Choking Freedom

President Obama has had a great couple of weeks.  With his pen and his phone and without any debate or any input from the representatives of the people, his minions continued to push and bully, take away our freedoms and affirm his commitment to "fundamentally transform America."  Using the administrative apparatus of the State, Obama did another end around, attacking business and the Second Amendment.

• Congress has effectively blocked gun control legislation, so Obama turned to the ATF which decreed that a popular form of ammunition used in hunting (5.56mm steel tipped bullets) are deemed to be armor piercing and therefore banned.  This, despite not a single fatality suffered by a law enforcement agent from this type of ammunition in more than 10 years.
• HHS and the Department of Agriculture put out statements urging people to eat less beef, due to environmental sustainability issues.  Of course, other environmentalists have been urging us to eat less fish because of overfishing.  Enjoy your alfalfa sprouts, folks.
• And the biggie--- the FCC declared that it had jurisdiction over the internet and adopted "net neutrality" rules contained within a document that is in excess of 300 pages (which the FCC has not even released yet).  Except for a few George Soros sycophants, there has been no outcry over mismanagement or unfairness over the internet.  The internet, not Obama, has fundamentally transformed America and many business and technological innovations have arisen from it----remarkably with no government assistance or interference whatsoever.  No longer.

The Obama administration has created mechanisms to wield a club in three critical areas:  finance (Dodd Frank), health care (Obamacare) and communications (Net Neutrality).  Big Brother, through the apparatus of untouchable and unaccountable bureaucracies now hold tremendous sway over key areas of our lives.   Most pernicious are provisions that grant enormous power to create rules that we didn't even get to vote on or debate.  They are handed down by fiat.  

This is truly a frightening time for the Republic. We now have the president that the founders feared-- a Latin American type dictator that has contempt for the representatives of the people and for us.  

Not surprisingly, Rand Paul won the straw pole at CPAC.  That gives us some hope.  Paul's ascension tells me that the libertarian wing of the Republican party is gaining strength at the expense of the religious right and that, I think, is a positive development.   While I do not think Paul could carry the general election (and I think he is wrong in his isolationism in foreign affairs.), his showing tells me that there is a strong current that values individual liberty over the Big Brother nanny state in America.

I am happy I can still blog without an FCC license.  That may not be the case in the future if the Obama crowd prevails.