Obama is in Control

One of the most common tools of calculating, devious politicians and leaders is the use of surrogates and underlings to take the blame for perceived and real failures, while always taking full credit for any successes, whether or not it has been due to their own actions. Nowhere has this behavior been more apparent than with the Obama administration.

According to Obama, failures and problems are never the result of his orders or actions, but instead are the result of incompetence or bad judgement among his various cabinet officials or unwise Democrat congressmen. Awarding KSM a civilian trial in NYC? Why, that was the idea and plan of Attorney General Eric Holder; we are supposed to believe that Obama new nothing about it and it was all Holder's doing. In other words, a major legal and security issue was decided without the approval or advice of the president? I'm sorry, but the American people are not all idiots.

From the "health" care legislation, to the Honduras debacle, to numerous other events, Obama has claimed ignorance of failures and unpopular policy. If there are noxious sections to a piece of legislation, like the Cornhusker kickback or the Louisiana Purchase, Obama claims ignorance and blame rests solely on Democrat senators. Regardless of how much back room "persuading" his chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel partakes in. We are supposed to believe that Obama, as the head of the U.S. government and his political party, does not direct or control affairs that crucially affect America.

That's what makes videos like this one so special; because they lift the mask off of the charade and show Obama in all his devious, narcissistic glory. Perhaps the only shocking part of the whole testimony is the fact that a few Democrats were working with Republicans to attempt to draft truly bipartisan legislation. But a visit to Obama got that silly notion of "bipartisanship" cleared up real quick, while adding the necessary radical elements to appease his union and leftist base while gratifying his desire for power. That the bill became the government power grab and crony capitalist piece of garbage it is now shows the true nature and agenda of Obama, and how his ideological beliefs and policy plans are vile in their disregard for working citizens and dangerous to individual liberty.

If any more proof is needed to show Obama's callous disregard for the people, his belief in his utter superiority above any kind of moral and ethical standard, and his full embrace of the postmodern leftist belief that the ends are the only real truth, look no further than his recent comment to reporters about new middle-class taxes. When asked if he would renege on his promise not to raise "any form of tax" on Americans making less than $250,000 a year, Obama replied that he wasn't going to play that "old Washington game," and that everything is on the table when it comes to reducing the deficit (that he created).

Tyrants throughout history have shown that they will promise constituencies the world in order to grab power, and once they have it, they will do anything to keep it. The socialist ideological programs of the twentieth century both exercise the totalitarian power-consolidating impulse while effectively fulfilling the vain desire to control and engineer society due to belief in intellectual and moral superiority. Studying the words, actions, past history, and character of Obama, one finds that this picture fits, and all that is required to turn him into a truly historical tyrant is an increase in the power that he currently now holds. And if you review his stated agenda, this power is what he now seeks.

The Stimulus Failure and Economic Collapse

One of the biggest stories this week was a report that a majority of economists see the Obama stimulus bill as a failure. ("Economists: the stimulus didn't help") According to these economists, the stimulus package both failed to create jobs and improve the economy, which were its supposed two main purposes. Instead, it has been pretty well documented that the Obama stimulus has operated more like a giant political slush fund, rather than a piece of legislation drafted to address the financial hardships Americans are experiencing. How else to explain the fact that "Democratic districts won twice as much stimulus as GOP districts." Well, they wrote the bill, so why not take in the spoils?

This survey of economists is yet another report, on top of the visible proof, that the stimulus failed and has only made the problem worse by papering over the problems that exist, namely excessive government spending, lax enforcement of existing financial regulations, government-forced lending to unqualified recipients, and government intervention in markets. With unemployment hovering around 10%, the real unemployment rate hovering around 17%, the highest deficits and debt in U.S. history, a costly and oppressive health care bill, a record-high budget proposal, and an unprecedented expansion of government spending, the problems will not go away, and in fact, they are going to get a lot worse in the future unless government changes its current actions.

