By Chuck Hakes

Revised 10/21/2008 2:26 PM

In a July 2 speech in Colorado Springs Obama discussed his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation's military.  Obama claimed: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

This is confusing.  I thought the liberal point of view was that we spent too much on the military. Now Obama wants to quadruple what we spend on the military and add a civilian national security force equal to the military in size and expense. That means he wants to spend eight times what we are presently spending on the military. Not to mention multiple cost increases in the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. 

Who is the “we” who set the national security objectives he refers to? What are these objectives?

I was puzzled about this. Why do we need a civilian national security force of this nature or any nature, for that matter?  Is this to protect us from outside threats or to protect the government from the American people? Is it to keep the American public in line? 

This sounds very much like one of the steps a person or party in power would take in preparation for the establishment of a communist police state. Yet, the United States Constitution gives us certain rights that protect us against becoming a communist police state. How might our rights and the freedoms of the American people be stolen away? 

Writing as a devil’s advocate, here’s how it can be done. The only significant question is how long it will take. As president, I think I can make major progress in eight years. During the early stages of this transformation, as with my presidential campaign, I will be careful not to mention communism, except to “fellow travelers.” Segments of the American public who might not understand that I will bring them communism will not support me if they catch on. This minor deception is OK with my conscience because I believe with other communists that the end justifies the means.

Of greatest first importance, I will make the American people suffer. I mean really suffer economically. I will make the present economy ten times, twenty times worse.  I will drive the economy into a deep depression. I’ll make the Great Depression look like a child’s tea party.  Initially the few jobs to be had will be low-paying because supply would far outstrip demand in the labor market. Many more people will lose homes, investments, and savings. A growing number of people at the very bottom of the economy will be living under bridges and in shanty towns. People will be starving and freezing to death. There will be bread lines. Charitable organizations will be unable to help ease the suffering. They will lack funds because their donations will dry up.

I will make the purpose of taxation the redistribution of wealth, from the richer to the poorer.  Taxes on investors will discourage investing and drive the economy into a tailspin.  Business taxes are ultimately paid by consumers therefore these taxes will be paid by even the poorest citizens whenever they can afford to buy. Many of my supporters do not have this understanding and that will help me get elected.

The businesses that will prosper will be those that receive tax credits for not using foreign labor and this will give those companies a competitive pricing advantage. These are the companies that will survive. It won’t be long before everybody gets on this bandwagon.

Because of economic bailouts, loans, and regulations the banking and finance system will largely dance to my tune.

This tax plan will also create an economy with the labor market effectively closed to the outside world but it will not necessarily keep illegal aliens from working in this country. This will be an early step in increasing the dependence of American companies and American workers on the Federal Government. Soon there will be nearly total dependence. This is helpful in a totalitarian state. 

Some wealthy citizens will lose their affluent lifestyle because of the tax system, but not all. Those who will lose will be those allied with roles in a capitalistic system. Some will be excluded from high taxation by earning their income through personal services, such as acting.

Citizens will be justifiably irate about the economy and unfair taxes, but will be unable to do anything about this because I plan to nullify their First Amendment and Second Amendment freedoms so they can neither effectively voice their opposition nor have any ability to contest it.

That is because I will create a National Civilian Police Force, answerable to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.  This will consolidate the power of the National Civilian Police with that of the Military, and place it all under my control as the president of the United States. This huge armed force will be eight times the size of our present military. This will ensure that no commanding officer of the U. S. Military will be able to rise up against me. I will make sure that the National Civilian Police are better equipped than the Military. Their allegiance will be sworn to me and the party, not the United States of America.

I will replace all local police departments with decentralized units of the National Civilian Police. Instead of your local police being accountable to you through your city council, and your state police accountable to you through your state government, all police will report to the president of the United States.

The local units of the National Civilian Police force will proceed to disarm the American public just like the local police did with storm trooper tactics in New Orleans.  Second Amendment rights will be nullified. That this happened is a fact and illustrates the ease with which citizens can be disarmed by a superior police force.

In the case of New Orleans, the NRA recovered the guns for the owners. This won’t happen in my regime. The sorry state of the economy will have dried up NRA donation funding.

