While our friends on the left celebrate the fact that their president showed more life than the dead parrot in the Monty Python sketch, and convince themselves they won, someone needs to tell them any time – any time – they let Obama talk in public without a teleprompter, he lets ideology leak out. And that their ideology is scary to those of us in the real world.
This is much worse, of course, when the press cooperate to enable him. I wonder when they will realize this is counterproductive.
Martha Raddatz would have done the vice president a much greater service if, instead of covering for him, preventing Ryan from finishing his answers, and generally acting like his paid media agent, she’d told Biden, “Sir, are you feeling quite well?” Or “I’m sure you didn’t mean to laugh out of turn.” Or just prevented him from interrupting Ryan once a minute.
And the inappropriately named Candy Crowley would have done the president a much greater service if she’d not forcibly inserted herself into the debate, generally giving the impression our weak-kneed commander in chief needs to hide behind a woman’s skirt. All the same, at least one of her insertions might have saved his bacon. By lying while backing him up, she made that the story of the evening and called attention away from Obama’s outright lies and bizarre assertions, which — in other circumstances — would have been the center of the debate post-mortem.
I want to bring up at least two of those because they deserve not to be forgotten. One of them because it’s such an astonishingly brazen lie that you’d think even a politician would be afraid to say it; the second because it is, in and of itself, a terrifying pronouncement, which leads me to believe the left reads dystopian science fiction and thinks it’s a society owner’s manual.
The first one is Obama’s implication that the reason gas is so expensive at the pump is that the economy is doing well, or at least recovering.
“Well, think about what the governor — think about what the governor just said. He said when I took office, the price of gasoline was $1.80, $1.86. Why is that? Because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression, as a consequence of some of the same policies that Governor Romney’s now promoting.”
To begin with, this is a crazy moment of “who are you going to believe? Us or your lying eyes?” Like the repeated Summers of Recovery which even the Wall Street Journal was touting at one point, this only makes the citizenry locked in the worst “recovery” in the history of the U.S. feel like not only does the Obama administration not care we’re suffering, but they think we’re stupid.
Second, I guess all of us must have forgotten the late eighties, because, gee golly, I swear gas was really cheap and the economy was going like gangbusters.
The worst part of this? I think Obama truly believes the economy is recovering, just like his wife believes it is booming. They are both the product of exquisite indoctrination. They don’t understand how the policies they’ve been TOLD would work can NOT be working. So, they must be working – they must!
They also don’t seem to understand gas is used for more than pleasure jaunts. Possibly because it’s not used for anything else in their singularly sheltered lives. Which means they don’t understand the chilling effect of the cost of gas on the production and transport of … everything. They wanted gas prices to “skyrocket” to discourage consumption, but they didn’t see (probably still don’t) that this meant skyrocketing food costs and … everything costs.
Are they criminals because they have no opportunities, or is it they have no opportunities because they are criminals?
Those blinded by socialist/Marxist/communist ideology eschew personal responsibility. In other words, the devil made them commit said crimes, and it’s not their fault that life is unfair.
Of course, gov’t is ALWAYS their answer to remedy all societal ills, but that is because the more involved the gov’t is, the more they can control society.
Big brother always lurking.
The bottom line is – power and control – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/05/if-it-looks-like-a-socialistmarxistcommunist-plan-it-is-peekingpeeling-back-into-obamas-looking-glass-his-surrogates-too-their-bomblets-waiting-to-explode-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
“It is time we tell him we don’t want the federal government in our communities, in our homes, in our beds or in our heads.”
You could add, we don’t want the feds in our grocery carts, dining establishments, doctors’ offices, operating rooms, etc., etc. The list grows daily.
You nailed it: “We just want to be left alone to be Americans.” Unfortunately, such a concept is both alien and incomprehensible to Obama and the BObots.
But Obama already HAS a plan for all those automatic weapons that kill amazing numbers of folks… he and Holder sell them to Mexican drug gangs.
As Isoroku Yammamoto once observed, in this country, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Those firearms are not located in urban areas, where the inhabitants are mostly disarmed and subject to militarized police forces, on an increasing level.
