The Obama “Fairy Tale”
@Demsabroad are grateful for the “privilege of being allowed the freedom to live outside the U.S”.
Reagan pointed out that Freedom was never more than one generation away from extinction.
From the man whose policies will make freedom extinct within this generation:
“Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same.” —President Obama
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 16, 2013
But, of course “freedom to live our lives” does not include the freedom to be alive:
Who Says You Can Kill Americans, Mr. President? nyti.ms/WJMvzt – An example allowing others the freedoms Homeland Americans have?
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) January 18, 2013
One response – suggest you get over there and build a record of responses:
@barackobama True for all US citizens including #americansabroad Obama policies of #FATCA #FBAR #OVDP + more have DESTROYEDtheir lives!
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) January 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/FATCA_Fallout/status/291621465890103298
“Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same.” —President Obama
Good grief! Are Obama’s ghost-tweeters (sub-twits?) really that daft? Have they never heard of the word hypocrite? I don’t think these idiots are worth back-tweeting to.
NOTE at this twitter site says …
This account is run by #Obama2012 campaign staff. Tweets from the President are signed -bo.
“@Demsabroad are grateful for the “privilege of being allowed the freedom to live outside the U.S”. “
Silly me. I thought it was my right to leave if I choose. Privilege as I always understood it means that I would have to ask for permission to leave, as though the relationship between state and citizen is like a relationship between parent and child, or like a lord, and his serfs.
If there’s anything I should be grateful for, it’s for the right that has been granted to me by the Government of Canada to live in Canada with my wonderful wife, and be a family.
Even the phrase ‘privilege of being allowed the freedom….’ reads so morally repugnant to me, as though freedom is supposedly not an inalienable right after all, but only a privilege that can be taken away by the whim of a government, for whatever reason it so chooses. Gosh! I hope I don’t get charged for the ‘crime’ of republikflucht!
Guess I’m feeling kind of snarky tonight, but I had to write it.
“Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same.” –President Obama
p.s. Unless that person wants the freedom to opt out of Obamacare…
p.p.s. Unless that person wants the freedom to own a gun that we, the administration, don’t approve of…we’re working on that…
p.p.p.s. Unless that person wants the freedom to grow industrial hemp or smoke a flower that we don’t approve of (cannabis)…
p.p.p.p.s. Unless that person wants the freedom to opt out of social security… (Self-employed U.S. persons *who don’t live in the U.S.* are still forced to pay 15.3% social security–which includes both the employer and employee portions of FICA taxes–starting from their first dollar of income; the FEIE is irrelevant to calculating this as it offers no exclusion for self-employed FICA taxes)…
and so many more…
But that must have exceeded 140 characters.
Obama is not a Libertarian. He does not care about freedom. Quite the opposite. He cares about control. But his followers either can’t, or can’t be bothered, to think critically about that. They’ll just read that tweet as a ‘great quote’. While the only man in U.S. politics whose actions ever honestly and consistently reflected that quote, Ron Paul, was just ignored and ridiculed. /end rant /off my soapbox