Obama Campaign Again Urging Supporters to Report on Non-Believers

May 26, 2012 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Asshats,Barack Obama,Big government,Constitutional Issues,corruption,Culture Of Corruption,Democrats,Elections,Liberals | Posted by

Turning back to that page out of Stalin’s handbook for good citizenship, the Obama campaign has revived its program of asking Americans to inform on fellow citizens when they see someone, some organization, some politician, or some news outlet “attacking” the Obammessiah.

Some of you may recall the black eye that team Obama got when it tried to do this before. Obama’s Attack Watch was heavily lampooned.

One of the best tools that the East German and Soviet regimes had to keep the average citizen of their oppressive regimes in line was a program that urged citizens to tattle on their neighbors, that taught children to tell on their parents, and expected workers to rat out their co-workers. If someone came to the government informing on a fellow citizen, that citizen was praised and rewarded.

Now, Team Obama has gone all Stalin on us again with yet another such effort, this one called the Obama Truth Team. The new effort sports a page on the Obama-Biden website where you can “Fight Back: Report an Attack.” (See screen shot of page HERE)

There, Team Obama gravely informs its acolytes that they can “report” on anyone not spouting Team Obama’s mantra.

Received a robo-call or an email forward full of falsehoods? Found a misleading leaflet in your mail?

Tell us about it, and help fight back against the attacks on President Obama and his record.

There is also a hand-dandy form you can fill in to inform on whomever you think is not sufficiently sold on America’s Svengali in Chief.

But, Obama has done this now at least four times. Along with today’s new effort, there was Attack Watch, Fight the Smears, and Flag.gov. Obama has indulged the tattletale system many times in his short tenure at the White House.

The sad fact is that this whole mien is thoroughly anti-American.

The chief form of free speech that our founding fathers were keen to protect was political speech. They wanted no limits on that speech. Not only that but they wanted a political discourse free of intimidation, too.

So, for Team Obama to urge people to inform on each other over matters political is a disgusting, un-American thing to do. Unfortunately, it seems that such unseemly, un-American attitudes form the basis of the Obama worship we’ve become so inundated with these last eight years.

It really is disgusting.

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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, RightPundits.com, StoptheACLU.com, Human Events Magazine, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events.He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions, EMAIL Warner Todd Huston: igcolonel .at. hotmail.com"The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." --Samuel Johnson

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  • jim_m

    The left always liked the Stasi

    • Richard Easbey

      The left always liked the Stasi.

      I think it must be the uniforms. There’s something really homoerotic about black leather and silver.

      • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

        I think it’s more the idea of total control over people who can’t resist.  There’s a certain strain of the liberal mindset that sees a society not moving in lockstep according to their desires and passionately wants to restrain and regulate it.

        Remember – Dissent is Patriotic.  You heard that all through the Bush years – time to drag it out again.

        • jim_m

           Yeah, but the left never really meant that.  They only meant that dissenting from political beliefs they disagree with is patriotic.  As soon as they won in 2008 they immediately started declaring that all dissent was sedition.

          The first part of your post is spot on.  It isn’t even necessarily about their ideology (because we have seen how that changes over time from “industrialization is causing the next ice age” to industrialization is causing global warming”). 

          No the only consistent part in their beliefs is an unswerving desire to control people.  It’s “do as you’re told and STFU” from the left. 

  • Brucehenry

    That’s rich coming from you, Jim, considering your tactic in the previous thread.

    • jim_m

       I’m up front with what I think and believe.  It’s the left that wants to go silently behind your back and report you to he authorities.  It’s the left that wants to use the power of he state to crush dissent.  It’s so very convenient to complain that the right is oppressive when the left is sponsoring a domestic terrorist and the leftist admin is sponsoring programs for neighbors to turn in neighbors. 

      You want a fascist state, go create it somewhere else.

  • McGehee

    It’s the Ojihad.

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  • sarahconnor2

    Sigh. Obama and crew really don’t learn. They’ve become the best comedy on Twitter and it looks like they’ve done it again.
    Barry, go on Twitter. Look up #AskMichelle,  #Attackwatch,  #ObamaDogRecipes, and #WhenYourPresident just for starters.
    Now tomorrow, look up #TruthTeam.
    Enjoy.

  • TomInCali

    One of the best tools that the East German and Soviet regimes had to
    keep the average citizen of their oppressive regimes in line was a
    program that urged citizens to tattle on their neighbors, that taught
    children to tell on their parents, and expected workers to rat out their
    co-workers.

