Obama vs Morsi...........is there a difference? Through lieutenants, such as assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin and the head of the IRS workers union, Obama has used the IRS to target Americans for persecution and ruin who participate in conservative civic groups. Through the Justice Department, he has rifled the phone records and emails of Associated Press reporters and a Fox News correspondent. His National Security Agency has grasped such sweeping surveillance power through secret courts that even European governments are screaming about his hubris and overreach. Obama can’t get through Congress unneeded and expensive curbs on CO2 emissions—new technologies and market forces are already driving those down quickly—so he is seizing control of the activities of electric utilities through executive orders. Slowly and insidiously these actions intimidate critics, marginalize Congress and the courts, and ensure political victories for American “progressives” over the luddites of the right he condescendingly characterizes as clinging to guns and bibles. These parallels between Egypt and America are only dismissed at the peril of liberty. Americans have always had free press and free association to lay bare the pious agendas of self-appointed prophets. But now the powers abused by an unaccountable IRS, insular Justice Department and stealth NSA to serve a president convinced of the perfection of his ideas is as much a threat to liberty as any religious zealot in Cairo. Peter Morici
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:49:47 +0000