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Serena – Barack
I wish I could be as proud of Barack as I am of Serena!
- Serena ------ Makes America SHINE …. In French
- Barack ……. Beats America DOWN …. In EVERY Language
This is SHORT
Serena – Barack
I wish I could be as proud of Barack as I am of Serena!
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There are only two types of Muslims crossing our borders – militant and non-militant. Because authorities don't have a crystal ball identifying which Muslims are determined or destined to become terrorists, we the people must insist that government do more to “insure domestic tranquility” as required by the U.S. Constitution. We can start with a 99% reduction in U.S. visas and border crossing cards to citizens of Muslim countries.
Both Boston Marathon bombers and all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers came to the U.S. on student, business or tourist visas, some receiving Pell grants, food stamps, Section 8 housing and other taxpayer funded welfare. In essence, these militant Muslims got paid by Uncle Sam for coming to the U.S. to blow up Americans. The mainstream media incorrectly identified such terrorists as “radicals.”
From an Islamic standpoint, radical Muslims target fellow believers while orthodox Muslims target disbelieving infidels who reject the Koran as Holy Scripture. Acts of terrorism against unbelievers are Koran sanctioned hits and examples of “outer Jihad,” a staple of orthodox Islam.
JIHAD 101
There are two types of Jihad – inner struggle and outer struggle, and every Muslim is called to be a practicing “mujahid” (one following the path of Jihad). Muslims are collectively called “mujahideen.” One who wishes to “sit back” and wage purely spiritual warfare against sin is an “inner mujahid” while one who also accepts the higher calling of waging physical warfare against non-Muslims is an “outer mujahid.”
Thankfully, most Muslims visiting the U.S. are peaceful and have no desire to kill Americans. These non-militant Muslims simply want to visit relatives, study in our prestigious universities and maybe get their piece of the American pie rather than blowing it up into bloody little pieces.
According to the U.S. Department of State, in 2012 the number of visitors coming from the world's 51 Muslim nations was 813,157. Based on demographics, at least 695,000 were Muslim. A 2013 Pew Research poll found that 7% to 24% of Muslims surveyed by nation were willing to admit their support of terrorism and suicide bombings, which basically confirmed prior polling data.
Assuming no Muslim hid his or her support for terrorism when polled, and using the lower figure of 7% militancy, that translates into 48,650 militant Muslims crossing our borders last year. We should also beware of the tens of thousands of Muslims coming from other nations, including Islamic converts from South of the border.
48,000 plus militant Muslims also doesn't take into account those who will be persuaded to embrace the higher calling of outer Jihad terrorism as did the Boston Marathon bombers, and those who finance such acts. According to orthodox Islam, one donating money to what most would consider terrorist organizations or cells will be blessed as an outer mujahid without having to martyr himself or kill anyone.
Our government should aggressively prosecute these financial terrorists big and small, for it follows that anyone hiring a hit-man is just as much a murderer as the hit-man himself.
Unfortunately, the U.S. needs to have a policy that discriminates equally against all visiting Muslims by suspending the visas of hundreds of thousands of Muslim nationals and only allowing diplomats and those benefiting American interests to come within our borders. We need to stem the Muslim tide flooding into the U.S. before the wave of jihadi violence turns into an unstoppable Islamic tsunami that could sweep our nation with American blood. To fail to do so would be tantamount to having allowed German Nazi sympathizers to vacation at Coney Island during World War II, with Uncle Sam buying the tickets.
Lance Hunter Voorhees is a Yahoo! News contributor, actor and former radio talk show host living in
Abilene, TX. You can reach him at Lance@LanceVoorhees.com.
Copyright © 2013 by Lance Hunter Voorhees, All rights reserved.
Hitler Becomes Dictator
After the elections of March 5, 1933, the Nazis began a systematic takeover of the state governments throughout Germany, ending a centuries-old tradition of local political independence. Armed SA and SS thugs barged into local government offices using the state of emergency decree as a pretext to throw out legitimate office holders and replace them with Nazi Reich commissioners.
