When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s,
leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to
activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.
Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they
were particularly susceptible to Hitler's rhetoric and had far less
basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.
"Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to
describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the
Soviet Union.
Put differently, a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to
thrive, or ultimately even survive. In our times, American democracy
is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the
current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be
concerned about it.
The president's poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers
of people disagree with particular policies of his, but the damage
being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond
particular counterproductive policies.
Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a
president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a
private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he
deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to
be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico.
Many among the public and in the media may think that the issue is
simply whether BP's oil spill has damaged many people, who ought to be
compensated. But our government is supposed to be "a government of
laws and not of men." If our laws and our institutions determine that
BP ought to pay $20 billion-- or $50 billion or $100 billion-- then so
be it.
But the Constitution says that private property is not to be
confiscated by the government without "due process of law."
Technically, it has not been confiscated by Barack Obama, but that is
a distinction without a difference.
With vastly expanded powers of government available at the discretion
of politicians and bureaucrats, private individuals and organizations
can be forced into accepting the imposition of powers that were never
granted to the government by the Constitution.
If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don't
believe in Constitutional government. And, without Constitutional
government, freedom cannot endure. There will always be a "crisis"--
which, as the president's chief of staff has said, cannot be allowed
to "go to waste" as an opportunity to expand the government's power.
That power will of course not be confined to BP or to the particular
period of crisis that gave rise to the use of that power, much less to
the particular issues.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt arbitrarily took the United States off the
gold standard, he cited a law passed during the First World War to
prevent trading with the country's wartime enemies. But there was no
war when FDR ended the gold standard's restrictions on the printing of
money.
At about the same time, during the worldwide Great Depression, the
German Reichstag passed a law "for the relief of the German people."
That law gave Hitler dictatorial powers that were used for things
going far beyond the relief of the German people-- indeed, powers that
ultimately brought a rain of destruction down on the German people and
on others.
If the agreement with BP was an isolated event, perhaps we might hope
that it would not be a precedent. But there is nothing isolated about
it.
The man appointed by President Obama to dispense BP's money as the
administration sees fit, to whomever it sees fit, is only the latest
in a long line of presidentially appointed "czars" controlling
different parts of the economy, without even having to be confirmed by
the Senate, as Cabinet members are.
Those who cannot see beyond the immediate events to the issues of
arbitrary power-- versus the rule of law and the preservation of
freedom-- are the "useful idiots" of our time. But useful to whom?
http://www.tsowell.com/
http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/06/22/degeneration_of_democracy?page=full
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/537967/201006211813/Is-US-Now-On-Slippery-Slope-To-Tyranny-.aspx
Anytime repugs arein power, America goes downhill.
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Are you beseeched by demons in your head?
Get Kelp.
cuhulin
> Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a
> president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a
> private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he
> deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a
private enterprise can ruin the food supply and income of millions of
people, kill billions of living things of all shapes and sizes, ruin
the shoreline and ocean water for years to come, mislead the world
about their ability to 'deal with it' and not be responsible?
Their 'right' to pollute ends at the start of your food, water and air
supply. Don't you believe in YOUR right to live without being
poisoned? BP are acting like all the other planet poisoners who make
political contributions....like complete and utter assholes.
You will eventually come to the realization that Politicians are too
cheaply bought.
mike
> I would grow a garden in my back yard, but I know those MOFOs around
> here would steal it all.
MOFOS ? Are they like goats or small, like rabbits?
No..No..wait..it's an extraterrestrial vegetable collecting saucer,
kinda like UFOS but without the probing..
mike
Corporations are unconstitutional. They are a perversion. The are
Unamerican. The Revolution was fought against the British East India
Corporation. They have no yet surrendered.
Corporations have no rights except those granted by the people. The
fact that the SCOTUS pretends corporations have God given rights, like
natural persons, cannot stand if there's any shred of this republic
surviving.
- Corporations are unconstitutional.
The US Courts do not seam to hold that 'opinion'
- They are a perversion.
All Governments are basically 'corporation'
-hence- All Governments are inherently perverted.
-tfigts- The Bigger the Government :
The Greater the Perversion.
