Time for a Meaty Post

Consider the dizzying pace of today's news, I thought it might be time to bust out a really meaty post. With the seeds of revolution sprouting in Iran while our liberty and freedom of speech is moving in the opposite direction with the so-called health care 'townhall' planned for the All Barack Channel on June 24, I thought a review of Marx's Communist Manifesto would be a good topic for tonight's post.

For those who have done homework on Dear Leader, the chilling similarities to Marx's 10 Planks will come as no surprise. After all, Obama spent considerable time during his formative youth in Hawaii with Frank Marshall Davis, member of the US Communist Party for over 40 years. He also sought out 'Marxist professors' admitted in his book 'Dreams of My Father'. And he taught Alinksy tactics at several Chicago community organizing groups , including the Developing Communities Project in addition to leading ACORN's corrupt Project Vote effort. Obama has carefully cultivated and nurtured Marxist ideology his entire life and the fact that he is rapidly pushing our country far left should come as no surprise. But to those of you unaware of his radical background, I encourage you to do some homework. Where he wants to take this country is truly frightening and is the opposite of the country our Founding Fathers envisioned.

So what does this have to do with Karl Marx and the 10 Planks noted in his Communist Manifesto? Read below and you'll clearly see. And for you partisans out there, much of this happened or was started during Bush 43's administration so this isn't all about Left vs. Right. It's more about Fedzilla and the rest of us outside the Beltway.

Plank 1: Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

SCOTUS 2005 ruling allowing expanded eminent domain. The fact that any government can confiscate private property for the so-called 'public good' is unconscionable. Yet it happens in this country on a daily basis.

Plank 2: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

This is happening right now. We're are rapidly approaching the point where a majority of Americans will pay no income tax at all creating a permanent Left-leaning voting majority. The top 25% of income earners pay 86% of all federal income tax, certainly a heavy progressive income tax.

Plank 3: Abolition of all right of inheritance.

Last fall, a House sub-committee actively explored the federal confiscation of 401K plans and IRAs in the height of the financial panic. In its place would be an expanded retirement program under Social Security where you would be required to contribute 5% of your income for a guaranteed 3% return. Upon death, only half of your 'account' would be assigned to your estate. Combine this with the return of the death tax in 2011, the net result of these Marxist policies would effectively be the abolition of inheritance.

Plank 4: Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

See Plank 1.

Plank 5: Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

Beginning with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and culminating with the forced receipt of TARP funds last fall by the 10 major banks in America, we have effectively nationalized banking and credit in this country. Add to this rules imposed and planned by this regime to cap executive pay at financial institutions, we effectively have a federal monopoly of our banking system with unnecessary federal involvement in virtually all aspects of banking and credit.

Plank 6: Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

An perfect example of this is today's announcement that ABC Nightly News will broadcast its nightly newscast from the inside the White House on June 24 and then occupy valuable prime time slots in order to televise a 'townhall' focused on Obamacare. Obama will answer questions about his plan but there will be no opposing or alternative view presented. It will be pure State propaganda. Add the Fairness Doctrine to the MSM, and we have centralised communication in this country.

Transportation is an all-together separate topic as you can see the State's involvement in automobile manufacturing expanding in the future as it becomes clear that the federal government has no place running Chrysler and GM. The full weight and force of the federal government, in the hope of limiting financial exposure to the car mess, will reduce competition in this country, forcing us, at some point in the future, to purchase government produced vehicles.

Plank 7: Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

Clearly occurring with significant government ownership of insurance, banking and automobile companies.

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

One word. Unions. Never in the history of this country has there but such clear preference given to unions by an administration. Clearly with the EFCA, it is the goal of the government for increased, and perhaps, complete unionization of the American people.

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

Ethanol and other farm subsidies clearly demonstrate the combination of agriculture and other major industrial sectors. As state governments close in on insolvency, look for many blue states to look to the federal government for bailouts. Lines between states and the federal government have already been blurred when the California Govenator was threatened by the Obama regime with withholding of AARP funds if the Govenator went through with planned salary reductions for state union employees. Chicago thug politics in full bloom.

Plank 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.

It is clearly a goal of this regime to pull more and more students into the public education system. Eliminating school choice and preventing and even eliminating successful voucher programs has already occurred all in the name of 'free education for all children'. And with the passage of the GIVE Act, it is not a stretch to see the combination of education and industrial production evolve from this legislation.

We live in very dangerous times as this country moves farther and farther away from the vision of our Founding Fathers and closer to the failed visions of Karl Marx, skillfully re-packaged by Obama and his puppet masters.

In order to stop this Marxist march:

Do your homework. Understand what this country is up against.

Get involved. Call you congresscritter. Join your local Republican or Libertarian party.

We cannot rely on current GOP leadership to defend this country. It is up to each and every one of us at a grass root level to withstand this relentless assault on our freedom and liberty.