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Potemkin Parliament

By Rob on October 21, 2013 3:22 PM | 6 Comments

Mark Steyn - The least dispiriting moment of another grim week in Washington was the sight of ornery veterans tearing down the Barrycades around the war memorials on the National Mall, dragging them up the street, and dumping them outside the White House. This was, as Kevin Williamson wrote at National Review, "as excellent a gesture of the American spirit as our increasingly docile nation has seen in years." Indeed. The wounded vet with two artificial legs balancing the Barrycade on his Segway was especially impressive. It would have been even better had these disgruntled citizens neatly lined up the Barrycades across the front of the White House and round the sides, symbolically Barrycading him in as punishment for Barrycading them out. But, in a town where an unarmed woman can be left a bullet-riddled corpse merely for driving too near His Benign Majesty's palace and nobody seems to care, one appreciates a certain caution.

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Hans | October 21, 2013 5:16 PM | Reply

Well if you're going to have a Potemkin Parliament; that at least deserves some musical accompaniment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tdjV0kH_c

Korobushka - Odessa Balalaikas

Korobeiniki - The Peddlars

Oh, my crate is so full,
I've got chintz and brocade.
Take pity, oh sweety,
Of this lad's shoulder.

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Jamie MacMaster | October 21, 2013 5:54 PM | Reply

With apologies to John M.

Oh, but ain't that America for you and me
Ain't that America somethin' to see baby
Ain't that America home of the free, yeah
HEE, Hee, hee....

dave | October 21, 2013 7:07 PM | Reply

A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington, D.C. Nothing was moving. Suddenly a man knocked on the window.

The driver rolled down the window and asked, "What's going on?"

"Terrorists have kidnapped the entire U.S. Congress, and they're asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they're going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We're going from car to car, collecting donations."

"How much is everyone giving, on an average?" the driver asked.

The man replied, "Roughly a gallon."

Occam | October 21, 2013 8:12 PM | Reply

The Zero regime's contempt for America is on display everywhere - no more evident than the clash with vets and seniors in national parks. It take a rea skank to turn the park service into armed fed goose-steppers.

The Phantom replied to comment from Occam | October 21, 2013 10:52 PM | Reply

"It take a real skank to turn the park service into armed fed goose-steppers."

More like it takes a dimwit channeling their inner goose stepper to follow illegal orders from a skank like B.O. Police services have been hiring illegal order followers for quite a long time now, I figure since the late 1970s/early 1980s. US Park Police appears quite thoroughly hollowed out, given their performance the last two weeks.

That's my measure of how much trouble Western countries are in. There's always the possibility of a fruitloop getting the top job in any democracy. The country is only in trouble if the cops go along with his crap. Right now, here in Canada and in the USA, the cops will go along with -anything- than comes down from higher in the food chain. Illegal search and seizure, illegal arrest, ignoring court orders, allowing violent demonstrations or bullying peaceful ones depending on political directives, its all on the table these days.

Not what one expects to see in a free country.

Occam replied to comment from The Phantom | October 22, 2013 8:46 AM | Reply

I tend to agree with that assessment Phantom.

Police and enforcement agencies being used to goon political targets and as policy (not law) enforcers is the result of the militarization and indoctrination of police to be protectors of political interests instead of public protectors. Most police forces now act/react like an occupying military force under orders of a political command structure. The public safety and better interests of civil rights is not served by this development.

As we see in the US when a "skank" gains a position of power all the exemptions from liability and special priveleges we have afforded police over the years (so they can allegedly do their jobs better) can be turned against us. I believe a large part of the grass roots push back against this encroaching authoritarianism in western democracies has to be to either get police back on the public's side (rejecting constitutionally/legally inconsistent policy directives) or neuter their capability to be politically mobilized against any organic movement for reform/freedom/liberty/constitutionally contained government.

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Potemkin Parliament

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