The progressives talk a lot of hysterical trash, and are verbally as violent as can be, but they ultimately rely on police and other armed constabuary forces to provide the requisite backup to their warlike vocabularies.
The truth is that the armed American population is vastly more numerous than the military forces of the rest of the earth, combined. Democtrats in particular should take that as a warning.
Once before, Democrats attempted to tear this nation asunder by force of arms in order to preserve their peculiar institution, and the sectional conflict resulted in the deaths of ovfer 600,000 on both sides. Even after 150 years, and numerous changing of the spots on the Democrat hyena, that lesson should be well remembered.
The rest of us should remember that the Democrats have ever been the enemy of the Republic, and the champions of of every evil to afflict the fabric of the American political landscape. Whether because of stupidity, perfidity or outright larceny, Democrats have been at the source of the ills that have befallen us since they first crawled out from under their rock of origin, in the fever swamps that produceed slavery, and a false aristocracy and a Civil War that once and for all put an end to chattel slavery in this country but not, unfortunately, to the Southern Democrat and his northern cousin, the Progressive Democrat.
The Democrats are still selling slavery, just packaged differently.
The largest land army in the world takes the field every year in North America.
They’re called the deer-hunters of the Mid-West.
All you have to do is look at the number of deer-tags that are issued in PA, OH, IN, MI, MN, WI, etc.
When they stop hunting deer, and start hunting pols….
…I want the pay-per-view rights!
Remember when the OJ trial was happening and that guy chased his lawyer around the palm tree with a gun, trying to shoot him?
I was in a bar, and every single person erupted in a spontaneous cheer!
At each shot!
Broadcast rights for the Pol Hunt would pay off the deficit in a week!
Strike that- better armed than the armies of the world combined, INCLUDING OUR OWN.
Exactly, a conversation brought up by Romney during the debate, but was quickly ‘squasched’ by tagteam crowley/obama.
He/holder/admin also provided heavy weapons to Honduras, Libya, Syria and Eqypt. How many people were killed by our govt provided weapons? At least we are aware that AmbStevens and 3 others were murdered by them, not gorgetting Brian Terry and Zapata!
There’s another “Fast & Furious” scandal developing in Libya and Syria:
US consulate in Benghazi was a hub for recruiting jihadis to fight for al Qaeda in Syria
As the above article indicates, the US has also been routing Saudi and Qatari weapons to al Qaeda operatives in Syria.
It’s already illegal to own automatic weapons without a federal license. Those licenses are not cheap nor easy to obtain. So, if automatic weapons are being used in crimes, then they’re being used by people who’re already breaking gun laws. How will passing more gun laws change anything? Criminals, by definition, are people who don’t obey the law. What makes anyone believe they’d obey yet another law.
Likewise, if automatic weapons are being used in crimes (and I’m skeptical about that), then they likely came into the country illegally. If we can’t stop tons of illegal drugs from being smuggled into the country every day, how can we stop illegal guns from being smuggled into the country?
ISTR reading that a single automatic weapon has been used in a crime in the last 30, 40 years. It was (again, from memory), issued to a law enforcement officer.
It was a privately owned MAC-10, owned by a police officer, who used it to commit a murder.
To own a fully automatic weapon, you must first live in a state where ownership is legal. Then, you have to FIND an automatic weapon, purchase it, THEN get local law enforcement permission,THEN get the Federal paperwork back, approved. At that point, you can take possession.
If Hollywood is to be believed (snort), thugs use fully automatic weapons all the time to shoot at cops and each other. Somehow, reality is likely quite different. I’d love to see some credible statistics on how many crimes have been committed with fully automatic weapons. I suspect the percentage is quite low.
It is true there has been only one (or two, might have been another a decade back) legally owned (tax-stamped) full suto found to have been used in a crime. That’s out of thousands of such legally owned FA’s.
Now, there have been more than a few -illegally- owned (smuggled or converted at effort and expense) full auto’s used in crime in that time, but that simply points out (again) that the heavy regulation of the law-abiding is an irrational way to try to impact crime. People willing to commit armed robbery, assault, and murder are not “otherwise law-abiding people” and have no fear of violating mere weapon’s possession laws.
