Commentator “mysterian” suggested in a previous post about a modern day parallel of the Praetorian Guard and the Roman Emperors Commodus and Pertinax, that perhaps Nero would be a better analog for Obama.
The following speech from Quo Vadis, then, would seem to sum up Obama:
This will not end well…
News of the Week for October 27th, 2013
Aaaaaaggghhh!
Don’t answer the door! Don’t answer the door!
A public school in Colorado handed out assignments to students that collected information about the students’ political beliefs… as well as the beliefs of their parents.
The questions had a subtle bent that painted the “liberal” side in a good light, while casting the “conservative” side in a bad one. This is yet another example of the public schools conditioning children to think “correctly.”
Two examples, can be seen below:
Via Stand Up For The Truth!
A California Court of Appeals has declared that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply to semi-automatic firearms, like an “AK” platform.
The court states in part:
“We construe Heller as standing for the proposition that the right secured by the Second Amendment is ‘not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose’ (Heller, supra, 554 U.S. at p. 626), but is instead the right to possess and carry weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes such as hunting or self-defense . . .”
This ruling has a far greater reach then it first appears. It would grant the California Grant Soviet Legislature to ban both open and concealed carry, while banning virtually all guns. In other words:
“There are a bunch of ‘whatsoevers’ in their ruling and that simply translates to ‘we don’t like it so you don’t get to do it.’
High school educational material from Brown University’s “Choices” program, which included required reading about Mexico, is little more than anti-American propaganda.
“Bookworm,” of Bookworm Room blog, shares with us a selection from his kids homework assignment. Aside from blaming America, and the free market system. for all of Mexico’s problem, it also stoops to refer to the Mexican War as the North American Invasion:
“The territorial losses of the North American Invasion (Mexican-American War) are still a common point of reference in Mexican politics.”
Yet again, we see the indoctrination of kids used to de-legitimize America. This dovetails neatly with the calls for “reconquista” of Aztlán, as outlined in “Plan Espiritual de Aztlán“
They even include a vile cartoonish depiction of a border guard:
An actor on the show Glee, Cory Monteith, overdoes on heroin. We are quite willing to be respectful to his kith and kin, nor do we have a problem with a respectful good-bye from his loved ones or his co-workers.
However, the apotheosis of a drug addict who overdosed as a paragon of humanity is not beyond criticism. When people celebrate someone who “fell in with a bad crowd” and became a smack fiend as an example of a wonderful person, it becomes morally necessary to de-apotheosize that person.
#RememberingCory #Glee pic.twitter.com/Xw4C93p1Sk
— The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) October 11, 2013
From the IRS, which responded to Obama’s channeling of Henry II (“Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest Tea Party?”), to the National Park Service, who have a deliberate strategy of making life difficult for people to win political points over the government shutdown, it is becoming clear that Federal workers have become Obama’s private army, or alternately, his Praetorian guard. And woe to any successor that does not have their favor.
Pictured: The Next Republican President?
The spoils system of day long past was replaced with a “professional” civil-service system that was supposed to eliminate politics from the bureaucracy. It failed.
“Seventy-four years later, the civil-service system has been exposed as a failure – at least in this administration. Instead of an independent workforce of professionals who implement federal regulation in an even-handed and competent manner, we have returned to the era of partisan retribution and politically-motivated malevolence.”
At least with the spoils system, it was possible to replace political minions. Now, however, a politicized bureaucratic class has been able to entrench itself with the very same civil service laws that were meant to prevent the political infestation of the bureaucracy!
Obama will not be President forever, thanks to the 22nd Amendment, but his political allies will continue to exercise power over America, even if a reform-minded Republican were to be elected.
The Progressive Left have been slowly substituting America’s civic heritage with their own delusional ideology, based in large part on Cultural Marxism.
How is this coming to pass?
Author Sarah Hoyt mused recently about the infiltration of society by Marxists presuppositions and worldviews:
“You want to look at the decay of Western civilization? It’s mostly the unexamined absorption of Marxist ideas.”
Hoyt’s full article is worthy of reading in full, but it is not through Classical Marxism that the supplantation of that American essence is taken place, but through the Cultural Marxism, from the Frankfurt school to the modern ethnic/sexual/gender/&c. studies programs and “critical theory”:
“This life-line is the totalitarian state itself–a Marxist Utopia. By offering the panacea of the all-knowing and providing State, the totalitarian regime seeks to supplant all the beliefs of the people with the State and its agenda. Cultural Marxism is the tool they are using.
British police now have greater powers to curtail the civil rights and freedoms of an insidious class of peasant: People who have committed no crime.
All a person has to do to be subject to this is to be “suspect” of “potentially” being a sex offender. The police will be able to apply this “sexual harm prevention order” in an arbitrary and capricious matter on “any person they judge to be a risk.”
The “prevention order” will last for a minimum of five years and may be extended without limit into the future.
If this new power is miss-used, as it will be, the press may not even be able to get away with revealing police abuse of this power.
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