Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Anti-Socialist Pledge

As The Rude Pundit made crystal clear for even the densest last week, this is about racism, not socialism.

But if you're fed up with your teabagger coworkers, relatives and neighbors bleating about socialism without having the slightest fucking idea what they're saying, print out the pledge below and see if they'll sign it.

No, they won't get it. Nevertheless, from Daily Kos, via PZ Myers, herewith The Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge: (Warning: PDF)

The Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge

I, ________________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:

I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.

I will complain about the destruction of my 2ndAmendment Rights in this country, while I am duly >being allowed to exercise my 2ndAmendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.

I will foreswear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls. Also.

I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

Social Security

Medicare/Medicaid

State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)

Police, Fire, and Emergency Services

US Postal Service

Roads and Highways

Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)

The US Railway System

Public Subways and Metro Systems

Public Bus and Lightrail Systems

Rest Areas on Highways

Sidewalks

All Government-Funded Local/State Projects

Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!)

Public and State Universities and Colleges

Public Primary and Secondary Schools

Sesame Street

Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children

Public Museums

Libraries

Public Parksand Beaches

State and National Parks

Public Zoos

Unemployment Insurance

Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services

Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)

Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)

Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)

Use of the Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking

Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies

Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies

If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forego my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care

I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:

Smithsonian Museums such as the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History

The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments

The government-operated Statue of Liberty

The Grand Canyon

The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials

The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery

All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in Washington, DC

I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.

I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.

I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.

I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.

Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks.

Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.

SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS DAY OF ____________ IN THE YEAR ______________.

___________________________ ___________________________

Signed Printed Name/Town and State

2 comments:

Jack Jodell said...

Attaboy, Yellow Dog---we'll have those dumb teabaggers waving red flags yet! This pledge perfectly shows that "socialism" ain't as bad as Fox "News" cracks it up to be!

Old Scout said...

This isn't a list of socialist activities.

This is a list of activities of different levels of government at work for the people - that are successful. The dispute with the illiterates is over government that works.

Well of course government works. Any level of government will work better than 'innerprize'. All we have to do is get Republican'ts out of it. All the ills & eve-ills listed last week by the Rude Dude and his & Blue Girl's sidekick - YD are real problems with local government, but are resolved by having local government staffed by employees that actually believe government is good and 'inner-prize' is BAD!

After the lack of constructive conversation during the last 8 months over the agenda of a duly elected and I might and the only legally elected President - lately, we can construct that the issue is the federal government is anticipated to be more responsive and effective than a private enterprise alternative.

Medical services, like public protection, social and legal services belongs in the hand and purvue of government. The insurance industry: Life & Health, Medical Services and Property - Casualty lines performs best when the people being insured 'feel' they need to be innoculated from exposure to the great unwashed and will pay for the protection and the form of the protection is denial of access using the pricing mechanism of private enterprise. It's only governments that are forbidden to discriminate. Business can discriminate - using the pricing mechanism - all they want.

The proof is in the outcome and statistix never lie.

Private enterprise prises itself in profiting from and because of the misery of the unfortunate. This is scurrilous, at best. This practice should be legally banned.
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