The world was starving. Hunger and fear. When the world goes into darkness it's almost always based on several small events followed by one cataclysmic event. Hitler used the world economic crisis as a pivot-point. He said, "We're going to protect the common man" and people rallied around Hitler.I'm not saying Obama is like Hitler. This isn't a "Democrats are bad" diatribe. I have actually felt disenfranchised from both parties. I left the Republican Party during the first George W. Bush term and joined the Libertarian Party. I rejoined the Republican Party during the 2008 election to support Mike Huckabee... and later, John McCain [although I felt that John McCain was not much different from Barack Obama]. I voted for McCain, although I admit I wavered during the election and wasn't too disappointed at the final result.
What has been happening, however, is far worse than I ever imagined. I believe we are heading down a path that we will not easily return from. We are not simply suffering from a bumbling President who says silly things or has strong [albeit misdirected] convictions. We are facing extreme changes in our way of life -- in the very basis of our government -- in the foundation of our Constitutional Republic.
George Bush (the first) used the Iraqi attack on Kuwait as a motive to invade Iraq. Bill Clinton used the bombings of embassies [in East Africa] as an excuse to bomb Afghanistan in August 1998. Osama Bin Laden used the bombings in Afghanistan to justify the World Trade Center attack on 9/11/01. George W. Bush used the 9/11 attack as an excuse to invade Afghanistan -- and later, to invade Iraq again.
But would our current administration use a crisis to make bold moves? They said this was going to be an administration of change. They were going to do away with "old politics."
Rahm Emanuel (President Obama's COS) said in November 2008:
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
So yes... they would use a crisis as a means to an end. Especially if the "end" was a Socialist agenda that gets them things they have pushed for for decades -- national health care, easing trade sanctions, easing immigration, building welfare programs, etc.
What worries me is that this "crisis" has been totally manufactured. Was the bank failure/bailout/AGI scandal manufactured? The auto industry bailout [and subsequent firing of the CEO of GM] manufactured? I don't know, but I think it is definitely something we need to keep an eye on. Remember this quote?
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." -- Joe Biden
Is anybody else feeling paranoid? I do. For the first time in my life, I am truly scared for the future of my country.
I know I am starting to fall into that, "Oh, he's crazy" category. I suffer from a serious disability... I think for myself. I have strong opinions... and appreciate other opinions [even if they are very different from mine]. I am a Christian, a Creationist, I oppose abortion, I oppose the death penalty, I think we should bring all of our soldiers home [so we can guard our own borders], I think we should blow the "pirates" [aka terrorists] that attacked an American ship out of the flippin' water, I think we should stop bailing out businesses that failed, I think we need to stop apologizing [and taking the blame] for the world's problems, and I think we need to get back to what our Constitution stands for and back away from our current move toward Transnationalism. (More about that later)
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