The Necessary Enemy
posted at 5:39 pm on May 2, 2009 by Doctor Zero
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Ed’s report on the threats Obama made recently, to use “public humiliation” against Chrysler bondholders if they resist his plans to manage the company’s debts, is appalling but unsurprising. Talk of turning the White House press corps into a weapon against recalcitrant executives is particularly chilling when it comes from someone who smiles upon the kind of “public humiliation” that involves busloads of angry “activists” camping out on your front lawn. Nice life you have there, Chrysler executive. It would be a shame if something bad were to happen to it.
Obama has developed a nasty habit of using aggressive tactics against private citizens. The AIG bonus debacle, with its threats of punishment by tax laws and angry mobs… banks forced to accept TARP money and federal controls, then told they would not be allowed to return the former or escape the latter… and an election campaign that featured Democrat officials abusing their power, to destroy an inconvenient private citizen, are among the lowlights. Obama’s background includes decades in a church whose pastor specialized in racist tirades, scapegoating whites for the problems of blacks, along with mentors who advocated “personalizing” political debates – and then destroying those persons. His behavior signifies more than just a young politician doing as he was taught, however, and it’s going to get worse.
Collectivist politics of any stripe requires enemies, because they rely upon coercion. Socialist utopias don’t come into existence spontaneously. There would be no need for confiscatory tax rates on the wealthy, if the wealthy voluntarily used their money to buy cars and houses for everyone in the lower income brackets, without requiring them to work in return. Nobody would be talking about nationalizing health care if doctors and hospital staff were happy to work eighty hour weeks for minimum wage, and pharmaceutical companies were run as giant charities that cheerfully sank billions into developing drugs they resell at cost. Few people would leave a sizable chunk of their estates to the government, if the government didn’t seize the money through death taxes. No large group of people on Earth has every freely chosen to peacefully organize themselves into a socialist collective – they either slip into it through small losses of freedom that seem relatively painless as they happen, or they are forced into it at gunpoint. If Franklin Delano Roosevelt had proposed Obama’s current budget and regulatory plans at the outset of the New Deal, he would have been laughed out of office, and if he had attempted to impose Obama’s policies by force, he would have needed infantry platoons and tanks.
The basic premise of socialist government, as Obama famously explained to a plumber in Ohio last fall, is to take wealth away from the more successful people in society, and “spread that wealth around.” This will always be a more attractive proposition to the people serving as the bread, than the people being used as the peanut butter. The creators of wealth must be forced to participate in the system, far beyond the point where a sense of civic duty or compassion for the downtrodden would keep them in line. After all, nearly half the country currently pays no income taxes, and they’re not all “downtrodden” people deserving of charity. In fact, the socialist dream is to reach the point where over half the population pays no taxes, and will thus be inclined to support all expansions of government power. You can’t get to the magic 51% of tax dependents just by using hungry orphans as props.
Increasing levels of coercion are necessary to expand the socialist system, and keep wealth producers trapped within it. To maintain popular support, the socialist needs voters to stay angry at designated class enemies. The Obama style of total government control over private businesses tends to turn feral with frightening speed, because it attempts to preserve the illusion of private enterprise, even as the “entrepreneurs” are enslaved to the total state. The employees and executives of Chrysler are not spoken of as government employees, and we still pretend that AIG is a “private corporation.” All those banks forced to accept TARP funds are still supposedly private companies, not official branches of the Treasury Department. This has the advantage of giving politicians a measure of distance from the fate of the corporations involved. When GM announced that it would be going bankrupt anyway, after billions of dollars in bailout money, not a single person in the Obama Administration resigned in disgrace, or was even reprimanded. When the subprime mortgage industry blew up, the politicians who designed the system and controlled Fannie Mae were able to mutter that the crisis was caused by “fat cats on Wall Street.” In fact, it is the official position of the Democrat Party that not one single member of the Party did anything wrong in the financial-sector crisis… and to the lasting cost of the American people, the Republican presidential candidate did not dispute this position.
