Akzed on March 21, 2012 at 9:22 AM

There are many end these means can reach that Obama has employed or set in place. Not a one of them is good for the United States and are of great concern.

I predict that if Obama wins, the death knell for the US will be slower paced than his recent progress. If he loses in November, the end will be the same. He’ll just have to rush his tyrannical dictatorship into place at the pace he has set and running right now.

Woody

In an attempt to provide that answer, allow me to don an appropriately stylish tinfoil hat before I present a plausible scenario.

1) In early March 2012, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it is the position of this administration that international organizations such as NATO or the United Nations have at least as much, if not more authority to deploy U.S. troops, with or without congressional notice or permission.

2) A week later, the NAACP petitioned the U.N. Human Rights Council to involve themselves in our election process — specifically our November presidential election, in order to monitor the vote for instances of voter suppression. It is the fantasy of the NAACP that laws requiring presentation of a photo ID to cast a ballot are in actuality thinly veiled efforts to keep the poor, elderly, and non-white populations from voting, presumably for Obama.

3) Attorney General Eric Holder has spent his tenure creating a hair-trigger system of race-conscious prosecutions, most notably in reference to cases involving voter fraud. His previous employee, J. Christian Adams, has built a second career from simply exposing the injustice of Holder’s Department of Justice.

4) Most recently, Holder struck another blow against the concept of verifiable voting by forestalling Texas’s proposed Voter ID law, saying it “goes against the arc of history.” Aside from the attorney general basing his decisions on perceived “historical arcs” rather than clear and established law, the end result is the same: the creation of an air of uncertainty surrounding the upcoming election.

Now (as I adjust my tinfoil hat to a jauntier angle), let me tie these points together.

By employing repetitive reporting of “uncertainty about the reliability of the presidential election tally” by the major media, compounded by expressions of the same uncertainty by administration officials, the left could install that narrative amongst the segments of the population that pay little or no attention to the day-to-day practice of politics.

Could the NAACP then, with support from the Department of Justice and the administration, make the case to the U.N. that the election was in fact tainted, and subsequently persuade the member nations of the U.N. to declare the election invalid? It is possible, and such a declaration is certain to bring chaos to the streets of every major city in our country, as well as a great deal of smaller ones. To restore order, the president might need to deploy troops. Should the Congress resist the move, the administration might simply appeal to the U.N., which could request/order the deployment of troops by a willing and complicit Secretary Panetta.

And of course, President Obama would simply continue in office, for the sake of stability, until this could all be sorted out.

Really? REALLY? REALLY? You trust this president to NOT use this EO to cement his power and become the absolute dictator that he really aspires to?

Obama burns the Constitution

I don’t care that every other president had this power. I do not want THIS president to have it!

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Maybe something simple like: “No, Obama isn’t using defense powers to impose martial law, he’s using defense powers to give money to more Solyndras.”

That turns out to actually be true. I wasn’t looking real hard for alternative-energy in DPA’s list of projects (I was focused on the advanced-manufacturing angle), but someone cued me to a biofuels production effort in Hawaii that Obama plans to use DPA Title III funds for. Here’s one of the earlier reports on it from last August. It’s in the 2013 DPA budget submission (page 12 of the PDF file, or “2 of 8″ as labeled in the document) under the title Alternative Energy from Organic Sources project.

Hawaii. Imagine that.

J.E. Dyer on March 20, 2012 at 9:49 PM

I like it. Thanks. Sorry to be so slow responding. I was helping out a friend I thought we might have lost. ; )

His Friday-night dump EO is absolutely definitely without question containing triggers specific to his intentions and agenda. And as anyone with two brain cells to rub together would certainly know, his intentions and agenda are to tear down this country to a level that he and/or his cronies can walk right in and remake the USA the way they see fit to make it — US Constitution be damned. Of that, there is no doubt.

I’m just not well versed in how all of it ties together nor well enough trained in deciphering the government lexicon that makes up the contents of his Friday-night dump EO or I’d figure it out myself while the fine folks that blog at HotGas pshaw and poo-poo it as though it is some routine meaningless bureaucratic memo.

Nothing about President Barack Hussein Obama is honest and genuine. Nothing. His ‘transparency’ is about as clear as wet clay and it always has been from the very moment of his birth. His ‘rule of law’ are his own rules that he makes up as he goes along so that they may suit his needs and desires. His ‘touchstones’ are standards of leadership that would make Josef Stalin green with envy.

J.E. Any tips on explaining this complicated post to our liberal friends? You included a lot of links. Is there a simple way to sum this up? My lib friends like things simple. Go figure./ Hopefully the comments will reveal some tips.

