Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth (16 page)

Do you realize what this means?

Do you realize the preparations that are being made by our federal government to stop any resistance to their increasingly dangerous and far-reaching denial of our civil rights?

The Savage Truth of the matter is that our government is preparing for nothing less than the next civil war. It’s marshalling forces to be used against the American people, but the very divisions that the government is creating are causing many Americans to think about what we must do to resist this government takeover.

This administration is doing everything it can to turn America into the world capital of illegal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security is under orders not to prosecute aliens who are in the country illegally and instead to open our borders to another wave of non-English-speaking
illegal immigrants, many of whom will swell the rolls of an eternal welfare state and guarantee a Democratic-majority voting bloc while they continue to undermine our language and our culture.

Our president and the government agencies at his behest are doing everything they can to ensure that a wave of illegal immigrants continues to cross our southwestern border with Mexico. On top of that, they’re offering illegal aliens benefits that make them beholden to the Democratic Party for life. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the Mexican government, has assured illegal immigrants in a Spanish-language brochure distributed in Mexico that their immigration status will not be checked when they apply for free food once they’re in the United States, and that they “need not divulge information regarding [their] immigration status” in order to receive food stamps.
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Obama suspended the deportation of millions of young illegal aliens by executive order because Congress would not pass the DREAM Act. His Justice Department refuses to enforce the antidrug laws in states with antimarijuana laws. His administrators have gutted federal welfare-for-work requirements by defining
work
in terms so convoluted, states have trouble interpreting the meaning of the word.

And you wonder why I get mad?

Through such acts as suspending the insurance mandate of the Affordable Care Act by executive order, Obama has effectively made the rule of law irrelevant in this country.

As one commentator has expressed it, Obamacare “is a perversely self-inflicted, man-made disaster that replaced the efficiency of the private markets with the tangle, confusion, and ideological bias of government bureaucracy.”
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This administration is making a blatant power grab. It makes virtually every decision on the basis of politics and not on the basis of the Constitution it’s pledged to uphold. Every agency of the administration is infected with this corruption and hunger for power.

From the policies and practices of Attorney General Eric Holder to former Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius to “retired” director of the tax-exempt division of the IRS Lois Lerner, there is not a single policy or decision that is made for the reason it should be made. Every decision smacks of leftist politics and sympathy for America’s enemies both outside and inside this country. Every decision is made to carry out what I see as the administration’s true agenda: undermining America’s position as the most powerful nation in the world for the purpose of advancing the establishment of a global world order.

Below is just a partial laundry list of this administration’s recent actions overriding the Constitution:

• The Labor Department issued a mandate in February 2013 that delayed the Affordable Care Act limits on individual health-care spending for a year, a procedure that requires legislative action.

• The administration explained in a blog post during the 2013 Fourth of July weekend that it was unilaterally delaying the employer mandate, again without congressional cooperation.

• In August 2013, the federal Office of Personnel Management issued a declaration of change to the Affordable Care Act that released congressmen and their staffs from having to buy their health insurance from the federal health-care exchanges.

• The Department of Education, in conjunction with Eric Holder’s Justice Department, issued an order to the University of Montana demanding that the school restrict freedom of speech. Among other things, it denied students their legal rights by suggesting that anyone violating the university’s speech codes be punished without having their cases heard before a committee of students.
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Eric Holder’s Justice Department, populated as it is with attorneys who have defended accused terrorists and other anti-American clients as they pressed their leftist agenda, consistently did everything in its power—and often well outside its power—to trample the rule of law.

Nothing has changed since Holder took office.

In fact, it’s gotten worse.

From our right to own property, to our religious freedom, to our ability to purchase and own stock, the Department of Justice has used every bit of its power to expand government and limit civil rights. In 2013 alone, the Supreme Court intervened and denied the Department of Justice’s arguments nine times.
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Let me give you some examples of what the Justice Department is still doing to deny us our civil rights.

For starters, it’s relentlessly prosecuting the administration’s political enemies.

Former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell has been indicted on charges of corruption, and an aggressive criminal
investigation into the activities of New Jersey governor Chris Christie has been launched.

McDonnell is accused of corruption charges stemming from gifts he received from a Virginia businessman. The great treasure the governor is accused of taking amounts to about as much as they give you at a golf outing: golf shirts, clubs, and shoes. The former attorney general of Virginia—who’s a Democrat—conducted an in-depth investigation and found no crime had been committed. He called the whole matter “political niceties.”
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But Holder is going after McDonnell as if he’s a serial killer. If this isn’t a political witch hunt, I don’t know what is.

The real reason for Holder’s attack on McDonnell?

Before the “scandal” broke, he’d been a top contender to run against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

It’s the same reason the DoJ is going after Chris Christie. Christie appears to be another likely candidate to oppose Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party needs to do all it can to nip Christie’s potential candidacy in the bud.

And what’s Christie’s offense? Traffic on the George Washington Bridge. The DoJ goes after Chris Christie for traffic on a bridge that always has a traffic jam? I know that there were some issues that happened as a result of the traffic jam, but nothing resembling evidence that Christie was involved in making it happen has been presented. I grew up in New York City. I’ve driven over the George Washington Bridge countless times. I can count on one hand the times there weren’t cars lined up bumper-to-bumper at the toll plaza in Fort Lee. Instead of inventing crises over which to investigate politicians of the opposing party, investigate the real crises, the real corruption that is occurring all around us.