I’m pretty sure it’s the interchangeable automatic/semi-automatic that is always being used by the “gun ignorant” of which our “president” is one. Just another lie, in a long line. It’d just be sad if it wasn’t so scary.
1)We should trust the leftist Democrats on making city streets safe, because in the cities where they dominate the political environment, they have a fabulous record of safe streets, no gangs, no murders, no violent crime….and paying their bills, doing great budget work.
Like Detroit. Or Oakland. Or Chicago. Or Baltimore. Everywhere there is total domination by Democrats…there is no violent crime, no bankrupt government, no assault guns. This is because they have been saying for decades that THEY know how to solve these problems. And they have. They’ve gotten their media to stop reporting on it, so therefore, no problems exist. Had a REPUBLICAN been in charge of anything in these cities, it would be on the front page EVERY SINGLE DAY.
And, we should trust this leftist President on the budget because he has submitted two of them and gotten not a single vote. It is not that he didn’t get a single Republican vote, he didn’t get a single vote…period. Not even a Cornhusker Kickback or Louisiana Purchase bribed vote. He couldn’t BUY a vote. Literally. Of course, he is not asked any questions by the slobbering lapdogs, so …no worries.
Any man who can create a budget so galactically ridiculous that not even his most bootlicking toady would vote for it, has got to be followed, if for no other reason than to give us a good, hard look into the abyss.
We should also follow this man and his team when they pile out of the clown car and start beeping their noses and stomping around in big, floppy shoes on national security. Not only do they leak vital information and put our people in mortal danger, they then refuse to give them any protection. This is a combination of efforts so monumentally crass, dangerous and inane that you would think it was devised in a meth lab.
But, it’s the coverup afterward that has the clown cars all banging into each other. It’s a film trailer, it’s a terror attack, it’s a terror attack that arose because of a film trailer, it’s being investigated, it’s not being investigated, …wait, here comes the squirting flower and the hand buzzer handshake.
But, it’s not an issue…because Candy Crowley and the Sugar Buzz Media decided that Obama and the Emmett Kelly Brigade needed a pass on the issue.
Obama has Mommy Issues and we get to suffer the consequences.
Now that they’ve taken out the street lights in Detroit (unpaid electric bills iirc), you can’t find violent crimes being committed on the streets of Detroit! taa-daa!
Our President suggested we resurrect our society based on the movie The Life’s of Others? That’s worked out so well every time it’s been tried.
The gas price comments by Obama truly showed a failure to grasp even basic economics. I still remember 30 years ago the Beer vs. Bread graph. [Do they still teach that?] The higher the price of beer, the less bread you could buy. It was a two commodity economy, but the concept of limited resources (money) was there.
So the same goes for gasoline, the higher the price the less you have to buy other things, like bread or maybe a house. And perhaps more importantly, it’s a cummulative effect. Not only do you have less money to buy bread, but the grocer has to charge more for that bread to bring it to his store, because the truck line is charging him more to offset higher cost of business and so on.
So basically all that money goes for one commodity instead of being spread out through many commodities and more importantly, it represents money that can’t be invested in anything else. Which of course, flews over Obama’s head anyway, because he has no clue how investment works either.
I realize that lawyers are not required to take a lot of higher math in college, but a simple supply vs. price vs. alternative spending, shouldn’t be that hard. It’s not like he has to solve differential equations and get an exact answer. Just recognizing the tendency will do.
Obama’s logic is laughable, but very simple and hence plausible to those willing to trust a conman’s words: Bad economy=Fewer people driving.
But if he wants to play that absurd logic, the response is simple: Unemployment was 7.8 when your started and it’s 7.8 now. Not only that, the absolute number of people in the workforce is much LOWER than 2009.
By his simplistic logic, gas should be the same price as 2009. So how come it’s 150% higher?
Could it be a SUPPLY problem, genius?
Today, whoever has the beer must have stolen the bread from someone. In the meantime, no one can find either bread or beer. So, where’s the beef?
We already live in a highly surveilled society — watch any current television police procedural, such as Castle — so what more does he propose: having our TVs watch us? I thought the Dems were all about keeping the government out of our bedrooms?
