If Standing Up Against Big Government Is "Wrong"

going against big government is right if govermnent is doing a bad job. Government is supposed to protect us, not the other way around. We, the peopel created government and give it power and government has to serve us and do it's best to make us happy. If government doesn't do it, then we don't need government like that. Did you know that state doesn't have to listen to federal government? states created federal government and they have the power over the federal government. Somehow feds convinced everyone that they are at the top and have all the power. Since when are created above the creator? We all should stop and think what government does for us and what it doesn't do for us and once we look at it we have to decide if we need this government. So far all i see is government invading our privacy and restricting our freedom, they are taking away our rights. I don't need government like that and i'm against it.

They are trying to marginalize the people who are protesting. They are taking another play out of Bush's book. Bush called the people who protested him and the war in Iraq "unamerican". So now Obama and his team are taking it a step further....if you protest against the government or speak out against it than you are "unamerican". Both were wrong. They are also trying to intimidate the people protesting. No one wants to called "unamerican". We all love our country. They have used this before. Jeanne Gerolifo (I know I spelled it wrong) came on CNN after the tax day tea party and called everyone there a "racist". And just last week I heard Carvel on CNN saying that these protests just prove the republican party is run by " rednecks". There are throwing bad labels on these protests and the people who come to them to keep even more people from joining and to make some of the people who are stop. Plus by putting those labels on them it discredits these protest to the nation and the world. It makes it look like the protests are just a bunch of "unamerican, racist" jerks that no one should take seriously. The question now remains to be seen....will it effect the people who protest? Will it make them stop? Will it stop new people from joining? I hope not. I say keep it up. They can't ignore us forever and just because they put a label on us does not make it true.

Amen to that! And please someone tell the president it's not "bickering" it's debating. And I will debate all I want because I know that my concerns are the same as many other Americans and I have the freedom of speech... because I am An American! Keep attacking us and we will only raise our voices up louder... we have rights in this country and we will not let anyone take them away from us.

I saw this article too, glad you posted it. It's typical of the elitist attitude of the "party of the people". They really do think anyone who doesn't support them is ill-informed, backwards, ignorant, stupid and a bunch of hooligans. This isn't so different from what Obama means when he says people only oppose his health care because they have been misinformed. He then goes on to tell the same lies and make the same misstatements without enumerating the details that people want to know and assumes that one more pep speech is all it will take to change our minds. Because they have decided that these are fringe groups, and that they don't know what they're talking about, they can still claim that the majority of Americans support their health care reform. See, they're counting all the protesters in that majority, because they just KNOW that these guys will support them with enough re-education. Hitler said “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”.

Hmm..well its just my opinion but i dont think he was saying it was wrong for them to protest...i think he was saying that he thinks that they are wrong about their opinion that MOST americans dont want the health care bill passed.... Americans absolutly have the right to voice theri opinions and to peacful protest....including the ones who attended the tea party this past weekend... But i think he is saying that their view doesnt necessarilly represent the majority view.... I dont personally know what the majority view is but i do know the tea party did not represent me or my views....thats said they definately had every right to be there... What i found odd was...where were all the pro health care people that day??? I mean usually when there is a protest dont people from both sides of the argument usually show up?