Iowa Tea Party Group Removes Obama/Hitler Billboard

[FrankRep]

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The North Iowa Tea Party has removed a billboard comparing President Obama's socialism to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin after holocaust survivor groups and many on the organized left objected, according to an Associated Press story for July 14. by Thomas R. Eddlem


Iowa Tea Party Group Removes Obama/Hitler Billboard (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4053-iowa-tea-party-group-removes-obamahitler-billboard)


Thomas R. Eddlem | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
Friday, 16 July 2010


The North Iowa Tea Party has removed (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard) a billboard comparing President Obama's socialism to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin after holocaust survivor groups and many on the organized Left objected, according to an Associated Press story for July 14.

The billboard claimed that "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive," and had Obama's "Democrat Socialism" between Hitler's "National Socialism" and Lenin's "Marxist Socialism."

“The message they intended was to point out the similarities between Obama’s policies and the socialist policies of Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin,” communications specialist Michael Fiala of Mason City, Iowa, explained in his blog (http://commonsensepoliticsblog.us/), “like nationalized health care, the collusion of government and business to interfere with free markets, and government collaboration with labor unions aimed at control to name a few.” Indeed, Hitler's National Socialism bailed out the automobile industry in the depths of the depression, creating Volkswagen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen#History) as a state socialist enterprise, similar to how the Bush-Obama policy utilized bailout funds to rescue General Motors and Chrysler.

But the image of Obama sandwiched on the billboard by Hitler and Lenin overshadowed the project. "The purpose of the billboard was to draw attention to the socialism. It seems to have been lost in the visuals," North Iowa Tea Party leader Bob Johnson told (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/13/politics/main6675861.shtml) the Associated Press for July 13. "The pictures overwhelmed the message.”

Fiala, who had nothing to do with the billboard construction, notes (http://commonsensepoliticsblog.us/) of the Left that “there’s no limit to the lies they’ll tell … the mischaracterizations they indulge themselves in … the cherry-picked historical revisionisms they accept as fact … and no limit to the amount of fake indignation they serve up under the guise of moral outrage.” Fiala had simply done some website work for the North Iowa Tea Party, but that didn't stop him from receiving an inbox full of what he characterized as a bevvy of “I hate you teabaggers” e-mails rife with four-letter words. “They rant on and on, calling Tea Party movement people 'hate mongers,' mischaracterizing the Tea Party message as 'hate speech,' and accusing Tea People of being racists (the default position of liberals that don’t have their facts straight).”

Johnson explained (http://www.northiowateaparty.com/About_North_Iowa_Tea_Party.html) that the “Tea Party People stand for fiscal responsibility, Constitutionally limited government, and free markets. We believe that's the best way to enable the most people to prosper in a free society. We know nothing's perfect but we know from history Socialism doesn’t work. We're disappointed Americans aren't taught history accurately so voted to try Socialism anyway. They're about to learn free stuff isn’t really free in a hurry.”

The North Iowa Tea Party was hardly the first to draw the comparison between the political and economic policies of Obama and Hitler (http://welcometoafreeworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/nazi-germany-vs-united-states.html). After Obama was nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize last year, the Russian Internet magazine Pravda made the following comparison (http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/110071-1/):



Both leaders had been surrounded by many controversies concerning birth certificate, citizenship and religion.

Both had the father figure issues. Obama’s parents separated when he was two years old and they divorced in 1964. His father returned to Kenya and saw him only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. Hitler had a troubled relationship with his tradition-minded authoritarian father, who frequently beat him.

During their teenage years both leaders had problems with alcohol. Obama called the alcohol phase [his] "greatest moral failure," Hitler called it [his] “most humiliated experience in life."

Both are unloved by the Jewish, for Hitler is well known why, for Obama, well, his victory in Presidential elections was not received with welcome in Israel.

Time magazine named Obama person of the year in 2008, Hitler in 1938.


But the difference between Pravda and the North Iowa Tea Party is that Pravda has little potential to damage the political fortunes of Obama and his agenda. So the Pravda comparison provoked little outrage.


SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4053-iowa-tea-party-group-removes-obamahitler-billboard

[FrankRep]

LewRockwell.com: Obama is all three: Socialist, Fascist, and Communist (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz8.1.1.html)


Scott Lazarowitz | LewRockwell.com (http://www.lewrockwell.com/)
July 15, 2010


A recent poll (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/09/majority-likely-voters-agree-socialist-accurately-describes-obama/) showed that 55% of Americans believe that Barack Obama is a "socialist," and many Americans believe that the nation is on the "road to socialism."

The road to socialism? Where have these people been for the last 75 years? America has been a socialist – as well as fascist – nation for many decades, especially since FDR’s New Deal. Socialism primarily is public ownership of wealth, property and the means of production. So, of course Obama is a socialist. He has expressed (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=79225) that.

For some reason, many people mistakenly believe that Social Security, an important outcome of the New Deal, is a program in which some of Americans’ earnings are taken and put into some kind of "savings account," to be available to them when they retire. In actuality, Social Security is a real-time redistribution of wealth scheme administered by the State, in which income is taken from producers and redistributed to non-producers, mainly retired persons and the elderly. LBJ’s Medicare program is an extension of this.

Further examples to show that Obama is a socialist include his vote as a U.S. Senator in favor of the Wall Street Bailout (http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0812a.asp), often mistakenly seen as an example of "capitalism," but which was actually an example of socialism: redistribution of wealth from the middle-class workers and producers to the already rich Wall Street bankers and financial executives.

Obama also clearly supports the ongoing military socialism through the wars he has been continuing and strengthening abroad: redistribution of wealth from American workers and producers to defense contractors, consultants and lobbyists, oil executives and Wall Street (http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html) bankers, which really has been a main objective for American wars throughout the last century. As the late USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer42.html) would say, "War is a Racket (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0922915865/lewrockwell/)."

And as the late economist Murray Rothbard put it (http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html), regarding World War I:



Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter the war may have been the single most fateful action of the 20th century, causing untold and unending misery and destruction. But Morgan profits were expanded and assured.


Things have not changed in 100 years (http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2010/06/15/entering-the-soviet-era-in-america/).

Obama’s stated intention has been for redistribution of wealth as a means to help the poor, the underprivileged and so on. But his unstated intention is the same as all politicians of his ilk: to reach into as much private wealth as possible as a means towards expanding State power and control.

Many people also mistakenly believe that Obama’s medical takeover is "socialized medicine," but we already have socialized medicine in Medicare as mentioned, and other similar programs. ObamaCare is actually a fascist program.

Fascism is another major aspect of FDR’s New Deal, which gave us an untold number of regulations, mandates and enmeshments between business and government. Fascism primarily is State control over privately owned property, wealth and industry. All government mandates and regulation of private economies are examples of fascism. ObamaCare consists of one mandate and regulation after another of private doctor-patient relationships, patient/doctor-insurance company relationships, and a laundry list of medical related industries.

In addition to ObamaCare fascism and Obama’s strengthening of his own executive dictatorial powers as president, some other examples of Obama’s fascism include his new financial regulations, and the environmental regulations that he used as a means of interfering with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s duty (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703900004575325322304697784.html?m od=googlenews_wsj) to protect the people of Louisiana from the oil spill that threatens their livelihoods.

While allowing doctors’ practices, HMOs, and insurance companies to continue to be privately owned, the federal government will nevertheless dictate to them how their contracts and associations will be run. However, given a variety of factors, this dictatorial control over the medical industry will most likely lead these still privately owned interests into bankruptcy, much like what the federal government has done to the financial and mortgage lending industries, and the federal government will most probably take upon ownership, as well as control, of much of these industries.

That is where Obama’s communism comes in. The "road to socialism"? No, already there. Fascism? Already there. But are we on the road to communism? You betchya!

Communism is, by and large, complete State ownership and control of all industry, wealth and property, and the means of production. So far, we have seen this from Obama in his leading the charge of confiscation of much of the automobile industry, as well as the federal government’s ownership of much of the mortgage and finance industries. And eventually, most likely, the entire medical industry.

