Land of the Lawless
When the Law Does Not Pay
I do not think in California there is much law these days. We are regressing to the days of my grandfather’s stories. He used to relate to me a wild Central Valley circa 1900, when the sheriff was a day away. A neighbor down the road is now openly violating county zoning regulations by simply moving in immobile Winnebagos and creating a sort of ad hoc mobile home park — with jerry-rigged electricity, sewage, and water. “Restaurants” pop up around my farm along the side of the road, exempt from state and local inspection, apparently by parking a canteen, plopping down some plastic chairs, an awning, a porta-potty, a hose — and, presto, we have an eatery, with signs no less.
There are no dumping laws enforced in rural California: stopping the guy who throws out his garbage and a sofa is a money-loser; finding the guy in the Mercedes who uses his cell phone is a money-winner.
Yet most state lawlessness out here is predicated on priorities of enforcement and driven by public employee unions who see us the people in terms of “fees” and “fines” to feed their salaries, perhaps in the way the Thanksgiving chef eyes the roasting turkey amid hungry mouths.
AWOL in Washington
The new lawlessness at the federal level, however, is far more serious, because it is predicated on “social justice”: those deemed “in need” shall be exempt from the law; those “not in need” shall not.
The War Powers Resolution, like it or not, is the law of the land. It requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action. Without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war, the military cannot remain in combat abroad. That’s why George W. Bush went to Congress to authorize the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. During the heated rhetoric over the Iranian missile controversy, presidential and vice-presidential candidates Obama and Biden both expressed support for the resolution — apparently outraged that Bush might unilaterally bomb Iran without notifying a Senator like themselves.
So when we recently passed the 60-day limit after the initial and continual use of armed forces in Libya, why did not Obama seek permission from Congress?
Here the question is not the usual Obama hypocrisy that has seen him demagogue and damn Guantanamo, preventative detention, tribunals, renditions, the Patriot Act (just signed by a former critic via computerized autopen from the UK no less), and Predators — only to expand or embrace them all. Rather, the problem is a question of legality itself.
Is the War Powers Resolution the law of the land or not? Or are we to assume a progressive president is complying with both UN resolutions and an Arab League mandate, and therefore, as the good internationalist and Nobel laureate, sees no reason to consult, as American law requires, his own elected U.S. Congress — the latter a more suspect and reactionary body that does not enjoy the moral stature of the UN or the Arab League?
This disregard reminds us of the shake-down of BP, when the administration more or less declared by fiat that the demonized corporation had to cough up a $20 billion contingency clean-up fund — reminiscent of someone in the classical Athenian ekklesia or late 18th-century French assembly going after the better off by mere proclamation.
In that regard, an administration is sworn to uphold the established law; why, then, was the Defense of Marriage Act arbitrarily rendered null and void without legislative appeal, simply because it was considered illiberal by those now with executive power? Can President Obama and Attorney General Holder de facto declare a law unconstitutional and then not enforce it? Could a renegade conservative counterpart likewise declare Roe vs. Wade unconstitutional, and go after abortionists because it deemed them too liberal?
Welcome to the real world Dr. Hanson. Unfortunately, the party is over. Not unexpected events when a Marxist dictator takes over a nation and there are no truth tellers to expose the fraud. My story for more than three years and I didn’t need a PHD to understand the words of the One when he was running and after he was elected. The carnage is everywhere one looks these days.
“A Slippery Slope
I find all this quite frightening for a variety of reasons. Once the moral high ground is claimed, then legality is constructed as some sort of reactionary impediment in the way of egalitarian “fairness”. The process works geometrically: each time the federal government rules by fiat instead of following the law—for reasons of humanitarianism abroad, ecological responsibility, worker fairness, gay rights, or empathy for the alien—it becomes a little bolder the next time.”
This is just another replay of cowardice in action. Conservatives now are re-enacting the Neville Chamberlain role of 1938. Leftist Democrats are not competitors; not opponents; they are enemies. I’m looking for a GOP candidate who reminds me of Chesty Puller or George Patton, not Ronald Reagan or Calvin Coolidge. When asked about his strategy, Puller summed it up by saying: “March to the sound of the enemy’s guns and destroy him.” Or, of course, lose.
I wish I didn’t think so, but these are all signs of the start of the collapse, IMHO. In two years, it will be much worse. In three or four, we will likely pass the tipping point.
Robert A. Hall
Author: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
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VDH, it is, of course…far worse than this.
We are breaking promises to allies, ignoring our own Constitution..which is but a trifling “suggestitory” document, we are prosecuting civil rights based on skin color…not acts of egregious violation, we have judges selected based on their implied promise NOT to follow the law, and we have an installed propaganda machine that intentionally hides, distorts and bastardizes the facts we need to self-govern this land of ours.
The country is in the middle of an overthrow. If those in power can violate the laws at their whim, if they have a propaganda machine to hide this and distort it, if we are slapping our allies and smooching our enemies….what else would we call that…if we saw it another country?
View this with the eyes of an outside observer watching events unfold in a third world country. What would we say was happening?
You have every right to be frightened, VDH. This plane has been taken over and we are being told to stay calm. We never got to vote on adopting socialism or small c communism. The question was never called.
Our borders are being busted open. Our prisons are being emptied. Our laws are being ignored and flouted. Our allies are being sold down the river. Our economy has been seized.
What would we call that if we saw it happening in a third world country?
American no-how?
The law has to be ignorned when you govern with “empathy”.
Read Thomas Sowell’s book “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”. He elaborates on this point quite nicely.
Thanks for the recommendation. I love Thomas Sowell.
Did you read this piece on David Mamet?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576347110395478634.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
David Mamet’s Coming Out Party
Before he moved to California, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet had never talked to a self-described conservative. ‘I realized I lived in this bubble.’
Peace Sister:
Yes I did, and I loved it. I am collecting my pennies and looking for a bookstore in my overly progressive environment that might actually carry it.
If a book is published in a forest and no one stocks it, does it really exist :)?
Walt Williams has some nice essays, too. Shorter and easier, but often the same fine points as Sowell’s.
In California, Atlas Shrugged is no longer a novel or a movie. It’s become a documentary.
How does one “ignorn”?
Everybody’s falling for the head fake. This isn’t about ‘isms. What is happening is what has happened since time immemorial: “Give me a nickel and I’ll take a buck from that guy over there and give it to you.”.
All of the philosophical debates are part of the con. Lots of twenty dollar words to keep you from yelling Stop Thief! The rule of men and not laws is thuggery – armed robbery.
Many parts of the US are third-world now. The third world is what? It’s wherever third-world people live. We are importing millions of them, to add to the non-whites already here. If you had asked Thaddeus Stevens or other Radical Republican in 1865 how the slaves were gonna do after freedom, and also asked some Klansman, which prediction would be closer to Detroit?
Yeah, and racially based philosophies work. Not.
The problem is not race, race is merely a tool used by warlords, usurpers, and slavers. Check your history.
The lawlessness at the federal level that Dr. Hanson describes is an outgrowth of the expansion of the judicial branch into all things executive and legislative, and into political questions, international affairs, and by courts reading any political belief or policy preference into our Constitution’s text.
VDH: I accept your thesis that we are in a period of great lawlessness. So, do we recall the words of Candidate Obama and shudder at them now? Can we expect Obama to work to achieve his stated objectives, those concerning energy costs, wealth redistribution, foreign policies, or what else? Can we now reasonably expect Obama to become a rational member of our democratically based representative form of republican government?
Or, will Obama continue to implement his own ideas of what he wants to accomplish? And, does Obama continue providing for maintaining our current form of government? In other words, can we reasonably expect we will have the elections on November 6, 2012, as planned?
If Obama’s administration does not feel compelled to follow US law, then when can we expect his government to follow any law? Which laws will his government accept and which new laws will he reject, saying in effect, “these laws mean nothing to us?”
Another twist is that perhaps Obama’s government expects us ordinary citizens to follow those laws that are beneficial to Obama’s concept of government, and which laws might those be?
So, Professor, if your thesis as stated above represents the current state of our federal state, who in fact makes those wondrous decisions and how can we get out of so obeying those laws?
Maybe we’ve passed through the looking glass and hearts are now the trump suit. It does seem quite confusing in so many ways. Yet, my bet is that the answer to my concerns is very simple, that Jefferson was right after all. And, if so, may God have pity on our collective souls.
It’s already game over. We didn’t pick our guns and shoot it out when it first went down. Our ancestors went to war over a tea-tax!
The Obama admin openly flouts our laws. He (personally) was cited for contempt of court and NOTHING was done about it. His INjustice dept has gone out of it’s way to punish WHITE people for being WHITE!!!
We are too civilized and the progs know it. They have overwhelmed us with too many battles. Every time we win one they’ve attacked us in twenty different areas.
They own the police, who enforce tyranny and the only thing we MIGHT have is the military who they are systematically killing off.
“They own the police, who enforce tyranny and the only thing we MIGHT have is the military who they are systematically killing off.”
Should read: who are being systematically killed off
(…..sorry – got a caffein buzz going…..)
“They own the police, who enforce tyranny and the only thing we MIGHT have is the military who they are systematically killing off.”
The police look out for their own best interests. Many – but not all – of them have little else but contempt for those they call ‘civilians’. Typically, their loyalty is to someone in a suit somewhere. You have to start with the suits.
You noted that, “Once the moral high ground is claimed, then legality is constructed as some sort of reactionary impediment in the way of egalitarian ‘fairness.’”
A minor example: I live in a nice (solid, not lavish) community. I and most of my neighbors saved for years and have done without to “invest” in modest homes in this area. In the past two years, the regional government “Sectioned 8″ several blocks of apartments a few blocks away. No vote, no consensus, just the decision of the powers that be … to make things more “fair.”
