Origanalist
12-26-2013, 10:18 PM
Yeah, I know what you're thinking -- another day, another lie by our Temporary Dictator. Keeping us fooled is in his job description. But this lie points to the root of all our problems:
President Obama engaged Wednesday in what has become his Christmas Day tradition, visiting with troops at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
Obama spoke to and took pictures with nearly 600 service members and their families who had gathered at the base's chow hall.
"Michelle and I know that we would not enjoy the freedoms we do if it weren't for the incredible dedication and professionalism and work that you do -- he least we can do is just let you all know we're grateful to you," the commander-in-chief said.
Of course, the reality is the exact opposite of what Obama said -- DC's armed forces are the central government's chief enforcers, and a growing majority now understands that DC is the greatest threat to our liberty. That's the warning we in the League of the South been sounding for some time, and was a message the corporate media, when it paid any attention to us at all, would quote to brand us as "extremist." But since we're speaking of the majority, who's the extremist now?
Almost every day, we're seeing reports confirming that our handlers in DC fear its own subjects, and are scrambling to erect a system of surveillance and control. One frightening trend is the growing federal influence over local law enforcement:
A domestic surveillance system established after the terrorist attacks of September 11 collects and shares intelligence on a mass scale about “the everyday activities of law-abiding Americans, even in the absence of reasonable suspicion,” according to a new report.
The report, released this month by the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at NYU School of Law, found that law enforcement data sharing programs organized by the http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/25/fusion-centers-expensive-and-dangerous-tDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) are fraught with waste and abuse and have whittled away at civil liberties protections while evading sufficient oversight.
Which makes Edward Snowden's Christmas message to the American people even more urgent:
Hi, and merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak to you and your family this year.
Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance watching everything we do.
Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book: microphones, video cameras, TVs that watch us — are nothing compared to what we have today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go.
Think about what that means for the privacy of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters.
Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together, we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government if it really wants to know how we feel asking is always cheaper than spying.
And to those who claim "we" have to have this illegal domestic surveillance to protect us from terror attacks, let's remember that the attacks we've seen were directly linked to retaliation against US intervention abroad. Furthermore, as the Reason article makes clear, DC's vast domestic spying has not prevented a single terror attack:
In 2012, a Senate investigation found that fusion centers cost taxpayers billions of dollars, but disrupted no actual terrorist plots. The investigation said the intelligence gathering was “oftentimes shoddy” and “more often than not unrelated to terrorism” while “sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties.”
Finally, keep in mind that Obama is busy shuffling more troops into the increasingly hostile territory know as the United States of America:
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.
Who feels safer? Not me. And a lot of other people feel the same way.
http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2013/12/obamas-latest-lie.html
President Obama engaged Wednesday in what has become his Christmas Day tradition, visiting with troops at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
Obama spoke to and took pictures with nearly 600 service members and their families who had gathered at the base's chow hall.
"Michelle and I know that we would not enjoy the freedoms we do if it weren't for the incredible dedication and professionalism and work that you do -- he least we can do is just let you all know we're grateful to you," the commander-in-chief said.
Of course, the reality is the exact opposite of what Obama said -- DC's armed forces are the central government's chief enforcers, and a growing majority now understands that DC is the greatest threat to our liberty. That's the warning we in the League of the South been sounding for some time, and was a message the corporate media, when it paid any attention to us at all, would quote to brand us as "extremist." But since we're speaking of the majority, who's the extremist now?
Almost every day, we're seeing reports confirming that our handlers in DC fear its own subjects, and are scrambling to erect a system of surveillance and control. One frightening trend is the growing federal influence over local law enforcement:
A domestic surveillance system established after the terrorist attacks of September 11 collects and shares intelligence on a mass scale about “the everyday activities of law-abiding Americans, even in the absence of reasonable suspicion,” according to a new report.
The report, released this month by the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at NYU School of Law, found that law enforcement data sharing programs organized by the http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/25/fusion-centers-expensive-and-dangerous-tDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) are fraught with waste and abuse and have whittled away at civil liberties protections while evading sufficient oversight.
Which makes Edward Snowden's Christmas message to the American people even more urgent:
Hi, and merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak to you and your family this year.
Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance watching everything we do.
Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book: microphones, video cameras, TVs that watch us — are nothing compared to what we have today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go.
Think about what that means for the privacy of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters.
Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together, we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government if it really wants to know how we feel asking is always cheaper than spying.
And to those who claim "we" have to have this illegal domestic surveillance to protect us from terror attacks, let's remember that the attacks we've seen were directly linked to retaliation against US intervention abroad. Furthermore, as the Reason article makes clear, DC's vast domestic spying has not prevented a single terror attack:
In 2012, a Senate investigation found that fusion centers cost taxpayers billions of dollars, but disrupted no actual terrorist plots. The investigation said the intelligence gathering was “oftentimes shoddy” and “more often than not unrelated to terrorism” while “sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties.”
Finally, keep in mind that Obama is busy shuffling more troops into the increasingly hostile territory know as the United States of America:
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.
Who feels safer? Not me. And a lot of other people feel the same way.
http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2013/12/obamas-latest-lie.html