Fozzie Bear Fascism: Obama Launches War on "Extremists"

As Chicago Mayor and former Democrat power broker Rahm Emanuel famously put it “never let a serious crisis go to waste” and Emperor Obama gets it. With the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris, a mysterious (and probably bogus) alleged ISIS hijacking of CENTCOM social media and the hysteria in the aftermath of the to this day unproven North Korean involvement in the Sony hacking a crackdown is coming. Barack Obama is about to give birth to the war on “extremism”, the definition of which is so vague so as to potentially include political foes, activist groups, bloggers, independent writers and of course any who refuse to worship at the altar of absolute government power. Keep in mind that Obama has already used the Internal Revenue Service to go after Tea Party affiliated political opposition groups and the police state to do crush the the Occupy movement.

Dear Leader will be hosting a “global security summit” next month in Washington that will attract world leaders including the Brits’ David Cameron whose increasingly strident rhetoric brings to mind that of Norsefire party Chancellor Adam Sutler from the movie “V For Vendetta”. Cameron shocked Brits when he advocated for the banning of encryption so that the U.K. security services and spooks will be able to monitor everything. Don’t be surprised if Obama and his NSA Stasi and their allies soon go after internet encryption in the U.S.A. too, the Holy Grail of the surveillance state has been the cracking of encrypted communications. Soon, if Obama is able to close the deal in selling the Fourth Amendment destroying cybersecurity bill to the people it will put us on a path to a society where as Orwell once wrote: "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull".

Obama will be warming up this week for his State of the Union Address during which he will lie like a rug in pushing the new cybersecurity bill to the sheeple and it will be wrapped in the benign guise of protecting corporations. The corporations – which have armies of lobbyists and influence who gets campaign funding – will be given the green light to share EVERYTHING about you with the government. This is a very bad deal for the American people in that at least theoretically the government is supposed to have some degree of accountability while transnational corporations don’t. The kicker is that the legislation will provide total immunity to those corporations in regards to the data that is harvested and given to a fascist state that grows exponentially more powerful with every “terrorist” attack or hacking.

Libertarian financial blog has a good piece that takes a look at the implications of what Obama and his lackeys in Congress are prepared to foist off on a gullible public entitled “Obama Declares War On "Extremism" – Are You An "Extremist"?" from which I excerpt the following:

Do you know what an “extremist” is?  In the wake of the horrible terror attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France, Barack Obama is speaking very boldly about the need to win the war against “extremists”, and he has announced plans to host a major global summit on “extremism” next month.  And on the surface that sounds great.  But precisely how are we supposed to determine whether someone is an “extremist” or not?  What criteria should we use?

As you will see below, your definition of an “extremist” may be far, far different from the definition that Barack Obama is using.  When you do a Google search, you will find that an “extremist” is defined as “a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action.”  According to Wikipedia, “extremism” is “an ideology (particularly in politics or religion), considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of a society or to violate common moral standards.  

Extremism can take many forms, including political, religious and economic.”  Please notice that neither of those definitions uses the word violence.  In this day and age, you can be considered an “extremist” simply based on what you believe, and as you will see later in this article there are now tens of millions of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” according to official U.S. government documents.

When you use the word “extremist”, you may have in your mind a picture of ISIS fighters or the terrorists from the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

But for elitists such as Barack Obama, the word “extremist” has a much broader meaning.  In recent years, it has become a code word for those that do not have an “enlightened” view of the world.  If your views on politics, religion or social issues are extremely different from the liberal, progressive views of “the mainstream” (as defined by the mainstream media and by “mainstream” politicians such as Barack Obama), then they consider you to be an extremist.

The writer of the piece, Michael Snyder who runs the blog Economic Collapse also has a list of who may end up on the “extremist” list and here is a very brief sampling:

Those who are anti-global, may believe in "conspiracy theories", are advocates of "states rights", opponents of illegal immigration, anti-abortion activists, those that have a negative view of the United Nations, returning veterans, those who are suspicious of centralized federal authority, people who have the wrong bumper stickers, those frustrated with "mainstream ideologies, those who are "anti-Muslim", gun rights activists, certain types of Christians and anyone that "visits extremist websites/blogs.

Chances are that many of us fit into at least one of those categories and will soon be subject to increased scrutiny by the feds for simply having beliefs that run counter to those who have usurped the U.S. Constitution and succeeded in bastardizing democracy. Not only will those who are deemed to have "extremist" views be in that big government database but once Obama and his ilk execute their deal with the devil in giving legal immunity to corporations "extremists" could be effectively blackballed in the labor market as well. It will give the government the added tool of waging economic warfare on all who question it under the cover of outsourcing the dirty work to corporations.

