The Battered American

It’s been 8 days since the WWII veterans were locked out of the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. A plethora of restrictions, blockages and shut downs have blanketed the nation since then. They are for the expressed purpose of, as one Park Ranger put it, “Make life as difficult for people as we can.”

What kind of administration orders that? What is their end game? Regardless, the result is a lot of pain and suffering for people directly involved in the shutdowns and restrictions.

Is this behavior abusive? It certainly appears to be promulgated to produce the maximum amount of frustration, aggravation and disappointment for Americans. Does that produce anger? You bet! Does it produce a feeling of oppression, harassment, feeling controlled or neglected? All part and parcel of various forms of abuse.

When one examines the current state of the average American citizen, it becomes clear we are subjected to many forms of abuse from a variety of bureaucratic organizations.

IRS abuse - We’ve all known someone who has been audited. The recent IRS debacle with the Tea Party groups indicates an abuse of power that demands immediate attention. The majority of the American people want a flat or fair tax instituted as soon as possible. The current IRS abuse and scandals will only worsen if left unchecked.

EPA abuse - Many cases and examples of EPA abuse. I personally know the Sacketts and their struggle with the EPA. What they’ve been through is beyond the pale. The EPA is totally out of control.

National debt - Obama has added 6 Trillion to our National Debt. Is this abusive of us and our grandchildren who will eventually have to pay off this debt? One third of the national debt is the sole responsibility of Barack Obama. Is this financial abuse? The magnitude of this burden on children yet unborn is almost incomprehensible.

Entrepreneurial and small business abuse - Can excessive rules, regulations and taxes strangling small business and squashing entrepreneurial ideas be anything else other than economic abuse? Especially when it’s planned Cloward-Piven style to cause a collapse of the American economy? It is nothing less than a purposeful destruction of our free enterprise capitalist system.

NSA abuse - Duh. The personal harassment and privacy breeches by the NSA are beyond abusive. Suffice it to say total abuse, harassment and a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment. Warrantless searches are akin to rape. NSA reform is certainly on the bucket list of all patriotic Americans.

TSA abuse - Tons of evidence of abuse plus theft and fraud. Needs to be privatized. It's unionized now so will always be a mess and expensive for taxpayers.

Regulation abuse - Staffers are producing new rules and regulations on a daily basis. With every regulation comes a potential lawsuit. Strangling regulations are producing a society where everything is restricted or illegal. Sound familiar? Another monumental area that needs complete revision.

Obamacare – Passed by arm twisting the House and Senate and deemed Constitutional by SCOTUS by declaring it a tax. The goal of Obamacare is collapse of the medical system in the US, wipe out the private insurance sector and produce a single payer socialized medical system. Is this planned scenario abusive of the American people and against the will of a vast majority of Americans?

Income redistribution - Another duh. Where do they get the right to steal from the producers and give to the subgroups or cronies that they decide? Is this controlling, manipulative and economic/financial abuse?

MSM abuse - Propaganda machine for the administration and neglect of newsworthy stories that don’t fit the administration’s agenda. Is the MSM abusive, withholding information, neglecting relevant stories and cherry picking stories that promote an agenda? Is this journalistic malpractice?

Education - Is brainwashing abusive? Are centralized federal Common Core standards, influenced by the likes of Bill Ayers, a form of subversive control and abuse? Where does abuse and neglect begin and end?

Gun control - Ongoing harassment and attempted control of gun purchases, ammunition restrictions, and the right to keep and bear arms is an abuse of patriotic gun owners.

Animosity and careless disregard of our Armed Services is quite evident. The recent withholding of burial rights from our deceased service men and women is an absolute disgrace. Abusive? Way beyond it.

Are we victims of energy abuse? Is our energy policy deliberately structured to create the maximum amount of suffering for the American people? The fallacy of ignoring fossil fuels energy for ‘green energy,’ bio-fuels, etc, has produced sky high energy and gasoline prices. According to EIA data, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States was $1.84 on Jan. 19, 2009 - the day before Obama took office. Is causing electricity prices to “necessarily skyrocket” a planned form of abuse? Saying no to the pipeline?

Is welfare a form of planned control and dependency of Americans? Is said excessive control and dependency a neglect and abuse issue that gravely affects many Americans?

RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

Can attitude be abusive? Is a petulant condescending air of disgust abusive? Can you see yourself as a spouse of, or best friend of Obama saying, “Hey, what’s with the attitude?” Is Obama pushing a “fundamental transformation of America” an abuse of power?

Getting back to this past week, below is a partial list of the events that have affected many Americans. Are they abusive? You be the judge.

We’re on the same page, basically.

Will Obama Stop the Music This November?

The current “shutdown” of 17% of the federal government has primed America for chaos with constant left-wing rhetoric and news media reports couched in apocalyptic terms such as crisis, brink, catastrophe, hostage, arsonist and terrorist. But a catastrophe is useful to a would-be tyrant only as long as it can be blamed on a hated enemy. In 1933 Hitler’s agents burned the Reichstag, not just to sow fear and confusion, but primarily in order to charge his Communist enemies with treason as an excuse to obliterate them. The German “mainstream media” dutifully parroted the Nazi Party line, without investigating the true source of the arson.

