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Posted on 10/09/2013 7:47:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Will Obama Stop the Music This November?
The current “shutdown” of 17% of the federal government has primed America for chaos with constant left-wing rhetoric and news media reports couched in apocalyptic terms such as crisis, brink, catastrophe, hostage, arsonist and terrorist. But a catastrophe is useful to a would-be tyrant only as long as it can be blamed on a hated enemy. In 1933 Hitler’s agents burned the Reichstag, not just to sow fear and confusion, but primarily in order to charge his Communist enemies with treason as an excuse to obliterate them. The German “mainstream media” dutifully parroted the Nazi Party line, without investigating the true source of the arson.
A similar pattern of scapegoating has been followed in the United States throughout the term of President Obama. For example, leading Democrats and their shills in the mainstream media have long been salivating at the prospect of a “Tea Party” conservative going on a violent rampage. We saw this in Tucson immediately after the Gabby Giffords shooting, after the Aurora, Colorado, theater attack, and after the recent Washington Navy Yard shooting, when Democrats and their media allies rushed to blame “Tea Party terrorists” in early reports based upon zero evidence. As far as we know, all of these attacks were carried out by deranged individuals following the orders of inner demons, but still the left hopes for a violent response by right-wing “bitter clingers,” so named by President Obama himself during a private fund raiser.
The current “government shutdown” seems to be designed to provoke a violent right-wing reaction. War memorials have been barricaded, even iconic national parks such as those at Valley Forge, Yellowstone, and Mount Rushmore have been closed to the American public that purportedly owns them and undoubtedly funds them. At Yellowstone, senior citizens and foreign tourists have been rousted from paid private hotel rooms by armed federal agents and forcibly bused out of the park. Around the closed Mount Rushmore National Park, cones have been set along public highways to prevent tourists even from stopping to take photographs. Meanwhile, a demonstration on the otherwise “closed” National Mall by illegal aliens demanding amnesty was welcomed by the Obama administration with open arms.
In my opinion, the intention of these selected park closures is not only to inflict psychological pain upon the administration’s perceived “enemies” but to provoke a violent response by fed-up Constitutional conservatives. Thus far, none has risen to the bait; so what will the regime do next? I believe that President Obama may be planning to up the ante by orders of magnitude. How might this happen? The “government shutdown” over the continuing resolution bill has turned on the Democrats’ demand for a “clean” CR, but the real battle will come next week when the national debt limit is reached.
What will happen if President Obama and the Democrats in Congress demand a “clean” debt extension, with no upper limits and no attached conditions, just as they have demanded a “clean CR” to fund current government operations? In the battle over the debt limit extension, either the Republicans will fold and accede to Democrat demands for infinite debt, or they will stand their ground just as they have over the CR. If the Republicans refuse to grant Obama an unlimited debt extension, he may play the final card required to send the United States into such violent turmoil that he will be able to declare a state of emergency and rule by decree under the National Emergencies Act.
How would such horrible conditions be created that President Obama might be able to justify seizing emergency power? By cutting off all federal entitlement payments while claiming that he cannot continue them without a debt extension, secure in the knowledge that the mainstream media will continue to dutifully serve as his propaganda arm, blaming recalcitrant Republicans for all of the negative consequences.
While senior citizens on Social Security and other federal pension plan recipients may not immediately take to the streets, going on violent rampages of rioting, looting and burning, there is a segment of our population that will do exactly that: many of the 50 million Americans who today literally put the food on their tables by using an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. While the states administer their individual EBT programs, most of the money comes from the federal government. Please read my previous essay “When the music stops: how America’s cities may explode in violence” to understand the tremendous risk that will accompany a cutoff—even briefly—of EBT payments.
The fact that thousands of Americans might be injured or killed during the nationwide riots that would follow the looting of supermarkets and delivery trucks will not be a moral impediment to the architects of Operation Fast and Furious. You will recall that this infamous “law enforcement operation” resulted in the murders of hundreds of innocent Mexicans and at least two U.S. federal agents by untracked firearms supplied directly to the Mexican drug cartels by our own federal “law enforcement” agencies. With Operation Fast and Furious (“gun control under the radar” in Obama’s own words), this administration has already crossed the mass-murder-for-political-ends Rubicon—and the mainstream media cooperated in the cover-up.
A lifelong Marxist revolutionary who has caused hundreds to be murdered in an attempt at political gain on gun control is not likely to blanch at the prospect of thousands dying in bloody food riots when the stakes are incalculably higher. If “the music stops” and our cities burn, Obama may grasp the opportunity to declare a state of emergency and seize dictatorial powers from the fire and ashes. Those who resist his rule by emergency decree will be declared to be “Tea Party terrorists” by Democrat leaders and their captive media, and we may finally see why the Department of Homeland Security has been purchasing those billions of hollow-point bullets, UAV drones, and armored vehicles.
