in future years".
In other words, to KILL single payer health care, which would give
the American people the REAL savings (estimated for us at 350 billion
per year) that the people of every other major industrial nation
already enjoy.
By stark contrast, our action page tells you EXACTLY what you are
signing on to, the stated subject line in red and in quotes on the
action page "Put Single Payer Health Care On The Table Now", and the
action page below sends nothing else in your name but that AND any
personal comments you wish to add.
Single Payer Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum982.php
Not only does the action page above send your message in real time to
all your members of Congress, it ALSO turns your comments into a
actual pdf file and sends it as an attachment DIRECT to the Senate
Finance Committee, meeting all their restrictive requirements to make
it part of the permanent record. There is NO other action page
anywhere that does anything even remotely like this server process
coding miracle. We know, because our programmers worked many hours in
the middle of the night to make it happen.
And most of all, please understand that of all the huge lies that
they have told us, there is ONE lie at the heart of them all. Lies
like they were going to end the war in Iraq, when they had no
intention of doing any such thing, when the plan has always been and
REMAINS to keep at least 50,000 troops in that country until the end
of time, that they were going to do something to help struggling
homeowners, when the plan both with the last administration and with
this one was always to loot the public treasury for trillions of
dollars, a massive transfer of wealth to the Wall Street con men who
caused the whole financial crisis in the first place.
We could go on and on, but there is one lie at the root of them all.
Do you know what it is?
The mother of all lies. The lie they use again and again to keep us
from bringing about real change. The biggest lie of them all. Bigger
than "compassionate conservatism", bigger than "the war on terror",
bigger than "weapons of mass destruction", bigger than "the trickle
down theory", bigger than "torture keeps us safe", yes, even bigger
than "looking forward not backward" or "change we can believe in".
Do you know what the biggest, most diabolical lie they have ever told
us is?
The BIGGEST LIE of ALL: that we the people do not have the power to
change any of this.
Do you not understand your power? Do you not understand that they
shaking in their socks right now in fear that you will FINALLY get
it, that there is NO power without the consent of the governed, and
that all you have to do is say "No more" in sufficient numbers, and
we the people will be free.
Their position is so WEAK, so lacking in merit, so indefensible, they
are so afraid of the power of our positions that they have to resort
to police oppression to try to shut us up. That is why they need to
call on "more police" to keep single payer advocates from even having
a speaking seat at the table, to try to keep their voices OUT of the
media. Because if the public for one moment was exposed to an actual
fair debate, the phony "fair debate" would be seen for the total
charade and sham that is it.
We don't need more police. That is not the health care plan we are
calling for. We need need more doctors, and nurses, not more
insurance company administrators awarding themselves outrageous
bonuses to deny suffering people in pain the health care they
deserve.
Because what we must understand at the end of the day is that we have
no enemy greater than our own defeatism. It is the lie they tell us
to tell ourselves, without which they have NO power at all besides
the gun they can point at our heads. And all you have to do to change
ALL of this right now this instant, is to submit the REAL action page
below.
Single Payer Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum982.php
And yes, you can also respond to this action through the new Twitter
gateway. Just send the following Twitter reply, and add any personal
comment you like.
@cxs #p982
And if you want a step by step explanation of how to set up the
Twitter thing here is the link for that.
Twitter Activism Step-By-Step: http://tcxs.net/step_by_step.php
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.