David Karki

The mortgage industry. General Motors and Chrysler. Obamacare. Suing Arizona for enforcing the federal immigration law that he won’t. A $20 billion shakedown of BP. Unilaterally banning deepwater offshore drilling, and when a judge throws it out, trying to forcibly reimpose it.  And last, but certainly most, seriously considering an attempt to shove amnesty for illegal aliens down America’s throat via executive order.

You WILL comply!

It’s been only a mere 17 months, but the rampage Obama has been on, the carnage left in his wake, and the list of victims are unparalleled in American history:  one entire

industry after another seized and taken over, intimidated and extorted, liquidated and centrally controlled. No limit on his power even paid attention to (except to determine how best to get around it), much less respected;  anyone who dares tell him he’s overstepped his authority is just an annoying insect to be waved away, and squashed if he doesn’t go.

The idea that this Chicago street thug ever cared about the oath he took is laughable. His idea of government is more or less a gangland protection racket. Just as gangs demand a store owner pay them for their “protection” and then rob him if he refuses it, Obama gets anyone whom he wants to control in the White House, demands money from or behaviors of them, and makes it clear that failure to comply will be lethal to their future. If they hesitate at all, he’ll sic his union attack dogs on them. Or the trial lawyers. Or the drive-by media. He has no shortage of leftist enforcers willing to do his dirty work.

Congress is no better. The Democratic leadership openly bribed and intimidated members for their Obamacare votes, Speaker Pelosi refused to let the people see what was in the bill until after it passed, and the House nearly declared it “passed” without ever voting on it. Now they’re deliberately not passing a budget just so they can hide all their spending in continuing resolutions no one can see. The obscene arrogance of Pelosi and Reid and their utter contempt for process whenever it threatens in the slightest to prevent them from getting what they want is truly sickening to behold.

Clearly, we have a regime at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue that only cares about getting its way no matter what. They will stop at nothing to obtain it, so convinced are they that the gloriously noble liberal ends justify the tyrannical means. They are every bit as relentlessly single-minded as The Terminator, and simultaneously as completely disconnected from reality as anyone I’ve ever seen in my life.

And let us indulge with caution the idea that big losses in November will mean anything to them. As evidenced by their unconscionable and gutless silence, Republicans can’t be trusted to be much better. Heck, their dereliction when they held the White House and Congress set the stage for Obama and Pelosi to be unleashed in all their fury upon America.  Even now, one ironically has to look to conservative women candidates to find any sets of testicles on the right-hand side of the aisle, so completely cowed and neutered is the GOP leadership.

Moreover, a short-term loss for the sake of long-term power is and probably always has been in the left’s plans. They seize all that they can while they have big majorities; lose office for a couple years but not power, knowing that the GOP will never repeal anything and if somehow they screw up enough nerve to try, Obama’s veto stops it cold; then in 2012 with a Republican Congress to disingenuously blame and run against, they come back and pick up right where they left off.

Of course, the biggest casualty in all of this is the rule of law. Thanks to this regime, it’s hanging by a thread.  It’s what’s supposed to separate America from the type of dictatorial regime that the Obama administration is behaving like and make America a better place to live than the third-world anarchies into which Obama is rapidly turning it. It’s what keeps government in check and makes civilization possible, what allows power to be transferred peacefully from one Congress to another and one presidency to another, rather than allowing despotism to flourish or violent fighting between factions to continue without end.

If we do not arrest this frightening development, those are precisely the two stark choices we will have before us:  accepting Democrat despotism, wherein no rules or limits apply to them and they go around arbitrarily bullying whomever is the target du jour; or, having to respond to the utter lawlessness of this regime with lawlessness of our own, doing whatever it takes to defy and escape their rule, be that getting “off the grid” or even taking up arms in defense of our Declaration right and duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for our future security.

Having already experienced 17 months of the former, I daresay that’s more than enough. Should the coup de grace be administered by Obama forcibly legalizing 20 million illegal aliens via executive order, so that they can be registered to vote Democrat toot-sweet and guarantee that they never lose an “election” again, the last thread of the rule of law will have been cut. This 234-year-old experiment in self-government will have ended in failure, and a de facto dictatorship will have officially begun.

I shudder to think of what would follow, as it’s not like Obama and Pelosi just sprang from nowhere. About 40 percent of the people are mind-numbed enough to support them or are at least sufficiently fiscally dependent on the government gravy train to defend the status quo to the hilt. If it becomes necessary for most of the rest of the governed to withdraw their consent to Obama’s unjust powers (or when said train inevitably derails of its own morbid obesity), I would not expect a quick and peaceful separation, to say the least.

That is why those of us that fall within “the rest of the governed” are “disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” And why this has to be stopped as soon as possible, before it gets any further out of hand than it already has. We understand full well that there can be no middle ground when Obama wields government power like a gun to our heads and what it will mean if we must respond in kind to Obama’s unilateral abrogation of the pact between government and the governed. It’s something that all of us should want to avoid.

How do we do it? By leaving our comfort zone and boldly and courageously speaking the truth. If we cannot find the will to fight with words, weapons aren’t likely to avail us. And where there is light, darkness necessarily retreats and cannot overcome it.

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