The This Guy Just Ain’t Goin’ Away Rant:  Obama’s Shadow Government

     A shadow government?  Really?  A secret government that actually runs the show behind the scenes without any knowledge, input, or approval from the citizens of the United States of America?  How’s that sound to you?  Just a tad bit paranoid with a huge dose of conspiracy theory thrown in for good measure?  This scenario sounds like it might be a candidate for some low budget, low talent, and thoroughly unimaginative cable television production to be aired at about three o’clock on a Monday morning.  Are there those out there who really, truly, and sincerely believe that something like this is even remotely possible or conceivable?  We’ve all heard, I suppose, of conspiracy theories and theorists.  Some have dealt with government and government cabals.  Some have dealt with dreams to overthrow an existing system and replace it with some form of visionary, mythical utopia.  Still others have dealt with military coups and overthrowing the existing order.  Most of us upon hearing of some kind of evil, nefarious, and Byzantine plot to establish a New World Order take it with the proverbial grain of salt, a mild chuckle, and an amused shake of the head.  We are far too busy with the vagaries and vicissitudes of daily life to spend much time contemplating such concepts as shadow governments, conspiracy theories, or black helicopter sightings.

     And yet, conspiracies have succeeded time and time again throughout history.  Think of any successful political revolution and you have an example of a successful conspiracy.  The revolutionaries in each case began as conspiracy theorists.  You know, they theorized about getting rid of an old system and implementing their own new and improved version.  They set about convincing as many of their countrymen as possible to join the cause and risk life and limb to succeed because failure meant certain death and the death of their vision.  If the revolution succeeded, they were hailed as heroes and seers.  If their cause was crushed by the existing power structure, they would quickly be forgotten.  It’s pretty much always been so.

     Our own American Revolution was born not out of some massive, popular, and spontaneous uprising.  It began with a relatively small but very dedicated group of men who were fed up with aristocratic rule from three thousand miles away.  They worked tirelessly to promote their cause and to convince as many colonists as possible to join them.  They were, in fact, conspirators and actively conspired against a tyrannical form of government that no longer served their needs and interests.  Their Revolution succeeded and names like Washington, Jefferson, Madison, et al are revered to this day.  Had our Revolution failed, no one today would know who they were.  The same can be said of the French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions.  They all began with a relatively small group of conspirators determined to overthrow the existing order and implement their own new and improved version.  Had these revolutions failed, names like Lafayette, Lenin, and Mao would be at best historical footnotes rather than the larger than life figures they have become.

     After successfully freeing ourselves from the English monarchy, not just a few of the former colonists insisted that Washington become America’s first king.  After all, monarchy-absolutism was the only form of government these folks had ever experienced or even heard of.  To them, it was the normal and natural state of affairs and it was assumed that the Old General would readily accede to the wishes of his countrymen.  To their surprise and to his everlasting credit, Washington refused and informed his fellow Americans that we as a nation were through with absolute, monarchical rule.  In our new nation, decision-making would become a bottom up affair rather than one from the top down as had always been the case throughout world history.  Washington, of course, became America’s first president and completed two terms in office.  After his second term, he was asked to run for a third and undoubtedly would have won.  Once again, however, he surprised and probably shocked his fellow Americans by refusing to continue in office.  Instead, he voluntarily relinquished the power of the Presidency and returned to private life.  In his view, citizens had a duty to serve but only for a limited time.  After public service, the office-holder was expected to return to the private sector and get on with his former occupation-avocation-profession.

     Politics was never, ever to become a life-long, permanent sinecure.  No single individual was ever supposed to be that close to so much power for any great length of time.  President Washington, then, set one of the most important precedents in American history:  the two-term presidency.  That concept and tradition held up until the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  That patrician was elected for an unheard of four times and had he not died in office, he would have been our nation’s leader for sixteen consecutive years.  Have you ever heard the term known as the Imperial Presidency?  Some say it dates back to old FDR and his disregard for the tradition established by our first President.  The primary reason for Roosevelt’s breaking with the two-term tradition was that the nation was in deep, deep crisis and needed one man and only one man to save the country first from the Great Depression and then World War ll.  Americans decided to put a Constitutional limit on presidential terms in office as a reaction against FDR’s unprecedented rejection of a long-held and cherished American tradition.  In 1951, Congress passed the 22^nd Amendment to our Constitution which quite simply stated that, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.”  How’s that for both clarity and brevity?  Two terms is it and then you’re outta there!

     And then along came Barack Hussein Obama.  This guy scared the living shit out of me as soon as I began looking into his history and background.  I mean it.  The “Brother” made me nervous even before he was elected.  This self-professed community organizer, this ultra-narcissistic rabble-rouser with an ego at least twice the size of a super nova wanted to become our President and the leader of the free world.  The man famously – or infamously – promised/threatened to transform America into something it was never intended to be.  You see, Obama despises this country as historically founded and presently constituted.  He loathes the United States of America and literally everything he did from his first day in office was designed to bring our nation to its knees and undermine our standing in the world community.  There’s nothing that he did or that he wanted to do that wasn’t intentionally designed to harm the United States and there are no exceptions that can be cited to refute this charge.  Not one.  We can go back as far as his constant Apologize for America Tours every single time he traveled abroad.  We can look at the fact that he purposely, consistently, and constantly undermined our nation’s military and intelligence services.  He is an avid and rabid anti-Capitalist and absolutely abhors the concept of a limited, nonintrusive federal government which is one of our Founding Principles.  He increased the size and power of our behemoth central government at every turn and thereby reduced the level of individual rights and freedoms that America has been so famous for.  I give you as but two examples both Obamacare and Obamacore as well as the unprecedented growth of federal agencies like the EPA as yet another (see The Obamacare Rationing Rant of 4/15/12, The Obamacore Rant of 7/29/13, or The Environmental Protection Agency Rant of 5/28/13).

     It quickly dawned on me that the Socialist-in-Chief was not the least bit interested in governing.  He cared nothing at all for our history, traditions, and institutions that made the United States the greatest nation in the history of nations.  He absolutely despises the very real concept of American Exceptionalism and is convinced that we are no better and are probably far worse than any other national entity that has ever existed on the planet (see the American Exceptionalism Rant of 11/7/11).  He is, in fact, deeply ashamed of America and our past and ardently believes that we do not deserve the power, wealth, and influence that we have garnered over the centuries.  According to him and his ilk, the United States constitutes the worst scourge in planetary history and they can point to absolutely nothing positive about America.  According to them, the United States has no redeeming features whatsoever and we must be made to pay a heavy price for the supposed transgressions we have committed against the people of the world and our own population.  Given this guy’s pedigree and bone fides, I became convinced that he’d be a one-term President.  Surely, the American electorate would never give this anti-American yutz a second term.  It just couldn’t happen.  I guess I’ll never have much of a future in the field of political consultancy.

     The man truly doesn’t want to govern but instead wants to rule and I mean that quite literally.  He wants to assume the role of a dictatorial autocrat who is answerable to absolutely nobody and nothing – especially the American people.  He and his fellow travelers view the people and our magnificent Constitution as nothing but impediments in their quest for total control and unobstructed power.  According to those on the Far Left, you see, we are not capable of running our own lives, let alone the country.  We are not nearly enlightened enough, wise enough, or capable enough to make the weighty and difficult decisions regarding our country’s future.  We must sit quietly by and defer to those who are obviously far more qualified than we are.  We the people are viewed as no more than mere annoyances by our “betters” and we have absolutely no business at all offering any input as to how the country should be governed or run.  We are to keep our mouths shut and obey.  We must never be so presumptuous or so arrogant as to assume we have any ideas or solutions that just might improve the manner in which the nation is governed or the direction in which it is headed.  This is simply not the task for us little people.  We must not worry our tiny, fuzzy brains, our inadequate intellect over such issues.  Instead, we must leave the fate of our nation in the ever so capable hands of those who would tear the country asunder and rip it apart.