-if- Big Businesses {Mega-Corporations} are Bad
-then- Big Government must be Equally Bad
- Unamerican.
Don't think that many/most American would
agree with you Dave.
- The Revolution was fought against the British
- East India Corporation.
Nah - Against the British Crown {Government}
-but- Technically the the BEIC was part of the
greater problems between the British Crown
and it's American Colonies.
- They have no yet surrendered.
Honourable East India Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
HEIC was dissolved around 1857 and was
incorporated into the British Government at
that time.
-and- the British Government did surrender.
But wait Dave may be on a 'spiritual' level
the British East India Corporation -~=morphing=~-
-~=morphing=~- -~=morphing=~- British Petroleum
-cause- They're British : They Must Be Evil . . .
- Corporations have no rights except those
- granted by the people.
Yeah - We the People Elected a US Congress :
That US Congress Passed Laws creating and
governing the Legal Responsibilities, Duties and
Rights of US Corporations.
Yeah - We the People Elected a US President
That US President Signed Laws creating and
governing the Legal Responsibilities, Duties and
Rights of US Corporations.
Yeah - We the People Elected a US President
who appointed US Judges; and Our Elected US
Congress Confirmed those US Judges.
Yeah We the People's US Judges have Ruled on
and Affirmed the US Laws governing the Legal
Responsibilities, Duties and Rights of US Corporations.
US Corporations : We the People Have Spoken [.]
- The fact that the SCOTUS pretends corporations
- have God given rights, like natural persons, cannot
- stand if there's any shred of this republic surviving.
US Corporations only have the Legal Responsibilities,
Duties and Rights as prescribe by US Law and
affirmed by US Courts.
-and- OBTW Dave the SCOTUS does not 'pretend'
.
Dave it is nice 'dialoging' with you ~ RHF
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y2FCR8
Original "Dialogue" Loudspeaker -by- Jensen
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* * * Daily News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Four Days Up-Date]
This is the 64 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Ecological Disaster : The Obama Oil Spill of 2010*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Oil_Spill
* Big Government Inaction {Un-Action}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/00bd10caf4d9140d
.
DAY 64 of the GREAT OBAMA OIL SPILL of 2010
.
- Anytime repugs arein power,
- America goes downhill.
.
* * * Daily Great Obama Oil Spill News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Four Days Up-Date]
This is the 64 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Ecological Disaster : The Obama Oil Spill of 2010*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Oil_Spill
* Big Government Inaction {Un-Action}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/00bd10caf4d9140d
.
DAY 64 of the GREAT OBAMA OIL SPILL of 2010
.
Soros Petroleum -or- Obama PayOila
* oops ! - Obama PayOila -is- Soros Petroleum
and the Obama Regime is Government by PayOila
http://www.radiobanter.com/showthread.php?t=152004
Crime Inc : Soros & Emanual & Obama
the obama regime : the best government
that soros could buy ~ RHF
.
Prez Obama asks :
Have You Hugged an Oil Derick Today ?
-cause- BP Needs Your Love ~ RHF
.
* * * Daily News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Four Days Up-Date]
This is the 64 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Ecological Disaster : The Obama Oil Spill of 2010*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Oil_Spill
* Big Government Inaction {Un-Action}
.
All the while Prez Obama continues to Lip Sync
to the Teleprompter and Pose for the TV Cameras :
But Prez Obama Is Doing Nothing To Actually Stop
the Oil Spill by using all the Resources of the US
Federal Government; and Funding each of the
affected States to Clean-Up the Mess at their
Coastlines and in their Coastal Waters.
Prez Obama : failure, Failure. FAILURE !
Obama Regime : inept, Inept. INEPT !
Obama & BP : corrupt, Corrupt. CORRUPT !
Hello Prez Obama Suing BP Ain't the Answer :
STOPPING THE LEAKS OIL SPILL and
CLEANING-UP THE ENVIRONMENT IS !
.
Praise Be The Obama ! - my prez-a-duntz ~ RHF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K17kA50c1zs
All Hail to Our Lord and Savior Prez Obama !
.
