Trickle Down Tyranny (31 page)

Brazil

I mentioned the Obama trip to Brazil in the previous chapter. When President Obama got invited to a summit meeting in Brazil, he decided to take the whole family. A little vacation in the sunshine while icy rains fell on Washington in March 2011. Of course that little trip cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.

Why not?

He felt completely at home with the Socialist Party leaders of that rainforest nation. They spend their days criticizing the United States in the halls of the United Nations and blaming America in the local newspapers for their problems.

Just like Obama.

Once there, Obama announced that U.S. taxpayers would loan the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras some $2 billion to drill for oil off their coast in the deep waters of the Atlantic. As I’ve told you, he backed that up with a promise that America would be Brazil’s customer for the oil they produce.

Of course, the president has blocked American oil companies from drilling in a number of offshore areas and in many inland oil fields. Obama’s drilling moratorium costs the American economy some 100,000 jobs and billions in revenue per year, according to the American Petroleum Institute. That might be the reason he promised that America would be Brazil’s “best customer.” When he got back to the states, Obama whined about America’s dependence on “foreign oil imports”—the very ones he had just agreed to subsidize in Brazil with our tax dollars.

I have a lot more to say about Obama’s energy edicts in chapter 9, “Tyranny of Green Energy.”

Our New Enemies

Government brutality is a fact of life in the Middle East. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an Islamist dictator like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or an old-fashioned third-world tyrant like Hosni Mubarak or Moammar Ghadafi. Middle Eastern countries have since World War II generally been held together by force. Now that the Obama administration has found a “principle”—“responsibility to protect”—to stand on, it has a rationale for extending its policy of reducing U.S. influence in the region by promoting the rise of Islamist governments “of the people.”

It’s the Soros Doctrine at work.

I’m the only one who saw what was really going on in the Middle East as Barack Obama turned a blind eye to the violence of dictators against their citizens and supported the overthrow of U.S. allies in order to pave the way for the takeover of their countries by Islamist radicals.

I’m the only one who understood that Obama was implementing his new foreign policy, the one that says, “Our former friends are now our enemies.” It’s the second part of Obama’s new foreign policy doctrine.

Israel

I want you to take a look at what Obama’s support for the Islamist radicals at the heart of the so-called Arab Spring has done to Israel.

In May 2011, the president delivered two speeches on Israel in which he called for Israel to restart negotiations with its Islamist enemies, starting with “borders . . . based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.”
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In other words, Israel—which Obama continually refers to as an “occupying force”—would give up large amounts of its territory while accepting borders that would prevent it from defending itself against the attacks from its sworn enemies just across its borders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proceeded to scold our schoolboy president in a speech to a joint session of Congress, saying, “Jerusalem will never again be divided. Jerusalem must remain the united capital of Israel.” He received 29 standing ovations during his congressional address.

One of the lines that received an ovation touched on something Obama seems unable to recognize: “In a region where women are stoned, gays are hanged, Christians are persecuted, Israel stands out. It is different.”
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After that, Obama and Netanyahu met in the Oval Office, where the Israeli Prime Minister made Obama look like a foolish schoolboy. Netanyahu explained that peace on the terms Obama had laid out “will crash eventually on the rocks of Middle East reality.”
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In the meantime, Israel’s border with Egypt is no longer secure after Mubarak’s ouster. In August 2011, a group of as many as 20 al Qaeda–affiliated terrorists crossed over the Egyptian border into Israel, firing mortars, RPGs, and handguns at a bus and automobiles inside Israel, killing seven Israelis.
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In the same month, demonstrators outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo carried signs with swastikas on them, shouting, “The gas chambers are ready!” A month later, Egyptian protesters stormed the embassy, overwhelming security guards and forcing its evacuation.

Iranian defense minister Ahmad Vahidi spoke for Iran’s growing number of allies in the new Middle East when he said that “given the takeover of the Zionist regime’s espionage den and the escape of the ambassador of this usurper regime from Egypt, we can say that the second wave of Islamic awakening against the Zionist regime has started and we hope that his movement will continue with more power.”
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At the same time, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas petitioned the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state. While the Obama administration sidestepped the issue of Palestinian statehood in its response, it again criticized Israel’s construction of “settlements” in areas that the Palestinians claim for their sovereign state.
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The Obama administration also failed to note that the Palestinian Authority chose the mother of four terrorist murderers, one of whom killed seven Israelis, to lead the procession to the UN offices in Ramallah. She would be the one to hand over the letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard official Masoud Jazayeri summed up the response to Israel’s presence in this way: “The noose becomes tighter around the United States, the Zionist regime, and those who have infringed the rights of nations, and their allies will experience the same fate.”
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and our oldest, most dependable ally in the region. So, in Obama World, that makes it one of our enemies.

First the U.S. State Department actually listed Israel as a state sponsor of terrorism. They quickly backtracked, calling it a “mistake.”

Right.

Of course, Obama has to be subtle in his opposition to Israel. An overwhelming number of Americans support the Jewish state.