 

     I was absolutely convinced that the Dictator Wannabe would find a way to circumvent the 22^nd Amendment as his second term began to wind down.  The Brother-in-Chief would find a way to remain in office.  Somehow, some way he wasn’t going to leave.  After all, he and his Far Left cronies still had more damage to inflict and since he has repeatedly and gleefully stomped all over our Constitution and has treated it no better than a door mat upon which to wipe his muddy boots, circumventing the 22^nd Amendment should not be much of an obstacle for the Saboteur-in-Chief.  How, I wondered, would he accomplish his nefarious goal?  Maybe he’d just refuse to step down.  You know, just barricade himself in the Oval Office and stage some sort of palace coup.  That would be an historical first for us.  Perhaps he’d find a crisis to exploit or maybe even manufacture so he could become the indispensable man without whom the nation could simply not properly function.  Could he perhaps find an excuse to declare marshal law throughout the land thus obliterating the long-held tradition of Posse Comitatus?  I’ve literally had “Day-Mares” about the possibilities here.  I became convinced that he’d find a way to hang on and continue his mission of destroying this country.  Go ahead and call me paranoid with delusional tendencies thrown in there.  Go on, tell me I’m a whacked out conspiracy theorist-nut job who has lost his grip on reality.  I’m just conjuring up impossible-improbable fantasies to compensate for the fact that I’ve got nothing better to do with my time or my life.  Let’s face it.  I was wrong.  All that worrying, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments was for naught.  I can rest easy now.  Barry-Boy Obama is gone!  Or is he?

     He is obviously one of those types who once having tasted power cannot give it up.  In addition, his narcissism is so overblown that he cannot imagine a scenario in which he is not the center of attention and public adulation.  It’s simply not in his makeup and you can bet the ranch that he’ll be with us until the day he takes his last breath.  The first indication that he has no intention of quietly fading away is his stated objective of taking up residence in our nation’s capitol after his stint at being President was over.  He has, in fact, acted on that desire and is renting a five million dollar mansion only a few miles away from the White House.  He claims to be doing this so that his daughter can finish up high school in the same place she started so as to disrupt her life as little as possible.  Alright, let’s give him that one and allow that he’s hanging around because he’s an exemplary father who wants to right by his kids.  Nonetheless, he’s one of the only – if not the only – former Presidents who has not gotten the Hell out of Dodge at the earliest possible moment.  They’ve all headed for the tall grass, gone home, and began plans for their presidential libraries and repositories.  Not so old Barry Boy.  He’s here to stay.  Another indication that our 44^th President would not just graciously fade away was his declared intention to go back to his former “profession” of being a community organizer.  Yeah, he actually said that with a perfectly straight face.  I thought he’d go back to “Chi-Town” to return to his rabble-rousing roots.  When I learned he was taking up residence in DC, it became obvious that he fully intended to engage in said rabble-rousing as close to the seat of American power as possible.

     There exist other more tangible proofs that the former community agitator will be with us far into the foreseeable future.  Have you ever heard of an outfit called Organizing for America?  I hadn’t either.  OFA was no more and no less than Obama’s 2012 campaign organization which was a nonprofit group that advocated for President Obama’s policies and priorities.  Well, nothing really unusual or sinister here.  All presidents and presidential hopefuls have similar organizations, committees, working groups, etc.  They exist to promote a candidate’s or a president’s political and social agendas.  There doesn’t seem to be anything particularly nefarious here.  Nothing to see folks, just move along.  An article entitled, “Obama’s Organizing for Action Partners With Soros-Linked Indivisible to Disrupt Trump’s Agenda (http://www.breitbart.com),” explains that this relatively benign sounding organization became far more than that under the name Organizing for Action.  The piece notes that, “Organizing for Action, the activist group that morphed from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, has partnered with the newly-formed Indivisible Project for online training on how to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda.”  Well, isn’t that interesting?  A former President seems to be attempting to sabotage the agenda of our sitting President.  I really can’t think of a situation which quite parallels this.  The former president had his eight years to accomplish his anti-American agenda but can’t seem to afford President Trump the courtesy of trying to implement his pro-American agenda.  Barack Obama is determined to undermine Trump at every turn in order to protect his so-called legacy of tearing this country apart.

     Another piece entitled, “Obama’s Shadow Presidency: Well-Funded Organizing for Action Promises to Crack Conservative Skulls to Halt the Trump Agenda (http://www.frontpagemag.com),” speaks even more to the point.  The author notes that former, “President Obama is waging war against the Trump administration through his generously funded agitation outfit, Organizing for Action, to defend his monumentally destructive record of failure and violent polarization.  It is a chilling reminder that the increasingly aggressive, in-your-face Left in this country is on the march.”  This is not merely bombast or hyperbole.  It is factually correct and should bother-worry any American who places faith in our political institutions and traditions to keep our ship of state on course.  Obama and his minions are attempting no less than a silent coup the likes of which this country has never seen.  Additionally, “Obama has an army of agitators – numbering more than 30,000 – who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency.  And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”  The piece continues that in, “what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington.  He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government not only to protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular America First agenda.”  This is a telling point and one that must never be forgotten.  The very idea, the very concept of America First is anathema to those on the Far Left in our country.

     The last thing these saboteurs can tolerate or abide is Americans feeling proud of their nation.  They simply cannot bear the idea of a nation filled with citizens who love their country above and beyond all others and wish to see it succeed.  You see, that is defined as nationalism and this is something they utterly abhor.  These folks are simply not America Firsters or even second, third, or fourth.  To them, the notion of nationalism is an outdated construct that no longer applies in the 21^st Century.  There is simply no place for it in today’s world.  They are globalists and one-worlders and despise the old notion of the sovereign nation-state.  They want to do away with concepts like borders and national sovereignty.  They are Hell-bent on subverting our language, culture, and anything else that unites our population as Americans with one flag and one overwhelming loyalty.  Those who still believe in America are throwbacks, dinosaurs, and anachronisms who have no place and no business even expressing their opinions regarding America’s place in the New World Order that has become the Far Left’s utopian fantasy.  We must no longer place our faith and allegiance in our own institutions, traditions, and heritage.  We must instead rely on international institutions and organizations like the United Nations and the World Court to decide the fate and direction of our nation.

     Obama’s political action committee – Organizing for Action – differs significantly from others that came before it and the differences are quite revealing as well as instructive.  The article asks, “What is Organizing for Action?”  The answer is one we should not forget because it explains the mindset and tactics that the Far Left employs to achieve its goals of not merely undermining President Trump’s agenda but subverting long-held and established American traditions.  The piece maintains that Organizing for Action, “is a less violent version of Mussolini’s black shirts and Hitler’s brown shirts, or of some government-supported goon squads that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Castro brothers used to harass and intimidate their domestic opponents.”  Perhaps you might want to read that last sentence just one more time.  It’s really one Hell of a statement and an indictment.  Comparing Obama’s minions to fascists like Hitler and Mussolini?  I thought charges like this were reserved exclusively for those among us who are deemed to be Conservative.  In fact, it is those on the Far Left who are dangerous to our nation’s continued success and greatness.  It is the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) in our midst that routinely compares Republicans and Conservatives to authoritarian dictators and power-mad egomaniacs when in fact the opposite is actually the reality.

 

     It is Obama and his compatriots on the Far Left that continually adopt the tactics of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini.  There is no question about this.  If you have any doubts here, just look at the behavior and antics of groups like the New Black Panthers, the Occupy Wall Street crowd, the Black Lives Matter mobs, or any of the so-called protestors at any town-hall meeting of Republican politicians.  They are always and inevitably disruptive and violent.  They are designed to be confrontational.  They employ intimidation and fear to silence their opponents at every turn.  They deny to those that oppose them their sacred rights to freedom of speech and expression and they always claim to do so in furtherance of some nebulous concept known as the, “greater good.”  It is the Far Left among us that constantly uses tactics that are decidedly and unabashedly un-American and yet they in their spurious self-righteousness accuse their opponents of using these very tactics.  This is classic Liberalism – accuse your enemies of exactly that behavior of which they are in fact guilty of perpetrating.  It is a classic technique used to place your opponents on the defensive and render them completely ineffective.

