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Obama is a better Bush than Bush

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Breaking the News to Obama supporters, you elected a Bush Third Term with better PR

With US Revolution Fourth of July tie in at the end

According to former Bush White House Legal Counsel Jack Goldsmith the country as run by Obama is better on executing the plan of using the idea of terrorism to break laws and create a military dictatorship in the United States than Bush was. The reason for this as outlined in his piece The Cheney Fallacy, found here – http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1e733cac-c273-48e5-9140-80443ed1f5e2&p=1, is that Obama is implementing the same policies with a few tweaks and much better PR.

Let’s walk through the policies Goldsmith points out:

1. Do you think 9/11 should be investigated and treated as a crime? Obama and Bush think it should not be investigated and that the official story given twenty minutes after it started should be used as a pretext for war without a declaration of War from Congress as the Constitution demands.

2. Guantanamo Bay continues as it did under Bush with some talk of it being shut down. No public access to the “boogie men” kidnapped and tortured inside so that people can learn who they actually are and what they’ve done or not done from someone other than the US government that kidnapped and tortured them.

3. The imprisonment of people without trial on the say so of the US government indefinitely. Obama is with Bush on this.

4. Habeas Corpus, the right of a person held prisoner to challenge their imprisonment in a court of law, is defined under Obama the same way it was under Bush with minor tweaks to give the idea lip service.

5. Secret show trials to give the long term imprisonment of people kidnapped by the US a thin fig leaf of being legitimate. Obama is the same as Bush on this, too.

6. Government sanctioned murder and assassination. Obama agrees with Bush, if he thinks you need to die, then you die no matter who gets blown up near you. This has actually escalated under Obama with more civilian murders by the US military as a result of Predator drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

7. Kidnapping, Obama agrees with Bush and Clinton – if he wants you taken into prison any where in the world, then you get grabbed and imprisoned. Also note the court structure listed above as to what that means after your imprisonment.

8. Where you are held after being kidnapped is a secret and no one can have access to you or know where you’ve been taken unless the President thinks it’s OK. Obama is on board with that.

9. Government Spying on you, your phone calls, your emails, and anything else the Government decides is OK – Obama is good with this like Bush. And no you can’t sue the telecoms that hand over your phone calls and emails, because you need to feel safe that your baby sitters are watching over you.

10. State Secrets – you can’t know what your government is doing because then bad things will happen like taking responsibility for the crimes your government officials commit. Obama, like Bush, is very considerate of the public by making sure they are kept in the dark about any criminal activity conducted with your tax money. The relationship of the government knowing everything about you but you knowing nothing about the government that controls the police, military, economy, and infra structure you depend on is kept the same under Obama as under Bush.

11. Torture – Obama hemmed and hawed about this but in practice he’s sticking to same torture practices that Bush did, but talking about it differently was some how enough for his supporters versus Bush.

Goldsmith goes on to repeat the same rationale about “bad intelligence in Iraq” and “these policies make us safer” after listing this policy adherence between the Obama and Bush administration. More truthfully, the reason that Obama is sticking to these policies are the same reason Bush implemented them, because he can get away with it.

Obama can’t invade Alabama nor more than Bush could have taken Nancy Pelosi off to prison and water boarded her; or maybe he could have I don’t really know how much people in the United States would ignore. But my point is that these are all targeted at dark skinned people, who live in other countries, with a few light skinned people mixed in on occasion – not one of “us”. So this goes on because no one really cares.

I don’t know of anyone who is willing to put themselves in an uncomfortable situation to stop any of this, much less lead a military revolt. But what would be the down side of over throwing a government like the one listed above? What’s so bad about people who support this kind of government just disappearing? Why would anyone want to support or fight for a government like the one listed above? Why would anyone want to do anything that ends up continuing the government listed above?

People who read this might care more about their own personal comfort than anything else, they might support Obama blindly because it’s more convenient than being truthful, and they may be stuck because they don’t know what exactly to do.

There are a few things we can do short of an armed revolt (which I see nothing wrong with, that’s how this current system came into being, which we hail so much) – first we can prioritize making time to form community groups that discuss these things and real actions to address them.

One form those actions can take are social strikes. We can refuse to work, pay bills, and join the military or deploy if you are in the military.

What was listed above is the reality of the country you live in. If you buy into the idea that some boogie man is going to get you and that’s good enough for you to turn your back on the government being such a criminal enterprise, then there’s nothing that can be done about you. But if what the US is supposed to be matters to you, then forming groups of people that don’t work, pay bills, or subscribe to the US military as legitimate and support each other instead can be an effective method to counter this.

Next week this country will celebrate the process of killing and dying that led to the formation of this nation, is being uncomfortable in an organized and sustained way to revolt our current tyranny too much to ask?

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