There are several ways to disarm the American public:

A couple more liberal justices on the Supreme Court will change the interpretation of the Second Amendment, and "right to bear arms" will mean not individually but as members of a government-sanctioned militia.  Another way it can happen is to create a number of shooting massacre incidents and use these as justification that the public can no longer be entrusted with guns. Yet another way is to allow ownership but deny use. The gun has to be checked at the police station when you are not hunting with it is one way. Or, perhaps the gun can be kept under lock and key at your home but with the key stored at the police station. A fourth possibility entails criminal penalties. If your gun is stolen from your home and used in a crime you face criminal penalties.

Yet another way is to make it illegal to shoot an intruder in your home in defense of your family or your life or possessions. Another way is to require an expensive license to own a gun. This would be easy to enforce because all police in the local and state jurisdictions where records of licensed guns are presently maintained would be members of the National Civilian Police. A license fee of, say, $100,000 per gun should be adequate to disarm a lot of citizens, or make criminals of them. 

Sooner or later during this progression from democracy to communism powerful people who oppose me will start to disappear. Some will have tragic accidents or fatal illnesses. Some will simply not be heard of again. It will be suggested in hushed tones that the disappeared people were not supporters of my agenda. Because I will directly or indirectly control the Military, the National Civilian Police, the FBI, and the CIA, there will be no objective investigative body. The United States Congress will have come under my control early in the exercise of my plans. Legislators in my party who oppose me will simply receive no party support for re-election and will be replaced by legislators who voiced support for my agenda. Therefore, Congress will not investigate anything without my approval.

My staunch supporters in the liberal media will not make any inquiries that might be embarrassing to me. This has already become their practice.

Illegal aliens and other non-US citizens will have voting rights. This will make it easier for my cohorts and me to get re-elected. They will want to re-elect me because I’ll give them welfare, free medical services, and free education. They won’t even have to become citizens or learn English to get these things.

In short time, anarchy would reign. Criminals who kept firearms will prey on the American public. Only those citizens who are favored by the Federal Government will have any chance of being protected from criminals by the National Civilian Police. A citizen who unlawfully retains a firearm and protects his home with it will be subject to criminal penalties for owning the firearm, shooting it, and shooting the intruder.

After nullifying the Second Amendment and disarming the American public, I will limit the effectiveness of the First Amendment.   With my Congressional support I will enact laws requiring politically correct speech, which will effectively bar overt dissent regarding government officials, actions, or programs. On a media level, the broadcast licenses of conservative voices will be cancelled. Fox will either change its programming or go out of business.

Laws based on “political correctness” will make it virtually impossible for any citizen to disagree with a person of a different ethnicity for any reason. Disagreement will not be judged by its authenticity but by political correctness. Citizens will face civil litigation and criminal prosecutions for legitimately speaking their minds. Citizens will be fined or jailed for off-hand comments that will be judged out of context by the liberal legal and court system. Citizens’ lives will be ruined by innocent comments.  

This atmosphere of fear will help prevent criticisms of my associates and myself.

I will take the legal restrictions on the First Amendment as far as I can and then apply economic sanctions.

By this time, via subsidies and regulations much of the economy will be under direct control of the Fed.   Property ownership involves tangible property and the intangible rights to use that property. When rights to use are taken away property ownership is diminished. In short, you may own a business but the Fed will control it.

Under government control many or most jobs will only be available through the government and those will go to people who are in the favor of the regime. This situation will provide strong economic sanctions on free speech. Sure, there will still be a First Amendment. You better not exercise the rights you think it grants if you want food and shelter.

Another step will be the federalization of education. Basic skills like the 3 R’s are important. But equally important is indoctrination into communism if my change for America is to be permanent. My government will be better capable of administering uniform education than is an array of teachers scattered across the country, who are teaching in local schools, and who are accountable to many different school boards, some of which may not support communism.

There will be no more local school boards and local or state school funding. All would be under the control of the Fed. School and teachers will be decentralized as now. The educational agenda will be set by my administration and only those teachers who agree with the communist agenda will get jobs.

It goes without saying that participation in any of the service corps of the Fed will be tantamount to indoctrination in their role in the new world society. This will get the high school and college kids on board, make them dependent on the government for their subsistence, and teach them that this is the way things should be.

Education in my communist agenda will start at 2 years of age or younger. Children will become educational wards of the state.   Parenting will become a thing of the past. Parents will be careful what they say around their children for fear their child may report them to their teachers and then the parents will lose their jobs.

Some children will be taken from their parents for an advanced education agenda. This will prepare the chosen ones for roles in the new world society.

