Subject: Obama’s Police State: A
List of Obama’s 55 Worst Assaults on Civil Liberties
To: "Vin Sabella" <flavin@bellsouth.net>
Obama’s Police State: A List of Obama’s 55 Worst Assaults on Civil
Liberties
by D Miller on 06/24/2013
REPOST in light of the Ed Snowden revelations, this post is more topical
than ever before.
“On Oct. 18, the Journal reported that Project Censored determined the
expanding police state tops the list of underreported stories by the
mainstream media.” (North Coast Journal, 2013)
55 examples of Obama’s war on our liberties, freedoms and American way of
life. I’m sure you’ve heard of a number of these – but some of the
stuff on here will surprise (and frighten) you. Everything on this
list is federally related, has been verified and is cited; questionable stuff
– like the police force in Hardin, Montana – has been left out.
Drone strikes and
assassination of American citizens abroad (Salon – Why does Obama get a Pass on Civil Liberties –
2012 & Guardian – Drones are Coming – 2013)
The promise that we
have at least 10,000 drones spying on us to look forward to (Infowars – FAA Predicts 10,000 Drones 2013 & End Times Prophecy – 30,000 Drones Over America 2013)
Homeland Security’s
introduction and installation of street lights featuring surveillance
cameras and loudspeakers (Natural News -Homeland Security streetlights include
surveillance cameras 2011)
TSA Groping: “Big
Brother not only watches us in the nude, he can routinely molest us at
will” (Kuhner: Obama’s Police State 2010)
Turning Homeland
Security into Obama’s personal SS (Conservative Action Alerts – Congress Must Defund
Obama’s Growing Police State 2013)
TSA and DHA rolling
through your neighborhood with long-distance X-ray equipped vans to
inspect your car and your person (Natural News – TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile
surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye movement
tracking and more & DHS via Epic.org – Bodyscans 2011)
Homeland Security
sending thousands of heavily armored vehicles to cities and towns around
the country (Modern Survival – Latest Homeland Security Armored
Vehicle 2012)
Signing an Executive
Order giving the Federal government the right to “commandeer” all
domestic US resources, including food and water supplies, energy
production and transportation, even in time of peace, with no
Congressional oversight (Global Research – Police State America 2012)
Federal push for
states to pass law allowing Federal officers to arrest local law
enforcement for failing to comply with federal law (Modern Survival – Federal Framework Being Set Up To
Arrest Sheriffs 2013)
Feds providing full
urban combat gear to local police and funding the expansion of SWAT
teams around the nation – “Policemen now kick in doors in the middle of
the night dressed in black face masks and body armor head to toe.
The uniforms are just that, uniform around the nation. The equipment
and the tactics designed for an urban battlefield are being ‘uniformly’
spread to police departments and sheriff’s offices throughout the
nation, and being funded with primarily federal funds. ” (Teaparty.org – Obama to Make America a Police State –
2013)
Non-responsiveness to
FOIA requests and lying about their transparency statistics (The Atlantic Wire – FOIA Advocates Skeptical about
Obama’s Claims 2012)
NSA’s creation of the
“Perfect Citizen” program to install spying equipment on the computer
servers of private companies. (Popsci – NSA Launching “Perfect Citizen” 2010
& WSJ – US Plans CyberShield 2010)
FBI Spying on Google
Users (PrisonPlanet – FBI ‘secretly spying’ on Google Users
2013)
“Huge
increase”…”exponentially increase” in the warrentless spying of
Americans’ phone, email and internet communications (Reason- Warrentless spying skyrockets under Obama 2012)
13,753 Gov’t Requests
for Google E-Mail Data in 2012, Most Without a Warrant (CNS News 2013)
Spy agencies’ access
to all Americans’ financial records (ActivistPost – Obama Says You Have
No Right to Banking 2013 & RT –
US Spy Plan 2013)
Increased IRS audits (Fox – Why are IRS audits on
Charities Up by 79%? 2013)
Government cooperation
with private data-mining firms (RepublicReport – CISPA NSA Lobbying 2012)
“Aggressive” crackdown
on government whistle blowers (Atlantic Wire – Obama’s War on Whistle Blowers 2011)
IRS audits on Obama’s
enemies (Heritage – IRS Labor Dept Audit Businessmen on Obama’s
Enemies List 2012)
Obamacare collecting
patient data (House.gov-Huelskamp: Obama’s Gun Proposal Threatens Patient
Privacy 2013)
Drafting secret memos
hidden from the courts (Emptywheel – How Good are DOJ’s Reasons for Burying its
Case? 2012)
Giving the military
the right to arrest citizens in the United States; “Upending” the Posse
Comitatus Act – “Continued indefinite detentions at Gitmo, but also
brought the policy ashore by signing the National Defense Authorization
Act of 2012, which authorizes the military to arrest and indefinitely
detain anyone suspected of assisting terrorists, even citizens” (Salon – Obama’s Dismal Civil Liberties Record 2012)
Law enforcement
crackdown on protestors (Alternet – 5 Freedom killing tactics police will use to
crack down on protests 2012)
NSA building the
Country’s biggest telecommunication interception center (Wired – NSA datacenter 2012)
Ramping up the failed
war on drugs & busting medical marijuana distributors despite state
