We will not be intimidated, we will not be bullied, we will not
be silenced, and we will not lose. Barack Obama’s thugocracy is
dishonest, dangerous, and malicious, but it cannot be stronger
than the aroused might of a free people. His foreign policy
deliberately debases U.S. interests rightly understood, in an
effort to suborn our sovereignty in favor of a United Nations he
in turn wants to control. But even on foreign policy, there are
certain checks on his power that can be called into play. We who
oppose his aims — yes, Michael Wilbon (Washington Post
sportswriter who
blasted Rush Limbaugh), we who hope that Obama,
who happens to be “a black man,” fails, and fails
miserably at those ends — must not, however, fall into Obama’s
Alinskyite traps. We must keep our own eyes on the ball.
The ball right now is the unprecedented power grab in the name of
health care. That is Obama’s whole immediate domestic ball of
wax. Because Obama is losing on the issue, losing quite badly, in
the court of public opinion, he is trying to change the subject
and distract our attention so we, the broad American public, will
ease our pressure against Democrats skittish of doing a lemming
act on health care. If we ease our pressure on them on health
care in order to fight Obama on other fronts, those skittish
Democrats might succumb to the White House pressure instead and
use parliamentary tricks to pass the legislative monstrosity
Obama seeks.
That’s what the attack on Fox News is all about: It’s a
distraction. That’s what the attack on Rush Limbaugh was and is:
a distraction. Attack on the TEA partiers: distraction. Attack on
insurance companies, and so on and on: distraction. distraction,
distraction, distraction. “The basic tactic in warfare,” wrote
Obama’s organizational idol, Saul Alinsky, “is a mass political
jujitsu.” And “the real action is in the enemy’s reaction.” And
“the major premise for tactics is the development of operations
that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition,” so
“pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
In response, we can’t afford to let the attacks go unanswered,
but we also can’t afford to let them dominate our attention. We
can’t let the Left pick and freeze the target. We need to swat
them down, and keep moving against the main Obama power grab.
All that said, others (like The American
Spectator’s own Phil
Klein, who has done yeoman’s work on the issue) can
highlight the Left’s main weak points regarding Obamacare. Let
this column instead catalogue the ways in which the Obamites try
to bully us, silence us, etcetera — so that with this catalogue
in one handy place, the rest of the movement can focus instead on
Obamacare’s weaknesses.
If you follow this roundabout logic so far, then:
Note, and don’t allow it, when this administration tries to keep
insurance cooperatives (Humana) from communicating with their own
customers. Note, and don’t allow it, when it targets a whole
industry (insurers again) for attack. Note when it bullies car
companies and banks. Note when it threatens the Chamber of
Commerce. Note when it puts out booklets equating conservative
veterans and activist groups with hate militias. Note when the
president himself says he will “call out” those who disagree with
him, that he will “not abide” us, that his opponents are “filling
the airwaves with deceptive and dishonest ads” when the ads are
actually factual. Note when he repeatedly accuses his opponents
of using “scare tactics,” yet in the next breath says “if we do
nothing, our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt.
More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their
coverage when they are sick and need it the most. And more will
die as a result.” And then, having said that doing nothing will
make more people die, he accuses those who don’t agree with him
of wanting to do nothing. Nice smear, that.
Note when the administration and its lackeys attack Fox News and
when they attack Limbaugh. Note when they tell an Arizona sheriff
that he’s not allowed to tell the press about his pickups of
illegal aliens. Note when they fire Inspectors General who
embarrass their friends, after telling one of them that he too
isn’t allowed to talk to the press. Note when they tell towns in
North Carolina that they cannot hold nonpartisan elections
because blacks need to know who the Democrat is — even if the
town itself is majority black and voted to hold its elections in
a non-partisan way. Note when they condone vote fraud and voter
intimidation when it suits their purposes. Note when they drop an
already-won case against vicious New Black Panther Party members.
Note when they accuse Americans of being “a nation of cowards” on
race. Note when they blame every problem on their White House
predecessors. Note how they lock Republicans out of committee
meetings. Note how they refuse to let the public have time to
read legislation before it is voted on. Note how they vote on
legislation that isn’t actually even in one written piece yet.
They promise transparency, but they stonewall legitimate Freedom
of Information Act requests on subject after subject. They
stonewall legitimate information requests even from ranking
congressmen. They refuse to turn over information about the fired
or disciplined Inspectors General. They won’t turn over
information about their decision to subvert Honduran
constitutional democracy in favor of an anti-American leftist
thug. They won’t turn over information about the New Black
Panther decision. They lie about who made the decision. They lie
about their efforts to politicize recipients of government arts
grants. They brag about controlling information given to the
press, and about controlling the press itself. They have a
communications director who idolizes mass murderer Mao Tse-tung.
They have a manufacturing czar who also speaks favorably about
Mao. They have a science czar who quotes Mao, and who says it is
not unconstitutional to coerce abortions or to put prophylactic
chemicals into the drinking water (!!!).
Their attorney general refuses to protect the civil rights of
white people (unless the whites are gay). Their Justice
Department drops cases against an allied governor of New Mexico
— yes, that’s called interfering with prosecutorial decisions.
They gut the public integrity section of Justice. They ignore
career prosecutors in the civil rights division and in the
appellate division. The attorney general also overrides the
established position of the division charged with constitutional
interpretation (after pledging to support the division’s
independence).
The Obamites unilaterally violate the sanctity of contracts (and
probably the Constitution) to gut the ownership rights of secured
creditors and expand the unearned ownership by the unions. They
threaten businesses that won’t jump in line behind their takeover
plans. They set up a pay czar who threatens to literally force
executives to accept “negative” salaries. And when faced with
complaints about utterly abusive new regulations that will
criminalize people holding garage sales and put hundreds or
thousands of businesses out of, yes, business, they loudly boast
that “there’s a new sheriff in town.” And they
invite foreign authorities, at the expense of our civil
liberties, to regulate us further.
And, of course, they say their opponents are all racists, or they
say that honest citizens speaking up of their own free will at
town hall meetings are thugs and haters and rabbles and mobs and
should probably be shut down.
I could go on, but that’s enough for now. We will not be shut
down. We will not relent. We will not be intimidated by false
accusations of racism, or of greed, or of hatred, or of any other
ill motives. We are motivated by love of country, and of freedom.
And we will keep working to keep our country free.
We will do so whether or not the president can “abide” us and
whether or not he calls us out. Actually, let him call us out. We
call him out, too. In the light of day and the light of reason,
we are more in our element than he is. We will win, and he will
fail. And that’s a good thing.
