By
Lynn Stuter
September 25, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
In
the brief time Dinesh D'Souza's movie, 2016 - Obama's America,
appeared on YouTube, I was able to view it in its entirety. The movie
may still be available here.
Like
most movies of late, I wouldn't have paid to go see it.
I
found it particularly disturbing that D'Souza, a supposed conservative,
did not make the distinction between what he characterized as Obama's
anti-colonialist view and Obama's Marxist ideology. In watching the
film, one gets the decided impression that they coalesce. They don't.
Watching
the film, one gets the decided impression that colonialism is what America
is all about, emanating from our founding documents; the film making
reference to American influence world-wide, as though American influence
and colonialism are synonymous. They aren't.
Those
who have studied the history of our nation are aware of George Washington's
farewell
address to the nation, in 1796, and his warning and caution—to
not become involved in the affairs of other nations; to form no permanent
alliance with any other nation.
Colonialism
is not for the purposes of civilizing or increasing the wealth of a
country; colonialism is almost exclusively about the taking of the natural
resources of one nation by another for profit; something Obama saw in
his years in Indonesia, in his time in Kenya. People in third world
countries see their land raped, polluted, destroyed; their leaders get
rich while the people become poorer. This forms the foundation of Obama's
anti-colonialism views; one that most Americans, including myself, would
agree with.
The
United States government, unbeknownst to most of the American people,
is involved in this type activity. It is an activity our Founding Fathers
would find abhorrent. Our current crop of politicians (not to be mistaken
for statesman) in Washington, DC, pretend the activity doesn't exist
as their excuse for doing nothing. And those who profit are American
corporations, the American government and American politicians, not
the American people.
In
making the insinuation that colonialism and influence are synonymous,
D'Souza errors grievously. Our Founding Fathers were against colonialism;
they were not, however, against American influence in helping other
nations achieve prosperity.
We
should not make the mistake of believing that Obama's anti-colonialist
views means he is pro-U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Nothing
could be further from the truth.
In
Obama's America - 2016 D'Souza failed to delineate why Obama's
association with Bill Ayres, his mentorship by Communist Party USA member
Frank Marshall Davis should be of note; that these men, among many others,
including the man supposedly his biological father, form the foundation
of Obama's Marxist ideology, are the basis of Obama's disdain and dislike
of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Few
people, in America today, understand that Marxist ideology is antithetical
to freedom, liberty and justice. After all, didn't communism die when
the U.S.S.R. imploded? Few Americans today realize that Marxism is alive
and well, and residing in Washington, DC right now; that it is the philosophy
of both the Democrat Party (communist) and the Republican Party (fascist);
that the only argument between the two parties is who will own the means
of production - the government under the guise of the people (communism)
or the corporate state (fascism). The words of Alexander Tytler were
prophetic,
A
democracy cannot exist as a permanent force of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess
[benefits] from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes the candidate promising the most benefit from the public
treasure, with eh result that democracy always collapses over loose
fiscal policy, always foiled by dictatorship.
The
American people, today, are given a choice between two candidates -
one communist, promising those who want something for nothing largess
from the public treasure, one fascist, promising the corporate state
greater benefit under the guise of creating jobs. Mitt Romney, the Republican,
said it right when he said that those being promised greater largess
from the public treasure would vote for Obama. But Romney, promising
greater largess to the corporate state, is no better; in both instances
the American people are the loser. And because the American people hold
their nose and vote for what they believe is the "lesser of two
evils" instead of voting their conscience, America is on a never-ending
downward spiral to the totalitarian state that was the U.S.S.R. That
spiral has been aided and abetted, every step of the way, by the alphabet
soup that defines the mainstream media: NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN; and
yes, even FOX News.
