It is called fear of having an African American President.
Fear mongering has always been affective during hard economic times. People with axes to grind, racial bias, anti this and that find fertile minds who need something to blame. What is more surprising to me is the overwhelming silence from intelligent people who know better. Where is the push back against the crazies?
It scares the hell out of these good old white boys that the people voted for a black man instead of a senile old white man. The ignorant idiots think that the next thing ya know the African Americans will be takin' over the country and white men will be slaves, youbetcha. They have to protect mens, dontchano?
They're afraid they might get shot?
" The ignorant idiots think that the next thing ya know the African Americans will be takin' over the country and white men will be slaves, youbetcha."
Too late! Hip hop has already ruined their kids. LOL
But on the serious side. I think they are afraid of becoming irrelevant.
Personally, I think it's a sign of too much in-breeding.
posted by Viva1
over 2 years ago
Over the past 10 years, one by one the same measures have been instituted in this country as in Germany in the 30's that turned that country from a free, open society like ours into a totalitarian state.
1. The promulgation of fear as Bush began constantly after 9/ll, 'red alerts,' 'orange alerts' -- a potential bomb in every unattended package or suitcase 'call and report it, it could be a bomb', 'watch your neighbor, he could be a terrorist.'
2. Wholesale spying authorized on all US citizens -- the Patriot Act, expansion of FISA.
3. Flagrantly unconstitutional powers given to agents to intercept people's mail, eavesdrop on their telephone, email and all conversations -- without warrant --
4. Dispensing with habeus corpus, which requires one show reason for holding someone or let them free.
5. Secret courts with secret judges and no one able to know what they are deciding. Orders can be written to conduct surveillance and invade people's personal records, bank account and phone records and it is against the law even for them to find out.
6. The president writing himself 105 letters in which he usurped the powers of other branches of government unto himself.
7. The president able to unilaterally declare anyone a 'terrorist without having to show anyone any reasonable cause and that person to be picked up, held incommunicado -- without even a phone call, much less lawyer.
8. Overseas torture prisons where people could be secretly held and tortured.
9. Trials held without the person having the right to know the evidence or charges against them or even to be present.
10. Creation of a superagency, "Homeland Security" What was Hitler always referring to Germany as? "The Homeland."
11. Istalling Blackwater throughout the United States, a para military made up of force including non US nationals, trained killers, some fro Chile.
12. Calling the 3rd Infantry back fro Iraq 10/08 to be used to "quell civil unrest." Our own soldiers to be used against us under whatever circumstances they are ordered to -- to hell with posse comitatus. In a large survey about 15 years ago published in the Army Times, over 1500 soldiers were asked if ordered to shoot their fellow American citizens, would they? The answer, over 80%, "Yes."
13. There's a bill in congress to compel registration of every hand gun and rifle, firearm in the US with severe penalties for failing to report their transfer or sale. The purpose is to locate every gun and know where it is at all times. So that if and when the time comes to pick them up, it will be possible to confiscate every one and totally disarm the American people. So no militia could ever be formed against the government. We would be defenseless against any tyrant. This is what our forefathers feared could happen -- the reason for the 2nd Amendment. This is how we broke from tyrannical England, by marshalling a militia to fight the then superior British army and win our freedom. Anyone who states that the gun and "militia" was referring to a regular army having the right to bear arms is making the world's most stupid argument. What else would they fight with? Rocks? Bows and arrows? Slingshots?
14. One of the few Democrats, the one who cast the deciding vote against reinstating the broad expansion of FISA against US citizens was Obama. That raised my eyebrows.
15. During his campaign he talked of having a youth corps, reportable only to him, who would report suspicious people in their community. Hitler and his 'brown shirts'.
16. A 'no fly' and 'watch' list for the movements of many ordinary citizens is maintained so that when they show up at airports, they can be quizzed, watched, monitored, "SSSS" on their boarding passes. Among those on the watch list was the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Also Naomi Wolfe whose best seller on the subject of how our country is being shut down, our rights taken away. I posted an interview with her a couple of months ago.
The bottom line is we need to step back and take a hard look at the progression of events, the actual abrogation of our rights and freedoms of the past few years -- no matter who is in the Oval Office. What is happening here is just what happened in the years preceding the total shutdown of Germany into a Nazi state. It is what was done in Italy, in Chile, in every country where the people's governments were turned into authoritarian, totalitarian states.
I don't care about the color of who sits in that chair -- or who votes on the floor of the House or Senate. I judge people by what they DO. We were promised 'change.' But I don't see a rollback of oppressive, constitution-violating laws that were passed during the last administration. GW Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a major supporter of Adolph Hitler up to and through his building of the concentration camps.
We have reason to be concerned. Those who are not are not paying attention.
I was just gonna say that all that stuff happened during Bush's reign & it seemed the fear factor has been so recent. I wonder why nobody spoke up then as it all happened? I wonder what we WERE paying attention to?
"It is called fear of having an African American President"..~~~PhilShayne
I agree 100 %.
People try to dance around it, they try for excuses when it is so obvious it is ridiculous. I, for one, tend not to give the average American citizen too much credit for being of even average intelligence. We are a nation of lemmings and will follow that smooth talker over the edge...as long as that smooth talker is white.
You know, I hate to admit it but I think y'all are right. I thought we had moved past all that. Personally, I am just so happy to have a President that we can be proud of in the world's eye. And, if people want to be so racist, why don't they acknowledge his white side as well? I thought he was perfect for bridging that gap but, dang...wrong again!
