Do you think the Mafia would achieve its goals and ambitions if the
Capo di tutti
capo's
consigliere were somehow elected to the Office of the President of
the United States?
Well what do you think the results of placing
a Marxist constitutional lawyer in that office will be? Yup!
The Marxists have a pretty good shot at achieving their goals and
ambitions.
But Obama is not just a Marxist. He's a
unique hybrid. He's a Marxist for sure, but he's also a
professional activist, completely in tune with the
American Political Left and the goals of the
Socialist
International. He spent years teaching the US Constitution,
but he certainly wasn't teaching constitutional law from a strict
constructionist point of view. He's a Chicago pol. He's said he's
sympathetic to Muslim's goals and ambitions.
Obama's course
syllabus show that his expertise was in using the Constitution to
change or evade the law and to change the country. The only lie
he never told the American People is that he was all about change.
He's come right out and said it. The problem is, he never told us
what change he had in mind, but he's using
fear and his awesome political power within the government and gangster
tactics and intimidation on those outside the government to implement his
change.
Nixon was an amateur. His "plumbers"
consisted of less than a dozen guys. Some of them were discovered in a
what was described as a "third-rate burglary." Nixon was
impeached.
Obama, now there's an expert.
He's got
operators everywhere -- and they play hardball. You just begin to
look like you're gonna rock the boat and they apply the pressure.
If you don't get the hint, they drop the hammer. Obama is the head
of a gangster government. Everywhere you look, at every level of
government, there are examples of the U. S. Constitution being
manipulated or just outright ignored. When that doesn't work --
the hammer.
JB Williams,
writing
in the Canada Free Press, says that since the most powerful people in
America fear the wrath of Obama and his crowd, maybe you should too!
They are indeed a dangerous bunch, after all…
Every member of
the Supreme Court, every member of congress, every member of the Joint
Chiefs, most members of the DoD, CIA, FBI, Secret Service and state run
media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, Fox and print news, knows
that Barack Hussein Obama II does NOT meet the Article II, Section I
constitutional requirements for the office he holds. By his own
biography, there is NO way he can pass the test. The hard evidence
is so far beyond overwhelming, it is ridiculous.
But not ONE of
America’s most powerful people will dare confront Obama and his
anti-American cabal on the subject. The Constitution does NOT
stand. Do you think there is no reason for this?
And it's
not just the federal government. It's ALL government -- all the
way down to the municipality.
In Florida, the local cops are
being used to
intimidate citizens for exercising their free expression rights.
Since when did cops have a city-wide investigation and chase down
people that post politically satirical flyers? Sedition in
the Age of Obama -- you can burn
the American flag, you can stand on
it, or poop on it, but don't
post graven images of the
Obamamessiah.
Think about it. The American flag represents
the U. S. Constitution. The Joker posters represents a politician.
Since when does the American government place an individual above the
Constitution? When did it become a crime to satirize a politician.
It certainly wasn't for the last 8 years. Just Google
Bush Hitler or
Bush Chimp.
Somebody pressed a button. This isn't a
police action. This is a political action. This is
intimidation and using the civil authorities to do it.
When the
cops can't apply the pressure -- call the
unions. The unions are part of the mob. The Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) has organizing
resources and experience that ordinary citizens can only dream about.
Their goon squads have heckled, harassed and even assaulted concerned
citizens who favor less-costly private options to government-run health
care.
Just ask Kenneth Gladney, the victim of an
assault
outside of a town hall meeting in St. Louis last week by a group of
thugs wearing purple t-shirts emblazoned with the SEIU logo.
Similarly clad union operatives also blocked critics of the Obama health
care plan from attending other meetings, notably in Florida.
Former Oklahoma Rep. Ernest Istook notes that in January SEIU announced
a plan "to hire more than 1,000 activists to work in 35 states on behalf
of the Obama agenda, committing 30% of the union's total resources to
the effort. You've seen SEIU's purple-shirted members in videos of
town hall altercations." Obama calls them the "Purpose People
Beaters."
SEIU has a long history of partnering to generate angry
mobs. The union helped fund the Association of Community
Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN)
"Muscle for Money" program that was set up to pressure corporations in
shakedown campaigns, including demonstrations at the homes of corporate
executives. Labor Department disclosure forms show more than
$600,000 has changed hands between SEIU locals and ACORN affiliates
under the Muscle for Money initiative. It is not an exercise in
subtlety. How's that for coordination?