     Additionally, Obama’s Organizing for Action runs another project called the Community Organizing Institute (COI).  What exactly is this, you might ask?  This arm of Obama’s army of subversives is described as one that builds, “upon the rich history of community organizing in Chicago,” and that, “the COI is a place to share stories, best practices, and innovations in order to build our community and empower individuals in the fight for change.  It is a shared space for organizers, policy makers, advocates, and change-agents to come together for workshops, panel discussions, presentations, training, film screenings, and social gatherings – building a strong foundation for partnerships.”  Well, doesn’t that sound ever so benign and non-threatening?  Sounds like a place for like-minded individuals to get together, identify problems, and propose solutions.  What could possibly be wrong with that?  Nothing at all, until you understand that this is no more than Liberal-Speak and that nothing in the Liberal lexicon is ever what it seems to be.  The author of the piece provides the appropriate translation for those of us who speak American.  The article continues, “Translation:  At COI you can learn how to spark riots, get arrested to make a political statement, organize lynch mobs and voter fraud on a massive scale, intimidate and shake down corporations, blackmail lenders, race-bait public officials and businesses into submission, smear and terrorize your opponents, shield illegal immigrants from law enforcement, lead squatters to invade foreclosed homes, encourage welfare fraud, and use tax dollars to promote cockamamie social engineering schemes.”  These are the preferred tactics of the Far Left amongst us and especially our very own Community Organizer-in-Chief.  They are utterly subversive and unfortunately they are extremely effective.

     One can’t help but wonder why it has become so vitally important for Obama to undermine and render ineffective the new administration.  Why won’t this guy just go away?  Why can’t he be satisfied with the destruction he has already wrought on our country?  The answer can be found in the simple but profound concept of legacy.  Obama wants his so-called legacy to continue far beyond his term in office.  He wants his presidency to be considered a watershed of sorts that will set him apart from and above all those who had served before him.  He wants to be forever remembered as the President who fundamentally transformed the United States into some grotesque reincarnation of what the Founding Fathers created all those years ago.  He wants to undo their magnificent legacy to future generations of Americans and replace it with his own dark and sinister version.  This is why Obama backed Hillary in our most recent presidential contest.  He knew that she would build upon and reinforce the destruction he initiated.  Through her, his legacy would continue far into the future and that she in all probability would double-down on it.  Had she been elected as had been widely and loudly predicted, the Wanna-Be Dictator’s legacy would have been secured and the damage he inflicted on our nation would continue unabated.

     Donald Trump, however, could not be trusted to do the same.  Throughout the campaign, Trump vowed to deconstruct the Socialist-in Chief’s malevolent rampage through our nation’s institutions and traditions.  Well, the Pant-Suit lost and Ol’ Barry Boy felt threatened and with good reason.  Trump ran for the Presidency promising to fix the damage Obama had inflicted.  Our new President, therefore, must be stopped.  Obama, for example, is an advocate of the Far Left’s Open Border Policy as befits a true globalist and one-worlder.  Who in the Hell are we to keep anyone from entering our country if they so desired?  How dare we even attempt to protect our borders, language, and culture?  Trump’s gonna build The Wall to do just that.  Obama’s signature piece of legislation and the defining element of his entire Presidency was the Affordable Care Act – you know, Obamacare.  This utterly unconstitutional and thoroughly anti-American piece of legislation has certainly helped fulfill Obama’s threat to fundamentally transform this nation into something it was never intended to be.  It belies the very essence and concept of a limited and nonintrusive federal government.  With Obamacare, the government literally took control of over one-sixth of the nation’s economy and greatly reduced the level of individual freedom that has been a hallmark of the American experience.  Once the government controls your health and health care, it virtually controls the lives of each and every citizen in the nation.  There is not one single thing, not one single activity that in some manner cannot be related to health and health care.  You can’t think of one, can you?  Me neither.  Obamacare ensures that we will be controlled more than ever before by an all intrusive, all powerful central government.  What has Trump sworn to do?  Get rid of it – repeal and replace it.  Well, Obama and the Boys simply can’t tolerate that.  Trump must be stopped by any and all means possible.  They couldn’t prevent him from being elected but they can do their damndest to make him and his administration completely impotent and incapable of accomplishing their goals and visions for America.

     A web piece entitled, “Obama-Linked Activists Have a Training Manual for Protesting Trump (http://nypost.com),” illustrates once more that the Far Left is devoid of any and all substance.  They have no ideas that they clearly articulate to solve the problems facing our nation primarily because they are the ones who have caused the problems we face as a nation.  The best they can do – in fact all they can do – is disrupt, deceive, and dissemble.  They have no solutions because they do not want to solve the myriad problems they have purposely caused and created.  They want only to exacerbate them and make them far worse than they already are.  They want America to literally implode thereby creating so much chaos and confusion that Americans will look only to our bloated and overreaching federal government for solutions.  This is the goal of any totalitarian movement:  total and utter dependence upon a centralized, authoritarian entity.

 

     This by definition reduces the freedom and autonomy of the individual citizen which is the ultimate goal of the Far Left in America.  The piece informs us that, “Organizing for Action, a group founded by former President Barack Obama and featured prominently in his new post-presidency website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing off support for repealing Obamacare, curbing immigration from high-risk Islamic nations and building a border wall.”  Furthermore the, “manual published with OFA partner ‘Indivisible,’ advises protestors to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and grab seats at the front of the room but do not sit all together.”  Instead, the manual advises that would-be disrupters, “spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions.  This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.”  The manual additionally urges the town hall saboteurs to ask hostile questions while keeping a firm hold on the mic – and loudly boo the GOP politician if he isn’t giving you real answers.”

     Folks, we’re talking about infiltration techniques here.  I’m sure you’ve seen Republican town halls that have become loud, unruly, and even violent.  We are supposed to believe that these are spontaneous, grass-roots outbursts by frustrated and disgruntled Republican voters.  We are supposed to believe that these outbursts are truly heart-felt and express the righteous anger and indignation felt by Trump supporters who have become deeply disappointed with the President’s  performance in office thus far.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  These so-called protestors are nothing more than “plants” who purposely disrupt Republican held events.  They are nothing more than saboteurs.  Additionally, the manual urges protestors to flood the offices of GOP lawmakers with demands for the resignation of top Trump appointees and officials.  The manual even provides a script that tells protestors to repeat that, “I’m honestly scared that a known racist and anti-Semite will be working just feet from the Oval Office – it is everyone’s business if a man who promoted white supremacy is serving as an adviser to the president.”

     You’ll notice, of course, that the manual does not actually name the individual in question nor does it supply even one scintilla of evidence to support charges of racism and anti-Semitism.  This is nothing more than standard operating procedure for those on the Far Left.  Somehow they manage to make smoke without any fire.  Charges are never, ever substantiated but instead are just levelled.  Proof is not necessary to put their opposition on the defensive and defensive positions rarely lead to progress or solutions.  They only serve to make those charged look guilty.  This tactic comes right out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals and has been quite successful over the decades.  The web piece notes that Organizing for Action has more than 250 offices nationwide and more than 32,000 organizers, with another 25,000 in the process of being trained.  Additionally, these “aren’t typical Black Lives Matter or Occupy Wall Street marchers, but rather professionally trained organizers who go through a six-week training program similar to the training – steeped in Alinsky agitation tactics – Obama received in Chicago when he was a community organizer.”  Indeed, “Chicago socialist Saul Alinsky, known by the left as the father of community organizing, taught radicals to rub raw the sores of discontent and create the conditions for a revolution.”  Yup, you guessed right.  Mr. Alinsky is one of Obama’s key role models and he follows Alinsky’s advice like the good Leftist saboteur that he is.  The piece concludes that, “Obama appears to be behind the anti-Trump riots.”  Really, yuh think!?!

