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Pat Boone compares Obama to Dr. Strangelove

Pat Boone, a singer who caused the teenage girls to swoon and competed with Elvis Presley for the teenage idol of the early 1950s, now represents the right-wing ideas espoused in a variety of publications, many of which believe Obama’s administration is bent on destroying the United States. Boone’s column, in which he presents his parallels of the Obama administration to the Dr. Strangelove film, was published by WorldNet Daily as part of an array of articles that condemn Obama.

Boone maintains that the release of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is part of a plan to turn the United States “ “into a virtual socialist, if not outright communist, society.” He then utilizes the outline of Dr. Strangelove, the movie that was popular 50 years ago and whose anniversary is this year, to compare what is potentially the type of process used by Obama to control the country. He writes: “Fantastic fiction? Sure. Couldn’t happen in today’s world? Not so sure.”

Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 film released that describes its theme and content briefly as: “An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.” Its principal characters included Peter Sellers playing several parts, including Dr. Strangelove and several of the administration officers as well. James Earl Jones played the part of Lt. Lothar Zogg. The film is labeled a comedy, but Boone takes its theme seriously, as he compares it to the Obama administration.

The actual release of prisoners, Boone tells us in his column, that compares elements of the film, Dr. Strangelove, will create the “mass invasion” of criminals that he maintains occurred when the State of Massachusetts freed Willie Horton. Willie Horton was a convicted murder who was allowed to leave the prison where he was incarcerated on a weekend furlough, allowed under a law established during the time Michael Dukakis, Governor of the State, who later became the Democratic party’s candidate for President of the United States in 1988. During Horton’s furlough he committed violent crimes that included the rape and assault of couple in their Massachusetts home. Dukakis’ furlough policies, and his defense of them as well as his obfuscation during questioning about it, became the subject of fierce debate about crime and the criminal justice system. The Horton case also became the subject of a political film that showed “criminals entering and exiting a prison through a turnstile, while the voice-over accused Dukakis of running a ‘revolving door prison policy.
A summary of Horton’s biography, introduces the film Nightcrawler that is said to portray some of the events about politics and crime represented by the Horton case.

Right Wing Watch provides oversight on the most conservative groups, especially those who are considered the most radical. The online publication offers much of the column written by Boone as part of an array of material from these conservative organizations, with most of the writers attacking Obama’s policies that include the health plan known as Obamacare, gay rights and the administration’s international policies. Some writers go so far as to declare Obama guilty of treason and that he should be hanged.

But it is Pat Boone, along with other entertainers, that has the attention-getting name, especially for those seniors who remember the heydays of early rock and roll in which Pat Boone’s version of songs and his popularity was often compared by radio hosts to Elvis Presley.

Boone is part of the faction of writers representing the views of the conservative right, according to Right Wing Watch, that includes Alan Keyes, the African American Republican Presidential hopeful for 2016, that U.S. freedoms are being taken over by Obama policies that include gay rights and what Boone tells us will occur following the release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.

On the religious side of the equation, Pastor Hayford, the founder of FIRM (Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries) offered his take on world events to a sell-out crowd in Colorado during the past week. In his presentation Hayford maintains those “who stand with Israel” will find themselves severely persecuted for their beliefs in the coming months. Some of that persecution will lead to martyrdom. More and more religion is infused into politics in negative ways, with Pat Boone, who espoused his Christian positions during the early days of his entertainment career now making political speeches. He now includes his religious views in his public speeches and writing, although the present writing concentrates specifically on the Obama administration.

The speech, according to Charisma News, had Hayford lamenting “the lawlessness in the world where ‘people won’t listen to God” and “deception” where leaders actually bow to Muslim leaders, as well as immorality resulting in people rejecting “the Creator’s order for sensuality.” Hayford thus ties the fears about Muslims to gay rights that is part of the whole vision held by the right wing groups that now includes the names of the famous entertainers that attract attention for their ideas.

Pat Boone’s narrative that compares the Obama administration to the outlines of Dr. Strangelove in his column entitled “Obama’s Willie Horton plan: Release all murderers may potentially spark more than idle curiosity given his music background and mass appeal of many years ago, given the conservative political nature of those voters his age who remember him fondly from those days.

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