Much has been written here and there over it, but perhaps the most obvious evidence for Obama’s disdain for our current Constitutional Republic, comes from and interview he did with Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ FM in 2001. The following are his exact words.

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

I’ve highlighted the statements which show Obama’s inclination to impose socialist/communist government on the United States through legislative action: at least that’s the implication here.  He desires to break the “essential restraints” in the Constitution and believes that your money should be taken and doled out to others, in order for them to profit from your work.

The United States government was not founded on any principal that the government owes anyone anything (the government doesn’t own anything anyway – we do), but rather that it operates to maintain harmony of free exchange between individuals and only steps in when illegal dealings have transpired. The Framers of the Constitution would recoil in disgust over the idea that tax monies taken from the People, should be shuffled around and distributed to others who the government deems is “not well off”. The concept of redistributing wealth through governmental taxation is purely a socialist and communist ideal, which has no place at all in a free, libertarian society.

From the proposed “cap and trade” carbon tax, to Obama’s continued rallying for “redistribution of wealth”, to his support of the various bailouts and gun control proposals flying through Congress: Obama has shown his true stripes. The coming years of the Obama tiger are going to dreadfully hurt us.