This editorial was originally published Nov 2, 2017 by Charles Krauthammer. He is now in his eternal reward. Herb Pinney’s response follows.
I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA).
OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt
everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This
organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will
destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and
the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then
we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What
good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected
and allowed to follow our laws?
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!
Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action.
OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.
OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.
OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows: “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.”
OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”
Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.
Think about how this works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.
If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.
If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.
So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy! —Charles Krauthammer
Herb’s response—
When Mexico established a Democracy they established by law a person could be President one five year term then must retire from political office and stay completely out of national policy. Up to this point our past presidents have been civil enough and respected the Constitution enough to stay on the sidelines, but no longer.
This essay writer was very against Donald Trump during the election. He is a Neo-conservative Republican and a national syndicated writer that appears regularly in the Albuquerque Journal.
I do not want to accomplish any mud slinging at either president. My question for the Christian is a moral one.
Ex-president Obama is for the killing of 800,000 babies a year by Planned Parenthood, and President Trump is now totally against abortion and killing babies.
Ex-president Obama is for Homosexual marriage and had the SCOTUS to bypass Congress, the Constitution and God to decree homosexual marriage is the law of the land. President Trump has recognized same sex marriage is the law of the land but is personally against it.
The ex-president is for transgender using whatever bathroom or shower that they want, and President Trump is for recognizing your sex by the physical appearance and recognizing the sexual privacy of restrooms, showers and locker rooms.
It is not my place to tell you how to vote or what is to be your political party; it is my job as the watchman on the wall to warn you of coming attacks on our Constitution and national security. I see the dust and the war clouds on the horizon, and I call attention. I and the writers I quote could be all wrong. That is the reason that each of you need to read the platform and position papers and check how each person votes and hear or read their speeches—the full copy, not the abridged editions; and that of all sides of the political divide.
Your duty before God is to vote (Romans 13). It is a Christian responsibility to vote intelligently.
P.S. That 30,000 claimed number is less than 1 / 15th of 1 percent of our population, but they are well financed and could do a lot of damage.