    Yes. Fortunately, the web site you write about urges no such thing. It asks to be kept informed of organized false attacks via robocalls and emails. Any organization that sends blanket robocalls or emails has no expectation of keeping them private. And if they can’t withstand a little sunlight, then they shouldn’t be sending them. This is quite different from “ratting out neighbors, parents, and co-workers”.

    • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

      And what to they define ‘false’, Tom?  Anything negative?  Anything that doesn’t reflect to the growing credit of Obama? Anything that dares to disagree with the party line? Anything that dares to disagree with the idea that Obama is the most
      intelligent person to EVER be elected to office? Campaign literature of the type THEY’d prefer to be putting out? Crap filled with half-lies, half-truths, and massive evasions? Touting he’s the smartest, most capable LEADER we could ever have?

      You’d be angry as hell if a Republican candidate dared to do ANYTHING like this. Let’s see – would you call him racist? A hatemonger? Would you make comparisons to East Germany and the Soviet Union? Would you intimate that the people reported would possibly be rounded up and sent to concentration camps if the candidate won?

      No? Well, good on you, then – you might have SOME vague connection with reality.

      All in all, stop with the fake hypocrisy, we’ve been seeing it for a long time now – well over a decade at this point, starting in the 2000 election when the mantra was “Every vote must count!” and people were using everything but a Ouija board to divine a few more votes for Gore in Florida while quietly dumping military absentee ballots wholesale – it’s easily recognized, and it has zero traction at this point.

      • jim_m

        With leftist teachers telling their students that it is illegal to even criticize the president you can rest assured that the standard for “false” is anything critical of the president.  Because with criticism illegal, there should be some mechanism to report it and ensure that the offenders are punished.  That is, after all, the sole purpose of obama’s stalinist truth team.

        And the teacher is not a aberration.  In 2008 dem officials in Missouri threatened to prosecute people saying negative things about obama.  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form/

        The left has long desired to criminalize political dissension from their orthodoxy.  If obama is reelected I will guarantee that we see people going to prison for this.

      • Oysteria

        Sure, Tom.  It’s all perfectly benign.  These emails, pamphlets and phone calls surely can’t be traced back to individual people, could they?  I mean, The Obama admin certainly wouldn’t have anything ill to say about an individual with a different political view, would they?  And there certainly wouldn’t be anyone out there that would then in turn visit their house or threaten their family.

        Even the person doing the “reporting” isn’t safe from public exposure.  Did you read the terms of submission? 

        • Oysteria

          Crap, that was supposed to be in reply to Tom.

        • TomInCali

          These emails, pamphlets and phone calls surely can’t be traced back to individual people, could they?

          Of course they can. They can be traced back to the 527 organizations or SuperPACS who organized the campaign. Should these people not take responsibility for the claims made by their groups? This is not your neighbor saying something negative at a backyard barbecue. Do you think that’s a bad thing? Are those organizations (many of which enjoy tax benefits) entitled to anonymity? Do you think you should be able to register a 527 organization and not be required to identify who is behind it?

      • TomInCali

        And what to they define ‘false’, Tom?  Anything negative?  Anything that
        doesn’t reflect to the growing credit of Obama? Anything that dares to
        disagree with the party line?

        No, anything “false”. Do you need really someone to define for you what “false” means?

        people were using everything but a Ouija board to divine a few more
        votes for Gore in Florida while quietly dumping military absentee
        ballots wholesale

        And Florida Republicans purged eligible votes from its rolls under the claim that they were felons who lost their right to vote, even though there were known practices in place to prove that it was not so that were ignored. It’s amusing that you can make your claims under the guise of combating hypocrisy. Damn, I allowed you to change the subject.

  • Commander_Chico

    You’re worried about this?   This is small potatoes.  They are reading your emails, cataloging and recording your phone calls, and placing your internet posts and comments into their database.

    They have a huge hard-drive, and if they do a search of “Warner Todd Huston” with classified Google™ technology, they will call up all of your activities, writings, travels, credit card purchases and downloads from Planet Suzy. They know about your obsession with black strippers and taste for Quarter-Pounders.

    Complaining about this is like complaining about a leaky faucet when the dam has broken.

    • jim_m

      Perhaps it is a bit too nuanced for your liberal intellect to comprehend, but there IS a difference between collecting data on purchase activities etc, and calling for your neighbors to report your political dissent to the government.

      Data mining information on consumer behavior may generate concerns for your privacy, but it simply does not compare to the obama admin attempting to set up a system of stool pigeons that reminds one of the same systems used by East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union to suppress dissent and keep millions of people under the heel of communism for 3 quarters of a century.

      • Commander_Chico

        You are extremely naive to characterize what the government is doing as “consumer behavior” data mining.  It goes well beyond that.

