Well, I think so, but perhaps I should explain the question. Glenn Beck is a TV presenter for the Fox News Service. His style is melodramatic - he would make a very good stage actor, I suspect - and politically he is a 'Right-winger'. I place inverted commas round that word because it is a shorthand description which bears amplification. He is (rather like me) a modern equivalent of a 19th century Liberal in that he believes in small government, sound money, liberty of the individual within the law and is wary of foreign entanglements. In the American style he is a patriot by which I mean he is unembarrassed to say it out loud. During this week, on his daily programme, he has been attempting to lay a case that is perilously close to accusing the Obama regime of treason. The very nature and scope and seriousness of that charge makes it worth examining, indeed, the fact that he makes it on a major TV network indicates the truth of one of his contentions, that is, that the normal bish-bash, huff 'n' puff of Republican versus Democrat that is the very stuff of congressional politics in a democracy is over, or to be exact, is very close to being over. There is no more serious crime than treason.
The main thrust of his argument is the fact, which he demonstrates over and over and over again, that the Democrat party has been infiltrated by extreme Left-wing elements, including self-avowed communists, in much the same way that the Labour party of the 1980s very nearly succumbed to infiltration by anti-democratic forces and was only saved in the nick of time by mass expulsions. That did not matter so much in Britain because Labour was not in power, but in the USA, a new president has swept into government with the added re-enforcement of majorities in both Houses. If Beck's thesis is right, then we are in very serious trouble, and I say 'we' because what happens 'over there' matters enormously 'over here'. The very thought of a totalitarian America with a foreign policy friendly only to the dictatorships of the world is the very stuff of nightmares. (As a very small indication of the way the wind is blowing in Washington, witness the re-action of Obama's government to the absolutely legal and proper decision of the Honduran Supreme Court to order their army to expel their president who was seeking, Chavez-style, to subvert the constitution and illegally extend his time in office. Washington has already exerted pressure against Honduras!)
Beck mounts his case by taking a detailed look at some of the so-called 'czars', what we would call, after clearing our throats and spitting, SpAds - Special Advisors. I will not rehearse everything he laid out but you could do no better than check the history of Mr. Van Jones, who was arrested some years ago and from his jail-time experience said this:
"I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of... I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary...I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist."
When he came out he helped form a radical organisation called STORM (Standing Together to Form a Revolutionary Movement). His entire history is one of radical, revolutionary fervour on behalf of extreme communist-front organisations. This is the man Obama has chosen for a key job with access to zillions of federal funds. Read more here. It's not too surprising that Obama favoured him because the President, himself, admitted in his book, Dreams from my Father, that his youthful mentor was someone called 'Frank'. Only much later did it transpire that 'Frank' was
Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. We confirmed that identification with a separate source and ran with the story last year, even obtaining the 600-page FBI file on Davis. It also came out that Davis was a sex pervert, doper, and pornographer. The Obama campaign eventually confirmed Frank's identity but tried to play down his relationship with Obama. [Quote from here] [However, read the comments thread below for a rebuttal by his son of the influence Davis had with Obama.]
Van Jones is merely the tip of a huge iceberg, and as that metaphor suggests, there is an enormous amount of 'red ice' hidden beneath the waves. The most sinister, perhaps, is the mass organisation known as 'ACORN' (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) which purports to be a community association whose aim is to register voters. However, this is its record:
- Was implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during recent election cycles
- Pressured banks to lend money to underqualified minority borrowers
- Maintains close ties to organized labor
- Opposes capitalism
- Calls for more government control over citizens and the economy
- Favors a government monopoly in healthcare
- Advocates an open-door immigration policy.
With nearly half a million members in 110 US cities this has all the characteristics of a potentially militant and subversive organisation. Also, following Rahm Emanuel's seizure of the Census Bureau, so that it now runs directly under his control, the job of 'estimating' populations in any given area has been passed to ACORN and their assessment will decide on political boundaries in the various districts which willbe duly altered to the advantage of the Dems. But ACORN is not alone. By its side stands AmeriCorps with a federal budget of $500 million plus, which pays 'volunteers' to do various 'good works' virtually all of which are ideas proposed by the Democrat party. These people are anything but 'volunteers', they are paid and they owe their allegiance to the Dems. There is film of Obama making a speech in which he said that the military was not enough, and that a civilian national security service was required. Step forward AmeriCorps!
During the election campaign I made a mistake - again! I assumed that Obama was a straightforward soft 'Leftie' who would use the community power of the extremists and then smack them down when he was elected. I was wrong. He is building them up, funding them with federal money, encouraging his activists to get them organised and get them ready . . . but ready for what, exactly? Like Beck, I do not know, but the classic revolutionary ploy (see Russia, Germany, passim) is to manufacture a crisis, usually a security crisis involving a major attack on the organs of the state, in general, and/or the leader of the state, in particular. At that point, with panic in the air, excuses can be made for anti-freedom legislation and the mobilsation of forces friendly to the regime. You may think this exaggerated and absurd but I will tell you now that there are people in high positions in the Obama regime who have spent their entire lives steeped in militant, radical activities. They have read every essay, every pamphlet, every book, on the subject of how to spring a revolutionary situation so as to aid their purposes. Whether or not they will act, I do not know.
Time is of the essence. Next November there will be Congressional elections and I suspect, I hope, I pray, that the American people, having been alerted by the efforts of people like Glenn Beck, will take to the polling booths in such numbers that they turf the rascals out and the Dems no longer control the Congress. The way the Town Hall meetings are going, and the way in which the opinion polls are following them, I think there is a good chance it will happen, but if I think that, then so too will the extremists who surround Obama. If they are going to act, they have the next 12 months to do it. Watch this space!
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