Holder’s Department of Justice does not defend the law of the land; it holds itself above the law. When he was questioned in a congressional hearing about the legal and constitutional basis on which the president had delayed the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act, he couldn’t come up with an answer. Looking confused, he stammered, “I’ll be honest with you, I have not seen… I don’t remember looking at or having seen the analysis in some time, so I’m not sure where along the spectrum that would come.”
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When he was questioned about the fact that he appointed Barbara Bosserman—a Justice Department trial attorney who just happens to be an Obama political donor—to head the investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative political groups, Holder showed his inadequacy as a liar: “I don’t know anything about the political activities of any of the people who are involved in this investigation.”
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More than ten thousand attorneys work at the Department of Justice. And Holder wants us to believe that it just so happened that the one he picked was also the best possible candidate to protect the administration’s political interests?

Let me ask you, how many months have passed since the IRS targeting of conservative groups was exposed? And in that time, how much have you heard about the federal investigation? How many people have been indicted? How many have been fired? Has there been one single action taken to get to the bottom of this extremely important case?
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Don’t bother to look it up. I’ll save you the time. There hasn’t been any.

And in the meantime, all the e-mails that Lois Lerner sent during the time the targeting of conservative groups was going on have suddenly, nearly a year later, been found to have gone missing!
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After True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht applied for tax-exempt status, she received no fewer than fifteen visits from four different federal agencies over a two-year span. The IRS audited Englebrecht’s personal and business tax returns four times. She was questioned over and over about her political beliefs.
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Our rights are being trampled, and the top lawyer in the land claims he doesn’t know the law or the political affiliation of the people he appoints to uphold the law.

Let me tell you what Eric Holder is doing in Louisiana to the rights of the very minorities he claims to be defending.

After Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans school district decided to convert all of the city’s public schools into charter schools. These schools are publicly funded, but independent school boards govern them.

By 2014, 85 percent of New Orleans students attended these charter schools.
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Now the DoJ is aggressively trying to prevent the parents of Louisiana minority school children from being able to choose the school they can attend. He’s doing everything he can to make sure that the children who would most benefit from being able to use the state’s school voucher program are denied.

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal described it correctly when he said that the president and his attorney general “are trying to keep kids trapped in failing public schools against the wishes of their parents.”

The DoJ is arguing that Louisiana schools that are still operating under desegregation laws passed in the 1970s should
not
be allowed to issue vouchers to children because the vouchers might upset the racial balance of the schools. In one
instance, the Justice Department claimed that a school that had lost six students because they chose to attend other schools had become “too white.” Another had become “too black.”
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Nearly 90 percent of the students in the New Orleans public school system are African-American. The Justice Department is arguing that allowing 570 of them to attend the schools of their choice would “create a racial imbalance.”
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Is Holder saying that 88 percent black students is not racial imbalance?

Or is he really saying that keeping minority students in failing schools will mean that they’re unlikely to be able to go to college and escape being dependent on federal welfare for the rest of their lives?

Of the mountain of questionable moves he’s made, among the attorney general’s most questionable was naming Debo Adegbile to the position of assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

Let me tell you who Debo Adegbile is. He’s an attorney who defended cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

On December 9, 1981, a young Philadelphia police officer named Danny Faulkner pulled over a car that was going the wrong way on a one-way street. Quickly, the routine traffic stop turned cold-blooded. Danny, an Army veteran and a newly married husband, was shot once in the back and, as he lay dying, four more times, including once in his face. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a radio personality and Black Muslim, was literally holding the smoking gun when police backup arrived. Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Danny Faulkner in Philadelphia in 1982.
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When Holder was trying to push Adegbile’s nomination through the Senate, the Judiciary Committee chairman,
Democrat Patrick Leahy, refused to let Faulkner’s widow, Maureen, testify at Adegbile’s confirmation hearing.
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The wife of a murdered cop was denied the right to testify at the appointment hearing of an attorney who had defended the murderer.

Despite Leahy’s intransigence, the Senate, including seven Democrats, staged a victory for principled government, voting by a simple majority of 52–47 to defeat Adegbile’s appointment.
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Harry Reid’s own change of the filibuster rules, which now requires only a simple majority to defeat a filibuster, was forced back down his throat. Without Reid’s unilateral change, the Senate likely would not have had the votes to block Adegbile’s appointment without a filibuster. Reid himself, hoist by his own petard, was furious. Nonetheless, Reid is planning to ask the Senate for another vote on the appointment at some time in the future.
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Let me change the focus from the corrupt politics of the federal government to those of the city I grew up in. What’s happening in New York is mirroring the takeover of our nation, as a committed leftist is trying to seize control of the city.

I grew up in the Bronx. I remember my grandfather well. I call him “the astronaut,” because he was the one who left the old country to come to America, which might as well have been Mars for all he knew. He’s the one who first learned the language that his grandson would later master and make his living from. He’s the one who assimilated and worked so hard that he dropped dead at forty-seven.

I also remember living in a family with a hardworking father and a stay-at-home mother. I remember sitting on my father’s lap as we listened to the radio. There were no satellite dishes, Netflix, or SmartTV. It was simple, hard, and wonderful all at once. Because we knew there was opportunity if we worked for it.