Ephemera: The ongoing evil of the US government

I created a new blog entry with a different title to better reflect the nature of the original discussion. (Also, this will allow it to show up in friendfeed better.)

For the record, I originally emphasized the current US regime to disabuse all the Obama hero-worshipers of their illusions, because this president has not only continued the policies of the past regimes (after making vague promises to the contrary), but has added to the worst aspects of these prior Constitution violators. If the press would do their job, I wouldn't have to say much. I didn't have to say much about George W. Bush, because the MSM were on him like a rabid dog (it made one think it was all made up--but as time proved it was not). In the case of this, the following original blog entry, the outrage was against the current government's insistence on the right to assassination. Mr. Awlaki may very well deserve to die, but it does not then follow that any citizen of this nation accused of being a terrorist should be targeted for assassination:

Friday, April 09, 2010
Ephemera: The Evil of the current US goverment
Another hat tip (MH): The right to assassinate it's own citizens.

Another of the thousand points of light pointing toward the fascist nature of the US government. This just makes me sick.
Posted by Mad Russian the Natural Philosopher at 12:07 AM
3 comments:

Stu 陶明瀚 said...

American counterterrorism officials say Mr. Awlaki is an operative of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate of the terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They say they believe that he has become a recruiter for the terrorist network, feeding prospects into plots aimed at the United States and at Americans abroad, the officials said

I believe in due process as well, but I doubt if this is anything new in this country. You are only more aware of it because the Obama administration has lifted the cloud of secrecy around such things.

It's not like Bush administration side-stepping of rules, for example, torture, were they would just move the person they want tortured to a country with no laws and carry it out.

Personally I am against this because it shows a break down of due process, however I don't think it is anything out of the ordinary in this day and age. Looking at the source of the article you find it coming from some far right-wing radicals who are stretching their every-fiber to make Obama look bad. We have a president like JFK who is finally going to usher in some much needed reform and its pissing a lot of greedy fascists off.

Remember that we are at war nonetheless and if you pick up arms against this country you become its enemy.

So - I thought it was misleading making the title of your post say "the current" when equally evil things were also occurring in the not so current government.
11:02 PM

Mad Russian the Natural Philosopher said...

The article was fairly clear about pointing out how some of this got started in the Bush administration, and if Obama wanted actual reform, he would repeal the insistence on the "right to assassinate". There is also precedent set when the Weavers were shot up on Ruby Ridge and the Waco Massacre during Clinton years.
The greater responsibility rests upon the current administration, because they promised to end this sort of thing.
12:25 AM

Mad Russian the Natural Philosopher said...

And I would like to add that as I have finally repudiated my past support of some of the statists, I think it is just as bad to do these types of evil whether you have a D after your name or an R.

The mainstream media screamed bloody murder when the body count in Afghanistan passed 3000 under Bush, but now not much has been said in the MSM when the body count crossed 4000 within this administration.
12:28 AM


One last thing, I will likely, eventually, be "silenced" by the US government at some point, so anyone not happy with my views will be able to rejoice.