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You’ve got to hand it to the wretches and fanatics in the Middle East. They managed to freak America out so much that we’re throwing our rights in the trash can. The Bill of Rights. Earlier this week President Obama authorized the drone bombing of an American Al-Qaeda member in Yemen.
Let’s agree this guy is bad and deserved to be killed. It’s still yet another extension of presidential power that never ends. Names are added to lists and people targeted. How soon before someone who is innocent is taken out?
Taken out by mistake because his name appeared on an enemies list.
Do you feel safer?
Secret camps where prisoners are tortured, wiretap spying under the Patriot Act, drawing up lists of subversives. Just like the McCarthy era of the 1950s. We’re throwing away who we supposedly are in the interest of making us safe.
Obama is a one-term president. He can’t stimulus-fix the economy, which is set to tailspin into another recession. The boom days are over and the American people, many of whom were never comfortable with a first black president in the first place, are angry. Americans will forgive an immoral war, they will ignore one million Iraqis killed over false weapons of mass destruction.
They will ignore a diminution of their rights because they don’t even know what their rights are.
And even if they did know, they don’t care.
They’ll ignore and forget everything, except being out of work. They’ll blame Obama for it, who will have to run in 2012 on a negative-oriented, “things will be worse if you elect the Republicans” election. Americans won’t listen to that.
When things are bad, whoever’s in gets thrown out.
And the Middle East. Well that’s war forever. First, we had the weapons of mass destruction scam, then Operation Iraqi Freedom (it isn’t true freedom if a government is imposed by force the people themselves didn’t select). Then we had the Surge. The newest scam from the secret government is the “Drawdown.”
Here’s how it works. Like promising weapons of mass destruction that aren’t there to sell you on the idea of war, the government uses the word “Drawdown” to convince you our occupation is ending in the Middle East. Some troops are actually shipped home, giving you the idea the war is coming to an end.
It isn’t.
Troops are shipped home, new ones come over, troops are rearranged, put on border areas, peripheries, whatever. It’s a smoke-and-mirror game to keep you docile. It doesn’t take much because you were docile to begin with. You don’t care. You’re safer, at least you think.
What’s that clicking? Somebody wiretapping my phone because of my political leanings. Somebody studying my internet searches (all those porno adult websites) to discredit me because of my political beliefs.
It doesn’t matter. I’m safer this way.
Five years from now you’ve forgotten all about it, and we’re still occupying parts of the Middle East.
The American people don’t care. Our economy is going down the drain and we’re spending billions each week nation-building and police-actioning countries in the Middle East while our roads and schools rot, and the American people, like a bunch of sheep, go along.
Say “Baaaah!”
In an earlier column I asked readers of Politicalarticles.net if they thought the America of Richard Nixon, of the Silent Majority, the country of lies and cover-ups and covert actions was the real America, and not that of the hippies or anti-war protestors.
The hippies, often selfish, loud, slobbish and spoiled, at least had enough decency to try and obstruct a system that had gone wrong and was in trouble.
I said then it was clear Nixon’s America was America, and still is.
Obama has severely disappointed me but the thought of the other side regaining the throne and running wild exorcising our dwindling rights and presiding over the collapse of America into a hopelessly debtor, middle-classless, unemployed police-state end-of-the-Roman-Empire type monstrosity makes me want to puke.
There’s only one thing Obama can do, that leaders from time immemorial have done who are in trouble and need to take people’s minds off their domestic problems.
We need another foreign adventure
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