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• Concerned Citizen says:

  March 19, 2009 at 11:58 am

  The Founding Fathers were against democracy. They knew the next step would be a dictatorship. We are watching this come to pass.
• Anonymous says:

  March 18, 2009 at 6:32 pm

  Indeed…this is not the way a democracy is suppose to work….this is more like a step toward a “dictatorship”!!! Please circulate this information to everyone you know! I don’t want anyone knocking on my door to promote the USURPER and his Anti-American agenda!!! Jackie:)

  This can be found at http://www.americanthinker.com

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  March 18, 2009

  The Knock on the Door
  By Lona Manning

  A sitting President of the United States is “organizing a political organization loyal to him, bound by a pledge, outside the government and existing party apparatus. The historical precedents are ominous.”

  What is so ominous about an organization? Americans, Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed, “constantly form associations…. If it is proposed to inculcate some truth or to foster some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form a society.”

  Certainly, thousands of organizations seek to influence the political debate. There’s Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions or the left-wing People for the American Way, for instance.

  Political parties are another example of an association, of course. Before, during and after political campaigns, the Democrats and Republicans promote their agendas. As legal entities, they have their own constitutions, their rules of business, their chairmen and officers. They have to be accountable to both the government and their members.

  But there is a new organization on the political scene — “Organizing for America,” announced by President Barack Obama in late January but officially unfurled last weekend.

  Obama describes OFA as a “grass-roots movement” but OFA is a “project” of the Democratic Natrional Committee.

  As Politico reported, OFA will take the 10 million person database built up by the Obama campaign “to mobilize support for the president’s legislative agenda.”

  A visit to the OFA website reveals that supporters are not simply asked to sign up; they are asked to take a pledge. A pledge to support — not the flag, not the constitution, not the country, not even the Democratic Party, but Obama and his “bold plan.” OFA does not use the Democratic Party logo but the “O”-shaped logo of the Obama campaign in which the red white and blue of the flag are abstracted to soft pastel colors.

  (Celebrities like Ashton Kuchner and Demi Moore did not wait until the official launch to “pledge to be of service” to Barack Obama, of course.)

  You will not find any mention of OFA`s governing structure, their budget, their bylaws, or their officers at the OFA website. Donations to the website go to the DNC, but OFA is managed out of the White House. If you click on the comments button, you are taken to a link to the White House email.

  Those who take the pledge are asked to “talk with people about the President’s plan” and to “ask them to sign their names to the pledge” in support of Obama’s policies.

  So we have a Movement — this is their term, not mine — organized by, and loyal to, a sitting President. Pledge canvassers, armed with your name, will ask you to pledge loyalty to the President too. A president whose term has already become a permanent campaign, is signing up ground forces in a mass organization pledged to personal loyalty to their Leader.

  Does anyone know of any historical precedents for this in the United States?

  Did Mitch Stewart, youthful director of OFA, who asks Obama’s acolytes to organize “neighborhood by neighborhood” study anything at school about Mao’s “Red Guards?

  How about Fidel Castro’s “widespread system of neighborhood informers”?

  Or Hugo Chavez’s use of “neighborhood committees”?

  Did Stewart learn anything about democracy at all?

  Do any of Obama’s pledged servants understand why a sitting president has no business creating and deploying his own supporters to help organize their neighbors?

  Keep in mind that these acolytes have renounced any thought of questioning the actual policies of the maximum leader. Whatever he says, they are for it. They have given their word.

  And they are coming to have a talk with you.

  As Thomas Lifson wrote, “This is not the way a democracy is supposed to operate.”
• Chris says:

  March 18, 2009 at 5:58 pm

  Thanks for the link, Phil!

  Chris
• speedy says:

  March 18, 2009 at 12:34 pm

  I am not angry with the AIG bonuses. This is so ridiculous and petty. The democrats are being immature and petty. The government gives the company money. They have no right to tell them how to spend that money. I am tired of this usurper trying to take all the attention off himself and his gnarly agenda and demonizing AIG as a smoke screen.
• Pixel Patriot says:

  March 18, 2009 at 10:45 am

  Have you been to your local meeting organized to inform and MOBILIZE the American citizens into nominating delegates for the 2009 Continental Congress that is happening this year? I have. It gives “We The People” REDRESS. Learn It, Love It, Live It! Redress is what we need to take our country back. We have a right written into the Constitution to do so. We DON’T have to wait 4 more years. Period.

  http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOjrHGC_aU

  Anybody that doesn’t know who Bob Shulz is and the “We The People Foundation” should make it a priority and then take ACTION to educate others to do the same.

  “This Right, and the corollary Right to enforce the Right to Secure Redress by withholding taxes holds the promise to correct much of what ails our nation. The GML 2007 conference will focus on the broader application of the Right to Petition to address numerous areas of constitutional abuse by our government.”

  Bob Shulz is the real deal. He is non-partisan.