I will explain exactly how, and it begins with issues I have dealt with before in these pages.
The first stage is to create a situation that holds their attention; the second is to bankrupt them; the third is to render them dependent on handouts from the federal government; and finally, establish unopposed rule, with the full backing of the elements of the government that are supposed to prevent such things. (Pictured: the master plan.)
Before I really begin delving into how this is happening, let me introduce you to the "executive agreement."
An executive agreement, at its heart, is an unconstitutional means of creating international agreements - they're NOT treaties, they're NOT - that don't have to be approved by anyone, and against which there is no legal recourse whatsoever. Using them, the President can basically cut any kind of deal he wants with a foreign nation, and we just have to abide by it, even without Senatorial approval, even without judicial oversight, even without...
...Even knowing about it.
They have been used by every President since FDR. (Pictured: FDR.)
However, they are traditionally used for minor things like establishing a revision to a trade relationship without waiting for Congress to get its collective "sixth point of contact" (Ow! You're doing it incorrectly!) out of its collective fourth point of contact. (Pictured: "sixth" in fourth.)
But President Obama is trying to use it for something far more concerning, far more serious and far-reaching: in fact, so much more concerning that even the leftard crackheads at Daily Kos are worried about it.
The media companies lobbied endlessly in the UK for a law called the Digital Economy Act, which allows them to require PERMANENT internet bans against not only copyright violators, but anyone who acted as an intermediary.
Which means that if someone ELSE uses your unsecured WiFi network to download a Britney Spears song, YOU can be banned from the internet for life, without appeal, without even knowing why. (Pictured: injustice.)
The law passed, of course, because politicians only stay bought long enough to make their citizens' lives even worse, and their new government has decided to keep it despite businesses, citizens, and generally everyone hating it.
Those dollars from Sony/BMG, Universal, and Warner must be sweet indeed.
Now, you may be wondering what this has to do with EITHER a police state, or a total federal takeover of all areas of government. Rest assured that I will get there.
See, if intermediaries can be shut down for infringement now, that means internet cafe's will soon be gone; that free WiFi you find at McDonald's and Starbucks - not to mention your hotel or even the muffler shop - will soon be gone; they simply won't be able to afford the legal risks involved in providing that service.
Which means all those folks out there who have been out of work forever and can't afford their own service, and are using the internet from precisely those kinds of locations, are locked out. It's easy to shut up the opposition, if you simply make it legally impossible for them to speak. (Pictured: silenced dissenter.)
It will also affect us; under that law, blogs and bloggers are held under some very strict standards about copyrights and slander - particularly considering the DEA claims that each time someone loads your page and sees the infringing content - whatever it is - that counts as an individual publishing event, and thus a separate, individual criminal charge.
But hey, that's the UK; we already know they're on their way down into the communist ghetto just as fast as they can get there on their stubby little legs, but that's not HERE, after all, so what do we care in the United States? (Pictured: stubby little legs.)
I'd like to introduce you to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA is under negotiation right now, and the United States is a party to the negotiations, and will be a signatory to it if the "government" finds it satisfactory.
Why the quotes?
Because IF it is concluded, it will be concluded as an executive agreement by one man: Barack Obama. At no point will Congress, the judiciary, or your state have a voice in it; this is something that Obama feels he can simply direct us to comply with.
Executive orders without oversight or recourse are a hallmark of oppressive regimes throughout human history. (Pictured: "Oppresssion, The Musical." Coming soon!)
This is one more step in the direction he clearly wishes to take us, which ends with the United States a police state, controlled through fear, and run by one man: Barack Obama.
He successfully distracted us with the healthcare debate - rationed care won't exist, suuuuure - and as a result took one of many steps in his plan to bankrupt the states entirely; the states will be the source of almost all the funding that Obamacare requires, and it's one more thing on the list.
So what's the rest of his plan?
Please note that many of the states which oppose him most directly are states bordering on Mexico, or in the South; the second issue that's killing their budgets right now is unrestricted illegal immigration. Illegals cost a fortune to the states' budgets, as they absorb social services funding en masse, and since that funding comes from the states themselves, not the federal government, the states are where the burden is falling. (Pictured: states by budget deficits.)
By refusing to enforce immigration laws, the last four presidents - Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, and Obama - have all laid the onus - and the debt burden - on those recalcitrant Southern states, and now the strain is becoming unbearable.
Last year, as everyone cheered the stimulus, the funds magically vanished into government jobs; Obama was quite careful to ensure that the states all got those BIG handouts, but the JOBS which could have spurred actual economic recovery haven't materialized, because the job money was spent hiring teachers who break their students' ankles by throwing furniture at them, beat them, and have an endless series of sexcapades with the young people under their care. (Badbadteacher.com has 410 PAGES of reports of teachers attacking students physically or sexually.) (Pictured: Bad, bad teacher.)
I know some of you are wondering what the hell I'm blathering about.
It will all come together, I promise.
You guys remember Hurricane Katrina, which was an act of God? (Or nature, depending on your personal belief system.)
Remember how President Bush got blamed for the devastation and misery it caused, because it took him almost a whole week (!) to get FEMA off the ball? (And called a racist for it, too.) (Pictured: devastation.)
Have you noticed that it's been so long since the collapse of Deepwater Horizon that Governor Jindal of Louisiana basically said "screw you guys, NOT AGAIN," and started building huge berms to keep the oil out of their coastal waters?
Where's the manufactured liberal outrage now?
YOU HYPOCRITICAL FUCKS, WHY AREN'T YOU FURIOUS AT THIS PRESIDENT TOO? (Pictured: angry hypocrites.)
Because the states that will be affected aren't liberal ones.
The Gulf Coast states are, by and large, reliable red states, and now they have a tremendous cleanup AND illegal immigration; both of which will affect their budgets to the point that...
...They will have no choice but to go, hat in hand, to the government for help.
At which point, they are on life support, and Obama gets to be Kevorkian if they step out of line. (Pictured: Dr. Death is a happy sonovabitch, ain't he?)
And they will have no choice but to agree to enforce the provisions of laws like ACTA when Obama comes around proudly waving it in the air.
Europe is at a crossroads. Their economy is so shaky that anything might bring the entire fiasco to a crashing halt, and ours with it, given the degree of cross-investing our banks have been doing for the last 20 years. (Pictured: risky investment.)
They sure aren't; they're putting these crises to very good use indeed...
...For them.