They are not concerned about doing anything to solve problems; their concern is to appear to be doing something while pursuing their actual agenda.
Progressives dream of Absolute Power and Making Everything Perfect Forever- for themselves.
The trouble is, their perfect world only has room for nobles and serfs. And they intend to be the nobles, with no more serfs than they absolutely must have to make their lives easy. (“Work” is a foreign concept to them, as they believe they are entitled to be sybarites.)
The old Soviet Union once produced a movie titled The Andromeda Nebula, depicting a distant future where young socialists labored mightily to conquer and explore the Universe in an Era of Common Labor. (It said so, right on the prologue roll after the titles.) Our modern progressives, who consider themselves the perfection of Soviet-style socialism, aim to spend eternity sitting at their ease, abusing the peasants, and arguing about which of them is the single most perfect socialist who ever lived.
Not exactly the same thing.
This probably explains their fascination with 1984, Minority Report, and similar dystopian visions. They love the idea of an autocracy in which they reap the benefits- but somebody else does the dirty work.
The problem is, there is always at least one in every crowd who would enjoy doing that dirty work- while all the others watch, cheer, and have orgasms at seeing innocents abused and slain. That’s why the Roman Coliseum did big box office.
When you combine would-be philosopher-kings with hard-core psychopaths, you get hell on earth.
Or a “perfect progressive state”, which amounts to the same thing.
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“forcibly inserted” and Candy Crowley bring up really repulsive imagery (SHUDDER!)
He’s against the indiscriminate distribution of assault weapons that kill lots of people? Didn’t he just describe “Fast and Futrious?”
No, that was very discriminate distribution. To people they were certain would kill innocents, providing the administration with propaganda for more gun control, easier immigration, and best of all more voters who would reliably pull any lever marked “D” in the voting booth.
If they did in fact supply arms to street gangs here in CONUS as a sideshow of that, it would be just one more example of Otto von Bismarck’s doctrine of using crises to frighten the people into giving the government more power. (Rahm Emanuel’s remark about “never letting a crisis go to waste” was not original.)
Bismarck also observed that the way to keep greater power, and expand it, was to create crises as and when needed. Which would tend to explain pretty much everything Obama & Co. have done since they’ve been in Washington.
Compared to them, Nixon’s “Six Crises” marks him as a small-time grifter. I think even Otto would be impressed by this lot’s inventiveness in the “crisis creation” department.
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Amen, sister.
If the crime thing doesn’t work, they always run for political office.
Last night was the second time obama’s hidden behind a woman’s skirt. Just a few days ago he hid behind Hillary when she stated that she would take full responsibility for the Benghazi debacle, but tacitly refused to suffer any consequences for her incopetence.
Obama’s comment on gas prices is not stupid, it’s just misinformed and disingenuous. If in 2009 we truly had been in a deflationary collapse, then indeed the price of gas would have dropped, just like prices dropped steadily through the early years of the Depression.
And Obama is in recognized-name territory when he asserts this: this is, after all, the driving idea behind the Federal Reserve’s endless rounds of “quantitative easing” and “twisting” — otherwise known as printing money by the bushel — under Chairman Bernanke. Since late 2008 their guiding mantra has been that the economy is just about to slip into a deflationary spiral, liquidity trap, and all that classical Keynesian stuff. Banks were about to implode, lending to screech to a full stop, wages and prices drop like a stone, just like it all happened in 1933.
Unfortunately, the evidence on this is equivocal, to say the least. The one thing the price of which DID drop like a stone in 2008 (and even before) was real estate, and a very good argument can be made that this was NOT evidence of an oncoming deflationary spiral, but just the popping of a good old-fashioned bubble. And as anyone who doesn’t work for the media, Democratic Party, or various lying government statistics agencies know, the price of nearly every other component of a normal life — food, fuel, clothing, paint, grass seed, fertilizer, electricity — has risen substantially over the past four or five years, which is what you expect if your central bank is printing money like crazy and you are NOT in a deflationary spiral — you get inflation.
So Obama was trying to assert the price of gas was weirdly low in 2009 because the economy was in a deflationary spiral, which luckily he and ol’ Helicopter Ben stopped in the nick of time, and now gas is more normal.
