The Irresponsible Out-of-Control Presidency - 1 of 2

THE IRRESPONSIBLE OUT-OF-CONTROL PRESIDENCY – 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Why would the respected writer Thomas Sowell have written this foreboding article? Does he perceive things that we don’t yet see? Do you believe that President Obama’s Czars think and operate within the framework of our Constitution? From the Investors.com and posted 06-13 PM ET we have:

Is U.S. Now on Slippery Slope to Tyranny?

“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 attention to politics.

“Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hilter’s rhetoric and 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 to the fundamental structure of his nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies.

“Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that the president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it with to whomsoever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.

“And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to be provided by BPs 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 institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion – or $50 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 it is a distinction without a difference… to be continued

George H. Kubeck
P.S. American Catholic writers should step up to the plate research and write about the German Catholic-in-name-only politicians voting with the National Socialist movement in Germany in the 1930s. In America we have the CINOP working with the Obama Socialist movement. Think of Pelosi, Sanchez, DeLauro, Markey, Kucinich, Kennedy P., Rangel, Dodd, Durbin, Leahy, Kerry, Mikulski, etc.