These are truly perilous times in which we live thanks to the moral degradation of our "leadership" class, it's just too bad that so many Americans have no clue of how rapidly that the trap is closing.

The Lesser of Two Evils Is Still Evil: An Interview With St. Pete for Peace

As the old saying goes, “the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”. It is remarkable as to how applicable that this saying is when applied to President Barack Obama. Obama was widely hailed as the man who would lead the nation out of the dark wilderness of the Bush-Cheney years of war, torture, mass-surveillance, destruction of civil liberties and grand scale theft by the jackals of high finance. Now it is apparent that Obama is not only a fraud but is arguably far worse than Bush and Cheney because El Presidente kills with a smile. Ever more so when it is the extrajudicial murders of American citizens who just happen to be on the “kill list” that is brought to him alongside his morning orange juice.

Fozzie Bear fascism has been a hot seller in the USA! USA! USA! under Obama and far too many fail to realize that there has been not only a seamless continuity bridging the road to hell of Bush-Cheney but actually a codifying of their worst policies. President Barack Obama and his criminal administration have enabled the worst thieves on Wall Street, enhanced and expanded the NSA’s surveillance and data-mining operations, enabled and supported war criminals conducting ethnic cleansing and murder operations in Gaza and Ukraine and currently has the country on a path to World War III with Russia.

The corrupt state-corporate media never calls bullshit, instead covering up for the worst of Obama’s policies and acts while focusing on minutiae, spinning identity group issues so as to cover his previous indifference - for example to gays - and painting him as a victim of a deeply entrenched racist opposing party hell-bent at undermining his agenda. Nothing could be farther than the truth - Obama is carriyng out his exact agenda and outside of the political circus of the dueling cults of the red elephant and the blue jackass there is rock-solid bipartisan support for what really matters to these people: war, fascism and wealth extraction.

With the dismal failure of the media to provide honest coverage it is always great to see grass roots groups who are dedicated to freedom, justice and dignity getting their message out. As George W. Bush once flippantly remarked - “you need to catapult the propaganda” he was onto something.

Following up on an article that I recently wrote on a Florida activist group’s efforts to get out the word on the U.S. support of Israeli war crimes and genocide in my piece "Florida Group Bypasses Media to Get Word Out on Israeli War Crimes" I am proud to have been able to participate in an email interview with members of St. Pete for Peace. The group is currently engaged in an informational campaign to spread awareness that the Democrats are truly no better than their more overtly fascist counterparts when it comes to the business of America: WAR. The group is also running a contest “NOT The Lesser of Two Evils” which this writer strongly encourages that you take a look at.

DONN MARTEN: Why is St. Pete for Peace doing this contest?

CHRIS ERNESTO: The contest was designed to get people to think about the still rampant believe among many liberals and progressives that the Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party.

For almost 12 years St. Pete for Peace has been presenting facts to dispel this myth, but we felt we needed to take it up a notch and challenge people via this contest. The contest is also designed to give people an outlet for expressing their disgust with the one party system here in the US.

DONN MARTEN: You say that Democrats are just as egregious as Republicans. Why is this?

CHRIS ERNESTO: St. Pete for Peace is non-partisan, which means we can be objective, unlike most people who label themselves Democrats or Republicans. Because of this objectivity, it's been very easy to conclude that Democrats are at least as egregious as Republicans.

Look no further than Barack Obama’s foreign policy. We believe war is the worst possible thing that can happen in society. In part because war inevitably includes death, suffering, poverty, sexual assaults, depression, homelessness, child abuse, environmental destruction, drug addiction, disease, misery, anger, and much more, all of which is bad.

Many people believe Obama less of a warmonger than George W. Bush, but Obama has dropped bombs on 6 countries compared to the 4 countries bombed under Bush.

And Obama has simply replaced US boots on the ground with drones, mercenaries and Special Ops. In fact Obama has deployed US Special Forces to 134 countries - compared to 60 under Bush.

He has significantly increased the US military footprint in Africa - at least 27 African nations now have a US military presence.

He has waged war on Libya without congressional approval, he tripled the troops in Afghanistan, he sharply escalated the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen, he's continued the proxy war in Somalia, he tried to start a war in Syria, he supports Israel's war on Gaza (as did every Democratic US Senator), and now he's started another war in Iraq. And yes, it is a war in Iraq - anytime you drop bombs in a country it is a war.

