Jun 21 2010
Our Government Has Lied To Us
I know I will get slammed for the comparison, but some times the acts fit the crime. The Obama administration’s PR campaign is mirroring the PR campaign instituted by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. I am saying mirroring, not identical. We have yet to hit the point where political opponents are more than roughed up by labor union goons. There are no concentration camps out there. But some core methods are eerily similar.
For example, Team Obama and the liberals in DC keep trying to find a way to silence critics on the internet and control free speech. While the compliant news media is all tingly in the legs over Obama’s irrational policies, the internet and a few real journalists are threatened with boycotts and censorship when they lodge objections. How is this different from the 1930’s equivalent of book burning?
Goebbels rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi Party and he was appointed Propaganda Minister. One of his first acts was the burning of books rejected by the Nazis. He exerted totalitarian control over the media, arts and information in Germany.
The internet is the modern day, electronic version of books containing historic knowledge and wisdom. It is also at times nothing more than a comic book.
The lack of ability for Team Obama to assume overt control as Goebbels did does not mean the desire and effort are not being applied! What about the Fox News ban to the White House Press corps in 2009? What about the proposal by Team Obama for controls on the Internet? I loved this string of pretzel logic:
“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government,” he wrote. “Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom’s name.”
You don’t get much more Goebbels like than that! Or can you?
Goebbels was famous for instituting Hitler’s “Big Lie“ – something so audaciously wrong people hesitated to react:
The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”
All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true within itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. – Adolf Hitler
Remember, not all insight and wisdom comes from evil, but it can be used by evil. This Big Lie theory is probably a very valid observation, given all the fringe conspiracy theories that run from the truthers to the birthers. In fact, Nazis made huge leaps in science, math and engineering – all valid. They just twisted this knowledge to evil purposes. They twisted this knowledge to THEIR purposes.
If you feel your cause is righteous (like you need to save the planet or something dramatic) you can rationalize using any tactic, especially if you do not know how that bright idea of yours was used and abused in the past.
So the Big Lie is a method to trick the general public into following the wrong path – based on establishing false premises. Was the Stimulus Bill a Big Lie? It did nothing for the unemployed at large, but it did shovel tons of money to state and federal jobs, which coincidentally filled the coffers of public employee unions. All purely accidental I am sure.
Was the health care bill a Big Lie? It could have been since most people were covered with top rate insurance, but will now trade that in for crappy government plans on the false promises this will reduce cost while covering everyone. And of course all this will come to pass without death panels limiting care to those who need to get on with shuffling off their mortal coils.
What is becoming evident with Team Obama is they employ the Big Lie all the time. And they will emphasize it with inaction in the face of critical issues, as a way to inflate the lie to sufficient size. Take immigration reform and the Arizona crisis with rising violent crime. It has been recently exposed by  US Senator (no less) that the President Obama has allowed the situation in Arizona to deteriorate so he could apply the Big Lie:
On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’†[Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’â€
Well, this explains why Team Obama wants to sue Arizona for instituting a law identical to federal laws now on the books. If Arizona FIXES their problem then Obama’s Big Lie disappears. And remember how Goebbels had a compliant press that distributed the Big Lie? We have that in this situation here as well. Tom Maguire has highlighted some serious falsehoods promulgated by Team Obama and the New York Times regarding the rise of crime near the border. No wonder a free internet is so bad for government run journalism.
This is the Obama Modus Operandi and is being applied to the Gulf Oil Spill as well. Was it incompetence that delayed the government action – or was it something else? Here I verge on the brink of conspiracy theory myself, so  I will not draw conclusions but draw attention to some disturbing facts.
First, Team Obama literally forged a scientific consensus on their crazy decision to close down all off shore oil drilling for 6 months. A decision that will stop Gulf oil production for years and expose us to more risks as wells are shutdown and the best rigs and people move to other regions of the world. The government outright lied, and was called on it by the scientists whose names had been used on the forgery:
Ken Arnold, an engineer and consultant, said the changes went beyond just the drilling moratorium. The Interior draft he looked at included timelines for each safety recommendation. The “bulk” of those recommendations, he explained, were all ones that could be done within 30 days. And most of the longer-term provisions would result in only “marginal increases in safety.”