To keep controlling, bleeding, and blaming those private corporations, the Democrats will need to keep threatening and demonizing them. They cannot afford to allow the voters to start wondering if the corporations are being treated unfairly, or asking why no politician ever seems to be at fault for anything that goes wrong with these government-controlled industries. The Party’s media allies will be happy to help them with this project. Can anyone doubt the media would have been pleased to help Obama carry out his threats to those Chrysler executives? Did you see any touching human interest stories about any of the AIG traders that had to give their bonuses back to the government? Do you think any of them was caring for a sick elder, or working to raise a family, or reaching the peak of a career they built with the help of hard-working parents who sacrificed everything to put them through school? Did we ever hear any of their names?
In order to keep the “partnership” between his Administration and the private sector working the way he wants it to, Obama will periodically need to remind captive corporations which side of that “partnership” has the upper hand. He can’t very well afford to have Chrysler executives publicly opposing his plans for the company, or banks shoving their bailout money back into his hands. He won’t allow himself or his party to be held responsible for the damage they have done to the nation’s financial system… any more than he will take responsibility for the first people to die under his national health care scheme. Businessmen will receive increasingly unpleasant reminders that their new government “partners” have nothing to bring to the arrangement except force, coupled with a highly developed instinct for escaping accountability.
Update: At the beginning of the essay, I used the term “executives” to broadly refer to the private citizens responsible for managing Chrysler, but several commenters pointed out that Obama’s threats were directed more specifically at the bondholders of Chrysler. I corrected the initial reference to “executives” in the interests of accuracy, and hope the reader will understand the other references to “executives” in the broader sense described above.
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Remember Joe, yes that Joe, Joe the Plumber and what the media did to him.
My guess would be the only thing the White House would have to do is say go get ‘em.
As far as I am concerned, the sooner the Pravda media is face down in the mudd, the sooner America will recover from this Obammunism.
tarpon on May 2, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I don’t think Obama can sustain this plot-campaign Doc. He is over reaching big time, and the time will come when even the most loyal of his followers will start to follow public opinion which will turn on Obama soon enough. If fact, as CK points out in his recent post, Obama’s numbers are dropping rapidly. Polls will be created to hide the truth, but the crash is inevitable. I’m old enough to have seen these tactics tried on more than one occasion. The dynamic that scares me the most this time around, is the media’s involvement with the plot. Thanks God for the bloggers, Fox News, and talk radio, and people like Michelle Malkin giving us a voice…
I love your work here Doc!
Keemo on May 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Amen tarpon! I fight feelings of hatred due to my own personal experience. Hatred brings out the dark side in me, and usually results in my bringing harm to the people I love the most. Despite that knowledge, I have been fighting pure hatred for the media on a daily basis since about 9/30/2001.
Keemo on May 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM
file under: eggs/omelets
r keller on May 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM
From finger wagging to finger pointing. It is long past time to render the party of no responsibility extinct.
jdkchem on May 2, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Oflyby and his media whores are going to get desperate if the polls continue to fall AND if the American people are able to do something about it. At the current rate of destruction, 2010 might as well be 2050 for how much will be left to salvage by the next election, and even then there aren’t a huge number of seats for the GOP to grab.
Of course that’s hoping an increasingly liberal GOP would be willing to do anything if they regained power; lately they seem more concerned with keeping their jobs and power than effecting a barrier against Oflyby.
Bishop on May 2, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Everyone ought to print this and mail it to their GOP rep and/or senator and ask, “Where is your voice? We can’t heeeaarrrr you!”
As far as I’m concerned the GOP is just as culpable for not calling them out on it. GOP thinks there will be a backlash and then we will all come running to them. Um, but they won’t make too many waves in the meantime. They prefer to keep talking about their “big tent.” I hope every one of the GOP incumbents has a winning GOP challenger. We’ll give all of them the term limits and pay cut they didn’t vote for.
PrincipledPilgrim on May 2, 2009 at 9:38 PM
I wrote this earlier for another thread,but it certainly fits here!