Obama's Bush-like rhetoric regarding Iraq is particularly disturbing. You would think Dick Cheney is writing the president's speeches again when you hear Obama mocking Americans by saying the US is just sending military “advisers” to Iraq to stop ISIS because they are a threat to national security. He even has the nerve to package US airstrikes as a “humanitarian” effort. What’s next, having an orgy to encourage celibacy? Or having a keg party to promote sobriety?

It’s bad enough that Obama’s followers give him a pass on his hyper-violent foreign policy and the corresponding deceit, but for them to sit back and remain silent as Obama and the US are on the same side as ISIS in Syria and now are bombing them in Iraq is sickening. But the Democratic Party knows their constituency will just covers their eyes and ears. They know their voters prefer to be willfully ignorant.
And to top it off, the Obama administration is supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Can you imagine what Democrats would be saying if a Republican president supported neo-Nazis? But again, their guy does it and they either deny it or look the other way.

St. Pete for Peace knew Obama was not a person of peace after reading his words in 2002 in which he stated, “I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war.” Can you imagine if he replaced the word “war” with “child abuse” or “sexual assaults”? Are child abuse and sexual assault worse than war? Of course not, since all wars include child abuse and sexual assault, as was stated earlier.

For years we’ve heard Democrats say they “can’t risk having a Republican in office” for fear of what that might mean for domestic issues. We believe it’s time for people in this country to look past their own noses for a minute and to consider what the party they voted for is doing to other people around the world.
And to those people who claim that John McCain or Mitt Romney would have bombed even more countries than Obama has bombed, well, Obama has already bombed two more countries than Bush bombed, so that claim is baseless.

DONN MARTEN: So, is it just Obama’s foreign policy that makes you believe he and the Democrats are at least as bad as Republicans?

CHRIS ERNESTO: Definitely not. The Obama Fact Sheet on the St. Pete for Peace website maps it all out. It includes news reports from the past six years detailing things Obama has done. Here are some of the lowlights.

Obama has a “secret kill list” that he discusses on “Terror Tuesdays”, and he has assassinated at least 4 US citizens without trial.

Obama fully defends the NSA spying program and mandated the Insider Threat Program, which orders federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues.

He has waged a war on whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden.

He signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law, giving Monsanto complete legal protection as they poison our food and crush family businesses.

He has deported a record-2 million immigrants.

He did a TV commercial for “clean coal”, he touted nuclear power even after the Fukishima disaster, and said that offshore oil drilling is safe even after the Gulf oil spill.

He is pushing the TPP, which is essentially NAFTA on steroids.

He sold $30 billion worth of weapons to the Saudi Arabian dictatorship.

He defended body scans and pat downs at airports.

He signed the Patriot Act extension into law.

He planned $355 billion for a nuclear weapons program.

More than 7,000 people were arrested during the Occupy protests under his watch.

Many people say that the Republican Party is scary and dangerous. We agree, so why has Obama given Bush and Cheney absolute immunity for everything they’ve done?

Obama keeps pushing the perilous notion of “American Exceptionalism” and the false, jingoistic concept that the US military is a force for good and is “protecting our freedoms.” Following the disastrous Bush years, Obama could have easily taken the US down a different path but he has instead pushed the same ideals as Bush, just in a more intelligently spoken, charming way. Manifest Destiny and xenophobia are principles that could have been laid to rest, or at least diffused. Instead, Obama and Democrats have normalized them.

DONN MARTEN: OK but if a Supreme Court Justice retires while Obama is president, you'd have to admit this would be better than a Supreme Court Justice retiring when a Republican were president, right?

CHRIS ERNESTO: The Supreme Court has the final say in the law in the United States, a self-described “country of laws.” If the United States were a democracy, the people of the US would get to vote on who becomes a Supreme Court Justice. And the people of the US would be able to throw out of office a person who’s on the Supreme Court. But we don’t because we don’t have anything close to a democracy. Given the recent passage of Citizens United and McCutcheon, the only people who will be elected into Congress or the White House will be those who raise the most money, and the vast majority of that money will come from corporations, not everyday people. Similarly, corporate money, not a particular party will determine who becomes the next Supreme Court Justice, regardless of who’s in the Oval Office.

