"Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.” Saddam Hussein, Dictator, Iraq
June 5, 2013
By: Linda Case Gibbons
The only thing more frightening than the IRS targeting ordinary citizens is the sight of IRS civil service employees line dancing during a government "leadership” getaway on our dime.
Remember this carefree and out of shape bunch is the one that will be monitoring every single facet of our lives while enforcing Obamacare. And that, my friends, really is frightening because from what I’ve seen, these bozos are not very good "dancers.”Unfortunately the scandals are coming so hot and heavy these days that we ordinary citizens are going to have to dance faster than we ever have.
Our phone records are being monitored, our beliefs are under scrutiny based on what group we choose to join, the phone records of news gathering organizations are being seized, reporters are being targeted as criminals, not because of what they are reporting, but because they work for a politically incorrect media outlet, and if you know the word "Benghazi” at all, it’s not because you read anything about it in the mainstream media.
But "they” say all of this is done in the name of greater national security. Who can argue with that? They figure nobody can and that’s what they count on.
So despite being knee-deep in festering scandals, Obama and his band of merry men continue to have virtually no response to any of it. Instead they formulate what their next public positions will be by sticking their noses deeper into the muck so they can root around and come up with a legal reason why they lied.
Is it any wonder then when discussing Obamagate Scandals, the consensus is that Obama and his people, from the attorney general down through IRS officials to the secretary of state and the ambassador to the United Nations are either (a) liars or (b) woefully incompetent?
Are they embarrassed about it? Nope. Are they scared? Nope. They don’t have to be because they hold all the cards.
They have a mainstream media so sickeningly entrenched with this administration that they refuse to address any of it. Any of it.
And they have a rogue president whose operative premise is "the rule of law and the Constitution be damned.” He does whatever he wants, doesn’t do what he doesn’t want to do and his minions follow suit. Why wouldn’t they? The rewards are great.
It’s a plan. Obama is "flipping the bird” to all of us, showing remarkable hand and finger dexterity these days toward anyone who isn’t "on his side.”
He is intentionally disrespectful in every question he and his people won’t answer, in every political appointment he makes, every time he prefers one group over another and when he apologizes for America’s shortcomings.
The result is we face an uphill battle as a country to salvage the constitutional rights which Obama and those in his administration are carefully and methodically dismantling.
They pillage and burn by sneaking around whatever laws or branches of the government they can. And when their deeds become public, they clam up and say nothing.
Kathleen Sebelius defended hitting up the organizations she regulates as Secretary of Health and Human Services to the suggested tune of seven figures as being permissible, insisting that no statutory language prevented her from doing so.
Appearing before a Congressional Committee, she never batted an eyelash after she had shamelessly begged for money to implement Obamacare and shamelessly circumvented Congress.
Eric Holder judge-shopped to three different federal judges until he found one who would grant his request for a warrant to access Fox reporter James Rosen’s e-mails and phone logs.
He finally got the warrant by stating in his papers that Rosen was a co-conspirator in a national security leaks case, that Rosen was engaged in a conspiracy to commit espionage. A reporter! And we know it was for doing a job for a network Obama didn’t like.
Holder testified before a Congressional Committee under oath that he never knew anything about the targeting of reporters. It was later revealed that as attorney general, Holder had personally signed off on the decision to investigate Rosen.
Was he chagrined? Will he resign? Uh-uh. Today the smooth-talking attorney dug down into his bag of tricks and came up with an excuse, rife with bad vocabulary.
"I’m a little concerned that things have gotten a little out of whack. I think we can do a better job than we have. We can reform those regulations, reform those guidelines to better reflect that balance.”
The "regulations” are his behavior. How do you regulate unethical behavior?
Is this "misleading” or is it "lying?” And if it’s lying and you do it under oath, isn’t it perjury? We wouldn’t lie under oath because we respect the law. How come the "top cop” does?
But don’t even bother asking. None of the rules apply to Obama’s crew, though it does make you wonder: What do you have to do to get rid of these people?
Obama’s answer: Recycle them into different departments and up the ladder, and when there is poor job performance, reward them with promotions and awards.
With the help of a media always at his beck and call, he is allowed to passive-aggressively push his agenda, moving his chess pieces where he wants them to go in his administration, creating a banana republic right here in America.
Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice gets moved to National Security Advisor with Obama lauding her as "the consummate public servant – a patriot who puts her country first;”
Then Samantha Power is slipped into the U.N. Ambassador slot;
Clinton is out and so is any future testimony from her on Benghazi;
IRS’ Lerner is put on paid vacation;
Sarah Hall Ingram who ran the IRS tax-exempt organizations division badly, gets promoted to head the Obamacare office of the IRS;
And outgoing EPA chief Lisa Brown gets a $40,000 portrait of herself in the EPA after spending most of her term breaking the law and using the secret e-mail account name "Richard Windsor.”
So ask yourself is of all this "coincidental,” meaning, "a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance?”
Is it a "coincidence” that all of the groups being persecuted these days, the ones being targeted are the groups that most annoy the president? Nah, I don’t think so. It’s a plan and it is changing the face of America. Tyranny always does.
So on this anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, sixty-nine years after Allied Troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, after those brave soldiers risked or gave their lives to liberate German-occupied Western Europe and to keep our country free, it is troubling to see the caliber of the people we have in leadership positions in America today.
Do any of the "leaders” whose words we have listened to during Congressional hearings measure up to the veterans of D-Day? Do any of these "leaders” know America’s history? It doesn’t seem they do.
But President Reagan did and said so in a 1984 D-Day speech to D-Day veterans in France.
"Forty summers have passed since the battle you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.
"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge – and pray God we have not lost it – that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.
"You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.
"The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought – or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.”
Hold the line, America.