And don't forget how
Obama paid of the United Auto Workers
by taking General Motors away from the stockholders and giving it to the
union. Obama did that right in front of everybody and there was
hardly a whisper.
Obama will use the Justice Department to defend
his friends and attack his enemies. Do you understnd the implications of
this stuff?
Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department just
dismissed the case against two of the baton-wielding
Black Panthers and merely sought a
restraining order against the third, rather than seeking appropriate
penalties, including jail time, for all three. The three were
involved in voter intimidation on Election Day at a Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania polling station. That decision was
approved by an Obama appointee, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perelli. No satisfactory explanation for the decision has been
tendered by anyone in the administration. The lesson is clear
enough. If you intimidate voters in the service of Obama, your
offense can be overlooked.
However, if
you're not a supporter, cover your vitals -- The White House just
waived its ethics rules to allow two lawyers in the White House
Counsel's Office to continue to work on matters relating to former
President George W. Bush.
Obama uses
spooks too -- illegally of course. Do you know who John
Brennan is?
John Brennan is Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser,
and he should be in prison, not in the Executive Office Building. During the campaign, he headed a firm that was cited for breaching
sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to
a State Department Inspector General’s report released last July. The
security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later
confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a
contract employee of Brennan’s firm.
During a State Department
briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had
accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama,
Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general
had launched an investigation. Sources who tracked the investigation say
that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that
the contractor accessed the file in order to "cauterize" the records of
potentially embarrassing information. "They looked at the McCain and
Clinton files as well to create confusion," one knowledgeable source
said. "But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file."
What's the difference between what Nixon's spooks did and
what Obama's spooks did? Nothing! Nixon's spooks worked for the government and broke
into a campaign office. Obama's spooks were civilians and they broke
into a federal office building and did something(?) to confidential
government files. Nixon was impeached. Obama was elected. It just
boggles.
Hell, Obama's
going to
spy on your Internet use. He's not hiding the fact. Remember
how the left howled when Bush wanted to intercept communications coming
into the U. S. from al-Qaeda. The Left screamed in protest and
demanded that Bush be impeached. Now, not a whisper.
Now,
the Obama administration has announced plans to lift a government ban on
tracking visitors to government websites, and potentially, collect their
personal data through the use of "cookies" –- an effort some suspect may
already be in place on White House sites.
A ban on such tracking
by the federal government on Internet users has been in place since
2000, however, the White House Office of Management and Budget now wants
to lift the ban citing a "compelling need."
In fact, according
to the Electronic Privacy and Information Center (EPIC), federal agencies have
already negotiated agreements and contracts with social networking sites
like Google, YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook, AddThis, Blist, Flickr and
VIMEO to collect information on visitors for federal web sites. All of
these private companies are known to have agreements with federal
agencies, but the public has never seen them.
In public comments
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, EPIC notes it has
obtained documents that show federal agencies have negotiated these
contracts with the private sector in violation of "existing statutory
privacy rights." Those agencies include: Department of Defense,
Department of the Treasury, and the National Security Agency.
Now, throw in the pressure and influence that is applied on our society
from the Obots in the
media, from the felons inACORN and the thousands of active and
millions of passive Movement
members on a daily basis.
Defending the
Constitution is not always a peaceful event and these people who want to
destroy the United States
to implement Obama's agenda have just as much at stake as those who want
to save her. They have worked a very long time to push the USA to the
brink of collapse. They intend to finish the job, one way or another.
Can't you figure out why no member of congress or the courts
will be the first to challenge this evil cabal? This enormous,
Hydra-headed monster would apply enormous pressure
and use any means to crush opposition to its agenda.
Think!
If Americans won’t let leftists have their
country, the left will burn it and leave it in ruins. There is no
peaceful way out of the corner leftists have placed Americans in.
Congress, the courts, even the military brass and law enforcement, will
do nothing to save this country. The state run media complex is running
interference. The American People are on their own here, and they
better start paying
attention.
The only thing that can stop this guy is for
constitutionalists to win back control of Congress. Short of that, we're
in deep sneakers.