Political enemies were arrested by the thousands and put in hastily constructed holding pens. Old army barracks and abandoned factories were used as prisons. Once inside, prisoners were subjected to military style drills and harsh discipline. They were often beaten and sometimes even tortured to death. This was the very beginning of the Nazi concentration camp system.
At this time, these early concentration camps were loosely organized under the control of the SA and the rival SS. Many were little more than barbed-wire stockades know as 'wild' concentration camps, set up by local Gauleiters and SA leaders.
For Adolf Hitler, the goal of a legally established dictatorship was now within reach. On March 15, 1933, a cabinet meeting was held during which Hitler and Göring discussed how to obstruct what was left of the democratic process to get an Enabling Act passed by the Reichstag. This law would hand over the constitutional functions of the Reichstag to Hitler, including the power to make laws, control the budget and approve treaties with foreign governments.
The emergency decree signed by Hindenburg on February 28th, after the Reichstag fire, made it easy for them to interfere with non-Nazi elected representatives of the people by simply arresting them.
March 21, 1933 - With the eyes of Germany and the whole world on him - a respectful stroll by Hitler toward the Garrison Church in Potsdam for ceremonies opening the new Reichstag session. Below: Reassuring to all - Hitler greets President Hindenburg in the manner of the age-old German custom - hand outstretched and head bowed.
Below: Inside the Garrison Church - Hitler speaks as President Hindenburg (lower right) and Germany's old guard listen.
Below: Outside the church, a bemused Chancellor Hitler chats with the Kaiser's son and heir, Crown Prince Wilhelm.
Below: Two days later - March 23rd - Hitler appears before the Reichstag in Berlin to reassure them that - if granted - his new powers under the Enabling Act will be used sparingly.
As Hitler plotted to bring democracy to an end in Germany, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels put together a brilliant public relations display at the official opening of the newly elected Reichstag.
On March 21st, in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, the burial place of Frederick the Great, an elaborate ceremony took place designed to ease public concern over Hitler and his gangster-like new regime.
It was attended by President Hindenburg, foreign diplomats, the General Staff and all the old guard going back to the days of the Kaiser. Dressed in their handsome uniforms sprinkled with medals, they watched a most reverent Adolf Hitler give a speech paying respect to Hindenburg and celebrating the union of old Prussian military traditions and the new Nazi Reich. As a symbol of this, the old Imperial flags would soon add swastikas.
Finishing his speech, Hitler walked over to Hindenburg and respectfully bowed before him while taking hold of the old man's hand. The scene was recorded on film and by press photographers from around the world. This was precisely the impression Hitler and Goebbels wanted to give to the world, all the while plotting to toss aside Hindenburg and the elected Reichstag.
Later that same day, Hindenburg signed two decrees put before him by Hitler. The first offered full pardons to all Nazis currently in prison. The prison doors sprang open and out came an assortment of Nazi thugs and murderers.
The second decree signed by the befuddled old man allowed for the arrest of anyone suspected of maliciously criticizing the government and the Nazi Party.
A third decree signed only by Hitler and Papen allowed for the establishment of special courts to try political offenders. These courts were conducted in the military style of a court-martial without a jury and usually with no counsel for the defense.
On March 23rd, the newly elected Reichstag met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich." If passed, it would in effect vote democracy out of existence in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
Brown-shirted Nazi storm troopers swarmed over the fancy old building in a show of force and as a visible threat. They stood outside, in the hallways and even lined the aisles inside, glaring ominously at anyone who might oppose Hitler's will.
Before the vote, Hitler made a speech in which he pledged to use restraint.
"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one," Hitler told the Reichstag.
He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged to promote peace with France, Great Britain and Soviet Russia. But in order to do all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling Act. A two-thirds majority was needed, since the law would actually alter the constitution. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Catholic Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken away by decree.