So what is the administration's response to the fiscal insanity? To cut spending? To decrease the over-bloated size and reach of the government? To lower taxes on workers and employers in order to increase productivity and commerce? Nope, no, and not a chance. Obama's brilliant solution is to appoint a bipartisan commission with the task of advising how to reduce the deficit that he just created. And of course, the conclusions of this panel will be for "austerity": to raise taxes, introduce new taxes (like the VAT), and cut spending. But will they cut spending where it really counts, namely entitlements? Of course not. The spending that will be cut will be on defense, which will further exacerbate American decline, making the world a lot more dangerous. Just ask Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, and that's just in East Asia.

What makes one's blood boil is the fact that the record-high deficits have been created by the out-of-control spending of Obama and the Democrats since last year. And as soon as they enact economy-killing spending legislation, they immediately try to play the fiscal responsibility routine:

This is a now familiar pattern for the White House: first enact record breaking levels of deficit spending, then turn right around and promise austerity sometime in the future. This February, after signing the largest single-year increase in domestic federal spending since World War II, President Obama held a “fiscal responsibility” summit designed to “send a signal that we are serious” about putting the nation on sounder financial footing. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank quipped at the time: “Holding a ‘fiscal responsibility summit’ at the White House in the middle of a government spending spree is a bit like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at a frat house on homecoming weekend.”

As stated earlier, the economic outlook is bleak. Two highly successful businessmen and financial gurus, Peter Schiff and Marc Faber, echoed economists fears by stating in no uncertain terms that "the economy is in worse shape than in 2008," and that "governments will bankrupt us."

Peter Schiff:

"A lot of people were confused – they thought the market going up was somehow ratifying what the government had done – that the stimulus and bailouts were good and the economy was improving – it's not," Schiff says. "The economy is in worse shape than in 2008."

Rather than resolved the crisis, all we've done is papered over problems in the banking system with "phony accounting" and "dug ourselves deeper into debt," says Schiff, a longtime deficit hawk.

The crisis of 2008 was merely the "overture" to the "real crisis" Schiff (still) sees coming: "The real crisis is going to be a currency crisis, a funding crisis, a sovereign debt crisis – and that's when we have to pay the piper," he says. "We're in very bad shape. Sovereign credit risk in the U.S. is just as great -- if not greater than [in] Greece."

Marc Faber:

Current economic policies are not sustainable and the world faces doom because "the governments are taking over"..."They will all bankrupt us and expropriate us, but it may not happen tomorrow. They'll give us something to play with, until the whole system breaks down...they'll just print money and print more money."

"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', (is that) they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it."

Faber warned that the "ultimate armageddon" would be much worse the next time around, as "governments will go bust", which would lead them to print more money.

Unless a Republican congress is elected this November that pledges to and fulfills the promises of repealing the "health" care bill, cutting entitlements and government spending, lowering taxes and enforcing existing regulations, while encouraging open markets and setting balanced budgets, any hope for an American resurgence is lost. Forever. Because if the situation is not rectified, the next step will be an increase in the supply of paper money, which will result in massive inflation, which will fatally cripple the American economy when combined with all the other conditions, including the political environment.

In other words, say hello to the rapid decline of America.

In regards to advice for the future, both Schiff and Faber are singing the same tune - along with thousands of other investors:

Schiff’s investment thesis also remains the same: He's "trying to capitalize on better opportunities that exist abroad" by being long commodities like gold and sliver, agriculture, global resource producers and emerging market stocks

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Instead of holding cash, Faber, commonly referred to as 'Dr Gloom', advised investors to "gradually accumulate physical gold and silver" while those who want exposure to shares of gold exploration companies should buy them from time-to-time when they become cheap.

"Some of them still have reasonably good value at the present time. This is a long-term strategy because in an environment where governments will print money — and I'm convinced they're gong to bailout Greece, which means you transfer essentially bad assets on to the balance sheet on the government," he said.

When that happens, Faber warned the purchasing power of paper money will go down, rather than an appreciation of precious metal prices.

"Paper money (will go) down relative to precious metals. So in that environment, I think you...should all accumulate some gold.

Lying Liars and "Health" Care

So, it turns out that the Democrats not only lied about what is in the "health" care bill, they also withheld damning information that was presented to them before the health care vote:

The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama's health care "reform" law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius's staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.