But even if it did matter, can you live with yourself knowing that you voted for a murderer just because you think she or he may possibly appoint someone to the bench who is more aligned with your domestic views? What message does it send to our children if we say it’s OK to vote for someone who murders just because you may get something out of it?

DONN MARTEN: What about gay marriage? Obama has done better than a Republican president would have done on this issue, correct?

CHRIS ERNESTO: During his first term, when Obama was opposed to gay marriage, St. Pete for Peace was supporting actions and groups who believe in full equality for everyone. Prior to his re-election, Obama obviously was told he needed the votes of the LGBTQ community, so he changed his position. Of course this is good news, and you see what can happen when the President does the right thing -- being pro-gay marriage is now cool. Wouldn’t it be nice if he did the same thing for other issues, like how the FBI uses false sting operations to target Muslims in the US, or how police in this country have become so militarized that young black men and protesters are treated like 2nd class citizens?

DONN MARTEN: But Democrats are better than Republicans on gun rights and a woman's right to choose, doesn't that matter?

CHRIS ERNESTO: If a Republican President tried to overturn Roe v. Wade there would be millions of people on the street. People would stop going to work, the economy would slow down and there would
be a near revolution. The same holds true for if a Democratic President tried to overturn the 2nd Amendment.

Both parties know this. So, when the Republicans need to energize their voting base, they start telling people “Obama wants to take away your guns.” Democrats do the same with the abortion issue.
On a state level, it is a different story, but when it comes to Congress and the White House, the issues of guns and abortion are simply a way to maintain the Republican vs. Democrat paradigm, and to trick people into plugging their nose and voting for “the lesser of two evils.” But it’s just a ruse.

DONN MARTEN: OK, regarding your contest, how will the winner of the contest be selected?

CHRIS ERNESTO: A committee from St. Pete for Peace will read through all of the submissions and determine which response best describes why Obama and the Democrats are “NOT the lesser of two evils.” All entries will be viewed anonymously and extra weight will be given to brief responses – we’re looking for talking points more so than essays. You can enter the contest at stpeteforpeace.org/contest.

DONN MARTEN: Finally, Chris, if you only had 10 seconds to challenge a Democrat today, what would you say?

CHRIS ERNESTO: Hop to it, Democrats, or you’re going to make many of us cheer for an all Republican Congress and hope that the next President of the United States is a Republican. At least that way, maybe Democrats will become "antiwar" again.

The only true “hope” and “change” will come to America when people begin to turn off their television sets and find out the real truth about who is really running this country. It is because of groups like St. Pete for Peace and other dedicated activists, independent participants who put country before party and alternative media journalists, bloggers and media savvy volunteers who are able to circumvent the corrupt state-corporate media to spread the word that all is not as it seems.

LINK: Tampa Bay Independent Radio Station WMNF 88.5 interview with Dina Formentini of St. Pete For Peace.

Cruise Missile Cowboy

As the old adage goes – if you give a man enough rope he will eventually hang himself and today Barack H. Obama should pay heed. Despite widespread public skepticism, a stunning smack downof British pardner David Cameron, Tonto to Obama’s Drone Ranger and a smelly case of chemical weapons use that brings back memories of “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” the leader is saddling up for a shootin’ war. I don’t ever want to hear a liberal or a Democrat attack George W. Bush again because now that Barry has turned cowboy with yet another new war, one that may even  turn into WW III and the American day of reckoning at the O.K. Corral Barry is now every bit as bad. I would venture to say that trail boss Obama is far worse than Bushever was simply because Bush never bothered pretending that he was anything other than a cowboy, his successor is a full blown Judas. Irony is hysterical in that the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was trusted by so many to end the wars is about to lead his own gang into a morass of death and destruction that has all of the potential to end up like that classic final showdown in the classic Sam Peckinpah western The Wild Bunch.

This is all on the Barry too. He spent too much of his first term acting as a triangulating, milquetoast, arugula eating, verbose, teleprompter reading effete snob and he was mocked and disrespected by his enemies and taken advantage of by his friends. When he idiotically came out last year and stated that the use of chemical weapons was his “red line” for sending the military bully boys into action in Syria it was only a matter of time until someone – and let me emphasize that we still have no idea of who – would call his bluff. Real men don’t chicken out when it’s time to take ten paces, turn around and draw, especially given the long, lurid and colorful history of American cowboy foreign policy and Obama now has little choice.  Thorough international investigations will take you only so far when the monstrous power of the military industrial complex and the blood barters of Wall Street catch the scent of blood money.  Toss in a grifter like Obama, still smarting over being pilloried throughout his lamentable first term and then having his nose rubbed into a bowl of borscht flavored humble pie with a vodka chaser by the black hat Putin over Ed Snowden and we have a man that is itching for a gunfight. One must wonder how many times that Django Unchained has been the nightly movie at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Nixon got his Vietnam rocks off by watching Patton and we know damned well how well that all turned out.