Meanwhile, Nazi storm troopers chanted outside: "Full powers – or else! We want the bill – or fire and murder!!"
But one man arose amid the overwhelming might. Otto Wells, leader of the Social Democrats stood up and spoke quietly to Hitler.
"We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible."
Hitler was enraged and jumped up to respond.
"You are no longer needed! The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!"
The vote was taken – 441 for, and only 84, the Social Democrats, against. The Nazis leapt to their feet clapping, stamping and shouting, then broke into the Nazi anthem, the Hörst Wessel song.
Democracy was ended. They had brought down the German Democratic Republic legally. From this day onward, the Reichstag would be just a sounding board, a cheering section for Hitler's pronouncements.
Interestingly, the Nazi Party was now flooded with applications for membership. These latecomers were cynically labeled by old time Nazis as 'March Violets.' In May, the Nazi Party froze membership. Many of those kept out applied to the SA and the SS which were still accepting. However, in early 1934, Heinrich Himmler would throw out 50,000 of those 'March Violets' from the SS.
The Nazi Gleichschaltung now began, a massive coordination of all aspects of life under the swastika and the absolute leadership of Adolf Hitler.
Under Hitler, the State, not the individual, was supreme.
From the moment of birth one existed to serve the State and obey the dictates of the Führer. Those who disagreed were disposed of.
Many agreed. Bureaucrats, industrialists, even intellectual and literary figures, including Gerhart Hauptmann, world renowned dramatist, were coming out in open support of Hitler.
Many disagreed and left the country. A flood of the finest minds, including over two thousand writers, scientists, and people in the arts poured out of Germany and enriched other lands, mostly the United States. Among them – writer Thomas Mann, director Fritz Lang, actress Marlene Dietrich, architect Walter Gropius, musicians Otto Klemperer, Kurt Weill, Richard Tauber, psychologist Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein, who was visiting California when Hitler came to power and never returned to Germany.
In Germany, there were now constant Nazi rallies, parades, marches and meetings amid the relentless propaganda of Goebbels and the omnipresent swastika. For those who remained there was an odd mixture of fear and optimism in the air.
Now, for the first time as dictator, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the driving force which had propelled him into politics in the first place, his hatred of the Jews. It began with a simple boycott on April 1st, 1933, and would end years later in the greatest tragedy in all of human history.
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A judge forced the head of HHS to remove a child in need of a lung transplant from the Obamacare death list. The court ruled that the child must be allowed to have a lung transplant that was disallowed by HHS. The first Obamacare case decided in court is a loss for Obamacare. Obama's communistic takeover of the entire healthcare industry must be ended under the limits on government under the U.S. Preamble/Constitution.
Why has the U.S. government called certain Islamic groups supporters of terror in federal court, and then turned around and called these same organizations “moderates” and embraced them as outreach partners? In a number of cases from the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, the leaders of these organizations (some of whom are now in federal prison) were under active investigation at the same time they were meeting with senior U.S. leaders at the White House and the Capitol and helping develop U.S. policy. Now these same Islamic organizations and leaders have openly encouraged a purge of counterterrorism training that have effectively blinded law enforcement, homeland security, and intelligence agencies to active terror threats as seen in the inaction of the FBI concerning the Boston bombing suspects and other terror cases. This study poses serious questions as to the efficacy and even security concerns about U.S. government outreach to Islamic groups, which often turn out to be Islamist militants, enemies of Islamic moderation, and even supporters of terrorism.
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Imagine yourself trapped. A vicious gang of Islamist terrorists have already breached the main gate. If captured, you know what they do to infidels – you've seen video of beheadings, sodomy and etc.
Despite the smell of petroleum becoming overwhelming due to the terrorists setting the building on fire in an effort to force you out, you force yourself to remain calm and hopeful. You tell yourself, “Everything is going to be OK. I'm an American. We never leave Americans behind”.
