Thomas Jefferson vs. Barack Obama
By JB Williams on (Jul 20, 09)
Quintessential Liberal vs. Extreme Marxist
Since 52% of American voters were foolish enough to buy the story that Barack
Hussein Obama is some sort of “liberal messiah,” I thought it would be
interesting to compare the belief systems of America’s father of liberalism and
author of our Declaration of Independence, with the Marxist belief system of the
false messiah.
And since today’s liberals have so much trouble properly interpreting our
Founders’ simple message to future generations, I am under no illusion that
these facts will carry anymore weight with modern Marxists than Article II –
Section I of the Constitution, which clearly states that Barack Obama cannot be
President of the United States.
But for the rest of America, namely those who have been baffled by decades of
leftist balderdash via the NEA’s academia and the state run media complex, a few
real facts might help sort things out.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it
expects what never was and never will be.”
Just for you leftists out there, what Jefferson was trying to say here is, you
can’t be both stupid and free. This is the fly in your ointment friends. You
think you can be stupid and irresponsible AND free. But you can’t… You think
that freedom belongs to the spineless thief, but it doesn’t.
You think you can use a democratic process to force others to accept
responsibility for your ignorance, but you can’t.
Oh sure, you can cast your vote on this basis and even elect a president and
congress, who will seat a Supreme Court on this basis. But in the end, one of
two things will happen. Either those who earned the gold you seek to steal, will
take their gold and leave you holding your empty sack of broken promises, - or –
you will trade your individual freedom for a pittance of “free stuff” from the
public trough. You can be stupid, or you can be free, but you can’t be both…
In the end, there is no way to be both stupid and free! Jefferson knew this,
Obamanation doesn’t.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the
people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
This is why Jefferson and fellow Founders designed and gave birth to a
Constitutional Representative Republic instead of a “democracy,” and guaranteed
every state a “republican” form of government.
Their Republic was limited to governance which was “representative” of the
people, AND limited to the letter of Constitutional authority. The 10th
Amendment says it all…
“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.”
If the Constitution does not specifically grant the federal government authority
over a specific matter, then no such authority exists and any effort by the Fed
to step into that territory is simply “unconstitutional.”
Yet Obama and the modern “liberal” (aka 21st Century Marxist) believe that there
are no such limitations on our federal government and that they are free to
“take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent of Americans” on the basis
that they won an election by “democratic process.”
Their system of government is NOT a Constitutional Republic, but rather
Democratic Socialism, in which their ends justify their means and the
Constitution is no barrier.
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
According to Jefferson, but not according to Obama, Pelosi or Reid, and their
many minions and international friends, all of whom believe that the sum of good
government is to “take from those who have used their freedom well, and
redistribute to those who have not.”
For modern leftists, there is a good greater than freedom. There is political
power, bought with gifts from the public treasury for our nation’s “less
fortunate” and paid for by America’s most productive.
But unlike today’s faux liberals, Jefferson was THE quintessential liberal,
believing in a maximum abundance of individual liberty. In fact, he went so far
as to state unequivocally…
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than
those attending too small a degree of it.”
On the other side of complete individual liberty is anarchy. Yet Jefferson
states that he would prefer the inconveniences of too much liberty, as opposed
to too little.
By today’s perverted definitions, this would undoubtedly make Jefferson a
quintessential libertarian, not a modern liberal.
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them.”
Still, over the last hundred years or so, self-proclaimed liberals have built a
political dynasty on the unparalleled practice of wasting the labors of the
people under the pretense of taking care of them. There’s no special interest or
minority group they haven’t exploited, and no social engineering program they
haven’t bankrupted.
Despite the very real fact that our federal government has never touched an
issue it didn’t wreck, or established a budget it didn’t bust, the left has used
its new power to confiscate control of banking, investment, lending, energy,
auto manufacturing and individual income.
Next they seek control of health care and insurance, all under the false
pretense of taking care of the people while simply stockpiling their own
personal power over those people.
Jefferson would obviously, support no such thing.
“Information is the currency of democracy.”
I have always found this to be one of Jefferson’s most interesting quotes. Why
would someone so clearly opposed to pure democracy, make this statement?
In further studying Jefferson’s many writings, I discovered what Jefferson meant
by this statement.
As our nation’s most well-studied Founder and certainly our most prolific,
Jefferson was clearly a lover of information - history in particular. As a
result, he was right over and over again, including here… information is indeed
the currency of democracy.
He who controls the flow and content of information can thereby control public
opinion, and therefore, the decisions made by democratic process. This indeed
makes “information” the most important “currency” to any democratic society.
Hence, the state run media complex.
And again, Jefferson makes his point…
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than
to believe what is wrong.”
Today’s self-styled liberal believes in concepts that are historically proven to
be wrong. Communism and Socialism have failed miserably everywhere on earth they
have been tried. Still, the modern liberal believes it can work. That’s because
they have to believe it to justify robbing their fellow citizens of the rightful
earnings.
It would be better for them to believe nothing at all, than to believe that
which is clearly false. But doing so would not serve their agenda.