The result? Neighborhood crime and home break-ins are up. Eight of 10 fire/emergency/EMT responders zipping down my street with sirens blaring are headed to the new Section 8 area. Our day-to-day security and longterm housing investments, diminished by the recession, are further eroded by these circumstances.
Of course, I feel privileged to know that by government dictum I must cover the housing, living and public safety costs of non-taxpaying others along with the direct costs of my own household. Whew. That was close. I’d almost deluded myself into thinking I could/should reap the rewards of my own hard work.
My guess: City government will soon attempt to raise taxes and service fees (the highest in the region) to offset this new, unprecedented demand/need for fire/police/EMT services.
The bottom line: Everyone has a right to live wherever they want, based not on earnings, income and their willingness to work hard to afford that housing location, but because it’s “fair.” And fair means we must do our part to support the whims and wants of others, whether or not said others are willing to contribute to their own support and lifestyle.
Section 8 is scary. You want to help working families, but the people who show up with Section 8 vouchers are often monsters.
In southern California, Los Angeles is dumping their surplus monsters out in the Inland Empire. The Inland Empire is a largely conservative, blue collar region of San Bernardino County.
Sending their monsters east is a way of diluting the conservative element of the area. But it has the effect of turning nice apartment complexes for working families into open prison yards, suddenly crowded with hulking shirtless guys who lounge curbside in the middle of the day.
These apartment buildings are often owned by distant Real Estate Investment Trusts. They want government guaranteed rent money, they don’t care if working class families have to raise their children in a hellish monsterplex.
It’s a scary thing to see happen.
I have two section 8 tenants. One works in the public school cafeteria and has two minor
children. The other is a retired widow who takes her adult daughter to dialysis three times
a week. They are the jewels in the system. If you don’t want your properties destroyed, it
behooves you to actively screen them. If they don’t have a job, you are asking for trouble.
I am not disagreeing with the general premise of the comments, just a minor counterpoint.
There are many fine folks who are Section 8, as your comment indicates. But it’s an unfortunate truism that one bad apple spoils the whole barrel, which is part of what now concerns me.
A small, privately owned apartment building adjacent to the Section 8 area has been up for sale for some time. Regardless of the neighborhood’s longstanding solid reputation, who wants to invest in a property that’s been devalued twice: once by the economy and again by the new, tenuous neighbors? Who will buy it? The government…with our tax dollars. Who will move in? More Section 8 folks, on our dime.
As Allston above says, you can see the area being transformed literally one building at a time.
If I owned the building in question I would just take it down and move on. Your already going to loose money so you may as well not let them have it for free.
GDI, precisely, one building at a time. I have – or more properly had – friends who lived there during the transition. Not a one of them remain. They all read the handwriting on the wall, and left while they could. It was plainly apparent that they were not welcome in their own neighborhood anymore, blatantly so. They were forced out, thanks to this casual creation of an ethnic “no-go” area.
And just as with Doctor Hanson, I have family roots going back generations in this area – where I can non longer safely go.
And of course if you actively screen then, and the non-selected ones are a member of any protected minority, you have committed a felony. See, for you, the apartment owner/manager we have special laws to protect people from you, because you are such a danger. The violent thugs must be protected. The honest businessmen are who we must protect the violent thugs from.
The President is so keen on Bible verses lately. What’s he gonna do with this one?
“If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” – 2 Thessalonians 3:10
There is a several block area nearby that was always a nice, working-class neighborhood (this is within a scant few miles of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, etc.). Well, until the city and a social agency decided to build numerous row houses there, intended specifically for section 8 tenants. Naturally us locals expressed concern and dismay about this, and equally so the powers-that-be laughed at us and ignored us. That was about five years ago.
Today, this is an area that people do not travel through even in daytime, if it can be avoided. Latino gangs roam around, having staked this out as “their ‘Hood,” and they will beat you down if they do not like your presence there. The police even stopped a group of them recently, and that group proudly announced to the police that they were “recruiting for the Crips.” One incident involved a few college students in an altercation with a person named “Nestor,” who waved a broken bottle at them and told them, “we’re taking over.”
Yes, “Change We Can Believe In.” Although I believe the Left should change their motto to, “creating third world slums, one neighborhood at a time.”
I would suggest that until Havaad, Boston College, California and other gated and/or privileged communities feel the brunt of their altruistic delusional decisions they will keep on with the same mandates such as Section 8. Then again maybe they’ll just move on down the road and continue their PC lecturing.
People of all stripes will change with the proper incentive.
I believe that it was Dr. Thomas Sowell who said, “It’s easy to be wrong, and to persist in being wrong as long as the costs of being wrong are paid by someone else.”
I lived in the US during the Reagan years. My two children were born there.I am still very interested in what´s going on in this country which I love. I watch the development under Obama with amazement and sadness. Most amazing to me is that media so obviously is fawning for this weak, pompous person and what he is causing the country. Are they blind or just scared or both ?
You are very lucky then Swedish Lady because citing Obama as an example both your children will be able to stand for US President in the future. Because moonbats think that just being born in the USA makes you a NATURAL Born citizen and it does not matter what the nationality of or national allegiance of the parents or the fact that they would have DUAL nationality either.
When did the law / laws of natural born citizenship change ? I seem to remember there are 2 (two)laws of natural born citizenship: jus solus and jus sanguinis, either of which brings natural born citizenship. Both or either of which, of course, depend on lawful documentary proofs.
Yes, it is sad and tragic to witness what is happening. It is difficult to believe that the mindlessness that has taken hold of the popular culture is for real.
Men jag är oroligt om Sverige också!
The media is blind now, but, if Obama continues on unchecked, they will be scared later.
With the media, it is a willful blindness. It’s an important distinction to make because it makes them accomplices and very much a part of the problem.
This is the most frightening and disturbing essay I’ve yet read on this site. And yes, I agree with all that was written, as I have seen it all myself but did not connect the dots.
I confess that now when I look to the future………….I despair.
When Pandora of ancient Greek mythology opened her box and let out all the evils of the world, she belatedly closed the box, and, thankfully, retained HOPE.
Don’t despair. The darkness of an Obama night may result in a long, glorious, and light-filled conservative day.
Only if we make it so, and frankly, why should that have required an Obama tearing the country up first?
I understand your sentiment, but remember that, in the context of Pandora’s Box, ‘hope’ has its dark side.
In the areas you mentioned, how many times have all of us read about environmentalists, sanctuary mayors, and gay marriage rights advocates invoking the days of slavery and Jim Crow to say that it would’ve been right to ignore the laws then to fight injustice and so should it be now – simply choose your cause, choose your moral compass and ignore the law. Cite the Nuremberg Trials as a reason one can and even should ignore one’s oath of office.
While such arguments have a certain glib truth about them, they also argue that each man, city, county and state are a law unto themselves and we are seeing the result. The President feels a certain way, has the power to act on that feeling and does so as does Holder at the Dept. of Justice and sanctuary city mayors.
In MPLS as we speak a couple illegal/legal immigrants who wax floors are on a liquid hunger strike against Cub Foods Supermarket chain because they don’t like their wages which are legal and 8/9 dollars an hour. They don’t work for Cub but for a cleaning contractor but Cub is big and high profile. The famous muslim Rep. Keith Ellison is with them and I am mystified how Cub Foods can raise the wages of employees they don’t pay. The main instigator is an illegal immigrant, has been paid 9 dollars an hour for 9 years and doesn’t like it and needed an interpreter to be interviewed. The MPLS City Council has thrown in with the strike by way of declarations.
The Teamsters haven’t been heard from; probably because Cub might be considered a union shop and the outside help picked clean paying union dues but with no union representation. Having worked for Super Valu which owns Cub Foods, I can tell you for a fact that is how it worked at the grocery distribution warehouse which supplies there own Cub stores just 2 years ago. Technically the non-Union workers were hired by temp labor firms and paid by them but grifted by the Teamsters for the “privilege” of working in a union shop but not IN the union.
Everyone on the workers side is ignoring all sorts of laws and using their moral compass to push at Cub Foods who supplies food shelters, and has helped tornado victims and sent food to Indonesia after the tsunami. Laws mean nothing and the new morality everything.
On another front, Mary Frances Berry, who was amazingly a former chairwomen on the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights once said: “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” Ms. Berry also wrote in July of 2010: “Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans.”
The moral end justifies the means. Add into this groups increasingly looking at the world through an Islamic or racial lens that has its own moral imperatives and therefore demands from the public and you have an increasingly fragmented society at odds with each other and its own history and so the breakdown of law.
The other way law is being broken down is the weight of the sheer number of illegal immigrants; what is the idea of amnesty after all but a word to describe giving up in the face of a lack of resolve to deport millions of illegal aliens? The bare bones of the new RV/restaurant shanty towns Mr. Hanson describes are done with stubbornness, defiance and a disregard for law and order imported from the dog-eat-dog con man Third World. Eventually these shanty elements will connect and form a community and demand sewage and other public health considerations. Any county official who fights them will be picketed by Latino lawmakers and mayors. In short, Victor Davis Hanson is screwed as is CA. as are we all when it comes to our new American immigrants from the middle east, Africa and Latin America.
I hope you all will excuse my heavy commenting today. VDH’s article has me pretty stirred up.
A comment about those who protest injustice by violating laws: I believe there is a place for violating laws you disagree with, as did those who fought against racist laws. The difference between those protesters and many today is that they were willing to take the consequences of breaking the law. Today’s protester wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
I remember, a few years ago, Naomi Wolfe whining about some friends of here, federal employees, having to sign some kind of pledge of silence or something, under the Bush administration. Apparently, they all did a lot of whining, but from what she said, no one seems to have said, “No. Go ahead a fire me.”
