Obama Warns: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny

[Desperado]

Of course he would tell the students to reject the voices that warn about government tyranny. That would ruin his entire plan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.


Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics

 

[georgephillip]

Just ask Julian:

"A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears outside the red-brick building on Hans Crescent Street that houses the Ecuadorean Embassy. Assange, the world’s best-known political refugee, has been in the embassy since he was offered sanctuary there last June.

"British police in black Kevlar vests are perched night and day on the steps leading up to the building, and others wait in the lobby directly in front of the embassy door. An officer stands on the corner of a side street facing the iconic department store Harrods, half a block away on Brompton Road.

"Another officer peers out the window of a neighboring building a few feet from Assange’s bedroom at the back of the embassy.

"Police sit round-the-clock in a communications van topped with an array of antennas that presumably captures all electronic forms of communication from Assange’s ground-floor suite.

"The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), or Scotland Yard, said the estimated cost of surrounding the Ecuadorean Embassy from June 19, 2012, when Assange entered the building, until Jan. 31, 2013, is the equivalent of $4.5 million."

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Obama to students: you have nothing to fear but death itself.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

 

[JakeStarkey]

Constitutional republicanism that includes democratic practice, a la the US, is not tryanny.

You Dems lost in 2000 and 2004, we Repubs lost in 2008 and 2012.

All you whiners get over it.

 

[depotoo]

Of course he would tell the students to reject the voices that warn about government tyranny. That would ruin his entire plan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.


Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics

sounds like another campaign speech rather than a commencement speech...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

The president is correct: government is neither the source nor sole solution to our problems, where ‘tyranny’ can never manifest as long as we remain involved in government and true to our democratic principles.

And this isn’t Obama’s ‘plan,’ but the plan put in place by the Framers.

‘Tyranny’ is defeated by ideas and involvement, not guns and fear.

 

[Oddball]

Irony: A total tyrant warning of people who warn about tyrants like him.

Welcome to the rabbit hole, Alice!

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Of course he would tell the students to reject the voices that warn about government tyranny. That would ruin his entire plan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.


Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics

I would think that a "Constitutional scholar" would know the difference between a democracy and a republic, and why democracy is a form of tyranny. I, quite obviously, am wrong.

 

[Starlight]

Pres. Obama is a good role model on rejecting voices....he has been doing a good job of it for over 3 years now.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

The president is correct: government is neither the source nor sole solution to our problems, where ‘tyranny’ can never manifest as long as we remain involved in government and true to our democratic principles.

And this isn’t Obama’s ‘plan,’ but the plan put in place by the Framers.

‘Tyranny’ is defeated by ideas and involvement, not guns and fear.

The government is not the source of our problems? Can you explain that given the fact that the US government currently records every single phone call made in the US?

Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

 

[georgephillip]

Tired of being kept in the dark and fed bull shit?

"The persistence of WikiLeaks, despite the onslaught, has been remarkable. In 2012 it released some of the 5.5 million documents sent from or to the private security firm Stratfor. The documents, known as 'the Global Intelligence Files,' included an email dated Jan. 26, 2011, from Fred Burton, a Stratfor vice president, who wrote: 'Text Not for Pub. We [the U.S. government] have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect.'

WikiLeaks’ most recent foray into full disclosure includes the Kissinger files, or the WikiLeaks Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy.

"The files, which have built into them a remarkable search engine, provide access to 1.7 million diplomatic communications, once confidential but now in the public record, that were sent between 1973 and 1976.

"Henry Kissinger, secretary of state from September 1973 to January 1977, authored many of the 205,901 cables that deal with his activities.

"In the files it appears that the late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have been hired by the Swedish group Saab-Scania to help sell its Viggen fighter jet to India while his mother, Indira Gandhi, was prime minister."

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Elites who get rich from endless war and eternal debt have a vested interest in ensuring their "privacy." Tools like Gandhi, Kissinger, and Obama serve to ensure the lifestyles of the rich and famous aren't undone by a little thing like Democracy.

 

[PratchettFan]

Of course he would tell the students to reject the voices that warn about government tyranny. That would ruin his entire plan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.


Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics

I have no problem rejecting those voices.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Irony: A total tyrant warning of people who warn about tyrants like him. Welcome to the rabbit hole, Alice!

Government by We the People in a constitutional repubic is not tyranny, Oddone.

Americans do not want libertarianism, neo-Austrian economics, or Rule by Man.

 

[Oddball]

Oh, button it, Bozo.

 

[Truthmatters]

some of these people are not Americans.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Of course he would tell the students to reject the voices that warn about government tyranny. That would ruin his entire plan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.


Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics

Sounds very much like 'pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...'


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA]The Wizard of Oz: Pay No Attention - YouTube[/ame]



And "I'm not a very bad man, I'm just a very bad President....'

Did I really hear that?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Oh, button it, Bozo.

Tough beans, kiddo.

 

[Truthmatters]

Of course he would tell the students to reject the voices that warn about government tyranny. That would ruin his entire plan.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.


Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics

Sounds very much like 'pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...'


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA]The Wizard of Oz: Pay No Attention - YouTube[/ame]



And "I'm not a very bad man, I'm just a very bad President....'

Did I really hear that?

I think this one is not an American either

 

[Ringel05]

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

The president is correct: government is neither the source nor sole solution to our problems, where ‘tyranny’ can never manifest as long as we remain involved in government and true to our democratic principles.

And this isn’t Obama’s ‘plan,’ but the plan put in place by the Framers.

‘Tyranny’ is defeated by ideas and involvement, not guns and fear.

Thankfully our founding fathers chose the ideas and involvement course instead of the guns and fear path otherwise we'd be a sovereign nation and not a Commonwealth of the British Crown...... Oh wait......

 

[boedicca]

Irony: A total tyrant warning of people who warn about tyrants like him.

Welcome to the rabbit hole, Alice!

And a Charlatan telling his dupes not to look at the man behind the curtain.