Didn’t Waco attacks teach you anything? Remember that Koresch guy, the Branch Davidians? No I though he was a little out there too … But what did he do that deserved having the federal tanks burn his commune down, and kill all people inside. 25 children I think it was.
Tyranny is a progression, like progressives want for America. Not all at once, nudge, shove, shoot, There is already quite a bit if shooting with guns in the hands of the military, and others.
No word on what they plan on doing if the people don’t comply.
When Chávez took office in 1999, he referred to four major TV channels – RCTV, Venevision, Globovision and Televen – as the “four horsemen of the apocalypse”. He accused the channels supporting a short-lived 2002 coup by broadcasting cartoons and films instead of the protests that aided his return to power.
Now the owners are all dead, and every channel is State run. That’s how it works, in Communist Venezuela.
“A judge in Argentina ordered ISPs to block two websites — leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com. According to Google, many ISPs have simply blocked the IP 216.239.32.2 instead of using a targeted DNS filter. Over a million blogs are hosted by Blogger at this IP. Freedom of speech advocate Jillian York wrote, ‘IP blocking is a blunt method of filtering content that can erase from view large swaths of innocuous sites by virtue of the fact that they are hosted on the same IP address as the site that was intended to be censored. One such example of overblocking by IP address can be found in India, where the IP blocking of a Hindu Unity website (blocked by an order from Mumbai police) resulted in the blocking of several other, unrelated sites.”
Hasn’t OblameO and his regime tried to garner public support for only selected news sites?
I doubt this is even remotely Constitutional … Will anyone stand and challenge Congress?
The American people are watching as Congress deems and passes our republic to a presidential administrative tyranny. Much like what the German Reichstag did in 1933 with what they labeled “The Enabling Act of 1933″. Essentially what was done is the Reich-stag deemed the executive, through administrative rule-making, could do whatever was wanted, just make up the rules as you go and it’s done. Tyranny resulted, WWII happened and 25 million people lay dead. The German people had no say … or didn’t say anything, take your pick. It was an emergency, didn’t you know, inflation was rampant in Germany, it had to be fixed NOW!!! — or else.
These days in Congress a typical law reading session is going like this …
“We the Congress deem(insert what you want Mr President), that whatever(insert anything you want Mr President), and however you want it to work(insert anything you want Mr President), you think appropriate(insert anything you want Mr President), is hereby ruled to be law by executive administrative fiat.Which explains why Nancy Pelosi said this about health care legislation … “We have to pass the bill in order to find out what’s in it!”
And about the Financial Reform bill Chris Dodd said this …
“It is not a perfect bill(video at link); I will be the first to admit that. We don’t know ultimately how well the ideas we’ve incorporated here will achieve the results we desire. It will take the next economic crisis, as certainly it will come, to determine whether or not the provisions of this bill will actually provide this generation or the next generation of regulators with the tools necessary to minimize the effects of that crisis when it happens.”
In a stunning bit of condescension, this is Congresses way of saying “Screw you America, you’ve got presidential tyranny” … “We’re going golfing” — Congress.
Why not just have Congress pass a law that says “Here is the formally Constitutional Republic, Mr President, we Congress have decided making real laws with committees, hearings and such, making the Bill’s language public before voting, in the sunshine, is just too hard, so do what you want with the republic Mr President.” Call it the American Tyranny Enabling Act of 2010 and be done with it.
…… Against a tyrannical majority, one who wants to buy the votes that will keep them in power forever — WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS.
The current oath was enacted in 1884:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Forcing people to buy insurance is unconstitutional and unAmerican!
Tyranny comes in many forms — Keep a watchful eye.
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” – John Adams
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” — John Adams
In light of the present financial crisis, it’s interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802…:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” — Thomas Jefferson
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government” — Thomas Jefferson
Was Jefferson a Prophet?
“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” — James Madison
“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.” — James Madison
Madison wrote most of the U.S. Constitution. As a political theorist, Madison’s most distinctive belief was that the new republic needed checks and balances to protect individual rights from the tyranny of the majority.
It is uncanny how these same basic principles apply today …
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” – John Adams
Today’s outrage of AIG and their Obama approved bonuses is an fine example of Adams’ quote.
The Second Amendment went through a sort of rebirth last year, when a crystal clear ruling from the US Supreme Court ruled that it does indeed protect an individual right to keep and bear arms. And it spelled out two primary purposes, neither of which includes duck hunting. The first was the right to self defense. Isn’t that one obvious? The second is the right to defend country against all enemies foreign and domestic. And yes it did establish that common infantry weapons available to the military were in fact the weapons that were to be protected from government. That would be those ‘black scary’ weapons Diane Feinstein is always waving around saying they should be banned.
Well for liberals, it amounted to a rebirth, if not an abortion.