{"id":1757,"date":"2012-10-12T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2012-10-12T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:23:12","slug":"a-man-of-ultimate-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"A Man of Ultimate Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"

An April 10, 2012 Investors Business Daily<\/em> editorial by Ernest S. Christian tells us in stark terms exactly what Barack Obama has in mind for us if he is allowed to finagle a second term in the White House.\u00a0 He writes, \u201cBarack Obama is very dangerous, the apotheosis of an insidious strain of authoritarianism that destroys freedom from within.\u00a0 Like an invasive species, it had been gnawing away at America’s vitals since the 1930s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, impatient for power, Obama’s Chicago contingent hit upon the ultimate quick-acting fraud: capture the White House by electing an illusion<\/em>.\u00a0 They conjured up an imaginary Obama invested with virtues never before or since found in the original. \u00a0The make-believe Obama then starred in an electoral fairy tale scripted by the media and proclaimed a hit by bewitched voters.\u00a0 Thus did it come to pass in the year 2008 that Americans were duped into electing a president quite different from the illusion<\/em> for which they voted\u2026\u00a0 The lights of personal and economic freedom in America are starting to flicker. \u00a0If Obama gets a second term, they will go out.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Christian envisions Obama\u2019s impact on America in a second term\u2026 \u201c(W)e will sink into a new dark age of absurdities designed by Obama. \u00a0Centuries of American law and civilization will be turned upside down. \u00a0The sacred will be defiled, the repugnant exalted, the Constitution inverted.\u00a0 Instead of protecting us, it will be used to exploit and enslave us.\u00a0 Our rights to speech, religion, and property, and to privacy in our persons and homes, will be transformed. \u00a0They will become Obama\u2019s rights to take our property, tell us what to say, how and whether we may exercise our religion, what medical care we may receive and how long we are permitted to live\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly the willfully obtuse fail to see how life in present-day America is beginning to resemble Obama\u2019s Orwellian world. \u00a0That\u2019s because Obama’s forerunners in the Democratic Party spent decades forcing government\u2019s tentacles deep into every nook and cranny of our existence. \u00a0All Obama now need do is wind the coils tighter and squeeze us harder. \u00a0The pain will be an exquisite \u2018teaching moment\u2019 for the doubters\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cConfident that he can quickly finish killing off the remnants of capitalism and other earthly freedoms, Obama has opened a second front by attacking the Catholic Church on matters of conscience \u2014 the inevitable effort by a would-be totalitarian to eliminate competition and gain control over the spiritual lives of all people of all faiths\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cObama is already bombarding America with deadly deficits, exploding debts, and debilitating regulations. \u00a0The economy is badly wounded. \u00a0Millions of jobs have been obliterated. \u00a0There is \u2018Obama money\u2019 and make-work for those who collaborate, but hard times for everyone else.\u00a0 That\u2019s the way Obama\u2019s \u2018protection racket\u2019 works.\u00a0 He has cruelly targeted the old and sick, threatening them with the emotional and medical horrors of ObamaCare. \u00a0He has stolen the future from the young. \u00a0Already facing a lifetime of high unemployment, high taxes, and slow growth, they will stare in horror as a re-elected Obama tramples underfoot the last vestiges of the American Dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarack Obama will not throw dissidents into torture chambers or send trainloads of us off to gulags in Siberia. \u00a0He won’t need to. \u00a0He will use federal rules and regulations to break us, forcing us to do and say whatever he wishes. \u00a0No scars, no screams of agony, only the crushed spirits and shame of people bound head to foot in red tape and groveling for crumbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think ObamaCare for your body is hazardous to your health and liberty, just wait until you experience ObamaCare II for your mind and ObamaCare III for your conscience and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nowhere have I read a more complete and comprehensive indictment of Barack Hussein Obama.\u00a0 Whatever it is he stands for, one thing is certain: it is the total antithesis of what Americans have always believed about the greatest nation in all of recorded history.<\/p>\n

Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer predicts that, given a second term, Obama \u201cwill take the country to a place from which it will not be able to return.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krauthammer has it right.\u00a0 And the only person standing in the way of Obama\u2019s grand plan is Mitt Romney, a man who will confront a task far greater than that faced by any previous American president.\u00a0 It is Ernest Christian\u2019s \u201cend times\u201d scenario that Mitt Romney will face when he enters the White House on January 20, 2013.<\/p>\n