Forget the POS nObama, he is enabled by the MSM, time to take the torches to NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN. The sooner we hold the media responsible for their criminal conduct the quicker this administration will realize they are accountable to all of America and not just the loser entitlement crowd.
dmann on May 2, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Read this after I posted mine. I see we are on the same wavelength. I am actually more upset at the GOP than the democrats. Afterall, we expect this from democrats.
Where are the principled people? Oh yea, their called tax-paying constituents. You know…. the little people.
PrincipledPilgrim on May 2, 2009 at 9:40 PM
theirthey’re called tax-paying constituents…PrincipledPilgrim on May 2, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Interesting idea. Next tea party on CNN’s steps?????
PrincipledPilgrim on May 2, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Doctor Zero knows.
petefrt on May 2, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Very well written, sir. And as accurate of an assessment as one can get. Well done.
Weight of Glory on May 2, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Very articulate diagnosis of our situation, Doc Z.
The free press is dead. Pravda-style propagandist is all that is left of the once proud occupation of Journalist.
But we are here. We can be sure that at least a few others insist on making Obama accountable for the rationed health care that he is bringing upon us. Along with everything else.
People will die and it will be at this President’s direct interference in their lives. Shout that from the house tops! Rationing of health care is unAmerican.
Maybe we can get a less bad system if we shout loud enough!
After seeing the mess that happened when Obama gave Chrysler to the unions…talk about direct payment for votes!
What kind of health care can we possibly expect? Oh my poor poor country.
petunia on May 2, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I agree, he can’t sustain it indefinitely. But we’re fast approaching the point of no return… by traditional methods.
petefrt on May 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Why can’t we post this on Facebook?
Troy Rasmussen on May 2, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Indeed.
petefrt on May 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM
False? Bull. They already have started.
Word for word. He already tried to embarass them with a sway of public opinion without stating the facts of how much they are getting screwed on contractual obligations on debt to Chrysler and how much the people he mentioned so graciously stand to make; read that as more than anyone else.
Opportunity Costs on May 2, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Dr. Zero,
Another lucid and illuminating article.
I recommend that Ed Morrissey collect your essays on another page, like the Green Room. You should title them for the main subject matter. Use your Dr. Zero byline. You ARE that good.
Here’s some title examples:
-Essays on todays America
-American Exceptionalism Explained
-America’s Domestic Enemies
- The Preventable Death of America
etc.
Thank you again.
As usual, your essay goes to my friends and allies.
NaCly dog on May 2, 2009 at 10:08 PM
What else should we expect from a “community organizer”?
Rosmerta on May 2, 2009 at 10:09 PM
AKA fascism.
jgapinoy on May 2, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Bill Ayers must be so proud of his pupil, and yet feel frustrated he gets neither the credit nor the goodies.
Dhuka on May 2, 2009 at 10:19 PM
All hail our community organizer in chief. He’s all that’s standing between us and the pitchforks.
Chaz on May 2, 2009 at 10:28 PM
And yet His approval ratings are in the 60s. I think people have underestimated the number of Americans that have been prepared with enough hatred to support this regime.
I’m all out of hope. I’m just working on being prepared for the inevitable at this point.
JohnJ on May 2, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Excellent as Usual Dr. Zero.
We are in so much trouble…
GunRunner on May 2, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Today’s Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll gives Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. How soon before it hits negative territory?
INC on May 2, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Thanks, Doctor Zero. I so appreciate your excellent words.
INC on May 2, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Bravo, Dr. Z. Thanks for another beauty.
warbaby on May 2, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Dr. Zero- 2012
katy on May 2, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Got to agree with that 100%.
I wonder at what point over the next six months the public “confessions” of misdeeds will take place before the television audience from various Senate and House committee rooms. The denunciations, the call for officially sanctioned recriminations, all because members of the upper echelons of American business wither made too much profit, or refused to take the “peoples funding” to restructure their corporations to meet the necessities of “fair” government…in essence, failing to spread the wealth around.
