Obama Administration, Mao Zedong and the Police State

Growing reports in the media recently have revealed a troubling tone among members of President Barack Obama’s administration. Two members of the administration, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom, have publicly stated that one of their favorite philosophers is the Chinese Communist Revolutionary and Leader Mao Zedong.

According to Harry Wu, “Mao killed just as many people as Hitler, maybe even more, He intentionally sought to destroy the traditional Chinese family system because it is inherently subversive to the collective Communist utopia.” Moreover, Mao was responsible for millions of deaths “as a result of his lunatic agricultural policies.” (Newsmax.com)

What is troubling is the alignment of this administration with socialist (Communist) philosophies and tactics. Obama speaks about changing the fabric of America. What does this mean? Does it mean that we will be moving away from capitalism and democracy and toward socialism and totalitarianism?

The quotes:

• Ron Bloom, agreeing with Mao Zedong, “that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.”
• Anita Dunn, “one of my favorite political philosophers is Mao Zedong.” and quotes Mao, “You fight your war, I’ll fight mine.”

As we move away from freedom and democracy in the United States we can expect that human rights abuses will increase as illustrated by R.J. Rommel in the preface of the book, ‘Death By Government’, “These results also well illustrate the principle underlying all my findings on war, collective violence, and democide, which is that the less freedom people have the more violence, the more freedom the less violence. I put this here as the Power Principle: power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.”

Death By Government, R.J. Rummel, University of Hawaii.