Prez Obama has collected {illegally extorted} a
$20B Political Slush Fund being administered
internally by the Obama Regime
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/us/19escrow.html
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/06/17/christian-whiton-obama-bp-g...
* Obama Regime's "Chicago-style Shakedown Politics."
http://www.aolnews.com/the-point/article/rep-joe-barton-calls-20-bill...
Note $20B of "Free [Slush] Money" without any
Congressional Oversight or Public Controls like
the legally formed by US Law independent and
autonomous September 11th Victim Compensation
Fund.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11th_Victim_Compensation_Fund
.
The US Congress needs to step-in and create a
Law to Channel, Track and Control how this BP
Oil Spill "Relief Money" is being Spend and have
Full Accountability to the American People
-versus- Allowing Prez Obama and the inner circle
of the Obama Regime Hand-Out Some Obama
"Cash" Money -aka- Obama-Cash "Street Money"
as Political Spoils to Buy Votes.
.
? What "Oil-Gate" Cover-Up by Prez Obama ?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.elections/msg/beae8dcf410ca293
. . . while Prez Obama golfs . . .
. . . Animals are dying in the Gulf . . .
. . . and Americans are Jobless . . .
? Which part of EPA Environmental Protection Agency
Does Prez Obama not understand ? ? ?
-note- Days 1~ 14 Two Weeks of Doing Nothing
is All on BP {100% BP Fault}.
-however- Somewhere around Day 21 and Prez Obama
had Failed to Mobilize the Full Resources of the US
Government : Now the is All-on Prez Obama and the
US Government to Protect the Environment and Clean-Up
the Mess. Shame On You Prez Obama Shame-On-You.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.elections/msg/beae8dcf410ca293
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Hindu Temple - Flowood, MS
http://www.wapt.com/news/24010811/detail.html
-&-
http://www.wapt.com/slideshow/news/24011072/detail.html
.
She started wearing eye glasses a few weeks ago.
cuhulin
Thanks for admitting that you are a real live fascist, as defined by
Mussolini hizzelf.
This piss me OFF!,, and it Highly pisses me OFF Too! I woked bouts an
hour ago, NO effing water! A big water pipe at one of the water
treatment plants done broke.Good thing I always keep a few water
containers filled up with backwater hick water.
cuhulin
> RHF wrote:
>> All Governments are basically 'corporation'
> Thanks for admitting that you are a real live fascist, as defined by
> Mussolini hizzelf.
Mussolini had a better class of candidate in mind, I'm sure. They have
standards to maintain.
With offspring that have such obvious political talents, who can blame
him? I know *I* wouldn't want her associating with riffraff.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/31/alessandra_mussolini.jpeg
For those of you blessed with Windows' 'ruin the URL' feature':
mike
Ahh haz tu go bak ober tu Acey's shop on McDowell Road.Wut it is,
yesterydey afernoon he got a tow truck call rite afer he done puted mah
new Cooper tires on mah big ass 1983 Dodge van anna Ahh needs tu gits
bak ober thar anna pik up mah tree weels wit tree uv dee old tires he
(frum mah 1983 Dodge van) put onna dem weels thi mawnin.Two spars anna
also ahnudder one furr mah 1978 big ass Dodge van.
cuhulin, the tires
- - All Governments are basically 'corporation'
- Thanks for admitting that you are a real live fascist,
- as defined by Mussolini hizzelf.
Dang Dave - Last time I checked I was not part of
the "Big Government" Obama Regime.
just a poor tax-payer ~ RHF
.
Mike [M II],
So... Who Was Canada's Mussolini ?
Who are/were Canada's Great National Socialists ?
do you know your own canadian national history ? ~ RHF
-or- are you only an 'expert' observer of americana . . .
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DAY 65 of the GREAT OBAMA [BP] OIL SPILL of 2010
The Obama Regime and BP {Big Oil} = The Toxic Team*
* The Union of Big Government and Big Business
-aka- "Corporatism" on a World Wide Ecological
Disaster Scale. -wrt- Liberal Fascism {Obamaism}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/27a260eb677f567f
.