I actually predict an economic surge this summer…believe it or not…and in part this may be a very good thing for the eocnomy…but, on the other hand, the Obama Administtration will try to garner all the credit.
Unless there is a catastrophic event that hits the oil market worldwide…I’m looking at a surge in outputs of hard goods and consumer goods. And not because stimulus money has flowed like dew from the heavens, but, in spite of it. Never underestimate the power of the private American entrepreneur.
But, we will still be on the hook for trillions.
And any who stands in the way of the Obama Administration’s gathering laurels unto themselves will be seen as an enemy of the people.
coldwarrior on May 2, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Capitalism is getting a lot of bad press these days. There are actually people in the press saying that Capitalism must be abolished.
But Capitalism is the only economic system that allows people the freedom to make their own choices.
All other systems are Authoritarian to one degree or another.
I always enjoy pointing out that fact to people who are advocating some other system that they are espousing using force to make people bend to their will. Hardly an enlightened position.
schmuck281 on May 2, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I’m just waiting until the California Legislature writes a bill making it difficult or even illegal to move out of the state into a lower tax state.
Socialism CAN’T exist in this country for long. It has to change this country into something different. The Constitution, even with liberal judges on the Supreme Court can’t make socialism work. Eventually people will want to move to another state or even country and then… Well like I said, I’m waiting for that CA bill any day now.
oddjob1138 on May 2, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Once again, Dr. Zero scores.
redridinghood on May 2, 2009 at 11:50 PM
Doctor Zero, reason’s hero.
Jim Treacher on May 3, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Very well said, Doctor Zero. If people are hoping that the MSM will eventually turn on President Obama, I believe they will be sorely disappointed. They will defended the President, because they are partially to blame for his actions. They not only provided him favorable coverage as a candidate, but as a sitting President that has arguably done more harm to a nation in 100 days than FDR was able to accomplish in four terms.
For the first time in my life I genuinely fear for the future of my nation. We could survive external threats, but a cult of personality may be too much for a long abused constitution to endure.
Stickeehands on May 3, 2009 at 1:02 AM
You know, that’s exactly the sort of reasoning that starts hiking up my blood pressure and causing people around me to talk about “ranting.”
Doesn’t make it any less accurate, mind you….
cthulhu on May 3, 2009 at 1:30 AM
NO DOCTOR ZERO, NO PEACE.
So I guess it’s peace, then. Awesome.
capitalist piglet on May 3, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Great post again Dr. Zero.
I know this post is mainly concerning how the democrats push their socialist agenda.
But I also see a parallel in how they maintain power in areas that they have virtually ruined.
NY,NJ,CA,MI,are some examples of states run by democrats that are bankrupt,business’s and it’s population running faster from them than a dissident from Cuba.
Yet they maintain their power in these states.
Watching the OBama administration,it is clear that the only time they get angry or show strength,is when they are talking about Republicans.
Obama can kiss up to Ahmadinejad,pat the back and take anti-American books from the brutal communist leader Hugo,and reach out and seek trade and friendship with one of the most oppressive leaders in the World,Castro,but declare war on Rush Limbaugh and private citizens hosting “tea parties”.
Living in NC,I am constantly running into people from NY and CA. and in conversations,I will tell them “Hey,glad your here,but don’t vote in the same idiots that screwed up your state”.
Sometimes they laugh and agree,but most of the time it’s”at least there not as bad as the Republicans”.
This is showing in the polling now(I know it is still early).
Even though Obama himself is popular (thinks to Pravda West)the public does not agree with Obama’s policies.
The problem is this is not turning into pluses for Republicans because we poll significantly lower in addressing these issues also.
If the Republicans don’t start putting together strong,competent solutions,show some leadership,backbone,and
beat the MSM liberal filter.I think we could end up like Michigan as a whole country with the plus 51% electorate Dr. Zero references routinely claiming “Well at least it’s better than those idiot Republicans.”
