Posts Tagged ‘obama’

Redistributing Wealth: Obama Style

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

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.

Obama Shooting Blanks

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

President-Elect Barack Obama came out on multiple occasions during his campaign, claiming to support the Second Amendment.  However, Obama’s history on gun control should make every freedom loving American pause and think about what the future has in store for us.

Obama made the statement this last Sunday at a news conference, in concern about the recent trend of firearm sales being extremely high, that gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and stock up before he is sworn in next month.

“I believe in common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the second amendment. Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that throughout the campaign. I haven’t indicated anything different during the transition. I think people can take me at my word.”

The problem is, we can’t take him at his word. All you have to do is look at his track record.

  • Starting in 1994, Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation for eight years. The Joyce Foundation is the largest private organization providing funding of anti-firearm research in the country. Though the board does not officially list the votes taken on proposals to submit, they have claimed to not release a proposal without a unanimous decision of the board.
  • In 1996, Obama supported a proposed ban on handguns. (Obama claims this was a staffer mistake, but the survey paper has Obama’s own handwritten comments all over it.)
  • In 1998, Obama backed a proposed ban on sale of all semiautomatic guns.
  • In 2000, Obama cosponsored a bill to limit handgun purchases to one per month.
  • In 2003, Obama voted for a bill which would have effectively outlawed most hunting and black powder rifles in the state. (IL. SB 1195)
  • In 2004, Obama advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school (as if this could solve anything.)
  • In 2004, the Associated Press reports, “He [Obama] also opposed letting people use a self-defense argument if charged with violating local handgun bans by using weapons in their homes. The bill was a reaction to a Chicago-area man who, after shooting an intruder, was charged with a handgun violation.” (IL. SB 2165)
  • During the Illinois Senate Debate #3, on Oct 21, 2004, where he debated against Alan Keys, Obama is quoted as saying, “Let’s be honest. Mr. Keyes does not believe in common gun control measures like the assault weapons bill. Mr. Keyes does not believe in any limits from what I can tell with respect to the possession of guns, including assault weapons that have only one purpose, to kill people. I think it is a scandal that this president did not authorize a renewal of the assault weapons ban. “ Obama’s current agenda after being proclaimed President-Elect, includes making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent.
  • When in the Chicago state senate, Obama talked repeatedly about licensing and registering gun owners.

Obama’s pick for Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel is also a rabid anti-gun voter in Illinois. Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for Attorney General, served as Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, where he showed a marked anti-gun philosophy. Do we even need to mention Hillary Clinton, Obama’s pick for Secretary of State? We know her stance from Bill’s term in office.

When you add it all up, Obama represents the most strident gun-grabber to have ever been elected President. If you thought the Clinton years were bad, hold on to your hat – Obama’s term is going to be far, far worse.

Robert Scheer on Obama and Wall Street

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Change (© Barack Obama), my arse.  Robert Scheer finally realizes what Ralph Nader was warning of months back: no matter which party won the election, Wall Street players have a lock on the government.

Rahmbo

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Victor Thorn has written a short piece on Obama’s choice for Chief of Staff in the White House, Rahm Emanuel, that brings up some rather spooky questions.  Anyone still clinging to the notion that Obama brand Change (© Barack Obama ) is going to be a good thing, had better start paying attention to what’s going on in the background, behind Obama’s sly rhetoric.

Between Obama’s, Biden’s and Emanuel’s rabid gun control agenda and a push to be Israel’s lapdog, Obama’s ideas of “change” promises to be as bad as Bush’s, if not worse.

On a side note, talks are apparently ongoing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, which may lead to Hillary being named Secretary of State.

Same Shit, Different President

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

As predicted, Obama won. Not only that, both the Senate and House of Representatives have been taken by the Democratic party.

Here’s the litmus test – what are they going to do about the Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, torture used in interrogations, Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq war and a myriad other horrors we’ve suffered through the last two terms? There’s no pathetic excuse of laying low due to the elections anymore. If they don’t stop the secret spying on Americans, the water-boarding of captives held without charges, the waging of war in the Mideast on whims of chasing phantom terrorists – then they will have proved what I’ve been saying all along – they are no different than the Republicans and beholden to Plutocrats who pull their golden strings.

I predict very little will be done to change any of these issues. Once government has power, it is loath to release it. Instead, I predict a steady, heavy march toward European style socialism. Handguns and “assault weapons” will be made illegal to own very soon now (they can’t afford an armed populace with the upcoming economic collapse.) Much of our supposed free market industry will be nationalized, including the airlines, automotive manufacturers and probably power plants. Cap and trade regulation will strangle what isn’t held by government authority, with the excuse of fighting global warming. You see, the government is broke and it has only one source of relief – raping us – the People and our small businesses.

Oh, I nearly forgot the Iraq war. Don’t expect us to be leaving Iraq anytime soon, unless it is to invade Iran and/or Syria and increase our presence in Afghanistan. You don’t spend tens of billions on a dozen permanent bases in a foreign country, unless you plan to use it as a staging ground for something bigger. The military-industrial complex demands it.

Last, but not least, look for significant racial tension to develop.

The world seems to be falling over itself in glee over Obama’s victory, calling it a historic moment, because a man of color was finally elected into the US Presidency. Being color blind as I am, it’s not a big deal to me – I’m concerned with the ideologies of the candidates. However, the poor of our nation is composed mostly of black and Hispanic people – who are going to see this victory as a huge golden key to the treasury of the United States Government, aka, your tax dollars – and you can expect bill after bill demanding more and more from the coffers. Once a people learn that they can vote away your money to come to them, they tend to do so. Obama’s win is a gigantic catalyst to spur this on.