Obama's Thugocracy
Andrea Tantaros
reports that this past Sunday, in one of the most aggressive and
offensive intimidation tactics to date, hundreds of members of the
largest union -- the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) --
accompanied by D. C. police -- stormed the front yard of Bank
of America deputy general counsel Greg Baer’s home -- in Maryland!
The angry mob had bullhorns, signs and even broke the law by trespassing
to bully Baer’s teenage son, the only one home at the time, who locked
himself in the bathroom out of fear (video).
This is what SEIU does. They pressure politicians into
spending too much. They push government into bad policy decisions.
They sacrifice the private sector for the public sector. And now,
they trespass and break the law only to scare the children of private
citizens to get their way.
If you think the unions are working
along, think again.
These protests, the ones storming Wall Street
bank lobbies and now the private homes of bankers, are likely being
carefully coordinated with the White House to increase their profile
against the financial fat cats and help pass disgraced Connecticut
Senator Chris Dodd’s financial regulatory bill.
Remember, when
the White House visitor records were finally made public, it was SEIU
boss Andy Stern who was the most frequent guest.
There are also
no coincidences in politics. The bill passed the Senate last night.
From the G.M. bondholders, to the
Black Panthers at polling
stations, to ACORN to these assaults on
private citizens, Obama is running a Hugo Chavez-style thugocracy.
Like Chavez, he gets non-official "allies" to act as his henchemen and
do the intimidation work. Obama provides the narrative and tells
the story of "greed" while the SEIU provides the muscle. This is
about power, not prosperity.
This time it’s gone too far.
Unions see the writing on the wall. The goose that laid the golden
egg is bleeding on the operating table -- and they’re the ones who
killed it. They are bankrupting local and state governments, and
putting a strain on the federal budget. Unions have also put us at
a major trade imbalance. The stimulus has gone to create more
public sector union jobs. These jobs cost on average, 30K more
than their private sector equivalents.
Take New York State, for
example, once upon a time there was manufacturing, a robust Wall Street
engine of growth, Fortune 500 companies aplenty. That "Empire
State" is no more. The unions lobbied to ensure that these
companies were taxed to death and made it extremely challenging to do
business -- so much that it became easier to do business in communist
China.
Let’s be clear, I’m not defending Bank of America.
I'm defending the American tax payer from organized labor who has bled
them dry and the politicians who have been too weak to stand up to their
gangster ways.
Unsurprisingly, the SEIU has made no apology for
their behavior toward Baer’s family. Their spokespeople argue that
the protest was over home foreclosures under Bank of America’s watch,
but that still doesn’t give them the right to break the law. It
also doesn’t allow them a carve out like they demanded in the health
care bill for their costly Cadillac insurance plans. It’s absurd
that in a recession, the unions feel they deserve special treatment
because they are connected to the party in power. If that’s what
they’re arguing they need to stand up and say it.
In this
economy, you can't punch someone without feeling it yourself.
Punch the bank, they stop making loans, thus hurting the private sector.
Punch the private sector, you hurt the markets. Hurt the Street
and you hurt the pensions funds, in fact, the very same ones unions are
going gangster to protect.
We now know, there is nothing they
won't do, nobody the unions won't intimidate. And Obama, who
promised to preside over an administration free from special interest
influence, should be held accountable. As long as we continue to
feed the unions, the country will continue to decline. It’s time
to stand up to this behavior with the same muscle they’ve used to bully
our country all these years and send a message loud and clear: we will
not be intimidated.
Related: What did Obama know and when did he know it?
Related: After getting paid $10 billion from Obama, unions will
spend $100 million this year to keep Democrats in power.
White House Can't Get Its Sestak Story
Straight
The Washington Examiner
asks, did you hear the one about how Obama got Slick Willie Clinton
to offer second-term Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak an unpaid appointment to
an obscure White House advisory panel in return for dropping his primary
challenge to incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter? Obama and his Chicago
boys are still guffawing over how all the chumps in the media reported
that one with a straight face. Hey, it's a just another reason why
running a gangster government is nothing but laughs for the Obama crew
in the White House.
