Keeping Score, Brother

19 April 2009

– by Mike Murray

Obama is distrustful of nearly everyone. He’s got spies watching spies. The many “Czars” he’s anointing exist not only to escape Senatorial oversight (they require no confirmation, and so do not answer to any committee); they are installed, also, to keep an eye on other Obama appointees.

It’s farce straight out of Mad Magazine. You know: Spy vs. Spy. Trouble is, with respect to Obama’s operatives, they’re all supposed to be on the same side! (The whole thing would be amusing if it weren’t so pathetic.)

Obama is also surveilling Congressional Democrats. When a handful of them dared to vote against his bloated stimulus package, he issued this ominous warning: “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”

It gets worse. Obama’s even got the Department of Homeland Security chasing shadows. His DHS flaks recently alerted law-enforcement officials nationwide to “be on the lookout” for dangerous subversives. You know: “right-wing extremists.”

As defined by Team Obama, that group of potentially violent anarchists includes: people who freely assemble and who exercise their First Amendment rights (by, for example, attending Tea Party rallies), those who support the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (which affirms the “right to bear arms”) and / or the 10th (which limits federal authority), folks who oppose abortion on moral grounds, Republicans, independents, and third-party members — to name but a few.

Simply put, President Obama wants a close eye kept on anyone who politically opposes him.

He even frets that (supposedly) disgruntled military veterans returning to civilian life could be recruited to assist would-be government overthrowers. (Thank you very much for your service, GI Joe. Now, let’s get a wiretap on your telephone and a monitor on your e-mail messages.)

Didn’t vote for “the black guy” in 2008’s “historic” election? Disagree with him in any way? Publicly express your disapproval? You are probably a racist. A radical. An extremist. And, in the eyes of the current administration, a “clear and present danger” to your country.

Throughout this nonsense, the mainstream media slumbers. And when it is awake, it’s typically fawning over the person it helped elect. So much for the press as guardians of our “free society.”

Those whom Obama and his acolytes cannot metaphorically beat into submission, they attempt to scare into hiding. To their great dismay, however, there are many in America who refuse to cower. Unlike Obama, we bow to no earthly king.

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