More than a few people are concerned ...

A piece wrongly attributed to Pam Geller because it appeared on her blog Atlas Shrugged on November 13, 2008 warns of the signs of Tyranny Rising in a well written summary which you can read if you like by going to the blog. SEE HERE

I share the person who wrote that's concern. When you see what appear to be an orchestrated sequence of extreme activities, surrounded by the shrill cries of "crisis", "emergency" and bills being jammed through, thousands of pages long, without being read that spend trillions (not billions, trillions) of dollars, you have to feel like you've just entered a mad house. The whole U.S. economy only produces 14.2 trillion in a year. But we're throwing a large fraction of that around like it's swiss cheese.

Do we get accountability? No, instead we're fed more empty rhetoric. This is not governance it is a mad cap race like that in Alice in Wonderland. What is disturbing is how reminiscent so much of it is to Hitler's rise to power. That's what bothered TPS and I've seen a number of others point out the similarities. If you're an older person and remember some of what was going on in those times, it is particularly distressing.

Here's the video of Obama's call for an internal federal security force. The piece Pat Geller cited included this reference to Hitler:

... the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises.

And another thing he did was use the Gestapo, the internal police force, to promulgate his tyranny.



What we don't need is government by crisis and trumpted up emergency. We don't need to beggar the country by spending so far beyond our means that we destabilize the economy. We don't need to be lectured by a president who is now experiencing his first opportunity to run something bigger than a neighberhood organization. A talent for talking doesn't necessarily translate into a talent for governing. When you look at who he's surrounded himself with it is not particularly encouraging. I think it is prudent to be concerned. It is also prudent to find some way to reel in the more extreme elements of his programs.