OBAMA: FEAR AND THE SECURITY FORCE
- From: jose <josefsoplar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:52:21 -0800 (PST)
OBAMA: FEAR AND THE SECURITY FORCE
By: Selwyn Duke
In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a
leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper
himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to
the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the
world over are imbued with “hope” and chant Obama’s slogan “Yes, we
can!” – for instance, the French are using their translation of it,
“Oui, nous pouvons!” – some of the intense emotion is of a very
different species.
It is fear.
In all my life I have never seen an American politician who could make
so many Americans’ blood run cold. Some may mention the left’s
feelings regarding Reagan or President Bush, but there is no
equivalency. For all of leftists’ bluster and melodrama, they weren’t
afraid of those men as much as they, well, just hated them. Sure,
leftist ideologues said those two Republicans were scary, but the same
people also said that each one was both dumb and Machiavellian.
Hatred is an emotion, and emotion isn’t logical; it just conjures up
whatever feels right at the moment.
In Obama’s case, however, I sense a real, palpable, go-white-in-the-
face fear akin to what might be evident in someone who has a gun put
to his head or believes he has seen a demon. I know for instance, a
stout-hearted man of rough-hewn breeding and my political persuasion
who has said about the impending changing of the guard, “I’m afraid.”
However, he is a right-winger like me, and just as with the leftist
ideologues who “feared” Reagan and Bush, we aren’t exactly a
representative sample of America.
But this is what is truly, well, scary. I have seen this fear not
just in rightist politics wonks but also in people who are not in the
habit of troubling much over politics at all. For example, I was
surprised recently when a woman I know – someone who could easily
abide by the injunction, “Never discuss religion or politics” – said
in a most sober fashion that she was thinking of leaving the country.
Then there is an elderly Jewish gentleman of my acquaintance who lived
through WWII; this man could be described as almost apolitical, was
probably more apt to vote Democrat than Republican and isn’t given to
issuing political opinion, let alone hyperbole. Yet when someone
else broached the subject of Obama’s legions of fawning admirers, he
broke his pattern and interjected, “This is like what happened with
Hitler. . . .”
Then consider this statement printed a couple of months ago:
“Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American
youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they'll be
brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in
need of ‘social change.’”
Is this the rambling of some right-wing site occupying the dark
recesses of the Web or a radical on a soapbox? I mean, after all,
it’s not the kind of thing you read in the New York Times. Actually,
it’s excerpted from a September 4 piece in Investor’s Business Daily
(IBD), a mainstream paper of great repute.
Are all these people delusional? Are they simply stuck in time and
afraid of change?
Maybe it’s that they have some idea what that change will be.
Fear can certainly be and often is irrational. Yet, generally
speaking, the most real fear comes from real threats. A ghost story
may scare a child, but not nearly as much as if he actually sees a
ghost. Imagining what it’s like to have a gun to your head may be
scary, but not as much so as if you feel cold, blued steel pressed
against your temple. And I sense real fear.
What is there to be afraid of? A good place to start is with the
content of the IBD story cited earlier.
Most of us have heard Obama state that “We've got to have a civilian
national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just
as well-funded” as the military. This alone is enough to send shivers
up an informed spine, but it gets even worse when you hear the
specifics. Obama intends to use a radical activist group he helped
found called “Public Allies” as the model for, as IBD puts it, “. . .
his Orwellian program, ‘Universal Voluntary Public Service.’”
IBD reports on the inducements used to entice young people into this
national service corps and its true aim:
.. . . they'll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health
and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725
that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future
education.
But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to
bring about ‘social change’ through threats, pressure, tension and
confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community
organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky.
As bad as this sounds, I believe the reality will be far worse. I’ll
explain where I think this will lead, but first we must understand a
collective psychological phenomenon that is now apparent.
When Abraham in the Bible was prepared to obey God’s command and
sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, it was, and this may shock
some, understandable. God is perfect and the author of morality, and
while we may not always understand His ways, the Divine Mind always
knows what is best. So the story is a lesson of faith and trust in
God. God cannot be wrong. You don’t question God.
Whether you have faith or not, it’s easy enough to grasp that such
deference is understandable when talking about a perfect, divine
being. But it’s downright dangerous when applied to a human being.
Any human being.
Unfortunately, while the deific monikers applied to Obama such as “The
One” or “The Messiah” have become grist for comedians, humorists and
just plain old wise-guys, they’re no laughing matter. They reflect a
real spirit that has imbued millions, and this is why far scarier than
Obama are his followers. They have deified the man, and you don’t
question your god. I truly believe that just as many Germans followed
Hitler over the precipice during WWII, there are many Americans today
who would follow Obama unquestioningly, unthinkingly, unknowingly –
into the fires of Hell.
If this sounds as laughable as deific labels, know that it isn’t
radical to claim that a continually-recycling historical pattern will
manifest itself again and can do so here; radical is to imply that
within American borders the laws of man’s nature are somehow
suspended. In nature (not culture), Americans are no different from
the people who followed Hitler, Mussolini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Pol Pot
or Lenin. The tendency to deify leaders is universal.
