Paranoid Prognosticators Fear Doom Under Second Obama Term
Facing the possibility that the president would be re-elected, the far right engaged in an orgy of fearful predictions of what a second Obama Administration might do.
The far right does not like President Obama. He鈥檚 been depicted as a Muslim (he鈥檚 not) and a terrorist sympathizer. He鈥檚 been called a fascist and compared to Hitler. He鈥檚 been pegged as a socialist and even a communist. And, of course, an entire cottage industry has been built around the false accusation that he鈥檚 not even an American.
His 2008 election also helped fuel an explosive resurgence of the antigovernment 鈥淧atriot鈥� movement, whose sympathizers indulge themselves in all sorts of wild conspiracy theories about the federal government: It鈥檚 building concentration camps for dissidents, it鈥檚 selling out Americans to the dreaded 鈥淣ew World Order,鈥� it鈥檚 planning to institute martial law, confiscate everyone鈥檚 guns and send in U.N. troops to keep order.
Of course, none of this has come about in the last four years. But therein lies the rub. The first term was nothing but an elaborate ruse to get re-elected. The second term, now that鈥檚 when everything hits the fan. Freedom itself, maybe even all of civilization, hangs in the balance.
That, at least, is the impression you might get by reading the paranoid prophecies of some of the right鈥檚 most rabid Obamaphobes. They see a dark night of despair, madness and chaos 鈥� with no guns around to defend freedom 鈥� if Obama is re-elected. (This issue went to press prior to the Nov. 6 election.) To record these prophecies for posterity and so that you will know what鈥檚 in store if some of the pre-election polls turn out to be true, here are some of the Top Predictions of the Obamapocalypse:
One Thousand Years of Darkness. In a video posted on YouTube, tough-guy actor Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena, warn of 鈥渟ocialism or something much worse.鈥� Quoting a 1964 speech by Ronald Reagan, Gena says: 鈥淲e will preserve for our children this last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into 1,000 years of darkness.鈥�
An Obama Dictatorship. Robert Ringer, who calls himself 鈥淎 Voice of Sanity,鈥� is a motivational speaker, a self-help author and big fan of Ayn Rand. He鈥檚 also got the president all figured out. After the election, the 鈥淢arxmeister鈥� will move swiftly to unleash a 鈥渄ictatorial full monty.鈥� We鈥檙e talking instant citizenship for all Third World immigrants; a new sedition act that criminalizes criticism of the government; forced equalization of income; suspension of habeas corpus; the end of fossil fuel production, and much more.
Obama Will Take Away Our Gun Rights. Obama will take away our guns and 鈥渆rase鈥� the Second Amendment, says Wayne LaPierre, the $970,000-a-year executive director of the National Rifle Association who once called federal agents 鈥渏ack-booted thugs鈥� in a fundraising letter. Obama鈥檚 first term was nothing but a 鈥渃onspiracy to ensure re-election by lulling gun owners to sleep.鈥�
U.S. Will Be Enslaved by Globalists. Dick Morris, the one-time aide to Bill Clinton, told Sean Hannity on Fox News last March that Obama鈥檚 鈥渂ig focus鈥� will be to make the U.S. a 鈥渧assal state to a globalist entity.鈥� And by the way, he鈥檒l sign a treaty ensuring that the U.S. has to get permission from Russia and China to go to war.
U.N. Troops and Civil War. Tom Head, a county judge in Texas, called for a property tax increase to help fund his county鈥檚 response to post-election civil unrest 鈥� what he envisions as a good old fashioned 鈥淟exington, Concord, take up arms鈥� uprising. But it seems like he wants to be leading the insurrection. 鈥淗e鈥檚 going to send in U.N. troops,鈥� the judge warned a local TV station. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 want 鈥榚m in Lubbock County, OK? So I鈥檓 gonna stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say, 鈥榊ou鈥檙e not coming in here.鈥欌��
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Hunted Down Like Dogs. Joseph Farah, who leads the far-right, conspiracy-mongering website WorldNetDaily, is under no delusions about his fate. 鈥淚f [Obama is] re-elected, it鈥檚 gonna be war,鈥� said Farah, who swears he saw a drone surveilling his Northern Virginia property. 鈥淲e will be hunted down like dogs.鈥�
Now that we鈥檝e reported this information, you can decide your next move. The local gun store closes at 9 p.m.