This is a looming disaster another step in the downtrend, but Barry can’t back down because as national sheriff he has laid down the law and can’t be seen as a ‘chicken’ . After the embarrassments of being rebutted by the U.N. Security Council and Cameron’s parliamentary fiasco the rogue Obama regime is today hanging it’s hat on a new U.S. intelligence report offering damning evidence of the Assad regime’s complicity in the chemical gas attack. Don’t bother stopping to think that the very same intelligence community has a vested interest in protecting their own asses by hyping a new war that will knock the NSA Stasi revelations out of the headlines and provide more time for Obama’s black ops hit teams to find and murder Ed Snowden.  The added benefit would be that any opposition to Barry’s big shootout in Damascus will quickly be labeled as “traitors” and accused of “aiding the enemy” for their daring to challenge El Presidente. This is the way it always works in totalitarian societies and post September 11, 2001 we are living in an increasingly obvious one. The very fact that Barry and the boys no longer bother hiding any of it is an ominous sign of what is yet to come.

So expect high noon anytime now, best get out and gas up your car before the coming oil price spike. The administration once again sent forth Skull and Bones member John Kerry to again spew out demagogic rhetoric in his normal monotonous delivery to push the propaganda line. French President Francois Hollande now appears to be joining the Obama gang as the 2013 incarnation of the “coalition of the willing” begins to take form. One can imagine that the cheese-eating surrender monkey French are still traumatized by their resistance to Bush’s Iraq war and having French Fries renamed Freedom Fries in the Congressional cafeteria. Obama is also now invoking the imminent threat to Israel and Jordan which will set the tone for the smearing of opponents as “isolationists” and pejoratives even worse than that. The question that is never once tolerated is that why is there always money for more war when the entire country is crumbling and is on the brink of becoming akin to a third world banana republic in the coming years. Such a question would quickly run astray of Obama and his state media lynching party and those who ask would be ruthlessly smeared.

So as we here sit on the eve of what would be the initial cruise missile shots of World War III we are only provided with the pro-war propaganda of the usual cavalcade of clowns. Poor pitiful Barry stands to lose face, and the sycophants and stenographer presstitutes worried about lost access were they to live up to their duties under the rapidly disappearing First Amendment. At least there are some, now exiled to the fringes who still dare to ask the forbidden questions. Take Pat Buchanan for instance who just wrote-

Understandably, Obama wants to get the egg off his face from having foolishly drawn his “red line” against chemical weapons, and then watching Syria, allegedly, defy His Majesty. But saving Obama’s face does not justify plunging his country into another Mideast war.

Does Obama realize what a fool history will make of him if he is stampeded into a new war by propaganda that turns out to be yet another stew of ideological zealotry and mendacity?

As of today, we do not know exactly what gas was used around Damascus, how it was delivered, who authorized it and whether President Bashar Assad ever issued such an order.

Yet, one Wall Street Journal columnist is already calling on Obama to assassinate Assad along with his family.

and

Nations that start wars and attack countries, as Gen. Tojo and Adm. Yamamoto can testify, do not get to decide how wide the war gets, how long it goes on or how it ends.

If the United States attacks Damascus and Syria’s command and control, under the rules of war Syria would be within its rights to strike Washington, the Pentagon and U.S. bases all across the Middle East.

Does Obama really want to start a war, the extent and end of which he cannot see, that is likely to escalate, as its promoters intend and have long plotted, into a U.S. war on Iran? Has the election in Iran of a new president anxious to do a deal with America on Iran’s nuclear program caused this panic in the War Party?

If we think the markets reacted badly to a potential U.S. strike on Syria, just wait for that big one to start. Iran has a population the size of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq combined, and sits astride the Straits of Hormuz through which the free world’s oil flows.

And who will be our foremost fighting ally in Syria should we attack Assad’s army? The Al-Nusra Front, an arm of al-Qaida and likely successor to power, should Assad fall.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Obama is indeed mad as in pissed off at Putin and aS the ongoing revelations of his corrupt surveillance state as well as the ugly truth that his economic policies are a disaster and his health care reform plan is nothing more than a big government backed shakedown of taxpayers to benefit big corporations.  But in the sense of the word invoked by Buchanan he is not truly mad (is in crazy) and that is a very disconcerting though in that madmen eventually are stopped. It is the arrogant, foolhardy, reckless state of hubris as Barry has now received his own personal fix of our cowboy bent when it comes to global affairs.