The reality is that nobody outside the White
House gang and its congressional confederates is laughing about this
one. It is simply illegal to offer a job to anybody in return for
doing something designed to influence a congressional election, so the
White House story fails both the legal and the giggle test. In the
first place, nobody can seriously believe that a wizened con man like
Bill Clinton would agree to offer such rotten bait to a deep-water fish
like Sestak, a former three-star admiral. When the job offer was
originally made to Sestak in February, it was done because he clearly
represented a serious threat to Specter's bid for the Pennsylvania
Democratic senatorial primary less than a year after turncoat Arlen
bolted the Republican Party. It is ludicrous to believe that the
prospect of a presidential appointment to an unpaid federal advisory
panel of little stature and less consequence would persuade Sestak to
give up his dream of moving up from the House to the Senate.
Clinton must have known this beforehand.
Second, White House
counsel Bob Bauer apparently was not consulted about this hastily
stitched together cover-up because otherwise the participants in the
Oval Office would likely have been told a key fact: As a sitting member
of Congress, Sestak was barred from serving on such a federal panel and
thus would have been required not only to give up his Specter challenge
but also his House seat in order to agree to the White House offer.
Whatever else he may be, Sestak is not stupid and would not have agreed
to such a bargain.
Third, when are Washington's business-as-usual
politicians going to learn that the cover-up is always worse than the
original crime? As California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the
ranking minority member of the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee, said, "Has there been stalling? Yes. Is there a
possibility that what we're being told now is not true because it's not
so plausible? Yes. Should there be independent investigation
so we can move on? Yes." So there is a real possibility of
obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct in addition to the
original violation. This is the gang that can't come up with a
plausible story, much less shoot straight.
Obama's "Chicago Way" Plunders The Private
Sector
Michael Barone
says an interesting thing about Barack Obama is that he chose, on
two occasions, to live in Chicago -- even though he didn't grow up
there, had no family ties there, never went to school there.
It
was a curious choice. Chicago has a civic culture all its own and
one that is particularly insular. Family ties and personal
connections are hugely important. Professionals who have lived and
worked there for a quarter-century are brusquely reminded, "You're not
from here."
Nonetheless Obama moved upward in the Chicago civic
firmament with apparent ease. The community organizer joined the
Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in search of street credibility in the
heavily black South Side. The adjunct law teacher made friends
around the University of Chicago from libertarian academics to domestic
terrorist William Ayers. The young state senator designed a new
district that included the Loop and the rich folk on the Near North
Side.
Obama could not have risen so far so fast without a
profound understanding of the Chicago Way. And he has brought the
Chicago Way to the White House.
One prime assumption of the
Chicago Way is that there will always be a bounteous private sector that
politicians can plunder endlessly. Chicago was America's boom town
from 1860 to 1900, growing from nothing to the center of the nation's
railroad network, the key nexus between farm and factory, the
headquarters of great retailers and national trade associations.
The Mayors Daley have maintained Chicago's centrality in commerce by
building and expanding O'Hare International Airport and by fostering a
culture of crony capitalism with the city's big employers and labor
unions. Chicago survived the Depression and recessions to thrive
once again. Sure, small businesses and some outfits lacking
political connections fell by the wayside. But the system seems to
go on forever.
So it's natural for a Chicago Way politician to
assume that higher taxes and a hugely expensive health care regime will
not make a perceptible dent in the nation's private sector economy.
There will always be plenty to plunder.
Crony capitalism also
comes naturally to a Chicago Way politician. Use some sweeteners
to get the drug companies and the doctors to sign on to the health care
plan. If the health insurers start bellyaching, whack them a few
times in public to make them go along. Design a financial reform
that Goldman Sachs and JPMorganChase can live with even while you assail
"Wall Street fat cats."
The big guys will understand that you
have to provide the voters with some political theater while you give
them what they want. As for the little guys, well, hey, in Chicago
we don't back no losers.
If in the process you've written
legislation full of glitches and boondoggles, well, they can be fixed
later. The typical vote in the Chicago City Council is 50-0.
Republicans don't count for nothing. Down in Springfield they're
outnumbered 37-22 and 70-48.
Anyone who has spent much time in
Chicago knows the city has impressive civic and business leaders,
talented and cultured people who creatively support charities and the
arts. But they also play team ball.
One measure of that is
the $25.6 million that the 2008 Obama campaign raised from metro
Chicago. An even more meaningful measure is the $5 million that
Hillary Clinton's campaign raised there -- a virtual shutout in a city
where the Clintons once raised huge sums. The word obviously went
out: You back Barack and you don't back Hillary.
