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May 27, 2009 - 5:06 pm - by Richard Fernandez
rickl
2009-05-27 17:19:05

This may or may not be off topic, but I posted the following comment at Dr. Sanity a little while ago:

I think it should be pretty obvious by now that Obama, true-blue leftist that he is, wants to weaken America. Like all leftists, he resents that America is so rich and powerful and believes that we need to be cut down to size.

But apart from that, lately I’m starting to wonder whether he actually wants to get us involved in a war, so he could label any dissent or criticism as “divisive” and “unpatriotic”.

This idea has been percolating in my head recently. If a couple of our cities get nuked, then what would be the implications of holding tea parties to protest the lawless, runaway Federal government? Would dissent be body-slammed to the ground and criminalized as it was during the Wilson administration?