     I’m sure that there are those out there who absolutely can’t wrap their minds around the concept of a secret and sinister “Shadow Government” created and headed by a former President of the United States.  Those of you who fall into this camp simply don’t understand the Far Left in our nation.  Most Americans find it difficult to believe that an elected two-term president of our country would actively engage in subversive activities directed at his duly elected successor.  And in truth, it’s really tough to accept the fact that it’s absolutely true.  Throughout our history, we’ve never experienced anything like this so we’ve really got no reference point for comparison.  We have to process this with virtually no precedents or past examples to point to.  This is an entirely new concept for us to analyze, digest, and assimilate into the way we view our political system.  Obama had his eight-year stint to rampage through our Constitution and I believe he did more damage to the nation than all of his 43 predecessors combined.  The point here is that the damage wreaked by El Destructo was done purposely and with malice aforethought.  No other President, I believe, purposely set out to bring our country to its knees and weaken us to the point where our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us.  That’s one Hell of a legacy the Brother-in-Chief has racked up for himself and the fact that he’s damned proud of it should come as absolutely no surprise.  He has done and will continue to do whatever he can to not only undermine President Trump but the United States as well.  Most of us absolutely cannot fathom just how deeply and pathologically those on the Far Left loathe and despise our country.  Until you come to grips with the fact that there are tens upon tens of millions of our fellow citizens out there who really do feel this way, you’re never going to understand those on the Far Left in our midst.  I know it’s a tough nut to crack – but there it is and there’s no getting around that cold, hard fact.

     A piece entitled, “The Deep State:  The Unelected Shadow Government is Here to Stay (https://www.rutherford.org),” is useful here.  The author explains that, “America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe when he or she assumes office.  He will also inherit a shadow government, one that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country.”  The author actually identifies two separate shadow governments.  The first shadow government is referred to as a COG or continuity of government and, “is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a catastrophe.”  The writer opines that this first shadow government is, “a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances – a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown – to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now.”  The second Shadow Government, “referred to as the Deep State, is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes right now.”  It is this second shadow government, “which poses the greater threat to our freedoms.  This permanent, corporatized, militarized entrenched bureaucracy is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movement, and beyond the reach of the law.”  The piece continues that, “these shadow governments, which operate beyond the reach of the Constitution and with no real accountability to the citizenry, are the reason why we the people have no control over our government.”

     Why don’t you ponder this for a moment?  Is the author of this piece just one more conspiracy nut who is experiencing a full-blown paranoia attack?  Is he just one more example of some poor schmuck who has neglected to take his “meds” on a regular basis?  I sincerely hope so because if he’s really on to something here then our country is truly in deep, deep trouble.  If this fellow is on the right track, then our entire political process and system is no more than a sham - a giant, grotesque charade.  If he’s even close to being correct, it means that we the people count for absolutely nothing and going to the polls and exercising our all-important right to vote for our leaders and deciding the direction our nation will take is completely meaningless and irrelevant.  It further means that our Constitution as well as the entire American Revolution have been completely undermined and rendered obsolete.  It means that all of us regardless of political affiliation have been hoodwinked and bamboozled into thinking that our voices actually make a difference when, in fact, what we want, desire, and believe matters not at all.

     I hope that the author of the article is just venting, blowing air, and letting his frustration rule his intellect.  I fear, however, that the guy just might be on to something here.  There does exist, especially at the federal level, a huge and permanent government beauracracy without which government grinds to a shrieking halt.  These are the folks that actually implement government policy when their bosses finally decide what those policies will be.  These are the folks who actually get things done.  They are the troops on the ground and have been in place since forever.  In the Executive Branch alone, for example, there are over four thousand positions that must be filled and it’s gotten to the point where our Federal government has become the nation’s single largest employer.  So much for the limited government envisioned and implemented by our Founding Fathers.  The problem with our permanent beauracracy is that it is largely composed of Democrat voters if not actual party “apparachniks.”  How’s that for a blanket, sweeping statement?  Why do you suppose that President Trump’s first few months in office have been plagued by delays, seeming confusion, and out and out leaks of material that was never intended to be made public.  When a Republican is elected to the Presidency, there appears to be a distinct up-tick in this kind of activity.  There seems to be a concerted effort to make his Presidency as ineffectual and impotent as possible which the Democrats desperately hope will boost their chances for success as the 2018 midterm elections loom ever closer.  If this is what is meant by a Shadow Government, then there is no doubt that it indeed exists and that it is negatively affecting our political process. 

     A piece entitled, “Obama’s Shadow Government is Organizing to Undermine Trump (https://thefederalist.com),” explains that once, “out of office, ex-presidents usually fade into private life and stay out of politics.  They write memoirs, serve on corporate boards, and start charitable foundations.  George W. Bush retired to his ranch in Texas and, most recently, painted portraits of veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.”  This has indeed been the case with almost all of our former Presidents.  But of course, “then there is Obama.  Less than a month out of office, the broad contours of Obama’s post-presidency career are already taking shape.  Obama and his loyalists, it seems, will remain in the center of the political fray, officially and unofficially, in an organized effort to undermine the Trump administration.”  Thus far, the efforts to sabotage the new administration have been quite successful.

     Remember the name Michael Flynn and his abrupt departure from the Trump team?  In fact, “Flynn’s resignation was prompted by a series of coordinated and anonymous leaks from current and former Obama administration officials in our domestic intelligence agencies.”  Additionally these, “are part of a larger, loosely organized effort now underway to preserve Obama’s legacy.  This effort involves Obama-era officials still inside the federal government, former Obama staffers working in the private sector, and Obama himself.”  Yup, Obama himself.  I’m tellin’ ya, this guy just ain’t goin’ away.  The author maintains that this, “isn’t some conspiracy theory.  After the election, Obama indicated he intends to stay involved in the political fray.  In an email to his supporters on his last day in office, Obama encouraged them to stay engaged, promising I’ll be right there with you every step of the way.”  Indeed, “Less than two weeks later, he issued a statement saying he was heartened by anti-Trump protests over the executive order on immigration.”  The piece concludes by noting that, “Obama had eight years in the White House to secure his legacy.  Any efforts on his part to undermine his successor aren’t just an affront to the principles of our democracy, they’re an admission that he and his acolytes never put much stock in democracy to begin with.”

     Still another piece entitled, “Trooth in Media – Obama’s Shadow Government Sabotage (https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com),” explains that, “Trump will never make America great again if Obama and his Democrat media have anything to do with it.  Before leaving office, Obama is sabotaging Trump and setting the stage to be the turd floating in Trump’s soup.  His allies, the Leftists in media, will be the relentless Gestapo propaganda arm of Obama’s anti-American shadow government.  They are acting in concert with Obama to make certain Trump cannot restore America to greatness.”  The author of the piece accurately opines that, “Making America great again is not what the Leftarts want to see – ever!  In their world America must continue to be cut down in decline, her wealth squandered and distributed to her enemies, and her people rendered ignorant and parasitic beneath the Democrat yoke.”  The piece concludes that, “Eight years of Obamaism and ten years of Democrat policies have left America in a shambles with a weak economy, a weak military, a disintegrating social structure, and a foreign policy that has set the world on fire.  Democrats have enabled criminals to run rampant and foreign invaders to not only pour over America’s borders, but to infest Europe.”

     This is exactly and precisely what those on the Far Left have done and will continue to do.  They understand that President Trump wants to reverse the damage they have purposely inflicted on our country and this they simply cannot have.  They will do everything and anything to sabotage President Trump’s efforts to restore America to greatness.  For those of you out there who viewed Trump’s victory as a signal that the Far Left among us has finally been defeated, you’d better think again.  Those on the Far Left led by citizen Obama will never, ever stop trying to destroy this country.

Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!

The Fifth Horseman (Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)

           

IMMIGRATION RANT ll:  AMERICA FIRST!

     The way I see it, as a nation we’re pretty much FUCKED!!  The proverbial handwriting is on the wall but the language is not English – it’s Spanish!  Alrighty then, I’d better get ready to duck because the shit that’s about to be thrown at me will be unavoidable, overwhelming, scurrilous, and utterly false.  They’ll scream that I’m a racist and a xenophobe.  They’ll literally foam at the mouth in their rabid denunciation of me for representing the worst about the American national character and culture and they’ll rant and rave at me for not being inclusive.  I’ll be severely chastised, reprimanded, and raked over the coals for daring to sound even remotely or slightly critical of our immigration policies (so-called) that are purposely and thoroughly destroying the United States of America as historically founded and presently constituted.  Yeah, the Liberal Pukes out there will be all over me for this and I really haven’t even said anything yet.  That, however, matters not a whit to these Anti-America Sons A Bitches!  Even the slightest hint or perceived negativity concerning the immigration debacle faced by our country is guaranteed to unleash the dreaded Liberal vitriol against anyone who dares to oppose – out loud in front of God and everybody -   the purposeful and malignant flooding of this country with people who absolutely don’t belong here, shouldn’t be here, and couldn’t give a Flying Fuck about the United States!

     Yeah, yeah, I know.  They’ll tell me that this country was founded and built by immigrants – by people who risked it all, came here with nothing, and built the greatest nation the world has ever seen.  No nation on the planet can come even close to matching the magnificence of the United States in any category you choose to analyze, dissect, or discuss.  You’ll get no argument from me on that score and I thank God every day that I was lucky enough to be born here and that my grandparents chose to come here from Europe to make better lives for themselves and their progeny.  I am grateful that my children and grandchildren had the good fortune to have been born in this country and are thus able to take advantage of the amazing opportunities this country provides for those willing to work hard and succeed.

     Like no other place on the planet, this place can indeed be all things to all people regardless of national origin, ethnicity, class, or caste.  In this country like no other place in world history, the only limitations placed on individual success and achievement are almost always self-imposed.  In this place, again like no other, no matter where you came from, no matter your country of birth, you can become a true, full-blown, bone fide American.  This, by the way, is not the case virtually anywhere else in the world.  Try emigrating, for example, to England, Germany, or France.  You could live in those places for literally generations and become citizens.  You could marry, raise a family, own a business, and develop a wide circle of friends and acquaintances but you’ll always be considered the “Yank” who lives down the block or across town.  You’ll always be the American and because of that you’ll never really fit in or mesh with citizens from your adopted country.  You could indeed be the very embodiment of the proverbial Hail Fellow Well Met and the very Salt of the Earth but you’ll forever remain that guy from somewhere else.

     You see, in most other countries citizenship is viewed as something special, as something to be jealously guarded and preserved for those deemed worthy of the privilege.  It is not something to be taken lightly or merely handed out like so many pieces of candy on Halloween!  Citizenship is considered an honor and places the citizen a cut above those who can’t claim that coveted and cherished status.  It is something to be proud of.  Think, perhaps, of ancient Greece or Rome.  To be a full-fledged citizen of those long-gone civilizations meant you were indeed someone special and that you belonged to something special.  It set you apart from and, yes, above those non-citizens who lived among you and this was deemed both normal and natural.  With citizenship came certain privileges and perks that others did not and could not possess.  Additionally, with citizenship came certain duties and obligations that you owed to the nation as well as your fellow citizens.  You want to gain some insight – some comprehension – of just how important and special citizenship was all those years ago?  Think of Socrates and the choice he made between banishment from his beloved Athens and death.  How many in America today feel about this country as did Socrates feel about his?  Yeah, that’s what I thought too.

     American citizenship today and, in fact, for many decades is not regarded as anything particularly special, admirable, or something to be coveted, protected, and preserved.  To be a proud American citizen is considered – especially by those on the Far Left – no more than a quaint, out dated, and old fashioned expression of patriotism if not outright jingoism that really has no place in the 21^st Century.  To be proud of our citizenship and heritage is seen today as dangerously hubristic, ridiculously nationalistic, and callously insensitive to the feelings and sensibilities of others from different parts of the globe.  To be even slightly nationalistic goes against the long-standing Liberal passion that forever emphasizes and extols such concepts as globalism, one-worldism, and multiculturalism.  In some parts of our nation, to fly the flag, to publicly and proudly display our nation’s colors is to invite scorn, ridicule, and perhaps even the destruction of your private property.  To be a proud American flies in the face of the Liberal dogma and orthodoxy that all cultures and countries are equal and each has something to offer.  To place one above another is seen as divisive in the extreme and displays an unwillingness to succumb to those who constantly and continually bash and lash out at the United States and claim that we are in fact the cause of all the world’s woes and ills.  Most prominent among them, by the way, is our very own anti-America American President who routinely denies the concept of American Exceptionalism every damned chance he gets.  You know, the same anti-America piece of shit who regularly and predictably apologizes for America every time he travels abroad!

     In my view, this sea change, this denigration and cheapening of the entire concept of American citizenship is a direct result of the ascendancy of Far Left Liberalism which can easily be traced back to the 1960’s for that is when the concept and phenomenon of the anti-America American really began to take hold.  This is especially true regarding our educational system from kindergarten right up through college and university.  Our young ‘uns are fed a steady, unrelenting diet of this bilge and by the time they graduate from virtually any of our institutions of higher learning they have been so thoroughly brainwashed and duped by the Liberal Scum Dogs who control education in this country that they have no choice but to at the very least hold our nation in the utmost of contempt.  It is this attitude and philosophy that has in large part caused the immigration disaster that our country now struggles with and if not corrected in one Hell of a damned hurry will overwhelm and destroy us as a cohesive nation and culture.

     Immigration, of course, has been a part of our national heritage and psyche since even before our founding.  Immigrants have always come here and for the most part have been warmly welcomed.  The difference between now and then lies in the quantity and quality of the immigrants who want to come to America and reside here permanently.  The difference between immigration now and then lies in the reasons why so many clamor to come here and remain here.  Immigration to the United States has always been attractive to those who wanted to better themselves economically.  The opportunities for economic advancement were and remain far better here than any other place on the planet.  This is not open to debate or interpretation but rather is an undeniable fact.  The economic motive, then, for coming to this country is a constant.  A central difference between immigration then and now, however, is that those who used to come here knew they could succeed beyond their wildest dreams and expectations if they were willing to work their immigrant asses off  from dawn to dusk and beyond!  Indeed, they expected nothing but the opportunity to do just that.  They asked for and certainly demanded no special treatment or privileges and no extraordinary status.  All they wanted was the chance to succeed and they’d take care of the rest on their own.  And you know what?  For the most part they did exactly that.  They got no help from the government and they certainly expected nothing in the way of “welfare”, entitlements if you will, for welfare did not exist.  The concept of something for nothing was simply not part of the equation for success in their minds or experience.  The formula was simplicity itself:  hard work equaled success.  If the immigrant adhered to the formula, success would follow.  Most immigrants did, in fact, begin to move up the socio-economic ladder.  Their children and grandchildren followed suit and did so by dint of hard work, education, and an unalterable, unshakeable faith in the promise of the United States of America.