You can also look forward to an increase in legislation aimed at bringing “equality” to America. The current illegal population we have from Mexico, will most likely be given amnesty and citizenship. Our current Affirmative Action laws will be radically expanded. In an effort to legislate morality, the police state will balloon even further than it has under Bush’s goose stepping mania. Look at the trend: which administration in the last 100 years has relinquished power? Which administration in the last 100 years hasn’t expanded the size and role of the government? Which administration in the last 100 years hasn’t whittled away at the Bill of Rights?

Don’t get me wrong, it wouldn’t be any better under McCain. It would just be a different flavor of shit. Because that’s all that’s been accomplished this election. America chose Democratic brand shit, over Republican brand shit. You’re still eating shit.

I’ve stressed it before and I’ll stress it again: until we remove all the Democrats and all the Republicans from office, there will be no real change.

Time for a Cruel Change

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Well, it’s almost over. Tomorrow is the final day of the election and we’ll know who the next President Elect is by the end of the night and know the congressional seating by the next morning. As for the President, my money is on Obama – not that I like him. In fact, I think he’s a slimy scum bag, only surpassed in sliminess in a very narrow margin by McCain.

I’ve heard this election being called “the most historic presidential election in our nation’s history”, over and over again by various players in the press. I have news for you morons: it’s the same shit as ever.

Now, I know many of you optimistic fools out there are looking to Obama for Change (© Barack Obama), but you’re not going to get it. If you’re voting for Obama, you’re not voting for change. You’re simply voting for a change of face.

In fact, I’ll lay odds down that the reason Obama was put up as the Democratic candidate to begin with and why a very unlikeable McCain was put in as the Republican candidate, is exactly so that Obama will win. The real powers that be are counting on Obama to win. In the process, the true powers that be behind the President have in place a convenient scapegoat to pin blame on the coming complete economic collapse and World War. He’s the fall guy. Once things fall apart, Obama will be used to fuel the desired racial tensions and class war, keeping the populace distracted from the real power mongering going on at a world scale.

The true power behind our economic and foreign policies have been the appointed individuals to key, non-elected positions of office. Take a look at Bush II’s staff and ask the question, weren’t a lot of these guys on Nixon’s staff? How many of them worked through the Reagan, Bush I and Clinton administrations? Hint: you’re going to see a lot of familiar names, all intertwined.

Take a look at Dennis Ross, for example. He was Clinton’s Mideast envoy, who also served the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) as a consultant – the same PNAC who’s members marched us with lies to war against Iraq. He co-founded AIPAC, Israel’s lobby in America, which damn near dictates our Mideast policy. He’s an associate of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which includes names like Richard Perle, James Roche, James Wollsey and Paul Wolfowitz.  He got his start under Paul Wolfowitz during the Carter administration and is now pushing hard to get himself placed under Obama’s cabinet.

Justin Raimondo has a very interesting article outlying much of the the problem with Obama and his foreign policy trends. I strongly suggest you read it, because Raimondo has hit the nail on the head too many times in the last eight years of the Bush fiasco. He understands that the real power brokers are not the people we elect.

Because it ultimately doesn’t matter who we elect for any office, as long as it is a candidate from the Big Two parties. The Democratic and Republican parties are simply two sides to the same evil coin. Plutocratic masters pull the purse strings and place key personnel into non-elected positions of power, to run the show from behind the facade of a Republic. It’s been this way since FDR and is only getting worse.

The only chance for change we have, before we lock and load, is to fill the elected positions of the two branches of the Federal Government with third party or independent candidates – who will not use the planted non-elected in their offices.

Currently, there is little chance of this ever happening. Too many Americans view the elections as a sporting event, where you pick your team and cheer for it – unconcerned about the real issues – slurping up the rhetoric drooling from the candidate’s mouths, as if any of them in the last century have done what they said they would. Neither party holds their stated tenants to heart and if the truth were to be known, most cheering for these parties don’t hold the party tenants to heart. Instead, they pick a team and then cheer on any idea put forth by that team, no matter if it follows the party tenant or not. As long as their team’s candidates are saying it, they go along with it, in order to support their team. Once elected, it gets even worse. Look at Bush II and ask yourself, how well did he uphold the stated tenants of the Republican party, and yet how many supported him until it was too obvious to avoid?

If this was a real Republic, with parties representing actual choice, we’d have a dozen major parties and twice that on the outskirts. We don’t have a Republic of elected officials representing our diverse nation, we have two competing sporting teams and a country full of idiots waving their pom-poms from their chosen side of the stadium.

Worse yet, most Americans concentrate on the Presidential seat and ignore the far more important congress. It is congress who rights the bills which sets policy, sets budgets, destroys our rights and until they abdicated the power to the President, starts our wars. To find the true allegiances in congress, you need only trace the money to the lobbies.

The only way to achieve real change, is to remove every Democrat and Republican from office. Period. Anything less is simply playing the game that the Plutocrats have set in place since the first quarter of the twentieth century.

On a last note, we are about to enter very dangerous times. For the next two months, those pushing the buttons behind Bush and Cheney are going to have a virtual “Get Out of Jail Free” card, as the election will no longer be a mitigating factor in their actions and they have nothing to loose by instigating any of their most outrageous plans. This is a very dangerous situation and could produce some rather horrible results. Perhaps they won’t take advantage of the situation, but ask yourself by what you’ve seen over the last two terms: can you trust in that?