So we voted for this guy why again? Oh, come at me, improving healthcare will help a lot of people and who cares about that silly old 4th Amendment of the Constitution, which Obama as a constitutional professor knows all about. Looks to me like he's doing the bidding of the military-industrial-financial-services complex (yes, it added one, now they are thieves, too) and is looking more and more like a figurehead elected by the Praetorian Guard.
The Praetorian Guard, you remember, was the military elite which took power in the last stages of the Roman Empire which soon became both protector and maker of emperors. It was the military-industrial complex of the time. The replacement of McKiernan with McCrystal in Afghanistan signaled that this was now David Petraeus' army, McCrystal, a special ops guy specializing in assassination over the traditional, fight-and-hold army. General David Petraeus walks into a speech or forum to live or recorded bagpipe music, and a rendition by a hired singer of the Star Spangled Banner. This is well-known. Just for that alone, pretensions to commander-in-chief-like honors,
if I were Obama I'd do a little Harry Truman. When General Douglas MacArthur dared question the wisdom of the president's decision to pull back to the 48th parallel in South Korea, reporters asked him what he was going to do. He said simply "I'm going to fire the son-of-a-bitch." And he did.
Oh what we would do for men of that stature and fortitude now.
No bagpipes, David. Shitcan the bagpipes. That's an order.
The Praetorian became a power in its own right, beyond the control of all but the strongest of emperors, Marcus Aurelius being the last one to try to bust its power. Eventually the empire was over-stretched with the needs of its citizens ignored, and in another 100 years it suffered military losses and economic crises which culminated in the collapse of its currency.
Restore the republic. Restore the Constitution. Restore the Bill of Rights.
From GlogalResearch.org
Big Brother is Watching You: Pervasive Surveillance Under Obama, The DHS-NSA-AT&T "Cybersecurity" Partnership
Under the rubric of cybersecurity, the Obama administration is moving forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on private-sector networks, including those connecting people to the Internet, The Washington Post revealed July 3.
That project, code-named "Einstein," may very well be related to the much-larger, ongoing and highly illegal National Security Agency (NSA) communications intercept program known as "Stellar Wind," disclosed in 2005 by The New York Times.
There are several components to Stellar Wind, one of which is a massive data-mining project run by the agency. As USA Today revealed in 2006, the "National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth."
Under the current program, Einstein will be tied directly into giant NSA data bases that contain the trace signatures left behind by cyberattacks; these immense electronic warehouses will be be fed by information streamed to the agency by the nation's telecommunications providers.
AT&T, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the NSA will spearhead the aggressive new initiative to detect malicious attacks launched against government web sites--by continuing to monitor the electronic communications of Americans.
This contradicts President Obama's pledge announcing his administration's cybersecurity program on May 29. During White House remarks Obama said that the government will not continue Bush-era surveillance practices or include "monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic...MORE