To further my educational agenda I will rewrite history books to declare that our founding fathers were not patriots and heroes but were treasonous criminals and slavers. I would strip America of patriotism, which would become anathema in the new world order toward which we would all be working. There should be no feelings of nationalism in the new world.

I will continue to honor our war dead. Over time, through skillful public relations and propaganda, I will foster the belief that the war dead are a needless tragedy from wars that we should not have fought. This is already a popular idea with some liberals.

I will strip America of its heritage and teach our young that it has taken America over 230 years to get where we should be as a communist society.

We will still have elections and we may continue to kid ourselves that we live in a free country. There will be few, if any dissenters because of the economic sanctions on freedom of speech. All candidates will support the party line so there will not really be a choice. 

Perhaps election 2008 will be the last opportunity to make a choice between two diverse American futures.

Members of a society use the resources of that society, and the more members there are the more that must be spent on them. Eventually the government may feel justified to control the size of our society by controlling the number entering through birth, and exiting via death. Both the very young and the very old use resources of society but don’t create value for it. 

As is the case in communist China, couples may be required to limit the number of their offspring. Any pregnancies over quota would be terminated by abortion, and continued pregnancies by sterilization.

The costs of an aging population are another matter. Eventually, to save resources for the younger productive members of society, a program of either tacit or overt euthanasia will be implemented. Tacit is practiced at present with consent. This is where a person gets sick, decides not to pursue treatment, gets sicker, and dies. Overt euthanasia is where the elder is killed, with or without their consent.

If I were running for president and had a body of like-minded legislators to support me, and if I wanted to make America a communist society, that's how I would proceed.  It wouldn't happen overnight but I could get a lot done in 8 years.  In a generation you wouldn't even begin to recognize this place we call the Land of the Free.

Here’s Barack Obama’s position on these steps to make America a communistic society:

• He wants to expand our military by 4 times and have his own private police force of equal size. He has not explained the purpose of this.

• He opposes private ownership of guns and has done so by passing or attempting to pass restrictive legislation. His plans included legal sanctions for protecting your home with a gun, legal sanctions if your gun is stolen from your home and then used in a crime, and high taxes on firearms and ammunition. In Illinois he was instrumental in passing legislation to ban handguns entirely, except that Chicago gangs still have them.

• He wants to redistribute wealth. Part of this plan is to raise taxes on the rich – those people who invest most heavily. This will drive the economy into a tailspin and create an absolute economic disaster by reducing investment capital and the incentive to invest. This will put him in a better condition to control the economy.

• He believes in free speech only when it favors him. His organization has tried to stifle free speech by threatening legal action against the NRA and others. He has personally objected to the free speech of conservative media (Fox) but not the liberal media. (In a New York Times interview.)

• He claims that opposing media views (Fox vs NYTimes and almost all others) are divisive and interfere with his plans. What plans does he have to which he will not countenance opposition? (In the same New York Times interview.)

• He has already been involved, along with the bomber & education professor Ayers, in teaching school children a radical ACORN liberal agenda under the guise of using Annenberg and Woods funds to improve their skills.

• He thinks aliens should have many or all of the rights of citizens.

• He doesn’t mind killing babies who are born alive, and he has said he does not want his daughters “punished” with a baby. This indicates his belief that the convenience of the public takes precedence over life. If you are a senior citizen on socialized medicine, expect a tap on the shoulder by the universal health care people when your maintenance gets too costly. Still, it might be more welcome to get the tap than to continue living under Obama communism.

• He was either unpatriotic or stupid not to wear a flag pin and participate with America in other patriotic gestures at the outset of his campaign. 

• He is an intellectual snob, who time and again has displayed that he thinks the intelligence of the American public is so low that he can sell us any deception if he explains it with soaring rhetoric.

• He is deceptive. He lied, or told partial truths, or has avoided discussing, or has flip-flopped about: 
• His campaign funding intentions
• Who donates to him
• His relationship with Rev. Wright
• His relationship with Fr. Pfleger
• His black liberation theology beliefs
• His involvement with avowed communists, terrorists, and bombers, Ayers and Dohrn
• His involvement with ACORN
• His other associations
• His specific work as a community organizer
• His intentions concerning Iraq
• His intentions concerning Iran
• His stance concerning other terrorist/communist/Muslim states
• His patriotism
• His stance on the 2^nd Amendment

Barack Obama works with his own set of definitions, and always leaves himself an “out.”

If you look at the substance of his past it is little wonder that he wants to keep the campaign focus on plans for the future. Yet his past defines him and signals us what he will do.