The Triple Threat Of The Obama Data Mining Operation

     The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an Alinskyite bureaucracy created by the Obama administration to ostensibly keep the evil banks and other financial institutions from cheating the American people out of their hard-earned money. I just wonder when a bureau is going to be created to protect the American people against the Obama administration from doing the same thing.
     Richard Cordray was assigned the position of head snoop at the CFPB by a recess appointment made by President Obama when the U.S. Senate was not actually in recess. The President knew Mr. Cordray would not legitimately pass a confirmation vote. But that is how this administration operates, separate Congress from their Constitutional authority when they stand between Barack Obama and his agenda. The CFPB collects data on every financial transaction made in this country by its citizens and looks for crimes having been committed, sound familiar? Mr. Cordray's jack-booted accountants are given even more latitude to snoop into law-abiding Americans finances by the Financial Reform Act, also known as Dodd/Frank.
     The data collection under the guise of protecting our finances dovetails nicely for the Obama administration into the data collection being done by the National Security Administration with our phone records. The President mischaracterizes (deliberately or through ignorance) the data being amassed by the NSA from carriers like Verizon, as meta data. This terminology is misleading as to what is actually being collected. The phone records are pointer data, which are keys to a myriad other personal data about law-abiding Americans. Think of the "meta data" as your home's address, the address is not your actual home but would lead someone to your physical home were all your valuables are stored. The phone records being collected by the Obama administration provide them with links to a store house of personal information about every American citizen.
     With the financial data being collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the phone data being collected by the National Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service collecting medical information on every American as part of their job administering ObamaCare, this government is going to have every personal detail of every U.S. citizen. And with the Obama administration's propensity to use such data to destroy any opposition to their unpopular agenda having been well-documented by the IRS scandal, the privacy implicitly guaranteed by the Constitution is looking more and more like a casualty of the ignorance that elected Mr. Obama twice.     
     I am still flummoxed by those on the right that support this mass data mining and collection operation by an administration that has proven itself untrustworthy again and again. Some men would have been appalled by such government apparatus, men named Madison, Franklin, Jefferson and Adams among others who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honors to the cause of fighting such tyranny. Today men named Boehner, Graham, McCain and others so easily give away the hard-fought freedoms for which honest patriots died.   

The Real Scandal Lies Within Ourselves

     Founding father and primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, once wrote that when the government fears the people there is liberty, and when the people fear the government there is tyranny. The recent Obama administration scandals involving the abuse of power at the IRS and the Justice Department, targeting political opponents of the President in the former and Associated Press journalists putting into print their concerns over the Benghazi attack in the latter, is the very essence of what Thomas Jefferson so eloquently stated over two hundred years ago. The people's fear of their government in a tyrannical system, the kind to which Jefferson alluded, has been given abundant life by this administration.
     Journalists now must fear improper investigations by the Justice Department if they dare to write or report any information that the Obama administration deems "inappropriate." And individuals, wishing to involve themselves in the political process, must now fear reprisals from an authoritarian regime through the tax collection agency known as the Internal Revenue Service. One of the special aspects of the United States has always been its citizens ability to vociferously oppose their government without fear of reprisal. That aspect is in danger of being lost to history forever with the continued existence of the Leftist power base which currently has its home in the Obama administration.
      These recent Obama scandals are not so much scandals as the modus operandi of an administration that employs the thug tactics of Chicago gangland politics on a national level. These tactics are business as usual for Marxists in general and the Obama administration specifically, for the purpose of imposing an unpopular agenda on a fearful and cowering public. The real scandal is that so many Americans fell for this style of banana republic government, not once but twice, while the alarm bell was being wrung by people successfully characterized by the administration as radicals. And now the Obama regime's guns are turned towards its own sycophants in the media, who are so dedicated to the cause that they will sacrifice themselves as willing collateral damage in the battle to advance the administration's Marxist agenda.
     I recently remembered a statement by President Obama early in his first term about creating a government civilian force that was more powerful than the military. His own version of brown shirts, not his words but my interpretation of his words. Now I fully understand the enormity of his statement when I realize that he was talking about using the IRS, the Justice Department and any and all bureaucracies within the government to eliminate any challenge to the imposition of his Utopia on the free people of the United States of America. The civilian force to which the President alluded comprised agencies of the government that could operate outside the law to advance his twisted version of fairness and equality. The ends justifying the means, however immoral or unjust those means are, is the mission statement of the Obama administration. And the recent revelations of the inner workings of the Obama machine are just the tip of an iceberg which seeks to sink the previously thought unsinkable ship of liberty and freedom.

The Barackacy Of The IRS Scandal

     The Obama administration is representing an acre of swamp land as a hundred acres of prime real estate with their explanation of the IRS scandal. What they expect the public to buy is that the targeting of only conservative organizations by the division of the IRS that is the sole authority over non-profits in the nation, was in no way politically motivated. Furthermore they expect us to believe that the incessant demonization of these groups by their boss, Barack Obama, and the public statement that these groups should be targeted, by the powerful Senator Baucus who chairs the Senate committee that oversees the IRS, had no influence on the "rouge" agents who engaged in the "non-political" witch hunt.
     I caution those conservatives that are doing handstands over the media seemingly asking tough questions of the administration about the IRS targeting groups with "Patriot" or "Constitution" in their name or public statements that contain phrases like, "less government", not to be fooled by their curiosity. It comes from a thirst for direction in which way to steer the narrative and not from any journalistic integrity to reveal the truth. The media was caught flat-footed by the IRS story and had no story prep from the administration, and being narrative-dependent children, are looking to the administration to feed them their angle on the story for the coming days and weeks. Do not be surprised if the main thrust of the story reported by the media is the administration's assertion that they are outraged by the "unacceptable" and "isolated" actions of a couple of "low-level" agents.
     The IRS's admission that organizations were targeted based on their conservatism also begs the question that many have been asking, "Isn't this the bureaucracy that is charged with implementing large swaths of ObamaCare?" And if a couple of "rouge" agents can deny non-profit status to organizations based on their politics, is it unreasonable to assume that a "low-level" agent could conceivably deny someone health care based on those same politics? This is not just right-wing paranoia, but with recent revelations, is a real possibility. We have recently discovered that ObamaCare requires doctors to ascertain if patients are gun-owners, and it is not a stretch to imagine that they will be charged with mining for all sorts of information that has nothing to do with their patients health concerns. And it further follows that based on this information, certain types of care, or care in general, may be denied by over-zealous Leftists working in the bureaucracy that is ObamaCare.
     What the IRS and other recent scandals illuminate in very stark terms is that the government of, for and by the people has been transformed into a Barackacy. And maybe this was what Barack Obama meant during the 2008 campaign when he said he wanted to fundamentally transform the country. He has succeeded to a large extent in replacing the representative republic that has served this country and the world well for hundreds of years with a system of patronage where government bureaucracies are used to reward his friends and eliminate his opposition.