But the Calvary never arrives to save you – not because they were not ready. The expected help never arrived because someone high in the Obama Administration, for political reasons, ordered our military to “stand down”.
Such was the horrific nightmare, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens suffered in our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador Stevens was killed by Islamist terrorists. Though not confirmed, it has been reported that our Ambassador Stevens was raped.
Ambassador Stevens' rescuers were ordered to “stand down”.
Imagine yourself a former Navy SEAL in Libya, aware of the terrorist attack on our consulate. You and your buddy, also a former SEAL, desire to fight the attackers until the Calvary arrives. You are ordered to “stand down”. But you are a former SEAL, you can not simply sit back and allow terrorists to murder Americans. You and your buddy disobey orders and come to the rescue.
Assuming that the Calvary in the form of air support is on the way because Americans are under attack and we never leave Americans behind, you use your laser to mark the enemy's location. This will assist our guys in launching their aerial attack. But your assumption that help is on the way is wrong.
Our planes are not in the air because someone high in the Obama Administration, for political reasons, ordered our military to “stand down”. All your laser did was tip off your location to the Islamist terrorists. Former U.S. Navy SEALs Tony Smith and Glen Doherty were killed. Why? Because someone in the Obama Administration gave the order to “stand down”.
In their continuing effort to protect Obama at any and all cost – which includes national security and the lives of Americans, the mainstream media promotes the narrative that the American people do not understand or care about Benghazi. They attempt to brand everyone investigating Benghazi as partisan racists out to get the president.
While low-info Americans may not understand the politics, they can relate to the betrayal of being abandoned by ones country. Most Americans are aware of our tradition and ethical code of never leaving an American behind.
And yet, the mainstream media and the Obama Administration persist in their efforts to make it no big deal that our guys, Ambassador Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and information officer Sean Smith were left behind losing their lives for political reasons. The press and the Obama Administration would have us forget about it and move on.
If a republican were in the White House, the mainstream media would be investigative pit bulls, all over the Benghazi scandal “like white on rice”, as my late momma would say.
And yet, remarkably, several months after the attack on our consulate and the murder of four Americans, the mainstream media does not appear to have the slightest curiosity about who in the Obama Administration gave the order to our military to “stand down”. Despicable!
Stand down. Folks, I can not let it go. While Americans feared for their lives, waiting, hoping and expecting help, someone in the Obama Administration said, no, we are not going to send help.
The American press is a disgrace. Had they any self respect, they would be ashamed. Sadly, they have no shame. The American press has sold it's soul to the devil. Journalism in America is dead.
While Obama's protective mainstream media refuses to care, my fellow Americans and I care deeply and will discover, who in the Obama Administration gave the order to “stand down”?
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
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by, Kyle Olson
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) said today that a Detroit-area school district has apologized for handing out permission slips for Bible study classes to elementary school students.
CAIR-MI sent a letter to Roseville Public Schools after receiving a complaint from two parents of children who attend Huron Park Elementary School about distribution by teachers of permission slips for the Bible classes at a local Baptist church.
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The Chechnyan bombers got "asylum" and $100K in welfare then spent the money on bomb components. How much welfare money did Marco Rubio receive? Marco Rubio supports and promotes another round of amnesty that he likes to call "reform." He eschews "guest workers" and demands a "path to citizenship" (i.e. a path to the welfare state). We may deduce that Marco Rubio has an affinity for "asylum," amnesty (i.e. "reform") and the accompanying welfare payments. Where did that come from? Did Marco Rubio's family receive "asylum" and welfare payments from America when they arrived (why didn't they stay and fight for their country?) The Massachusetts governor released all information on welfare distribution related to the Chechnyan Boston Bombers, the Florida governor should release information on any welfare and benefits paid to the family of the next Republican Presidential Candidate.