If we are not willing to pay the price to resist tyranny, we get what we deserve. Those who protest by breaking laws need to put up or shut up.
If there is no justice in a law being enforced, such that it should be protested, then there is no justice in accepting the consequences of violating it either. It is a mater of tactics and political strategy, of personal discretion, whether those consequences should be peacefully accepted or fought to the last.
As for whining about “zoning laws” being violated, I fail to see any conservatism or constitutionality in them in the first place. These amount to VDH complaining people are doing with their property as they see fit. Until and unless something from that private property materially affects his or someone else’s private property, he needs a ride in the whaambulance.
The country as a whole would be far better off if everyone stopped paying fees to breath air free. There are no licenses which create safety or value, they just mean an apparatchik got paid.
So then what will happen when the first non-black electrician or plumber refuses to work at Obama’s former Trinity Church because he feels it would be like working in a racist Nazi bund and immoral? It would be hard to argue that the full house at Trinity of some 8,500 people has not repeatedly cheered hate speech.
This works two ways and the time to exert our own moral standards is coming because, unfortunately, people who really don’t care about such things are being radicalized into action the same way Pearl Harbor woke a sleeping giant.
The idea that hate speech only comes from people with white hoods or armbands with swastikas and that we will ignore expressions of hate speech from anywhere else is childish and won’t last forever.
This is not a case of people calling each other racist and so the term ceasing to have meaning. People at criminal trials are in an adversarial system that by default projects both sides as having truth but one side ends up being a liar and yet we don’t tire of justice or say the term has no meaning.
There ARE racists and you lay out a case just like in a courtroom. Obama didn’t result in a post-racial America but brought the racists out of the woodwork and they are damning themselves with their own words. The Jim Crow honeymoon of the last half century is over as is the appeasement that has gone along with it.
I have been a federal employee for 28 years and my wife one for 30 in three different agencies and for every administration from Johnson to Obama. Neither we, nor any other federal employees we have known, have ever been presented with or been required to sign any “pledge of silence” or any oath other than one to support and defend the constitution. Don’t believe everything you read!
They demonized and demonize us with various derogatory terms, which all along could and can be seen to apply to them. So they are likewise now punishing us as proxy for them, while reaping the salve of looting and destruction. Their sin, a hate of life and anything and anybody who deals with being alive, and the prospect of death, successfully – including being in possession of a rational capacity, knowing it, and being it. It’s really too much for them to “tolerate”.
I’m thinking that knowing my enemy and, of course, the full reality of the situation, as per VDH’s Works, is going to be of great benefit as we do battle with our enemy.
The media is complicit…as usual. If Obama loses next year all can be made well. If he wins, just the thought is frightening.
Rudy Giulianni cleaned up what once was considered a hopeless NYC. Governor Johnson cleaned up New Mexico. Sarah Palin fought Big Oil and Republicans in Alaska and won. Chris Christie. There are people out there who can help if enough Americans will realize the danger.
No, if Obama loses, the vote will be called discriminatory dismissal on the basis of raaaaaacism!, and we’ll have to put him back in and pay, what with Social Justice and all.
Rule by executive decree – this is how Labour destroyed the UK – the population was passive enough to accept the thousands of laws and regulations.
Now it seems the USA is also passive – shown by the fact Obama is still alive and well.
Non-koolaid Drinker,
America is not passive, America is waiting. Waiting for our chance to vote out The Zero and his henchmen. We know we need not act out violently just yet, so we wait and watch, keep our powder dry and ready ourselves.
Should election day arrive and The Zero has suspended elections (and I wouldn’t put it past him to try and gin up some fake emergency as an excuse) THEN you will see some fireworks, and a new Revolution that will put the “Arab Spring” to shame.
Americans won’t put up with The Zero for much longer. The day of reckoning is coming, in 2012.
We will see if violence is needed. If Zero can be voted out, then joy, we will have the rest of our lives to fix his and Pelosi/Reid’s damage and pay off the debts accrued. If voter fraud wins, there will be plenty of time for violence. We don’t like violence, its icky, but a system of non-law which institutionalizes violence against the honest, while protecting the thieves, well we can go to Mexico for that.
Your talk of violence is creepy.
There is a marketplace of ideas where the battle is won. Violence is an admission of defeat. It is also treason.
Marginalize the radical left and take back the media, public education, universities, foundations, court system (the reading of the law), the financial system, the State Department, etc. This is the ethic of conservatism. Violence is radicalism. It is what the most radical on the left would want.
Use jiu jitsu against the violence of the left. Use your mind and your interpersonal skills. Invoke the tradition of Thomas Paine. Live your religious faith. Put your money where your mouth is by making smart investments in good businesses and by giving to institutions and candidates that support your beliefs.
This the hard way and the only way that will preserve what you value. Don’t be stupid. Are you ready to burn Atlanta and march to the sea? Dear Lord, I sure hope not.
Fair play, reason, logic and the rule of law can only work when both sides are willingto abide by it. These are the tools of civilized men and women. Given the left’s blatant disregard for that which is the underpinning of a free and a just society, how do you suppose things will turn out? Give nthe 0bama regime’s blatant racism and disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, how d oyou propoese to deal with them?
I will tell you this: I will not fire the first shot of the Second American Revolution. But I will do my considerable damndest to fire the last ones.
Please calm down. It is not either war or taking the high road (or having an echo chamber debate club). You have set up a false dichotomy. That is an Obama tactic!
Yes, take the high road whenever you can. But this is politics, Chicago gone global. Fight back, but violence is an admission of failure. Use Rules for Radicals against the radicals. Be fully involved as a citizen and use their weight against them.
Be serious. Come up with an idea and exercise your freedoms. Think of something better than grabbing a weapon. You are talking about Civil War and Red Dawn-style nuttiness (and TREASON).
Barza – you claim that “violence is an admission of failure.” True enough in some cases. And I’m certain that would have come as a laughable surmise to those who fought against the last century’s totalitarian monsters. I suggest that you try that particular approach on the next thug who mugs you. But in any case, you’ve not addressed the problem I set before you in my previous post. So let’s revisit it. The honest answers to the following questions won’t be pleasant to contemplate.
When your opponents lack the price of admission to civilized debate: a respect for reason, belief in objective truth, and a willingness to admit they’re wrong when the facts prove it so – what then?
When your opponenats ignore the rule of law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and items like the War Powers Act – what then?
When your opponents’ goals are to destroy the very foundation of your culture and your society – and to offer nothing in return but the howling nightmare of a society of cannibals and looters – what then?
When your opponents use the public education system to indoctrinate your children’s’ minds in the politics of victimization and the nobility of human servitude and sacrifice – what then?
When the institutions of higher learning are occupied by Marxist multiculturalists who despise the very philosophical foundation upon which the architecture of liberty and human dignity have been constructed and seek to destroy it – what then?
We know the answer – as historian Samuel P. Huntington said in his Clash of Civilizations, “History shows that no country so constituted can long endure as a coherent society.”
Passivity in the face of monsters and psychopaths is criminal.
Passivity would be suicide. Cool off the talk about violence. We could debate how close the barbarians are to the gate. However, your knowledge of history (and mine) are better applied outside of this echo chamber. The difficult work of concerned citizens is to communicate calmly :) with our fellow citizens. (Symbol added for tone of voice not to be cute). Our society looks too passive in the light of times to come that could be very bad. To channel Lincoln, “Obama can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” I have faith that there are enough Americans who will strongly oppose this radical acceleration of a hard left agenda if they are clearly informed. Without faith in our democracy, just run for the hills and be defeated.
I love ya Mr. Hanson but wasn’t it you just a mere 15 yrs ago (and back) that vote “Democrat”, voters choices do not come to fruition immediately but in the world of politics in time tables of decades, so wouldn’t one be able to deduce that those you helped elect are the architect of what now you reap? I love ya and am glad you are speaking out about the chaos California has become and by all means keep up the great writing! I really enjoy your historical wisdom and thoughts they are always timely in helping one discern the future from the past.
Many of us have been Democrats and have changed. In the early 20th century, unions were a rational choice to fight really bad employers and terrible working conditions. In the 60′s many of us supported programs to help the poor and struggling.
But recently unions have become too big and now some social experiments have proved harmful to families. So we changed our philosophy to reflect the new realities.
So blame us if you want to. We did what we thought was best at the time.
“We did what we thought was best at the time.”
So did the Bolshevik party faithful.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It’s nice when someone finally sees the error of their ways. But I still have limited sympathy for those who assisted building this horror when there were plenty telling them at the time “stop and think about what you are creating”. So those who supported these policies at one time have a special obligation to work to change them.
I’m sure we’ll have plenty of opportunity to see others recoil with horror at the results of what Obama and his Treasury and Fed have done.
How does this VDH essay turn into an invective against unions???? Unions have declined dramatically in membership, power and influence. And what of the bankers? Overpaid executives? Hedge fund operators? The corporations and their wealthy stockholders (remember, a small percentage of the population) have pretty much destroyed our economy on the alter of Globalism (yes Bill Clinton) leaving us with a pathetic Facebook lead service economy with an overburdening public sector we can’t sustain. It is not the fault of these people who took these government jobs or their unions for doing what unions are supposed to do!!
And while we are at it, lets make the tax code far more complex and give even more tax breaks to those wealthy few who are amassing an even bigger share of the pie. The resulting budget deficits will make those greedy public servants look even worse. The sneering rich guys don’t care about the burrito wagons or the refrigerators dumped from behind those iron gated communities.
