Every now and again I come across something that is just awesome. Its written like I wish I could write, sharing ideas and ideology in a way that I wish I could get across. Just a note--the video is my own addition. As featured on TownHall.com:
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? He Who Must Not Be Re-Elected (my title, not his-d$) has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it with words: "God damn America!"
Lest you forget, here's the man that led the church attended by He Who Must Not Be Re-Elected for six months. Wait, it was more, right? I meant a year. What? More? Okay, five years. But he didn't really know him, right? Uh... what? More? How many? TWENTY YEARS? He was our president's pastor for TWENTY YEARS? But... but... He Who Must Not Be Re-Elected didn't really know him. Right? Right.
Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government-- people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world.
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list.
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation.
Written by Thomas Sowell, former Marxist, reformed Conservative, author, economist and professor at Stanford University.
"I don't care. This is racist. You should respect our first black president. This is a bigoted piece written by some white bureaucrat who never knew a hard days work in his life!"
Oh yeah, Sowell is also more black than He Who Must Not Be Re-Elected, 100% certified.
I'll add some more...
ReplyDelete-oversaw the largest federal budget expansion of any president in American history, doubling the national debt to $10 trillion
-federalized K-12 education through No Child Left Behind
-oversaw expansion of Medicare's rx program, the largest entitlement program since LBJ
-started 2 wars that have now lasted longer than any in American history and continue to cost American taxpayers $10 billion a month
-snuck legislation through Congress 45 days after 9/11, with no debate, that openly and blatantly violated federal law under the Constitution
-authorized torture and extraordinary rendition in violation of US and international law
-ignored critical evidence that warned of the 9/11 attacks in 2001
-twisted the Constitution and 200+ years of established legal precedent in an attempt to establish the idea that the executive branch has unchecked authority to act as it wishes with no oversight from Congress or the other 2 branches of government
Shall I continue?
With all due respect--and its due, I do admit--at some point, be it now, or soon enough, you do have to come to the realization that Dubya is no longer our President. I'm only assuming you did the first two comments that were "removed by author", so I can't read what you wrote originally, but I'm just waiting for you to actually speak up about the current president.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your argument on this will be, as it always is, "You never spoke up when Bush was in office!" and perhaps thats true (its not) but Dubya never tried to do and distort the power of the government and Constitution in the way that Obama has been doing--in a way that I figured you would be totally outraged at.
And the whole bit about the Constitution being a "g-d piece of paper" has never been proven true, and is more than likely false.
Yeah, I edit and rethink stuff so I don't come across as a douchebag. Or at least TRY not to.
ReplyDeleteYou pretty much made my argument for me, which can be summarized like a whiny Auburn fan: call it both ways. You don't like big government and favor personal responsibility? We agree, but you can't sit idly by when a Republican does things and then suddenly awaken now that a Democrat's in office doing the same stuff.
I think you keep waiting for me to defend Obama or something, which will likely never happen; all I'm asking is the criticism be universal regardless of what party is in office.
I'll add some more...
ReplyDelete-oversaw the largest federal budget expansion of any president in American history, doubling the national debt to $10 trillion (That is true but PBO has quadrupled it less than one year in office)
-federalized K-12 education through No Child Left Behind (not a big fan of this program and never will be)
-oversaw expansion of Medicare's rx program, the largest entitlement program since LBJ (he was is a no win situation. If he had not expanded the program, he would have been labeled an old person killer)
-started 2 wars that have now lasted longer than any in American history and continue to cost American taxpayers $10 billion a month (Whether you want to call it a war or not, our involvement in Vietnam lasted a lot longer than these two and with a lot more casulaties)
-snuck legislation through Congress 45 days after 9/11, with no debate, that openly and blatantly violated federal law under the Constitution (I assume you are referring to the Patriot Act?)
-authorized torture and extraordinary rendition in violation of US and international law (This is a touchy thing for me. If waterboarding (in which the person undergoing it is under no threat of death) saves American lives, I am all for it.
-ignored critical evidence that warned of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 (I assume you are not a 9/11 truther, so in the interest of full disclosure you should mention previous administrations are just as guilty.)
-twisted the Constitution and 200+ years of established legal precedent in an attempt to establish the idea that the executive branch has unchecked authority to act as it wishes with no oversight from Congress or the other 2 branches of government (Really? Perhaps you are referring to the various czars?)
Shall I continue?