Yet when the final report came out, the timelines he saw had been removed, no doubt because they argued against the necessity of a six-month moratorium. Mr. Arnold adds that the Administration’s decision to allow industry to continue drilling “gas injection wells”—which, he says, are no more risky than production wells—only shows the moratorium makes “no sense.”
Who could be so crass as to take a crisis like this and exploit it thusly? Well, why do we have a crisis like this? The oil could have been burned off at the site of the explosion – it did not need to travel to all the coastal regions. But that option (along with chemical dispersement) was derailed by our government. The oil could have been sucked up by a flotilla  of international ships, avoiding the damage to wetlands, wildlife and summer vacation plans. Except those ships were held at bay by the government. The oil could have been contained with booms, blocked by sand bars, etc. All efforts blocked by the government. The crisis became epic due to a series of strange acts of inaction. How ironic.
Was it orchestrated this way? Well what does this story tell you?
The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about “America’s addiction to oil.” One member has blogged about it regularly.
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Environmental activist Frances Beinecke on May 27 blogged: “We can blame BP for the disaster and we should. We can blame lack of adequate government oversight for the disaster and we should. But in the end, we also must place the blame where it originated: America’s addiction to oil.” And on June 3, May 27, May 22, May 18, May 4, she called for bans on drilling offshore and the Arctic.
“Even as questions persist, there is one thing I know for certain: the Gulf oil spill isn’t just an accident. It’s the result of a failed energy policy,” Beinecke wrote on May 20.
Two other commissioners also have gone public to urge bans on drilling.
A panel instituted to INVESTIGATE the spill is stacked with liberal policy spouters and one or two people technically capable of grasping the basic physical forces and engineering being applied to the problem? It would seem from this bit of evidence the plan all along was to bolster the Big Lie (i.e., we need to halt use of oil, no matter what the cost).
And don’t think this approach is limited to the White House. Speaker Pelosi recently exposed her part in the health care big lie as she decided to let Medicare patients and doctors suffer to get her liberal agenda through.
These people are not leaders, they are liars. They create crisis so they can lie about the cures they propose. Cures to end the free market system of America – not to do anything about their Big Lies.
This time, the comparison looks to be valid – Goebbels would be proud.
I sure won’t slam you for it – I believe it’s perfectly appropriate!
Holding national security hostage to political goals? And openly stating that he’s willing to allow security to continue to deteriorate just to teach his opponents a lesson????
IMHO, this policy all by itself is an impeachable offense.
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We are loosing in Afghanistan, Fanny and Freddy own a huge percentage of every home in American, oil is spewing in the Gulf and our leaders are boating and golfing, the government owns our health, our schools (higher education), and spent a trillion dollars helping unions, who don’t put enough money away for pensions, and our government has not passed a budget, tax breaks are set to expire, and congress is going to bail out the states again.
Our leaders lie and lie and lie and no body prints the lie in bold on the front of every paper in the land. God help us!
Thankyou AJ!
These leftist enviro terroists do not do that which is necesary to heal the gulf and stop the leaks.
Rather as you point out they block every effective effort at every step of the way.
Studying their past actions and words one can only draw the conclusion that this is a crisis being effectively managed to drive the masses to a level of discomfort that they will demand the end of domestic production and fork over huge quamntities of their incomes to the fantasyland dreams of a handful of mindless twits.
The envioronmental movement has been front and center in deploying violence and destruction in their aims to stop those things they deem harmful.
The assualt on our southern beaches and Red States is an IMPEACHABLE offense!
There is no allowance under law for a shakedown of a private industry, confiscation of their funds and then the redistribution of their assets.
Guilt has not been determined. What if environuts blew the rig?
Reperations should not be left to one man.
“the Constitution does not command “no person . . . shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law except by the decision of a person as wise and capable as Kenneth Feinberg.” The Framers stopped at “due process of law.””
