By DEXTER DUGGAN
Revolts and rebellions can occur when oppression becomes unbearable. People decide they won’t buckle any longer under hostility and injustice.
As 2015 unfolds, conservative Republicans and Christians see they’re coming under withering attacks by the forces of big-government liberal immorality. And big-money interests who might be thought to support Republicans aren’t rushing to their defense.
Christian vendors like florists and bakers face huge fines and ostracism for daring to honor millennia-old traditional views on historic marriage that the entire society acknowledged only a few years ago.
And on April 25, Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul reportedly said the time for civil disobedience is here when a politician sends the police to get a church pastor’s sermons.
Last fall openly homosexual Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s city lawyers subpoenaed local pastors’ remarks who spoke against her favored “gay rights” ordinance.
The Washington Examiner posted on April 26 that at an Iowa event, Paul “concluded comments on the need to respect privacy, constitutional rights, and civil rights for everyone by stating, ‘When they send the police to your churches — When they send the police into your church and ask your minister for their sermons, that is the time for civil disobedience,’ he said, to cheers and applause.”
The Des Moines Register rated this comment at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering as Paul’s “best moment.”
At the same Iowa gathering, the Washington Examiner said, “Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the country was in the midst of an ‘unprecedented assault’ on religious-freedom rights. Reacting to a recent comment by Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton that ‘religious beliefs . . . have to be changed’ for those who oppose abortion, Jindal wondered aloud how she would do that if she had the chance.”
Jindal said that Clinton didn’t specify what method she’d use — perhaps “re-education camps”? — in her assault against religious conscience, the Examiner added.
LifeNews reported on April 27 that Idaho pro-lifer David Ripley reacted by saying that Hillary “Clinton is not the first self-proclaimed leader to shake a fist at the Almighty. One can presume that He is not particularly impressed; though His heart is undoubtedly grieved.”
In this lawless atmosphere, the Republican-majority U.S. Senate had just voted on April 23 to confirm lawbreaking Barack Obama’s nomination of left-wing, radically pro-abortion Democrat Loretta Lynch to be U.S. attorney general.
Lynch openly told senators that she supported Obama’s “executive action” of last November, craftily issued after the midterm elections were over. Obama’s order unconstitutionally awarded millions of illegal aliens not only permission to stay here, but also treasured Social Security numbers and work permits.
Incredibly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops cheered on Obama’s lawlessness, even though the president already made plain that his arbitrary rule could punish churches, too.
With a wave of his wand, Obama almost made millions of illegal aliens as lawful as U.S. citizens. The elitists of both major political parties were thrilled, while Americans were aghast at the bipartisan betrayal.
Everyone in the U.S. has a right to work here, regardless of however they arrived, Loretta Lynch said. She obviously wasn’t being truthful on this particular, because Obama doesn’t care whether U.S. citizens can find work or not.
Moreover, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York posted on January 29 that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) asked during her confirmation hearings whether the Justice Department would take unfavorable action against an employer who hired a person here legally instead of an illegal alien covered by Obama’s amnesty. However, “Lynch wouldn’t answer.”
Many voters had felt a special urgency last November against Obama’s regime plunging the U.S. into a dangerous spiral. In a wave election, voters gave the GOP a Senate majority, and bulked up its existing House majority, in order to oppose the radical Democrat.
One key public concern was Obama’s surge of illegal aliens, who were unfamiliar with the constitutional heritage here, in order to submerge U.S. citizens’ political power and advance his own arbitrary governance.
National Republican leaders had sworn that if they only had a congressional majority, they’d fight against this. However, barely after they took control in January, GOP congressional leaders conspired to fund Obama’s amnesty.
They also had insisted that anyone nominated to replace Attorney General Eric Holder must uphold the rule of law instead of following Obama’s lawless immigration amnesty that Holder endorsed.
In fact, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and his henchmen not only rounded up simply enough GOP votes to get Lynch confirmed on April 23, along with all the votes of the solid Democrat Senate minority. The GOP leadership also went above and beyond by delivering 10 Republican votes, including McConnell’s own, for a solid 56 to 43 Lynch victory.
