Obama’s Latest Democracy Scam by James Bovard

Obama’s Latest Democracy Scam

by James Bovard October 29, 2013

In his campaign earlier this year to subvert the Second Amendment, Barack Obama unveiled one of the oldest tricks in the demagogue playbook. Speaking in Colorado, he scoffed at Americans who say, “I need a gun to protect myself from the government” or “We can’t do background checks because the government is going to come take our guns away.”
Obama assured listeners: “Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It’s a government of and by and for the people.”
Unfortunately, many Americans are lulled by such assertions from the nation’s most powerful man. But almost 200 years ago, Sen. John Taylor, in his masterful book, Tyranny Unmasked, warned, “Self-government is flattered to destroy self-government.” Obama’s assertions fit a long pattern of presidents’ invoking democracy to sanctify unleashing themselv
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