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Washington Has Discredited America. The “Obama Regime”, a Police State
Years
ago when I described the George W. Bush regime as a police state,
right-wing eyebrows were raised. When I described the Obama regime as
an even worse police state, liberals rolled their eyes. Alas! Now I am
no longer controversial. Everybody says it.
According
to the UK newspaper, The Guardian, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela
Merkel, had an angry exchange with Obama in which Merkel compared
Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) with the East German Communist
Stasi, which spied on everyone through networks of informers.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/merkel-compares-nsa-stasi-obama
Merkel
grew up in Communist East Germany where she was spied upon by the
Stasi, and now that she has risen to the highest political office in
Europe’s most powerful state, she is spied upon by “freedom and
democracy” America.
A
former top NSA official, William Binney, declared that “We (the US) are
now in a police state.” The mass spying conducted by the Obama regime,
Binney says “is a totalitarian process.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/former-top-nsa-official-now-police-state.html
Perhaps
my best vindication, after all the hate mail from “super patriots,” who
wear their ignorance on their sleeves, and Obama-worshipping liberals,
whose gullibility is sickening, came from federal judge Richard Leon,
who declared the Obama-sanctioned NSA spying to be “almost Orwellian.”
As the American Civil Liberties Union realized, federal judge Leon’s
decision vindicated Edward Snowden by ruling that the NSA spying is
likely outside what the Constitution permits, “labeling it
‘Orwellian’–adding that James Madison would be ‘aghast.’”
If
only more Americans were aghast. I sometimes wonder whether Americans
like being spied upon, because it makes them feel important. “Look at
me! I’m so important that the government spends enough money to wipe
out US poverty spying on me and my Facebook, et. al., friends. I bet
they are spending one billion dollars just to know who I connected with
today. I hope it didn’t get lost in all the spam.”
Being spied upon is the latest craze of people devoid of any future but desperate for attention.
Jason Ditz at the FBI spied-upon Antiwar.com
says that Judge Leon’s ruling is a setback for Obama, who was going to
restore justice and liberty but instead created the American Stasi Spy
State. Congress, of course, loves the spy state, because all the
capitalist firms that make mega-millions or mega-billions from it
generously finance congressional and senatorial campaigns for those who
support the Stasi state.
The
romance that libertarians and “free market economists” have with
capitalism, which buys compliance with its greed and cooperates with the
Stasi state, is foolish.
Let’s
move on. It was only a few weeks ago that Obama and his Secretary of
State John Kerry were on the verge of attacking Syria on the basis of
faked evidence that Syria had crossed the “red line” and used
weapons of mass destruction against the American organized, armed, and
financed “rebels,” almost all of whom come from outside Syria.
Only
the bought-and-paid-for-by-Washington French president made a show of
believing a word or Washington’s lies against the Assad government in
Syria. The British Parliament, long a puppet of Washington, gave Obama
the bird and voted down participating in another American war crime.
That left UK prime minister, David Cameron, hanging. Where do the
British get prime ministers like Cameron and Blair?
Washington’s
plan for Syria, having lost the cover of its British puppet, received a
fatal blow from Russian President Putin, who arranged for Syria’s
chemical weapons to be delivered to foreign hands for destruction, thus
putting an end to the controversy.
In
the meantime it became apparent that the “Syrian rebellion” organized
by Washington has been taken over by al-Qaeda, an organization allegedly
responsible for 9/11. Even Washington was able to figure out that it
didn’t make sense to put al-Qaeda in charge of Syria. Now the headlines
are: “West tells Syria rebels: Assad must stay.”
Meanwhile,
Washington’s arrogance has managed to make an enemy of India. The TSA, a
component of Homeland Security, subjected a female diplomat from India
to multiple strip searches, cavity searches and ignored her
protestations of consular immunity.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/18/devyani-khobragade-reveals-how-she-broke-down-after-stripping-and-cavity-searches-as-row-between-u-s-and-india-deepens/
There
was no justification whatever for this abuse of an Indian diplomat. To
indicate its displeasure, the Indian government has removed barriers
that prevent truck bombs from being driven into the US embassy.
Washington
has managed to recreate the arms race. More profits for the
military/security complex, and less security for the world. Provoked by
Washington’s military aggressiveness, Russia has announces a $700
billion upgrade of its nuclear ballistic missiles. China’s leaders have
also made it clear that China is not intimidated by Washington’s
intrusion into China’s sphere of influence. China is developing weapon
systems that make obsolete Washington’s large investment in surface
fleets.
Recently,
Pat Buchanan, Mr. Conservative himself, made a case that Russia’s
Putin better represents traditional American values than does the
President of the United States.
http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-putin-one-of-us/
Buchanan
has a point. It is Washington, not Moscow or Beijing, that threatens to
bomb countries into the stone age, that forces down airplanes of heads
of state and subjects them to searches, and that refuses to honor grants
of political asylum.
Certainly,
Washington’s claim to be “exceptional” and “indispensable” and,
therefore, above law and morality contrasts unfavorably with Putin’s
statement that “we do not infringe on anyone’s interests or try to teach
anyone how to live.”
Washington’s arrogance has brought America disrepute. What damage will Washington next inflict on us?
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