        If they can read and save your emails, screen and listen to your phone calls for keywords, and record your political and charitable donations, they don’t need to have your neighbors to report on you.

        What the USA has now goes far beyond the dreams of the Stasi.

        • Sky__Captain

           I do find it intriguing that nowhere in his posts does Comrade_Chico decry what his conspiracy theory claims.

          • Commander_Chico

            BWAH-HAH-HAH.

          • Sky__Captain

            Must have got you on that one, eh, Comrade?

        • jim_m

           What the USA has now goes far beyond the dreams of the Stasi.

          But only obama has taken it to the level of making people stool pigeons against their fellow citizens and attempting to create a political police state where dissent is cataloged for future prosecution.

          • Commander_Chico

            Are you kidding me?  It’s been happening for years.  
            Just for grins, I’ll point out Randy Weaver and Sami Al Arian as examples of political persecution.  

            True, Obama has kicked it up a notch, just like Bush and Clinton did before him.  I don’t think Romney is much of a civil libertarian either.

          • jim_m

            Sami al Arian was raising money for terrorist organizations.  He got off with a hung jury.  Too bad the system failed us. Al Arian’s case is one where it is pretty damn clear that he is supporting terrorists financially. 

            Most people agree that despite Weaver’s being a thoroughly unsavory person, the FBI was overzealous in their actions.

            Weaver’s case was about 2nd amendment rights and gun laws not about political dissent per se.

          • jim_m

             And you are one to complain about civil liberties when you are running interference for kimberlin on the other thread.

          • Commander_Chico

            I don’t approve of lynch mobs when all I see is hearsay.

          • jim_m

             There was a lot more than hear say in Patterico’s article.  Perhaps you should go and read it finally,

          • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

            And there I could have sworn we were looking for an active investigation by the FBI (crime was across multiple state lines).

          • herddog505

            Good heavens, WHERE is this attitude with Zimmerman??? Oh, I forgot: you have a map of Sanford, and Zimmerman is balding.

          • Sky__Captain

             Delusion, thy name is Comrade_Chico.

  • Jwb10001

    Maybe everyone should post to this web site or what ever it is every single misleading Obama add starting with the Bain non sense. Flood the damn thing

  • herddog505

    Quite aside from the police state overtones, this is ridiculous on its face. If Barry wants to know what “lies” are being told about him so he can counter with “the Truth”, all his campaign (or MiniTru, BIRM) has got to do is listen to Rush or Hannity, watch FNC, or read Drudge, HotAir, etc. They don’t need an army of stool pigeons.

    But I guess it fires up the people of O-ceania and gives them a feeling that they are helping Big Brother.

    • jim_m

       Of course they don’t need stool pigeons to know what is being said.  The purpose of this is not to gather information it is a direct attempt at intimidation and its purpose is to silence the opposition.  Long term they will put dissenters into psychiatric prisons or worse just like the soviets did.

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  • Justrand

    The North Carolina “teacher” who shouted down (with expletives) a student who DARED to disagree with Obama should be hired by the “Truth Team”…heck, she probably already WAS!

    Kids, keep an eye on what Mommy & Daddy do, and listen in on what they’re saying…then be sure to let us know so we can “correct” any mistakes in their thinking or action.  It’s for their own good!!

  • Sky__Captain

    Yet another episode of “Amateurs on the Campaign Trail”.

    I am laughing at the “superior intellect”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HFSPDCUWP5YLCPRYQ2IVUVXSDM twolaneflash

    The saddest part is that Obama is just the tip of the iceberg of Marxists that have torn a huge hole in The Republic, threatening to send Her to the dark of re-written history.  The warmth and lightness of freedom has been replaced with the soul-crushing cold fear of tyranny, and the DOJ is at the center of it.  They will not protect the borders.  They will not protect the vote.  They will not uphold The Constitution.  This weekend, I am remembering The Fallen who gave all for liberty, and praying for America.  We have met the enemy…

  • GarandFan

    Guess after reading “The Amateur” I should turn myself in.  In atonement, I’ll suggest that Team Obama hold a mass ‘book burning’ after a torch light parade in honor of The Chosen One.

  • GreatWhiteRat

    I already sent them this bit of subversive commentary I found on the web:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of
    grievances.

    I reported the author – some fellow named Madison – for dangerous ideas. He’s probably near the top of their Enemies List.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6FHYBFLIC57SBJI5PX7IOEBXAI Dan

    “Some of you may recall the black eye that team Obama got when it tried to do this before. Obama’s Attack Watch was heavily lampooned.”

    Blaaack Eyyye  !!??

    That’s Raysis !

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