Broun warns of dictatorship | News | OnlineAthens.com: "MADISON - U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is again raising the specter of Democrats turning the United States into a totalitarian state.
Broun, R-Athens, apparently has not changed his belief that President Obama may be a fascist since he made similar remarks in Augusta in November and then in an Associated Press interview.
He told a meeting of the Morgan County Republicans on Wednesday night that Obama already has or will have the three things he needs to make himself a dictator: a national police force, gun control and control over the press.
'He has the three things that are necessary to establish an authoritarian government,' Broun said. 'And so we need to be ever-vigilant, because freedom is precious.'
As he did when comparing Obama to Hitler and the Soviets last year, Broun cited a speech Obama gave in Colorado during the campaign last July calling for 'a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded' as the military.
In the speech, Obama called young Americans to serve both at home and abroad, and said he would expand the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and other volunteer opportunities. Broun, however, said Obama was referring to a national police force.
''The liberals say, 'What is wrong with Americorps?' ' Broun said. 'Well, this is n"
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