"The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the vote," says an HHS source. "Which is actually the point of having a review like this, you would think."

The analysis, performed by Medicare's Office of the Actuary, which in the past has been identified as a "nonpolitical" office, set off alarm bells when submitted. "We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff," says the HHS staffer, "and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary's office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report."

In the end, the report was released several weeks after the vote -- the review by the secretary's office reportedly took less than three days -- and bore a note that the analysis was not the official position of the Obama administration.

"ObamaCare Mulligan: About those lower insurance costs we promised..."

"Administration Defends Health Law Despite Medicare Report Hiking Nation's Tab"

Well, like Nancy Pelosi said: "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it!" I guess she was the girl that would eat the yellow snow to find out what it was.

Well, we are finding out more of what's in the bill everyday, and nobody likes it. The two main purposes of any potential health care legislation were to (1) bring down costs and (2) extend coverage to those who do not have it and need it. And, as we have discovered, Obamacare fails to do both of these things, and in fact, actually makes the problems worse.

Some would say that this might be by design... Some would say that this will increase the problems with medical care, which will lead to the need for more "changes"... Some might say that this is what Democrats and Obama want in order to take complete control of health care, and by extension, the lives of every individual in America...

Oh, and those claims about "death panels" in the healthcare legislation that the mainstream media denounced as lies? They're real; it's called "rationed" care, and simply put, it's when the government appoints a group of unelected bureaucrats to decide what care is approved, how much care one is entitled to, and whether or not a person is "suitable" to receive any medical care at all. And the primary concern for these "officials" is cost, not the individual. Yep, sounds like a death panel to me:

(Peter Orszag, Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget)

Oh, and 60% Believe Health Care Law Will Increase Deficit, 58% Favor Repeal.

The Absurdity of the Present

"More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship"

Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship....

“It is a sad outcome,” Ms. Bugnion said, “but I personally feel that we are now seeing only the tip of the iceberg.”

Eating Hormone-Injected Chicken Changes Your Sexual Orientation

According to Hugo Chavez's BFF, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, eating hormone-injected chicken will make you "deviant," i.e. gay.

"Bolivian president under fire for linking chicken to deviance"

The Bolivian nutcase "also suggested that the European diet made men go bald."

While it's obviously pretty funny, it's also sad to think that this man is president of an entire nation. When you have guys like Chavez, Ahmendinejad, Mugabe, etc. spouting nonsense and absurdities on a regular basis, it really is no surprise when you witness the results of their policies. But perhaps the saddest part of all of this is that there are useful idiots in the U.S. and other Western countries who support these leaders due to their leftist philosophies.

It's also no surprise that this loon believes in the nutty idea of man-made global warming. Kind of puts the whole thing in perspective, doesn't it?

Obama vs. Israel

Since the moment Obama assumed office, Israel has experienced the wrath of a president whose leftist views inform his understanding of the Middle East. Like most radical leftists, Obama sees the Middle East, the Palestinian issue, and Israel from the perspective of perceived grievances and social justice. In other words, Israel is the mean aggressor (never mind it is a tiny Western democracy surrounded by Islamic Arab states) that seeks to deprive Arab Palestinians of their rights and economic well-being. Furthermore, Obama, as seen through his "outreach" to the Islamic world, his courting of Arab dictators, and his unwillingness to confront radical Islamofascism, seems bent on blaming Israel for all the problems in regards to the "peace" process.

This pattern of behavior fits a man who looks at America, Europe, and by extension, Israel, as colonial, imperialist oppressors, who share a combined history of guilt and injustice. To Obama, free, open democratic societies like Israel are unfair, capitalistic entities who take advantage of minorities and other groups in order to provide riches for themselves.

Taking all this into consideration, it is no wonder that Obama has treated Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, with the utmost scorn and contempt, while bending over backwards to placate Arab leaders who have proven to be intransigent and corrupt.

Stunner. Obama Has Refused All Israeli Military Requests Since Entering Office in 2009

Not only has Obama started the process of dismantling America's military superiority, but he has also seen fit to begin the process of downgrading Israel's defense capabilities. This is possible because Israel receives their defense support mainly from the U.S., which has provided them with the means to defend themselves from the hostile forces that surround their small nation.

