Obama’s Democratic Authoritarianism- Raimondo (The Terror-For-Oil policy failed)
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Subject: Obama’s Democratic Authoritarianism- Raimondo
Date: May 25, 2009 4:21 AM
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/24/obamas-democratic-authoritarianism/
Obama is afraid of civil war due to the
economic collapse. This hysteria has nothing
to with terrorists. Note that Ted Kascynski is
not in Guantanamo and the other guy, Whatsisname,
Oklahoma City Tim McVeigh, did not need to be
offshored.
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Obama is some sort of a freemason, like the
Black Freemasons. I forget what they're called.
Prince Hall or something. And he is in the CFR
which is the other secret government.
The US Government is most certainly not afraid
of "Arab terrorists" or even domestic terrorists.
They're afraid of native militias or a network
of native militias and they're afraid of real
spies from other countries infiltrating their
new weapons programs.
They're afraid of Russia because they're smarter
than us (and more determined), and they're afraid of
the Chinese because the Chinese are basically atheists
who also believe in reincarnation (devaluing human life)
and as such are unpredictable.
But the banksters are not at all concerned about
Israeli intelligence thefts and blackmail because the
Axis of Israel, Britain, and the US is seen as
the same global banker entity.
But this Axis lost the oil wars, and now they're
scared shipless of civilian anarchy.
You have to think like *THEY* do. You have to think
like a globalist banker in order to understand
what they're afraid of. Social policy in America
in the last 50 years has been all about "Keep the
local-yokel dopes dopey."
What do do about it?
Nothing. This whole thing is now out of their
control and they, the banksters, are more scared
than *we* are, because chaos is unavoidable.
The bailout was bubblegum in the hole in the
Failed Terror-For-Oil Policy dyke.
None of this ever had anything to do with "terrorists."
The entire world economic structure was collapsing
since the 1970s. Since the 1950s, David Rockefeller
has had Resource-Hysteria or Resource-OCD. He happened
to have majored in it. It was the basis of his thesis.
Granpa was about oil refining, its monopoly, and
beating the British-Israeli banksters (Rothschild
Kuhn-Loeb, Warburg). David was about all the other
global resources:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DURHAM_BUSH_CRIME.htm
In between came the social-climber Bushie banksters
who wanted to do a do-over of the Rockefellers:
http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm#1%20--
It's all logical.
It's really *true* that they were all fed and nurtured
on racism. They really *are* afraid of the cost-burden
of the poor and the brownies. That's why Rocky
Senior started his various "foundations." He wanted
to control where the "help" or the "charity" went.
And the World Bank? The IMF?
Look at Africa.
"By their fruits you shall know them."
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Obama’s Democratic Authoritarianism
Posted By Justin Raimondo On May 24, 2009 @ 9:00 pm In Uncategorized |
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He’s not closing Guantanamo, he’s continuing the "preventive
detention" policy of the Bush administration under a new rubric
("prolonged detention"), he’s on board with military commissions
("reformed," of course) and the denial of habeas corpus – and last,
but certainly not least, his supporters in Congress have launched a
campaign to give him and his cabinet officials the power to close down
the Internet in the name of "national security."
I won’t go on at length about the brazen hypocrisy and general
slipperiness exhibited by Obama and his fans when it comes to key
civil liberties issues such as these. Jack Goldsmith, former head of
George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel, and Rachel Maddow,
progressive commentator on MSNBC, have done a superlative job of that.
Goldsmith, of course, notes the president’s turn on a dime with
obvious approval, arguing that the Bush approach was haphazard and
lacked any substantive legal basis, while Maddow is horrified that,
instead of abolishing these Bush-era assaults on the Constitution, her
former hero is intent on formalizing and "legalizing" them. Go here to
see her deliver the kind of stinging rebuke to Obama and his
administration that Rush Limbaugh and his fellow radio ranters could
never hope to match.
Maddow strikes a powerful blow against Cheneyism-without-Cheney by
pointing out that the president’s preventive detention policy – which
claims for the U.S. government the right to hold anyone, including
American citizens, indefinitely, without trial, without formal
charges, and without telling anyone – is worse than anything Bush ever
attempted in one important sense. The Bushian effort was secretive and
strictly ad hoc; the Obamaites, however, are quite openly constructing
what Obama calls "a new legal regime" to preside over this wholesale
assault on the Constitution.
At least the Bush crowd had enough remnants of a moral sense to sneak
around and try [.pdf] to hide their crimes against liberty and the
rule of law. Although they tried to rationalize their actions with
after-the-fact legal arguments, the effort seems to me rather
halfhearted: they weren’t really all that concerned with legalizing
their power grab. They just went ahead and did it, and damn the
torpedoes.
The Obamaites, on the other hand, have a different style – but the
substance is essentially the same, with the addition of a few minor
tweaks and rhetorical flourishes. They want to bureaucratize and
institutionalize the horrors of the past eight years and make what
used to be unthinkable routine.
This Memorial Day should be devoted to reviving and refreshing the
failing memory of the American people, or, at least, those millions
who voted for Obama in hopes of a better day. Remember the campaign
promises, the soaring rhetoric about "the rule of law" and our
"constitutional liberties"? Remember this: "Gitmo. That’s an easy one:
close it"? Remember the promise of "change"?
As for this last, well, yes, the Obama administration is indeed
carrying out a sea change in the realm of civil liberties, there’s no
doubt about that. It’s a continuation of the transformation effected
by Team Bush and made possible by the post-9/11 hysteria, in which the
leaders of both parties were caught up – and which they continue to
stoke for political gain.
Witness Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s assertion that the jailing
of terrorist suspects in American prisons somehow represents a threat
to this country’s security. Obama himself is not above this: in
rationalizing his escalation of the Afghan war and occupation, he
continually harks back to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as if they
justified the decades-long occupation of Afghanistan and surrounding
areas envisioned by his favored policy wonks.
The baddies, Obama avers, are "plotting to attack America" from their
"safe havens" in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan. Which
raises the question: So the f**k what? How much of a "safe haven" do
they need to "plot," anyway? Answer: A space no bigger than an
apartment in Hamburg, Germany, or a small town on Florida’s Atlantic
coast, where the 9/11 attacks were plotted and carried out.
The 9/11 attacks provided the neoconservatives with the opportunity
they had been waiting for: as the Twin Towers came down, so did the
traditional safeguards against tyranny that had been erected over the
past 200 years by the Founders and their successors. The neocons, in
effect, pulled off a coup d’état: as Bob Woodward has pointed out,
their method was to set up "a separate government," with Cheney at its
head, that did an end-run around the institutional safeguards built
into the system. Bush usurped the constitutional lines of authority
that acted as a rein on the unrestrained use of government power.
Obama’s "reforms" will make that usurpation permanent.
Change? You bet.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN
I just have one thing to say about the recent arrest of four losers
who were plotting to bomb New York-area synagogues: while the FBI was
busy carefully setting up these would-be terrorists-without-a-clue,
luring them into an improbable scheme involving Stinger missiles and
in effect setting up a government-subsidized terrorist cell, how many
al-Qaeda sleeper cells were going about their business undetected?
Now, don’t you feel safer already?
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