Milton Wolf made some apt comparisons. While others were comparing President Obama with Richard Nixon, Dr. Wolf suggested that a more appropriate comparison was with George III, the British king from whom American won its independence way back when. See WOLF: Tyranny in our time Americans must repudiate the political class.
"If it was tyranny in 1776, then, by God, it is tyranny today." Tyranny like, for example, efforts by the IRS and the EPA to punish political enemies or reward political friends. More from Wolf:
This is not simply a scandal, as some call it. A scandal implies a failure of the system. This is the system. This is a political class wielding the goliath power of the most intrusive and most feared government agencies at their disposal in order to intimidate, silence and control the citizenry. It is an unmasked assault on the First Amendment, on the Constitution and on America itself, and it must not stand.
So what do we do? A majority of voters put Mr. Obama in office twice, and that's reason enough to be pessimistic about the future. But as long as there are a few voices that can speak up, a few bloggers who can write it up, and enough voters who still have a sense of fairness and decency, then there's still hope that maybe someday we can we can have a government that isn't corrupted by power.
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