Imagine waking up in the morning to the constant sound of sirens, warning you to find shelter because of incoming Katyusha rockets. This has become almost a way of life for residents in south and north Israel. Even recently, Israel has been faced with the prospect of another missile bombardment.

And the biggest threat to Israel is undoubtedly an Iranian nuclear bomb, for the current leadership of Iran, from President Ahmedinejad, to Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, to numerous defense and government officials, has declared that they will not hesitate to destroy Israel and wipe it off the face of the map. And how can Israel take this threat lightly? This isn't the first time that Israel has been threatened with annihilation, and Iran currently supports, supplies, and funds a massive war by proxy with Israel. Hezbollah, Hamas, terrorists in Syria, etc., all receive their weapons, funding, and training from Iran. So while President Obama continues to twiddle his thumbs as Iran acquires nuclear weapons capabilities, Israel is faced with a life or death decision.

In fact, there is very little evidence to make Israel believe that Obama actually cares about their future. It has already been leaked that Obama prescribes to the popular "realism" of many American foreign policy "experts" who believe a nuclear armed Iran can be managed and contained. If this is true, then it would be clear that the current talk of "sanctions" is a massive charade, which is what the evidence indicates so far.

This has left Israel with the serious contemplation of "going it alone," and striking Iranian nuclear facilities without U.S. approval. And this really shows us how far we have come: that America's closest ally (the other is Britain, which has also been dismissed by the Obama administration) cannot depend on its closest friend to even allow it to defend itself from annihilation.

And how does a man-child president, indoctrinated in leftist bile, respond to this possibility? Why, by threatening to possibly shoot down Israeli fighter jets if they attempt to take out Iranian nuclear sites.

So it has come to this: an American president opposing a valued and close ally with the threat of military action. Obama does nothing to stop Iran from obtaining the bomb while opposing Israel every step of the way, and this results in one simple conclusion: Obama, however indirectly, is siding with evil. How else to explain the situation. Is Iran's regime evil? Yes. They murder and torture their own people who demand freedom, they supply terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Gaza, they have formed alliances with totalitarian despots in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, North Korea, etc., and they preach the extermination of an entire ethnic group. Now they are attempting to obtain nuclear weapons, and Obama is doing nothing to stop it, while preventing the only nation that is attempting to truly stop it from taking any action. Obama has sided with evil.

At least Israel has strong leadership during this time, which it desperately needs, and that refuses to bow down to the commands of a disastrous American president. I am also hopeful for the American Jewish community, which has been a liberal Democrat bastion for most of the last century. It seems that Obama's scorn towards Israel has awakened many American Jews to the harsh reality of leftist hatred towards Israel.

(A terrific article by Dennis Prager about America, Israel, and history.)

"Read my lips, I am a pathological liar."

"Millions face tax increases under Dems budget plan"

"Obama ‘Suggests’ VAT Tax Is An Option"

"Obama: Yeah, I'm open to a VAT"

"A VAT would rapidly increase costs across the entire spectrum of wage earners, but the middle class would get particularly hard. Usually, a VAT gets accompanied by some sort of subsidies for low-income families, and wealthy families won’t have it hit their disposable income as hard. The middle class will end up carrying the burden of a VAT, the very antithesis of Obama’s promise in 2008."

Much has been made in the past few weeks about new taxes, especially the buzz around the VAT. All of the tax talk, while it has been a constant noise in the background, has gained tremendous momentum since the passage of the Obamacare monstrosity in Congress. (Let this be evidence of the lie of deficit-neutrality in the Democrat "Health" care disaster.) But, as much as politicians may think otherwise, out-of-control spending will always be followed by taxes. And let's face it, the Democrats are run by a bunch of fiscal incompetents who believe in the lofty promises of Marxism and the regressive delusions of Keynesian economics, and these incestuous philosophies are literally founded upon the redistribution of wealth through government.

