In chapter 6, “Tyranny of Obama’s Corporate Cronies,” I’ll explain to you how Obama has given over his administration to leftist thugs that he’s appointed as czars, bypassing the U.S. Constitution with no oversight or approval from America’s elected officials. The salaries of the czars are not reported to the public and they carry out duties only known to the president himself.
These unvetted lieutenants extend the administration’s illegal control over large segments of the U.S. economy, from automakers (Ed Montgomery, Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers) and oil producers (former Energy Czar Carol Browner) to college retirement funds (former Fannie Mae CEO Herb Allison) and marital relations (Lynn Rosenthal, White House Advisor on Violence Against Women). His Pay Czar, Ken Feinberg, was appointed to dictate what Americans can earn in the financial services industry and, eventually, in all industries.
In chapter 7, “Tyranny of the Egghead Wars,” I’ll take you through how the eggheads in the Obama administration—none of whom has a bit of experience in the real world—have hijacked America’s foreign policy and put it at the mercy of what’s known as the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine, a political philosophy developed by disciples of one of the most dangerous men in the world, George Soros.
This doctrine lies at the foundation of the so-called Arab Spring—which has become the Arab Winter after the ouster of American allies in countries throughout the Middle East and their ongoing replacement with Islamic extremist governments. It’s the realization of the vision of American decline and the rise of dictatorships favored by Soros and his anti-Semitic, anti-American confederates to encircle and destroy the Jewish state of Israel as the first step in eliminating democracies around the world.
In chapter 8, “Tyranny of Treating Our Friends Like Enemies and Our Enemies Like Friends,” I take you on a tour of the world and explain to you how the Obama foreign policy has caused us to abandon the political allies who we’ve stood with since World War II and replace them with enemies of freedom, “allies” who are committed to the downfall of the United States.
The president’s foreign policy has been laughed at and ridiculed by the countries he has sought as our new allies, from Russia to Iran. Obama has encouraged the ouster of longtime American allies in the Middle East who have managed for the past 40 years to maintain a semblance of stability in that region, protecting Israel’s right to exist and promoting U.S. interests in the region. Now Obama turns his back as our new allies Iran and Syria kill their own citizens—who are truly committed to the overthrow of these two governments—while he supports the formation of new Islamist governments in countries that have gotten rid of leaders sympathetic to the United States.
It’s the most perverse, anti-American, anti-Israel policy of any president since the end of World War II, and it’s going to lead to a new caliphate in the Middle East, headed by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Chapter 9, “Tyranny of Green Energy,” talks about another of the most important components of the Obama takeover. After you’ve read this chapter, you’ll understand that Obama cares nothing about the environment or how energy is produced or how much pollution it creates. The sole purpose of his energy policy is to take power out of the hands of the people and transfer it to the U.S. government.
After acting with “determined disregard” (in the words of a federal judge) in summarily shutting down oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico during his inept handling of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Obama administration was found to be in contempt of court when it defied a federal judge’s order to remove his illegal ban. By that time, the number of deepwater rigs in the Gulf had shrunk to eight, from the more than 30 that had been in operation before the spill and before Obama had imposed his drilling moratorium. Tens of thousands of jobs disappeared when those rigs were forced to be abandoned by the destructive adolescent in the White House.
After the House and Senate had declined to pass cap-and-trade legislation, Obama decided to use the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement policies that he himself said were guaranteed to make electricity prices “skyrocket.” In doing so, he moved closer to his goal of taking over the U.S. energy industry by first crippling it, then commandeering it in much the same way he did the auto industry.
He followed this up with the “green energy” scandals. First, there was the $535 million taxpayer-guaranteed loan to political cronies at the failed solar shell corporation Solyndra, followed by a $737 million loan to another phony solar company—this one with direct ties to Solyndra and to Nancy Pelosi—only two weeks after the FBI had raided Solyndra.
Green energy has become a synonym for corrupt cronyism in the Obama administration. It has nothing to do with energy policy and everything to do with shutting down America’s energy production in the name of keeping political donors happy.
Chapter 10, “Tyranny of the Anti-Justice Department,” deals with the person I think is one of the most corrupt ever to occupy the office of Attorney General. Eric Holder effectively legalized limited amnesty for illegal aliens with the stroke of his pen when he signed an executive order designed to placate racist La Raza and other antidemocratic Hispanic pressure groups. He decided unilaterally not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriages as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife,” despite the fact that the law was passed by an 85–14 majority in the Senate and 342–67 in the House. In doing so, he’d taken the right to define marriage away from the Congress and the states, where it belongs, and effectively put it in the hands of Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder is the federal official who described the Black Panthers as “my people” when he got fed up with questions about how he handled a voting rights case involving that radical political group.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is allowed to use powerful and dangerous X-ray scanners to peer through the clothes of passengers. Hundreds of virtually nude scans of young women and famous actors were almost immediately posted on the Internet—the very thing Obama said wouldn’t happen. Not even infants or the elderly were exempt from the invasive scans.
