A dictator is an authoritarian ruler (e.g. absolutist or autocratic) who assumes sole and absolute power.
In modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly. Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits:
1. suspension of elections
2. Suspension of civil liberties;
3. proclamation of a state of emergency;
4. rule by decree;
5. repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures; these include single-party state, and cult of personality
6. Indoctrination of children
7. Seizure of private assets and capital
8. Redistribution of assets according to a political formula
Modern dictators have usually come to power in times of emergency. Frequently dictators have seized power by coup d'état as Benito Mussolini did in Italy at the culmination of his March on Rome. But some dictators, most notably Adolf Hitler in Germany, achieved office as head of government by legal means. However, once he was elected in office, Hitler imposed additional extraordinary powers. Stalin was one of the leaders sharing power in the Soviet Union after Lenin's death until he prevailed in a power struggle and created a dictatorship.
With respect to the list above, let us see how Obama scores:
1. Not yet, but a move is afoot to institute universal voter registration at the federal level. I expect him to jump on this opportunity.
2. He has attempted to use DOJ to silence opposition during the campaign and criminally prosecute donors to conservative causes
3. He continually refers to the economic emergency as justification for unconstitutional ideas
4. He is doing this in a fledgling state on the change.gov site – and has decreed an office of the president elect when no such office exists
5. See 2 above, campaigning in Germany, infomercials
6. Mandatory national service plan (since revised based on deafening public opposition)
7. 401(k) plan and radically increased taxation
8. Notions of fairness and bailouts proposed by democrats
This is why I am concerned.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Foreign?
The furor over Barack Obama's birth certificate has become a focus of intense speculation - yet the lawsuit has been dismissed and no explanation can be found. Barack Hussein Obama makes a weirdly pre-announced trip to Hawaii because his typically white racist grandmother is sick. Whiel there, he is seen getting into a van while “walking around the neighborhood”.
Suddenly, The Governor of Hawaii seals the birth records. The governor's office officially declined a request made in writing by WND in Hawaii to obtain a copy of the hospital-generated original birth certificate of Barack Obama. WND was told the official reason for denial of access to Obama's birth certificate would Section 338-18 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, a provision claimed to be designed to prevent identity theft. Still, the source told WND confidentially the motivation for withholding the original birth certificate was political, and refused to disclose whether there was any information on the original birth certificate that would prove politically embarrassing to Obama.
The source also refused to answer WND's question whether the original document on file with the Department of Health was a hospital-generated birth certificate or a registration of birth that may have been filed subsequent to the birth. The anonymous source made clear the Hawaii Department of Health would immediately release Obama's original birth certificate, provided Obama requested the document be released, but the Department of Heath has received no such request from the senator or from anyone acting officially on his behalf.In a startling development, Obama's Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged she witnessed Obama's birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.In Kenya, WND was told by government authorities that all documents concerning Obama were under seal until after the U.S. presidential election on November 4.Hmmmmm.
In april, 2009, investigators obtained college transcripts showing that Obama received college financial aid for foreign students.
Double Hmmmmmm.
Suddenly, The Governor of Hawaii seals the birth records. The governor's office officially declined a request made in writing by WND in Hawaii to obtain a copy of the hospital-generated original birth certificate of Barack Obama. WND was told the official reason for denial of access to Obama's birth certificate would Section 338-18 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, a provision claimed to be designed to prevent identity theft. Still, the source told WND confidentially the motivation for withholding the original birth certificate was political, and refused to disclose whether there was any information on the original birth certificate that would prove politically embarrassing to Obama.
The source also refused to answer WND's question whether the original document on file with the Department of Health was a hospital-generated birth certificate or a registration of birth that may have been filed subsequent to the birth. The anonymous source made clear the Hawaii Department of Health would immediately release Obama's original birth certificate, provided Obama requested the document be released, but the Department of Heath has received no such request from the senator or from anyone acting officially on his behalf.In a startling development, Obama's Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged she witnessed Obama's birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.In Kenya, WND was told by government authorities that all documents concerning Obama were under seal until after the U.S. presidential election on November 4.Hmmmmm.
