If
there is one country in the world that you would not want to live in,
it would be North Korea. Unfortunately, the United States of America is
becoming more like North Korea with each passing day. North Korea is a
totalitarian police state hellhole where the state rules supreme, the
“leader” is lavishly worshipped, no dissent is tolerated, and the
government micromanages everything. America is supposed to be the
opposite of that, but now Barack Obama is implementing his version of
“change” and he has promised to engage in the “
remaking” of this nation and to transform it “
brick by brick“.
A tremendous “cult of personality” has been built up around Obama, and
under his leadership the U.S. government has become larger and more
repressive than ever before. But do we really want to “change” America
so that it more closely resembles totalitarian regimes such as North
Korea, communist China, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany? After all,
all of those regimes have a nightmarish history of brutality and death.
Even today, there are starving North Koreans that are
eating their own children. Is that really where we want to end up as a nation?
The truth is that we desperately need to take America in the opposite
direction of where Barack Obama is trying to take us. We need a much
smaller federal government, a much greater emphasis on freedom and
liberty, a return to true free market capitalism, and politicians that
are willing to take a low profile and that are actually there to serve
the American people.
But what we need and what we are getting are two very different things.
The following are 22 signs that Barack Obama is transforming America into a larger version of North Korea…
#1 Obama has appointed numerous socialists and
communists to important positions in his administration. The following
are just a few examples that were highlighted in a recent article
by John Perazzo…
- Obama named Van Jones,
a longtime revolutionary communist who famously declared that “we [are]
gonna change the whole [economic] system,” as his “green jobs czar” in
2009;
- he appointed Carol Browner, a former “commissioner” of the Socialist International, as his “environment czar”;
- he appointed John Holdren,
who not only views capitalism as a system that is inherently
destructive of the environment, but strongly favors the redistribution
of wealth, both within the U.S. and across international borders, as his
“science czar”;
- he named Hilda Solis, a former officer of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (the socialist wing of the House of Representatives), as his labor secretary;
- and he chose Anita Dunn,
a woman who has cited Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political
philosophers,” to serve as White House communications director.
#2 As Paul Roderick Gregory demonstrated in an
outstanding article
for Forbes, Barack Obama’s economic agenda matches the November 2011
Declaration of Principles of the Party of European Socialists almost
point for point.
#3 If a totalitarian regime is going to be
successful, it needs a massive government bureaucracy to run things.
Today, the number of employees of the federal government is roughly
equivalent to
the entire population of the United States in 1776.
#4 In North Korea, dissent is brutally repressed.
In the United States, we have continued to move rapidly in that
direction under Barack Obama. In a recent article entitled “
Obama’s War On Whistleblowers“, author Stephen Lendman wrote the following…
He said one thing. He did another. As president, he
usurped diktat powers. He wages war on truth. He targets whistleblowers.
He prioritizes surveillance powers.
They include warrantless wiretapping, accessing personal records,
monitoring financial transactions, and tracking emails, Internet and
cell phone use. It’s done lawlessly to gather secret evidence for
prosecutions.
In his book “Necessary Secrets,” Gabriel Schoenfeld said he “presided
over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history – even more
so than Nixon.”
Rhetorically he supports civil liberties and transparency. “Such acts
of courage and patriotism….should be encouraged rather than stifled,”
he said.
At the same time, he betrayed the public trust. He targets free
expression and dissent. He pursues police state prosecutions and
intimidation.
He claims Justice Department immunity from illegal spying suits. He exceeds the worst of all previous administrations.
His national security state targets activists, political dissidents,
anti-war protestors, Muslims, Latino immigrants, lawyers who defend
them, whistleblowers, and investigative journalists.
Law Professor Jack Balkin expressed alarm, saying:
“We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimation of a
national surveillance state.” Obama exceeded the worst of George Bush.
#5 Under Obama, the United States has been
developing “Big Brother” surveillance technologies that dictators of the
past never even dreamed were possible. For example, a very highly
sophisticated surveillance grid known as “
Trapwire”
is being installed in major cities and at “high value targets” all over
the country. Sadly, the mainstream media has not covered this at all,
and most Americans still do not even realize that it exists.
#6 Under Obama, unmanned aerial vehicles are not just used for war anymore. Police departments are now starting to deploy
surveillance drones
in the skies over their cities all over the nation. In fact, this is
something that the federal government is greatly encouraging.
#7 It was the Obama administration that came up with the “
See Something, Say Something” campaign. Now the federal government has even created
an iPhone app that is designed to encourage all of us to take photos of “suspicious activity” and report our neighbors to the authorities.
#8 It was the Obama administration that first
instituted “enhanced pat-downs” by TSA thugs at our airports. As a
result, countless numbers of men, women and children have had horrific
experiences that they will remember for the rest of their lives. You
can read some of their horror stories
right here.
#9 The U.S. military now has the authority to arrest American citizens
and hold them indefinitely without trial. The Obama administration has no problem with this horrible abuse of power.
#10 A key Obama ally in the U.S House of Representatives, Congressman José Serrano of New York,
has introduced a measure
that would repeal the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution so that
Barack Obama can continue to run for additional terms as president after
his second term ends.