If this is their calculation, it is a diabolical plan indeed. But a plan to ride a tiger is not the same as riding the tiger. Permanent rule by emergency decree may not be as simple to accomplish as would-be left-wing tyrants believe. Millions of Americans will not be fooled by the deliberately instigated torching of our cities and will not go quietly into the night of Marxist tyranny.
Obama won’t ever say, “I’m stopping EBT payments in order to cause riots.” Hell no!
He’ll just cut off EBT payments along with all other entitlement benefits, and then blame the resulting chaos on those inflexible and stubborn Republicans.
“If you plan to kick a tiger in the A$$ you’d better have a plan to deal with his teeth.”
Great Clancy saying, I never read that one!
He sure is kicking the tiger hard.
Will there be a shortage of ropes or lamp posts first?
Gee, this song sounds familiar. Can you hum a few more bars??
Good question, but I’m practicing at the limits of my glass ...
Actually, they have to be taken out eventually by the Oligarchs. We are at the point were the useful idiots are starting to wake up when they try to see their Obamacare premiums and deductibles. Just look at their postings on the Healthcare web site. So the careful plans of the oppressors are getting out of sync.
If the Republicans refuse to grant Obama an unlimited debt extension, he may play the final card required to send the United States into such violent turmoil that he will be able to declare a state of emergency and rule by decree under the National Emergencies Act.
I would not be surprised by this being enacted...
Good idea to treat this like we would a hurricane...
Keep the vehicles gassed up, and the powder dry...
I probably should stop thinking this could not get any worse...
I believe the jig is up, and the plan to do these things is already in work, the pieces are being moved into position, I just hope we have an adequate defense setup ready to respond...
BTTT
” where will they (top tier global elites) live when the world is in ashes?”
They know the world will not completely end. Their riches and influence will always provide for them. They do not rely on grocery stores for their food. Never have.
The elites do not see war as something they desire but if war is a consequence of their actions in their climb for power and money, so be it. They see that as better than being poor and powerless. Besides, there are big bucks in war.
In war someone is always buying and consuming something and selling is profitable. Not to mention, wars do not last forever. If anything, wars clean out their competition if they play their cards right, so when the war ends they still have money and power.
” it benefits them to burn down the house and destroy the evidence”
Excellent point.
That is a major incentive for war right now for the eleites. They did a number of illegal acts to get the money and a war would wipe the slate clean and cover their tracks.
““They” cannot control a collapse, yet “they” are orchestrating it. “
Absolutely. Look at the Soviet Union’s history, 1892-1917. It took several decades and several revolutions before they got what they initially wanted.
I believe that period is a study of TM’s earlier in his life.
“This is correct and why troops will be ordered not to fire on the city mobs. Those mobs need to fan out to the suburbs to maintain the state of emergency. In many respects, the mobs are co-belligerents with the administration, the enemies within the gates.”
Exactly. They don’t need mass killings up front. That’ll resolve itself naturally in time.
Heard on PBS a few days ago about the clinicians at the CDC who monitor outbreaks of various infections nation wide...
Seems they are down to a skeleton crew (no pun intended)
So it would be real easy for Obamacons to fake the data to make it look like a major breakout of some sort of disease is occurring....
Requiring shut down of interstate transport and the whole nine yards.....just sayin.
Excellent post. I think you are right. The king will up the ante until a violent reaction occurs. First, it is in his nature because he thrives on the conflict. Second, because it furthers his plans to become totalitarian.
Don’t worry, I leave now and then.
1. Captive was probably not the best word choice. I was running out of synonyms for shills, allies etc.. Stooge might have been better.
2.I wanted to keep this around a thousand words, so I just stuck to the Reichstag example, but I agree.
3. Millions is all it will take. The IRA never had more than 100 shooters at a time.
“I am concerned that this evil passion is building among Leftists.”
>>Me too!<<
It’s not just “building,” it’s being deliberately stoked to red heat. That was the whole point of the Trayvon extravaganza etc.
“The armored personnel carriers and billions of rounds of ammo are not for trying to qwell riots, they are for moving and cleaning up what is left after the planned starvation, chaos, disease, and murdering have run their courses. People believing that a few thousand MRAPs and a few billion rounds of pistol ammo will be used to stop rioting and mayhem are completely clueless as to the real agenda afoot.”
I agree 100%.
I think any “plan” is to cause so much chaos that Obama can rule by emergency decree. But once the house is afire, calibrating the damage is impossible.
Have you read my recent short story?
Alas, Brave New Babylon
(link to the Free Republic thread)
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