Senator Obama, Citizen of the World
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Posted: 07/30/08
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Senator Obama, Citizen of the World
By Thomas E. Brewton
European socialists and Middle Eastern Muslims are wildly
enthusiastic about Senator Obama, because he styles himself a citizen
of the world who, like all liberal-progressive-socialists, aims for
world government.
American liberal-progressive-socialism, in the person of Senator
Obama, is a carbon copy of European socialism, and Islamic jihadists
recognize that socialism offers no opposition to their ruthless jihad
to enslave the entire world.
For historical perspective, let's look to one of France's leading
socialist theoreticians, the late Jean-François Revel. As I wrote at
the time of M. Revel's death in May, 2006:
http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/
jean_francois_revel_how_democracies_perish/
"Jean-François Revel, who died last week at the age of 82, was that
exceedingly rare person: a French intellectual who didn't despise the
United States, an intellectual who understood the cancerous prognosis
of liberalism.
"Revel's 1983 "How Democracies Perish" described liberalism's
debilitating effect on confronting the threat of domination by the
Soviet Union. His observations apply equally today in our long-term
struggle against Islamic jihad.
"Revel wrote about democracy, meaning societies unhinged from
historical tradition, in which people come to accept the idea that a
constitution is nothing more than the latest social-justice fad
formulated by intellectuals. That is a 20th century derangement,
very different from what the Constitution instituted: a Federal
republic with power divided between the states and the national
government and split, within the national government, among the three
main branches; a constitutional government designed to protect the
rights of individuals against PC tyranny of the majority."
Earlier, in 1970, Revel had a sharply different, eagerly
accommodating view of the nascent Baby Boomer cultural, educational,
and political revolution in the United States. He happily foresaw a
worldwide revolution spreading from this nation and transforming the
world.
The ensuing thirteen years, however, were severely disillusioning to
him, leading to the reassessment quoted above.
What was his assessment in 1970?
Contrary to the hate-Bush party line, Europeans have despised the
United States at least since the early 1960s. Describing the typical
European perspective, Revel wrote in "Without Marx or
Jesus" (published in 1970):
"On the one hand, there is America, the citadel of reaction; and, on
the other hand, there is the rest of the world – the revolutionary
camp, composed of everyone who resists America...The basis for such a
division of the world, obviously, is the opposition between
capitalism and socialism...And, since imperialism is a necessary
concomitant of capitalism, it is clear that the United States will
move toward socialism only if it is forced to do so from
without...Thus the spirit of revolution and anti-Americanism become
synonymous."
In 1970, Revel had high hopes for the late 1960s cultural anarchy in
the United States: the Cal-Berkeley Free Speech Movement, SDS,
Weatherman, the Reverend Martin Luther King's civil right campaign,
feminism, homosexual outing, the black power groups, and the push for
abortion, no-fault divorce, and sexual promiscuity. All of these, he
anticipated, would lead to full-fledged socialism in the United
States and would become the model for the remainder of the world.
The particular relevance of M. Revel's 1970 analysis, with respect to
Senator Obama's public relations tour of the Middle East and Europe,
has to do with the Senator's speech in Berlin. To roars of approval
from the socialist throng in the Tiergarten, he declared:
"I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.
Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a
citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen
of the world."
Citizen of the world is liberal-progressive-socialist code for world
government, the fundamental socialist goal impelling the 1960s
student anarchism. This became the foundation for Senator Obama's
cultural and political doctrine. Underlying Senator Obama's
continual refrain of change is M. Revel's 1970 expectation:
"With respect to the second world revolution [originating during the
1960s in the United States], it is clear that it can have only one
goal, on which all other goals, however numerous, must depend. And
that single goal is the establishment of world government...On that,
depends all else, including the establishment of economic equality
and the abolition of social classes..."
In other words, bringing us together and transcending racial barriers
is to be accomplished by moving toward world government.
This goal of world government has been prominently in evidence since
Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign emphasizing
"sensitive" foreign policy, in which the United States is to take no
international action not approved by all of its purported allies and
by the UN.
Senator Obama in his Berlin speech echoed Senator Kerry:
"Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No
doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of
global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of
leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new
century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more --
not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice;
it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and
advance our common humanity."
Again, M. Revel's assessment clarifies and amplifies both liberal-
progressive-socialist denunciation of President Bush's foreign
policies and the implications of world government espoused by Senator
Obama:
"...we can conclude that the abolition of what we call foreign policy
will be one of the essential components of the future world
revolution. And it will also be the key to all other changes that
constitute the revolution...The second world revolution will
therefore consist in putting an end to that notion which is the
source of all evil: the notion of national sovereignty...only
multilateral agreement on reciprocal controls, leading to planetary
multinational law, will allow us to escape safely from this absurd
situation. Bilateral accords must be avoided like the plague, for
they are only the framework for warlike foreign policies, local
hegemony, or imperialistic domination..."
Whether one supports the liberal-progressive agenda or not, there
must be clear-eyed recognition that it is pushing the United States
to toward abolition of national sovereignty. From Supreme Court
advocacy of international and foreign country law as superseding the
Constitution, to "sensitive" foreign policy that must be pre-approved
by the UN, we are barreling down the slippery slope to socialist
impoverishment and domination by foreign powers.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.
The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of
writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
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