Of course, he’s historically wrong there. Had he been correct, the price of gas in 2009 would represent a steep drop from 2005, say, and that is most definitely not true. Furthermore, if the current price represented a return to normalcy, or even the result of an economic recovery or boom, its rise would mirror (indeed lag slightly behind) the rise in wages that was driving up demand.
That, of course, is laughable. Nobody thinks gas is $4 a gallon instead of $1.50 because wages have risen so high that people are now demanding extra gas for frivolous uses they couldn’t afford in 2009.
In a way, the whole business is fascinatingly illuminating. What Obama is demonstrating here is that he is the kind of person who is persuaded by elegant theory, and lacks (or has a sort of post-modernist lack of respect for) the kind of just-look-out-the-window common sense that would cast doubt upon it.
In short, Obama gets his feeling about whether the price of gas is “high” or “low” or “normal” by consulting a textbook, where the rest of us might get that feeling by consulting our memory of daily experience. Obama is the ultimate professor. He probably needs to read a meteorology textbook to find out whether the Sun is shining today.
Obviously, the thing to do to counteract high gas prices is to insure that “home prices are driven back up to where they were”, which is the stated goal of the administration. Of course, why didn’t I think of that. Get those housing prices back up, and … Ummh, I’m not sure. Ask your Federal Government Bureaucrat.
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“interrupting Ryan once a minute”
Er, twice a minute, the Joker interrupted 81 times in Ryan’s 41 minutes; the “moderator” 31 times.
He is not referring to creating consequences for crimes that haven’t happened. He is referring to specific, existing programs that excuse all manners of behavior that ought to be met with consequences but are not because Obama and others believe that young people, in particular young minority males, should be kept out of the criminal justice system at any cost.
The consequence of that is a steady escalation of the murder rate — virtually exclusively among minority males between the ages of 15 and 21. Tragically, some studies suggest that this cohort has a statistically higher chance of completing high school in prison, rather than outside of it.
The youths who are steered into these programs aren’t being persecuted: they are persecuting others and getting away with it in the name of “restorative justice,” “alternatives to sentencing,” and other dangerous nonsense that ends up harming them the most. You’re right that it’s insane, but you’re mistaken about the programs.
Thr economy really must have been in the crapper in July and August of 1998. It cost 99 cents a gallon in New Jersey. Heady days of bread lines, hand me down shoes, burlap sack shirts and cheap, cheap gasoline.
I was disappointed Romney did not seize on the question referencing Steven Chu and mention his desire to see gas prices approach those of Europe ($8/gal). He also could have mentioned Obama in 2008 saying his only problem with the $4.00 gas that summer was how fast it got there. There is plenty on the record to demonstrate this team has no desire to see cheap abundant energy.
If you listen to his response he basically just gave some lip service to higher fuel efficiency cars and windmills while trying to take credit for the increased production on federal lands. I don’t think he even once mentioned a real desire to see gas prices drop. If he believed in cheap abundant energy he wouldn’t wouldn’t have nominated a bunch of nuts who want to make it as expensive or more than europe. I agree that Romney really needs to start hammering Obama in these debates on the sort of people he appoints to various “czar” positions. If he appointed them they represent his values whatever he may try to say.
“Like the repeated Summers of Recovery which even the Wall Street Journal was touting at one point . . . ”
Sometimes the WSJ has trouble channeling it’s inner conservative.
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Voting Libertarian gets the current socialist-in-chief out of office exactly how? First things first. Obozo has got to go, that’s the first priority, and the only way to do that is to vote for Romney. Yeah, I’m all too aware of how Romney isn’t my ideal candidate, I didn’t vote for him in the primary. But the only alternative to Romney at this point is 4 more years of Obummer and that just isn’t tolerable. However it is at least possible that Romney is someone who we will be able to work with and who will at least do some of the right things to actually improve our situation.
The Libertarian Party is not the vehicle to use in these times (and based on past performance, perhaps never). Rather, take the libertarian TEA Party movement’s approach and overrun the Republican party from the bottom up. IF the RNC refuses to listen to reason, withhold funding and volunteer time to their candidates and support the TEA PArty candidates and local TEA Party movement people at the local level instead.