Obama flaunts the law, so did Bush. The trend towards police action engagements instead of declared wars started with Korea. Obama is beholden to the same forces as the rest of the presidents. Campaign rhetoric is just that. It all goes out the window the day they enter the Oval Office.
You went into just a couple of reasons that this President should actually be impeached.Not an inquiry or hearing ,not one thing, just impeached and “given the door”!Why would that be any different than how he is “governing”?I cannot believe that one [unless we haven't heard]Republican has at the very least, tried to get the articles of impeachment started.Only Kucinich,which may have been a ploy,has started any action.Obviously,Kucinich is “out there” and so anyone having enough “guts” to begin the articles would most likely be associated with him.This may be? where the tactic comes in with Phd K?The Republicans had a revolt in1994,Gingrich being Speaker,where any outrage over Clinton began with the “Contract with America”.This Obama administration is beyond even that “ethical” group!I suggest some leader in Republican government constitutional law take a peek at just what the hell is going on and DO SOMETHING! Pure politics and the “press” should not rule.That is why we have laws !!!
I have only one two words (one name?) for those that would impeach Obama: Joe Biden. From the moment this plagiarizing nincompoop was added to the ticket I knew the precise reason he was there. To elicit the comment, “impeach Obama?! Do you really want Joe Biden to be President?!” He is the trump card when it comes to getting rid of BO before the election, and that is how it was planned from the start.
Your fear of an idiot (Biden) is no excuse to let a criminal (Obama) go loose.
I can’t speak for flyover mike, and the idea of his possible fear – but….
Biden is Obama’s insurance policy. Or, it seemed that way at the beginning. Now – maybe Biden wouldn’t be quite as bad.
[Tongue somewhat in cheek. I'm not so sure, anymore....]
Terry,
Bidens purpose was to get the ignorant squishy independents to see a “grown-up” on the ticket, and feel safer voting for Dream Date.
In their perpetually extended adolesent perspective, they need a white guy, silver hair, blue suit SOMEWHERE in the picture to feel safe…
Basically, Obama will score the weed for the prom…
Biden is the daddy/limo driver to get them home safe.
Everything is covered, they just have to look good and enjoy themselves.
I’d also like to know where the outrage is on the part of the Republicans regarding the War Powers Act. People like John McCain may not like the War Powers Act, but it IS the law of the land and, unless either repealed by Congress or overturned by the Supreme Court, it will REMAIN the law of the land. So Obama now can pick and choose which laws he will follow? Hmmm, sounds like another president I knew, a guy called Nixon, especially when he started bombing a place called Cambodia. So yes, the War Powers Act needs to be followed and YES the Republicans should be making a really big stink about it, just like Obama made a big stink about it against George W. Bush while he was president. Republicans in Congress should start getting some backbone, especially in the House where they have a majority. They could end this nonsense in Libya in a heartbeat. And they should. There is no reason we should be involved in Libya at all and it’s about time some leaders in Congress started saying so.
Fortunately for their own peace of mind, the gangstas, cholos, and rednecks are marginally literate at best. Other they could read about the rise of feudalism during the collapse of the Carolingian dynasty and the Sengoku Jidai, the history of the Mafia, the Vehmgericht, and the machi-yakko, and realize what happens when an alleged government can’t or won’t enforce the law and secure basic order.
The rednecks know what’s going on.
I’ve lived amongst rednecks for over 35 years and haven’t seen one yet. Or else, everyone is a “redneck” or raaaaacist!, etc., who fails to heel to the latte’, Marxisant, Commies’ effete elitism. My advice, never argue with a redneck unless you have your sh** together.
That Bush. What an ignorant Republican. He thought in terms of Law and Civilization and Service. He should have thought as a Democrat does: only Power matters.
The health of a people, a state, and a democracy rely on the voluntary compliance with its customs and laws. Many are obeyed because they “feel right” and because, it is thought, everyone agrees on their rightness. All this can be overthrown by one man who can feel his away among the laws and customs which have died to their people. No custom intimidates him, no law restrains him, he fears no reproach; he walks with the assurance of sleepwalker. Such a man is Obama.
If Obama wishes to create his own bureaucracy beholden only to him, he can. He’s the President and it isn’t wrong if the President does it. If the House and Senate were to vote that no office of Czar exists, that occupants of the imaginary offices had no authority, and that said occupants should not be paid from the Treasury, nothing would happen, because there is no controlling legal authority.
If Obama wishes to war on Libya, then Obama can order kinetic (or was it dynamic?) military action to destroy Libya and kill Libyans, he can, because Congress’ rules do not apply to Obama’s wishes. He is President, he won the election, he can rule by fiat, by ukase, by proclamation. Congress long ago (during the age of the tyrant FDR) delegated its powers to the bureaucracy of which Obama is its head. No War Powers Act, no Constitution can restrain him. He is Obama and there is no controlling legal authority higher than himself.
So which lawful prohibitions and democratic customs will Obama successfully ignore next? There is no respect for Law among the Left. To them law serves a single purpose: to justify the depredations of the state in the enrichment of its servants, the politicians and bureaucrats.
Nice to know someone gets it. Although I love Dr. Hanson’s articles and agree with his conclusions his articles as well as other authors have a stunned disbelief quality. I know we were supposed to have ‘the rule of law’ and ‘checks and balances’ and justice was supposed to be blind but unless someone somewhere is willing to enforce it (which they should have done 40 years ago) it all goes away; not with a bang but a whimper. Much of it has gone away and we will never get it back; at least not in my lifetime. Until we get over our stunned disbelief nothing will be fixed.
All this discussion and contemplation is great. . . . but what will all of you (us) do when TSHTF? Are you willing to pick up a gun and defend your home and family. . . killing your attackers, if need be? Are you willing to rise up against a tyrannical gubmint set on taking away our freedoms? The ballot box is fast becoming a useless endeavor. . . . WHAT WILL YOU DO? Unless you are willing to deal with scum in the only way they understand. . . ruthlessly and without mercy, you are part of the problem. . . . You can sit like the Romans of old did, in the Senate, as the barbarians came in and murdered them, or you can prepare and FIGHT BACK. . . . .WHAT WILL YOU DO!?
You are right and you already know the answer to your “what will you do?” question–too little too late. My relatives, friends, co-workers, even people on this page would rather gripe and agree with me rather than go out and do something. I have failed miserably at getting recruits to PAC meetings, True the Vote, etc. They go to one rally, declare themselves tea partiers, and that’s it. They’re done and feel smug about it as they return to what they think will continue to be their comfy lives. Frog in the gradually heated pot.
If we had a spine and a grasp of reality, we would organize and attend weekly protests in huge numbers. SEIU and its ilk would show up, start fights, and receive selective enforcement of the law. We would find out just how far our media will go to aid and abet our socialist enemies.
It would be a start.
Rick:
Personally, I live in rural area, where people look out for each other, as a necessary means of survival. I belong to several civil defense groups, am on my Emergency Management board, work well with my neighbors (most of our crises are weather driven, but the call outs, for hailstorm or zombie attack, would the same).
I do all this, as we all do, in a positive way, to be an active, helpful part of my community. But make no mistake, if TSHTF, as you so eloquently state, and the citiots come up trying to invade our space and steal our home grown soy mocha lattes, we can mobilize in a heartbeat.
If you are concerned, get involved in your community first responder organizatons, even as an auxilliary or volunteer. Red Cross and Homeland security will give you lots of training, free. Most of the latter, on line.
This is what I do. Not to survive, but to sustain. And, of course, the gear is cool, too.
You are a breathe of fresh air, Rick.
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You are calling everyones attention to that elephant in the living room. Yours are the questions that few care to consider. For to do so will be an admission of just how far down the road to hell we’ve gone and just how close to the brink we’ve come. It’s not hard to understand the reluctance: look at the slaughter, atrocity and abomination perpetrated by totalitarian monsters over the last 200 years. How can one make sense of so much killing, such utter, profound and ultimately psychopathic cruelty? How can one acknowledge that that reality is an undeniable part of our history and that it is also inextricably linked to our human nature, our human condition? Human beings – or monsters that looked like human beings, at any rate – did these things. Human beings treated other human beings as objects, as machines, as things, as targets for their own monstrosity, savagery and murderous cruelty – and in the end, as animals for slaughter.
Perhaps there’s another reason behind the reluctance to acknowledge this historical truth and its corollary: the realization that monstrous acts are sometimes required to deal with monsters. And that is precisely what we must face if we wish to preserve Western civilization from our internal enemies – mindless utopians and will-to-power driven serial nihilists – and from the threat that the abomination of Islam poses today.
None of us have a Get Out of History Free card. We ignore the lessons of history at our peril. 2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in the introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was “to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.”
The people of Rome could do neither, Rome perished in a spread of ruin ands slaughter, and night fell in the Western world for a thousand years.
This is our watershed of history. We face the same decisions that so many others who have gone before us could not make, and who perished for their lack of courage and resolve, their unwillingness to take the measures necessary to rid themselves of their cultures’ corruption and and the monsters who perpetrated it for their own sickening ends.
In response to this article and these comments, may I suggest you nominate and then make sure the public understands why it must elect a fighter for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 2012. Or you can kiss your Republic goodbye. Milquetoast McNice fellow travelers like Perry, Gengrich, and others won’t fight and wouldn’t have the guts to lead.
Cristie/West in 2012?
There is only one answer to this situation and that is to end all immigration and right now. Any one who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
One million new immigrants a year, over 90% from the Third World and half illegal is no joke.
According to the U.S. census in the last 10 years over 90% of our new friends are minorities. This is called building on failure. Years ago we laughed at such countries and now we are determined to turn ours into one by people who live in gated communities and don’t have to deal with crime.