Earlier speculation had been that about five Republican senators would vote for her. However, angry voters subsequently could have told any one of these five that except for his or her vote, Lynch deservedly would have lost. But this way, McConnell boosted her margin of victory so as seemingly to lessen the culpability of any single Republican senator giving Lynch the OK.
Conservative commentator Andrew McCarthy wrote at the National Review website on April 25 that Lynch’s GOP-engineered victory is just what Democrat Hillary Clinton needs for her presidential campaign in 2016: dispirited Republican citizens who won’t bother to vote.
Given Lynch’s own testimony that she favored Obama’s lawlessness, McCarthy said, her nomination shouldn’t even have been taken up by the Senate.
Stand And Fight
The Wanderer interviewed two Republican activists, a former congressman and a Virginia Tea Party officer, about the GOP elite’s betrayal of voters with the Lynch approval.
Conservative Robert Dornan, a former Republican congressman from Southern California, told The Wanderer in an April 26 telephone interview that if he had been one of the senators, “I would have had to have voted it [Lynch’s nomination] down in a heartbeat” because she supported Obama’s illegal amnesty.
“I can’t believe the sellouts we have” among the senators, he added.
“. . . I agree that we’re on the path…to conservatives staying home again, as they did with [GOP 2012 presidential nominee Mitt] Romney,” because of discouragement, Dornan said.
Republican leaders need to change their ways quickly, he said. “Have to get real personality turnaround,” he said, with the adoption of qualities like valor, courage, and fortitude.
“You see flashes” of a turnaround with House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), Dornan said, but not so much with Majority Leader McConnell.
The change has to start this year, he said; waiting until presidential election year 2016 will be too late.
“I say stand and fight” for conservative Republican causes, Dornan said. “If we don’t stand and fight, the fight is over.”
The hour has grown very late, he said. “This 2016, I truly believe, is the point of no return, if we haven’t already passed it.”
Voters can’t afford to stay home, he said. They must “demand that [leaders] show that fortitude.”
Val Turner, a Tea Party officer in Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District, told The Wanderer in an April 26 email referring to Lynch’s Senate victory that “this betrayal of our message has fueled a fire.”
Last year Seventh District conservative voters including Turner dumped powerful elitist Cong. Eric Cantor as GOP House majority leader and replaced him with conservative Republican upstart and economist Dave Brat.
Turner, a businesswoman, had had to close her interior-design enterprise because of the poor economy, despite media claims the financial situation improved under Obama.
In a statement to The Wanderer, Turner said: “The excitement the Liberty Movement felt when it was thought we made the gains necessary to put a stop to those intending to shred our Constitution and ‘transform America’ has, sadly, been dimmed. But Republicans should take notice, this betrayal of our message has fueled a fire.
“I have yet to ascertain if our elected turncoats actually set out to deceive their supporters in order to gain votes, or do they go to D.C. with good intentions, abandoning their principles once they get there,” Turner said.
“It may be twofold, in that they obviously are not truly grounded in their convictions to begin with (talk is cheap) and are, in many cases, easy fodder when pressured to fall in lockstep with Boehner and McConnell. (The fish rots from the head.) In any case, there is personal gain to be had.
“Throwing their country, their supporters, including friends and families, under the proverbial bus, is, I suppose, simply collateral damage,” she said. “There is no shame. I wonder if they wrestle with any guilt as they reap their personal reward?
“Thankfully, we still have our Dave Brat, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and other brave patriots who pledge ‘their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor’ to this country,” she said. “They have earned the support of Americans who see what illegal immigration, Loretta Lynch (who will trash our Constitution to support Obama), abortion, and getting in bed with Iran, who openly declares ‘Death to America,’ will do to our nation.
“Christians are being marginalized and persecuted because they are potentially the biggest threat to what has permeated our government and the world. I pray they wake up before all is lost,” Turner said. “I don’t think we are supposed to patiently ‘wait,’ as we will have to answer for our complacency. This, I believe, is the group of over 50 million that can change the tide.”
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