We also have to remember that the Presidential election is just one battle in the overall war. Support candidates with libertarian views in every election from city council, school trustee, State legislature, State Governor and in the House and Senate to drive out Progressives from the levers of power. Boycott Legacy media outlets and their advertisers to block the spread of lies. Work to out and oust Progressives from schools and institutes of higher learning, and if that is not possible, arrange for alternative educational opportunities for yourself, your children and your friends (home schooling, charter schools, private schools, online learning) to fight against indoctrination.
This is the work of a generation, and we are fighting against a system which has been insinuating itself in the body politic since at least the 1930′s (and arguably since the First World War), so victory will be neither easy or cheap to achieve. Nevertheless we must not fail.
What I would prefer is you should fix your eyes every day on the greatness of Athens as she really is, and fall in love with her. When you realize her greatness, then reflect what made her great were men with a spirit of adventure, men who knew their duty, men who were ashamed to fall below a certain standard. If they ever failed in an enterprise, they made up their minds that at any rate the city would not find their courage lacking to her, and they gave to her the best contribution that they could. They gave her their lives, to her and to all of us, and for their own selves they won praises that never grow old, the most splendid of sepulchers- not the sepulcher where their body is laid but where their glory remains eternal in men’s minds, always there on the right occasion to stir others to speech or to action.
Excellent post.
Even if you believe there are no significant poly differences between Obama and Romney, look at it this way: There’s no way the media will let any republican administration get away with half the stuff this one has.
Isn’t Wayne Allyn Root a Libertarian? He just endorsed Mitt Romney.
As the other respondents have said, this is not the time for Pure Ideology, this is the time for getting RID of the Pure Ideology in the White House now; once we’ve righted the ship, we can worry about rearranging the deck chairs.
It should be mentioned that another reason just as powerful as the restriction on the production of petroleum put into effect by this administration on the price of that petroleum, is the debasement of the currency under the policies of the Fed, with the active encouragement of the White House.
If the Dollar was just as valuable now as when Mr. Obama ascended to office in Jan-09, a bbl of oil would be a lot less dear, as would the costs of everything else that is imported, and transported.
Gold: January 2009: $900+/-
Today: $1777!
Plus, there are all the restrictions on the refining of petroleum, restriction to a severity that Big-Oil is contemplating the EXPORT of crude-oil, instead of refining it here.
“He’s either completely out of touch with reality and wrapped in an impenetrable cocoon of indoctrination, or he thinks we’re stupid.”
The two are not mutually exclusive.
“It appears–wait for this, I know it will shock you–that criminals don’t obey the law. Who would have thought it?”
Liberals know this. Getting guns out of the hands of criminals is cover for “disarming the population.” The murder rate in Chicago isn’t real. When progressives are confronted with facts that disprove their social manipulation, they disregard them. It’s like trying to put facts before a pubescent child who then sticks his fingers in his ears and says “Nyah! Nyah! I can hear you” as if that makes the fact disappear.
“pubescent”? Any teen or tween o’ mine who tried that nonsense would find herself severely lacking in social engagements for the foreseeable future. Mine grew out of that by age three or so.
East Germany and the Stasi come to mind…
Yes. At the end they had literally recruited half the population to spy on
the other half, and portable interrogation systems were standard issue –
A briefcase full of IV gear and a selection of psychotropic truth serums.
Rocky, yeah, that’ll work. Vote for Gary Johnson so Obama can win a second term.
One must deal with the reality on the ground. To not do so is precisely what conservatives chastize the left for doing.
So when I used to sell guns in Virginia, there was in fact explicit laws about selling to people who self identified as criminals or having had any mental health issue. Of course, the state was not always great about determining which people did in fact have criminal records (from out of state) or had been voluntarily committed (got approval from the state, but wouldn’t sell them the weapon after these admissions).
Several things i can say,
Having graduated a Criminal Justice program I can tell you the President’s belief that lack of opportunity equals crime is pretty much indoctrination since that was the premise behind most of the sociological theories on the cause of crime I was taught. Ironically most of them originate from professors in Chicago and are alternatively known as the Chicago School of social theory. Those theories were probably prominent where he went to college.