Baxter Greene on May 3, 2009 at 3:21 AM
Good essay- and as a reminder this is how Obama has always played his politics- dirty. Just look back at his start in Chicago; having his one time mentor taken off the ballot so he didn’t have to compete against her and then having the divorce records of another opponent unsealed- against the wishes of both Jack Ryan and his wife, who had wanted the record kept from the public to protect their child.
Jay Mac on May 3, 2009 at 4:19 AM
correct.
rob verdi on May 3, 2009 at 5:25 AM
“Ed’s report on the threats Obama made recently, to use “public humiliation” against Chrysler executives if they resist his plans to manage the company’s debts, is appalling but unsurprising.”
“An attorney representing several Chrysler bondholders accused the Obama administration of intimidating his clients by issuing threats of public humiliation if they opposed their brokered deal to resolve the automaker’s debts.”
Ed reported about bond holders not executives of Chrysler.
burt on May 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM
What is surprising is that the threats were against hedge funds that were investors in Chrysler.
Not executives of Chrysler.
Go back and read again what Ed wrote. What a maroon.
pabarge on May 3, 2009 at 5:51 AM
It’s a difference with no real distinction. What exactly do you think is going to happen to Chrysler if bond holders and investors pull out because they’d rather not be “publically humiliated?”
Does that make the report, if it’s true, OK?
Red Cloud on May 3, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Please note the correction made above. I meant “executives” in the broader sense, but the first sentence should indeed have specified the bondholders as the specific individuals threatened by Obama. Thank you for pointing that out!
Doctor Zero on May 3, 2009 at 7:39 AM
You knew that that Civilian National Defense Force had to have a purpose, nevermind ACORN!
drjohn on May 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Now he’s demonizing people who attended tea parties.
Myself and my family. We’re going to the 9-12 event in Washington and we’ll see how far the Obama administration will go to demonize Citizens of the United States.
joshlbetts on May 3, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Doctor Zero: You are aces in my book. Like a state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging device and a sharply honed scalpel, you identify and eviscerate the problems of the real zero infecting our nation: Obama.
onlineanalyst on May 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Give it another couple of weeks. The only thing that is standing between Obama and the pitchforks is the MSM. When Congress goes home on recess their constituents will take quite a few of them to the woodshed over the Debt, the failure of the Stimulus give away and the erosion of pension funds/retirement savings.
By then, more jobs will be lost, fewer folks will be able to go on vacations, the 2nd Qtr statements will be headed for mailboxes and Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment will be running out of Blame Bush rhetoric.
GITMO will still be open for business, the Holder DOJ will have failed to get Military Tribunals working and the very bad types in Pakistan just may have their hands on some Nukes. It is not likely that Al Q will be bullied by Obama & Crew. They did not take any TARP money!
old trooper2 on May 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I can’t ever remember reading a better written (or more accurate) piece than this. Bravo!
Cinday Blackburn on May 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM
onlineanalyst on May 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Brilliantly stated! Don’t underestimate your own skills my friend. I’ve enjoyed reading your thoughts for years now.
Keemo on May 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Obama used similar techniques to wipe the field clean of opposition when he ran for his Ill. Senate seat too. Doubt that ‘demonizing’ will work with the hedge funds and designer funds–they don’t give a rat’s bottom how the world sees them. If they have a rep for raising big bucks they will be loved unreservedly by the folks THEY care about.
jeanie on May 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM
When I think of hedge fund “criminals”…the name John Edwards keeps popping up. Wasn’t he once a Dem candidate for the nomination? I heard that somewhere.
coldwarrior on May 3, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Find myself wondering when or if large portions of the press will finally tire of being used for this or that politician’s or ideologue’s purposes and recall that they are journalists first and foremost. It should dawn on even the most partisan that they are not the manipulators as they like to think, they are being manipulated. Their own egos have been and are being very successfully used against them and, by proxy, a vulnerable public. Many see themselves now as puppeteers when in reality they are the puppets.
jeanie on May 3, 2009 at 10:56 AM
How can you call Obama a wreckless spender in one breath then knock him for using the bully pulpit (of which the press corp is nothing but an extension) to discourage the kind of system-gaming by hedge fund managers that’s partly responsible for the current financial mess.