Even relatively well off countries like Brazil have cities so crime ridden the fear is palpable. I was jumped on top of and had a knife put to my throat in Rio de Janeiro in broad daylight on a beach in the middle of the city. He lost – Americans are crazier. Google bullet proof cars and Sao Paolo and see what you learn.
It is always good to have some one put all the eggs in one basket, so they can be counted. This is a scary article, precisely for that reason.
I have a vision of a list, a simple line by line accounting, that enumerates the ways in which 44 has actively, consciously violated the constitution.
Actually, impeachment is never preferable; it’s a long drawn out process that takes focus off the important issues of the day. However, I believe that clearly delineating offenses can have an enlightening effect on the public, and a retardant effect on the bad actors. In short, bullies often stop when called out. Esp. bullies that want re-election.
Course reversal, resignation, failure to re-elect. Any of these would work for me. And if arrogance still trumps law and due process, then the impeachment groundwork is laid. But that would be a sad day. I truly hope for all our sakes, it does not come to that.
Tevagirl, you are a breath of fresh air.
I’d take that boob Biden over Obama and his record any day. A sleepwalking liberal hack can be managed. Obama incites the worst of our country (and the Middle East, Russia, etc.) Biden just wants to be President.
The real issue is the 2012 election. Which candidates and media actors will get Obama off of the teleprompter long enough to show his true colors?
The facts are that the Constitution has been a dead letter for a very long time, and that the federal government in its entirety is illegitimate and criminal.
Perhaps it began with Jefferson’s Louisianna Purchase, but it certainly began with Marshall’s usurpation of the power to review the constitutionality of legislation. There is no authority for this either in the Constitution itself, the Federalist or anti-Federalist papers or the Common Law.
Presidents have deployed the military at will since the Mexican-American War. Do you think any of the numerous interventions in the Caribbean or Central American had any Congressional authorization? Obama’s illegal Libyan adventure is the logical conclusion of a very long trend.
Presidents also feel free to bind the US to major international agreements (really treaties) without Senatorial assent. Was SALT II ever ratified?
As to Congress, it has been a hotbed of corruption and deceit since day one. Does anyone remember the bribes and shakedowns that led to the transcontinental railroads or the purchase of Alaska? In the latter case, most of the $7 million-dollar purchase price went to Congressmen.
The Courts are not immune either. Virtually all their decisions are blatantly political and are thinly covered by obvious legal lies.
There is no solution to this by means of elections. Many constituencies (one thinks of Barney Frank’s) are themselves corrupt and seek short-term self interest.
It is possible that a military coup d’etat would reverse the current trends, but our generals and admirals are carefully screened for political correctness, and there is no reasonable hope there. And if they did, the resulting civil war would be horrendous.
Our descent into a totalitarian socialist dictatorship is probably inevitable. I’m glad I’m to old to live under it very long.
Good comments Bob and yes, we have been on this road for a long time. The best example of government lawlessness I can think of is our deplorable record of breaking treaties with Indian tribes. Andrew Jackson was a prime example of that. The fact is that human beings, by nature, are lawless and only internal discipline and respect for one’s fellow citizens can curb the tendency towards lawlessness. When the very system, the courts, that is tasked with enforcing the law becomes dominated by lawless persons then the situation becomes bleak indeed.
So, what’s the remedy? Why are clear breaches of the law not being prosecuted? We’re supposed to be a litigious nation – why are impugned people not seeking a remedy through the courts? And don’t impeach the President, we tried that – wasn’t too successful. Pursue those who do his bidding: they’re only acting this way because they think they’re protected! You think a few successful prosecutions that hit them personally won’t make them change their briches?
Isn’t part of the problem, though, the fact that presidential elections are cult events, based on sound bites, which preclude the need for the presentation of a clear program which will be the successful candidate’s mandate and tool for the electorate to assess performance?
At what point did some of the Jewish people get wise and decide to leave? At what point will we decide to resist?
I mean no offense to anyone who might be the descendent of a holocaust survivor, but I want to be wiser than the people who eventually allowed themselves to be herded onto trains and into the gas chambers. Yes, they’d already been disarmed. But better to force those German soldiers to face the reality of what they were doing, to force them to shoot women and children in the street in open view of all their neighbors, than to silently comply. Better to die there in the street, resisting, then to die like the sick animals we take to the pound to be put down, trusting our masters, certain that no one could possible mean us so much harm. If it has happened before, it can happen again.
As to your question
At what point did some of the Jewish people get wise and decide to leave?
I don’t know the answer to that but from what I’ve read the great majority were misled into thinking that things would work out. Some realised rather late, but in time in 1938 to still leave; but others missed the boat when when Britain shut the only door to their escape to Palestine and the US turned away those who had already sailed. Nice world eh?
At what point will we decide to resist?
Well it depends on the individual and what is available to resist with. My father was study engineering in Germany when Hitler attempted his Putsch, well before the war, and decided to get out of Europe then.
Thanks for offering some thoughts on the question. Here is another: What did yur father see that others didn’t? There must have been those who ridiculed his concerns. Something gave him the courage, wisdom, foresight, whatever to overcome all that and act. I’d really like to know.
Oh my. That is inexcusable.
I should have said:
What did your father see that others did not?
I think, because I was too young at the time to question him on such complex motives, that being orphaned at 6 thanks to marauding troops (he was born in the late 1800s) and forced to fend for himself (he never discussed those details other than describe the work he managed to get labouring on farms) until he moved himself up and started furthering his education (he had been been so to speak “pre-schooled” by his parents and literate, because this was before the general enlightenment in Europe, which gave him a massive advantage over others in his environment; what a difference it makes understanding facts and reality as opposed to relying on superstition and unable to logically deduce the truth).
The hardships he endured no doubt sharpened his awareness to the nuances of society.
Had he lived in the US he would have been the quintessential American, not waiting for others to make decisions but making his own.
Every would-be tyrant needs a constituency: the proletariat, the volk, or the poor and downtrodden of whatever stripe. The next thing he needs is an identifiable enemy: the kulaks, the bourgeoisie, or the slightly better off will do. The new variation on the theme is to support “people of color” against their white oppressors, especially the capitalists. Use the former to destroy the latter in a class war. The final step is to enslave the survivors of the conflict in service to a new oligarchy. The template is clear to anyone who has studied history. But then, why study history when can indulge in the plethora of identity studies which will give you a ticket into the new ruling class as a bureaucrat or party apparachik?
What to do? What to do? It is a tough decision… but if we consider recent history might I suggest we brush up on our skills and litter the grounds at Svin’s with brass so deep what grass he has never sees the sunrise of July 5th? As usual we should follow up with Paulander and whiskey in inappropriate proportions and then pile on a generous layer of BS around the campfire until we too will miss the dawn. Second breakfast is just before noon if we can make it. After that the range opens again. Fun is where the ammo is… or was. See you there?
Thomas More’s possibly apocryphal) speech on giving the devil the benefit of law:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBiLT3LASk&feature=related
I do wonder what the looney-left Deemocrats (sic) will say when — after having struck down every law/raped the constitution to get at the “devil”, they will lose power one day and find themselves on the receiving end of what they created?
Then again, if they thought further than the length of their nose, they wouldn’t be looney-left Deemocrats…
VDH I personally feel your pain but logically California needs to save it self or sink. The rest of the Country simply cannot afford to help California financially until after your state fixes the broken system. You cannot expect some Midwestern middle class hard working farmer to pay taxes to support the actions and behavior of you state government and the governments of places like San Francisco. It hasn’t worked for the Central Valley very well has it? As sad as I am to say it eventually you may be forced to solve your own problems with a gallon off gas and a match.
You say that California needs to save itself or sink. The question is: sink into what, do you suppose? Another ‘elephant in the living room’ question with answers no one will like.
Liberals are not about people in need.Everything they do,requires creating a crisis,and using,and exploiting things,and people to their own advantage,purposes,or agenda’s.Liberals are not only the most lawless.but the most selfish,perverse,and godless,as well!This writer said those in need!Does he mean,oj simpson,and michael jackson,etc?Liberals worship lawlessness,and despise law,and moral society standards.Unless it benefits them!They believe all evil are but victims of all that is good,or moral,circumstance,america,or anything,or anybody,that challenges,condemns,or wants to prevente evil from flourishing their lawlessness,or predatorial ways!They didn’t name california’s most influential city,los angeleles,for nothing lost angels!Demonic is their nature,and beliefs that define liberalism!The only needs they care about,and bleed to feed are their own addictions,obssessions,lust,perversions,arrogance/ego’s,vanity,infeority complexes,narcissism,and lawlessness!!! Jimmy Joe “The Liarfryer”
Brilliant and Brave. Your collected essays will be read for centuries. There is no better guide to the Left’s war against America. (How sad that the “social justice” that you describe has been embodied in the Supreme Court by Kagan and Sotomayor.)
Another excellent (and frightening) column from VDH! You’ve nailed progressive “thinking” and strategy. However, will enough voters hear and take action in November 2012? And can the damage be undone?
I figure if they can ignore laws, I no longer have any hesitation to not only avoid taxes but to evade them. Thus falls the empire.
While I do agree with most of what I read above, I must point out that everyone seems to wish to blame one person. I do agree that we need to vote our our current President, and by a landslide, I also need to point out that we have 3 branches of government. Remember, it was a Republican that took our rights away under the Patriot Act, and it was a Democrat President (with the aid of a machine) that just signed its renewal. Here is what you must do if you want to keep our country. Vote against EVERY incumbent judge. Vote against EVERY incumbent US Representative. Vote against EVERY incumbent Senator. Write letters to impeach all Federal Judges. You must vote them ALL out. I don’t care if you are voting against your brother, sister, father, or mother. Vote them out! We need to start anew! ONLY by doing this will we send the correct message. IF YOU DON’T vote all of them out, then YOU are the problem not them. Remember there are no Democrats or Republicans, only elected criminals, and they don’t care about YOU.
