That's what I find alarming and factual regardless of how you interpret his statements regarding the Peace Corps. There's nothing peaceful about any of this. Yea, they aren't buying tanks but do they really need MRAPs? Is the NSA spying on citizens? Yes to all and it's indeed alarming. But hey, it's all for our own good....keep growing the government and handing over hard earned freedoms as many would have it. It may not be directly the POTUS who is making all the shots but he's not trying real hard to be transparent and he's ultimately accountable as the Chief Executive of this country.
Agreed.
When I first heard the speech I found it mild alarming, but dismissed it as campaign rhetoric. I found it mildly alarming not because I envisioned SWAT teams busting down doors, but because I thought it might presage a huge growth of government spending. However, what we've seen is exactly what he promised - a civilian police force every bit as powerful and as well-funded as the military.
Here's the last sentence of the factcheck article.
What the speech sounds like is the kind of feel-good bullshit a dictator feeds the masses to lull them into a false sense of security. Contrast what was said then with what is happening now and you have your answer. Ignore it at your own peril. Is he going to haul off his "enemies" on a wholesale level? More than likely not. Would he like to? You bet.
What of that speech has Dear Leader achieved? Which of the goals he stated on his agenda are now a reality? Just one for sure.
Weve got to have a civilian national security force thats just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Eskimospy tells werepossum he's mentally ill. Well that is rich. The man that would pick the corn kernels out of Obama's shit if asked, the man who posts like a pit bull, chomping and chomping and chomping, never giving up in a quest to prove the self-perceived superiority of his own intellect. The man who exhibits the most blatant example of obsessive compulsive behavior here calls another poster mentally ill for expressing his opinion which is based wholly in reality.
Eskimospy is the one that feels we should just talk to the aliens.
LOL Change "if asked" to "if allowed" and I'd agree.
Yes, that is a major cause for concern, that the U.S. is becoming an overtly, almost obsessively militaristic police state. It belongs in the old Soviet Union or some third-world dictatorship, not the land of the free. It started decades ago, tagging along with the War on Drugs, and has escalated ever since. It's something all Americas should be united in condemning.
Unfortunately, the partisan puppets immediately want to pin it on Obama, instantly derailing the conversation into useless partisan bickering. Which is, of course, exactly what our overlords want. They count on bitter partisanship to keep us divided and fighting each other instead of uniting to fight the subversion of America.
This is the Executive branch; whom should we blame but the man at the top? Maybe the legal seeds were planted under Reagan, but the actualization, the development, the execution, that's by Obama, not Zombie Reagan. Justifications once created to use against murderous drug lords are now used against anyone that government finds annoying - or just anyone that government feels is incapable of mounting an effective defense. And the left is totally on board with this. Whether this is because it's Obama doing it or because you feel government should be able to use SWAT teams to intimidate its ideological enemies, the effect is exactly the same.
Worse, the left is historically better on this than the right, but now you're embracing it and even ferociously defending it. By defending the practice under a Democrat and waiting for a Republican President to even begin criticizing it, let alone working to overturn it, you guarantee that this becomes entrenched as the new norm.
Facebook
Twitter