Obama, being a calculating and cynical Alinskyite-Leftist, knew that he had to sell himself as a caring centrist during the election. This naturally led to his numerous promises of "no new taxes" on the middle class. Unfortunately, for anyone who even studied the past four years of his political career, his tax promises had no bearing on the reality of the policies and programs he supported. Therefore, we are now all faced with the fact that yet another Obama promise has proven to be a lie, and we all face a future economic collapse caused by more spending, more debt, and more taxes exacerbated by government corruption. The next step will be massive inflation, and you can likely say goodbye to hopes of economic prosperity in your lifetime.

Crony Capitalism: Welcome to Obamaland

Obama received almost $1,000,000 in campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs (The 2nd biggest contributor to his campaign). His chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel worked for them, Mark Patterson, the chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, was a Goldman Sachs lobbyist, and various other officials of the Obama administration have ties to Goldman. As one popular political personality has put it, "Goldman's nickname is Government Sachs because they've got so many people at various bureaucratic levels."
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

"All the President's Goldman men"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/all_the_president_goldman_men_e2n0aCBBZgC4cEBbEhqFdI

"REID DODGES QUESTIONS ON GOLDMAN $$$"

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/20/2275442.aspx
Harry Reid received money from a recent Goldman Sachs fundraiser, and he refuses to give the money back. Funny how Goldman Sachs holds a fundraiser for him while he is pursuing a massive financial regulatory bill... Unless Goldman Sachs likes the bill and stands to profit from it... Which in turn will be good for Harry Reid and other Democrats like Chuck Schumer, who will receive more campaign contributions. In fact, let's look at a list of Goldman Sachs' contributions to high-ranking Democrats in the Senate:

Chuck Schumer (NY), Member of both the Finance and Banking Committees:
Goldman Sachs: $481,040 (Top career contributor)
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=C&cid=N00001093&newMem=N

Chris Dodd (CN), Chairman of Banking Committee:
Goldman Sachs: $273,466 (6th largest career; #1 Citigroup, #3 Bear Stearns, #5 AIG)
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00000581&type=I

Robert Menendez (NJ), Member of both the Finance and Banking Committees:
Goldman Sachs: $149,950 (2nd largest career contributor)
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00000699&newMem=N

Max Baucus (MT), Chairman of the Finance Committee:
Goldman Sachs: $88,900 (2nd largest career contributor)
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00004643&newMem=N

Just for kicks:
Hillary Clinton (NY), Former Senator and now Secretary of State:
Goldman Sachs: $682,690 (2nd largest career contributor)
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00000019&newMem=N

"Goldman charge looks more like politics than fraud"
http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/financials/story.html?id=2926436
Isn't it interesting that the SEC panel, after nine months of investigation, votes to charge Goldman the same exact week that Obama and the Democrats are pushing regulatory reform legislation? And that the vote was along party lines, with the 2 Republicans voting against it, while the 2 Democrats and the Obama-appointed "Independent" vote for it?


"Dem Web war on Sachs"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/dem_web_war_on_sachs_KFbf4AqtQR2tMo2rYKyZTO
I'm sorry, either the White House and the Democrat Party believes we are all a bunch of idiots, or this is just one of the biggest coincidences in the history of politics. In short, Obama's political propaganda outfit, run out of the White House, pays Google to have the link to their regulatory reform page appear as the top search whenever a person types in the words "Goldman Sachs SEC." And this was done before the SEC released the formal charges against Goldman Sachs, and before the New York Times released the story, which the White House claims is when they were first notified about the decision.
Yes, and this morning pigs flew out of my ass.


"A Difficult Path in Goldman Case"
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/a-difficult-path-in-goldman-case/?src=busln
And what do you know? Turns out that it looks like the SEC really doesn't have any kind of case against Goldman. Well, if the case was meant to be flimsy from the beginning that means the only court it was ever meant to win in was the one of public opinion, so Democrats can pursue their political ends and pass the Dodd reform bill.


"Obama’s Former White House Counsel Craig Advising Goldman Sachs"
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-20/obama-s-former-white-house-counsel-craig-advising-goldman-sachs.html
Oh, and isn't it a coincidence that Greg Craig, former White House counsel to President Obama (he also defended Obama in the Rod Blagojevich corruption case), was assigned as counsel to Goldman Sachs? Incestuous? Yes. Is this a huge scam? Hmmm.....

