Posted on 10/27/2008 4:01:30 PM PDT by Entrepreneur
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
-Barack Obama, July 2008
“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”
-Barack Obama, Comment made to John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime
The more people learn about Barack Obama the scarier he seems. Pete DuPont, writing in the Wall Street Journal, identified seven sure results of an Obama presidency with a Pelosi/Reid congress...
1. The U.S. military will withdraw from Iraq quickly and substantially, regardless of conditions on the ground or the obvious consequence of emboldening terrorists there and around the globe.
2. Protectionism will become our national trade policy; free trade agreements with other nations will be reduced and limited.
3. Income taxes will rise on middle- and upper-income people and businesses, and individuals will pay much higher Social Security taxes, all to carry out the new president's goals of "spreading the wealth around."
4. Federal government spending will substantially increase. The new Obama proposals come to more than $300 billion annually, for education, health care, energy, environmental and many other programs, in addition to whatever is needed to meet our economic challenges. Mr. Obama proposes more than a 10% annual spending growth increase, considerably higher than under the first President Bush (6.7%), Bill Clinton (3.3%) or George W. Bush (6.4%).
5. Federal regulation of the economy will expand, on everything from financial management companies to electricity generation and personal energy use.
6. The power of labor unions will substantially increase, beginning with repeal of secret ballot voting to decide on union representation.
7. Free speech will be curtailed through the reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine to limit the conservative talk radio that so irritates the liberal establishment.
Those who have studied economics and the Great Depression know that this is the recipe for a repeat performance. But what if that’s just the beginning? What if it’s worse?
People who are paying attention to the election have some idea of Obama’s true views. Unfortunately, most people (and certainly most Obama supporters) have no clue. Obama is running a deceptive campaign. He’s positioning himself as a moderate, promising tax cuts, changing positions, and attempting to sound reasonable. The revealing exceptions are small snippets when Obama is caught off-guard, such as the “Joe the Plumber” encounter.
When Americans figure out what’s happened, one can expect an uprising… or not. Americans may not be able to figure out what’s happening. How so?
Combine the mainstream media’s total loss of objectivity with the silencing of talk radio through the Fairness Doctrine and the Obama campaign’s track record of “punishing” challengers from the media like Barbara West and the average citizen may be only slightly more likely than the average resident of China to learn the truth about the world.
When asked tough questions, Obama’s surrogates make the questioner the issue. How long before Obama’s surrogates try to destroy popular bloggers critical of Obama by subjecting them to smear jobs, exposing and distorting every aspect of their lives, rather than respond to a legitimate question? If it could happen to Joe The Plumber, who is an average citizen save for the “audacity to question,” then no one is safe.
Even if the average citizen figures out what Obama’s government is doing to him, he may not have the ability to rise up.
Consider the silencing of the opposition media.
Consider the institutional voter fraud and corruption of the U.S. justice system, subordinating democracy.
Consider Obama’s stunning and under reported statement in July about his plans to create a Civilian National Security Force equal in size and funding with the army (i.e., the statement captured on YouTube that was scrubbed from the speech transcript a la “Big Brother” as noted on Free Republic). Without opposition in a Pelosi/Reid congress, there’s no check, no stop, and nothing to prevent Obama from creating his “Civilian National Security Force.”
Consider John Lott’s encounter with Obama at the start of Obama's political career when Obama said he doesn’t think citizens should have the right to own guns.
Add it up for yourself. You might think, “Nah, no way. This could never happen.” Consider that according to an Op/Ed piece by Adam Lerrick in the Wall Street Journal, “three out of every five voters will pay little or nothing in income taxes under Mr. Obama's plans and gain when taxes rise on the 40% that already pays 95% of income tax revenues.”
Recall the warning of Lord Thomas MacCauley…
"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship."
Remember, in a 2001 interview on Chicago Public Radio, Obama declared the Constitution “reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.” Obama considers the Constitution a “remarkable political document” but one that is flawed. Would he uphold what he perceives to be a "flawed" Constitution, “interpret” it as he wishes, or ignore it altogether?
Maybe our worst fears about Obama won’t be realized, but why risk it? Why risk the potential destruction of our democracy and liberty on a radical politician who masks his true beliefs and who gets scarier and scarier the more we learn?
If you are not frightened, you should be. I am. More than any other time in the post war era, our country is in grave peril and the greatest danger is from within, not without. Vote accordingly.
starting to smell like Naziism to me...
We must reject this new form of fascism using every means.
Obama will institute a domestic draft for “work project” programs.
Eventually Jews, Christians, whites, troublemakers go to camps or their lives are made so miserable they might as well be.
Over at HillBuzz they have a picture of Vera Baker?
inflation and interest rates will soar like it’s 1978 all over again.
Time to renew NRA membership. Disgusting.
Bush to Obama
I hope there is no WW3.
The Obamination of America will make the Great Depression seem like the Reagan era ... he’ll be worse than Carter ....
I am certainly quite frightened for our country and our freedoms. Those who poo-pooed tin-foil hats need only look at the massive conspiracy in broad daylight during this election to see how easy it is to get one started.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
A para-military patrolling our streets - entering our homes without warrants ?????
Geez, don’t forget the new and improved Assault Weapons Ban and a whole host of new “reasonable restrictions” on gun owners and gun ownership.
Good summation, however, the quote, “A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government” is a little off. The US form of government is not a democracy.
Uhm, Beuhler,,,,,Buehler..............anyone?
They try to come in. We shoot. We give up or end up like David Koresh.
I didn’t agree with what the government did at Waco or Ruby Ridge and I won’t agree with this. We ALL should have been protesting in Waco. Not for the kooks but against the facists in their jack booted uniforms and Army tanks. Now they may come for us.
I lost everything I had (with the exception of the kids) under Carter.
Secret police, re-education camps, children spying on their parents, and extermination of those who disagree with them. Russia invading Europe and Alaska, Israel wiped off the map, and the US shared with China.
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