THE POLITICS OF FEAR
By Michael Connelly
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
It
seems that the scandals just keep on coming. First,
Americans are abandoned to die in a terrorist attack
in Benghazi and the American people are lied to
about the attack by the President and members of his
cabinet. All of the facts are still unknown and the
cover up continues.
Then
we learn that one of the most powerful and feared
government agencies, the IRS, used its power to deny
tax exempt status to hundreds of conservative and
religious groups in order to protect the
Democrats and
influence the outcome of
the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. The IRS
also abused its power by using illegal and
unconstitutional tactics to intimidate the
organizations, their members, and contributors and
to target other individuals and companies that it
perceived as enemies of Obama. Again, many of the
facts are still unknown, but this is clearly a
violation of the First Amendment right of free
speech.
Right on the heels of the IRS scandal came the
revelations that the Justice Department was
illegally obtaining the phone records of reporters
to find out who they might be talking to when
investigating the administration. When questioned
about this by a Congressional Committee Eric Holder
did what the members of this administration do best,
he lied. Obama feigned indignation over the whole
matter and then took “decisive” action by telling
Eric Holder to investigate himself. So much for the
freedom of the press guaranteed by the First
Amendment.
Of
course that was just the beginning because the hits
just keep on coming.
Americans are now learning that the National
Security Agency (NSA) that has the task of
protecting us from terrorists and other enemies is
now spying on all of us simply because we are
Americans. They are gathering our phone records,
reading our emails, and gathering data about every
aspect of our lives. All to be stored for future
use.
While all of this was breaking, the VA has been
depriving our military veterans of their Second and
Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution, and
the Pentagon has been threatening active duty
members of the military with punishment for
practicing their religion, (unless it is Islam of
course),
or exercising their right to freedom of speech. Not
to be outdone, the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has turned over the names, addresses, and
other private information of over 80,000 American
farm families to radical environmental groups that
want to put these farms out of business.
If
you think closely about all of these so called
scandals, they have one common denominator; all of
these actions by our government are designed to make
us afraid of it. They are meant to induce a climate
of fear that has been the major strategy for every
dictatorship in history. Adolph Hitler and Joseph
Stalin were masters at it and the people in Cuba,
China, Iran and other countries still live in this
climate.
The
philosophy is simple, if people know they are being
monitored and that everything they say or do is
subject to government scrutiny and possible
punishment for any transgressions they commit, they
will alter their behavior to conform to the wishes
of the dictatorship. In Obamaland that means that
the news media will stop investigating his scandals
because reporters and their sources are afraid of
retaliation by the Justice Department.
People will stop speaking out against Obama, forming
groups to influence elections, or contributing to
conservative groups and candidates for fear of
retaliation by the IRS. Veterans will stop seeking
treatment from the VA because they don’t want to be
declared incompetent and lose their rights to own a
firearm. Americans will be afraid to say what they
believe in emails or on the phone and even be
fearful of calling their elected representatives.
Worst of all is that as a result of Benghazi members
of the military and the diplomatic service will be
aware that no one has got their back. They can be
sacrificed at any time for the personal political
aspirations of this President.
I
have come to the conclusion that none of this is an
accident. Unfortunately for America, Obama is
neither stupid nor incompetent. He is an elitist and
a narcissist who knows exactly what he is doing, and
it is only going to get worse. We now have Obamacare
and the same people in the IRS, DOJ, etc. who have
attacked our basic freedoms will now control our
access to medical care.
The
climate of fear is becoming a reality in the United
States of America just as it did in the Soviet Union
and Nazi Germany. The difference is that if we
recognize it for what it is and Obama for what he is
we are still in a position to resist. If that means
taking to the streets in massive protests or even
forming neighborhood groups to protect ourselves and
our homes then so be it.
Our
founding fathers gave their all to give us this
Constitution and our freedoms, and generations of
Americans have given their best and brightest to do
battle to defend them. We can do nothing less.
mrobertc@hotmail.com
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