As I noted at least one other put it, paraphrasing, “How dow e extract our country and ourselves from this influence?”
VDH is as usual exactly right. Anecdotal corroboration: I was at an academic/policy conference recently and a professor from a prestigious Southeastern university at one point rambled on about the “fetishization” of the Constitution which predominates among the Tea Party folks and the GOP (never mind that this conference had NOTHING to do with domestic politics). It’s fine for liberals to fetishize the Constitution when it suits them, but when it gets in the way of their “compassionate” goals, it doesn’t matter to them at all.
A breakdown in law precedes anarchy. Get the popcorn….
The Marxist has “taken over” and he is ready to “rule”.
We are living in 1950′s Cuba right now. A Marxist has been elected (on lies), and no one knew he was a Marxist when he was running, they thought he was “for freedom” and he was going to set them/us free.
Instead he took over (Castro/Cuba=Obama/America) and “rules it” for 50 years, the citizens are imprisoned or killed if they disagree. Welcome to the Marxist State of America where we will be “ruled” by a Marxist the likes of a Chavez or Castro.
We are toast, and America is now a dictatorship, when will the pundits in the Press realize what has happened?
VDH, it is time to stop mincing words, the Obama is a dictator and he will not go easily. If he is not re-elected he may resort to violence, all dictators do when elections don’t go their way.
There were plenty of us who knew he was a Marxist, but we got outvoted by the under-educated, uneducated, uninformed, and stupid people.
With a heavy assist by consevative puritans that sat home on election day because McCain was such disappointing nominee and candidate. In making perfect the enemy of the good, they helped produce the worst case scenario. I wonder if they’ve leaned anything from this, or if their pride still blinds them to how they contributed to our current problems. Turnout matters, folks!
(And don’t for a minute think I was a McCain fan.)
So what? Let him turn to violence, and then we shoot him.
VDH:
Did you not think that we would ultimately get to this point? How could it not happen, when the federal government has for decades, taken powers that the Constitution clearly does not give them. And, when judges appointed for life, unaccountable to the people, are driven by ideological agendas, instead of the US Constitution. Our institutions of government have been infiltrated by leftists, and are being used to tear down the America that the Founders intended.
So the question needs to be asked, was Senator McCarthy correct in his “witch hunt” for communist infiltration of our government? And, did his demise, leave us open to a fifth column, bent on our destruction?
Look at everything Obama has done since he has been in office. Doesn’t it appear that his decision for any particular course of action, rested on what would damage the US the most? He has place committed leftists in key positions in the government, and they are aided by useful idiots in the bureaucracy. The Constitution is a document that they abhor, and will ignore, because it prevents them from instituting the “change” they desire.
Wake up! We are in a fight for the preservation of the Republic as intended by the Founders, a fight for our very freedom. In order to prevail, we will have to push back decades of encroachment by the federal government. We can expect those federal bureaucracies, and the establishments of both political parties, to fight us every stop of the way. Big government is in the interest of both parties, it is their lust for power that drives them, not their dedication to the oath they swore to protect and defend.
The Congressmen/women, Judges and officials “elected” by citizens have a lot to answer for. The USA is a nation of self-governing via representation citizens. The citizens decide who and what sort of people they have to represent them. Whatever the culpability of Congressmen/women, Judges, Executive, mitigation for their often criminal overstepping of the limits of the powers entrusted to them in the Constitution, must be the citizens’ failure to hold thm accountable. Electing them again and again, virtually in perpuity, to continue and escalate their power grabs and thefts.
Are there enough citizens to recognize their responsibility. To vote for people they can be proud to represent them as Americans, to vote against those who have shown themselves predators. And to monitor them actively to assure they do not again see America and especially her treasury as their reward for having gulled so many for so long, as in “free lunch” and never give a sucker an even break.
Obama and his supporters in Congress and Media, entertainment and intelligentsia are very like a gang of gigolos who seduced large numbers of American voters, stole their treasury and hopes for the future with their smarmy lies, and exited laughing.
I suggest that anyone who doesn’t believe that we are in the middle of the great takeover of the United States of America read Chapter Six, “Planning and the Rule of Law,” and Chapter Eleven, “The End of Truth,” in F.A. Hayek’s book, “The Road to Serfdom.” They are truly frightening chapters that lay out the blueprint for the progressives in the U.S. to subvert and eventually eliminate The Rule of Law and to twist truth into something unrecognizable.
I am nearly 64 years old. NEVER, NEVER in my life have I had any fears that my president and his “colleagues” were plotting and planning to dismantle my country until Obama was elected. Now I go about my days with a sick feeling in my stomach. I wonder why our Congress doesn’t do anything about this administration’s blatant abuses of the Constitution and The Rule of Law, as you have presented in this article. Where are the checks and balances that our Founders put in place? Obama, and everyone else in government took an oath to uphold the Constitution and they break that oath every day.
I am afraid of what’s coming in the next 18 months. The progressives will demonize, using the race card and mediscare, anyone who is critical of Obama. We will see nastiness and non-truth like we have never seen it before. We will see rampant voter fraud. The progressives and the media will do whatever it takes to get Obama re-elected. And then the USA will be finished.
How are we going to wake up the millions of people who are uninformed and don’t care and don’t read websites such as this one? I may be feeling particularaly hopeless today, but I don’t see how it can be done.
One small correction….
Hitler did not come from the right. He came from the left. Fascism and National Socialism are both based on socialism with government control (but not quite ownership) of industry.
The essence of leadership is this. Attitudes within an organization filter down from the top.
If a leader is corrupt, his followers, if not already corrupt, will be corrupted the longer they are exposed to the corrupt leader.
God save our federal republic, and each of our state republics.
Dr VDH it is about time that you used a sledge hammer. You have danced around these facts for way to long. Now, stop talking and start organizing. The problems you outline are only going to get worse. Congress is impotent and the media is largely corrupt. It is now up to the citizens ready to be led by someone like you. Looks like you will have plenty of followers. WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF TALKING.
That is what I have been saying!!!
Teva girl. . . . I wish you lived here in Greenville, SC. . . . .we need more like you. . .
It has now become a life and death struggle between illegal aliens and citizens in California. “A bill is working its way through the state legislature that would allow California counties to opt out of the federal program (that forward finger prints of all arrestees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for screening). The Assembly has already approved the bill with a 47 to 26 vote.”
The Democrats are so hungry for the Latino vote that Latino criminal aliens will now enjoy preference and protection. And all of us, regardless of race, are the losers. There will be no withholding of Federal funds to California for violating federal protocol because Feinsten, Boxer and Obama, and the Democrats, have decided that the lives and safety of law abiding citizens are to be sacrificed in order that they stay in power. Aliens must display “good moral character” in order to become citizens, otherwise the benefits, and in the case of the illegal ones, possible amnesties are denied.
The Democrats have pitted law-abiding citizens against violent alien criminals in the way that ancient Romans used to throw Christians to the lions to appease their own supporters. Dr. Hanson is correct; without the law, we have nothing. I hate to tell you this, but we now have nothing. Nothing. Smile perishing Republic – stock up on your lentils. Bad things are on the way.
Ah. Much more effectively for the destruction of a civil society, they pitted Law-Abiding citizens against Law-Abiding citizens. Continuously drumbeating and trumpeting class, race and gender antagonisms, to effect a Civil War. Escalated the antagonisms with special privileges for their selected groups of citizens, underpinned from the treasuries of State and Federal Government. Isolating people from one another socially. Disallowing their vaunted “freedom of speech and opinion”, freedom of association and freedom of movement with “political correctness”.
Making them vulnerable to anything these “betters” told them. Making from Armericans, generally in agreement to their worth and value AS Americans – even given the imperfections they work to improve when the need arises – to become the hyphenated Americans we have today.
No longer that proud identity American with a capitol A.
A classic ploy to fracture a working society and then ride in as “White Knight” / Saviour / Messiah ? With the wizard’s wand Television and Film an easy task to engineer the deconstruction necessary for building the NEW : the CHANGE envisioned by those who covet, above all, power over the “lives of others”. An inherently UN-AMERICAN desire.
Forewarned is fore-armed. IF and ONLY IF we remember AND APPLY the lessons from one of the founders of America, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we SHALL all hang separately.
Did not the Supreme Court just decide to release 46,000 prisoners here in the name of “social justice” because their “right” to health care was being compromised? Don’t forget the Liberal Theology that is the foundation for much of this kind of agenda. This movement is troubling to me since I think they want to replace the Church with the State by getting us dependent on the State for all of our needs, and deciding right and wrong for us. The Liberal misuse of Matthew 25 when Jesus talks about the “least of these” is particularly offensive.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/07/matthew-25-does-not-justify-the-liberal-social-justice-agenda-of-spreading-the-wealth.html
The Liberal social agenda claims to be about “the least of these” but they are total hypocrites when it comes to abortion. If the nearly born and newly born do not qualify as the “least of these” than who could? Liberal “social justice” is a pathway to Totalitarianism, for it justifies: spreading the wealth, ObamaCare, abortion on demand, gay marriage, auto bailouts, and carbon credits.