Bmore on March 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM

Maybe something simple like: “No, Obama isn’t using defense powers to impose martial law, he’s using defense powers to give money to more Solyndras.”

That turns out to actually be true. I wasn’t looking real hard for alternative-energy in DPA’s list of projects (I was focused on the advanced-manufacturing angle), but someone cued me to a biofuels production effort in Hawaii that Obama plans to use DPA Title III funds for. Here’s one of the earlier reports on it from last August. It’s in the 2013 DPA budget submission (page 12 of the PDF file, or “2 of 8″ as labeled in the document) under the title Alternative Energy from Organic Sources project.

Hawaii. Imagine that.

Lefty Job Creation for Lefty’s UNIONS!!

canopfor on March 20, 2012 at 6:06 PM

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Fixed.

I’ve given up trying.

Harbingeing on March 20, 2012 at 6:24 PM

I still try, 0′s administration has made it much easier in some respects. If we don’t talk to them we can’t hope to appeal to them. Not all of them are beyond help. ; )

Goddammit there IS NO ‘MERELY’. As I also said to Ed’s blase ‘wait and see’ re this EO – the Obamunists don’t do anything without a self-rewarding reason. If they do ANYTHING, look for the angle that advances their marxist / communist ‘central control’ agenda. It will be there, just as surely as Obama stuffs his face with junk food EVERY time he’s away from Queen Arugula.

“Barack Obama – Yes I Can Make Us Defenseless”

Seven Percent Solution on March 20, 2012 at 6:49 PM

Seven Percent Solution:Very nice,use there own words against them!:)

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

goldwater ’64

the revised EO on the theory that it was intended to facilitate martial law, and I agree with Ed that that looks like a silly overreaction.

Heck, I’m not worried.It’s only a COOK BOOK.

Last night on Hannity Lanny Davis even states people are looking at it from a worst case interpretation. That’s the whole point, worst case interpretation. It only takes 1 President to exercise this power and ITS GAME OVER.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#/v/1519395246001/the-real-obama-absolute-power/?playlist_id=86924

Listen to around minute 4:40-5:00

“I am profoundly uneasy about the priorities of the Obama Defense Department in general – …”

Now why would you say that…?

… Oh, wait!

“Barack Obama – Yes I Can Make Us Defenseless”

Why come out with this “update” now and not one, two, or three years ago?

Huh? What was that? I can’t hear you!

Woody

They disregard the constitution with impunity Kelo – Roe v Wade, Arlen Spectre’s embarrassing defense of Roe v Wade’s “well lookie here” penumbras from eminations “stare decisis” all the way back to…oops, Dred Scott) and case law, taught by lefty law professors and eventually determined by politically appointed “lawmakers and constitution breakers” lawyers in robes.

Obama has appointed untouchable Czars, Soros funds the election of Secretaries of State to “count all the votes for Obama”The GOP capitulates in budget negotiations and lets the media run roughshod over the truth with impunity (except for Newt who was criticized for speaking the truth, by both sides.)

The troops meanwhile are waiting for the big battle and the GOP selects, protects and sends up for the Obama machine fodder, the one clonish man with the worst baggage possible to fight Obama, a rich white guy who created Obamacare mandates for Obama and has/does (who really knows) -every liberal social position, and who has one skill (supposedly) he knows the economy. Well GOP, so do they, but they know far better how to manipulate people (except you do better stringing along the social cons.)

It’s like they wish to lose with their deliberate “Bad cop, worse cop” choices.

Where’s the tea party?

J.E. Any tips on explaining this complicated post to our liberal friends? You included a lot of links. Is there a simple way to sum this up? My lib friends like things simple. Go figure./ Hopefully the comments will reveal some tips.

Bmore on March 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM

Wow. You still have liberal “friends”, Bmore? I’ve even given up talking with liberal family members! You can’t explain ANYTHING to a liberal that involves facts or logic, I’ve given up trying.

Mutual supporting networks of labor, industry and government who protect each other’s interests at our expense. Too big to fail, protection against upstart competitors, favorable legislation and industry provides money and political support for politician’s pet projects. The same with labor. The money gets passed from one back to the other.

Think back to 2008; some banks get bailed out others are allowed to fail, the green-loving GE’s finance arm is suddenly declared a bank and gets bailed out, the administration condemns big health insurance and pharma but they support Obamacare because they wind up with a law forcing every citizen to buy their product, hundreds of years of contract law are thrown in the trash (along with the creditors) and GE and Chrysler are in essence handed to the UAW, the “Education Bailout” is enacted two months before the 2010 mid-terms. And these are just a few of the alarming things that have happened recently. We could add hundreds of other actions to this.

Who stands in the way of this plan succeeding? Us. And resist we must.