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There has been a lot of talk in the various media outlets of the Left about Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos.” As a participant in Operation Chaos, Republican Voters are asked to temporarily switch their party affiliation to Democrat and vote for Hilary Clinton in an effort to, above all, create chaos among the Democrats and keep them fighting amongst themselves. Then, in November, Republican voters will switch back and vote for Senator John McCain.

At first, the talking points consisted merely of how exit polls showed that Operation Chaos seemed to be working and how “unfair” and “undemocratic” it was to vote, insincerely, in the other party’s primary. (Conversely, the Left had no problem with Independents and Democrats selecting John McCain as the Republican nominee.)

Recently, however, the Leftist media has changed their talking points to accusations of mass criminal law violations of Republicans in Ohio and other states – states where voters are required to sign some sort of pledge of sincerity when the switch party affiliation. Many people are now “investigating” the possibility of brining criminal indictments against insincere Republicans who voted Democrat in Ohio. If convicted, such voters could serve jail time for violating state criminal law.

In reality, such indictments would be nearly impossible to convict, because it requires a trial court to get into the mind of a voter and determine what he or she was thinking. It is really just an effort by the media and others on the Left to scare Republican voters in upcoming primaries from doing the same, and to prevent them from helping Hilary Clinton as they did in Texas and Ohio earlier this month.

On its surface, however, attempting to criminally punish voters based on their sincerity – indeed, their very thoughts - is eerily reminiscent of George Orwell’s Thought Police in 1984. Of course, an authoritarian state with absolute control over the lives of its citizens is exactly what they Left desires in the end anyway.

“A candidate for change.” That is how supporters describe Barack Obama on a daily basis. “Change.” How vague is that? Exactly what change can Obama bring to the United States? Perhaps we should attempt to answer this riddle by looking at Senator Obama’s legislative accomplishments. In his three years in the United States Senate, he has brought about so much change that it has left many of his supporters speechless. With so many to choose from, it is hard to name just one.

In reality, Barack Obama has no major accomplishments as a United States Senator. Does his vague promise of change actually promise no major accomplishments as presidents as well? Oh no, of course not! What Presidential candidate would fill his campaign with vacant buzzwords and clever rhetoric? Certainly not Barack Obama! He’s “a candidate for change.” Well, with no way to ascertain Obama’s vision of change in his 3 year career as a United States Senator, perhaps we should look at aspects of the man’s moral and personal life.

On the other hand, God forbid we talk about his personal life. This is a campaign about the issues. Let’s just stick to the issues. Okay, which issues? Change? Hope? Some other uniquely vague verb pulled from Webster’s dictionary at random? The truth is that we have no real way of judging Obama as a candidate besides looking into the judgments he has made during his personal life and estimating what kind of judgments he may make as President of the United States. Recently, such an investigation into Barack Obama’s personal life has been taking place, and several disturbing issues have come to light that question his legitimacy as a Presidential candidate.

The first thing that comes to my mind is his friendship with a domestic leftist terrorist. As I described previously, Barack Obama has a questionable relationship with William Ayers. William Ayers is formerly a member of the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist organization that operated in the 1960s and 1970s. It officially declared war on the United States in 1972, and it was responsible for over 25 bombings and attempted bombings of government buildings, including the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. It’s stated goal was the violent overthrow of the United States government in an effort to bring about the Socialist revolution; moreover, it a September 11, 2001 article in the New York Times, Ayers stated, “I don’t regret setting bombs.” Furthermore, I feel that we didn’t do enough.”

Unfortunately, Ayers was given a light prison sentence because of procedural wrongdoings, and he is now a Professor in Illinois. Obama has received campaign support of Ayers and has served on the nine member Woods Fund Board with him. According to an article in the Politico that I previously referred to, a prominent doctor in the area who knows both men referred to them as “friends.” William Ayers belongs in a prison cell for the rest of his life.

Another very questionable relationship of Barack Obama is his association with the Chicago area criminal slumlord Tony Rezko. While Obama was an up and coming politician in the Chicago area, he had a few controversial land deals with Rezko, some involving taxpayer money – including the purchase of two adjacent home lots in which Obama’s mansion and Rezko’s home now stand. Obama has since called the purchase “a mistake.”

It is hard to do worse than to associate with a domestic terrorist bent on the destruction of the United States; however, Barack Obama’s pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Write is at the top of the list with William Ayers. In a sermon given at Barack Obama’s church in 2003, Rev. Write had the following to say:

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America.