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
And a Liberal “social justice” agenda will lead to the persecution of the “least of these”, the disciples of Jesus, of Christian and ultimately of Jesus Himself.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/04/jesus-asks-nancy-pelosi-why-she-is-persecuting-him.html
Get your shadowy hand out of other people’s pockets and let each of us decide for ourselves which of the needy we feel deserve our help. Most church-goers are conservatives, and Christian churches are known for their generosity. We don’t need libs and/or atheists quoting random verses and stealing tax dollars for corrupt over-paid gov workers to control.
Here’s another quote for you: “God helps those who help themselves.” End Welfare to long-term recipients. Save it for the deserving needy until they can find work. If you are unemployed for decades, to Hell with you! If you want to quote the only Biblical verse you know to create guilt in the only people who revere the Bible ( who also happen to be the most generous group in America), to Hell with you too!
Yes Shadow, for each individual. Personal responsability.
There is nothing about the government impoverishing everyone else while the elite sit in their mansions.
Not even a shadow of guilt here. Go find out if you can guilt trip an atheist socialist with holy Script. Better yet, tithe 10% of your income to your church above and beyond your taxes, run soup kitchens, create clothes distribution centers,organize charity drives for victims of natural disasters, and give generously above your church donations. Ha!
So who’s to blame?……the President and his goons or the Senate, the House and the Courts who standby, point their fingers and do nothing to enforce the laws or worse; remain politically correct and give Obama the Presidential respect he does not deserve. Why is this allowed to go on? Is there not enough egregious, unlawful behavior to make a substantial case for impeachment of this man? It seems to me very likely and equally likely that no one will touch this for fear of being lynched as a “Racist.” Imagine if you will the first albeit interracial President being impeached! It ain’t gonna happen and so we’ll go on with this blatant lawlessness until 2012 or, heaven help us, 2016. We ask ourselves, when is America going to wake up from this stupor and I fear the answer, without any major media support, is after it’s too late. Please, America, prove me wrong.
VDH,
More proof of your observations on the state using a dichotomous plan for enforcing laws and charging fees. Yesterday at Cardiff State Beach in North County San Diego my 16 year daughter was given a parking ticket despite puchasing and displaying a parking reciept. The write up said that parking was only valid until 7:50pm(Sunset). The ticket was written at 8:12pm and will cost $93. How fast could they clean up rural CA with that kind of attitude/approach?
It gets worse day by day. President Obama sees himself as the be all and end all. He is unfit for the office of President. He is the worst President this country has ever had; what is more he is the most dangerous as well! He sees himself as supreme, beyond the reach of Congress or the courts. The magnitude of his self esteem cannot be calculated.
Nail on the head, Doc.
Reading the Washington Examiner from time-to-time regarding the ‘minority majority’ area of D.C., there are so MANY daily op-eds regarding ‘social justice’ ‘gender justice’, ‘racial justice’ etc.,
Here’s some cold hard facts for those op-ed dingbats: If nearly 3 out of 4 Black children are born to a single, uneducated Black woman then that child(‘s) possibility of receiving a well- rounded, loving upbringing is next to nil.
Whose fault is this.. overwhelmingly THE PARENTS. Not the government’s, the ‘White man’ or any other form of ‘spreading the wealth around’ fiction.
If a D.C. school lacks sporting equipment because the equipment is dated, been stolen or lost etc., MY PARENTS or I would pay for said equipment when participating in school sports.
Not the nearly annual theft of local taxpayers, contributors (seriously, it’s as if the very same schools ‘need your help’ in this or that arena..) and volunteers, professional sports organizations and/or players etc.,
The district also ‘boasts’ of having the highest # of HIV positive cases per capita nationwide. Again, whose fault is this? Not mine nor yours.
Go to Pennsylvania/Smithsonian area during the week some time and you’ll take in the most ludicrous, unneeded jobs and the lazy masses inundating the break areas of said Smithsonian haunts. A vis-a-vis look, confrontation whatever you want to call it of federal employment gone wild.. all in the name of ‘fairness’.
Question: how many White or Asian people have you seen employed, let alone in charge of an ‘EEO’ or ‘Diversity’ section of ANY business and/or department?
Man, all these handouts (from public education to adult work force situations) to ‘minorities’ (what is a ‘minority’ anyways?) have proven to do is cause lethargy and ‘demanded justice/leg up’. The bar being lowered so low, hence you have moral, financial and mental decay in Detroit, Flint, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Houston, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Fresno, Nashville, etc.,
I wonder ‘Why’ these ‘minority majority’ areas are in such squalor? Oh, that’s right.. ‘justice’. Pathetic..
There is a scene in the movie The Pianist where thousands of Jews are being moved from the Warsaw ghetto to cattle cars for shipment to Treblinka and other death camps.They have been herded into a small loading area and finally one old man asks,”why don’t we just overpower them ( Nazi guards)and over run them? They will kill a few of us but I would rather die than do nothing”. Another old man answers him, ” maybe they really are just relocating us to better locations.
The absurdity is so so stunning to the viewer that at first it seems ridiculous.
But it begs the question, “why didn’t they just overpower them?
“But it begs the question, “why didn’t they just overpower them?”
Because for some, it’s easier to take comfort in the Big Lie instead of facing the Incredible Truth. History is my witness. Quoting from Leonard Peikoff’s The Ominous Parallels:
Many Americans will not believe what is happening, even while it is happening to them. But many of us will, and we’ll fight like men and women possessed to stop it.
I seem to recall the remark of a highly-ranked muckety-muck in the European Union concerning the 2005 French national referendum to approve the “European Constituion.” Approval was in doubt and, in fact, the French later voted it down. When asked about the effect a Fench reaction would have to the formation of a European Union this worthy said – “If the French vote “Yes” we will go forward. If they vote “No” we will go forward.” The implication was that the actual wishes of the voters making up the individual nations of Europe was of no account to the hyper-bureaucrats and “transnational elites” of Brussels. The actual “Europeans” did not matter.
The fact is that a good deal of our “new elites”, particularly those in the media, communications and political sphere now believe (a’la Leona Helmsley) that “Following the law is for the little people.” Actually the formulation is “Following the law is for the little people except for those little people who fall within approved victim groups.” The “poor” are excused from things such as the regulatory oversight described by Dr. Hanson because these laws are “oppressive” in the view of the elites. However a middle-class type is expected to follow them because “that’s the law.” It’s a convenient Orwellian double-think that can excuse almost anything.
Mark Steyn has perceptively written that very soon an increasingly elderly population of California natives will expect that their “entitlements” will be provided by a young, resentful and unassimilated immigrant population who have been taught to have contempt for “the law.” It shouold be interesting.
We have the tool to correct this. It’s called impeachment. Why won’t the House of Representatives use it?
elephant4life:
Your question is not without an answer. Because the two major political parties in the country are homes for the Ruling Class. D or R, no matter, the rulers of we country folk are entitled to our stuff and they by divine right will take it as long as we allow them to.
And if they propaganda machine that is now cranking up to destroy Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney and any other clear thinking person who might be able to take on Obama successfully in 2012 has its way, the deal is sealed as is the fate of the nation.
Please note that Fox News Channel is now amost exclusively on the air to destroy any conservative or even moderate that might have a chance against Obama. Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Charles Krauthammer, Juan Williams, Karl Rove and on and on are examples of the bias they try so hard to mask. CNN and MSNBC do not have an exclusive on conservative bashing. They simply are more forthright about their mission. And unfortunately, too many people think they are being given fair and balanced reporting of the news.
“Without the law, there is nothing.”
And when the laws are made by a corrupt and immoral legislature from a distint class of people, it should be intentionally ignored, undermined and broken as the laws are no longer supporting justice of a free Republic. It appears the law is diluting and becoming nothing more than a social construct with subjuctive meanings to maintain a groups power.
What Illinois pulled off over Memorial Day Weekend is, I believe, unprecedented in terms of slime.
http://wwwtwosetsofbooks.blogspot.com/2011/05/il-dream-passes-house-abner-mikva.html
Another excellent article from VDH! These are disturbing issues but they must be faced in order to be dealt with and solved. I’m just thankful for VDH and PJM for helping to keep people aware of the real problems that we face as a nation.
Welcome to King Obama’s America.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The hardest part about writing laws and regulations is knowing where to stop. The situation now is that we have so many such laws and regulations from the local to the state and then the federal level, that nobody bothers to understand it all. Better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Another aspect of so many laws is that disgusting behavior becomes commonplace. Like the mob, it’s nothing personal, just business.
With so many laws one could use, and even lawyers unable to navigate them all, respect for the law has fallen on the floor. Even the courts themselves don’t respect the law any more. Why? Because they’re overloaded. We have too many of them. You can hardly even get them to understand the constitution. It would be nice if we could start over with just the Ten Commandments, and the Constitution of the US. But Somehow, I doubt that’s going to happen.
The lawyers and bureaucrats have won. Now, despite the precision of the legal profession, nobody cares. It’s too complicated, and nobody even bothers with a basic civics education. Sigh.
maybe we need to prepare for the worst. i have been stockpiling things i might need
in times of trouble; and, trouble is coming, soon. look at the front page of drudge.
minority gangs are roaming wild in the streets in numerous places. dem’s violate the law at will w/ no consequences. prisons soon to be spilling gang members onto the streets. illegal hispanics number in the tens of millions probably soon to be made legal. i was wondering where o would get his army he said was needed to affect change.
o will try to steal the election. that is a given. if he still loses he will start using his lame duck pen to try to invalidate the results. somewhere in this short time frame between now and Jan. 2013, we may have to make that decision the two Jewish prisoners were discussing. the difference? we have weapons, we will not give them up, and well know how to use them.
if he wins, our Republic is history.
looks like Thomas Jefferson was right, again.
prepare for the worst, and good luck.
