MOB RULE! Under Obama, Chicago-style bullying and intimidation go nationwide www.wnd.com

New Black Panther Party members outside polling place on Election Day

Millions of Americans were shocked at the specter of two menacing thugs, one brandishing a nightstick, blocking the doorway to a Pennsylvania polling place on Election Day last November. They were even more shocked when the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute the most blatant, egregious case of voter intimidation in modern history.

But for those who understand the Obama administration, there was no surprise. Indeed, such shameless intimidation tactics are fast becoming the modus operandi of the Obama White House itself, as documented in November's jarring issue of Whistleblower magazine, "MOB RULE: Under Obama, Chicago-style bullying and intimidation go nationwide."

Consider today's headlines:

* ACORN, the organization Barack Obama trained with, defending as an attorney, praised, paid to help elect him, and promised to consult closely once elected president, has been exposed as a vast, taxpayer-subsidized, hard-left criminal enterprise that specializes in vote fraud, tax fraud, extortion and intimidation.

* The Obama White House has launched several initiatives to track, monitor, spam, and harvest and archive information about American citizens – prompting widespread concerns not only of illegality and invasion of privacy, but of outright totalitarian surveillance of Americans reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984." One "snitch program" urged Americans to rat out their friends and neighbors by forwarding to the White House any e-mails they received critical of the president's health care proposals. And if proposed legislation passes, Obama will have power to control the Internet, even to shut parts of it down, upon declaring a "cyber emergency."

* As part of his promised "civilian national security force," the "organizer-in-chief's" army of citizen volunteers is actively recruiting college students across the country to "build support for President Obama's agenda" – and earn college credit while advocating for "change."

* Meanwhile, when regular Americans speak out and protest what they fear is the destruction of their nation, they're condemned by government leaders as swastika-carrying extremists, racists and potential terrorists. When they dare attend tea parties or townhall meetings they're roughed up and threatened by leftist goons, such as those from ACORN or the Service Employees International Union. (As SEIU president and Obama friend Andy Stern boasted about his organizing philosophy: "We prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn't work, we use the persuasion of power.")

* Even Obama himself openly calls for his critics to shut up. On Aug. 7, in response to criticism of his efforts to radically transform America, he told an enthusiastic crowd: "So, we've got some work to do. … [But] I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. [Audience cheering] I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."

As a result of all this and much more – including dozens of radical and unaccountable "czars," and brazen attempts to regulate talk radio and boycott the more courageous talk hosts – millions of Americans are now totally fed up, says Whistleblower Editor David Kupelian. "The vast expanse of center-right America is outraged by the brazen overreaching of the Obama administration, and by the intimidation tactics it is employing in an attempt to roll over mainstream American citizens and transform their nation into another socialist state where real liberty is just a memory."