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October 12, 2008

The Impending Obama Thugocracy

The scariest thing you will hear from Obamunists is the glassy-eyed assertion that their messiah will "unite us." How is the guy with the most extreme left-wing record in the entire Senate going to unite us, when 99% of the public has a less radical point of view? Two words: brute force. Michael Barone offers a few examples of how this is already becoming apparent:

[Obamunists] seem determined to shut people up.
That's what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign emails, did when conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio program in Chicago. Kurtz had been researching Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago — papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.
Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.
Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that were "false." I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama's ties to Ayers.

It's gotten this bad without him even having been elected. Imagine Obama in office, backed up by a solid Democrat majority under the alarmingly irresponsible leadership of Pelosi and Reid. First will come a resurrected Fairness Doctrine, to shut off talk radio. Then they will go after the Internet, so enjoy Moonbattery while you can. After the Internet has been reduced to PBS Online, don't be surprised if they start on your mail.

Obama can count on help not only from Congress, but from the media that has been instrumental in passing him off as a legitimate candidate. Corporate ownership is no guarantee of freedom:

Corporate liberals have done their share in shutting down anti-liberal speech, too. "Saturday Night Live" ran a spoof of the financial crisis that skewered Democrats like House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and liberal contributors Herbert and Marion Sandler, who sold toxic-waste-filled Golden West to Wachovia Bank for $24 billion. Kind of surprising, but not for long. The tape of the broadcast disappeared from NBC's Website and was replaced with another that omitted the references to Frank and the Sandlers. Evidently NBC and its parent, General Electric, don't want people to hear speech that attacks liberals.

See the original skit here.

Barone notes that Obama has chosen to spend his adult life in the ideological bubble of university communities. This is unlikely to foster respect for the opposition's right to express itself:

Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from […] the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that used to pride themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.

William F. Buckley wisely said that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the phone book than by Harvard's faculty. We're about to find out why.

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He'll unite us, all right.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at October 12, 2008 10:22 AM

Comments

This has been going on for some time in the liberal fascist movement.

They essentially call any speech they don't care for as hate speech. They then simultaneously work towards legislation against hate speech.

It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together.

Posted by: Jaeson at October 12, 2008 10:41 AM

The leadership and core of the liberal progressives know what they're doing. The scary part are the hypnotized followers.

I know some. Normally rational, albeit left-leaning people (a contradiction, I know). Yeah, they're for big government, soft on illegal immigration, love entitlements...but BASICALLY reachable as humans.

Not now. Glassy-eyed you say? Some perhaps. Many more are wild-eyed. Frenzied. Fever-pitched. Their lives and emotions are totally devoted to Obama. They are deeply, physically and emotionally in love with him.

If you say anything that isn't about how much we all love him, they get hysterical, dismissive, smug, angry...they're love sick and cannot be reached. They are passing this adoration on to their children (hence that video singing praise to Dear Leader Obama).

This is a cult. Once in power, there is going to be a backlash against conservatives (and especially white conservatives) the likes of which has not been seen since the Nazis had that little soiree called Kristallnacht. Everything from random street violence to legislation ensuring conservatism will not rise again.

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. ... Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual."

He will "require", "demand", "never allow".

A dark time approaches. Sieg Heil.

Posted by: matt at October 12, 2008 11:17 AM

Obama was educated in and taught in America's elite colleges... where speech codes and suppression of dissent on the grounds of "sensitivity" is the norm.

Posted by: V the K at October 12, 2008 11:31 AM

What I mean is, I'm glad the left has spent the last eight years letting us know it's okay to compare American politicians to Hitler. What comes around goes around.

Posted by: V the K at October 12, 2008 12:06 PM

It may be ok to chastize mere politicians, but they believe his immaculate glory transcends mere politics.

Posted by: Thulsa Doom at October 12, 2008 12:42 PM

Awsome pic. Conservatives need be very concerned that an Obama presidency will mean criminial prosecutions for their beliefs. Obama is a facist for the politcally correct world government movement.

Posted by: Lede Agenda at October 12, 2008 12:54 PM

And yet William F. Buckley's son, Christopher, is endorsing Obama.

Posted by: Seven at October 12, 2008 1:00 PM

Apparently Christopher Buckley's criteria are that Obama "writes well" (were his books even his own or were they ghost-written?) and that McCain has sort of changed somehow from being "authentic". He even acknowledges that Obama is a lefty and he is not. Wow, there's a real endorsement. What the heck, are we deciding our votes by counting how many dumbasses endorse whom without examining their reasoning, or are we thinking for ourselves?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 12, 2008 1:39 PM

That was me (doh)

Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at October 12, 2008 3:31 PM

I could care less whom Christopher Buckley endorses. Last time I checked it was his FATHER who was a figurehead in the conservative movement yes/no?

Posted by: Lede Agenda at October 12, 2008 4:18 PM

It's hard to be a conservative academician. Even if not morally degenerate enough to embrace liberalism in any event, it is adaptive for one to eventually become mindlessly liberal in an academic setting.