Whether Obama is intentionally implementing a communist America by way of long-planned "stealth (http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/29/obama-acorn-and-stealth-socialism-dire-domestic-threat/)," as some people have suggested he is doing, or whether he has a communist agenda by way of his long-time partnership with admitted terrorist bomber and "small-c communist" Bill Ayers (http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/27/obamas-ayers-problem-deepens/), or whether Obama follows the teachings of "radical community organizer" (or "communizer") Saul Alinsky (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html), is actually not as important as Obama’s actual actions as president.

So far, we have noted that Barack Obama is:



* A Socialist. He supports public ownership of the means of production, redistribution of wealth from some segments of society to others.
* A Fascist. He supports State control over private industries and the means of production, and just about every aspect of citizens’ daily lives.
* A Communist. He supports State ownership as well as control of industry and the means of production.



But what isn’t Obama?


* A Capitalist.

Barack Obama is not a capitalist because he opposes voluntary exchange, private property rights, voluntary contracts, associations and markets free of State intrusions, and under the Rule of Law. The true capitalist, voluntary exchange-private property system that coexists with individual liberty is exactly what the American Founders believed in, for which they fought a Revolution to have and preserve for their posterity. This capitalist system is the only system that exists under the Rule of Law that protects all individuals in such a society from the theft and trespass of others including agents of the State.

In contrast, socialism, fascism and communism all institutionalize the violation of the Rule of Law as they institutionalize the violation of all individuals’ inherent rights to life, liberty and justly acquired property.

In those totalitarian systems, the individual is a sacrificial animal for the collective, and a serf for the State.

Alas, America has not actually experienced true capitalism, at least not since the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified, and especially not since the presidency of hardcore banking and monetary fascist and warmonger-business protectionist Abraham Lincoln (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/lincoln-arch.html).

The choice for America is whether to continue on the road to communism, or to turn back, dismantle all of it, and restore our freedom and prosperity.


SOURCE:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz8.1.1.html

[coastie]

Jeez Louise:confused:

It's not just left, either. People in my circles denounced this as well, some have even said this is "proof" of Tea Party racism.:confused:

I'm just at a loss for words, and have stopped "preaching" the ways of Ron Paul...I'm not doing anything now by doing that but putting myself on their radar, if you know what I mean:mad:

[Elwar]

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/media/BushHitlerShitAsshole.jpg

[FrankRep]

It's not just left, either. People in my circles denounced this as well, some have even said this is "proof" of Tea Party racism.:confused:

How on earth is this billboard racist?

[Elwar]

How on earth is this billboard racist?

Because Hitler was jewish...and hating on Hitler is antisemetic.

[Bruno]

Jeez Louise:confused:

It's not just left, either. People in my circles denounced this as well, some have even said this is "proof" of Tea Party racism.:confused:

I'm just at a loss for words, and have stopped "preaching" the ways of Ron Paul...I'm not doing anything now by doing that but putting myself on their radar, if you know what I mean:mad:

It may be an ill-conceived billboard, but how is comparing the political philosphies a black president to two white dictators racist? How is that "proof" of racism?

[FrankRep]

It may be an ill-conceived billboard, ..

LewRockwell.com even calls Obama a Socialist. :rolleyes:

Obama is all three: Socialist, Fascist, and Communist
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz8.1.1.html

[Romulus]

It was doomed from the start. What was Hitler best known for? The Holocaust. So its a bad analogy to compare him to Bush, Obama, etc, although there may be some truth to other similar ideology, its not common awareness for sheeple.

We need to educate people on the Constitution and concept of Liberty.

[Slutter McGee]

It isn't racist one damn bit. It is perfectly acceptable as free speech, and makes a valid point.

That being said, it is a pretty stupid thing to do. Just gives more ammunition to the left to demonize the idea of fiscal conservatism. There are many moderate Democrats who don't quite understand economics, but can be convinced that we are spending too much. Things like this do nothing to advance the cause.

DUMB.

Slutter McGee