In april, 2009, investigators obtained college transcripts showing that Obama received college financial aid for foreign students.
Double Hmmmmmm.
Who?
I’ll tell you a little story: a young populist figured out a way to game the democratic process of a nation. Using empty slogans, intimidation and fraud, he managed to get himself elected and, moreover, managed to get himself elected with sufficient votes to take over power altogether. All very democratic, all very much within what the system, not having planned for the possibility that somebody like him and his followers would show up, allowed.
His message to the people who got him elected? Hope for a better future for themselves and a profound Change of the way things were done in the capital. Nobody ever stopped him because, after all, it was the Will of the People™ and, even though some rules were bent in the process, overall it was just, you know, free and democratic.
Once elected, once given the imprimatur of having achieved power through democratic means, Adolf abolished those means because he wasn’t about to allow somebody else to unseat him in the same fashion.
12 years later, millions were dead and a continent lay in ruins.
All because nobody dared question his rise to power. He was, after all, democratically elected. In a landslide.
His message to the people who got him elected? Hope for a better future for themselves and a profound Change of the way things were done in the capital. Nobody ever stopped him because, after all, it was the Will of the People™ and, even though some rules were bent in the process, overall it was just, you know, free and democratic.
Once elected, once given the imprimatur of having achieved power through democratic means, Adolf abolished those means because he wasn’t about to allow somebody else to unseat him in the same fashion.
12 years later, millions were dead and a continent lay in ruins.
All because nobody dared question his rise to power. He was, after all, democratically elected. In a landslide.
Debates
Best moment of last night’s debate:
Senator McCain called Senator Obama “Senator Government”
I fell over, I was laughing so hard. Wish I had thought of it…
Senator McCain called Senator Obama “Senator Government”
I fell over, I was laughing so hard. Wish I had thought of it…
White Wash
With typical government subtlety, ATF continues to try to whitewash Waco and stifle speech on the subject. The article can be founf here: http://www.aclufl.org/news_events/index.cfm?action=viewRelease&emailAlertID=3672
The release includes audio of an ATF agent calling the local police to sic then on someone who still believes the ATF should be held accountable for their murderous raid on MT Carmel.
Additionally, the Commander reviewed some video of Joe Biden speaking on Waco during the Congressional hearings regarding the raid. His attempt to cover the government’s tracks, declaring that the congregation there committed mass suicide and that “The government didn’t do this – they did!” forms enough reason to vote against his and Obama’s ticket.
No one attempting to whitewash the incident should be allowed within a mile of the White House.
The release includes audio of an ATF agent calling the local police to sic then on someone who still believes the ATF should be held accountable for their murderous raid on MT Carmel.
Additionally, the Commander reviewed some video of Joe Biden speaking on Waco during the Congressional hearings regarding the raid. His attempt to cover the government’s tracks, declaring that the congregation there committed mass suicide and that “The government didn’t do this – they did!” forms enough reason to vote against his and Obama’s ticket.
No one attempting to whitewash the incident should be allowed within a mile of the White House.
Dear Leader
Even though he waxes Maoist in his rhetoric lately concerning the bailout – he wants, after all, to eradicate the free-market philosophy (and how pray tell, does one do so? Burn books? Persecute believers? Jail proponents? Sounds like…. Mao!) What it is, exactly, that he has actually done to be qualified, besides hang out with known terrorists, slum lords, racists and liars, to earn his vaunted “presidential credentials”.
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13.Your Record of baptism — Not released or ‘not available’
14. Your Illinois State Senate records — ‘not available’
Tell me again why he thinks ANYONE should vote for him?
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13.Your Record of baptism — Not released or ‘not available’
14. Your Illinois State Senate records — ‘not available’
Tell me again why he thinks ANYONE should vote for him?
Lies and Liars
"When two opposing sides of an argument are presented, one by an honest man and the other by a liar, the liar usually wins, simply because he is not inhibited by the truth."
The Guru
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