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“'Tyranny' Just Around the Corner”
by WND - Joseph Farah   
June 11th, 2013

I guess Barack Obama wasn’t kidding when he spoke to the graduating class of Ohio State University May 5, just over a months ago.

Many didn’t notice the ominous remark he made in that speech.

That was, of course, just before the nation learned that his administration’s Internal Revenue Service had been selectively harassing organizations and individuals based on their political leanings

That was, of course, before the nation learned that his administration’s Justice Department had been monitoring the phone records of news organizations including the Associated Press and Fox News.

That was, of course, before the nation learned that his administration had been creating a system of eavesdropping on the communications of all Americans that would make George Orwell blush.

And that was, of course, before his administration went into full-tilt stonewalling mode on a jamboree of scandals that have all of our heads spinning.

What did Barack Obama say on May 5?

He warned about listening to voices of dissent warning “that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.”

He added, “You should reject those voices.”

Obviously, you should never reject those voices. Those are the voices of reason – and Obama is the one ushering in tyranny, which we now know is not lurking around the corner; it’s here.

Was that what he was trying to tell us?

Let me remind you of some of the voices Obama would like you to reject:

  • “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.” – Thomas Jefferson
  • “The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.” – George Washington
  • “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison

Do I need to continue with dozens of other quotes from our founders?

Are those the voices we should reject?

Apparently, Barack Obama thinks we should.

Worse yet, Obama is attempting to stifle those voices using all the legitimate and illegitimate power of the federal government in a systematic pattern of eavesdropping and intimidation – from the abuse of the IRS to the targeting of the press to creation of a surveillance state.

That’s why tyranny is here – and even some very unlikely candidates are noticing it, from the New York Times to Al Gore to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Obama’s goal is stomping out all opposition. That’s his end game – and he has been and continues to use every component of the federal government to achieve it.

What Obama most fears is that people will recognize his objectives – and they are beginning to do just that.

When he tells you to “reject those voices,” he’s like the Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy not to pay attention to the man behind the curtain. He doesn’t want his constituency to see reality. He doesn’t want you to recognize that tyranny is indeed lurking around the corner – or even closer than that. He especially doesn’t want to people to recognize that he is the face of that tyranny.

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