     This is no longer the case.  For decades it seems the new immigrant has displayed no particular desire to assimilate and become an American, let alone an American citizen.  These folks don’t view America as any place special or exceptional and far too often they come here as free-loaders Hell-bent on acquiring all the goodies they can get their foreign-born mitts on.  There is no thought of loyalty or allegiance to their new nation and there certainly does not appear to be a sense of appreciation, gratitude, or thanks for the fact that they had the incredible good fortune to show up here.  Unlike the immigrant of yore, in far too many instances they arrive on our shores with a predictable “gimme” attitude.  Upon walking down the gangplank or stepping onto the tarmac, their hands are out and they expect to be given “stuff” as though it is somehow their right.  The idea that foreigners have any rights at all is utterly ludicrous, outlandish, and bizarre.  The concept that they are entitled to anything is horribly grotesque!  To even hint at the idea that these newcomers should have to prove that they deserve to be here will get you called all kinds of nasty expletives and might even lead to violent confrontations depending on whom you are speaking to.

     The fact is, our immigration “policy” no longer serves the needs of our nation but is in many ways inimical or antithetical to our national interests.  Immigration, it seems, is no longer geared toward benefitting America but is focused on benefitting the immigrant and from a policy stand point that is simply wrong.  While it is true that immigrants have always benefitted from coming here that was never the point of immigration.  Rather the central idea and ideal must be that first and foremost, our immigration policies must benefit the United States and any benefit accruing to the individual immigrant or immigrant group was at best secondary or tangential to the overall purpose of allowing newcomers the exquisite privilege of settling here.

     This all changed with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 championed by that fat drunk from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy.  Prior to 1965, the vast majority of immigrants hailed from Western Europe which meant that those immigrants shared a huge bond with the United States even before they arrived here.  We shared the same culture, namely Western Civilization.  Save for the language barrier, the immigrant was of our culture and background and believed, broadly speaking, in similar values, standards, and mores as did the vast majority of Americans.  Assimilation, then, was relatively easy, natural, and expected.  Certainly, the new immigrant had to learn to become an American but because of cultural similarities this was not overly burdensome or difficult. Once the language barrier had been broken, it was a relatively painless and natural process.  This changed radically with the Immigration Act of 1965.

     With that horribly anti-American piece of legislation, the entire tenor and tone of immigration to the U.S. changed.  After 1965 and ever since, a mere 15% of our nation’s newcomers were permitted to come here from Western Europe.  A full 85% of them, then, came from places around the globe that had absolutely nothing in common with Western Civilization, culture, and heritage.  This made assimilation far more difficult than it had ever been and for the first time in our history we began to take in more and more folks who had no desire to become Americans.  Rather, they chose to replicate their own cultures, norms, and ways of life on our shores thus initiating what Samuel Huntington so aptly dubbed the Clash of Civilizations right here on our own turf.  This culture war has literally become a central feature of American life ever since the Liberal Elite in our country turned its back on our own culture, heritage, and traditions.  This culture war has been raging all around us for decades and, unfortunately, America seems to be losing ground at an alarming rate!

     There exists, for example, close to my home a very large park and there are days when you can walk in any direction and not here a word of English!  The same park contains numerous baseball fields complete with bleachers and yet our national past time seems to be played less and less while sports like soccer, cricket, and bacci appear to be on the rise.  There are entire neighborhoods in New York City where English is simply not the first or even second language and where street and traffic signs cannot be read by a native-born American.  In New York City high schools, the Regents examinations can be taken in at least seven languages other than English including, I believe, Urdu.  Urdu?  Throughout this country, our schools preach something called ESL – English as a Second Language.  English as a second language?  You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!!  We are quickly giving away our nation and our birthright in the name of one of the most dangerous and insidious philosophies ever faced by this country – Multiculturalism!  Multiculturalism is both destructive and divisive for it emphasizes above all else the differences that exist between and among us as a population rather than celebrating that which unites us and brings us together as Americans.  Without a sense of national cohesiveness, unity, and purpose no nation can long survive intact and will eventually lead to the Balkanization of this greatest of all nations! 

     It is long past time when all this and more changed and that our immigration policies should once again be used to strengthen America rather than weaken it and bring it down.  For far too many decades, the uniqueness and exceptional nature of the American experience and example have been trampled underfoot by the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) among us who desire nothing less than the destruction of the United States and all it stands for and represents.  Those mealy-mouthed anti-America Sons-A-Bitches believe that we do not deserve our status as the world’s lone super power or the planet’s wealthiest, most powerful, and most generous country in planetary history.  Immigration, on balance, is no longer a national asset and seems to harm us far more than it helps or strengthens us.  Our immigration policies, such as they are, no longer serve the national interest but instead seem purposely geared and directed toward diluting if not entirely destroying the single most successful national entity ever experienced in the history of the globe.   As a country, we have done more to uplift mankind, provide for those who are not as fortunate as us, and protect the world from the forces of oppression that have regularly and brutally plagued mankind.  We will no longer be able to do these things – and more – if our immigration policies continue to weaken us, divide us, and destroy our will as a people and a nation.

     This is exactly and precisely what our immigration policies have achieved.  We are no longer a cohesive, proud nation held together by bonds of borders, language, and culture.  Instead, our immigration policies have served to splinter us, tear us asunder, and rip us apart. This is but one more page in the Liberal Playbook to purposely weaken our nation and bring us down to the level of some third-world, impoverished, and socially divided shithole of a country where class and caste are forever pitted against one another and view each other as permanent and mortal foes.  The Liberal Scum amongst us delight in spreading the seeds of distrust and enmity while fostering and furthering as much national discord and divisiveness as they can.

     If you care to delve just slightly or perfunctorily into just how inimical and antithetical to American interests our immigration policies have become just take a quick look into the current insanity of allowing non-citizens and illegals to vote in American elections.  Yeah, you read that right.  The Liberals, the Far Left Lunatics, among us have been unapologetic champions of this “movement” for years.  Think about that for a moment if you will.  There exists in our nation a sizable group of American citizens who favor allowing non-citizens – folks who are not Americans – to participate in the electoral process and help decide the fate of our nation.  Anyone who concurs with such idiocy cannot, in my humble opinion, be mistaken for someone who loves this country and wants to see its continued progress and prosperity.  Anyone who believes in allowing non-citizens the right and privilege of partaking in the sacred duty of choosing our elected leaders and deciding national policy and priorities can aptly and accurately be termed a traitor!  Yup, I said it.  If you are one of them, then you’re sure as shit not one of us!  It’s really that simple and basic.  Most folks I know are absolutely appalled at such a prospect and simply can’t fathom the fact that there exist among us people who would be more than happy should this become the case.  For the most part, these are the Far Left Liberals among us who have for decades exhibited nothing but contempt, scorn, and even hatred for the United States of America.  The nation that gave them everything they have – including liberty and freedom – is the very nation they continually spit upon and wish to bring down.

    

     In a piece entitled, “DEFCON 5: Illegals Registering to Vote (www.rushlimbaugh.com),” the country’s leading talk show host correctly insists that Obama, “is gonna grant amnesty to those here and he is gonna keep the borders open and welcome all those who want to come in as well.”  Additionally, “they’re gonna get green cards, which means they’re gonna get driver’s licenses, which means they’re gonna end up on the voter registration  rolls. . . .”  You know, he’s right and the Conservative pundit notes that, “it’s started happening now.  Illegals are being registered to vote.  It’s happening at lightening  speed.”  Limbaugh goes on to quote the Washington Times which accurately states that, “President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty will make it easier for illegal immigrants to improperly register to vote. . . .”  This is absolutely correct and it’s part of a long-standing Liberal-Democrat strategy of increasing their voting base.  In order to succeed, the Liberal Saboteurs among us need a permanent underclass of poor and uneducated dupes who will be taught to rely on government for their every want and need.  Self-reliance, rugged individualism, and hard work – all cornerstones of the American experience and success story – will no longer be required.

     The new citizen will simply vote Democrat and the goodies will be there for the taking.  Should this come to fruition – and I believe that it is a given – the Liberal-Democrats will have succeeded in their goal of fundamentally transforming our country into something it was never intended to be.  It will become just one more nation where government reigns supreme and omnipotent while liberty and individual freedom will have become but vague, misty memories of days long gone.  It’s coming folks, of this there can be no doubt for that is the ultimate goal of the Traitor-in-Chief’s amnesty gambit.  He will simply flood this nation with illegals and then provide them the ability to vote and thus influence and set national priorities and policies.  As this continues to happen, American citizenship will lose any significant meaning and the sacred act of voting will become the prevue of people who don’t give a damn about this country or its future!

