TPM: “Obama Mimics Bush on State Secrets” – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
Obama and Habeas Corpus — Then and Now
So… the totalitarian dictator we, the American people, elected is adopting the most extreme positions of the “fascist, right-wing, powermonger” previous regime to go along with his total subversion of the capitalist system.
I wish I could say that this was a great surprise, but unfortunately I can’t.
Putting a man like Barack Obama in office and giving him a majority in the congress that is willing to do whatever he wishes is dangerous. And by dangerous, I mean Stalin-like potential.
You may think I’m just being alarmist, or name-calling. But look at what the man says. Read his opinions about things like taxes. Read his thoughts on things like using the legislature to enact “change”, and then try to discern what that change is.
Look at his opinions on redistribution of wealth. On government investment and ownership of business (aka ‘bailouts’). On universal healthcare. On the ‘failure’ of capitalism (which really is just the failure of congress to control themselves, and the complete lack of accountability and oversight by the American people – Honestly, how does Barney Frank even get *elected*, let alone get put in charge of the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee?).
And then add in his sudden endorsement of the more totalitarian policies
of the previous administration: policies that he claimed he was against. Policies that he vocally and very publicly LIED ABOUT in order to distance himself from McCain/Palin and the Bush Administration, only to suddenly change his mind once he was in office?
Now throw in the suddenly hot topic of the Fairness Doctrine? The government exerting authority over peoples’ First Amendment right to free speech?
This is not ineptness, ladies and gentlemen. This is a planned agenda. To all you people out there who bemoaned the ‘totalitarian’ nature of the Bush Administration, I hope you’re enjoying the “change”. Because what you’re watching is what happens when you elect socialists and put them in a position where there’s nobody standing in the way of the “socialization” of the United States. The infringement of basic rights protected by the Bill of Rights itself. And this is just in the first 100 days of his administration!
This has *some* elements of change, mind you. Mostly involving keeping the worst aspects of the previous administration and combining them with changes to exert more power over peoples’ lives, property and speech.
Change for the sake of change is not good, people. It’s only good when it’s a change for the better. And that’s definitely not what we have here.
