by Mark Laperle, Bedford, VA
The President of the United States, Barack Obama is a tyrant. There, I said it. Before you go on about what a hysterical overstatement that is, or that I am some kind of overzealous, right wing bigot, let’s look at some recent moves by the White House.
Over the course of the past few months the Obama administration has either taken control of large sectors of private industry under the guise of “bailouts” or used the bully pulpit (and bully tactics) to attack anyone who disagrees with it and dares to say so. And don't forget the President’s cronies in Congress are trying desperately to find a way to take over our health care system. None of these actions are meant for our good. They are not meant to protect us or make us wealthier or happier. They are meant to control us.
In one of its most flagrant acts of tyranny, the White House has openly attacked a legitimate news organization because some of its opinion programming continues to offer an opposing point of view. And this opposing point of view continues to unmask this administration and the Liberals in congress for what they are: statists who want to control more and more of our lives. While you may think this is not a big deal and that Fox News is big enough to take care of itself, that’s not the point. The point is this is a bald faced attempt to control the media. And that is tyranny.
This administration has also “called out” PricewaterhouseCooper for putting out a report harmful to its efforts to take over health care. And It is now taking pot shots at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of its opposition to climate change legislation. This too is tyranny.
It is not tyranny because of what is being said, but because of who is saying it. These salvos are coming from the highest levels of the federal government. That is what makes it tyranny. That is what makes it dangerous.
The White House has “called out” a variety of organizations and institutions simply for offering different—read better—solutions to our country’s problems. I am just one lone voice “crying out in the wilderness” as it were, but I am calling the president out.
Mr. President, I am calling on you to rein in your thugs, to reverse course on your disastrous “solutions” and to cease and desist in your outrageous maneuverings to turn my beloved America into a socialist society. Give me back my country! If you don’t, I and tens of millions of my fellow Americans will take it back. We will not take it by force, with guns and rebellion, but by faith, with gumption and reason, every day on the battlefield of ideas…and every first Tuesday in November.