It is all a matter of Obama playing a game of my missile is bigger than yours with Putin and Syria just happens to be the set of this tragedy in the making.

It is a tall order but the American people and Congress need to reign this varmint in now.

Obama Gangsters Escalate War on Journalism

In a textbook example of the REAL reason for the torrent of Draconian  anti-terrorism laws that have been implemented post 9/11 without the consent of the governed the proxy puppet Brits are joining the Obama war on journalists. On Sunday, the across the pond accomplices of the gangster Obama administration detained the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald for interrogation and harassment. David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen was seized by authorities in the transit area of London’s Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act of 2000. It was a blatant but revealing escalation of the imperial fascist surveillance state that now thanks to former Booz-Allen employee turned leaker Edward Snowden has been exposed for all to see. Mr. Greenwald, who has been breaking a majority of the stories on the unconstitutional and out of control activities of Obama’s NSA Stasi has made a good many enemies for his reportage. He has been the target of what is obviously a U.S. government backed smear campaign designed to impugn his honor and undermine his credibility, one that has been jacked up as of late with reports that he is trying to sell a Snowden interview to media establishments. This is of course done to call into question the journalist’s intentions, since earlier attempts to libel him as a pornographer and sleazebag didn’t work. He has even had to face veiled threats from U.S. regime mouthpieces like the oily David Gregory and his ilk. It goes with the territory of those who ask questions during the Obama-Holder Axis of Evil’s war on journalists but the abduction of Miranda has crossed a line and there is no going back now.

Oh, and when I referred to Obama’s “gangster” administration I was wrong, the mob has Omertà, or a code of honor when it comes to going after family members. This is something that was brought up by Mr. Greenwald himself in his column from Sunday’s edition of The Guardian online:“Even the mafia had ethical rules against people that they felt threatened by” and he is absolutely correct. The Obama thugs, it’s Stasi and the British Gestapo, GCHQ have no honor whatsoever for there are no such necessity when all of them are pigs. Now that it is all seeping out from under the curtain of deception everyone who is not willfully blind is able to see that the two nations, the triumphal winners of WW II aka “the good war” have now fallen under the domain of the very same type of fascists and totalitarians that they once opposed. This is a time for all to be fearful because the mask has slipped and the measures are becoming as fittingly extreme as were they for their historical predecessors in Germany. The Brits held Miranda without providing him access to an attorney and then confiscated his gear including according to sources encrypted thumb drives allegedly carrying information for Greenwald’s future investigative pieces. The operation wasobviously green-lighted by the more paranoid than Nixon White House as if that is surprising. As has been the case in American airports for years we are now subject to being shaken down by overzealous TSA government goons on a whim, children felt up, ole people humiliated and possessions stolen. None of this crap is about preventing terrorism, it has always been about power and the crushing of political dissent, Government restriction of travel is a top trait of authoritarian states as are spying, show trials and torture.

Greenwald’s reaction though must really have the scum over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a frenzy today. He essentially doubled down and stated that the fascists were going to regret what they did and that he is now going to “write my stories more aggressively now” and that he is also going to go after the espionage system in England. I really do hope that Greenwald is able to turn up the heat on the bastards but he is entering dark territory now, with the rats being flushed from their nests I have two words of caution for him “Michael Hastings”.  The fiery death of the former Rolling Stone reporter has always been suspicious, both for his abundance of powerful enemies created by his work and his uncompromising and at times arrogant demeanor.  Despotic regimes (and make no mistake that shorn of it’s outwardly benign facade the United States is ruled by one) have no qualms about whacking those whom are bothersome. There is actually quite the history of such things and the list of names is far longer than I am going to go into at this time and it is entirely possible that Greenwald will soon be on it if the smears and intimidation don’t get the message across.

But the only way to fight the machine is to keep pushing to get the truth out, as historian Anthony Sutton once put it - “Be patient, spread the word among friends, do your little bit. The system will self-destruct because it is funded on corruption and untruth.” And implode it will if we ALL do our little part.

The Obama administration and it’s fascist deep state are rightfully scared of something very badly and that something is an awakened populace that will bring their system of corruption down with them at the bottom of the rubble.