Supression of free speech has become extremely repressive for the average instructor. There are a myriad of pitfalls: Women and minority students especially are on a hair trigger looking for bias. Your sense of humour must be checked for neutrality in all things. Your donations to United Way and certain University sponsored programs are tracked. You are careful to subordinate any sign of authority when communicating directly with a student about poor performance (and its best done in the presence of other faculty). You are at all times, a "good citizen." Although some pathogenic Ayers-like putrescence get caught infecting students with their liberal edicts, more generally it is an understood courtesy to avoid all discussion of politics (in fact, politics is on a par with smoking in terms of social acceptance). Watch your grading curves that they are not too low on average bc the students will and do complain, and you will be called to the carpet for your rigour. Above all, at least until fully tenured, don't insult anything, anyone or any profession - there could be hidden consequences.

To survive in academics, you either intentionally or subconsciously goosestep to the political rhythm or out the door you go.
I think that this in some small part may explain why otherwise intelligent individuals inevitably genuflect to the much less intelligent, to finally wallow with them in an overall puddle of PC filth.

Posted by: Fiberal at October 12, 2008 6:37 PM

And yet William F. Buckley's son, Christopher, is endorsing Obama.

Posted by: Seven at October 12, 2008 1:00 PM

More evidence to the fact that our world is moving toward utter insanity. Scary stuff Van Helsing!

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at October 12, 2008 7:33 PM

"More evidence to the fact that our world is moving toward utter insanity. Scary stuff Van Helsing!"
Right you are, HoosierArmyMom. But then again, it's all to easy to find evidence of of the slip into insanity--what's really challenging is finding evidence to the contrary, and that's the really scary part. There doesn't seem to be much light at the end of this tunnel.

Posted by: theQUICK at October 12, 2008 8:48 PM

My apologies for the grammatical errors above. I always forget to do that proof reading thingy.

Posted by: theQUICK at October 12, 2008 8:52 PM

HITLER WANTED BIG GOVERMENT,HITLER WANTED GUN CONTROL,HITLER WAS A ENVIROMENTALISTS,HIITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN,HITLER HAD HIS BROWN SHIRTS,HITLER WAS A LIBERAL SQUAWKS SQUAWK

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 13, 2008 7:07 AM

You folks are joking, right? This site is like The Onion, right? Outrageous satire, edgy and out there, right?

By the way, who are you people? I don't see any kind of bios like most of the other blogs provide.

Posted by: Zulu at October 13, 2008 7:22 AM

Hyuck hyuck hyuck! LOL! Are we guys for real? Are we joking?!?!?!?

If I had a dime for every time a concern troll asked a question like this I'd be able to buy a damn. Currently I don't have one and am, therefore, incapable of giving one.

Posted by: Thulsa Doom at October 13, 2008 8:12 AM

What a lot of newspeak.

A bunch of Fascists calling a liberal democrat a fascist. Orwell would be proud.

Posted by: steve at October 13, 2008 10:29 AM

Hmmm...I do not see anyone suppressing anybody's free speech here, only people calling idiocy by its name. Those evil e-mailers! Those inveterate callers! Barone is an idiot, quite simply, and is not even close to being coherent on any level.

Posted by: Jorg at October 13, 2008 11:44 AM

there is a fine line between insanity and simply being out of your fucking minds.

Posted by: farkme at October 13, 2008 12:15 PM

IMHO: Hyuck hyuck hyuck! LOL! Are you guys for real? Are you joking?!?!?!?

Posted by: crow at October 13, 2008 1:36 PM

Jaeson, you are imaginative and excitable.
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>The scary part are the hypnotized followers.
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That's just silly.
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>Normally rational, albeit left-leaning people
>(a contradiction, I know).
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Anybody left of you is irrational by definition? Occam's razor: Perhaps they only look crazy from your vantage point.
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>Yeah, they're for big government,
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Does the last 8 years represent small government? Then bring on more and more! Don't be stingy with the government!
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>soft on illegal immigration,
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Not all of us.
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>love entitlements...
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Oh, and nobody benefits from a Republican administration?
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>but BASICALLY reachable as humans.
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It's big of you to include *some* of your fellow citizens in the "human" category. What are the rest of us? Subhumans? Slave workers?
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>This is a cult.
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It's not a cult if more than half of the country is a part of it. It's called America.
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>...Everything from random street violence to
>legislation ensuring conservatism will not
>rise again.
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Actually, that's an oxymoron. Opposing change *is* conservatism.
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>A dark time approaches.
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We're already suffering a dark time. He wants to lead us out of it.
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Or were you referring to skin color? You racist.
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And Thulsa Doom,
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>Conservatives need be very concerned that an
>Obama presidency will mean criminial
>prosecutions for their beliefs.
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No, they need to be very fearful that it will mean criminal prosecution for their crimes.

Posted by: Nangleator at October 15, 2008 11:59 AM