I closed my last essay with the accusation that this seventh and final “seal” which has “sealed” the fate of our Republic was the ascension of the most leftist-driven, anti-American ideologue to the office of president that has ever been elected. I shall refer to President Obama throughout this final essay in this series by his initials, BHO, since he has followed in the fascist footsteps of FDR and LBJ, and has taken the chains of enslavement forged by them and has hastened to bind them around our nation in such rapidity that those who refuse to see the dangers he poses will be unable to break free of them by the time the shroud of adoration falls from their eyes. By then, unfortunately, it will be too late for us who see the danger and are sounding the alarm to break free as well. Along with former fascist presidents Woodrow Wilson, FDR and LBJ, BHO forms the “four horsemen” of the apocalyptic fall of the Great American Republic. However, before turning our attention to him, there was a precursor to his election which set the stage for the destructive force he has unleashed upon our Constitution, our Representative Republic, and the Declaration of Independence in which our unalienable rights are asserted. That precursor was the seizure of the control of both houses of Congress by the radical fascists of the democrat party. In 2006 our nation sowed the wind ─ in 2008, we reaped the whirlwind.
In the 2006 election cycle the Republican Party was swept out of power in both houses of Congress, and rightfully so. No party has a claim on power unless they remember from whom power in this nation is to flow, or as Thomas Jefferson put it in his letter to William Jarvis on September 28, 1820: “I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves….” When those chosen to represent the people become drunk on the heady wine of power and intoxicated with their own egos and agendas, they no longer deserve to be given the confidence of the people. Such was the case of the Republicans in power prior to that year. It is unfortunate for our nation, though, that in punishing them we in turn are being more severely punished by those voted into power in their stead.
With control of the Congress the Democrats, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi, began to show their fascist stripes. Perhaps the clearest example of this occurred in May 2008 when executives from some of the major oil companies were being grilled before a House of Representatives Committee about the sky-rocketing gasoline prices. During the hearing, Representative Maxine Waters had her Fascist “coming out of the closet” moment when she let slip the following words:
“”And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um… Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …” [you can view a video of this at Maxine Waters on Nationalizing Oil Companies].
Then there was the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 0f 2008, supported by President Bush, that in effect inserted the government into an ownership position in the private market. True, there was a crisis, but it was one brought about by the very government interventionists who now thought they knew how to bail out the mess they had created. Instead, they just made the situation worse. Prior to the bill being passed, over 100 of the country’s leading economists sent a letter to Congress voicing their opposition to the bill. In the letter they stated
“We see three fatal pitfalls in the currently proposed plan:
Its fairness. The plan is a subsidy to investors at taxpayers’ expense. Investors who took risks to earn profits must also bear the losses. Not every business failure carries “systemic risk.” The government can ensure a well-functioning financial industry, able to make new loans to creditworthy borrowers, without bailing out particular investors and institutions whose choices proved unwise.”
You can see how this falls right in line with the threat of Representative Waters to nationalize the oil companies. Under The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), which was part of this bill, the government used our tax money to buy troubled assets from banks and investment houses who had made these unwise investments, which in effect meant that the central government now had a financial stake in these financial organizations. That is nationalization, pure and simple! Not surprisingly then, shortly after this and the election of BHO (which I’ll get to momentarily), it should not have been a surprise to see the appointment of a “Pay Czar” who would then dictate to these companies, now partially owned by the government, as to what their executives could receive in their compensation packages. What we witnessed in late 2008 and onward, my fellow citizens, was the death of our free-market system ─ a system which has brought to this earth the greatest economic engine ever witnessed and the highest standard of living ever provided to the people of any nation in history! The sad part of this is that it wasn’t just the Fascist Democrats who perpetrated this upon us, but those also in the Republican party who feigned allegiance to the principles of our founding and betrayed both those principles and us. Those who pushed this (and the subsequent bailouts that were to follow in 2009) failed to heed this warning issued by F. A. Hayek in his classic work, The Road to Serfdom (a book that should be required reading for all Americans, especially elected officials):
“…there is some danger that our impatience for quick results may lead us to choose instruments which, though perhaps more efficient for achieving the particular ends, are not compatible with preservation of a free society.”