In her position as UN Ambassador, Albright disciple Susan Rice finally got the chance to make it clear just how strong her and Obama’s hatred of Israel is. After she was forced to veto a UN resolution declaring Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria illegal, she went on to throw Israel under the bus, explaining that the administration continues “our opposition to continued settlements,” that “we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.”
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Another Obama appointee, U.S. ambassador to Belguim Howard Gutman explained that we need to distinguish between legitimate anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews that is justified. In Gutman’s warped view, traditional anti-Semitism on the part of Muslims is wrong and not to be tolerated. On the other hand, anti-Semitism resulting from Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is just fine and should be encouraged.
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It didn’t take long for the administration’s anti-Semitic policies to surface right here in the U.S.

I explained the anti-Semitic bias of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in chapter 5. You don’t think that Obama’s support of the anti-Semites in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations is an accident, do you?

Did you think he was simply unaware of the anti-Semitic bias of these punks?

What you’re seeing emerge from the Occupy Wall Street idiots is Obama’s new friends-to-enemies and enemies-to-friends policy. His treatment of Israel—shown in his refusal to denounce the anti-Semitism of the demonstrators—is just one more example of his insidious treatment of our former allies.

Great Britain

Barely anyone noticed that Obama was not invited to the royal wedding in the summer of 2011. But it was quite a snub.

American presidents are usually invited to royal weddings and coronations. President Reagan was invited to the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles in 1982. President Eisenhower was invited to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. They might not attend, but Americans presidents are always invited.
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Not this time.

The president of Uganda got invited. So did the potentate of Bhutan. Even the head of St. Vincent, a tiny isle in the Caribbean, got the gold-leafed invitation.

But not the leader of the free world, the president of the only remaining superpower on planet Earth.

The “special relationship” with Great Britain, which was forged in the fires of World War II and has lasted through 11 presidents and more than 50 years of world crises, isn’t so special anymore.

At least, it is not so special to President Obama.

For a long time, the British didn’t get the joke. They still thought America cared about them. Let’s not forget that the British have deployed soldiers, ships, and warplanes to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight alongside our forces—losing thousands of men in the bargain. Or that British intelligence supplies thousands of phone taps as well as human intelligence to stop al Qaeda terror attacks here in the United States. Or that the United Kingdom, the world’s fifth-largest economy, is one of America’s largest trading partners and a top-five source of foreign direct investment in America—building plants and creating jobs here in the land of ten percent unemployment.

What happened? From the start of his presidency, Obama signaled his anti-British stance. Remember all those remarks about the evils of British colonialism?

Remember when Obama ordered the return of the famous bust of Winston Churchill, Britain’s heroic World War II leader. The lump of bronze was loaded with history and symbolism. Its return to Britain, without explanation, offended millions of Britons. The story and the snub played in the British press for weeks.

Next came Obama’s odd, egotistical gifts to the Queen and the Prime Minister. Gifts are traditionally given during state visits. For the Queen, he gave an iPod loaded with Obama’s speeches.

And to the Prime Minister, who had sent soldiers to fight alongside ours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he gave a collection of DVDs of American film classics like
Gone with the Wind
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Small wonder that when the Queen went to the Kentucky Derby last year, she didn’t stop at the White House for a visit.

And, while the British are famous for their stiff upper lip, they decided not to invite the Obama clan to the royal wedding.

Honduras

Honduras has historically been one of America’s most dependable allies in Central America. But when Honduran president Manuel Zelaya made a secret deal with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to overturn Honduras’s democracy and make it a single-party communist state, Obama got worried. The problem was, he wasn’t worried about seeing a democracy overthrown; he was worried about the rights of the communists trying to stage the coup.

As Zelaya’s term was coming to an end in December 2009, he announced that he was going to stay in power. Emulating Chavez, he canceled elections. Then he shut down independent radio and television stations, threatened opposition parties, and brought in advisors recommended by Chavez and Fidel Castro.

Honduras is a country of some seven million people, and many of them realized what was going on. A new dictatorship was being born.

And they didn’t want it. They had seen what Castro had done to Cuba and what Chavez had done to Venezuela. All through the spring of 2009, the tension built. Honduras realized that it was at a crossroads. The president of Honduras’s senate called together the members of President Zelaya’s own party, and they went to the Honduran Supreme Court and got an order to arrest Zelaya on June 28, 2009.

Zelaya was arrested and taken by helicopter to Costa Rica. Although Zelaya was dressed in a business suit when he was arrested, he changed into pajamas on the helicopter that took him into exile. After he landed, he gave a press conference in his pajamas, claiming armed men had awoken him in the presidential bed. From Costa Rica, Zelaya hired unemployed men in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’s capital city, to stage demonstrations demanding his return to power.

Meanwhile, a transitional government reorganized the national senate and, with the approval of the supreme court, resumed governing the country.

As the Hondurans were fighting to save their democracy, what did Obama do?

First, he denied all members of the Honduran government visas to travel to the United States. The few Honduras government officials who were able to visit the United States and tell their side of the story had U.S. passports.

At the same time, the Obama administration demanded the return of ousted president Zelaya, the man who would be dictator.

Honduras’s most powerful ally, the United States, had turned against it.

Obama cut off aid and loans to the impoverished country. Foreign investors were scared away. The White House called the protective and legal moves of the Honduras government a “coup” and encouraged the American media to criticize the country. Obama and the American media did everything they could to bring an acolyte of Chavez and Castro to power in Honduras.
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