To all anti-Obama posters

[Fire Walk With Me]

49. Those are surface considerations.

-The NDAA has been signed AGAIN with its provision for the indefinite detention of US citizens without trial or representation. Chris Hedges and others sued the government and won; Section 1021 was struck down as unConstitutional. Then the government sent lawyers and had the unConstitutional ruling overturned. Now it's been signed again, and no, despite "contructive" input from representatives, it's the same unConstitutional monstrosity it was when first signed into law two New Years' Eves ago.
-The NDAA is a potential provision for expanding the "war on drugs" and the for-profit prison industrial complex. "Americans as terrorists" is a wonderful new market being opened by arms dealers and military gear developers (who also paid big money to get "yes" votes for the NDAA, with resultant contracts).
-The drone program provides for the summary execution of any deemed terrorists or associated with terrorism. No trial, no due process, just death. Drones are being used in five or more countries and more than 100 children have been killed. They are creating fear and resentment (read: more terrorists). They are terrorism, which the FBI defines as the use and/or threat of force to get people to change a political position.
-The drone program is being expanded within the US with 64 bases under construction and sheriff's departments rolling out their spying machines for all to ooh and aah over. The 4th Amendment please. And NO, they are not needed at all, whatsoever.
-The DHS are passing along military gear to SWAT and police agencies, slowly militarizing police departments.
-The DHS, under the "iWatch" program, have turned police departments into tentacles. "See something, say something", they recommend. I see an encroaching police state and a massive power grab.
-This is still about the neocon "project for a new American century" power grab and the endless war budget craved by the military industrial complex. Of course you won't hear much about either of these items; they're the men behind the curtain but we can certainly see their effects. No one contests the MIC.
-The TSA have just begun showing up on trains and express further expansion. "Stop and frisk" is unConstitutional but there it is because "Americans are terrorists".
-Microphones are being installed on buses to capture citizens' conversations. Where is the 4th Amendment.
-Just signed into law: permanent secret service protection for George W. Bush. Along with HR347, this makes it a 10-year federal offence to protest him (when SS are present, as they now always will be). Where is the 1st Amendment.
-Occupy have shown that there is an enormous income inequality in this country, which has been continuing unchecked. This week a report has been issued regarding corporations seeing a 171% rise in profits.
-Goldman Sachs now have personnel in power in Greece and Italy and are poised to infiltrate other countries through the disaster capitalism power grab known as "austerity". They're unchecked within the US as well. Why?
-Wall Street are rolling along as if nothing has happened, unregulated, unpunished. Why?

How is it that I see a very different government than others, while studying the same one? I've posted about the vast majority of these issues here in GD or in the Occupy Underground sub-forum (required because GD is too hostile to OWS concerns...!!!). If republicans did these items listed above, we'd be screaming in the streets. Democrats do them and they're barely discussed. I risk PRR status for contesting the belief that everything is all right. It most definitely is not. March upon a bank as peaceful, 1st Amendment protesters and you will be met with militarized police, potentially beaten and jailed. Stand at an intersection with banners and bullhorns for hours on end, and you'll see nary a single cop.

Strange days indeed.