U.S. Whistle Blower Threatened with 35 Years in Prison, Warns of Developing Tyranny

[JDPriestly]

33. Did you listen to his speech? He explains that the extent to which the

government went to persecute him for speaking out against, for blowing the whistle on government violations of our Constitution.

He also explains how the government is now codifying and legitimizing excessive surveillance, how it is ridding itself of the inconvenience of habeas corpus and how it continues to develop the tools of our surveillance state that actually make a mockery of freedom.

The hero of many DUers, Obama, is himself not courageous enough to blow the whistle on what he surely knows is happening.

You know something that has disturbed me deeply as one who lived within miles of and traveled in Eastern Europe while it was still under Communist rule?

It is that we have heard and seen so little of the details of the Stasi records that have been released. Americans have no concept and our government and press have not adequately apprised us of the horrors of the surveillance and paranoia with which the East German government repressed dissent within its borders.

I do not know for sure why. But I have a deep suspicion that our government does not want us to think about what the many cameras on our streets, in our businesses, in our schools, everywhere we go mean. We are told that the security measures are to protect us. But, let's face it, in addition, they restrict us. They limit our freedom.

They limit our freedom of association, our freedom of assembly, our freedom of speech and make it all too easy for our government to search our private sphere, our cars, sometimes even our papers and things and to know at every minute where we are and with whom we are associating without our knowing it.

America of today -- with our electronic credit card and utility and mortgage and other payments that the government could if it wanted to view -- with our reliance on telephone and other electronic communications with our families and our friends -- know and therefore control our every thought and move in a way that the East German Stasi could only dream of.

It is time to wake up.

Obama is doing nothing to end the path toward a total surveillance state that we are on. Signing the NDAA was a huge setback because by signing it, Obama made himself and the Democratic Party complicit in the assault on our liberty that began as WWII ended and that progressed rapidly during the Bush administration.

The Tea Party talks about liberty and freedom, but they do not recognize that it was their own heroes who did so much to destroy our liberty and freedom.

The speech in the OP must be heard by everyone who is serious about freedom and the US Constitution.