     Limbaugh succinctly and accurately notes the adverse effects of our current open border policy and the relentless effort to give non-citizens, legal and illegal, the right to vote.  He states that, “You’re gonna lower wages.  You’re gonna put further pressure on the job market.  You’re gonna marginalize native-born Americans.  It’s gonna cause utter chaos.  It’s gonna put more pressure on the welfare system, the welfare state.  There’s nothing to recommend it other than cheap labor.”  The “talker” goes on to point out the real and utterly nefarious reason behind the effort to grant the right to vote to those who absolutely shouldn’t have it.  He explains that, “the real reason Obama’s gonna do it is to make the Democrat Party a permanent, I mean permanent, forever majority.  That’s the reason he’s going to do it.”  Furthermore, Limbaugh is, “convinced the Democrat Party doesn’t really care what kind of a country it is, as long as they run it.  Because as long as they run it, it will be a welfare state.  And the bigger the welfare state, the better for them, because that means that more people can do nothing but vote for them in order to live, in order to exist.”

     You know, he’s right.  Allowing non-citizens to vote is a huge step toward successfully realizing the fondest dream of the Far Left in our country which is to destroy it as it has existed for over two hundred and thirty years.  Their America will in no way resemble the America that most of us love and hold dear.  Their America will cease to be unique and exceptional and their America will no longer be the last, best hope of mankind – that shining city upon a hill.  No, their America will have become just one more example of a statist, authoritarian, and oligarchic nation where all decisions are made by government and liberty and freedom simply no longer exist.  This is where the Far Left is purposely taking us and when non-citizens begin voting in massive numbers, they will have succeeded.

     This headlong rush, this frenzy, on the part of the Liberal Pukes in our midst to give non-citizens the right to vote is but just one example of how they are doing their damndest to destroy the United States.  The deadline for paying our annual tribute to the Beast in Washington, DC, has just come and gone and most working Americans really get just a tad irritated as April 15^th approaches.  I know I sure as Hell do for I do not qualify to receive the much coveted tax refund that so many of my fellow citizens look forward to.  Instead, I must pony up my share.  Most folks seemingly do not get the idea, cannot grasp the fact, that if you receive a “refund” all it means is that you’ve over paid the government for the previous twelve months and you’re simply getting back a mere portion of that over payment.  The IRS, the most effective and efficient tax collection agency on the planet, doesn’t refund SHIT!  It’s just not in their nature or their charter.  Now, however, I learn that the Internal Revenue Service is actually sending out “refunds” to illegal aliens who didn’t even pay taxes!  What the FUCK is that all about?!?  I and millions of Americans gotta pay the beast while illegal aliens who didn’t pay a freaking dime in taxes are getting refunds!  You’ve got to be SHITTING me, right?  Wrong.

     It’s true and constitutes but one more stab in the back that Liberals are inflicting on hard-working, tax-paying Americans!  It constitutes but one more way that Liberals are cementing the loyalty and the vote of immigrants – legal and illegal – to their cause.  A piece entitled, “IRS to pay back-refunds to illegal immigrants who didn’t pay taxes (www.washingtontimes.com),” informs us that, “IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress . . . that even illegal immigrants who didn’t pay taxes will be able to claim back-refunds once they get Social Security numbers under President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty.”  Yeah, go ahead and read that one again.  The American citizen can’t catch a Fucking break while the Bamster’s running the show but the Prick-in-Chief never met an illegal he didn’t like!  Additionally, the same gentleman, “clarified his testimony to the Senate last week where he acknowledged that illegal immigrants who had paid taxes using substitute Social Security numbers but who gain real Social Security numbers when they are approved for the amnesty can apply for back-refunds of the Earned Income Tax Credit.” 

     Let’s see, substitute Social Security numbers?  Read that as phony, false, fraudulent – illegal.  If you and I tried to pull this BULLSHIT, we’d end up doing time and making friends with Bubba and the Boys!  If you’re an illegal alien, however, all is forgiven.  Talk about stepping through the FUCKING looking glass!  But wait, it gets better.  The article explains that, “even illegal immigrants who didn’t pay taxes will be able to apply for back-credits once they get Social Security numbers,” and that the, “EITC is a refundable tax credit, which means those who don’t have any tax liability can still get money back from the government.”  Holy Shit – what a great country!  And what’s this crap about getting money back from the government?  The government my sorry old ass!  These illegal aliens who have absolutely no business being in this country are now reaching into our pockets and stealing our money.  We used to call that robbery and the last time I looked, that was a felony offense!

     While this movement to grant non-citizens or non-Americans the right to vote is steadily gaining ground, there still thankfully exist plenty of folks out here who recognize how utterly disastrous and devastating that would be for our nation.  The mere fact that there are so very many Americans who either can’t or won’t recognize and admit that allowing non-citizens to vote will put us on the road to discord, disharmony, and destruction is inevitable and there’s no maybe about it.  The right to vote is precious and should be jealously guarded and zealously defended.  To give the right to vote to anyone who manages to enter this country is a huge step toward realizing a major goal of the Far Left in America:  to destroy the greatest nation God ever gave mankind.  A piece entitled, “D.C., other cities debate whether legal immigrants should have voting rights (www.washingtonpost.com).” explains that, “opponents assert that the right to vote at any level is a defining quality of citizenship.  They say it should not be easily granted to the foreign-born, who might have divided loyalties and insufficient knowledge of American democracy.”

     Opponents also correctly point out, “that any legal permanent resident can apply to become a U.S. citizen with full voting rights after a five-year wait.”  Does that seem all that unreasonable?  You come here LEGALLY.  You live here, work here, and pay taxes here.  You learn fluency in English.  Five years later you apply for citizenship, pass the test and VOILLA, you’re a genuine, bone fide legal voter able to participate fully in the electoral process and the American experience.  Our system fully and graciously accommodates all those who arrive here from other places as long as they do it legally and play by the rules.  The same piece accurately notes that to, “be a voter is to signify that you have cleared certain hurdles and that you understand what it means to be an American, with responsibilities as well as rights.”  Indeed, “allowing noncitizens to vote renders the idea of citizenship meaningless.”  This is exactly and precisely how the Far Left in our country thinks and what they so ardently desire.  To effectively render U.S. citizenship as meaningless constitutes one of their long-held cherished goals and dreams.  What better way to bring a country to its knees than to make citizenship irrelevant and meaningless?

     In order to avoid this debacle, our entire immigration policy must be restructured and revamped.  The rules and regulations for entering the United States and staying here permanently must be rewritten and – here comes the kicker – strictly enforced.  Yes, yes, I know.  I’ve been told over and over again that we’ve got plenty of immigration laws already on the books and all we need to do is enforce them and our pesky immigration problems will be solved.  Simple enough, but the fact is that these laws, rules, and regulations are not being enforced and that renders them meaningless.  The powers that be, both Democrat and Republican, do not want them enforced regardless of what most American demand and desire.  As previously discussed, the Democrats want as much immigration as possible in order to expand their voter base.  Republicans see in the immigrant a vast supply of cheap labor that will work for far less than the American citizen.

     If our leadership doesn’t give a rat’s ass about solving our country’s immigration mess then what the Hell are the rest of us supposed to do?  Well for starters we can vote the Bastards out!  Any elected official at any level who doesn’t want to fix the problem must be removed from office.  Either you adopt an “America First” attitude and mindset or you get the Fuck out of Dodge!  The first thing I want to hear out of any candidate’s mouth regardless of party is that those folks who don’t belong here will not be permitted to stay.  The next thing I want to hear is that only immigrants whom we deem worthy and who can contribute to our continued progress and prosperity will be allowed the supreme privilege of coming here. It is in this spirit that I propose the following RULES FOR IMMIGRATION which must be strictly adhered to and enforced.

