Representative Paul Broun (R-GA) in an Associated Press interview this past week warned of a potential Obama dictatorship. Drawing on historical precedent and Obama’s own words, he fears Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."
Broun’s source for his suspicions is a July speech (‘juss words, juss speeches) in which the then Democrat presidential wanna-be called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military. I guess the military’s new role in the ObamaNation will revert to a Clinton style “meals on wheels” role.
"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Obama’s comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado about building a new civil service corps. "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
Broun said he believes, like many Americans clinging to their guns and freedom, the new Temporary Tenant of the White House will move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national police force.
Obama has said he respects the Second Amendment right to bear arms (juss words, juss speechs) and favors "common sense" gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that as meaning he'll at least enact curbs on ownership of assault weapons and concealed weapons. As an Illinois state lawmaker, Obama supported a ban on semiautomatic weapons and tighter restrictions on firearms generally.
"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential.”
If Broun’s prediction did not have some not-insignificant potential, it would be kind of funny. I, for one, am not laughing.
Lock and load, folks, . . . lock and load!
Semper Vigilans (always vigilant)!
