Abolish the Nazi-Commie Nightmare of Public Firefighting
The patriots who have killed off this so-called "public option" for so-called "healthcare reform" need to learn from the mistakes the first President Bush made way back in 1991 when he chickened out and blew his chance to march all the way to Baghdad and dethrone Saddam Hussein.
Unlike Poppy Bush, today's pro-corporate, pro-capitalist warriors need to show some backbone. They need to keep marching. Because, though they are on a righteous path, they have been thinking small. Way too small.
Consider this your formal invitation to join in THE fight for the future of American freedom. I'm referring to the fight to abolish public firefighting. For too long we have endured the socialistic nightmare of tyrannical laws that incite our neighbors to call 911 and report us TO THE GOVERNMENT when our homes are on fire.
Americans are so brainwashed that only a tiny, patriotic sliver of us have truly understood the fascist flood that gushes from taxpayer-funded fire hoses every day in these United States. The facts are chilling. So wake up, America!
FACT: When a neighbor reports your burning home to the government, you as the property owner are helpless. The taxpayer-funded sirens come ever closer, whether you like it or not, until finally the trucks arrive on your property. Soon your door is bashed from its hinges, your windows are in shards, your belongings are soaked with the fluoridated poison that passes for a municipal water supply.
FACT: You as the property owner get no say whatsoever as to who is sent to extinguish a blaze in your home. The government DOES NOT CARE about the sacred trust that is supposed to exist between an individual homeowner and the individual firefighter he would select to be the defender of his little piece of the American dream. No. Instead, callous government bureaucrats DECIDE FOR US which masked, helmeted strangers will be dispatched to breach our supposedly sacred homes. Breathing taxpayer-funded oxygen from taxpayer-funded tanks, these strangers even have the authority to snatch our children from their beds. Our children! FROM THEIR BEDS! Again, I say: WAKE UP, AMERICA!
FACT: Government bureaucrats decide which firefighting services will be available and which will be rationed. Under a market-based system, we would be able to contract for firefighting that is tailored to our individual needs. Instead, we get this one-size-fits-all travesty of a system. Just one example: Try calling 911 and asking for a firefighter to come blow out your birthday candles. At best, the bureaucrats will laugh at you. At worst, the bureaucrats will send straightjacket-wielding thugs to your home. All the while, it is you -- the taxpayer, the property owner -- who is paying the salaries of these jackals and hyenas.
FACT: The property owner loses all authority to decide what or whom should be saved from his burning home. The unthinking bureaucratic drones will always choose human life over an inanimate object. Heaven help you if you want the firefighters to save some precious possession and let your house guests burn alive. The bureaucrats refuse to listen.
Even if your house guests are parasites who have overstayed their welcome.
Even if your house guests are the sort of people who write satire.
Even if the precious object is a Bible.
Even if the precious object an American flag.
Even if the precious object is the original copy of the Second Amendment.
Without fail, the bureaucrats will save the parasite, save the satirist. Without fail, they will let the Bible burn, let the American flag burn, let our God-given right to bear arms go up in flames. Can there be any more clear evidence of the tyranny we are up against? NO!
Keep marching.
If we seize this moment, if we maintain this momentum, we can give our children an America free from the totalitarian, communist abomination of public firefighting.
Keep marching!
KEEP MARCHING!
Huffington Post blogger David Quigg lives in Seattle where some of his photographs will be on display through September 10. His own blog is here.
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What I think constance really does not understand, is the fact that if you look at the past eight years, people are dumb enough to believe anything. What scares me is that this is not a small number, but the majority of America. While funny, this article will easily be misunderstood and the fire service works very hard to uphold a high public image. Mr. Quigg could have been a bit more tactful in the subject, as the format for this article could have been applied to anything; like the church, or even a supermarket chain.
He is attempting to say that if government run health care is so bad, then so must be all the other public services.
Well, I say that he failed miserably. The most important thing to remember is that fire fighters promote the general welfare, there is nothing built into the firefighting system that will allow the government to exercise control over the entire population.
In this instance, he is making a poor comparison to what firefighters would be like if they were to be run like the proposed health care system. Or, rather how the right believes that the left will run the health care program, which is most likely closer to the truth then they want to admit.
Its pretty sad that you take that stance on the firefighters. 73% of the worlds fire stations are volunteer. While you look at the government as I do, with the eye of skepticism, I think your vision is a bit distorted. The firefighters main mission if to safe life and property. Heaven forbid they come into your home while you sleep, (AND YOUR HOME IS ON FIRE), and pull your children out of bed (TO SAVE THIER LIFE). Would you rather them burn to death? And as for getting your personal property soaked with water, wouldnt all of those items get burned to the ground along with the house if firefighters didnt do that? The fact that it is flouridated water is completely beside the point. And as far as not getting your prized personal items out of the house, who cares, your MOST PRIZED POSSESSIONS should be YOUR LIFE, and your CHILDRENS LIFE. But we still come back to the point that everything would burn to the ground had it not been for the firefighters that risked thier lives. Firefighter risk thier life, to save life, not a picture, or bible, or flag. But should you feel that firefighters are the enemy, then move as far away from a firestation as you can, that way, should a neighbor call them for your house fire, they can come out and spray water on the coals that USED to be your house. At least they wont soak your furniture right?
I don't need to evaluate any comparison skills, and I don't care if that Mr Quigg's article is satire or not. A) It is quite apparent that this gentleman does not fully comprehend the fire service in America. and B) Why not just leave the fire service out of the liberal/moderate/conservative arguments...?
Good David. This is a keeper.
FACT: Firefighters do this job to help people, to save lives, and to keep fires from spreading to prevent additional fires from starting and causing more harm. This is a valid use of the common welfare clause.
FACT: If you are trying to characterize these most honorable of men and women as evil government employees to make some snarky remarks about republicans not wanting the government to run healthcare, you need to reevaluate your comparative narration skills.
spmcintyre, you need to reevaluate your comparative reading comprehension skills. Like the rest of the far right making fools of themselves at town hall meetings, you are too dense to recognize satire when it's right in front of you, much less are you intelligent enough to understand it. It scares the hell out of me that you probably vote.
i think i got the point, did you really read my second FACT ????? You know the part about republicans not wanting the governmet to run healthcare?
Very funny. :-)
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