Organize the South

Below is an AP story on Athens Congressman Rep. Paul Broun warning the people of the US to fear (wait for it...) an Obama dictatorship. Seriously. Check out the first paragraph where the AP talks about a "Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship." Yeah, fascism goes socialist. That's some deep thinking about the topic there, huh?

But what about Broun? Glad you asked. According to his website, Broun has sponsored such awesome legislation as constitutional amendments calling for castration for rapists, defining manrriage as between a man and woman, and that life begins with fertilization. I'm sure there's some sort of right-wing intellectual acrobatics that can convince people that a party dedicated to small government should have the right to define life, marriage, and cut your balls off. Instead, my favorite is HR 6783 which witholds federal funds from schools that permit or require the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance or national anthem is anything other than English. Nothing says you hate fascism and/or marxism more than telling people you have to declare loyalty to a country in the language of the fatherland.

You know what else states a hatred of fascism? Coming out against torture. Does Rep. Broun support torture? I don't know. Steve and Angela Helwig asked him back in April 2008. He did vote against HR 952, the Torture Outsourcing Prevent Act.

Rep. Broun, if you really want to prevent an authoritarian dictatorship in the US then change your votes and stop worrying about Obama.

Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRxZox4GFoIweckPDP1oRhKBlHOwD94CDDM80

By BEN EVANS – 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado in which he called for expanding the nation's foreign service.

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

The Obama transition team declined to comment on Broun's remarks. But spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama was referring in the speech to a proposal for a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as rebuilding infrastructure — an idea endorsed by the Bush administration.

Broun said he believes Obama would move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national security force.

Obama has said he respects the Second Amendment right to bear arms and favors "common sense" gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that as meaning he'll at least enact curbs on ownership of assault weapons and concealed weapons. As an Illinois state lawmaker, Obama supported a ban on semiautomatic weapons and tighter restrictions on firearms generally.

"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential of going down that road."