I read the White House blog post on how to counter-attack and discredit those "fishy" dissenting voices in the Health Care (or as it is now known as the Health Insurance) debate and was pretty much shocked to my freedom-loving bones at this suggestion in the fifth paragraph (emphasis and italics mine) from White House poster, Macon Phillips:
"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."
I have had many emails and conversations with friends over this issue -- and I could be considered in the dissenting camp, though I believe my information to be correct, insightful, and necessary to a healthy debate. However, in the interest of sparing many of my leftist, liberal, and moderate Democrat friends (and a few Canadians) the obligation of reporting me, I have already emailed the White House and offered myself as an example of "fishy" thinking.
I am of course interested in hearing from anyone who feels they can aptly defend this peculiar (and I'd say sinister) request by the White House to name the names of dissenters in the debate.
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.” David Hume.
Art: "Signing of Constitution," by Howard Chandler Cristy, 1940