We’re all private citizens on the level of the point you’re making, but buying and selling public securities with your own or others’ funds is public behavior, subject to government regulation. There’s nothing illegal about holding out for a better deal, but when that better deal comes in the form of bailout funds from the government designed to keep firms solvent so that your securities don’t become Charmin, it’s obviously counter to the spirit of the thing and I think he’s correct to try and head it off.
sanguine4 on May 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM
So we have had potentially $6 billion available for used by ACORN if all of the money approperated in 2009 for community organizing makes it to them. And remember that Candidate Obama went off of his TelePrompTer and said on July 2, 2008, ““We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We’ve gotta have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded….” So is ACORN and the expanded AmeriCorps part of that force? So will there be a US as we knew it a year ago when we have elections in 18 months?
I am not into conspiracies, but what he has accomplished in 3 months worries me. Doesn’t it you? I’d rather push the envelope now such as picketing congressioal members who back his spending and programs to see the reaction, even if I have to be the tester.
“First they came for . . . .” You know how that poem goes, it was true and 52 million people paid the price; 6 million directly. Well, never again keeps happening again and again. Mr. Ayers thought only 25 million Americans needed to be reeducated or eliminated if necessary. Fancy that solution to dissent.
amr on May 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Dr Zero I have been a huge fan of what you write on HA and am glad to see you as a contributor.
I totally agree with what you have written. If anybody has a doubt that raching 51% is the goal… look at Venezuela the country is toppling especially with the falling oil price. Chavez uses oil money to fund social program and then nationalizes any successful industry when the coffers start getting bare…not an effective or ethical way to run a country but the ignorant masses who envy the producing class keep Chavez in power…they feel if we can’t have anything no one will have anything… That is what is happening here in the USA. As soon as most of the population, especially illegal immigrants who have no major roadblock to voting in our elections and who will never acquire the education and knowledge to become middle class,reach the tipping point we will never be able to turn back…I think that time is coming very quickly.
CCRWM on May 3, 2009 at 1:07 PM
I left out that as soon as 51 % of the population is comprised of those who can’t produce or envy others…
CCRWM on May 3, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Nail, meet Hammer………..
When a Conservative canidate for office, starts telling the truth about our current situation and how we actually got here instead of trying to ‘reach across the isle’……
……….. THAT will be the horse to bet on!
Seven Percent Solution on May 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM
amr on May 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Yes amr, it worries me to no end! Year and years of planning and preparation have gone into what we are now witnessing. The Tea Party movement must grow in numbers and intensity. We’re in a righteous battle here; some might call this a “civil” civil war.
Keemo on May 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM
They have alredy done something close.If you receive any part of your retirement from a Co here in CA you have to pay CA taxes even if you live in AZ or TX…
CCRWM on May 3, 2009 at 1:16 PM
A colleague and I met with a vendor last week. This guy was a major organizer for Obama’s campaign and his wife works for the DNC. He started out last week’s meeting by announcing the he’d just been to some kind of Organizing for America function and was pleased that over 200 local folks attended. He then tried to get us both to commit to attend an upcoming event. Point #1: it pisses me off that any vendor would sit down at a BUSINESS meeting in a client’s office and start talking politics… it’s not what you were hired to do for us a**hole. Point #2: my colleague and I are both conservatives, which makes his attempts to solicit us even more irritating. When I ignored his exciting bit of news [snort] and tried to focus on business, he looked at me and said “You don’t want to be left behind when this movement sweeps the nation, do you?” Yes, as a matter of fact, I do want to be left behind. I know a brown-shirt when I see one.
Kalifornia Kafir on May 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM
There is no doubt in my mind that ACORN is to Barack Obama … what the RED GUARD was to Mao during the cultural revolution.
People need to study carefully the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s – because Obama is executing a more stealthy version of it here – and Acorn right now are his “troops”.