And
few children, having graduated the public (ergo, government) schools
in the last fifty years, can articulate why our United States Constitution
and Bill of Rights is antithetical to the Marxist ideology of Obama
(and of Romney). If people know not from which they came, they will
know not where they are going. And few American people today realize
that the transforming of America, that has been in the works for the
past hundred years, and specifically in the last twenty, is called transformational
Marxism - the quiet or gradual atrophy to the Marxist state in
which the people become the servant of the government instead of government's
master; human resources (yes, a Marxist term) to be used and
discarded at the whim of the government, receiving food, shelter and
healthcare (Obamacare) according to their value in producing goods and
services for the benefit of the government elite under the guise of
"the common good".
Systems
philosophy, what forms the foundation of the Marxist state, has already
been put in place in every government entity in the United States by
any of a number of innocent sounding 'management' styles: total quality
management (TQM), continuous quality improvement (CQI), outcome-base
education (OBE, a.k.a. performance-based education, competency-based
education), the high performance work organization (HPWO), planning
programming budgeting systems (PPBS).
The
Goals 2000: Educate America Act, P.L. 103-227, March 31, 1994,
was written expressly for the purpose of establishing the foundation,
in government schools nation-wide, for the Marxist education system
now utilized in our government schools under the guise of "education
reform". The law was the outreach of two Republican (Reagan and
Bush I) and one Democrat (Clinton) president. It has not deviated, in
focus, goal and purpose, under Bush II and Obama. As Hitler said, in
1939,
When
an opponent declares 'I will not come over to your side', I calmly say
'Your child belongs to us already. What are you? You will pass on. Your
descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they
will know nothing else but this new community.'
Sadly,
most Christians in America today still send their children to the government
schools; where they are properly indoctrinated with the Marxist ideology.
Likewise,
most Christians in America today—flocking to their local churches
every Sunday, where pastors preach social gospel (i.e. social
justice) from the pulpit instead of the word of God—do not know
or understand the role of Christianity in the establishment of and preservation
of freedom, liberty and justice; believing that the First Amendment
of the Bill of Rights establishes separation of church and state as
has been hammered into their heads in the government schools; believing,
without question, that their Christian beliefs must be left at the door
as they enter the halls of government. Nothing could be further from
the truth. One has to wonder if these so-called Christians believe that
Obama leaves his religion at the door when he enters the halls of government.
He doesn't; not by any stretch of the imagination.
The
First Amendment of the Bill of Rights was written to keep from happening
in America what had happened in England and was the source of grief
for religious freedom—the establishment of a state recognized
religion. The First Amendment prohibits a state established (recognized)
religion; it does not prohibit people from practicing their religious
beliefs in the halls of government as individuals.
I
found Obama's America- 2016 a big disappointment as no clear
lines were drawn of the ideologies being presented; that both colonialism
and Marxism are antithetical to freedom, liberty and justice; D'Souza
made no clear distinction between Obama's anti-colonialist views and
his Marxist ideology.
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There
is a clear distinction and the American people need to know what that
distinction is. I found the movie disturbing in its apparent ignorance
of our history and founding documents.
Obama
seeks to destroy America, not only because of what he perceives as her
colonialist activities in other countries, for which he wrongly believes
the American people should pay—as opposed to those, like him,
who have benefited directly from those activities as an elected representative
in Washington, DC, but also because freedom, liberty and justice are
antithetical to Marxism.
Activist and researcher, Stuter has spent
the last fifteen years researching systems theory and systems philosophy
with a particular emphasis on education as it pertains to achieving
the sustainable global environment. She home schooled two daughters.
She has worked with legislators, both state and federal, on issues pertaining
to systems governance, the sustainable global environment and education
reform. She networks nationwide with other researchers and a growing
body of citizens concerned about the transformation of our nation from
a Constitutional Republic to a participatory democracy. She has traveled
the United States and lived overseas.
I found it particularly
disturbing that D'Souza, a supposed conservative, did not make the distinction
between what he characterized as Obama's anti-colonialist view and Obama's
Marxist ideology. In watching the film, one gets the decided impression
that they coalesce.
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