"GOP seeks SEC records on Goldman"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36097.html

"Is the Goldman-Sachs scandal manufactured?"
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/is_the_goldmansachs_scandal_ma.html

Considering that Goldman only seems to be facing some slight "discomfort" as far as penalties go (if the case even sees a jury), it seems "convenient" that Obama and the Democrats have the Goldman charges right as they are pushing to pass their financial reform bill. Furthermore, the bill will actually reward Goldman, and other major firms, with taxpayer funded "bailouts" should it ever encounter financial difficulties. In other words, while Goldman will temporarily play the "bad guy," it will potentially help the Democrats and Obama to pass their legislation, which would ultimately benefit Goldman Sachs and other investment firms tremendously, which in turn benefits the politicians in Washington with fat campaign coffers.

And just to nail home the point about how good this bill is for huge investment firms like Goldman Sachs, I give you Brad Sherman, Democrat Representative from California: "The Dodd bill has unlimited executive bailout authority. That's something Wall Street desperately wants but doesn't dare ask for. The bill contains permanent, unlimited bailout authority."

One really needs to seriously think about a "financial regulatory reform bill" that is championed by Obama and the Democrats, when it will benefit companies that are so tied in with Washington, while giving the government more control over the economy. Oh yes, the Dodd bill will give the Obama regime complete and unrestrained oversight of all American businesses. With this bill, Washington will be able to dictate which companies receive favors and get away with violations, while raising costs overall that will impact average Americans the most. Say hello to unrestrained Crony Capitalism: your new princes in Washington demand fealty.

The Tyranny of Rights

(Originally posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 5:36pm)

"Vacationing a human right, EU chief says"

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/news/Vacationing+human+right+chief+says/2924330/story.html

"The European Union has declared travelling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers' dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips.

Antonio Tajani, the European Union commissioner for enterprise and industry, proposed a strategy that could cost European taxpayers hundreds of millions of euros a year, The Times of London reports.

"Travelling for tourism today is a right. The way we spend our holidays is a formidable indicator of our quality of life," Mr. Tajani told a group of ministers at The European Tourism Stakeholders Conference in Madrid on April 15."

This is the natural progression of leftist attempts to define human "rights" based on an ambiguous moral and ethical philosophy that can shift according to ideological whims and majority sentiment. As with calls for "health care" as a human right, the provision of food as a human right, etc., the question remains, "where does it end?" Why not make at least one automobile for every person a human right? Why not make at least one nice suit or evening gown for every person a human right? Why not a pet dog with government-subsidized food a human right? Why not taxpayer-funded vacations a....wait a second...

By highlighting the extreme, and in this case the reality, we see how the postmodern idea of unrestrained "human rights" not only cheapens true rights - among them life, liberty, and the freedom to pursue happiness - but it becomes tyrannical in scope and ambition. The reason is because all of these new rights will require the infringement of true human rights. For example, in order to pay for health care for everyone, the government will take your property to fund it, which infringes on your right to pursue happiness free from government interference and theft. And then in order to assure a modicum of care for each person, medical care will have to be rationed (as it has been in every society or nation that tried it - think the U.S.S.R.), thus infringing on your right to life. In the end, everyone loses, rights become meaningless, and tyranny is the only result.

The American Founding Fathers, men of Christian beliefs and ideals, understood that human "rights" only come from God. Because they come from a Creator, and cannot be decided by powerful men, bureaucrats, or a majority of public opinion, these rights can never be infringed upon, altered, or changed. God-given rights are also the rightful property of every person on earth, whether poor, rich, man, woman, white, black, or Asian.

Sadly, powerful men in control of governments now believe that they have the "right" to dictate what our "new rights" are, and we the people shall only suffer as a result.

Then and Now: The Communist Goals for America from 1963

(Originally posted: Monday, April 19, 2010 at 5:11pm)

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the Communist Goals for America from a House of Representatives hearing in 1963. Looking at the list, it's not hard to see that many of the "goals" have either come to fruition or seem to be gaining traction each day in America.