No! No No! God damn America … for killing innocent people.

God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans.

God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.”

Two of the Weather Underground’s most prominent members, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, avoided serious jail time because of “improper” FBI surveillance. Since then, however, they have been outspoken and unrepentant about their time with the Weather Underground. In fact, in a September 11, 2001 article in the New York Times, Ayers stated, “I don’t regret setting bombs.” Furthermore, I feel that we didn’t do enough.”

Ayers and Bernardine are now prominent leftists in the Chicago community. It has become a sort of rite-of-passage for politicians representing their district to meet with them and get their support for office. In 1995, Barack Obama did just that, and State Senator Alice Palmer accompanied her successor to their home in Hyde Park for the meeting. According to The Politico, prominent physician in the area who attended the meeting described the two as friends. One would think that Obama would wish to clear up any allegations of him associating with a terrorist; however, both Obama and Ayers have refused to discuss their relationship. Moreover, from 1999 through 2002, both Obama and Ayers served together on the Board of the Woods Fund of Chicago group, and Ayers has donated money to Obama in the past.

This association with members of the Weather Underground naturally invites questions about Barack’s involvement and asscoaition, and Americans have the right to ask those questions to a person running for President of the United States. Perhaps Obama shares the same goal of a Socialist state in America.

We believe in the exact words the founders chose to brilliantly establish our nation. If our Constitution was meant to be a living, breathing document whose meaning changes, then the founders would have adopted an unwritten Constitution similar to Great Britian. Instead, they created a different method, if necessary, for making changes to the Constitution - the amendment process.

The Constitutional amendment process was intentionally made difficult to serve as one of many safeguards that limit the power of the national government. We believe in that process and a strict reading of the text of the Constitution. Judges legislating from the bench and creating whole new constitutional rights is a subversion of the supremacy of the Constitution; moreover, it endangers the liberty of every American.

Additionally, Conservatives believe in the Bill of Rights. Unlike the Left, we believe in all of them. I am going to discuss just three of them here, and how they are abused by the Left in their attempt to make their Socialist nightmare a reality.

The First Amendment guarentees a number of rights; however, the only part of the amendment that seems to interest the Left is the Establishment Clause - stating that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” This, of course, is designed to prevent a state established church such as the Church of England - a church that compells membership and tax payments. Unfortunately, the Left twists this clause to deny Americans their right to the free execise of religion. Providing students with an optional moment to pray does not establish a religion. It provides them with the oportunity to freely execise their religion. No one is compelled to pray.

Freedom of speech and of the press are two First Amendment rights that the Left also twist to meet their socialist agenda. When a person want to burn an American flag on the steps of the capital - the Left claims freedom of speech; however, when talk radio show hosts practice their freedom of speech, the Left attempts to silence them with policies such as the Fairness Doctrine. More recently, Harry Reid and over 40 other current Democratic United States Senators authored and sent a letter to Rush Limbaugh’s broadcasting partner in an attempt to silence him.

The Second Amendment is one of America’s most important rights. The Left constantly abuse it and attempt to undermine it. This right, however, keeps a certain element of power in the hands of the people - a right that our revolutionary founders made great use of. The right keep keep and bear arms ensures that we have the ability to assemble an armed militia in the case of a government that grows totalitarian. Had the founder’s themselves not had this right, our country would not exisist, and it exists today as a further limit on the growth of the government. It is, in a manner of speaking, our final safeguard. It also has the bonus advantage of helping to defend against a possible invasion.

Every one of the Bill of Rights are designed to limit the power of the national government. The founders were incredibly understanind in the area of human nature. They knew that the more power that the government had the more likely it would be that even the best of men would abuse that power. Instead of giving the government broad authority over the nation, the Constitution established certain enumerated powers.

This leads us the the all important Tenth Amendement. Unfortunately, this incredible amendment has been almost wholly ignored by the Socialist Left. The Tenth Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” This means that the government can do what the Constitution explicitly says it can do and no more. If we wish to grant the government additional powers, we can amend the Constitution.

Unfortunatly, the federal government has grown substantially over the last century - largely due to the precedents set by FDR and his Leftist Supreme Court. His New Deal legislation attemptted time and time again to violate the Constitution, and the Supreme Court ruled as such time and time again - until he threatened to pack the Supreme Court by adding six more justices that agreed with his ideology. Under such political pressures and fear, the court completely shifted its rulings; furthermore, over his 4 terms in office FDR was able to appoint 8 Justices to the Court. Following the empire of FDR, the American people saw that there was a need to limit Presidents to just 2 terms, and correctly, the Constitution was amended.