Rush Limbaugh said today that California's economy and budget have been destroyed by the Amnesty that Ronald Reagan granted. The state that produced the "ultra conservative" Ronald Reagan is a one-party state. Ruled by democrats, the economy and budgets are in shambles and taxation is equivalent to the levels under communism. The Mexican recipients of the "benefits" of amnesty now vote for liberals - a great big thank you to the President that granted them amnesty, Ronald Reagan. That dudn't make any sense! Limbaugh's point is that the economic destruction of amnesty and illegal immigration will soon impact the entire nation. America is not providing a "path to citizenship," it is providing a path to national economic destruction. Here comes the one-party state! Good day, Comrade.
Obama gave Susan Rice the NSA position as hush money. Susan Rice introduced the "patsy" into the Benghazi scenario - the anti-Muslum video maker - and is being kept close to the administration in order to maintain her silence. Susan Rice introduced the Lee Harvey Oswald "patsy" into the Benghazi conspiracy. Who gave the "patsy" to her? She should be subponaed and asked who the "handler" of the "patsy" was; who delivered the video and the "patsy" to her so that she could present them on 5 Sunday shows for more than 2 weeks after Benghazi.
As a CPA, I have been cautious about my comments in the wired world on what I have been observing with the current IRS scandals. While the ethics of my profession may bind me in my behavior in this area (moreso than other areas!), the current developments have mushroomed beyond all compare. My professional and ethical obligations to comply with the law, file returns timely, etc. do not equate to a free pass for the IRS on bad behavior. And this behavior is bad. It is down right shameful.
The abuse of power is frightening. We need to capitalize on the groundswell of public opposition to the IRS abuses of power and find opportunities to limit the power of a Federal government that is bloated, power-hungry and out-of-control. Support those like Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul. These guys get it, and we need them more now than ever.
God Bless America, and long live the Republic!
Steve
Bottom line illegal aliens are currently costing citizens well over $! trillion per year. The 2012 BLS wage @ 40hr is $49,462. Employer taxes etc, @30% is $14,839 and employee paid @ 25% is$12,365. Governments (LOCAL, STATE & FEDERAL + UNPAID BILLS, ETC.) are collectively subsidizing 11 million illegal aliens $402 billion or $36,545+ each. Wouldn’t jobless citizens get the same $36,545? Bottom line government loses $100,294 and the laid off worker loses $39,096 take-home pay... total $137,391! That @ 11 million is $1.5 trillion per year and $2.7 trillion @ 20 millions illegal TODAY!
THERE IS NO PLAN TO PUT ANYONE TO WORK!
2012 jobless data in millions was 12,506 unemployed, 6,437 want jobs, 6,896 lost by lowering work force numbers relative to population, and that totals 25,839 (16.7%)! If the 34.4 BLS work week hour is adjusted we find 25,228 (16.3%) more jobs falling through the cracks. check it out! That makes the maximum number 51,067 (33%). The 40 hour average individual total productivity is $64,300 with employer taxes!
The 40 hour average individual total productivity VALUE is $64,300 with employer tax.
Does anyone believe this lying corrupt to the core government will enforce any law or the Constitution! The problem would go away instantly if government actually enforced current laws on the books!
4 Rubio & SSI
A 2012 BLS avg. $42,537 wage @12.4% ($449.50/mo) annuity @5% compounded monthly over 46 years (18 to 65) with a 13 yr payback is ($8,221/mo) from 65 to 78. SSI was originally set up as an “earned right” based on secure investments (It’s in writing per FDR)! Today, wage earners are paying in enough for 6.7 average $1235/mo SSI pensions. Unfortunately, today it takes 2.8 current worker contributions to pay one average benefit because a “SSI trust” fund that should have over $100 trillion in it has roughly $2 trillion in bonds that are progressively devalued into pennies on the dollar over the 59 years from 18 to 65 & death at 78!
Simply stated our current government is in the business of counterfeiting currency and bonds which creates runaway inflation that devalues the currency basis! That disaster is compounded by linking benefit payments to inflation! Current conditions are far more volatile than the double digit inflation in the late 1970s.
