Ripe For Revolution
With the populist uprisings in the Middle East and Africa, it is worthwhile to read Francis Fukuyama’s reflections on political revolts in the Mid-East, where he asks: “Is China Next?”
While concluding China is not immediately susceptible to revolt, he highlights actions that make so-called rebels unhappy with their current regimes: “The authorities routinely fail to respect the dignity of ordinary citizens and run roughshod over their rights.” Causing this is a lack of “…the rule of law nor public accountability.” Continuing to describe the methods those in power use to cause the populace to wish to overthrow the government he says: “…local government that works in collusion with a private developer to take away the land of peasants or poor workers for a glittery new project…” He goes on. My point here is these problems are not foreign to the US.
Regularly we have the Obama administration flouting the rule of law. There is Timothy Geithner’s lack of culpability in his tax payments. A prime example is Obama taking advantage of the bondholders in the GM bailout, where the Obama administration completely ignored the rule of law and took care of its political cronies – the unions. More recently, the Pelosi Congress, in concert with the Harry Reid Senate and the Obama Presidency, have made a new agency – the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It is not subject to oversight by Congress; its head is not subject to Senate confirmation, which Obama is happy to do.
Moving along, the list of governments that have taken private land to aid developers starts in Charlotte. Second Ward and its redevelopment should be a history lesson for those locally. Arthur Griffin, at one time a widely recognized politician, always said the demise of Second Ward was racist in nature. I always told him it was about poor people. The developers got the land and who cares about the poor black people who lived there? The Supreme Court has weighed in on the issue and found it ‘legal,’ wherein New London, Connecticut, took land from one group of private owners to give to another, and the courts, those bastions of the rule of law, went along with the government. What a surprise.
Again, locally, a new law allows government bureaucrats to decide if private property is being maintained properly. Can you tell where that is headed? At the federal and state level, the Environmental Protection agents have all too much power. Various drug enforcement laws allow a taking of property for some crimes even before the accused has been found guilty of those crimes. The list is long of government abuse of the people. Taxes get higher; we get ObamaCare. Government spending and debt gets out of hand and the Federal Reserve starts printing money to pay it off. The coming inflation will be government stealing from the people to pay for their excesses. You can already see it in the grocery stores and at the gas pump.
Finally, the people start to rise up against the government and the ruling elite. The TEA Party people have started to realize what their government has been doing to them since 1865. Every year it has gotten worse. George Bush the younger by his excesses led the way to give us Obama. Back to back we have two Presidents who are the epitome of irresponsibility and government power. Our leaders ‘fail to respect the dignity of ordinary citizens and run roughshod over their rights’. The TEA Party is a response to that failure, to that abuse of the people. They are fighting to maintain the American Dream the governing elite are working to destroy.
Things that make the people unhappy with government are the same the world over. It is only by the regular removal of those in government that the people will maintain some control over government.
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