Obama Reveals Himself For What He Is

In a recent campaign rally, Obama had the audacity (to use one of his favorite terms) to utter the following:

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.

Consider the authoritarian mindset this utterance reveals about a man who might assume the presidency of a nation conceived in liberty, and who receives fawning support from a great deal of citizens of said nation. Obama believes that your car, your air conditioning, and even your food are not really yours at all, but rather "ours" -- meaning that the public sector, through him, may control them. This is a betrayal of the ideals that founded this country, where the government undertook to protect your inalienable right to pursue happiness in your own way. Obama has effectively declared war on that right and believes that you may not spend your money (i.e., the fruits of your labor) as you see fit, but rather as he sees fit. For a man who never tires of criticizing America for its former indulgence of slavery, it sure is odd for him to encourage slavery's return.

What proves even more sinister than this putrid collectivism is its global scope, as Obama clearly sees fit to subjugate American sovereignty to the wishes of foreign nations. As I argue in my upcoming book, Unlawful Government: The Gathering Threat Of Global Hegemony, the political class is scared stiff of our increasing ability to slip-slide away from its national control, and has therefore begun linking arms worldwide in an effort to subsume the nation-state. By gleefully deploying the lingo of one-worldism, Obama has revealed that he has completely on-board with that hegemonic program.

If you wish to spend your money for SUVs rather than Priuses; for air conditioning instead of fans; or for caviar instead of ramen noodles, then it's none of Obama's or any foreigner's damn business. On the other hand, if you do not trust yourself to run your life, and if you believe that gladhanding politicians are better stewards of your interests than you are, then have at it. Just don't expect me or the growing numbers of people like me to go along with it. This is my country, but it is not my lawful government nor any government recognizable to the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.

What It Takes

Anyone still wondering what it takes to save America from the unlawful government that is strangling it, read this story about a brave young man who refuses to be an accessory to a massive violation of the Constitution and of the Nuremberg principles. It is just this sort of principled resistance that epitomizes a true soldier and a true American, not a mind-numbed robot who dutifully executes whatever orders a corrupt political class hands him.

Now Florida!

A proposal is afloat to split my home State in two. I am definitely excited by this, even though it is not a repudiation of the Tumor and even though it is driven by the craven zeal of South Florida politicians to spend unrestrained amounts of taxpayer money. Why? Because it drives home the inescapable point I've been making in my books: large governments are ill-suited to the modern world. There are far too many people with too many divergent interests to tolerate living under a big roof any longer, and we all would do better to adopt small-scale sovereignties to address our wishes. If "diversity" rather than unity is the order of the day, it's high time for our public institutions to reflect it and fragment accordingly.

Granted, splitting Florida probably violates Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution, which reads as follows:

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

At the same time, we all know that no one obeys the Constitution anymore, so we might as well encourage the scattering of sovereignties with all possible speed. If this works, North Florida can preserve a semblance of American life while South Florida truly becomes "South Of The Border."

Hawaii Secessionists Show The Way

Finally, some people prove they have the gumption to renounce the powers that be and brazenly proclaim that enough is enough. Hawaii reminds us that secession remains the inherent right of all peoples yearning to govern themselves, regardless of whether the lawless empire they belong to lets them vote in elections featuring pre-selected political hacks. Perhaps nothing will come of this, but we're all eventually dust anyway, so what matters is whether you stand up for what you believe or play it safe like a meek gelding.

Though I hope that mainlanders take these Hawaiians' actions to heart, we are quickly running out of communities with the cultural identity or shared sense of purpose to support any such effort. The Tumor has been sowing salt in the cultural furrows for decades now, and a country filling up with deracinated hedonists offers less and less prospect of principled resistance.