Posted on 01/31/2010 10:21:34 AM PST by opentalk
The week before he was elected president, President Obama made the bold statement that, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
No doubt, at the time, most of us would have written this off as the usual overblown rhetoric of a politician pumped up on his own favorable poll numbers. Instead, it turned out to be a warning.
We don’t have time or space here to recap all of the “changes” brought about in the first year of the Obama administration, but among the biggies were the federal government takeover of major components of finance and industry (also known as socialization), the appointment of communist sympathizers to major posts in the administration, and the dismantling of national security policies that had kept us mostly safe for the eight years since Sept. 11. 2001.
What has become abundantly clear in the last year is that the president not only has a goal of “fundamentally transforming” the country, he also has a plan for how to do so. That plan might be compared to science fiction writer A.E. van Vogt’s strategy for writing a novel, which was to make sure at least one new thing happened on every page — a new character, a new plot twist, a new gimmick, a new gadget — anything to make you forget he was not really a very good writer to begin with.
As one critic said of van Vogt recently, “he’s a writer who will not calm down. His stories have lulls or quiet stretches, to be sure, but even then they’re always telling you about how urgent and important they are.”
Does that remind you of the State of the Union address? Well, yes, there is a rhetorical similarity, but there is a functional similarity, too, which is much more profound — namely, the never-ending parade of “new ideas” that characterizes the Obama administration on a daily basis.
It turns out that if you want to fundamentally transform a country, the best way to accomplish that is to introduce so many revolutionary ideas into the mix that some of them just have to slip through. The last month or so has been typical.
....President Obama issued an executive order on Dec. 17 granting Interpol, the international police force, full diplomatic immunity to operate in the United States without accountability to our laws and courts. Why would he do so? He didn’t say. Just one more new idea to keep us guessing? And since the American component of Interpol falls under the Justice Department’s umbrella, do we now have secret police who don’t need to answer to anyone? Just asking...
A Third World Tyrannocracy, no different from the horrifying thuglands of Africa and Latin America....with one minor difference: this one will have nukes.
Think of it, darlings. A man who's loyalty is to Kenya and Africa is now in control of the most incredible power ever possessed by man.
And people wonder why guys like him muscle their way into American power, lying and dissembling the whole way?
The Fourth Reich.
He said it right outloud for all to hear. Unfortunately the majority of voters either didn’t listen or couldn’t believe what’s happening could happen here.
We are and have been sliding into a tyrannical dictatorship. Through gradual increments using the power to tax unconstitutionally appropriated a century ago we will have full fledged socialism in a few years.
Third-World-Banana-Republic
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