Read that final clause once more and let it sink deeply into your soul: “…are not compatible with preservation of a free society.” In their rush to attempt to “save the nation” from the apparent catastrophe that they created, those in control of this Congress and BHO have driven the proverbial final nail into the coffin of our Constitution, our Republic, and along with them, our freedom, liberties, and our “unalienable rights.”
This brings us to the rise of BHO, from a leftist community organizer, steeped in the radical, anti-American teachings of the Marxist Saul Alinsky, and part-time obscure state senator and mostly absentee rookie US Senator, to the most powerful position in the most powerful nation on earth. To use BHO’s own words, “let me make one thing perfectly clear”: BHO is a totalitarian-minded ideologue who hates this country (as evidenced in his antagonism towards our founding principles and documents) and has as his agenda to destroy what has taken over two centuries to build and to remake it into a state-controlled society, i.e., a fascist state. Those are pretty harsh words, I readily admit, but allow me to set before you the evidences that will support what you may consider an outlandish statement.
During his campaign for the nomination of his party (and subsequently after his election), BHO has repeatedly talked about the need to “redistribute wealth” for the sake of “fairness”. What is ironic is that he claims that in so doing he will not be punishing those who have been successful and have through their efforts earned that wealth (see his exchange with “Joe the Plumber” during the 2008 presidential campaign: BHO on Spreading the Wealth Around).
The radicalism of his position on this matter was revealed many years earlier in a radio interview on an affiliate of the taxpayer funded NPR in 2001: BHO explains how to redistribute wealth. Notice that he does not say that taking money from one group who earned it and giving it to others as the government sees fit is morally wrong, but he only discusses the challenges of how the mechanism for doing so must be engineered!
Consider also how the divisiveness and pitting of one class of citizens against another is shown in this testimony before Congress by BHO’s chief economic advisor after he had been elected but before taking office (also note the outright statements by Representative Charlie Rangel and Robert Reich that their plans intend to hammer the states into “our way or the highway” corner and thus destroy the power of the states): Robert Reich & Charlie Rangel on Redistribution of Wealth.
During his campaign as well as the months following his election, as he has bounced from one crisis to another (“never let a good crisis go to waste” – Rahm Emmanuel, BHO Chief of Staff), BHO has repeatedly used divisive statements to fracture this nation. He has pitted the greedy executives on Wall Street against the average citizen on Main Street (never mind the fact that those greedy executives contributed more money to his campaign than to those opposed to him); Big Oil against the Consumers; Wealthy against the Poor or Middle Class; and on and on. This is precisely the tactic necessary in order for him to justify his “spread the wealth” agenda. Such is nothing more than government-sanctioned stealing, and the government is the one doing the stealing! As Ayn Rand put it, “ Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”
Such tactics play upon the simple and gullible among us (listen to these women waiting in line to get their “Obama Money”: Get Your Obama Money). These are the tactics of one who aspires to be a dictatorial tyrant, as explained once again by Hayek in The Road to Serfdom:
“It is, as it were, the lowest common denominator which unites the largest number of people. If a numerous group is needed, strong enough to impose their views on the values of life on all the rest, it will never be those with highly differentiated and developed tastes ─ it will be those who form the ‘mass’ in the derogatory sense of the term, the least original and independent, who will be able to put the weight of their numbers behind their particular ideals….
…a potential dictator…will have to increase their numbers by converting more to the same simple creed.
Here comes in the second negative principle of selection: he will be able to obtain the support of all the docile and gullible, who have no strong convictions of their own but are prepared to accept a ready-made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently loudly and frequently. It will be those whose vague and imperfectly formed ideas are easily swayed and whose passions and emotions are readily aroused who will thus swell the ranks of the totalitarian party.