Now the
Clintons are part of the Chicago Way team. As witnessed by Bill
Clinton's willingness to dangle some sort of job to Joe Sestak to get
him out of the Pennsylvania Senate race.
To some it may seem
anomalous that Obama, who began his Chicago career as a Saul Alinsky-type
community organizer, should have taken to the Chicago Way. But
Alinsky's brand of community organizing is very Chicagocentric.
It assumes that there will always be a Machine that you can complain
about and that if you make a big enough fuss it will have to respond.
And that the Machine can always get more plunder from the private
sector.
The problem with Obama's Chicago Way is that Chicago
isn't America. The Chicago Way works locally because there is an
America out there that ultimately pays for it. But who will pay
for an America run the Chicago Way?
Obama's Thuggery
Michael Barone
says thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more
so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting
negatively to the response of Barack Obama and his administration to
BP's Gulf oil spill.
Take Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's remark
that he would keep his "boot on the neck" of BP, which brings to mind
George Orwell's definition of totalitarianism as "a boot stamping on a
human face -- forever." Except that Salazar's boot hasn't gotten
much in the way of results yet.
Or consider Obama's undoubtedly
carefully considered statement to Matt Lauer that he was consulting with
experts "so I know whose ass to kick." Attacking others is a
standard campaign tactic when you're in political trouble, and certainly
BP, which appears to have taken unwise shortcuts in the Gulf, is an
attractive target.
But you don't always win arguments that way.
The Obama White House gleefully took on Dick Cheney on the issue of
terrorist interrogations. It turned out that more Americans agreed
with Cheney's stand than Obama's.
Then there is Obama's decision
to impose a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf.
This penalizes companies with better safety records than BP's and will
result in many advanced drilling rigs being sent to offshore oil fields
abroad.
The justification offered was an Interior Department
report supposedly "peer reviewed" by "experts identified by the National
Academy of Engineering." But it turned out the drafts the experts
saw didn't include any recommendation for a moratorium. Eight of
the cited experts have said they oppose the moratorium as more
economically devastating than the oil spill and "counterproductive" to
safety.
This was blatant dishonesty by the administration, on an
Orwellian scale. In defense of a policy that has all the earmarks
of mindless panic, that penalizes firms and individuals guilty of no
wrongdoing and that will worsen rather than improve our energy
situation. Ineffective thuggery.
And what about the
decision not to waive the Jones Act, which bars foreign-flag vessels
from coming to the aid of the Gulf cleanup? The Bush
administration promptly waived it after Katrina in 2005. The Obama
administration hasn't and claims unconvincingly that, gee, there aren't
really any foreign vessels that could help.
The more plausible
explanation is that this is a sop to the maritime unions, part of the
union movement that gave Obama and other Democrats $400 million in the
2008 campaign cycle. It's the Chicago way: Dance with the girl
that brung ya.
Or the decision to deny Louisiana Gov. Bobby
Jindal's proposal to deploy barges to skim oil from the Gulf's surface.
Can't do that until we see if they've got enough life preservers and
fire equipment. That inspired blogger Rand Simberg to write a blog
post he dated June 1, 1940: "The evacuation of British and French troops
from the besieged French city of Dunkirk was halted today, over concerns
that many of the private vessels that had been deployed for the task
were unsafe for troop transport."
Finally, the $20 billion escrow
fund that Obama pried out of the BP treasury at the White House when he
talked for the first time, 57 days after the rig exploded, with BP
Chairman Tony Hayward. It's pleasing to think that those injured
by BP will be paid off speedily, but House Republican Joe Barton had a
point, though an impolitic one, when he called this a "shakedown."
For there already are laws in place that insure that BP will be held
responsible for damages and the company has said it will comply.
So what we have is government transferring property from one party, an
admittedly unattractive one, to others, not based on pre-existing laws
but on decisions by one man, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg.
Feinberg
gets good reviews from everyone. But the Constitution does not
command "no person . . . shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty or
property, without due process of law except by the decision of a person
as wise and capable as Kenneth Feinberg." The Framers stopped at
"due process of law."
Obama doesn't. "If he sees any
impropriety in politicians ordering executives about, upstaging the
courts and threatening confiscation, he has not said so," write the
editors of the Economist, who then suggest that markets see Obama as "an
American version of Vladimir Putin." Except that Putin is an
effective thug.
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