“Kindly keep in mind the only power–the only power–the government has is the power of coercion. Ultimately, people do what the government tells them because otherwise the government puts them in jail (or fines them. Or makes their lives living h*ll).” You left one out, “kill them,” as our government did at Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas and SWAT teams do regularly now. That is one of the favored methods of the police state and I’m afraid we are slowly being conditioned to the acceptance of one like the proverbial frog in a pot by such careless demonstrations of the ultimate power of the state. And that state is what our president believes in as long as it fits the politically correct model he wants.
The incumbent now has something he didn’t have in 2008, a track record of policies. The only question before the People right now is whether they agree with those policies, failed and all, and want four more years of them.
“I can tell you the society that would result. Double thinking. Keeping any real trouble to yourself and always, always watching your slightest expression and word where people could see you.”
That is the kind of society they have largely built in LA. It is the next best thing to hell on earth.
We already have something that “catch[es] violent impulses before they occur.” It’s call the Three Strikes Law, and reduces violent crime everywhere it’s in place. But liberal judges and liberal politicians (like Obama) hate.
Of course they do. Because it works.
You see, if somebody actually comes up with an idea that reduces violent crime to a rarity, it reduces the dependency of the populace on the government. Less crime means less cops, less prosecutors, less public defenders, less taxes. This is exactly what liberals *don’t* want.
And an idea that does that without any increase in the size or complexity of government, like concealed carry? That’s even worse.
Actually federal law may have played a part in the Aurora shooting. The University psychiatrist who Holmes had been seeing was concerned enough about his deteriorating behavior to have contacted her colleagues for a formal threat assessment. The problem was once Holmes had dropped out the university felt they couldn’t do anything under various federal privacy laws that apply to health records and student information. I wondered at the time if that was why Holmes suddenly dropped out. Mentally ill people often don’t think they need treatment.
I almost did a spit-take on PBS’ News Hour earlier (wed) when they had a WaPo and AP reporter “fact checking” the debate. They brought up the gas quote. Played Obama,…and then said he was essentially correct….
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During the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists. They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population. In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20% who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it. Another one-third of the population sided with the King (by the end of the war there were actually more Americans fighting FOR the King than there were in the field against him) and the final third took no side, blew with the wind and took what came.
Three Percenters today do not claim that we represent 3% of the American people, although we might. That theory has not yet been tested. We DO claim that we represent at least 3% of American gun owners, which is still a healthy number somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 million people. History, for good or ill, is made by determined minorities. We are one such minority. So too are the current enemies of the Founders’ Republic. What remains, then, is the test of will and skill to determine who shall shape the future of our nation.
The Three Percent today are gun owners who will not disarm, will not compromise and will no longer back up at the passage of the next gun control act. Three Percenters say quite explicitly that we will not obey any futher circumscription of our traditional liberties and will defend ourselves if attacked. We intend to maintain our God-given natural rights to liberty and property, and that means most especially the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are committed to the restoration of the Founders’ Republic, and are willing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppressor, to kill in the defense of ourselves and the Constitution that we all took an oath to uphold against enemies foreign and domestic.
We are the people that the collectivists who now control the government should leave alone if they wish to continue unfettered oxygen consumption. We are the Three Percent. Attempt to further oppress us at your peril. To put it bluntly, leave us the hell alone. Or, if you feel froggy, go ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.
“which leads me to believe the left reads dystopian science fiction and thinks it’s a society owner’s manual”
I would say that some dytopian SF is writtten by people who see the world that way. I recall a story where polyester was considered almost as bad as Nazisim. no, really. Big famous New Wave author.
Meanwhile, Obama’s final statement sounds like he is trying to implement an SF dystopia (1984 is a good example). (Actually, all dystopias and utopias basically qualify as SF.)
Sarah, it was my civic duty to report you. But don’t worry, Michelle has written the menu for inmates at your new home, the William Ayers Memorial Re-Education Campus.
Great read, Sarah.
There is a Big brother is already out there performing pre-crime and his name is TSA.
I would not be shocked to see VIPER out and about in South Side Chicago or parts of LA in the near future.
Firmly and incisively put, Sarah.