It is in connection with the deliberate effort of the skillful demagogue to weld together a closely coherent and homogeneous body of supporters that the third and perhaps most important negative element of selection enters. It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program ─ on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off ─ than on any positive task. The contrast between the ‘we’ and the ‘they’ the common fight against those outside the group, seems to be an essential ingredient in any creed which will solidly knit together a group for common action. It is consequently always employed by those who seek, not merely support of a policy, but the unreserved allegiance of huge masses…The enemy,…seems to be an indispensable requisite in the armory of a totalitarian leader” [emphasis added].
Lest you think these words were written in just the past two years as an observation of BHO and his rise to power (Hayek died in 1992), I will point out that they were originally penned in 1944 as Hayek drew upon his observations of the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany and the Fascists in Italy under Mussolini! These words are a chilling testament to the fact that truth and its principles do not change, and as a result we can see them playing out once again in our nation. If you cannot see BHO in these words of Hayek, then I would urge you to re-read them. Better yet, acquire a copy of the book and read the entire volume, for we are indeed clearly well on our way down the Road to Serfdom!
BHO has appointed over thirty “czars” in agencies and positions created that have not ever existed in any administration before. Some of those that he appointed to these positions, but subsequently had to be withdrawn, were avowed Marxists. Others hew to a socialist view of government and the right of the state to control the lives of the citizens, which can only ultimately end in a fascist-styled state. Consider if you will H.R. 675 which BHO supports. This bill would greatly expand various agencies of the central government to police the citizenry of this country in a manner not in keeping with the Constitution. Allow me to give you just a few highlights of this legislation. The Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General of the United States would be the ones invested with the power to determine the regulations carried out under this law, which would include the following:
“(1) to execute and serve any warrant or other process issued under the authority of the United States; (2) to make arrests without a warrant — (A) for any offense against the United States… Guidelines on Exercise of Authority- The authority provided under subsection (a) shall be exercised in accordance with guidelines issued by the Secretary of Defense and approved by the Attorney General.”
Couple this attempt to circumvent The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (which prohibits the military from such activity) with BHO’s call for a civilian national security force equally armed and empowered as our military, and you have the makings of an American Gestapo that would certainly make Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler proud!
Most recently there is the attempt to force individuals to purchase a product (currently, health insurance, but possibly others to come at a later time) whether they wish to or not, or face fines and possible imprisonment. Within this legislation is another seizure of power, namely the mandating of what employers who offer health insurance coverage must provide within those policies. This is certainly nothing new in that for years the central politburo in Washington as dictated to the auto manufacturers the standards their products must meet (i.e., the so-called CAFE standards), which have over time been demonstrated to have increased the number of automobile fatalities (which is proof that it isn’t about what is good for the individual, but rather what is good for expanding the power of the state over private enterprise).
There are also the repeated stories of how the EPA is running rampant and unrestricted over our liberties. It shut down an irrigation system in California to “save” a two-inch minnow fish and in so doing ruined thousands upon thousands of the most fertile farm land in that state and put tens of thousands of individuals out of work. It ruined countless numbers of farms and made those products grown by them more scare and costly to the consumers of this nation. This rouge agency also, with the blessings of this administration, seeks to tell us what kind of light bulbs we must have in our lamps, how much water our commodes use with each flush, and most recently, its intent to hold farmers accountable and punishable should dust from their fields that is stirred up from their plowing escapes beyond their property lines! Of course there is the proposal to limit, tax, and fine those who exceed certain carbon dioxide emissions under the so-called “Cap-and-Trade” bill (which makes you wonder if that could include individuals since we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide?).
You have to wonder also about BHO’s agenda and attitude towards the Constitution when he nominated the newest member of the Supreme Court who, during the questioning in the Senate hearings on her nomination, refused to answer the simple question “Does the government have the right to tell individuals what they can and cannot eat?” The obvious implication is that by not answering in the negative, she does believe that the government has this authority. She also failed to come out strongly and confirm that she believes in individual “inalienable rights” during another line of questioning. This is certainly what you would expect from one who harbors disdain for the rule of law and our Constitutional principles.