Madoff’s Ponzi scam was a grain of sand compared to what our executive-legislative officials have and continue doing to us! Madoff is in jail for the rest of his life. Any “official” who continues this scam deserves the same or more punishment for literally stealing the nest egg of every citizen.
Annuities aren’t rocket science! Check out the SSI fund – it pretends to earn 5% & you might not know the difference if you don’t know how badly government is screwing citizens they’re sworn to protect! When one can counterfeit a bond, they can make it yield anything they want & if you want to cash it – they’ll be happy print some cash for you! IT"S A HEINOUS CRIME!
To Rubio & the gang of 8 - Are you going to explain to the amnesty hoard that their SSI deposits aren't going into a real trust fund & they, like all citizens will find the piggy bank empty when they get too old to work!
Every Friday Muslims across the land are demanded to pray to Allah. Here in the United Stated of America we have public Islam prayers happening in our own streets. What does one do when hundreds upon hundreds throw prayer rugs on the street in New York City and bow to Allah? Every Friday they block Madison Avenue for their Friday prayer vigil.
Never in history has America tolerated such defiance to the culture of America. As a Christian nation, founded patriots of old, who sacrificed their all for the freedoms we hold dear - never in their wildest imaginations, did George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison and all the other faithful patriots of this great nation - ever dream we would tolerate the blatant defiance of Islam in our country. Islam is a political ideology shrouded in a religion. They want Americans to respect Islam as a religion and cater to their whims, Sharia, Law and prayer tactics regardless of whose rights they trample.
Muslims say they are offended by America and deserve to practice their religion and do as Islam teaches - although Islam is antithetical and totally opposite of a our Constitution and democracy Republic!
A Christian Nation cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public place, but the Muslims can stop normal traffic every Friday afternoon by worshiping in the streets.... Something is happening in America that is reminiscent of what is happening in Europe.
This is Political Correctness gone crazy... Scary! Isn't it?
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The Smoking Gun in Plain Sight
By Herbert E. Meyer
June 3, 2013
American Thinker
As the Obama administration descends into a whirlpool of scandals, a race
has begun among Congressional committees and news organizations to find the
proverbial smoking gun - the document that will link President Obama
directly to the IRS's targeting of conservative groups, or to the Justice
Department's unprecedented legal actions against the Associated Press and
Fox News reporter James Rosen, or to the Pentagon's ghastly failure to
launch a rescue mission when our consulate in Benghazi came under attack
last September.
Study history, and you will understand why no such document is ever likely
to be found: That just isn't how these things work. Very few people are
aware of this, but there is no document - not one - linking Adolf Hitler to
the Holocaust. Why not? Because Hitler didn't need to sign a document
ordering the slaughter of six million Jews. All he needed to do was to
demonize his enemy in speeches at the Reichstag, on the radio, and from one
end of Germany to the other - then hire thugs like Herman Goering, Heinrich
Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Josef Goebbels. They knew what der Fuhrer
wanted, and der Fuhrer knew he could trust his henchman to get the job done
- no matter how, no matter what may be the law -- and to not bother him with
the gory details.
Reader, take a deep breath. Nowhere in this essay will I suggest, or even
imply, that President Obama plans the mass murder of his opponents the way
Hitler murdered his. That's absurd. I am merely pointing out that
President Obama has been going about the business of demonizing his
political enemies, and then hiring thugs to destroy them without regard to
the law, in precisely the same way that Hitler and his fascists did it in
Germany. This isn't an accusation; it's an observation.
Look at the record: From the moment he took office in January 2009,
President Obama has spoken before Congress, on television, and at countless
rallies across the country describing his political opponents in terms we
haven't seen before in the United States. Time and again he's insisted
that Republicans aren't merely wrong, but evil. Hardly a week goes by
without yet another sneering comment about "millionaires and billionaires" -
by which he means those men and women who actually built the businesses that
created jobs for all the rest of us, not the ones he and the First Lady
party with in Hollywood and on Martha's Vineyard.