If you didn’t want to be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, you had to let a TSA agent grope you instead. Obama refuses to learn from Israel, which without invasive scans or pat-downs still manages to prevent terrorists from flying. But did you know that Eric Holder’s Justice Department has moved to ban flights out of Texas if that state makes TSA groping illegal?
At the time, I was the only one who explained to you what this move was really about: It represents one more way Obama is softening up the American people, getting them used to having their individual rights violated and their freedoms taken away. We now passively accept the TSA’s often perverse intrusions into our most personal space, and the Justice Department’s threats if groping is banned.
These are not minor bureaucratic moves, but dangerous, large-scale takeovers that violate the Constitution and the rule of law.
In chapter 11, “Crushing Obama’s Cadre Before They Crush Us,” I’ll give you a summary of the Obama administration’s inexorable progress toward turning this country into a dictatorship not unlike that Hitler managed to put in place in Nazi Germany. The parallels are so disturbing that they call to mind the words of Milton Mayer, who wrote about how Hitler’s takeover of Germany was accomplished over time, much as Obama’s takeover of the U.S. has been.
Obama’s Tyranny Brings Loss of Freedom
The president is staging nothing less than an assault on our freedoms, including the freedom to worship as we choose. His focus is on undermining Christianity and Judaism as they become increasingly hostile to the freedom of religion guaranteed in the First Amendment. At the Houston National Cemetery, a graveyard for veterans that is run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, director Arlene Ocasio has banned the use of the words God and Jesus Christ in funeral services, set a limit of 20 minutes for any military funeral, refused to have taps played at the funerals of home
less veterans, and required that all prayers be submitted in advance for government approval. This Janet Napolitano look-alike is a lifetime low-level administrator who managed to work herself up to a position of authority where she could impose her atheist will on our military veterans’ families.
The American people are increasingly making their feelings about this administration known in public opinion polls. In an October 2011 Gallup poll, the president’s disapproval numbers were 52 percent, equal to those of the Russian despot Vladimir Putin. In other words, Americans are as fearful of the tyrannical nature of the Obama administration as they are of that of the Russian tyrant. The news website WorldNetDaily publishes the results of an ongoing “Freedom Index” survey conducted by the polling organization Wenzel Strategies. The poll represents, in the words of company CEO Fritz Wenzel, Americans’ “deeply held public perceptions about their freedoms and the government’s impact on them.” The Freedom Index “dropped off a cliff” as Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress pushed through the government takeover of the health insurance industry. Americans particularly fear the loss of privacy as the government gains control of their medical records and intimate personal details that they reveal only in whispers to their doctors in a quiet exam room with the door firmly closed.
I’m not surprised at all.
I’ve been telling you since before the earliest days of this administration that we’re giving away our freedoms and our rights to this Usurper-in-Chief and that until we take back control from the thieves Obama has appointed to steal them from us, we’re facing an existential challenge to this nation unlike anything we’ve experienced since 1776 or under FDR, who, like Obama, favored big government and strong-arm tactics against ordinary citizens.
Americans are right to worry.
They’re beginning to understand that Obama is a tyrant, out to take everything from them and put it in the hands of the federal government.
Other polls show that Americans are increasingly anxious about losing their economic rights in the Obama years. Seventy-five percent of Americans surveyed favor an amendment to the Constitution forcing the Congress to balance the federal budget every year, according to a May 2011 Wenzel Strategies poll. Americans fear that Washington is spending them into the poorhouse, bankrupting the country and loading down future generations with backbreaking debt for generations to come. Even Democrats agree, with 59 percent responding in the May 2011 telephone survey that the federal government’s value for money is “only fair” or “poor.”
Why are Americans worried about coming under the rule of a tyrant?
Maybe it’s because under Obama we’re seeing things like these: A single 68-year-old man in a nursing home will now be forced to buy a costly insurance plan that covers pregnancy and skateboarding injuries.
Or maybe it’s because the president has further destroyed American culture by spending hundreds of millions of dollars to promote “bilingual education” programs that discourage immigrants from learning English and learning about our country’s unique history and culture.
Or it could be that the world’s largest economy now has the world’s largest debt, and that debt is larger than the total debt of the nine next largest economies in the world combined?
No wonder we’re hearing demands like this one from William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, an organization representing more than 40,000 Americans who want to see tougher enforcement at the border: “By arming drug and human smugglers with assault weapons that have been used to kill American and Mexican citizens and police forces, and by ordering amnesty for illegal aliens, which has been rejected by both Congress and the American public more than eight times, Obama has committed a form of treason against the United States and must be removed from office by Congress.”