However, as we see Mitt Romney today, is he the pillar of strength that was George Washington, the \u201cfather of our country?\u201d\u00a0 Just as Washington was given the task of securing our freedoms 224 years ago, Mitt Romney will be called upon to shoulder the heavy burden of restoring<\/em> those same freedoms to a mortally wounded America in 2012, and beyond.<\/p>\n

As we see Mitt Romney today, is he the intellectual giant that was Thomas Jefferson, our third president?\u00a0 Romney clearly does not possess the unique combination of intellect and eloquence that Thomas Jefferson possessed.\u00a0 He speaks in a halting style and he has difficulty at times expressing even the simplest truisms without sounding as if he is an elitist, disconnected from the realities of day-to-day life in the lower and middle classes.<\/p>\n

As we see Mitt Romney today, can we see him as the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln, the \u201cGreat Emancipator,\u201d whose job it was to heal a fractured nation, a nation in which neighbors took up arms against neighbors and brothers fought against brothers?\u00a0 In Lincoln\u2019s time, the issues were human slavery and whether or not individual states had a right to secede from the union in order to pursue a different view of states\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n

Lincoln ultimately saved the union, but in a day when most Americans read about current events in newspapers when the news was a week old, or more.\u00a0 Mitt Romney will be faced with healing a critically fractured nation in an era when communications are instantaneous.\u00a0 In Lincoln\u2019s time, we were a nation of just 31,443,300 people.\u00a0 Today, we are a nation ten times that many\u2026 more than 320,000,000\u2026 but a nation every bit as divided by hatred and distrust as in Lincolns time.\u00a0 Romney will be called upon not only to save the nation, but to discredit a virulent leftist cabal motivated by little else than hatred and a hunger for power.<\/p>\n

Finally, as we see Mitt Romney today, does he possess the same level of determination that characterized Ronald Reagan as he fought to rid the world of the communist menace?\u00a0 Today we have an Islamist enemy that is far more dangerous and far more numerous than the communist evil that Reagan faced.\u00a0 The Islamo-fascist enemy we face today has infiltrated every nation and every institution of western society and it will be Mitt Romney\u2019s responsibility to lead the West in turning back the Islamo-fascist threat.\u00a0 Romney is not \u201cthe great communicator\u201d that Reagan was, but it is imperative that he find a way to convince the people of the Christian world to unite behind him.<\/p>\n

These are the things that Mitt Romney will face when he enters the White House on Sunday, January 20, 2013.\u00a0 The problems he will face will be equal to or greater than those faced by the four greatest presidents in American history\u2026 Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Reagan\u2026 combined.\u00a0 If he fails there will not be another opportunity, either for him or for a successor.<\/p>\n

Democrats have so soiled the fabric of American society that the day Mitt Romney sets foot in the White House his very top priority must be to set in motion a complete reversal, a return to American traditions and constitutional principles.\u00a0 And he cannot be timid about it.\u00a0 He must attack the stains of liberalism with every ounce of vigor he can muster.<\/p>\n

As president, Mitt Romney will have to muster the same level of no-nonsense resolve displayed by Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, of Springfield, Illinois.\u00a0 Writing in the Catholic Times<\/em>, Bishop Paprocki explained that he had read the Republican Party platform and that he found nothing in it that was intrinsically evil.\u00a0 However, he went on to attack portions of the Democratic Party platform that \u201cexplicitly endorse intrinsic evils.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while the bishop did not specifically instruct parishioners whom to vote for or against, he did tell Catholics, by implication, the potential consequences of a vote for Obama and other Democrats.\u00a0 He said, \u201cI am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against.\u00a0 What I am saying is that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

While restoring our traditions as a nation of laws, Mitt Romney is going to need a backbone every bit as strong as that of Bishop Paprocki.\u00a0 And if he begins to weaken or waver it will be up to us, conservatives and Republicans, to refocus his attention on the task at hand.<\/p>\n

Yes, the lights of personal and economic freedom in America are starting to flicker. \u00a0If Obama is given a second term they will surely go out.\u00a0 But if the light of freedom is to survive on this planet, it is Mitt Romney who must keep it burning.\u00a0 Succeed or fail, in the history of mankind, Mitt Romney is destined to be a man of ultimate consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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