March 30, 2013
Dangerous Times: America will Survive Obama
By James Lewis

Can America survive the age of O? Many conservatives are worried sick.

Some friends invited me to their Passover seder the other night, and for the first time I really paid attention to the meaning of the words. As you know, the seder celebrates the liberation of the Hebrew people -- the Jews -- from oppression and slavery in Egypt around the first millennium BCE. There has long been debate about the accuracy of that history, but skip that for now.

Ask yourself why liberation from slavery has dominated Jewish and later Christian thought for three thousand years? Jesus' Last Supper was a seder ceremony. Black churches used the Egyptian slavery of the children of Israel as a model for their own experiences of slavery and liberation. So have other liberation movements, including the Abolitionists and the American founders.

The Jewish flight from Egyptian slavery was a model of human liberation in the West, until Karl Marx twisted liberty into tyranny. But the struggle between freedom and control freaks is universal. It can be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the family hell created by kids during teenage rebellion. Freedom is a basic yearning of the human spirit, and so is control freakery.

Now we have a president who confuses slavery and liberty, most obviously in the case of the Islamist Spring, which is certainly not an Arab Spring, since in Syria alone nearly 100,000 Arabs have killed each other by now. Some Spring!

To make the results clear beyond question, the Morsi regime in Egypt has just imposed a Sharia constitution that drops the provision against slavery. The reason for that is Islamic law: the Quran describes Mohammed raiding caravans and small towns to steal slaves, including his child bride. The Islamist world still applies slavery to wives and daughters. Thomas Jefferson tried to stop Libyan slave raiding of American merchant ships off the shores of Tripoli, but they never quite got the point.

In Islam it is not freedom but complete submission that is emphasized. Islam is radically different from Judaism and Christianity. It is a desert nomad religion. It reflects that culture.

Domestically, Obama is trying to create a Eurosocialist centralized economy. But in the liberal paradise of Europe the socialist model is failing right in front of our eyes today. Millions of people in Italy and Greece have had their incomes slashed in half and their taxes increased. The Euro is failing in all the weaker economies of Europe. The standard demagogic propaganda of Eurosocialism -- calling one's opponents racists and planetary poisoners -- is failing. In a few years the Arab-Iranian oil monopoly will crumble, when shale gas takes over its market share. Countries around the world are frantically searching for shale now that it can be converted into clean hydrocarbons. That will eliminate Islamist OPEC control of oil and allow freedom to emerge again.

Everywhere the Arab Spring has sprung, Islamist tyranny has replaced relative freedom -- for women most of all. Turkey used to be a modern country until the Islamofascists took over. Egypt used to be relatively tolerant, and kept the 30-year peace treaty with Israel, until Obama told Mubarak to resign. Wherever the Muslim world was poised between modernism and tradition, now the reactionary patriarchs are in control of hundreds of millions of people. Behind a solid wall of media censorship, women are being abused, intimidated, and beaten, with the official approval of imams and mullahs. Read the books of Ayaan Hirsi Ali if you have any doubts about that. Our feminists are playing deaf, but they know, they know. Under Obama the feminist movement has colluded in the enslavement of Muslim women in the "Arab Spring." (Just consider Naomi Wolf's new job with Al Jazeera.)

Pre-Obama, there were genuine movements towards modernity in the Muslim world, beginning with Turkey in 1922. Post-Obama, half a billion women are likely to be openly abused if they venture outside of the house without a male escort, much more vulnerable to blame for being sexually abused by the "justice" of Shariah law, and much more oppressed by the last nasty patriarchy in the world. Thank you, Liberator Obama.

Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln would never, ever have gone along with the renewed fascist control of the Muslim world.

At the UN, 57 Muslim member regimes routinely smear and slander Israel and America, with European and American acquiescence. Brain-locked liberals around the world think this is all fine, and Obama the Messiah is beyond criticism.

Obama is all in favor of the Islamist Spring, because, whether he is Muslim or not, he is an Islamist sympathizer. There is no reasonable doubt anymore.

This is the worst news about an American president since the rise of Stalin, who also penetrated the U.S. with his agents.

My question is whether it will spell an end to the America we have known.

I think America will survive and ultimately win.

The reason is that control freaks are always self-deluded. Freedom is a yearning of the human spirit in America, but it is not limited to America.

No control freak in the world can really run a giant national economy, much less the world as a whole. People have tried to do such things for thousands of years. In general, centralized control fails, just as the Soviet command economy failed.

