I just flat out can’t believe it’s come to this… What in the hell has happened to our country? Listen to this clip from a radio program that one of my favorite YouTubers put up today. It’s an interview with a woman from Texas who received a phone call from a volunteer with the Obama campaign. When the volunteer asked the woman if she would support Barack Obama, this is what the woman had to say: “No, I don’t support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state senate to let little babies die in hospital closets. I think you should find something better to do with your time.”
She hung up, expecting that to be the end of it. But the very next day, she was confronted by two Secret Service agents on her porch. Listen as she explains what happened.

Could those Secret Service agents have been any more flat-out intimidating!? They have a file on her, they make it apparent to her that they have this file, and then they go and say, “Look, you know, we’re trying to help you out, we came to you first, right, we didn’t go to all your neighbors and your family and ask embarrassing questions about you yet.” Did you catch that? “Yet”?! YET?! What other intention could there be behind such a statement than to intimidate the hell out of someone? If you translate that into its most basic intention, it’s, “Cooperate with us now or we’re going to drag your dirt around to every single person you know.”
Thank heaven they decided to pick on a real Texas woman who stood her ground, knew her rights, and wouldn’t bend to their ruthless intimidation.

Congratulations, America! We have our very own thought police in our own country, right here, right now, in the United States of America. But beyond even that, what makes this even worse, is that we have a point of comparison; we have a direct example of this frightening double standard.
In this instance, with nothing but the word of a single volunteer from the Obama campaign, the Secret Service shows up to intimidate this poor woman. Now compare that to something that I wrote about in only my second blog entry. In that entry, I posted a video of the “comedienne” Sandra Bernhardt. The clip is from a performance she gave in Washington, DC where she flat out threatened Sarah Palin, saying that if Palin dared set foot in New York, Ms. Bernhardt would call a bunch of her “big black guy friends” to have her gang raped. Now, did any Secret Service agents show up at Sandra Bernhardt’s door?
Somehow I doubt it, yet it’s perfectly alright for the Secret Service to intimidate some poor woman in her own home, without any evidence that she’d ever uttered a single threatening word? Is this setting a very good precedent? Does this scare anyone else? I honestly don’t like the idea of some random person having the power to accuse me of issuing a threat, that is then taken seriously by the Secret Service, who shows up on my doorstep to interrogate me about my thoughts, whilst making every attempt to intimidate me into compliance. Where’s the justice in that? Where’s the due process in that? Where’s the sanity in that?

That poor woman has every right in the world to face her accuser, not to mention the right to sue the living backside off the lying weasel. She also deserves a massive apology from Obama himself. Anything less than that would be a mockery of our American justice system.