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 The Obama administration and its actions are breathtaking, and not in a good way. I find myself wondering from whence these people came. They cannot be true Americans because they could not pass the easiest civics test. Might they be aliens from another solar system? Might they even be radioactive? They certainly have brought a deadly form of something to America!
The man at the top shows neither understanding nor respect for the background, meaning, and intent of the U.S. Constitution. In addition to a total lack of common sense, the administration gives appearance of being positively obtuse. Terms like “checks & balances” appear incomprehensible to them as well “government by the people,” while the specific role and duties of the Executive branch of our Republic speed over their heads. I can often be heard yelling at the TV, “These people do not even know whether they are afoot or horseback!”
How could this administration and its supporters develop such a grab bag of flip-flop, badly-focused, illogical, unintelligent, anti-American, wrong-headed, kill-the-Constitution policies?
The answer to “How could they….?” is “The Appeal’s Arsenal of Facts 1914,” written by Fred D. Warren, published January 1, 1914 by Appeal to Reason, and addressed to “Brother Agitator.” This small 192 page book, details the procedures for converting America into a new Evil Empire. This socialist workers handbook explains more than most Americans even want to know. However, we must equip ourselves to recognize our enemies. The government has now, more than ever before, become the adversary of the people, and Obama’s plan is to “fundamentally transform America.”
Obama’s transformational plans come right out of the “Working Program of the Socialist Party,” Adopted at Indianapolis, May 17, 1912. Read them and weep:
1. Collective ownership of all transportation, communication, and all large scale industries. (Bailout and control of the automotive industry anyone?)
2. Immediate acquirement by municipalities, states, and federal government of all grain elevators, stock yards, and storage warehouses.
3. Extension to public domain of all mines, quarries, oil wells, forests, and water power.
4. Further conservation and development of natural resources to include: scientific forestation, reclamation of arid and swamp tracts, storage of flood waters and the utilization of water power (Think Hoover Dam, as one example), stoppage of waste of soil and the products of mines and oil wells, development of waterway and highway systems. (Interstate Highway System)
5. Collective ownership of land. (The Department of Natural Resources sends buyers to Michigan farm and land sales. With the FED’s printing press behind them, the DNR out bids all others.)
6. Collective ownership of the banking and currency system. (The FED, financial bailouts, AIG)
The socialist plan also includes “the conservation of human resources, particularly of the lives and well-being of the workers and their families”:
1) Shorten the workday, 2) Secure for every worker a rest period of not less than 1 ½ days per week, 3) Secure more effective inspections of workshops, factories, and mines. (Think MSHA and OSHA), 4) Forbid employment of children under 16 years of age. 5) Co-operative organization of industries in penitentiaries, 6) Forbid the interstate transportation of the products of child labor, of convict labor, and of all uninspected factories and mines, 7) Abolishment of the profit system in government work and award contracts to cooperative groups of workers. 8) Establish minimum wage scales, 9) Abolish official charity and substitute a non-contributory system of old age pensions, and create a government insurance plan to protect members against unemployment, invalidism, industrial disease and death.
Now let us contemplate the demands — the other side of the same coin — of the Socialist Party:
1. Absolute freedom of the press, speech, and assemblage.
2. Adoption of a graduated income tax; extension of inheritance taxes; to be employed in the socialization of industry.
3. Abolition of the monopoly ownership of patents and the substitution of collective ownership.
4. Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women.
5. Adoption of proportional representation, both nationally and locally.
6. Abolition of the senate and the veto power of the president. (I guess the Obama camp forgot to read this one.)
7. Election of the president and vice president by the direct vote of the people.
8. Abolition of the Supreme Court’s right to overrule anything enacted by congress.
9. The abolition of the present restrictions upon the amendment of the constitution, so that the instrument may be made amendable by a majority of voters in a majority of states.
10. Granting of the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia.
11. Extension of democratic government to all United States territory.
12. Enactment of further measures for general education. The bureau of education to be made a department.
13. Enactment of further measures for the conservation of health. The creation of an independent bureau of health with such restrictions as will secure full liberty for all schools of practice. (Liberty for abortionists!)
14. Separation of bureau of labor from the department of commerce and labor and its elevation to the rank of a department.
15. Abolition of all federal district courts and the US Circuit Court of Apples. State courts to have jurisdiction. The election of all judges for short term.
16. Immediate curbing of the power of the courts to issue injunctions.
17. Free administration of justice.
18. “The calling of a convention for the revision of the constitution of the United States.” (Fundamentally Transforming America)
Beware, Americans! Think carefully about the socialists’ plans, both those already in force and those that Obama is forcing, as well as these quotations from columnist Joseph Sobran that lend important perspective:
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
It is good that the attempted government takeover of healthcare has broken millions of Americans out of their decades long slumber. But to preserve liberty in the face of the socialist programs supported by the current administration and its supporters, will require continous and ongoing vigilance from all Americans, for there is much at stake.
Linda Schrock Taylor is a reading specialist and former public school teacher. She teaches English composition at a state university.
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