Hatred for the Tea Party
His rhetoric heated up fast after the Tea Party movement gave the GOP enough
oomph to win back the House of Representatives in 2010, and as the president
geared up for the 2012 election. He urged Latino voters to help him "punish
our enemies and reward our friends." He told his supporters at one rally to
think of voting for him as "an act of revenge." Did you see the president
at that Georgetown University forum on the future of Medicare when he
trashed Paul Ryan's own plan, then went out of his way to publicly insult
Ryan, while the Congressman himself was sitting in the front row too stunned
- and too decent and respectful of the presidency - to respond in kind? Do
you remember that television campaign ad describing Mitt Romney - one of the
most capable, financially astute, thoroughly decent men who ever graced
public life - as "not one of us"?
And while demonizing his political enemies, what sort of people did the
president appoint to key jobs in his administration? His attorney general
is Eric Holder, a sleazy Democratic operative who not only called the
American people "cowards" for their approach to racial issues - this after
the majority of us elected a black president - but who played a crucial role
as deputy attorney general in the scandalous and still-uninvestigated pardon
of Marc Rich in the Clinton administration's dying hours. The national
security advisor is Thomas Donilon, another Democratic Party operative who
got rich while serving as executive vice president for law and policy at
Fannie Mae. And who was our secretary of state when the consulate in
Benghazi came under attack? The same Hillary Clinton who, as the wife of
Arkansas' up-and-coming governor, made an overnight $100,000 killing by
trading cattle futures - a feat no professional cattle-futures trader has
ever been able to explain, or duplicate.
No one who's spent time in our nation's capital comes away with a romantic
view of party politics and the people who do this for a living; the
Saint-Per-Square-Mile ratio in Washington has always been fairly low. But
David Axelrod? David Plouffe? Have you ever come across two Chicago-style,
hardball-playing creeps like these clowns? They make Richard Nixon's two
White House thugs, Bob Haldeman and John Erlichman, look like choir boys.
Demonize your political enemies, then hire people like these, and the result
is precisely what happened in Germany after 1933 and what's happening now to
us: a kind of bureaucratic coup d'etat in which the legitimately elected
government overturns the established relationship between the individual and
the State and replaces it with something very different; a relationship that
no one voted for, saw coming, or imagined could happen so quickly and so
quietly.
Forget About a Coup d'Etat
This is the United States in 2013, not Germany in 1933, and there's no real
possibility that President Obama will get away with his attempted coup
d'etat. There are members of Congress in both parties who are appalled by
what the president has been doing, and even a few liberal news organizations
are starting to wake up. But while the hunt for some document that would be
the smoking gun will be entertaining - and while it would be nice to see a
special prosecutor appointed who'd throw at least a few members of this
administration who've perjured themselves before Congress into prison - it
would also be a mistake.
Education is more important than prosecution. Right now, the best use of
their time and energy would be to expose the Obama administration's
wrongdoings; to illuminate for Americans just what's been going on in
Washington and to show voters - especially young voters - what sort of
country we'd be living in if the president had gotten away with this. Never
before have our politicians and our news organizations had a better
opportunity to demonstrate just what happens when we vote carelessly, elect
a zealot who appoints operatives with no sense of honor or comprehension of
right-and-wrong, then parties with rock stars while his coup d'etat unfolds.
Yes, I realize that throughout this essay I've used an analogy that some
people will find offensive or even repugnant. But I've done this
deliberately, because this is no time to hold back or to mince words. And
if the president doesn't like being compared to a Nazi - he should stop
acting like one.
Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special
Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the
CIA's National Intelligence Council. He is the recipient of the National
Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the intelligence community's
highest honor.
Obama is the first and only American President to kill a child, by denying her a lung transplant.
If Republicans are to f***** stupid to raise the roof over this, I may just start country shopping.