What about ObamaCare? Nationalized medicine will elect a lot of Democrats. Ordinary people will learn to get around the inevitable medical rationing, the way they do in Europe. We will all become Italians. Medical vacations abroad will offer an increasingly attractive alternative to American socialized medicine. Private medical care is always being tried in Europe, and some of it works very well. Now it will become global, with private medicine competing with nationalized bureaucracy. Mexico is already becoming a medical travel destination, with international approval for some of its medical centers.

Even in the face of Obamanism, the high-tech revolution is increasingly hard to control. Lenin placed all his technological control bets on electrification of the Soviet Union. When a new industrial revolution commenced with the appearance of cheap computers, the Soviets could never keep up.

When shale technology (invented in America) begins to work in Poland, the Eastern Med, China, and Ireland, the Greens will suddenly decide that natural gas is good for us. Their favorite control whip won't work anymore.
The biotech revolution is exploding, along with space travel, web talk, and a hundred other new and hard-to-control inventions.

Even today the stock market is rising, a leading indicator of growth. The market is already discounting the expected effects of ObamaCare.

Will it work? Not forever. But it will continue the long, long struggle between control freaks and regular people. Just think Soda Jerk Bloomberg in New York, who has now decided to control restaurant portion sizes in the city. Will that work? Of course not.

So -- will American freedom survive Obama?

I think so, yes. But the country will look very different when the uproar dies down.

Read more:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/d...l#ixzz2P5aBEnOz

Great article.

I think there are some flaws in his assumptions but I like his sense of history and his thought processes.

Roland Buck had over a few years a series of angelic visitors--BIG ANGELS. And, he had a visit to Heaven in which he was shown 120 things that would happen in the future. I don't recall if all 120 happened before his death, or not. Most did.

I heard him speak and knew his brother. His brother was the typical Assembly of God large church pastor in Spokane. Roland pastored the First Assembly in Boise, ID. They were part of the very conservative Buck Knives family of Southern California.

Roland's personality was more unflappable, skeptical, wary, no nonsense, hard nosed reality based etc. somewhat akin to the national PERCEPTIONS of Walter Cronkite's personality as the most believable man in America.

Interestingly, when Roland came back to his body sitting at his desk after the visit to Heaven and the meeting with Father, ALMIGHTY GOD, he noticed he had in his hands a velum like sheet with the 120 items God had showed him in Heaven would come to pass--carefully and beautifully written in cursive. He was tired so he laid the velum sheet on his desk and went to bed. The next morning, the sheet was still there but had started to disintegrate. He scooped the pieces into an envelope and showed them to a number of people before they completely vanished.

The Lord Jesus told Roland that America would be VERY severely disciplined but would survive as a Nation--not necessarily in its current form--but as a Nation. . . . that He, Jesus, considered the stripes in our flag as symbolic of His stripes and that He had helped establish our Nation and would insure that it would endure.

The book:

ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT can be read and downloaded free here:
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http://www.angelsonassignment.org/
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The book was an enormous encouragement during the long dark night of the soul after my wife divorced me and married her co-worker. It might well be so to some during our current national long dark night of the soul.

I believe we will be seeing many angelic visitations and helps during the coming very black period just as we'll be seeing many fallen angel deceptions and delusions.

I do believe the prophecies predicting the USA landmass being divided by an enlarged arm of the Gulf of Mexico reaching to the Great Lakes will be true (there's a thread about that in the Paranormal section). Given our treatment of Israel that OThuga is so eagerly carrying out--I believe he will betray Israel and that God will discipline us fiercely accordingly. The Bible is quite clear about that.

Nevertheless, by God's Grace and miracle working Power, I believe that we will somehow endure through the Great Tribulation and Armageddon. We may be taken within a hair's breadth of utter distruction but I believe we will endure.

Thanks for the article.
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My America - the one I grew up with has already been destroyed. It will never come back. My heart aches for my kids and grand kids. Superman's motto, playing freely in the front yard, innocence, peewee football without parents attacking the coach, optimism, work hard get rewarded, being given your first 22 at age 10 without storm troopers invading your privacy, decency, freedom of association, security in your matters.........ahh I could go on but what's the point.

INDEED.

Zitat

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So -- will American freedom survive Obama?

I think so, yes. But the country will look very different when the uproar dies down.

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Exactly.

Very much depends if conservatism can hold the House, win the Senate in 2014.

If the House goes, and it is a possibility--then in 2016 it is likely the dems will win the Presidency again. That will represent a major turning point for America--joining the ranks of Canada, Europe, Australia--as modern mixed economy states.

We will then have semi-nationalized health care, bigger safety net, etc.

It will be the result of conservatism failing to persuade voters.

Yeah, but how does America survive an ever larger number of Americans who keep voting in these tyrants?