* * * Daily News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Five Days Up-Date]
This is the 65 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Google 'Search' Up-Date
# 1 - Obama Oil Spill = 44M Hits
# 2 - BP Oil Spill = 39M Hits
=WRT= the BP Oil Spill on May 27 2010*
Prez Obama declared "My Job is to Get This Fixed"
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/27/obama-on-bp-oil-spill-my-job-is-to-get-this-fixed/
* Hello Prez Obama that was 28 Days ago
{almost a month ago an it ain't 'fixed' yet}
so . . . waz-zap-pen-ing ~ RHF
.
Robert "Bob" Dudley (rd)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dudley
So 'rd' of "BP" will be Prez Obama's Go-To-Man
when the Obama Regime needs some more of
that "Free [Slush] Money" -or- Obama Spending
"Cash" Money -aka- Obama-Cash "Street Money"
as Political Spoils to Buy Influence and Votes.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/0e2f62943826a0db
The US Congress URGENTLY Needs to Step-In
and Create a Law to Channel, Track and Control
how this BP Oil Spill "Relief Money" is being Spend
and haveFull Accountability to the American People.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11th_Victim_Compensation_Fund
.
DAY 66 of the GREAT OBAMA [BP] OIL SPILL of 2010
The Obama Regime and BP {Big Oil} = The Toxic Team*
* The Union of Big Government and Big Business
-aka- "Corporatism" on a World Wide Ecological
Disaster Scale. -wrt- Liberal Fascism {Obamaism}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/27a260eb677f567f
.
* * * Daily News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Five Days Up-Date]
This is the 66 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Ecological Disaster : The Obama [BP] Oil Spill of 2010*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Oil_Spill
* Big Government Inaction {Un-Action}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/00bd10caf4d9140d
.
=WRT= the BP Oil Spill on May 27 2010*
Prez Obama declared "My Job is to Get This Fixed"
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/27/obama-on-bp-oil-spill-my-job-...
* Hello Prez Obama that was 29 Days ago
{almost a month ago an it ain't 'fixed' yet}
so . . . waz-zap-pen-ing - big daddy 'o' ~ RHF
.
All the while Prez Obama continues to Lip Sync
to the Teleprompter and Pose for the TV Cameras :
? Can you hear Prez Obama saying "I'm In Charge !"
? Can you see Prez Obama looking straight into
the TV Cameras and saying "I'm In Charge !"
but, But. BUT ! - Prez Obama Is Just :
doing nothing day after day,
Doing Nothing Day After Day.
DOING NOTHING DAY AFTER DAY !
To Actually Stop the Oil Spill by using all the
Resources of the US Federal Government; and
Funding each of the affected States to Clean-Up
the Mess at their Coastlines and in their Coastal
Waters.
Prez Obama that's : failure, Failure. FAILURE !
Obama Regime that's : inept, Inept. INEPT !
Obama & BP that's : corrupt, Corrupt. CORRUPT !
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/0e2f62943826a0db
.
Hello Prez Obama Suing BP and taking Big [$B]
Money from BP Ain't the Answer : -where-as-
STOPPING THE BP OIL SPILL LEAKS and
CLEANING-UP THE GULF ENVIRONMENT IS !*
* note - By Putting Americans To Work : Not By
Putting Americans Out of Work with a 'Sham'
as in "Flim-Flam" Drilling Moratoriums of Safely
Operating Oil Wells in America's Coastal Waters.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0624/Gulf-oil-spill-Judge-won-t-budge-on-deep-water-drilling-moratorium
.
and the leak goes on . . . and the leak goes on
oil oozing up into the gulf... and the leak goes on
another obama regime inconvenient truth ~ RHF
.
>
When will you shake your brain awake and stop believing the crazy shit
on that website? Or has the booze permanently picked it?
How many of these "smoking gun" claims will you buy into before you
figure out they're just ridiculous nonsense?
--
BDK, non-jew leader of the non-existant jew paid shills!
Do they also sell magic newspapers from the past?
Yeah, the birthers think Obama has mastered time travel
to cover-up his true birthplace. No wonder 24% of
Republicans are convinced that he's the AntiChrist!
Mike
dave wrote:
Bryant might inquire as to the availability of fake PhD's.
