Charles Koch Claims That African American President Barack Obama Has Stolen His Freedom

[KamaAina]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/04/charles-koch-claims-african-american-president-barack-obama-stolen-freedom.html

Image, or reputation, is considered to be a primary component of identity as defined by others and based either on a person’s past and current actions or misperceptions due to a person’s avoidance of public exposure. Many individuals carefully cultivate their public image to preserve a reputation as a respected social entity or in the event they feel that social evaluation portrays them in an incorrect light based what they consider to be faulty criteria. Image is known to be a highly efficient mechanism of social control in society and its influence can either limit or enhance a person’s ability to be competitive in a variety of settings whether it is in business, interpersonal relationships, or to exert control over a population through political influence.

Despite their inordinate control over Republicans in Congress, theocrats, teabaggers, state legislatures, and the entire conservative movement, most Americans really had little, if any, knowledge or opinion about the Koch brothers due to their careful behind the scenes machinations while avoiding public exposure. However, as their sphere of influence and political activities were revealed to the population, the overriding image of the Kochs was one of wealthy industrialists with no regard for the American people, the environment, or democracy they yearn to transform into a loose confederation of theocrats and oligarchs under their control. Since the Kochs’ sole interest, like Christian Dominionists, is absolute control over America, Charles Koch took action to control the image Americans have of him and his brother and penned an op/ed extolling his virtuous 50-year attempt at giving Americans back their freedom he claims African American President Barack Obama has stolen. Like his Republican underlings he resorted to abject lies, misinformation, and propaganda to portray himself as America’s salvation.

Charles Koch’s part “woe is me” and part “I am a god” piece in the Republican Wall Street Journal on Wednesday titled, “Charles Koch: I’m Fighting to Restore a Free Society” was, by any stretch of the imagination, sheer self-promotion based on one part pure lies and one part un-American libertarian ideology. Koch’s word for democratic government is “collectivism” and he claims collectivists stand for controlling people’s lives and instead of encouraging free and open debate they discredit, intimidate, and engage in character assassination; something he claims he is a daily target of; today will be no different. Charles Koch’s character is steeped in sheer greed, wanton lust for power and control, pathological self-righteousness, and compulsive delusions of grandeur borne of a pathetic overestimation of his self-worth due to wealth; he is the archetype of inherited riches and a prototypical John Bircher. He is also a rank liar and that is not character assassination or up for free and open debate because it is fact.

According to Koch, he, and he alone, understands the principles that enable people to improve their lives and said the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law, and personal freedom are under attack by the government. That is why he, Charles Koch, fights to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans; something he claims to have fought valiantly to restore for more than 50 years. Koch said, “A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value,” and that “any government should fail that disrespects its citizens” he asserted is the “central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration representing the essence of big government and collectivism.”

Will someone please call poor widdle Charwey a

[notadmblnd]

1. You are what you eat Chuckie

your greed and lack of regard for your fellow man is what follows and haunts your reputation, not the President.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I have so much contempt for this "man" that I can hardly express it. K&R n/t

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

3. Wanna see him, his brother, and Karl Rove in handcuffs

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. They head my list too. YUCK. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

5. Doesn't Christianity equal Collectivism?

So then, isn't Charles Koch promoting... SATAN !!!

[BlueJazz]

6. Well, I see Ol' Chucky needs to be put somewhere befitting a Man of his stature

[freshwest]

7. Let me know when you lose all the necessities of life. Until then, STHU Charlie! n/t

[Initech]

8. When you have nothing left to buy but your government... 1% problems.

[whatchamacallit]

9. Freedom to do what, be a plantation owner?

[Atman]

10. Let's break this down...

According to the Kochs, they, and they alone, understands the principles that enable people to improve their lives and said the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law, and personal freedom are under attack by the government.

The fundamental concepts:

Dignity: "My 1000-count thread Egyptian cotton tighty whities cost more than your car."

Respect: "Did you actually just make eye contact me whilst I was demanding my 150 year old Scotch?"

Equality before the law: "We will shoot you just as quickly in our cul du sac as you'd likely to be shot on the streets of your wretched town."

Personal freedom are under attack by the government: "But, once we are the official government, 'personal freedom' will be defined by us."

Good day sir. Remember to vote RepubliKoch.

[Sunriser13]

11. At his best...

So.... do we need another "Emancipation Proclamation" now to free his ilk? Should it apply to all, or just to the beleaguered Koch Brothers (and other rich old white men) who have been so terribly mistreated and maligned?

[Cha]

12. FO roach.