By Larry Elder
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Once upon a time, a group of people known as the
"Democrats" expressed great fear of tyranny by government.This was a
time long, long ago, when a man from a place called Texas, representing a
people known as the Republicans, occupied the White House. Leaders of the
Democrats feared tyranny by the Republicans and called the man from Texas
racist, oppressive and tyrannical.
To refresh your recollection, we offer a few examples
from the distant past:
Billionaire Democratic contributor George Soros. He said
the George W. Bush White House displayed the "supremacist ideology of Nazi
Germany" and that Bush's administration used rhetoric that echoed his
childhood in occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with
us or against us,'" Soros said, "it reminds me of the Germans."
Soros later said: "The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist
regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. ... Indeed, the Bush
administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and
communist propaganda machines."
Former Vice President Al Gore. He said: "(George W.
Bush's) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and
intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. ... And every day,
they unleash squadrons of digital brown shirts to harass and hector any
journalist who is critical of the President."
Former two-time Democratic presidential candidate and
civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson. After Congress passed new
anti-terrorism laws following 9/11, he said: "We are in danger. The
extreme right wing has seized the government. Tonight, (John) Ashcroft and the
CIA and the FBI and Homeland Security and the IRS can work together. So look
out, because without a definition of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. ... Martin
Luther King could have been. ... The right-wing media, the FBI -- they are
targeting our leadership."
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., senior member of the House
Ways and Means Committee. He said: "What we are dealing with right now in
this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not.
... (President Bush) is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an
emperor -- to create Empire America." An Iraq War opponent, McDermott
said, "The President of the United States will lie to the American people
in order to get us into this war."
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who sits on four Senate
committees, including Armed Services and Commerce. In the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, she said, "George Bush let people die on rooftops in
New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black."
Entertainer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte. When
asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration
suggested a lack of racism on Bush's part, Belafonte said, "Hitler had a
lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich."
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean,
former presidential candidate. He characterized the contest between Democrats
and Republicans as "a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
Shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, Dean actually mused about an
"interesting theory" he'd heard -- that G.W. Bush had prior knowledge
of 9/11 yet took no action to stop it!
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In 2003,
Albright said she thought Bush had already captured Osama bin Laden -- but that
Bush was not going to reveal this until just before the 2004 election to get
maximum political benefit! She later claimed she was joking, but Morton
Kondracke, who overheard the comment, said, "She was not smiling when she
said this," and that others in the room heard it, too, "and they
didn't think it was a joke."
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., sitting member of all six
subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He compared the newly
conservative-controlled Republican House of Representatives to "the Duma
and the Reichstag" -- referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas
II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought
Hitler to power.
An anti-gun New York newspaper published a report and
interactive map with the names and addresses of gun permit holders in
Westchester and Rockland counties. Shortly after this, an anti-gun columnist
for a prominent New Jersey paper said: "(I got) a nasty note from one of
my most progressive friends who says ... 'You're a fool because when the right
wing takes over the government, we're gonna need guns. ... And then there won't
be guns to fight them back."
"Words matter," Obama once said.
During the Bush years, Democrats feared, or at least
claimed to fear, the possibility of tyranny -- precisely the purpose of the
Second Amendment. If these Democrats were even remotely sincere, why wouldn't
any self-respecting patriot want the right to keep and bear arms to protect
against thugs like that? Indeed, why not mandatory gun ownership -- at least
when Republicans control the White House?
You warned us. We believe you. The threat of tyranny is
ever-present.
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