I’d like to remind everyone — really, everyone in America, but for now, the readers of PJ Media — of something the Powers That Be are anxious that they not hear: Sovereign power continues to rest with private citizens, through the operation of juries. The State cannot punish a man — the only real power a government has (Ayn Rand) — without the unanimous assent of a jury of his peers. Nor can the State punish a juror for “voting the wrong way” — i.e., in defiance of the judge’s instructions.
That explains both official opposition to the Fully Informed Jury Initiative and the many calls from various “experts on jurispridence” to do away with the jury system, doesn’t it?
Take your opportunities to serve on a criminal jury most seriously. You might be the only chance some poor soul indicted under an unjust law, such as the many laws that deny firearms to peaceable private citizens, to escape incarceration for daring to behave like a free man. Besides, who knows? Your roles might be reversed some day — and you wouldn’t want him to remember you other than appreciatively.
I haven’t served on a jury, criminal or civil, in over a decade (since my retirement). Because I’m always dismissed in the per-emptory challenge stage, once the attorneys learn of my law enforcement background.
I can generally tell how solid the case against the defendant is in a criminal case, or how strong the plaintiff’s case is in a civil case, by who rules me out. Criminal defense attorneys don’t want a CSI lab geek on the jury if their client isn’t innocent; prosecutors don’t want one there if their scientific evidence is shaky.
And in a civil lawsuit, the side with the weakest case doesn’t want anyone who knows even criminal law gumming up the works.
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A good point. Lawyers will virtually always challenge off:
– Someone with an advanced education (Bachelor’s degree or higher);
– Someone with knowledge pertinent to the subject of the case;
– Someone with obvious charisma and leadership qualities.
That insulates:
– Their non sequiturs from being dismantled;
– Their expert witnesses from being contradicted;
– Their ability to sway the jury from being contested.
All the same: If you get an opportunity to be a juror, relish your chance to be a servant of freedom. It doesn’t come often, nor to many.
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Totalitarian tendencies and sympathies abound in this administration. Remember the cabinet members and officials who have been Communist party members? How about union agitators or admirers of Chairman Mao? Public support of Venezuelan dictators, perhaps?
Of course they would like nothing better than their own personal Stasi (remember that civilian military force idea that was supposed to be roughly the same size as our current military) and severe restriction of civilian owned weapons and ammo.
The administration demonstrated these opinions openly. I wonder if there are enough watchdogs at the ballot boxes to counter the wolves.
Yes, the Romney campaign really needs to do a better job of revealing to the public the sorts of open communists and other radicals Obama has appointed to various positions. Romney needs to reveal some of their more honest quotes (wanting $8/gal gas, pro commie, racist stuff etc.) and plaster the airwaves with them.
Totalitarian impulses and power hungry pols come together in everything this administration does … and they are unrepentant. They gotta goooooooooooooo!!!!!
Been there, done that. We reported Eric Holder for his complicity in the death of 300 Mexicans and a US Border Patrol agent and no one listened. Another government program that doesn’t work.
You have only to look 90 miles south across the Florida Straits to see what kind of society Obama thinks would be so wonderful he’d like to copy it–Castro’s Cuba! Where the neighborhood snitch committees known as the CDR’s (“Committees for the Defense of the Revolution”) report on everything to the political police in order to get a little extra rice and beans… where everyone over the age of six must practice doublethink and is afraid of their shadow. The opposite side of the coin is that everyone over the age of six also must steal and engage in activities considered “criminal” by the oppressive state in order to get barely enough to eat. As Cuban refugee I know what that kind of society is like from personal experience.
I have a Cuban friend who when she heard Obama talk about a civilian defense force as large as the Army, she said, “The hair on my neck stood up.” She also said, “I can’t live through that again.” I don’t even want to live through it once. Glad you are here to speak up.
Drones Over America Jun 17, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krO566t8y-E
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Also note the almost misty-eyed belief that when people turn to crime it’s because they “lack other opportunities.” This deterministic view of individuals as cogs in society is pure Marx. It is also stupid.”
This line of reasoning so explains Bill Ayres and company bombing their way inot middle age. Dear Leader really is a morally and intellectually bankrupt man.