David

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March 25, 2009

Our Despicable, Unconscionable, Dangerous Government

Most of you were too busy to notice, but the House of Representatives violated their oaths of office in unison the other day. They passed a blatantly unconstitutional bill of attainder – an act declaring a person or group guilty of a crime and punishing them without a trial – by seizing the contractually mandated bonuses of AIG executives.

Congress only has a role here because they demanded AIG and others take bailout money, ostensibly to save an economy supposedly on the verge of collapse, and when AIG did, Congress immediately declared itself a dictator over it.

That, of course, was the real purpose all along – getting their tentacles of control into everything they could. They lied about impending economic calamity, using Rahm Emanuel's approach of never letting a phony, manufactured crisis go to waste in the service of massive expansions of totalitarian government. (See also: “global warming”).

Then they shoveled tons of money in bailout and “porkulus” bills they hadn't even read and intimidated the recipients into accepting it, just so they could set about forcibly re-making these companies as part of their overall jihad on capitalism.

And when AIG used some of these monies to pay off bonus clauses in legally binding contracts signed more than a year ago (which, if unpaid, would leave them open to being sued), a two-faced scumbag Congress then set about demagoging those recipients in order to distract from their complicity in the matter.

Frighteningly, they've gone so far overboard in their scapegoating of people who haven't done a damn thing other than try to get the compensation to which they were legally due, that they have targeted the entire machination of the federal government at specific individuals. They have whipped up ignorant followers into a frenzy, to the point where these folks have been accosted at their homes and their physical safety has been put at risk.

At best, this is mob rule and unacceptable in a free country that purports to live by the rule of law. At worst, it smacks of Kristallnacht and 1930s Germany. You think that comparison goes too far? Read on.

Sen. Charles Grassley suggested that bonus recipients should commit ritual suicide. He actually intimated that these people were worthy of death! And President Obama had the gall to compare them to terrorist suicide bombers!

By that standard, we should have 537 dead bodies on the floors of the U.S. House, Senate and White House tomorrow, with hara-kiri swords run through their chests – for Congress's and the Obama Administration's malfeasance, incompetence and all-consuming scumminess are a far bigger crime than anything anyone at AIG has done.

Not the least of which is this simple fact: If you didn't want this to happen, all you had to do was not bail AIG out!

The examples are legion. On March 14, Speaker Nancy Pelosi openly encouraged the defiance of U.S. borders and immigration laws, national security be damned, when she advocated their non-enforcement at St. Anthony's Church in San Francisco.

Here's a thought, Nan: Open your home up first and let all the illegal immigrants enjoy blanket amnesty from committing breaking-and-entering of others' property at your expense. Then maybe I'll consider it.

Then there's the ever-infuriating Rep. Barney Frank, who began this entire ridiculous exercise in destroying industries for the purpose of nationalizing them with his stupid insistence that mortgage lenders give away loans that couldn't possibly be paid back, then guaranteeing them with your tax dollars, all for the sake of serving the wrong Marxist idea that housing is a “right.” If anyone is a scapegoat, it's him!

Last, but certainly most, there's President Obama, who is “American Idol”-izing the presidency in record time. Not a day goes by wherein he doesn't degrade and denigrate the office, in both his words and behavior.

He insults the Prime Minister of England by giving DVDs as a diplomatic gift at an official state visit. He goes on The Tonight Show and insults the Special Olympics (and gets away with it thanks to a propagandist media that never stops kissing his posterior). He ignores bigger problems while attending to trivialities like bowling and filling out March Madness brackets. He's unable to express a coherent thought without his omni-present teleprompter and soon-to-be video-crib-note-embedded podium.

In short, he is turning the presidency into a complete joke. He's a veritable Paris Hilton of presidents (if saying so isn't an insult to rich blonde bimbo spoiled-brat heirs), and sadly all-too-representative of the perpetually infantile and insufferable Baby Boomer generation from whence he hails. He is destroying the office to an extent and with an efficiency that Bill Clinton's stuffing of Monica under the Oval Office desk couldn't even begin to match.

And then there's that whole spending the country into total financial oblivion, oath to uphold the Constitution's limits on government be damned thing.

Remember, it's only been 64 days – 64 days – he's been in office. Think about that for second. How much worse is it going to get over the next three-and-five-sixths years?

We are going to be lucky to survive this despotic regime that's determined to turn America into Zimbabwe (economic basket case), Cuba (communism), and North Korea (cult-like blind worship of “Dear Leader”) rolled into one.

Our government – the House, the Senate and the Presidency – is out of control like never before. They have nothing but contempt for those over whom they wish to rule, and when challenged, their first instinct is to recklessly wield the vast, illegitimate power they have to squash people like insects.

They are despicable, unconscionable, and very, very dangerous. Prepare yourselves accordingly. 

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