#11 The “cult of personality” that has built up
around Barack Obama is getting quite ridiculous. Shortly after he won
the recent election, actor Jamie Foxx referred to Barack Obama as “
our Lord and Savior Barack Obama”
during a television broadcast of the 2012 Soul Train Awards in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Such “leader worship” would fit in very well in North
Korea.
#12 Since Obama won in November, there has been an
increasing number of incidences in which Obama has been referred to in
religious terms. For example, a recent Newsweek article referred to
Barack Obama’s second term as “
The Second Coming“.
#13 A painting
by artist Michael D’Antuono
that is now on display at Boston’s Bunker Hill Community College Art
Gallery recently made headlines all over the United States. In the
painting, Barack Obama is wearing a crown of thorns on his head and his
arms are stretched out as if he was being crucified. In the background
of the painting is the presidential seal…
#14 Relentless praise from the mainstream media
played a huge role
in each of Obama’s election victories. The mainstream media is
supposed to be objective, but there have been reports of members of the
media “
swooning”
in his presence, and most mainstream news broadcasts leave little doubt
that Obama is the “good guy” and anyone opposed to him is the “bad
guy”.
#15 The Obama organization has tirelessly gathered
data on potential voters. At this point, the amount of information that
the Obama campaign has compiled on the American people is
absolutely frightening…
If you voted this election season, President Obama
almost certainly has a file on you. His vast campaign database includes
information on voters’ magazine subscriptions, car registrations,
housing values and hunting licenses, along with scores estimating how
likely they were to cast ballots for his reelection.
#16 The Communist Party USA is
cheering on
Barack Obama’s efforts to disarm the American people. According to one
of their official publications, “the ability to live free from the fear
or threat of gun violence is a fundamental democratic right — one that
far supercedes any so-called personal gun rights allegedly contained in
the Second Amendment.”
#17 Under Obama, the federal government is intruding in our personal lives like never before. The following example is from a
recent RT article…
Smokers, beware: tobacco penalties under President
Obama’s Affordable Care Act could subject millions of smokers to fees
costing thousands of dollars, making healthcare more expensive for them
than Americans with other unhealthy habits.
The Affordable Care Act, which critics have also called “Obamacare”,
could subject smokers to premiums that are 50 percent higher than usual,
starting next Jan 1. Health insurers will be allowed to charge smokers
penalties that overweight Americans or those with other health
conditions would not be subjected to.
A 60-year-old smoker could pay penalties as high as $5,100, in
addition to the premiums, the Associated Press reports. A 55-year-old
smoker’s penalty could reach $4,250. The older a smoker is, the higher
the penalty will be.
#18 Just as in North Korea, our lives are being
increasingly micromanaged by a government that is packed with control
freaks. At this point they even are telling us what kind of
light bulbs we are allowed to buy.
#19 Federal agencies have become increasingly brutal
under Obama. For example, if you milk your cow and sell some of that
milk to your neighbor next door, you could end up having your home
raided
by federal agents.
#20 Obama has gone to great lengths to demonize his
opposition. Since he has been president, numerous government papers,
studies and reports have been released that identify groups of people
that are opposed to Obama as “potential terrorists”. Some of the groups
targeted as “potential terrorists” include those that “revere
individual liberty”, “conspiracy theorists”, “returning veterans”,
anti-abortion activists, those that visit “extremist websites”, those
that are “fiercely nationalistic”, those that “believe in the right to
bear arms”, anyone that is opposed to illegal immigration, anyone that
is anti-UN, and anyone that is “suspicious of centralized federal
authority”. For much more on this, please see
this article.
#21 Obama’s abuse of power is not just limited to
the United States. The truth is that he has increasingly been acting
like some type of imperial ruler that gets to tell everyone else in the
world what they are supposed to do. For example, according to a recent
WND article
Obama has actually promised to give eastern Jerusalem to the
Palestinians even though Israel has already said that they will agree to
no such thing…
Now that he has secured his second term, President Barack
Obama has already secretly pledged to the Palestinians he will press
Israel into a new round of so-called land-for-peace negotiations, a top
Palestinian Authority negotiator told WND.
The negotiator said top members of the Obama administration told the
Palestinians the U.S. president will renew talks aimed at creating a
Palestinian state in the so-called 1967 borders – meaning in the West
Bank, Gaza Strip and, notably, eastern Jerusalem.
#22 Many Obama supporters are becoming enamored with
the idea that we should either start ignoring the Constitution or that
we should get rid of it entirely. For example, Georgetown law professor
Louis Michael Seidman
recently appeared on CBS and said the following to the American people…
“I’ve got a simple idea: Let’s give up on the Constitution. I know, it sounds radical, but it’s really not.”
Hey, if we got rid of the pesky Constitution, we could have a dictatorship just like North Korea does!
Barack Obama could be our king, our lord and our savior for decades!
Of course I am being sarcastic, but this is the kind of dangerous thinking that leads to tyranny.
Let us learn the hard lessons that history has tried to teach us. We
don’t want to go down the same path that North Korea, Nazi Germany, the
Soviet Union, and communist China have traveled.
There is an absolutely amazing National Geographic documentary that
shows what life is like inside North Korea. You can view it on YouTube
right here. We don’t want our children and our grandchildren to someday live in a nation like that.
Freedom and liberty are precious things. They are very hard to win, and they are very easy to lose.
Let us not be the generation that loses everything that our forefathers worked so hard to build.
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