Posted by
John Caile on Friday, October 31, 2008 10:25:28 AM
Should Obama be the first unapologetic socialist to indeed become President, we already have a window into the fascist tactics that will be used to manage the news and suppress dissent of any kind. Several recent incidents illustrate this.
By now everyone knows about "Joe the Plumber" and how, after daring to ask a perfectly legitimate question of Barak Obama, had his life subjected to the journalistic equivalent of a colonoscopy.
But it didn't end there. It has now been revealed that a Democrat public official (who coincidentally also just happened to donate the maximum allowed to Obama's campaign) used her official capacity to initiate an investigation into every minute detail of Joe's life, including child support payment records.
The fact that this woman is unlikely to suffer any recriminations (the Governor to whom she ultimately reports is also a Democrat hack) only adds to the emerging image of a method of governance that can only be described as totalitarian.
Then there was the Joe Biden interview, in which (for once) a journalist actually broached the subject of Obama's ever more socialist leanings. Quoting from Karl Marx's famous statement "from each according to his ability - to each according to his need" she quite reasonably asked Senator Biden if this didn't mirror Obama's numerous "spread the wealth" statements.
Not only did Biden refuse to answer the question, attempting to dismiss it as "a joke" - minutes after the interview he and his staff went on the warpath, declaring the station that employed the woman as "persona non grata" for the remainder of the campaign.
And the bands of "Obama Youth" are little different. Not only are they typically foul-mouthed and rude, they've taken to stealing McCain yard signs, vandalizing cars with McCain bumper stickers, damaging Republican campaign offices, and otherwise behaving not unlike the Hitler youth or Mussolini's Black Shirt militia.
What is most ironic about the ever more bellicose tone expressed by the Left (they threaten riots in the streets if Obama loses) is that these are the same people who have spent years wailing and wringing their hands over the "oppression" of the Patriot Act. Yet none of the "violations" of civil rights they claim has ever materialized (other than the urban myths that permeate the left-wing blogs and websites).
So the question remains:
Will the hostility of the Left become even more violent if Obama wins?
...or if he loses?