The founding fathers set out to create a nation based on certain principles and values that they believed were of the greatest significance. We have all heard lists of such values: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, et cetera. They saw such rights as unalienable and bestowed upon us from God. Furthermore, because the founders had such a seemingly unprecedented understanding of human nature and the world in general, they established a government designed, ultimately, to protect against infringement of those rights.

This understanding of human nature and acknowledgement of inalienable rights from God (meaning the government does not give the rights to us, therefore they cannot take them away) is what has made the United States so very unique – so revolutionary. What has made our country so blessed is not the fact that we established a democratic form of government. The Greeks did so centuries ago. America, however, took democratic government a step further by establishing limits on government power, even the instance of a majority opinion. We officially embraced the notion for the first time in human history that the government serves the people and not vice versa.

We must defend the Constitution and reverse the current growth of Government power. We are on track to become an authoritarian Socialist state, and although those on the Left would rewrite history to show otherwise, history has show us time and time again that Socialism leads to submission, death, and destruction.

Many people would disagree. They are blinded by the skyrocketing price of gasoline over the past few years and press stories about Exxon recording a record $40.6 Billion in profits in 2007. Seriously though, how is this supposed to help either of those two points?

Increasing taxes certainly can’t lower the cost of gasoline at the pump. The oil compaines aren’t going to take a hit in profits through an increase in taxes and then just suddenly decide to lower the prices the consumer pays at the pump. Quite the opposite. They will raise the price the consumer pays at the pump to cover the new cost of those taxes - having the complete opposite effect of one of the supposed intentions of the measure.

Since the oil companies will just be passing their tax bill onto the consumer, it certainly won’t effect their profits. A lot of press covered the fact that Exxon recorded $40.6 Billion in profits in 2007, but it is a much smaller known fact that they also paid $30 Billion in taxes to the government. Much of what the consumer pays at the pump is already taxes directly from the local or national government and taxes passed on by the oil companies.

The real intent of this legislation is mass wealth redistribution (to more environmentally friendly forms of energy) and an effort to earn public policial points by appearing to punish those nasty oil companies. Unfortunatley, the public is largely unaware that the high gas prices are as much the fault of the government as the oil companies, and this measure certainly would not help the situation. Taxes are not the answer.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Eminent Domain. This has been heavily abused and has been taken way past the original scope intended by the Constitution. Currently, the government has the authority to take any person private property for any reason it sees fit, provided it gives the owner “just compensation.” Your property is yours only as long as the government doesn’t want it.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The IRS hit this nail on the head. The more money you make, the higher the percentage of your income is taxed. The top 5% of wage earners in the United States pay a little more than 50% of the total tax bill for the entire nation. The top 10% pay nearly 65%. The top 50% of wage earners pay 96%. The better you do, the more it costs you. How does that encourage success?

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
This is known to Americans as the Death Tax or the Estate Tax. After being taxed all your life on everything you make and again on everything you buy, your inheritance is taxed again after your death.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. Government seizures, tax liens, and forfeitures allows certain government agencies such as the IRS to seize the property of others. Often without due process.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capotal and an exclusive monopoly.
Say hello to the Federal Reserve System, also known as “the Fed.” All banks are a member of the Federal Reserve System, which manipulates interest rates as it sees fit,has the absolute power to print money, and regulates banks through the FDIC. You don’t have to follow politics to know the major influence that the Fed has over Wall Street and the economics of the nation.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. This list can get rather large: The Federal Communications Commission, Department Of Transportation, the fairness doctrine as an attempt to control talk radio, attempted regulations of the internet, and attacks on the Fox News Network for not pandering to the Left.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. All over the country you can’t begin your own business without the government’s permission, via a business license. There is also extensive regulation through agencies like O.S.H.A. and other government programs. Once you have paid the government for the ability to start your business, your business has to pay them taxes every year after that. The second part of this step is accomplished through practices such as telling farmers what to plant and paying them not to plant in certain areas of their land.

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c. The tax-funded public school system controlled by the Academic Left. In many areas, all children are required to attend publics school until the 8th grade. There has been a massive assault on an American’s right to have their children home schooled. It’s purpose: indoctrination of America’s youth.