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Who Will Join Olbermann In Jail?

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"I will not buy this insurance. Brand me a lawbreaker if you choose. Fine me if you will. Jail me if you must."__Keith Olbermann, December 16, 2009

In his commentary Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann put forth that he'd rather be fined and be put in jail than obey the President's orders to buy health insurance from the private extortionist cartel, defiantly stating:

"I call on all those whose conscience urges them to fight, to use the only weapon that will be left to us if this bill becomes law. We must not buy federally mandated insurance if this cheesy counterfeit of reform is all we can buy."

"No single payer? No sale.

No public option? No sale.

No Medicare buy-in? No sale."

"I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health care reform. Pass this at your peril, Senators, and sign it at yours, Mr. President."

"I will not buy this insurance.

Brand me a lawbreaker if you choose.

Fine me if you will.

Jail me if you must."

Perhaps more than any of his previous "special comments," none more than this most recent defined what we as a people must galvanize into, the most effective course of national movement to take back our birthright from the corporate mobsters and their toadies in government who have kidnapped our nation with ever more and higher demands of ransom.

Even Olbermann's own employers will not allow their other employees to comment on what he said last night. He is standing alone at NBC/MSNBC/Comcast, ignored while the corporate sycophants--Cillizza, Matthews and their White House friends go after Howard Dean for daring to start the parade of truthtellers marching away from this most disappointing of Presidents.

Yet I do wonder if I was the only one who saw through the oratory of Keith Olbermann, to isolate the beating heart of his message: People of the United States of America, it is now time, before it is too late, to take a revolutionary stand against all the corporate bought and paid for inhabitants of Washington DC, including the President of the United States and his band of corporate thugs. It is time to lock arms in a national strike and cries of "No way! We won't pay!" "We stand in line! We won't pay your fine!" "You will fail to put us all in jail!"

There aren't enough prisons in this country to house millions of conservatives, liberals, moderates and teabaggers who refuse to become slaves to the health insurance mob and its government.

What it seems to me Olbermann has envisioned in his fervent call-to-arms is the single tipping point that brings together all the factions of this nation who hate each other, into a mass movement that all the tear gas, the stun guns, the rubber bullets and the eardrum rupturing sound cannons cannot defeat.

For decades these sinister, greedy, criminal forces in corporate and governmental America have enjoyed the game of convincing all of us to evermore march closer and closer to the precipice of our own destruction, amused and musing on if there is really a line of deepening misery we will not accept. Do they grow nervous, now that $12,000 mandatory but worthless health insurance is one prod too far? Do they, nevertheless, find themselves too entranced by their maneuvers and commitment to the oblivion of the Kissinger defined "useless eaters" that they are unable to back off, if doing so will leave the hellish game unfinished?

No matter what opinions the readers of this may have of Olbermann, it must be acknowledged that he has presented to us the only means we have to stop our own destruction at the hands of corporate-owned government. We are Italy in the last days of Mussolini. We will either stand together by heeding Olbermann's call, or, surely, we will all be victims for decades to come.

Tell Aetna, United Health. Tell Reid and Pelosi. Tell Roberts and his Supremes. Tell Obama and Emmanuel:

"I will not buy this insurance.

Brand me a lawbreaker if you choose.

Fine me if you will.

Jail me if you must."

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