Gheen is not alone in calling for impeachment. WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farrah recently wrote: “Never before in the history of the United States has an occupant of the White House displayed less concern for the Constitution and the rule of law than Barack Obama. It’s about time somebody said it: It’s time to impeach Obama.”15 16
Larry Klayman, former Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Judicial Watch, puts it succinctly: “[F]rom what has already occurred, the offenses of the mullah-in-chief are already so compelling as to warrant immediate impeachment and conviction for his high crimes and misdemeanors.”17
The Final Chapter: A Tyrant’s Consolidation of Power
What we’re being subjected to is “consolidation,” a tactic employed by leftists and other fascistic political groups once they gain a foothold in order to bring more and more of the decision-making power normally granted to the states and private enterprise—where those powers should lawfully reside—under the control of the federal government through unchecked regulation and behind-closed-doors policy decisions. In doing this, Obama—classic narcissist that he is—is remaking this country in his own image, turning it into something that reflects the belief system he was brainwashed into accepting by the leftist mentors of his youth.
By usurping the legislative and judiciary functions of our federal government, and by siding with cohort groups like leftist labor unions in wage and benefits disputes, Obama has done what no other president since FDR had even thought of doing: He’s installed himself as Chief Executive, Summary Legislator, and Judge and Jury in every critical decision originally granted to the states and individuals through our representatives by the Constitution.
We’ve got a radically unqualified man in the highest office in the land. But Barack Obama is much more than simply out of his depth: There is no doubt in my mind that he’s consciously involved in one of the most dangerous attempts our nation has faced to rapidly steal our freedoms and replace them with a tyrannical government that controls every element of our lives.
This is why I call it Trickle Down Tyranny. The president is effectively dismissing our constitutional rights and sending us up the road to becoming a third-world dictatorship as he hands down judgments and issues policies diametrically opposed to the beliefs of an overwhelming majority of American citizens and enshrined in the United States Constitution!
It’s my purpose to explore and expose this existential threat to our democracy—to democracies around the world—and to develop the arguments and strategies we need to put into practice in order to take back our country.
I wrote this book because America needs another Paul Revere, a truth teller to wake and warn Americans that their freedom is slipping away. We need a leader who will draft another Declaration of Independence, this one against the tyrant in the White House.
The American people will know such a leader when they see him . . . or her. They’ll rally behind that leader as Americans rallied behind George Washington more than two centuries ago in order to oust a dictatorial king.
This book is a call to action in the night of a suffering country.
If you want more evidence of Obama’s tyranny, you need to read this book. And then tell your friends and neighbors. By each one of us becoming individual Paul Reveres riding through our towns and villages armed with the truth that shall set us free, we will save this country.
Chapter 3
Tyranny of the Government-Media Complex
I am no friend of Rupert Murdoch.
And the dislike is mutual. The media baron, who owns the Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers and television outlets in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia, doesn’t like me. Fox News doesn’t cover my speeches or follow up on the scoops on my radio show. I’m never invited to appear on its cable news network. I could drop dead and Murdoch wouldn’t care. And I don’t owe Fox or Murdoch anything, either.
Like I said, I’m not a friend of Murdoch. And it is not my job to write a legal defense of that strange media mogul. I just call them as I see them, without fear or favor.
Yet, in the interest of “fair and balanced” assessment of the news,
I think it’s time to put certain aspects of the media war into a fresh perspective—one that you haven’t heard anywhere before because no one else dares to tell you the truth like I do—and show you how the media elite and the federal government are conspiring to take away your rights. I am talking about the tyranny of the “Government-Media Complex.”
In his last days in office, President Eisenhower warned the nation about the gathering strength of the “military-industrial complex.” As a career U.S. Army officer and former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, his warning was sincere and powerful.
In March 1998, at the famous Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, I warned the public about the growing power of the Government-Media Complex. As a radio host with an audience of more than 10 million listeners and author of many bestselling books, I know the media inside and out. Like Eisenhower, I know what I am talking about. And I have the guts to say it. In my speech, I demonstrated that the elite media—the television networks, the major newspapers, the big magazines, the radio stations and the wire services—were aligned with the governing class of the country.
The press is supposed to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” but now they are cozy cronies of the government.
They are supposed to be watchdogs, but now they are lapdogs.
They are supposed to be Rottweilers, but now they are Shih-Tzus.
And they carry out their servile duties in two ways: highlighting the stories that the government crowd wants pushed and ignoring the stories that hold the government accountable.
Here’s what I told the Commonwealth Club on March 12, 1998. As you can see, all of it is still accurate today:
It is censorship by default as well. What do I mean by censorship by default? Where the commercial interests of the media moguls are so intertwined with government policy as to create an overly friendly image of government officials and their policies. It may not be as clear as a close conspiracy to bias the news, but it results in the same form of censorship of dissent.
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