President Barack Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington.In one of the most chilling, fretful and historically confused speeches in recent memory, President Barack Obama told graduates of The Ohio State University to reject voices claiming that “tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.”
That commencement address was on May 5. In the two weeks since, Obama’s administration has been implicated in no fewer than four scandals resulting from cover-ups and abuses of power — making it seem that tyranny has gone from lurking just around the corner to bursting through the front door.
Speaking to the class of 2013 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Obama lamented that students have “grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all of our problems. Some of these same voices do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in self rule is somehow just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.”
Perhaps it slipped the president’s mind that “our brave and creative and unique experiment in self rule” came as a direct result of our founders’ attempts to resist tyranny.
As a matter of fact, America’s original founding document, the Declaration of Independence, clearly states that the country was created because King George III established “tyranny over these states.”