Rule of Lawlessness

Rule of Lawlessness
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com. Friday, July 8, 2011

All of the following is not normal in any Presidency. What follows is an article in the “American Spectator”: Rule of Lawlessness in the June 2011 issue by John Fund. He is a senior editor and author of “Stealing Elections” (Encounter Books)

“Is the Age of Obama ushering in an Era of Thuggery by his left-wing supporters? Barack Obama has made clear his admiration of Saul Alinksy, the radical “father” of community organizing. Peter Slevin of the Washington Post wrote in 2005 that “Obama embraced many of Alinsky’s tactics and recently said his years as an organizer gave him the best education of his life.

“Alinksy, who died in 1971 was known for his belief that revolutionaries must stir up the downtrodden to become angry enough at their condition to demand its betterment. In his famous book “Rules for Radicals,” Alinsky acknowledged his debt to Lucifer, “the very first radical,” who “rebelled against the establishment and did so effectively that he at least won his kingdom.”

“When it became the best way to achieve revolution, Alinksy explicitly argued for moral relativism in fighting the establishment. “In war the end justifies almost any means…” It appears the left has decided to throw conscience aside and put the raw exercise of political power first. Consider 2 of 3 separate news stories that developed within the same week in late April:

# 1 “When Attorney General Eric Holder decided to no longer uphold the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, the U.S. House hired the Atlanta-based firm King and Spalding to defend it in court. The law defines marriage as between a man and a woman and says states aren’t obliged to honor gay marriages recognized in other states.

“But within days of being hired the firm dropped the House as a client, claiming the firm had failed in properly “vetting” the issue. Former Bush solicitor general Paul Clement, who had brought to King and Spalding, resigned from the firm in protest. The real reason the case was dropped was the campaign by the “Human Rights Campaign” [A gay-agenda outfit] to “educate” (read: intimidate) the firm’s clients about “King and Spalding’s decision to promote discrimination.” Never mind that like 84 other senators V.P. President Joe Biden had voted for the bill. Or that Bill Clinton signed it. Anyone who now touched the issue was to be branded a bigot. [This is cowardly, shameful thuggery.]

#2 “California Democratic leaders, frustrated by the refusal of Republican state legislators to go along with tax increases to close the state’s $15.4 billion deficit, are threatening to focus budget cuts on the districts those Republicans represents… A spokesman for Bob Dutton, the Senate’s Republican leader, reacted quickly to the bully-boy tactics. “It only means Democrats are unwilling to stand up to public employee unions,” said Jann Taber. They’d rather cut services to Californians than fix bloated public employee pension systems… It is a tactic worthy of a banana republic, which California is in danger of resembling as it refuses t deal with its budget realities in a serious way…

George H. Kubeck