The Red Guard did their business by dragging people out of their homes, accusing of them of crimes, tearing up their property, and shipping them off to communes.
Obama’s Acorn Guard is doing their business by harassing executives (which is not new for them) … doing opposition research on those who oppose Obama, and filing lawsuits.
I believe that SOMEWHERE in the maze of ethics complaints lodged against Sarah Palin is money from Acorn. Money that came from we, the taxpayers, and delivered to Acorn by Obama.
I’m amazed that Americans haven’t revolted against Obama based on his support for Acorn alone. It’s not like Acorn isn’t already flooded with charges of voter registration fraud. So why are we giving millions of dollars to a corrupt organization.
And where are the people standing up to tell the Acorn story – the facts about what Acorn has done to intimidate banks and executives over the years? Why wasn’t anyone outraged when an Acorn-sponsored group went out to intimidate the AIG executives at their homes?
What does it take people – to get you to stand up? Do you think that the Acorn army will “skip” over your house?
HondaV65 on May 3, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Dr.Zero have you done a post on the Why of all this? Why ruin America Why Socialism? It wasn’t broken why are tehy trying to “fix” it? Is it really just class warfare?
CCRWM on May 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Honda: MM takes on ACORN all the time but she cant do it alone.
My husband and I are working damn hard to make sure our children aren’t indoctrinated… We’ve only just begun the fight we have to recruit others. That is why I’m sending this post to everyone I know. During the election I fought hard for McCAin Palin and had only few successes but now months later people who wouldn’t listen to me then ask me questions out of concern now. That is why I try to stay on top of things and this site…when not taken over by trolls… is wonderful for information.
CCRWM on May 3, 2009 at 1:46 PM
I’d like to know what the hell we are supposed to do to stop this.
And I’d love to see a post from the good doctor on what we as individuals can do to help turn the tide.
I don’t have faith in the American people to turn this around – aka: Carter > Regan. In fact, for most, I don’t think they would want too.
As a nation, we’re lazier than we were when Carter messed things up and most now are looking to get something for nothing – which is exactally what Obama promises.
It use to be that the United States was the land of opportunity. Now, people don’t care about “opportunity”. It’s too much work to take advantage of.
It’s a trite and worn saying but we’ve become a nation of people who have been given fish for too long rather than being taught how to fish. With the lazy, “give-me” culture we have now, Regan would never had been elected.
Rod on May 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Rod on May 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM:
Short of resorting to violence as was done by Shays’ Rebellion (Massachusetts over taxes/corruption-1786) or the Battle of Athens (Tennessee over corruption-1946), we need to convince congress to turn around and support the majority of citizens who do not want this spending and the now obvious corruption with the unlawful government intervention with GM in favor of the UAW, not the bond holders. But as you may have noticed, in general, the people in congress have no backbone and have a herd mentality. So they must be given a backbone by seeing polls or demonstrations that are powerful and have meaning.
The 6 Tea Parties I have attended, have helped some with a tiny bit in organizing and have made two speeches at them, are still not getting through to those who supposedly represent us. As Senator Specter has demonstrated so well, they only fear not getting re-elected. As we see, so many in congress place ego, party and then country in that order as their priorities. So I suggest that we start making them uncomfortable in that regard; we begin picketing their local offices and make sure that the media knows and covers it. This would be following the tactics of MLK. And if that doesn’t work, peaceful sit-ins would follow.
There are many organizations one can join to push for direct action such as the 912 Project, the Tea Party Patriots, the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, the Campaign for Liberty and others. You may find them, as I have, not too willing for such direct action, but as I remind them the election is 18 months off and a lot can happen to our country in that time. Look what has already happened in 3 months. Or one can go it alone as I contemplate.
If MLK could defeat the Southern Democrats with such tactics, why can’t we use those very same peaceful tactics from the civil rights movement to ensure our rights and economic freedom by defeating or converting the Leftist Progressive Democrats. We owe that to future generations, just as the brave Greatest Generation saved us from fascism.
amr on May 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM