Thomas Sowell: "Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? "

Joe Barton was right  In the 18 months of the Obama Presidency the seizure of private property by the regime has become a regular event.  And in each case, it was done with the approval of the news media, (note how the Washington Post handles it) the group that Rush Limbaugh rightly calls "The State Controlled Media."  More on that later.

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 1980–present

Thomas Sowell, after referencing the gradual manner in which Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany in the 1920s and 30s:

In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.

The president's poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree with particular policies of his, but the damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies.

Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.

And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Many among the public and in the media may think that the issue is simply whether BP's oil spill has damaged many people, who ought to be compensated.

But our government is supposed to be "a government of laws and not of men."

If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion — or $50 billion or $100 billion — then so be it.

But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without "due process of law."

The point Sowell makes is that the President is assuming the powers of a dictator while the press cheers him on and demonizes those who point this out. Take as an example this Ben Sargent editorial cartoon found in today's Virginian Pilot. The editors use it to demonize those who resist illegal and unconstitutional acts by mocking them as puppets of the oil companies rather than brave supporters of the rule of law.

Note the similarity to this editorial cartoon from Der Stuermer.  Both are designed to incite hatred, to demonize the opposition.

Caption: Why, for what purpose is the blood flowing?

Behind the scenes, the Jew grins.

That makes the answer clear:

They bleed for the Jews.

Sowell end with this:

The man appointed by President Obama to dispense BP's money as the administration sees fit, to whomever it sees fit, is only the latest in a long line of presidentially appointed "czars" controlling different parts of the economy, without even having to be confirmed by the Senate, as Cabinet members are.

Those who cannot see beyond the immediate events to the issues of arbitrary power — vs. the rule of law and the preservation of freedom — are the "useful idiots" of our time. But useful to whom?

The MFM is still in love with their creation. To them Obama makes the occasional mistake, but the threat to democracy is ridiculed and we are told we're paranoid extremists.  But for the rest of America the Frankenstein's monster that they have created is becoming more and more clear; the focus is sharper. Joe Barton had the courage to tell the truth, and the truth is never welcome to friends of dictators and thieves.