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama_s-thuggery-is-useless-in-fighting-spill-96684389.html#ixzz0rUkYRMHZ
I for one am tempted to file a claim for damages as soon as I pay .20 cents more for a gallon of gas, I may send one every week when I fill my tank to team Pinnochio, the pathetic, pathological liar that occupies the Peoples House!
In all my lifetime (55), I have never witnessed such overt corruption and arrogance as this Democrat controlled government, headed by a thin-skinned, cold, nasty, petty, spiteful, president whose only goal seems to be to impose his union-centric redistributive agenda at any cost to the nation. (His command of Liberalese speak is his only true strength.) Add to this his utter non-American view of American exceptionalism and his anti-ally foreign policy and you get one of the uglier moments in American political history. And the price we are already paying and will pay for such a gullible 2008 electorate and a sychophantic, cheerleading press is nightmarishly high. I never thought I would fear for my economic future and the future of the free world. I always thought we would have little glitches — backward steps. But never did I envision such a disaster that a Obama-led government is fixing for us — all in the name of a perverted idea of “justice”.
“Once is chance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action.”
1) Failure to burn off the oil at the site
2) Failure to use booms to try to contain the oil
3) Failure to allow sand berms to be constructed to protect the coast
4) Failure to waive the Jones act so that nations with expertise in cleaning up oil spills could help us with this one
5) Disallowing barges to pump oil/water into the ships, then to pump the water back out
6) Coast Guard Forcing barges that were “skimming” the oil to quit because they could not verify if they had the appropriate number of life jackets and fire extinguishers (instead of doing a visual inspection and/or PROVIDING said gear so the job could be done).
Etc, etc.
I could go on, but you get the picture. AJ said it well. And this is only the oil spill, nothing here about the stimulus, health care backroom dealing, immigration “reform”, etc. We are way past time for “enough is enough”!
I’m with mbabbitt…. I’m 58 and lived thru the Cold War. The Soviets dreamed of the day they could subvert the US from within the way this man whom the country has elected to the presidency has. Once upon a time, the Democrat Party had people who would always put country before self interest. Now, they have not a one.
Hallelujah, you nailed it.
Let no one think the enablers are dead because we can sift through the lies. What we see as cracks in their support, is really just outrage that their guy has let the people SEE the thugs. Howie Carr called them ‘fawning media rumpswabs’. These Rumpswabs have made it all about BP.
Criminal to deliberately kill more jobs in the gulf on a lie. Like Obamacare, he intends to inflict such damage that it can’t recover. Then he moves on……….
So how is he going to steal the elections?
So how is he going to steal the elections?
By legalizing illegals to vote themselves the benefits from Americans that work , free healthcare was the start and a big drawing card!
Ken Salazar probably violated 18 USC 1001 by “doctor-ing” that final report.
A.J., very well reasoned and written. Nothing to disagree with here. Hey, one thing we know about Democrats, they know how to recycle every bad and manipulative idea that’s ever been recorded. And then add a cool logo and a few dramatic flourishes to make it seem new and extra special.
The more disturbing question still to me is: how many millions of Americans are so easily deceived. Even two years down this horrific Trail of Lies. Let’s face it, O’Gurbles has many a willing and compliant partner in crime.
I disagree that O stole [enough] votes to win his landslide. The more frightening truth is, we *gave* America away — cheerfully, with Stevie Wonder playing happy pop tunes in the background.
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I think we all need to point out to everybody we know — BP may have been responsible for getting the spill started, but it wasn’t BP that prevented anyone from cleaning up the spill; THAT lies entirely on the shoulders of our federal government. It wasn’t BP that refused the help of the Dutch and of other countries; it wasn’t BP that prevented the states from building sand berms to keep the oil away from state coastlines; it wasn’t BP that sent the Coast Guard out to stop cleanup barges from working for a whole day on the pretext that they couldn’t verify whether the barges had enough lifejackets aboard.
“Big Lie” is right. The government is **consciously** making problems worse while trying to deflect blame onto others.
