THE DIZZYING TREASON of "president" OBAMA: ---Horror for the nation
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COMMENTARY and analysis from theObserver, Posted in Conscience & Courage
ESSAY: From hope to fear: the broken promise of Barack Obama
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By Paul Harris, The Observer
No one in that hall in Boston in 2004 could have imagined that the young, eloquent and inspiring politician would have transformed so dramatically less than a decade later. Yet the Age of Obama is not one of hope and change; it is the era of the latest (and most) ABUSING President. Obama has overseen increasing use of drones, in a targeted killing programme across the globe. Obama promised to close it down in 2008. He failed. He promised again last month. But nothing has happened.
Obama has cracked down aggressively on whistleblowers, using the Espionage Act - a hangover from the first world war - more times than all his predecessors combined. He has presided over an explosion of over-classification, as millions of government documents are shuttered away from public eyes. His Department of Justice has collected the phone records of AP journalists and accessed the emails of a Fox News reporter. [*AND APPARENTLY HIS FEDS BROKE INTO THE COMPUTER OF A CBS REPORTER COVERING THE BENGHAZI SCANDAL AND STOLE MANY EMAILS]
These abuses of power are real and are playing out the front pages of America's papers every day. When the IRS searched for conservative groups to target for special treatment, it confirmed the worst fears of every good citizen in America.
How on earth did we get here from Boston, 2004? Bush - a cipher whose only belief was in his right to rule - surrounded himself with Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton and an army of whispering neocons. Obama does not have that excuse. When his staff meets to mull over the latest names in their killing programme - an event dubbed "Terror Tuesdays" - Obama himself is often present.
Neither is Obama ignorant of the law; he's a constitutional law professor. In turning America into a national security state, the awful truth is that he knows full well what he is doing.
There are three more years of this to come. Insane involvement in Syria's war looms, and more FALSE FLAG terrorist attacks like the one that hit the Boston marathon lurk in the future. Where will Obama take America in that time? Judging him on his past actions, I think it will be no place good.
In 2013 - amid drones, assassinations, mass spying, secret courts and tapping journalists' phones - it seems Obama's breaking the race barrier matters less and less; his inner character is shining through for judgment. It is sorely wanting.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/15/from-hope-to-fear-the-broken-promise-of-barack-obama/
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