TREASON

Last night we witnessed the American equivalent of what is currently happening on the streets in Tehran. The House passed "historic climate and energy legislation Friday evening that would transform the country’s economy and industrial landscape" (as reported by yahoo). The bill was passed unread by members, which would indicate that it was voted for and against purely for ideological reasons. As Democrats control the every facet of government, there was never any doubt that the legislation would pass by virtue of herd instinct alone.

All this happened while growing international scientific consensus appears to indicate that the ‘man-made global warming’ scare is a hoax (see article by Kimberley A. Strassel entitled, “The Climate Change Climate Change: The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere (6/26’o9). In America, however, we are not allowed to discuss this - along with a whole host of related topics - in open debate. In fact, I have even heard voices suggesting that ‘global warming’ skeptics be subject to criminal penalties similar to penalties imposed by some countries on holocaust deniers. The fact that this bill was passed on a Friday evening without rigorous debate (how is it possible to debate something that no one has read?) is a pretty good indication that its proponents believe that sentiments concerning this particular issue are about to shift.

Why, then, be in such a hurry to ram it through? That's precisely because this bill has nothing to do with ‘global warming’ and everything to do with ideology. For one thing, government needs the money generated by this bill to pay for its proposed Health Care Reform. Major media had pretty much taken a neutral stance, asking only the question, ‘Will Obama prevail?’ What is generally understood to be right-wing talk radio has been screaming against passage, urging listeners to call their representatives, even while acknowledging that the issue has become strictly partisan. Talk radio listeners responded, jamming Washington switchboards in huge numbers. One representative in Oregon was asked if he would vote for the bill. He said, yes. When asked if he had read it, he said, no. Would he still vote in favor of the bill? He said, yes.

What right-wing talk radio listeners did not know was that they were not the only ones calling. Spanish language radio stations have also been exhorting their listeners to call the Capitol Hill and the White House to express their support for the bill. I understand that they were promised that comprehensive Immigration Reform coupled with ‘Universal Health Care’ would be next on the agenda.

No one seriously believes that ‘Universal Health Care Reform’ will substantially improve health care in America. Obama himself admitted during a recent press conference that he would take members of his own family to private doctors should they require it. (Same as sending his own children to elite, private rather than public schools.) What, I ask again, is the reason for the rush in pushing all these bills through Congress (now)?

Simple! Obama’s unspoken agenda is to bankrupt the country and to drive down the dollar. In this way America will never again be in a position to exert its influence on the world stage. Obama sees his messianic mission as one to unite the world under a single authority. To this end he is willing to sacrifice the nation that has elected him to be its leader. By advocating the enslavement of the American people to outside interests, he has effectively broken the oath of his office. In the old world order, there existed a word to describe such behavior. That word (and I have never used it here before; and I do so now only with a heavy heart) is TREASON.

Comparatively speaking, Obama’s vision of his new Utopian world order is nearly as unrealistic as Ahmadinejad’s apocalyptic vision of the emergence of the Mahdi (or the 12th Imam) from the bottom of some well. Reasonable people in both nations have been effectively shut out of the conversation. What has been seen as happening on the streets of Tehran is the result of frustration building in an increasingly disenfranchised electorate. The government’s response was also predictable.

Similarly, as the consequences of Obama’s (and in some ways Bush’s) policies mount, at some point the people can be expected to revolt. And the government can be expected to respond – with everything it has.