ObamaGate: ObamaÂ’s Scandals & The Totalitarian Future
December 4, 2013 by Frontpagemag.com
Editor’s note: Below is the video and transcript of the panel discussion “ObamaGate: Obama’s Scandals & the Totalitarian Future,” which took place at the Freedom Center’s 2013 Restoration Weekend. The event was held November 14th-17th at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
...
Let me go through some particulars. When I worked at the Justice Department voting section during the Bush Administration, I saw how the law was sort of like a fence. Whatever we did had to be within those four corners of what the law said. But after the inauguration, the law became a mere suggestion on the way to a progressive destination. It completely changed the paradigm of how the administration functions.
Now, you saw this manifest first, perhaps, in the New Black Panther dismissal that I was a part of. And at the time, it seemed like an anomaly — why on earth would you dismiss a case against these radical, racist, anti-Semitic Black Panthers with billy clubs in front of a polling place? But once again, it’s a feature; it was not a glitch. It was representative of a worldview that people like that can’t be voter intimidators.
And you saw Holder in front of the House Judiciary Committee being grilled — I’m sorry, the House Oversight Committee — being grilled. And when he said — you need to understand the history of my people, that was a quote in relation to the Black Panther dismissal. These are features; they’re not glitches.
Now, what were scandals in any other era in American history would be completely overwhelmed by press coverage. LetÂ’s look at some of them.
Fast and Furious — Fast and Furious was at its core an antigun program set up to create a media narrative that guns are bad; we need to crack down on gun shops along the border. It’s a feature, not a glitch, that that program went awry. Because it was ultimately an anti-Second Amendment crusade.
The IRS scandal, which you’ll hear more about — that again — it’s not a glitch; it’s a feature. It’s a fundamental opposition to Citizens United, a fundamental opposition that permeates this administration to free speech. And so, the IRS scandal was merely a manifestation of this view. It wasn’t some sort of quirky occurrence. It’s how people in these worldviews exercise power.
Benghazi — once again, feature, not a glitch. It was an effort to keep a small footprint in Libya, because they didn’t want to offend certain Muslim and Islamic interests around the world.
The tax on voter ID — people think this is nuts. You’re going after Texas, North Carolina voter ID, South Carolina. Once again, it’s a feature. These cases are coming out of the hostility toward any election integrity measure. Anything that increases the integrity of our elections is ideologically opposed in the most vehement terms inside the Justice Department, where I used to work.
The catch-and-release program for illegals crossing the border. ItÂ’s not some quirky new thing that everybody is caught and set free. ItÂ’s a feature. ItÂ’s an ideological feature, not a glitch.
Now, why does it matter whether somethingÂ’s a feature or a glitch? It matters because your response is different to each one. When you have a software program with a glitch, you call tech support. When you have a software program with a bad feature, you donÂ’t buy it in the first place. Okay? And so, the Republicans have got to stop treating these things like glitches, where the chief weapon is the strongly worded letter; and start treating them like features.
Now, I will give a tremendous amount of applause to Louie Gohmert. I saw Representative Trent Franks here last night. These are two guys who get it. Louie Gohmert and Trent Franks understand that these are features, not glitches, and theyÂ’re acting accordingly.
But they wonÂ’t enforce federal law as it relates to voter integrity issues. We had an election, folks, this last election, where there were four million ineligible voters on the voter rolls. Four million. And this is according to Pew, which is hardly a rightwing conspiracy outfit. And the Justice Department wonÂ’t do anything to clean up this, even though they have the power to do it.
We had one out of every eight voter records in the last election, according to Pew, had errors in it. But once again, itÂ’s not a glitch the Justice Department wonÂ’t enforce the law to clean up the voter rolls; itÂ’s a feature.
Now, let me close on two very important things you folks need to understand that’s happening — process matters to the Left. When it comes to elections, they know the ground rules of elections alter outcomes. Take a look at Texas. They know that if they stop Texas voter ID that an effort called Battleground Texas will be more successful in its effort to transform Texas to be a blue state. And they’re focusing on the Rio Grande Valley to do this. And once they get Texas as a blue state, it’s game over. There won’t be another electoral victory.
But look at Colorado. Colorado is perhaps the most glaring example of this, and it’s gotten very little attention. Colorado, of course, went all blue in the last election. And they decided to pass a radical new election process law. Now, most of you go vote either absentee, or you go to a precinct. In Colorado, from now on, they’re going to mail every single person on the voter rolls — whether they ask for it or not — a regular ballot. A regular ballot automatically. On top of that, they’re converting inactive voters to active status by statute. So these are people who have moved away, who are dead, who don’t live there anymore. Colorado has eight counties with more registered voters than people alive.
(Laughter)
Okay? Now, match that with the all-mail auto-ballot, and you can see whatÂ’s going to happen. These, folks, are features; theyÂ’re not glitches. ItÂ’s part of an effort to fundamentally transform the country using process rules. Because they know if they pump 100,000, 200,000 bogus ballots into the system, into apartment complexes, theyÂ’re going to get a different election outcome.
So let me close with that. And thank you all very much for having me. And so good to meet so many of you here, as it always is. Thank you.
(Applause)
...
ObamaGate: Obama?s Scandals & The Totalitarian Future | FrontPage Magazine
