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October 27, 2009
Dismantling America
By Thomas Sowell
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government
official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one
of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the
pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk
radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is,
to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the
government liking what they publish?
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Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of
so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical
treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the
standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a
child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out
against an administration that has the power to make life and death
decisions about your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on
the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in
class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on
this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police
force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country and military
forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the
National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national
police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him?
It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything
American.
How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he
meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all
his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States
of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed
in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the
people of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it with words: "God damn America!" Bill Ayers said it
with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their
contempt for the rights of other people.
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who
have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as
places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans,
to a captive audience of children.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those
people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point
completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such
people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of
people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such
people in government-- people who reject American values, resent Americans
in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting
America's influence in the world.
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would
discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the
Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for
what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list.
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and
traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year--
each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to
be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says
that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up
in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another
question-- and the biggest question for this generation.
Copyright 2009, Creators Syndicate Inc.
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