Obama is surely much worse than Carter already. Does anyone remember any signs that Carter was deliberately making things worse? Obama is turning out to be an outright saboteur. It makes me wonder what monkeywrenches he’s going to try to throw into the machinery to gum up the election in four-and-a-half months.
Kyl should call Obama out on the one about securing the border by saying “prove it”. He should ask Obama to secure the border first.
White House: Senator Kyl Not Telling Truth About Immigration Reform Conversation
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/06/white-house-senator-kyl-not-telling-truth-about-immigration-reform-conversation.html
Dems worry: How do we keep our promise to Latinos on amnesty?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38776.html
Why mess around with caution? Obama, in my opinion,
ordered the destruction of this well.
Read Lame Cherry! She explains it all:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-british-petroleum-being.html
Slowly the worm of reality is turning in media on the right are coming to the, maybe, well could be, possibly, might be, that someone did something bad in the Obama Gulf Gusher to cause all of this destruction……….but with the phobic caveat, “I’m not saying it was deliberate!”
Well, hysterical phobic caveats aside, the partner of British Petroleum……..oh by the way this is going to be another galactic exclusive by God’s Grace, so let your eyes do the typing here………BP’s minority parntner now has publicly charged BP with gross negligence and willful misconduct.
The interesting definition of that phrase is if one neglects, one is deliberately taking an action which causes a chaotic thing to happen, one is knowingly undertaking that action, in understanding the consequences will be harmful.
Gross is extreme, so Andarko Petroleum, is stating BP deliberately to the extreme blew up Deepwater Horizon. That is what willful misconduct means in it was planned.
That is called terrorism and B. Hussein Obama is hip deep in this tar ball terror.
There is another word in this Oxford Language which links to this and this blog alone has used it in sabotage.
British Petroleum’s partners, the boots on the ground folks have literally agreed with this blog now in stating that key folks in that globalist cartel caused the murder of the American Citizens on that platform and the destruction of that rented oil rig. That is criminal homicide and B. Hussein Obama was in on this from the start, as he was so million dollar deep donation in bed with this European cartel that there is not in any way from the Lockerbie terrorist release, the Libyan oil contracts, and after thousands of wells sunk in the Gulf over decades, this only happened after deliberate sabotage, negligence by the Obama folks overseeing this, that is is Barack and Petroleum’s sabotage in crimes against the Anglo peoples.
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This administration is such a despicable lot of thugs, liars, and thieves that I would put nothing past them.
How could such people arrive in the top levels of politics to begin with?
Very true, AJ. Many of us aren’t surprised because we expected exactly what is happening. It was so obvious to see during the election, and of course just by the actions of the Media and Democrats during the past elections. The way Bush was portrayed by the left was reminiscent of the portrayals of the jews by the Nazis…
Great article from HotAir explaining the ideology behind their “ends justifies the means” mentality…but of course those who remember history have never been fooled….even temporarily.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/19/a-feature-not-a-bug/
How they intend to win the election is already out there with little coverage.
They have reworded the questions and it is likely that Puerto Rico becomes a state. That is their plan B.
This will give them two more Senators and 6 or 8 new house members likely pushing chances of the GOP winning enough seats to take control more of a problem.
oh my – Gen. McChrystal just popped off in Rolling Stone magazine.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/06/21/mcchrystals-next-offensive/
Even if he *isn’t* fired immediately, any trust or cooperation between his office and the White House just vanished in a puff of angrily worded smoke.
Look for our Afghanistan effort to collapse into confusion and incoherence very shortly. Having supported that effort all along, I hate to say this, but….
thanks to Obama, I now believe we are going to lose that war, and will end up leaving Afghanistan in much the same way we left Vietnam in 1974. The left kept saying this was another Vietnam – thanks to Obama, they have fulfilled their own prophecies.
And for those who would argue it isn’t that bad – we have no strategy. (the one we had just collapsed) We have no partners we can trust. We have no meaningful cooperation from the Afghan government.
Good soldiers can only do so much – but even they are powerless when they’ve been betrayed by their own command.