From the Unhinged and Historically Ignorant Political Rhetoric department at IHWYJS comes this story: Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa wants to see an American version of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution. The reason? To stop health care reform, of course.
Speaking to the Huffington Post shortly after his speech, King declared that a peaceful uprising, a la the successful overthrowing of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia on the streets of Prague in 1989 “would be fine with me.”
“Fill this city up, fill this city, jam this place full so that they can’t get in, they can’t get out and they will have to capitulate to the will of the American people,” he said.
“So this is just like Prague under communist rule?” the Huffington Post asked.
“Oh yeah, it is very, very close,” King replied. “It is the nationalization of our liberty and the federal government taking our liberty over. So there are a lot of similarities there” [bold added].
If he were alive today, instead of thrown out of a window by the Soviets in 1948, I’m sure Jan Masaryk would agree with Mr. King.