It's sad to think that the former pro-Soviet Communists, who today comprise a broad spectrum of leftist or "progressive" groups, have created the conditions that they believed would lead to a fundamental change in the U.S., and by extension, the world. It's important to note that Communists (and the majority of leftists) are fervently anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-family. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a philosophy founded on the concept of the worthlessness of the individual would seek to destroy (i.e. "change") any philosophy and nation that stands against this nihilistic belief.

Even though Communism and socialist totalitarian ideologies led to the deaths of about 200 million people in the last century, leftists continue to pursue their doctrines of social and economic "equality" and the destruction of freedom in order to create their unattainable socialist utopias. Due to their intellectual vacuity, narcissism, and disassociation with reality, today's leftists continue to believe that they "will make it work this time because they know better." It seems that due to ignorance, the selfish pursuit of personal desires, and a naivety in the face of evil, humans will be destined to continue making the same mistakes that cause pain, suffering, chaos and destruction.

Here is the list of the Communist Goals for America (I have highlighted in bold the points that are especially pertinent to today):
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Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963


Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. (Obama and his nuclear policies; the Nuclear Summit?)

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. (China anyone?)

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. (Democrats?)

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. (A favorite tactic of the left today.)

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. (Think about what you learned/are learning today in schools.)

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. (What are the current political opinions of the major networks and newspapers?)

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. (What kind of politics comes out of Hollywood today?)

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." (Post-modern art?)

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." (Think about what gets praised as art today; what did you see the last time you were in an art museum?)

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. (Reality TV shows, sex and crude language on television, pornography all over the internet, etc.)

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch." (The liberation theology movement, ideas about "social justice" in the church, a "Purpose-Driven Life," etc.)

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. (A "Living" Constitution)

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." (It is now regularly taught that all the founders were slave-owners (not true), were rich (not true), were not Christians (not true), and cared little about what happened to the average American (not true and absurd).)

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. (Substitute "revisionist history" for "Russian history.")

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. ("Universal" health care, the Department of Education, etc.)

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. (The leadership of all the major unions are avowed Communists or leftists.)

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. (Take a look at the politics and beliefs of some of the major CEOs of today; Jeffrey Immelt at GE is an avowed leftist.)

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. (About 50% of marriages end in divorce today, and pre-marital sex and promiscuity is rampant today in American culture. Ask yourself, "why do leftists want to discredit the family and encourage promiscuity?")

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. (How prevalent is the attitude of "blame the parents" in today's society? Why did the Soviets, the Nazis, etc. all seek to separate children from parents at an early age and put them into youth corps?)

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. (How often do leftist student "protests" end in violence or severe disruptions to the peace? Why does this happen?)

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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For those of you interested in how a number of these things came to pass, a great place to start studying is the Frankfurt School and its influence upon American universities and culture. Sadly, it seems that the ideas of corrupt leftists have taken hold in many areas of American life and culture. If our society is to survive, it will have to be as the result of a widespread awakening among citizens as to the dangers of "post-modernism" and the "progressive" mentality.

In the face of government corruption and unpopular policies, a president who many people are now unhappy with, and a degradation of societal values and morals, many people are asking "how could this/did this happen?" I believe the answer is that many good people stood by and did nothing as ideologically radical and morally bankrupt individuals changed the vital institutions of American society. This should not only be a lesson for the future, but it should also serve as a wake-up call for concerned citizens to step up and do something. The simple act of telling the truth in the face of lies, and speaking your convictions, does an immeasurable amount of good.

To close, I would like to warn all Christians that the same things that happened/are happening to American society are taking place in the church today (#27). Now, more than ever, Christians should be questioning their pastors and the messages that are given by them. You may think that you go to a "good" church, and that your pastor is a "good" guy, but have you ever seriously questioned the things he said? I know firsthand the corruption of church doctrine from attending a church for several years that is currently doing great spiritual harm and is full of the teachings of leftist "social justice." Souls are at stake, and soon it may be too late. Will you do something about it?

(Source for Congressional Record: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm)