Posted by
Brett Stevens on Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:07:10 PM
"Thousands are going door-to-door as part of Organizing for America, gathering support for President Obama's plan to invest in America's future. You can help, too. Call Congress and tell them to support President Obama's budget plan to get our economy moving again."
CNNPolitics.com
This is the ad being run by the ObamaNations to try and persuade the nation to support his future-bashing, wasteful spending budget. Apparently, wasting billions in taxpayers money for the faux stimulus package wasn't enough. Now, they want to bankrupt the nation even faster with more ridiculous programs hiring more Democrats and soaking up capital. Since they appear to believe making the country broke and in debt to China, he is enlisting thousands of people to knock on doors and spread the propaganda points. However, this is a dangerous proposition as it will build a new army of people to do his bidding. This new group will become more and more radicalized as the Obama mania feeds upon itself. We are looking at a new parapolitical organization.
In the 1920's in Germany, the National Socialist German Worker's party founded a group called the Stormabteilung, which translated into English means Storm Detachment. They were simply unemployed former soldiers and dissatisfied men whose job it was to protect against anti-party agitators. As the groups grew in size, they were given uniforms, brown shirts which were cheap and plentiful, and all dressed alike. They also had squad leaders, contingent leaders, and ultimately a chief leader. They were not originally intended to act as any kind of strike force, per se. Instead they were only there to provide protection, like guards. However, Hitler soon realized this group could really intimidate the population and even more importantly, the rival parties like the Social Democrats and the Communists. They acted as street thugs at other parties' rallies.
After seizing power in Germany in 1933, Hitler used the SA, or Brownshirts, to rally his party and to isolate other parties. They took over an increasing number of roles within the German politic until Roehm actually tried to take over the leadership of the German army. Hitler and the rival gruppe (group) he founded ousted the SA leadership in the Night of Long Knives. But, the model for a parapolitical/military organization had been built. The remnants of the SA continued to work with the Gestapo, the SS or Blackshirts, and the police as a kind of auxiliary organization until the fall of the Third Reich.
Creating a national organization to knock on doors seems at first glance to be a far cry from the formation of a nefarious group such as the Brownshirts, but it may not be. Certainly, if Obama's group of ObamaNations becomes organized and regimented, as all groups that succeed do, it could be the birth of a thug organization. ObamaNation 'concerned citizens' could single out and intimidate or 'keep watch' on political adversaries. ObamaNation 'volunteers' could easily claim they need protection and a group could be spawned that will act as a parapolice department. This group could become a chilling force in our democracy. A call to action, by such an ObamaNation group, would necessarily get more radical in their attempt to force their ideals on the body politic. Every generation believes it can't happen to them, but every generation gets it wrong.
Ideologues attempt to 'educate' and 'protect' their power will often go to great lengths in which to do so. White supremists had their KKK and current environmental groups have their ELF. If the government sanctions a group to operate, it would certainly grow exponentially in both power and influence. Most typically, like the Brownshirts, the Obama administration will fund these groups giving them even more legitimacy. It is one thing to ask people to talk to their neighbors and a far different thing to create and organization to flesh it out. "Organize for America" is on a very slippery slope and should it begin to pick up steam could destroy our democracy. We cannot have a governmentally sanctioned agency acting a a canvassing group for a political party. A government is supposed to be for all of us, not for the ideologically pure. This group seeks to quiet political discourse and not encourage it. This should be nipped in the bud.