Even after congressional leftists bankrupted Fannie and Freddie, forcing every
homeowner into falling property values, investors into bad investments supported
by bad mortgages, falling markets that threaten the US dollar and the future of
the free market that made America the most prosperous and powerful nation on
earth, the left remains determined to stick with their failed belief system. It
has never worked anywhere on earth, but they are married to it just the same.
”Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
Obama has appointed more unconstitutional Czars in six months than the Soviet
Union did in thirty years. They are not accountable to the people, the states,
or even congressional oversight. They are appointed minions accountable only to
the dictator-in-chief.
Yet…
“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body.
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness
can be enjoyed by society.”
America’s day of reckoning for decades of ignorance, apathy and arrogance has
arrived.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it
expects what never was and never will be.”
There are none more ignorant than those who refuse to see… or learn from
history. They are doomed to learn the hard way, again and again!
Jefferson is America’s quintessential liberal and he had absolutely NOTHING in
common with Barack Obama or any other modern liberal. In fact, quite the
contrary.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.”
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Under the Obama administration, these two statements from Jefferson would
qualify Jefferson as a “right-wing extremist” and “potential domestic
terrorist,” according to Obama’s Department of Homeland Security.
That’s because Barack Obama’s belief system is based upon the concepts of Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels. He takes his orders from ACORN, represented by the
Congressional Black Caucus, established by card carrying member of the Communist
Party, John Conyers. His entire agenda was written by the Democratic Socialists
of America, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, established by
card carrying member of the Socialist Party, Bernie Sanders.
Jefferson, like every other Founding Father, is rolling over in his grave at
what now passes for “liberal” in America. Not one Founding Father would stand
for what is happening to this wonderful country today, nor would any call
themselves “liberal” by today’s perverted definition.
The people running Washington DC today are not American. They belong in prison,
not in power.
But instead, on July 16, 2009, two days before the writing of this column,
Obama’s Department of Justice, headed by Obama’s man Eric Holder, issued a
written threat to the state of Tennessee, signed by Assistant Director of the
ATF Carson W. Carroll. In that letter, Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms stated the following…
The passage of the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, H.B. 1796, 106th Leg. (Tenn.
2009) 1796 (”Act”), effective June 19, 2009, has generated questions from
industry members as to how this State law may affect them while engaged in a
firearms business activity. The Act purports to exempt personal firearms,
firearms accessories, and ammunition manufactured in the State, and which remain
in the State, from most Federal firearms laws and regulations. However, because
the Act conflicts with Federal firearms laws and regulations, Federal law
supersedes the Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National
Firearms Act, and their corresponding regulations, continue to apply.
A full copy of the ATF letter can be found here - http://www.tfaonline.org/downloads/ATFfirearmsfreedomact.pdf
Even though the Tennessee state legislature, through its proper course and
authority, passed both a Tenth Amendment bill reminding the Obama administration
that it is a sovereign state with constitutional rights, and that the federal
government exists at the pleasure of the people and the states, not the other
way around, and a Second Amendment affirmation in H.B. 1796, Obama does not see
it that way.
At the time of passage through the TN House and Senate, Judiciary Chairman Mae
Beavers had this to say- “Be it the federal government mandating changes in
order for states to receive federal funds or the federal government telling us
how to regulate commerce contained completely within this state – enough is
enough. Our founders fought too hard to ensure states’ sovereignty and I am sick
and tired of activist federal officials and judges sticking their noses where
they don’t belong.”
But despite the fact that the Tennessee legislature passed and ratified H.B.
1796, the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act of 2009, securing the rights of
firearms owners and dealers in the state of Tennessee, Obama’s ATF believes that
“federal laws supersede state laws.” This concept could be applied to any law in
any state, of course.
It is NOT true however… The US Constitution supersedes both federal and state
laws. Neither legislature can pass laws at odds with constitutional text. Under
the US Constitution, the vast power is entrusted to the people and their states,
not the Fed. (See Amendment X of the US Constitution)—Federal laws trump state
laws only in the unbridled imaginations of leftists and federal law makers. But
only because both act as though the Constitution no longer exists.
For this reason, I share another of Jefferson’s sentiments...
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice
cannot sleep forever.”
* The inescapable natural consequence of fiscal insanity is financial ruin
* The inescapable result of moral relativity is an immoral abyss
* The inevitable result of federal tyranny is state and local revolt
* The end result of bad government is unrest and eventually, a failed government
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government
fears the people, there is liberty.”
American citizens have come to fear their tyrannical federal government. Decades
of leftist fiscal insanity in Washington DC have left the nation in financial
ruin. The moral relativity of the left has shoved the nation into an immoral
abyss and the day of reckoning has arrived.
The people must organize with local and state leaders in their individual
states. According to the US Constitution, the Fed exists and serves at the
pleasure of the people and their respective states. These principles either
stand, or everything collapses. See Tenth Amendment action reports here -
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/07/18/the-battle-begins-atf-vs-the-constitution/
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and
define you.”