2013 – Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times:
“These are the most foreboding times in my 59 years. The reelection of Barack Obama has released a surge of rare honesty among the Left about its intentions, coupled with a sense of triumphalism that the country is now on board for still greater redistributionist change”.
“I have seen their future and it is almost here right now”.
The picture he is painting is that we (in the US) are between a rock and a hard place.
The rock is the certain tyranny and death if the Federal government is completely freed from any constraints of the constitution, and the hard place is where we will be if civil war is the only way to stop this.
I am roughly the same age as the writer of that article. I had intended to live forever, but am recently considering the hidden blessing of accepting a traditional lifespan — which may still be too long to avoid seeing the worst happen.
The right’s success on the state level and the armed force’s distain for the left, may be the only hope the USA has of coming back from the brink of communism.
The communist’s are trying to destroy the economy as fast as possible. Once destroyed, the sheeple will inevitably turn to big brother for a solution… standard communist operating procedure.
It’s time for Canada to reevaluate our defences as the communist’s can’t allow their sheep to see a successful neighbour which would spotlight their malfeasance.
From Victor Hanson’s article,
“A journalist, Donald Kaul, in the Des Moines Register offers us a three-step, presto! plan to stop school shootings:
Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. … Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. …Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
Note the new ease with which the liberal mind calls for trashing the Constitution, outlawing those whom they don’t like (reminiscent of “punish our enemies”?), and killing those politicians with whom they don’t agree…”
This is terrible and unbelievable that journalists in the United States of America could write such a thing and that the progressives in the US have sunk so low. Stalin would be proud. This is exactly the rhetoric that my wife’s and my grandparents on both sides heard in Russia 1917-1920. After 1920, the body count really began.
Ken
and the rifle ban is all about disarming the populance so they are not able to interfere with the GREAT plan. In readers tips I mentioned an article on Drudge were FBI states that hammers and clubs kill more(about1.5 times as many)than rifles, and rifles are a better military weapon than a hand gun. Also what the pols ignore is that people kill more people with their hands than with rifles. It would be interesting to murder state of guns VS other homicides.
We have met the enemy and he is us. Or something to that effect from pogo
Life is full of irony.
Ever notice that the very people who have chosen to make no productive contribution to society , by choosing to live off of public largess in academia, bureaucracy or politics, all have such wisdom as to what the public good might be?
Is this not like the bedbugs from the roadside hotel, advising you what lunch will serve you best.?
And the righteous anger they pour on any who question their idiocy? For they are always smarter than tho.” If you were only better educated you would see my superior wisdom”.
The tale of the Emperors new clothes is apt in so many ways, to todays fads and fallacies .
I am for once glad that I have lived 55 years and have a paid-for home, lucrative employment for the foreseeable future, and a retirement plan that can sustain me even if I were to lose my income tomorrow, unexpectedly.
The USA is headed for an interesting period.
One is reminded of the Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”
I will observe, bu thank the Goddess, I will not be a victim…
Does this doofus have rose colored lenses permanently welded to his corneas or is he pimping for Obumbles?
I agree there should be a revitalization of US industry lead by new petro discoveries but the US is in the grip of a globalist regime who have an agenda to take the US off line as an economic force, and destroy its self-sufficient productivity. China holds the bulk of US debt (a rival exporter) and green fascism is busy killing the petro industry with cap and trade and processing quotas and taxing energy beyond the means of seniors and low income people. The recession is in its 5th year and it promises to go on with the increased taxing and reduced employment. The American people are about to see another housing boom bust and will soon learn what “derivatives” are when they lose most of their savings/investments to failed banks and funds who played that fraudulent market.
The dollar is being killed by QE over supply and there is a very real chance the US will see civil unrest and martial law related to unconstitutional laws. More agri production has been taken off line for ethanol production and a bad drought again could push food prices too high for many. 40% plus of the population would be destitute were it not for unsustainable subsidy like welfare and food stamps – this social safety net is the only thing keeping rioting in the streets at bay because fiscally this extended “recession” is worse than the great depression – more unemployed more on the dole. Essentially the government is paying a good portion of the population not to riot with welfare made from printing press money.
The US still has the potential to pull out of its civil, economic and constitutional slide but it won’t happen under the current regime who are determined to bring the nation to its knees.
Seeing the widespread disdain by “intellectuals” for the US Constitution tells me we have far too many “intellectuals” in the US. I use Sowell’s definition of an “intellectual” as someone who has no correction of their ideas by reality.
The big advantage of a the US constitution is that it provides clear limits on statist power. One disadvantage of the constitutionally limited state is that it comes across as a benign entity and thus can suggest to many individuals that the constitutional limits can be dispensed with. The importance of limiting state power are very obvious to anyone who’s had the misfortune to grow up in a totalitarian state. However, the US “intellectuals” who seek elimination of constitutional limits have had a very insular upbringing without exposure to the lessons of history and just cloistered in their ivory towers where they figure they must be right because everyone they know agrees with them.
Sever the constitutional bonds which bind the population to civility, and the nation will quickly degenerate into a chaotic mess as everyone seeks to gain what they can through force of arms. The constitution detesting “intellectuals” are analogous to a child, who feeling the benign warmth from a wood stove in one corner of the house seeks to warm a cold portion of the house by starting a fire in a pile of wood on the floor there. The end result of such folly is obvious to anyone with a modicum of experience of reality but it’s unfortunate that there’s such a large proportion of the US self-styles intelligensia who would be unable to see the analogy.
So, it may be that the oversupply of “intellectuals” that the US has may self-correct as the population fights back against government without limits. While the prospect of finally being able to shoot at statists is a very tempting one, civil wars have a tendency to go completely out of control and kill lots of people. I’d be concerned about the narcissist in the white house having control of nuclear weapon launch codes both in terms of him deciding to eliminate US cities throwing off his “enlightened” statist rule as well as the Russians of Chinese deciding that things in the US were so unstable that a first strike was called for. If they limited that first strike to Washington DC, I doubt that there would be any outrage among the majority of the US population.
VDH’s column was worrisome enough but from the comments I followed this link and it gets much worse (if believable): http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/12/27/dhs-americas-planned-deconstruction-via-valerie-jarrett-domestically-foreign-policy-wise-addendum-to-barack-hussein-obamas-deconstruction-plans-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/…
“Does this doofus have rose colored lenses permanently welded to his corneas or is he pimping for Obumbles?”
If that is your take on Victor Davis Hanson, I think you need to re-read the text. Go for context. S-l-o-w-l-y.
Or maybe you’re just having a bad day.
mhb23re
Hanson: “… sort of like Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warning the Egyptians not to follow our own constitutional example, when South Africa has offered so much more to humanity than did Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, and others: ‘I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa.'”
What I’ve read about the constitution of post-apartheid South Africa is that it was modelled on the Canadian Charter of Rights.
And as I’ve mentioned a number of times here at SDA, our Supreme Court has been in the process of eviscerating our supposed Charter rights for quite a while.
The classic example was Wicked Bertha Wilson pretending that “the right to freedom of association does not include the right not to associate”. There are many others.
This isn’t going to end well for Americans. The drip-drip-drip of Leftist tyranny will continue to grow. There are no more checks & balances to stop it 🙁
Not anything to say. It has probably been said better.
dwright