RULE #1:  Close the Fucking borders.  Lock ‘em down and do it now!  Any nation that can’t protect its borders by definition can’t protect its sovereignty and therefore can’t claim status as a true, bone fide national entity.  I’ve been hearing about building that security fence for most of my life and the damned thing is not even close to completion.  How fucking hard is it to build a fence?!?  They managed to do it in ancient China and we remember the Berlin Wall that divided East from West Germany so effectively for all those years.  It can be done and it should be done but apparently we as a people do not have the will to do it.  Those in favor of doing so are afraid of being dubbed anti-immigrant while those who oppose it don’t give a shit about the future of America in the first place!

RULE #2:  Re-open and modernize Ellis Island here on the east coast with a similar facility to be built on the west coast.  Additionally, build branch facilities at every single airport in the United States. We must immediately resume the practice of screening prospective newcomers for communicable diseases.  This used to be the case and it went a long way toward protecting us from devastating illnesses that threaten the health and well-being of the nation.  These immigration centers will also be useful for screening and eliminating other undesirables who would come here to do us harm.  Criminals and terrorists, for example, come to mind.

Rule #3:  Before arriving on our shores, the prospective immigrants must be fluent in the language of their own country.  They must be able to not only speak the language but must also be proficient in reading and writing it as well.  As it stands, there are far too many foreign illiterates coming and living here now.  If they couldn’t or wouldn’t learn their own language, why would they feel compelled to learn ours?

RULE #4:  Before arriving on our shores, the prospective immigrant must be fluent in the English language!  The immigrant must be able to speak, read, and write English before coming here.  That would display at least some willingness on the part of prospective newcomers to become Americans and not just interlopers with their hands out.  It would also greatly facilitate the act of assimilation which has pretty much lost any meaning or importance it once had.

RULE #5:  The immigrant must not become a drain on this country or its citizens.  There will be no welfare, no food stamps or “freebies” of any kind for prospective immigrants.  The only promise made to the new arrival is that of opportunity.  They will have the opportunity to work, achieve, and succeed but that’s all they’re getting and they are entitled to absolutely nothing else!  We must go back to a time when the immigrant expected nothing but opportunity and dared not demand anything!

RULE #6:  The new immigrant must post a bond of $250,000.00 before coming to the United States.  This will go a long way toward making sure that these folks don’t become a drain on the American taxpayers or the communities in which they settle.  Yeah, yeah, I know.  Dear Old Emma proclaimed the U.S. a haven for the world’s poor, tired, and huddled masses.  Sorry, but those days are long gone.  We’ve already got far too many of our own poor, tired, and huddled and the last thing we need is any more of the world’s wretched refuse to set their sights on the United States.  Oh, and by the way Ms. Lazarus, your famous statue will be turned around so that it faces inward, not outward!  Let’s concentrate on those immigrants who are already here and make sure they assimilate before welcoming others to our shores.

RULE #7:  All new immigrants to our nation must be placed on a mandatory five-year probationary period.  During this period, if they have violated any of our laws that would be deemed a felony offense, they are immediately shipped back to their home countries and that quarter-million dollar bond referenced above is automatically forfeit!  They never see it or use it but instead it will be used to ease the tax burden of hard-working American citizens.

RULE #8:  The newcomer must understand that this is an English-speaking nation and that English is the official language of the United States.  All official or semi-official documents must be in English and English only!  Are you aware that under certain circumstances, those applying for U.S. citizenship can take the naturalization test in languages other than English?!?  Does this make any sense at all?  The naturalization test must be given only in English and there can be no exceptions.  If you can’t take and pass that test in the language of your new country, then you don’t deserve to be here!  Did you know that you can apply for a driver’s license in languages other than English and that the same can be done when filling out a job application?  This is insanity but given the feckless leadership we are currently burdened with, it is not at all surprising.

RULE #9:  The new immigrant, regardless of age, must enroll in what used to be called “Americanization Schools” or its equivalent.  Here they will be taught the basics of American History, Civics, and Government.  Here they will learn of the magnificent contributions that their new adopted country has provided the rest of the world.  At these schools, they will learn to take pride in America and to be thankful that they were allowed to come here in the first place and that they must earn the right to stay.  America is not a free ride nor is it a free lunch!

RULE #10:  Any elected officials who ignore or violate any of

our immigration rules (can we all say Barrack Hussein Obama?) shall be impeached by the House of Representatives, convicted by the Senate, thrown out of office, and begin doing time in a federal lock-up.  Upon serving his sentence, he will immediately be banished from the United States and never be allowed to return.  If our elected officials do not follow our immigration laws, how can we expect ordinary Americans to do so?  If folks who come here from abroad know we don’t enforce our immigration policies why should they pay any attention to them?

RULE #11:  Any business owner – large or small – who willingly and knowingly hires illegal aliens will have the business shut down and all of his assets and property, including personal, confiscated.  Said owner will also serve a five-year stint in a federal penitentiary.

RULE #12:  All new prospective immigrants must be invited to come to America.  They can no longer just show up here merely because they want to or that it serves their purposes.  How does one get invited to come here?  The invite is based on our wants, needs, and desires.  If we are not producing enough home-grown computer engineers or programmers, for example, we can invite foreign specialists and experts here to fill the void.  If we are running a shortage of specialists in any field we deem necessary for the advancement and prosperity of America then qualified foreigners can be allowed in to make up for the short-fall.  Immigration must be restructured to serve our needs and national priorities.  Immigration must once again strengthen the country, not weaken it.

RULE #13:  All prospective immigrants must be officially sponsored by an American citizen or group of citizens.  The sponsor(s) will be responsible for helping the new immigrant successfully assimilate to American life and for learning the do’s and don’ts of living in the United States.  The sponsor will help the immigrant learn American customs, habits, and values which will ease and facilitate the act of assimilation.  The sponsor will also assume financial responsibility for the new immigrant in order to guarantee that he or she will not become a drain/burden on the American taxpayer.

RULE #14:  All new immigrants and/or citizens to the United States must perform at least two years of service to their new nation.  They might, for example, join the military but they could also serve in a civilian capacity as well.  They might teach newer immigrants what they need to know about living in the United States or they might volunteer to serve in an adult literacy program but they must perform some service that signifies a willingness to “give back” to their adopted country.

RULE #15:  Deportation.  There I said it.  The dreaded “D” word which so many Americans seem so afraid of.  Deportation is a tool we have at our disposal that allows us to remove undesirable foreigners from our midst and it must be used liberally.  Would you even think twice about removing someone from your home who absolutely didn’t belong there and shouldn’t be there?  No, you wouldn’t.  Well, America is our home and only those who belong here should be permitted to stay here.  All others must leave voluntarily or be forced to leave.  Non-citizen immigrants who violate our laws must be removed.  No excuses accepted and no quarter given.  If you don’t belong here, then get the FUCK out of here!  If you don’t respect our laws, customs, and traditions then pack up your stuff and return to whatever Third World Shithole from whence you came!  It’s a very simple proposition.  Come here the right way and do the right thing when you get here or your sorry immigrant ass is leaving here!!

     You know, I could keep going with these rules for immigration and I’m sure many of you out there could add to the list with important points that I’ve neglected to mention, but you get the idea.  We are losing control of our nation and our sovereignty and it’s proceeding at warp speed!  It’s time that we as Americans stood up and said enough – stop it now!  We are in the midst of losing our country – of giving it away!  If this immigration insanity isn’t stopped America will cease to exist as the country we know and love.  It’s time to bring back the old bumper stickers of yesteryear which proclaimed sentiments like, “America First,” or, “America for Americans!”

Much Luv Y’All and Have a Great Day!

The Fifth Horseman

(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)