Having voted for Barack Obama in 2008 with a new found hope that I had not felt since before the assassinations of the 1960's, I can no longer ignore the alarming contrast between his words and his actions.
While Obama the candidate is charming the Progressive wing of the Democratic party, of which I am a proud member, with his articulate, inspirational and seductive campaigning, he is signing bills and executive orders that place Americans in great peril.
On December 31, 2012, while we were all out of touch celebrating the New Year, Obama, the President, was surreptitiously signing the National Defense Authorization Act. The 2012 NDAA considers the United States a "battlefield," and gives the president and his agents the right to seize and arrest any U.S. citizen, detain them indefinitely without charge or trial, and do so only on suspicion, without any judicial oversight or due process.
Not content with overturning the Constitution in ways that even the infamous George W. Bush could not imagine, Obama, not the candidate, but the president, signed an Executive Order on March 16th that authorizes peacetime martial law in the United States of America. As such, the President will have complete control over the natural resources of the country in war, natural disasters and in peacetime. Those dictatorial powers can be extended to his various department secretaries as well, all in the name of the all-too-familiar "national security."
When you combine these outrageous developments with the ever-tightening noose that the banking cartel, health insurance industry, oil companies and the pharmaceutical gangsters are exerting over Americans with the technology that is just about ready to track everyone in this country: their emails, telephone conversations, physical movements etc., democracy in America is missing in action. And the people (the sheeple) sleep on.
March 31, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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