Contrary to the popular belief above that “we are doomed” the left is paving it’s own way to hell. Just don’t stand to close to that faith if you don’t want to be there yourself. The enemies of truth and justice will have their just deserts sooner rather than later. Just raise your hands if you want to opt out.
The ‘chasm’ of differing opinions concerning rule of law amongst my Illiberal Conservative is ‘relative’.
My Illiberal friends say those who break the law, even those on a near-constant basis do it for ‘It’s all they know’.
My Conservative friends say the habitual law breakers ‘Have no conscience’. I believe both sides are correct.
However, I wish the MAJORITY of these law absconders would have that ONE moment of clarity they choose to ignore and right the ship. However small initially and grow from it. Something we law abiding folk take for granted from our toddler/youth years.
Though this WON’T happen with the current handouts, empathy, social/racial/gender ‘justice’ experiments abound in Western society, rewarding mediocrity. Rewriting the very definition of the word, ‘Diversity’.
I’m no ‘doomsday’ type for I believe an overwhelming number of people are good and make sound decisions in crisis, though I echo the late-Charlton Heston’s ‘..from my cold dead hands’ sentiment.
To paraphrase Rep. Julian Bond’s poem, these recent essays sound like the preface to a twenty-volume obit. Please get the Hell out of the C.V., Doc. You are being overrun, one way or another. To paraphrase what an aide said to Lee prior to Appomattox, “There is no California anymore. There hasn’t been a California for years. YOU ARE CALIFORNIA to us…”
Dr. Hanson, you are an insightful historian and often-wise commentator, but you seem to be afflicted with the same disease that has infected so many others in the public life of today’s America – the inability or unwillingness to call a spade a spade, in other words speak the plain truth. Obama’s presidency is not merely incompetent, it is criminal. The man himself is a fraud, whose persona has been manufactured out of whole cloth, and he has assumed power by what could legitimately be called a bloodless coup. Colluding with Senate Republicans (using the term charitably) such as Arlen Spector, Obama and a handful of the others passed Senate Resolution 511 which affirmed the “natural born citizenship” of John McCain, and his right to run as the GOP nominee. The only trouble is, the measure – ostensibly for McCain – was really to provide political cover for Obama’s extra-constitutional run for the White House. He and his cohorts from Chitown ran a lawless campaign which included voter fraud, illegal foreign campaign donations, and intimidation at the polls, but no one raised a finger in protest for fear of being labeled a racist. I won’t bore you with the lengthy list of Obama’s illegal and extra-constitutional activities since hijacking his office. The Libyan War Powers Act fiasco is only the latest in a long line of crimes. At what point do Americans, in particular their alleged leaders, stand up and shout “Enough!”? Apparently, you value your membership in the government-media complex too much to rock the boat. Is that sinecure at the Heritage Foundation worth that much to you? Or maybe it is being a polite, well-behaved guest on all of those cable TV shows, that wouldn’t invite you back if you said impolite things about the annointed one, that you value so much. Whatever the reason, you seem to be doing contortions to avoid facing the truth, that Obama is pushing the limits and finding none – will keep on pushing. He is a would-be dictator, a man who’d like nothing better than to be the next Robert Mugabe. Yet, you and your influential peers say nothing. Why? Is it is enormous disappointing to find that a man I had heretofore admired, has feet of clay. I hope I am wrong about you, Dr. Hanson, but the preliminary evidence says I am not.
For a sample of how you should be covering Obama, head over to the Canada Free Press website, where retired US Army Col. Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. has been doing a superb series of articles on Obama and the constitutional crisis he has engendered. Perhaps his sense of duty and fire will be transmitted to you.
Ward Dorrity
Ward, re: “Barza – you claim that “violence is an admission of failure.”
When your opponents lack the price of admission to civilized debate: a respect for reason, belief in objective truth, and a willingness to admit they’re wrong when the facts prove it so – what then?” and the post that followed were very well-said. Essential in fact.
No civilized person wishes for violence as a first resort, but to take it off the table and agree that it is never appropriate is horribly wrong and can only lead to the sort of slow tyranny into which we are descending. Our nation was created in violence, a revolution to free us from colonial overlords who had overstepped the bounds of lawful, civilized behavior. Bullies, being who and what they are, don’t often respond to reason, negotiation or the pleas of the weak – they must be resisted by force, beaten and held to account. That is the lesson of history. We are more and more governed by a political and economic elite, who believe that they are not subject to the same laws and morals as the rest of us, and therefore ignore them, even as they enslave us a little more each day. The ballot box doesn’t work; both parties are corrupt – it is a shell game with only two choices, neither of which solves our problem. The media no longer performs its once-critical role as an honest broker and watchdog of the political class; it has been co-opted into the elites. What does that leave? The only option short of revolution that has not yet been tried is massive civil disobedience, ala MLK and Gandhi. If that doesn’t work, well… do the math. JFK was right when he said, “Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible, will make violent ones inevitable.” These are perilous times in which we live, when the courage and fortitude of a patriot will be tested.
re: it’s bad and getting worse.
Is there a point of no return? When it’s clear the takers outnumber the makers? When should a citizen abandon their investment in the U.S. and go where there’s stability and sanity and a better, more certain future? Where are those places? Does it make sense to grab stability and a business-friendly environment where you can find it in, say, units of a decade?
The only thing of value when all else is washed away is the integral of time and a free human intellect applied with vigor and good judgment, (relatively) unhindered, unregulated and untaxed. What locales cherish and reward this? Australia, Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, Singapore, Estonia, Chile, Hong Kong, perhaps China, and (?). Where could Dr. Hanson’s family find the California of old? (perhaps South Western Australia, Nelson New Zealand, Chile’s wine country, ..)
When will we look back and say “I wish I had liquidated and moved my family back then rather than now when everyone else with a clue is getting in line”?
What is a leading indicator? Rise of discipline-specialist emigration service companies. Number of U.S. citizens renouncing same. (?).
My greatest hope is that this whole structure, rotted out by liberalism comes crashing down. I Mean this with every part of by being. I WANT it to crash, I want union thungs and the black panties I mean panthers to go on the rampage. I want Obama to raise taxes to 70% ala Jimmy carter, I want them to make 12 million criminals citizens by executive order then attempt to ban guns by the same process.
Once this happens the problem will begin to eliminate itself. Once it all crashes and there are no more courts, EBT food stamp cards, free health care and everything else these people are used to getting off the backs of hard working people liberalism weil begin to die out in a literal sense.
These people can not provide for themselves, can not protect themselves, and can not live without the Government holding their hands every day.
within a year the vast majority of these people will no longer be around to drag us down into a western version of the soviet union. Once they are gone we can begin to rebuild this Great Nation.
I am not sure anyone ever really read to the bottom of the comments, but I will say it anyway: I never really worried in the past about who was running the show. If it didn’t involve a blue dress or hostages, I truly don’t remember much politics in the last 20 years. I was too busy working and raising a family and – living a life. You may not have agreed with the politics or policies of whomever was in charge, but there was the rule of law and you were comforted with the fact that it constrained them and we could always “vote the bums out” in the next election cycle. My question has been for the last few years: what happens if they ignore the rule of law? Obviously, there must be someone or something “bigger than them” to “make” them obey it or constrain their madness. We are seeing the answer: they make it up as they go- administrate it out of logic or legality- vote it in so that you can find out what it says- or JUST IGNORE IT… because- “I won”. I wonder how much they could have accomplished if they had put as much effort into leading and serving the people as they have in skirting around the law to accomplish their own “transformational change”. THIS is what makes me listen and observe with great concern daily. I don’t ever remember a time when your President was a daily conversation piece: now every news break on the radio tells us what O-baah-muh is doing next. I think that is why average Americans lift their face when they hear a candidate confront this madness with moxxy and guts… I truly don’t think it is a Palin, Trump or Cain per se so much as (like Reagan) they remind us that it is NOT over, our best days are in front of us and confront liberalism head on. If, on one hand, they ignore the law of the land and then over criminalized the other side, we are on the path to a place that does not look like the America I grew up in. My question is still: What does the American citizenry do when when the politicians do not obey the law? Who or what is big enough to make them? What do you do when many citizens are quite willing to ignore it when they are recipients of benefits at the expense of their neighbors? Any direction you go, the answer gives me the chills.
@Terri.
Terri, you have stated in words that resonate with me – a very troubling fact. We, who have raised families, cared for neighbors and friends while while working and living the American dream – are now, brows furrowed, watching the horizon with a sense of foreboding never experienced before.
It comforts me, though – to read your words . . . . to know that we are not alone.
But, facing family and friends who do not see the threat to our freedom and prosperity – is almost beyond endurance.
2012.
I agree with Comment # 60: This administration is criminal. But, then, quite a bit of what our Federal Government has done for the better part of the last 90 years, beginning with Woodrow Wilson, has been criminal. The tipping point, I think, was Roe v. Wade. Oh, heap high the scorn and ridicule, dear readers! But, when the U.S. Supreme Court dictated this lawless crime — Roe v. Wade is, indeed, a crime — then there was almost a subliminal green light go-ahead to unchecked — creeping at first, then galloping — dictatorship in Washington, D.C. That our highest Court should have declared the murder of unborn persons as a “right” violated all Natural Law, as well as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. I wonder how long before America begins to arrest some of the criminals? And…. who will be the “sheriff” to do so? We are in a phase that is similar to that in Spain in the 1930′s, or Chile in the 1980′s. We can only hope that we emerge on the other end of the tunnel of dark dictatorship that we are now entering — with liberty restored, and justice for all, including the unborn and the elderly.
AZ & SC (and any other states that want to join in) should enter Articles of Impeachment possibly on a weekly bases until they are taken seriously. In fact halt congressional business until they are acted upon. At least get the malefactors attention.
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