With this understanding, I’ll now give you my prediction as to how
Obama’s Universal Voluntary Public Service program will evolve.
With his oratorical skills and a complicit media, the president-elect
will be able to sell this scheme with talk about security, equality
and liberating the downtrodden. “It’s the best way to combat crime,
hopelessness and a lack of opportunity in the inner city,” he will
say. “And I know this well from my days as a community organizer on
Chicago’s mean streets.” He will tout how it provides health care,
education and skills to the have-nots, and his media-oiled silver
tongue’s salesmanship will prevail. It will be sold with a low-end
price tag, and his fellow-traveler controlled Houses will echo the
message and deliver the votes. Of course, just like Social Security
and a trove of other government programs, its cost will make a mockery
of predictions. But Uncle Sam’s budget projections aren’t designed
for budgets, but for marketing.
As always happens with such groups, program members will eventually be
identified with some colloquial and catchy label. I can’t tell you
what it will be, only that it won’t be Brownshirts or Blackshirts.
And the official name of the program itself may even be changed a few
years hence.
As with the Public Allies program, members will have to attend
seminars and “retreats” where they will be indoctrinated with leftist
ideology. Aside from learning how America is a “racist and “sexist”
country, they will be taught that she is also ridden with
“heterosexism,” which, IBD writes, “. . . a Public Allies training
seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of ‘capitalism,
white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege.’” They will
be taught that these evils can never be vanquished until every last
vestige of traditional America is utterly destroyed.
The pressure to conform will be immense, as it always is in
politically-correct entities. The corps will have a huge core of true
believers, who will act as ideological hammers. They will preach
diversity but practice conformity.
Just like Public Allies, this program may be birthed primarily in the
inner cities. That is where Obama’s main support is, and, as stated
before, he will claim this is where the corps’ help is needed most.
It will then be empowered to do “social good,” which could mean
anything from helping at soup kitchens to recruiting those ripe for
indoctrination to forming some kind of neighborhood crime watch. As
for the last task, though, given the corps’ ideology and the fact that
it will be drawing members from high-crime areas initially, I expect
it to contain a not insignificant criminal element. It will be
corrupt from the get-go and may even assume the character of an
organized crime syndicate.
But its “security” mandate will be chilling. In the name of combating
garden-variety crime and, more specifically, terrorism, who knows what
powers the corps will be granted? Will they one day help enforce an
order to seize firearms, if not via direct action then through
information gathering? I can’t know exactly, but I do know the powers
will be misused.
Over time, the program may be expanded to include a corps for even
younger adolescents, perhaps starting at age 13 or 14. As before, I
can’t tell you exactly what it will be called, but it won’t be “The
Obama Youth” – not officially, anyway. And, certainly by this time,
joining it will be the thing the “cool” kids do, sort of like the Boy
Scouts’ evil twin.
Then, the result may be that we will have, to use John Edwards’
terminology, “two Americas”: Those who belong to the corps and those
who don’t. But I think I know which of the two will be more
formidable. Remember when the student thugs at Columbia University
stormed a stage to stop Minutemen representatives from speaking?
Similar things have happened at colleges throughout the country, and
they give us a glimpse into the character of the corps. Just picture
the same fascist-minded bullies, only more organized, more numerous,
even more ideological and far, far bolder. And many authorities in
the nation may tolerate their intimidation with a wink and a nod.
We should also take note of the program’s name, Universal Voluntary
Public Service. One of the definitions of “universal” is, “affecting,
concerning, or involving all [emphasis mine].” And I suspect the word
most likely to be dropped from the name eventually is not “universal”
but “voluntary.”
Of course, they don’t call me the Amazing Kreskin. I’m no soothsayer
and I could be wrong about many of the details I provided. But the
fear is real and the historical allusions are valid.
Speaking of which, Georgia Congressman Paul Broun recently addressed
the program and exhibited both fear and a grasp of history, saying:
"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what
the Soviet Union did. When he's proposing to have a national security
force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military,
he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Of course, many will nevertheless say that such concerns are but the
musings of the tin-foil hat crowd. But such scoffing is par for the
course. As Professor Manfred Weidhorn of Yeshiva University wrote:
.. . . even if you are prescient enough to observe oncoming evils, you
are prevented from acting precisely because other people, being
normal, lack your prescience. They therefore see you, rather than the
evil person, as the deluded or warmongering malevolent soul. When
Churchill warned about Hitler in the 1930s, many people became more
upset with Churchill than with Hitler. The anomaly is that the prophet
has therefore to wait for the evil to manifest itself and thereby to
make everyone else see things the prophet’s way. But by then the
chance to do anything may be gone.
So there is an answer for those who would say “You’ve thoroughly
Godwinned yourself, Duke.” If you bristle at the comparison and don’t
want to wear the shoe, then the onus is on you to be vigilant, to make
sure it never, ever fits.
"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with
this notice and hyperlink intact."
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