The Picture That Should Cost Obama His Job (Lets Make It Happen)

PJ Media ^ | September 15, 2012 | Roger Kimball

[Kaslin]

Instapundit heads the piece “Why Barack Obama Should Resign.” That’s a good title. The column might also be titled, “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.” I remember a line from the philosopher David Hume that Hayek used as an epigraph to The Road to Serfdom. “It is seldom,” said Hume, “that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” There’s the innocent seeming accommodation here, the turning a blind eye to official violations of the law there, and, bang, before you can say Saul Alinsky, people are being rounded up at midnight by brownshirted men for making a movie that embarrasses El Presidente.

In case you think that is a baseless exaggeration by a knuckle-dragging, right-wing hater, take a look at the photo:

By way of explication, Glenn Reynolds quotes the L.A. Times: “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.”

Got that? The chap made a movie. (He may also have violated probation, but that herring is red, Comrade.) As Glenn observes, “By sending — literally — brownshirted enforcers to engage in — literally — a midnight knock at the door of a man for the non-crime of embarrassing the President of the United States and his administration, President Obama violated that oath. . . . It is a betrayal of his duties as President, and a disgrace.”

Yep. And he should resign. And, as Glenn further observes, he surely won’t. But the people of the United States, Democrat as well as Republican, should turn him out of office ignominiously in November.

[Michael.SF.]

I know quite well what the term means, thank you.
I read your original comment as one of defending the action taken, not one of criticism, I note I was not the only one.

[expat1000]

I note I was not the only one.

Yes, a lot of people never pass up an opportunity to make their point rather than have an open mind, engage in discussion or listen to what anyone else has to say.

[MHGinTN]

What will that turd do as a lame duck? ... Sell enough pardons to pay off his house on the beach in Hawaii, just like sinkEmperor sold enough to buy a house in New York. A criminal enterprise doesn’t stop its nature just because it gets voted out of office.

[ctdonath2]

“You can’t rule innocent men.” “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.” There is always some pretext for arresting anybody. Fact is, this guy made a cheesy movie fully protected by the 1st Amendment. The arrest is politically motivated, regardless of his parole requirements. And the politics involved favor our enemies.

Someone have a copy of it, other than on YouTube?