Pres. Obama is hoping that we're goddamn idiots out here, still cowed by talk of 9-11

[JDPriestly]

19. He is afraid of this cabal in our government that uses our military power

and our technological superiority to its own ends.

Meanwhile we have allowed our industrial power and therefore our future technological capacity to be given and sold to foreign countries and foreign investors.

What will we be left with? The legacy of crimes for which this cabal, uncontrolled, unchecked by our legislators, president and courts is leaving to us.

Think Iran. We interfered in Iran's election of a government, and what is our legacy from that criminal act, the murder of Mossadegh and the overthrow of that government.

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project).[3][4][5][6]

Mossadegh had sought to audit the books of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now BP) and to renegotiate the terms of the company's access to Iranian oil reserves. Upon refusal of the AIOC to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize the assets of the company and expel their representatives from the country.[7][8][9] Following the coup in 1953, a military government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran (Persian for an Iranian king),[9] to effectively rule the country as an absolute monarch. He relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.[7][8][9][10] In August 2013 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that it was involved in both the planning and the execution of the coup, including the bribing of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, as well as pro-coup propaganda.[11][12] The CIA is quoted acknowledging the coup was carried out "under CIA direction" and "as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government." [13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Our relationship with Iran has suffered since the intervention of Kermit Roosevelt and the clique, the predecessors of the clique that now hides in our NSA and CIA.

It's very sad. The Republicans like to talk about how our debts will harm our grandchildren and their grandchildren. But the legacy of criminal acts by those who operate in secrecy within the closets of our supposedly democratic government will also harm them, as will our failure to respond to the climate changes that our excessive use of fossil fuels is causing.