Exactly. That’s exactly where we’re at right now. It started with a little lawlessness here and there from the HDOH and other government agencies, then on to threats for the media and others who could get in the way, (same kind of thing he later documentably did with the Chrysler lawyer, inspectors general, etc)... all that to get Obama in the White House, get the camel’s nose into the tent.
And since his nose has been in the tent he has wreaked full-fledged lawlessness into every area of life via his “czars”, via a Congress that doesn’t have to follow its own rules or the laws, via a Department of Injustice which sues states for being lawful, via the (as you say) Federal Bureau of Intimidation...
As an acorn it may have seemed like a cute little “tee hee” issue. But its shadow envelops the whole nation in darkness now and there are very few sane people who are still laughing at what had its conception in the HDOH’s “little white lies/deceptions”.
Oh, I think it began long before.
Remember Sandy Burglar and his “sloppy” theft of documents from the National Archives, when (while “accidentally” displaying “sloppiness”) he slipped them into his clothing, hid them under a construction trailer, and went back in the dark of night to destroy them? No real consequences.
Remember John O. Brennan’s employees who got a slap on the wrist for “sanitizing” Barry’s passport files?
Incrementalism. Coupled with a corrupt and complicit media. This is what they meant when they invented the concept of “civic journalism” (aka, “nudge” the people into doing what their betters know is best for them, even if it means lying and propagandizing. After all, it’s for their own good because they’re too STUPID to know better.)
How about Geithner skating by for failing to pay taxes, something that would send an ordinary citizen to prison or the poor house, not win him a position in the cabinet?
I may as well throw in Rangel. Slap on the wrist but he still didn’t have the wherewithal to be grateful and graciously acknowledge his guilt.
Laws are enforced or ignored depending upon which side one is on, politically speaking.
It goes WAY back with the media. Switch the party of any of the aforementioned, and you would see cries of corruption and screaming headlines calling for retribution and congressional investigations.
Didn’t they accuse McCain of not being a NBC? Where’s Barry’s congressional investigation?