VMI77 wrote:I"m a little reluctant to use the term "traitor,"......
Not me. I believe that he is one of the domestic enemies warned against in the oath. He's not just a bad president, like Jimmy Carter was. He is a malevolent person bent on the reduction of the US into a "manageable" entity that will passively accept its loss of sovereignty and passively accept direction from its socialist masters....whomever they turn out to be. I mean, just where does "fundamentally change" cross over into "treason"—when our entire way of living and the rentire relationship between government and governed is irrevocably changed except through violent means? Because that is not that far off from where I think he has pushed us to. If he is reelected, and he follows through on surrendering security to Putin's evil, and abolishes 2nd Amendment protections through executive fiat, etc., etc., then what else IS he exactly, but a traitor? And when his treason is complete, what recourse will we HAVE except either violent resistance, or complete submission? Nobody in his or her right mind
wants things to come to that. But if it ever
does come to that, it will be because we've been
pushed there by a treasonous president, backed by an acquiescent or abdicative Congress.
Back in late February, member stevie_d_64 posted a thread about a series of Matt Bracken novels called the "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" trilogy. Granted, they are purely fiction....and by the way, they are a riveting read and very well written. I'm picky, and I enjoyed them tremendously. Anyway, the point I'm getting at is that you don't have to be overly paranoid if you're a 2nd Amendment supporter in order to believe that we are probably fewer than 6º of separation from the storyline postulated in the novels, and it is downright scary. These books were published for a specific purpose: as a warning. Here is a link to that thread:
viewtopic.php?f=81&t=52955&start=0. Yes, it is fiction; but it is fiction based on the current political and economic times in which we find ourselves today, and written from the perspective of one who is concerned with the erosions of the Constitution and the loss of our most basic rights. It is about how one side deliberately, and in concerted effort, and with an end goal in mind, progressively diminishes the meaning and the importance of the Constitution to the preservation of individual liberty, and the evil that comes out of that. There isn't anything in those books that, from where we are sitting right now, could not be a reality within 6 months or 6 years from now.
On the day that Obama signed a treasonous healthcare bill into law—a bill that would
fine ME a $225/month
punishment for the "crime" of not having purchased insurance that I cannot afford in the first place—that was the day that I accepted that he does not actually think I have any rights in the matter, or in any
other matter, and that citizens are not really citizens but subjects. Doesn't he understand that if I could afford that fine, I might even be able to afford insurance? That is the day that he crossed over from merely being a bad president whom I disliked, to being my enemy. There is only one thing he can do to recapture his former status in my eyes, and that would be to concede that the whole thing was a huge mistaken debacle, and to rescind it. Then he would return to being merely a bad president. But as long as he believes that he can invoke the authority to create a commercial product and then
force me into the stream of commerce for that product, or punish me by means of a monthly fine for not doing so, then he is the domestic enemy of all Americans who find themselves in the same boat that I'm in. And as long as Congress allows that to remain standing, and SCOTUS refuses to strike it down, then that makes the entire government my enemy. It is not up to me to further surrender my rights as a citizen. It is up to
them to step back from the edge of the abyss toward which they are pushing us. Obama warned the "unelected" justices not to strike down the law, but right
now, that slender 5/4 majority of the Court which seems disposed to strike it down is the ONLY part of the federal government that legitimately represents ME. The rest of them can go to hades.
Ask yourself this question: If, hypothetically, Congress and the Supreme Court unanimously offered Obama the position of King, complete with their own resignations, all to be finalized on the passage of a last congressional act which would surrender all governing powers to the executive and his cabinet.....do you think Obama would decline, or accept the offer? Me? I think he would accept it. That would make him A) unqualified for office
now; and B) a traitor if he were to accept it. Of course, all of this is purely speculation, but it is based on my gut instincts about the man, and on what we already know about his casual disregard for personal liberty, and his demontrated record of preferring big government and small subjects. There is nothing that Obama, and by extension the entire left, desires more than power. They desire it more than human rights. They desire it more than free speech. They desire it more than national security. They desire it more than national sovereignty. They desire it more than a stable and productive economy. They desire it before the sanctity of human life. They desire it more than all things. Why?
BECAUSE THEY VIEW THEMSELVES AS UNIQUELY BENEVOLENT AND TRUSTWORTHY, WANTING ONLY WHAT'S BEST FOR THE REST OF US, and the "noble" ends justifying their means. That is a VERY dangerous self image, and that encapsulates Obama. Anybody who desires power with that kind of messianic lust cannot be trusted with it, because their lust will direct them to treasonous behavior. The ONLY person who can be trusted with that kind of power is the person who doesn't want it, and would refuse to accept it, because he is humble enough in his own heart to know that his imperfect and capable of doing wrong. That does not describe Obama.
Then ask yourself a second question: If Obama began governing as if these things had happened, whether or not they actually did, wouldn't that make him a traitor?
Then ask the last question: IF Obama uses a second term to consolidate his power, what exactly are you prepared to do about it.............if Congress and the Courts are no longer defending the Constitution?
That is why THIS election upcoming, perhaps more so than any election since just before the Civil War, is so absolutely critical. Quoting Obama, elections have consequences. I understand the frustrations that some of you have with the current state of American electoral politics and the often poor choices that conservatives have been faced with lately. I understand the motivation to protest by either not voting, or voting for a candidate who has no prayer of winning. But, protest votes are a luxury better used when the stakes are not so high. I honestly believe that in THIS election, that is not a luxury we can afford, even if the republican choice is less than ideal. This is not because I
love country-club republicans. This is because the alternative could easily descend into armed rebellion, pushed there by the stalinist policies of a second Obama administration.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
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Doesn't President Calderon have enough problems in his country? His countries drug cartel problems, and corruption problems are so bad that he should be so busy fixing them he has no time to focus on U.S. issues. Perhaps if he let his people arm themselves in like fashion those that don't want anything to do with the cartels in his country would be able to fight back when they are attacked. GRRRRRR!!!!!
