Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? - Joseph Stalin

"Ve have vays of shutting you up"

This is beyond all belief. I never thought I would live to read a headline like this;“The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign.” They call them "Truth Squads" What!? I could not believe this..."Truth Squads"? To make it even scarier, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer and St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch. All public law enforcement officials, who snapped too when they got their marching orders from the Fur...I mean the Obama Campaign.

Then we have the less publicized case of Sheila Conlee of Pueblo, Colorado. Owner of Amore Antiques & More. She was forced to close her store for an entire Saturday so that the Chosen One could have a campaign event. In protest Ms. Conlee exercised her First Amendment right to make a statement. So she placed a sign in her window. Well, the "Obama Brigades" were not
about to take that sitting down. So the organizers arraigned two Porta -Potties strategically so that they could conceal the sign with a large white tarp secured to them. It would seem that the "Truth Squads" are not only out there to correct "lies and Misleading Ads" ,they would not want the truth to get out either.

Then of course there is "Joe the Plumber" A man minding his own business in his front yard and guess who walks, or hovers an inch off the ground, up to him. The Chosen One, the Messiah, the bringer of all that is good and all that we need. In any case in an unguarded response to a fair question, the Divine One slipped up. Joe finds himself on the hit list of every Ohio government agency. His reputation is questioned, his personal life laid open for all to see.

• Then theres the reporters from the Washington Times, the New York Post and Dallas Morning news who were thrown of the Obama campaign plane after their news papers endorsed McCain.


• Orlando Fox News anchor Barbara West was banished by the Obama campaign after she asked tome pointed question of Joe Biden.


• Larry Sinclair, host of the Blog Talk Radio (BTR) "No Compromise", while interviewing a Philadelphia attorney who has filed suit challenging Obama's citizenship status had his program archives and show deleted while he was in the middle of his show!! Shannon Dingee-Kramer, BTR’s assistant Director of Customer Relations was responsible for this and within a couple of hours received an email from her saying he violated BTR terms of use stating,“racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, unreasonably violent, threatening, intimidating or harassing; and that it contained falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage BlogTalkRadio or any other person.” amazing!


• Kevin Miller, a conservative talk show host on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-AM, was given an on-air CBS Corporate Reprimand, read by his executive producer and prompted by listener complaints after Miller dared to interview guests critical of Obama and express his own negative opinions about the candidate.


• It is reported that YOUTUBE has been censoring video that is critical of Obama.


• All of this and I have not even mentioned The Fairness Doctrine.

There are several other examples but I will not belabor the point. Then there is the gun issue. here is a list of his voting record at least in part;

• Ok for states & cities to determine local gun laws. (Apr 2008)


• FactCheck: Yes, Obama endorsed Illinois handgun ban. (Apr 2008)


• Respect 2nd Amendment, but local gun bans ok. (Feb 2008)


• Provide some common-sense enforcement on gun licensing. (Jan 2008)


• 2000: cosponsored bill to limit purchases to 1 gun per month. (Oct 2007)


• Concealed carry OK for retired police officers. (Aug 2007)


• Stop unscrupulous gun dealers dumping guns in cities. (Jul 2007)


• Keep guns out of inner cities--but also problem of morality. (Oct 2006)


• Bush erred in failing to renew assault weapons ban. (Oct 2004)


• Ban semi-automatics, and more possession restrictions. (Jul 1998)


• Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)

I cannot help but draw the comparisons to Stalin's positions on the same issues. Ideas and guns, a people equipped with these tools are a threat to the powers that be. I suspect that in an Obama Nation, such transgressions will be unthinkable, and intolerable.

Ipsa scientia potestas est

J. Dean