A similar pattern of scapegoating has been followed in the United States throughout the term of President Obama. For example, leading Democrats and their shills in the mainstream media have long been salivating at the prospect of a “Tea Party” conservative going on a violent rampage. We saw this in Tucson immediately after the Gabby Giffords shooting, after the Aurora, Colorado, theater attack, and after the recent Washington Navy Yard shooting, when Democrats and their media allies rushed to blame “Tea Party terrorists” in early reports based upon zero evidence. As far as we know, all of these attacks were carried out by deranged individuals following the orders of inner demons, but still the left hopes for a violent response by right-wing “bitter clingers,” so named by President Obama himself during a private fund raiser.

The current “government shutdown” seems to be designed to provoke a violent right-wing reaction. War memorials have been barricaded, even iconic national parks such as those at Valley Forge, Yellowstone, and Mount Rushmore have been closed to the American public that purportedly owns them and undoubtedly funds them. At Yellowstone, senior citizens and foreign tourists have been rousted from paid private hotel rooms by armed federal agents and forcibly bused out of the park. Around the closed Mount Rushmore National Park, cones have been set along public highways to prevent tourists even from stopping to take photographs. Meanwhile, a demonstration on the otherwise “closed” National Mall by illegal aliens demanding amnesty was welcomed by the Obama administration with open arms.

In my opinion, the intention of these selected park closures is not only to inflict psychological pain upon the administration’s perceived “enemies” but also to provoke a violent response by fed-up constitutional conservatives. Thus far, none has risen to the bait; so what will the regime do next? I believe that President Obama may be planning to up the ante by orders of magnitude. How might this happen? The “government shutdown” over the continuing resolution bill has turned on the Democrats’ demand for a “clean” CR, but the real battle will come next week when the national debt limit is reached.

What will happen if President Obama and the Democrats in Congress demand a “clean” debt extension, with no upper limits and no attached conditions, just as they have demanded a “clean CR” to fund current government operations? In the battle over the debt limit extension, either the Republicans will fold and accede to Democrat demands for infinite debt, or they will stand their ground just as they have over the CR. If the Republicans refuse to grant Obama an unlimited debt extension, he may play the final card required to send the United States into such violent turmoil that he will be able to declare a state of emergency and rule by decree under the National Emergencies Act.

How would such horrible conditions be created that President Obama might be able to justify seizing emergency power? By cutting off all federal entitlement payments while claiming that he cannot continue them without a debt extension, secure in the knowledge that the mainstream media will continue to dutifully serve as his propaganda arm, blaming recalcitrant Republicans for all of the negative consequences.

While senior citizens on Social Security and other federal pension plan recipients may not immediately take to the streets, going on violent rampages of rioting, looting and burning, there is a segment of our population that will do exactly that: many of the 50 million Americans who today literally put the food on their tables by using an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. While the states administer their individual EBT programs, most of the money comes from the federal government. Please read my previous essay “When the music stops: how America’s cities may explode in violence” to understand the tremendous risk that will accompany a cutoff—even briefly—of EBT payments.

The fact that thousands of Americans might be injured or killed during the nationwide riots that would follow the looting of supermarkets and delivery trucks will not be a moral impediment to the architects of Operation Fast and Furious. You will recall that this infamous “law enforcement operation” resulted in the murders of hundreds of innocent Mexicans and at least two U.S. federal agents by untracked firearms supplied directly to the Mexican drug cartels by our own federal “law enforcement” agencies. With Operation Fast and Furious (“gun control under the radar” in Obama’s own words), this administration has already crossed the mass-murder-for-political-ends Rubicon—and the mainstream media cooperated in the cover-up.

A lifelong Marxist revolutionary who has caused hundreds to be murdered in an attempt at political gain on gun control is not likely to blanch at the prospect of thousands dying in bloody food riots when the stakes are incalculably higher. If “the music stops” and our cities burn, Obama may grasp the opportunity to declare a state of emergency and seize dictatorial powers from the fire and ashes. Those who resist his rule by emergency decree will be declared to be “Tea Party terrorists” by Democrat leaders and their captive media, and we may finally see why the Department of Homeland Security has been purchasing those billions of hollow-point bullets, UAV drones, and armored vehicles.

If this is their calculation, it is a diabolical plan indeed. But a plan to ride a tiger is not the same as riding the tiger. Permanent rule by emergency decree may not be as simple to accomplish as would-be left-wing tyrants believe. Millions of Americans will not be fooled by the deliberately instigated torching of our cities and will not go quietly into the night of Marxist tyranny.

Good article. Thanks for sending. The Berlin Blockade woke up Americans to what the Soviet Union really was. The Obama Blockade is waking up Americans affected by it to what Obama really is.

Only a foreigner would be doing this to our people.

Also recommend, from The Threat We Face.

"The first of these features is their alienation from country: If you ask progressives about their patriotic feeling, they will tell you that they don’t think of themselves first as Americans but as “citizens of the world.” That even has a Harvard imprimatur. They are, in fact, so profoundly alienated from their country as to be in some sense foreigners to it. They are hostile to its history and to its core values, which they see as reflections of a society that has been guilty of racism and oppression on an epic scale. And they are fundamentally opposed to its constitutional arrangements which the framers specifically designed to thwart what they deemed “wicked projects” to redistribute income and share individual wealth."

"This is perhaps the hardest feature of their progressive adversaries for conservatives to comprehend. It is difficult to imagine that people as privileged by America’s generosity as Barack Obama and his entourage of despoilers should be so alienated from their country as to feel themselves in it but not of it."

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