There is so much more that could be added, but I will not weary you further as with many of these you are most likely already aware. However, to show just how abusive BHO is in his exercise of power and how so much like a dictatorial tyrant he is, I give you one final example. Because the central government provided bailout funds for the Chrysler Corporation, it now has a 65% controlling interest in the company. The newly created “Car Czar” position, headed by a man with no automotive or managerial experience of any kind (and appointed by BHO without congressional confirmation), put together a list of dealerships that were to be shut down as an alleged “cost-saving” measure. What is startling about this is that of the 789 dealerships marked for closing, 788 of them had made campaign donations exclusively to Republican candidates during the prior election (information that was made available to the “Car Czar” by his wife, the former finance committee chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee who, as such, had access to all of the political donations made to both parties from everyone in the nation). The lone exception was a dealership who had made a contribution to Hillary Clinton’s campaign – BHO’s opponent in the primaries! Simply a matter of coincidence, or the victor using his power to punish and destroy his opponents? There is much more to this story, but space prohibits me from enumerating all of these blatant abuses of fascist political power. However, you may read it all at this newspaper’s website: Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings.
In the world that BHO wants to create for us, he paints such a lovely world of idealistic utopia. But heed well this warning of Hayek on what will happen to the individual citizen in BHO’s world:
“Individualism must come to an end absolutely. A system of regulations must be set up, the object of which is not the greater happiness of the individual, but the strengthening of the organized unity of the state for the object of attaining the maximum degree of efficiency, the influence of which on individual advantage is only indirect. ─ This hideous doctrine is enshrined in a sort of idealism. The nation will grow into a ‘closed unity’ and will become, in fact,…’Der Mensch im Grossen’” (i.e., “the man enlarged”, meaning the state has become singular in its absorption of all individualism; individuals no longer will exist) [emphasis added].
Before closing, I want to give you the proof of why I stated that BHO is intent on tearing down everything this country stands for. As I said at the outset, he is a true disciple of the teachings of Saul Alinsky, having even conducted seminars on his principles of community organizing while himself an organizer in the city of Chicago. In fact, Alinsky’s son has stated that BHO is perhaps the best at executing his father’s principles. Now, instead of just communities within the city limits of Chicago, BHO is intent on carrying out these principles on a national scale. Here are just a few of these guidelines enunciated by Alinsky in his book Rules for Radicals ─ I will leave you to draw your conclusion as to whether or not you can identify these guidelines in BHO’s actions over the past eighteen months:
“From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army….Change comes from power, and power by organization….Power is the reason for being of the organization….Power and organization are one and the same….
The organizer simultaneously carries on many functions as he analyzes, attacks, and disrupts the prevailing power pattern….
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displaced by new patterns that provide the opportunities and means for citizen participation. All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new…” (remember the slogan, ”Change You Can Believe In”?)
“The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act….An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent….
When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an ‘agitator’ they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function ─ to agitate to the point of conflict” [emphasis added].
The next time BHO takes to the airwaves to talk about the need for more regulations, controls, better government organization of this or that, and couches his language in terms of one part of our nation pitted against another, now you will understand why ─ and fear.
I leave you now with one final word from Dr. Hayek. As I mentioned previously, Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom in 1944 after having witnessed the rise of Fascist governments in Europe. Speaking of the German and Italian people, he made this observation with which I bring this series of essays to a close:
“…experience has made them wiser and sadder men: they have learned that neither good intentions nor efficiency of organization can preserve decency in a system in which personal freedom and individual responsibility are destroyed.” May we learn this lesson from them and not have to repeat their history in order to learn it.
The free constitutional Republic of America (1788 – 2010): RIP
-Epaminondas