laws (Daily Caller – Speak No Evil 2010)
Forcing Americans to
buy insurance or pay a fine (Kathleen Parker: Obamacare & Civil Rights – Don’t
Confuse the Two 2012 )
Imposing books of new
regulation – over 10,000 in his first three years, costing the
public over $32 Billion, possibly up to $467 billion (Weekly Standard – Cost of Obama’s Regulatory Explosion
2013 & Weekly Standard – Obama’s Regulatory Rampage – 2013); Imposing
an average of 63 new regulations per day (Real Clear Policy – Obama’s Regulations are Strangling
America 2013)
Blocking free market
industrial activity, such as his oil drilling moratorium and his
blocking the Keystone pipeline (Weekly Standard – Obama’s Regulatory Rampage – 2013)
Defining the entire
world as a battleground in the war on terror – effectively suspending
habeus corpus (World Socialist Web Site – Obama signs police state
legislation 2012)
Approving of
intimidation of voters by the Black Panther Party …in both election
cycles (Freepers – Obama’s Black Panthers 2012 & Washington Times – Team Obama turn a blind eye to voter
intimidation 2010)
Closing the White House
to the media on a civil rights award ceremony and attacking media
outlets in general (Reason- Obama transparently disappointing 2012)
Attempting to ban Fox
News from the White House press pool and attacking and censoring
political dissidents (Director Blue – Obama’s Admin tries to ban Fox 2009 &
Whitehouse.gov – Working to Counter Online
Radicalization)
Covering up Fast &
Furious, refusing to release documents to Congress, citing executive
privilege (Boston Globe – Challenge to Atty Gen Eric Holder 2012)
Withholding documents
relating to the bailouts and the financial collapse (Reason- Obama transparently disappointing 2012)
Obama’s push for gun
control (Fox – Obama Moves to Shame Congress into Approving Gun
Control Package 2013)
Obama’s unprecedented
push for welfare dependency (Human Events – Obama Opts for Dependency 2012
& Examiner – Obama my be intentionally destroying our
economy – 2012 & Forbes – 165 M Americans are Dependents; is Tyranny
Next? )
Homeland Security
providing local police with surveillance equipment (Infowars – Homeland Security Uses Local Police to set up
surveillance buffer zones 2012)
Homeland Security
buying up (as of 3/11/13) 1.6 billion bullets – 20x more than the amount
of bullets expended in the Iraq war – and refusing to answer why they
are doing so (Forbes -1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland
Security? It’s Time For A National Conversation 2013 ) (Modern Survival Blog – DHS Bullets 2013)
Signing an Executive
Order giving the Federal government the right to “mobilize” domestic US
labor for “national defense,” in time of peace, with no Congressional
oversight (Global Research – Police State America 2012 & Executive Order- NDRP 2012)
flag@whitehouse.gov
(Examiner 2009)
Federal targeting of
“Domestic terrorists” aka local right wing dissident organizations (Modern Survival – You Might Be A Domestic Terrorist 2013)
Appointing czars and
granting them enforcement powers with no Congressional oversight; recess
appointments (Free Republic – Obama’s Czars)
De-facto
nationalization of the health care industry, the financial sector,
the insurance industry, student loans and major automakers. (Kuhner: Obama’s Police State 2010)
Referring to critics
as “enemies” who “must be punished” (Kuhner: Obama’s Police State 2010)
NATO promising to fire
missiles at “hackers,” even “vigilante” hackers who attack enemies of
the state such as North Korea (The Verge – Killing Hackers is justified 2013)
Obama signing up for
the UN treaty that is in clear conflict with our Bill of Rights (Washington Times- Second Amendment crumbling 2013)
Obama’s campaign
“spying on Americans” – with 150 techies “who do nothing but “peel back
the layers” of the lives of citizens.” (Examiner – New information confirms extensive Obama
spying on Americans 2012)
Requiring spy agencies
to keep information that normally would have been discarded if no
terrorist links were found (Infowars – Obama Installs New Guidelines to Aid Spying
on Americans 2012)
Obama demanding that
Internet Service Providers open their records of private citizens’
connections and internet histories (Dissident Voice – Obama Demands Access to Internet
Records 2010 & DSL Reports – WH Pushes for Warrentless access to ISP
Records 2010)
Supporting and signing
an expanded and extended PATRIOT Act – that was so disparaged under
President Bush. (Fox News – Obama Signs Last-Minute PATRIOT Act extension
2011)
The Feds and your
child’s lunchbox (Breitbart – Obama School Lunch Standards 2012)
TSA VIPR teams
conducting searches wherever they want (Mother Jones – Surprise, TSA is searching your car,
subway…)
Obama’s push for a
national Internet ID card (CBS – Obama Eyeing Internet ID card for Americans 2011)
Power grabs by federal
agencies, such as the EPA’s uncontestable “Compliance orders,” the FDA’s
spy campaign against milk producers and the NLRB acting as a shill for
unions (Cato – EPA Actions should be subject to judicial review
2012 & NaturalNews – FDA wages secret war on milk farmers
& USNews – Obama’s Renegade NLRB 2012)
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moral crises maintain their neutrality" -Dante Alighieri
They who watch while our elected officials are ravaging our country
should consider that...Vin
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