Orson Scott Card Worries About Obama Turning "Urban Gangs" Into His Personal Police Force

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By David Weigel |

The controversy over Orson Scott Card's opposition to gay marriage appears to have simmered down. Maybe it'll kick up again as the Ender's Game premiere closes in, but it shouldn't—Card's religious objection to gay marriage is shared by a substantial minority of Americans, and holding it against him is a little pat. The actual outrage over what's happening to gay Russians appears to have captured all the anger being directed Card's way.

That's good! The gay marriage foofarah was a distraction from Card's much more fascinating political paranoia. His last column on politics is a sort of masterpiece of that genre, starting with the grouping of "George W. Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq" among "politically useful lies," and continuing with a fantasy of how Barack Obama will stay in power forever.

Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator. He hates the very idea of compromise; he demonizes his critics and despises even his own toadies in the liberal press. He circumvented Congress as soon as he got into office by appointing "czars" who didn't need Senate approval. His own party hasn't passed a budget ever in the Senate.

In other words, Obama already acts as if the Constitution were just for show. Like Augustus, he pretends to govern within its framework, but in fact he treats it with contempt.

Here on Earth, Obama has actually signed off on a series of compromises that fell short of what he demanded—the health care law, the debt limit increases—and he's only the latest president to appoint a series of advisers who are termed "czars." Back on Planet Card, it's clear that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democrats' 2016 nominee.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/14/orson_scott_card_worries_about_obama_turning_urban_gangs_into_his_personal.html

I think we have one of our "top 10 conservative idiots of the week", right here!

[PDJane]

1. Scott Card has an interesting imagination.

[mysuzuki2]

2. Why are so many SF writers such lunatics?

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Very few of us are lunatics

For the most part, we're charming, witty, engaging, and brilliant.

Also modest.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. nice to see what an ass clown this guy is. Glad I never read his books.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Odd. I worry about the 1%'s surveillance state turning DHS/TSA into their personal goon squad.

Considering the hundreds of millions of hollow-point rounds DHS have purchased for so-called target practice and how they've militarized and co-opted police departments through "iWatch".

It's only a flip of an attitude switch and it's on. Protesters, journalists, whistle-blowers and more are already "terrorists" to "them".


Bringing the argument home about domestic spying
http://www.laactivist.com/2013/06/21/bringing-the-argument-home-about-domestic-spying/

How LAPD are made into a tentacle of the DHS
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022154200

Why would Obama say such things about Ray Kelly after saying such things about Trayvon Martin?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023316627

Meet the Contractors Turning America's Police Into a Paramilitary Force
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12525281

[EvolveOrConvolve]

6. He's Mormon

Not surprising at all.