A few hours ago, I saw a tv commercial about that Literoo flashlight.It
clamps on thingys, it lights up too.I thinks I likes that Literoo
flashlight.I will wait untill they show up in the China (Wal Mart and
such like) stores around here.
cuhulin, roo roo roo
MWB - While the other 76% just think that BHO
{Prez Obama} is a 'globalist' anti-american ~ RHF
MWB let's all sing : Praise Be The Obama !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K17kA50c1zs
All Hail to Our Lord and Savior Prez Obama !
- my prez-a-duntz ~ RHF
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Massive Ecological Genocide in/on the Gulf of Mexico - Day 68
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/a336d7b532cf598d
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* * * Daily News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Eight Days Up-Date]
This is the 68 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Ecological Disaster : The Obama [BP] Oil Spill of 2010*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Oil_Spill
* Big Government Inaction {Un-Action}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/00bd10caf4d9140d
! The Massive Ecological Genocide continues while
the Obama Regime does little or nothing to stop it !
? Prez Obama - Why hasn't the Full Manpower and
All the Resources of the US Federal Government
been put to work to STOP the Leaks and Save the
Gulf Environment ?
.
DAY 68 of the GREAT OBAMA [BP] OIL SPILL of 2010
The Obama Regime and BP {Big Oil} = The Toxic Team*
* The Union of Big Government and Big Business
-aka- "Corporatism" on a World Wide Ecological
Disaster Scale. -wrt- Liberal Fascism {Obamaism}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/27a260eb677f567f
! The Massive Ecological Genocide continues while
the Obama Regime does little or nothing to stop it !
? Prez Obama - Why hasn't the Full Manpower
and All the Resources of the US Federal Government
been put to work to STOP the Leaks and Save the
Gulf Environment ?
.
Now, I Really Am PISSED!!!
BOYCOTT BP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cuhulin
Let's all sing : Praise Be The Obama !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K17kA50c1zs
All Hail to Our Lord and Savior Prez Obama !
- my prez-a-duntz ~ RHF
and the great puppet master soros
.
Massive Ecological Genocide in/on the Gulf of Mexico - Day 69
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/a336d7b532cf598d
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* * * Daily News Alert * * *
[Two Months and Nine Days Up-Date]
This is the 69 Day of the 21st Centuries Greatest
Ecological Disaster : The Obama [BP] Oil Spill of 2010*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP_Oil_Spill
* Big Government Inaction {Un-Action}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/00bd10caf4d9140d
! The Massive Ecological Genocide continues while
the Obama Regime does little or nothing to stop it !
? Prez Obama - Why hasn't the Full Manpower and
All the Resources of the US Federal Government
been put to work to STOP the Leaks and Save the
Gulf Environment ?
.
DAY 69 of the GREAT OBAMA [BP] OIL SPILL of 2010
The Obama Regime and BP {Big Oil} = The Toxic Team*
* The Union of Big Government and Big Business
-aka- "Corporatism" on a World Wide Ecological
Disaster Scale. -wrt- Liberal Fascism {Obamaism}
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/27a260eb677f567f
! The Massive Ecological Genocide continues while
the Obama Regime does little or nothing to stop it !
? Prez Obama - Why hasn't the Full Manpower
and All the Resources of the US Federal Government
been put to work to STOP the Leaks and Save the
Gulf Environment ?
Did you know that there is not one Emergency
Declaration by Prez Obama -aka- the US Federal
Government about the ecological toxic effectives
of the BP Gulf Oil Spill -cause- BP has not told
Prez Obama that he can issue such a decree.
* Look it up no Emergency Declaration by Prez
Obama -cause he is on the Soros/BP PayOila Role.
.
Prez Obama -aka- The Obama Regime has allowed
BP to require Gag Orders for anyone working for BP
or receiving money from BP -so- much for the most
transparent government 'promised' by prez Obama.
The Obama Regime 'Corporatism' Gone Wide !
-corporatism- National Socialism taken to the
Globalist Level in the name of the International !
.
BP and the Obama Regime {Corporatism} :
corruption, corporatism versus humanity
Corruption. Corporatism Versus Humanity
CORRUPTION ! CORPORATISM VERSUS HUMANITY
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