Obama's cements his shameful civil rights legacy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/13/2017 - 12:16pm
With just one week left in his presidency, Obama rushed through more extensive and broad domestic spying for his surveillance state.
With just over a week left in office, President Obama has massive expanded NSA authority to share the personal communications swept up in their many warrantless wiretap schemes with America’s other 16 spy agencies.
The move aims to “relax” limits imposed by privacy laws by allowing the NSA to share raw data in a more or less limitless fashion with the other 16 spy agencies before the privacy laws are even applied to them. This is meant to get more eyes on the data collected.
Oh, goody.
Now the FBI can live-stream your bedroom from your laptop camera that the NSA hacked.
The news media has twisted itself into painful contortions to defend this move.
Why Is Obama Expanding Surveillance Powers Right Before He Leaves Office?
It could be to prevent Trump from extending them even more
This comes only two weeks after Obama created a Ministry of Truth for Donald Trump.
On the bright side, Obama designated three new civil rights monuments. So it all evens out, amirite?
Because 'civil rights' now just mean 'skin color'.
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How's that Identity Politics working out for us? Maybe Cory
Booker can chime in after getting a legal opinion from Holder.
At least when someone criticizes 0bama and someone else yells "racism" more people will see the joke that this crabbed version of constitutional rights is.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Booker just voted against
the amendment allowing inexpensive drugs to be imported from Canada. As a frame of reference, Ted Cruz voted with the Dems on this, ie Ted Cruz is further to the left than Booker on this issue.
I guess the theory is that if the criminals come from identity groups, that whatever they do is OK?
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
That's one part of it, certainly. Another is by shoe-horning
people into closed off identity groups to avoid them(us) from realizing that it's class against class and that we have more in common with other working people, from whatever background, then we do with those who own and control the political economy.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Some Hillbot group on FB
is now claiming it is the fault of the Russians that everyone is pissed at Booker.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Identity groups clamor for individual attention,
as Big Brother herds them one by one into the maw of the war machine.
native
That's about as good a one sentence summary as exists!
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Thanks.
I wish it were a headline somewhere.
native
You're welcome. We'll never see or hear this in the corporate
press.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Some of them are making a very stupid mistake:
or is it more like this?
I thought it was only Snow White who was dumb enough to take the poisoned apple from the witch. I watched her doing it all through the Reagan years, and during the Bush years too. I thought Ebony Black was too smart for that. In fact, I kind of had Ebony Black on a pedestal; I thought she was the smartest, savviest, most skeptical operator with the best Bullshit radar on the continent (though Rose Red has a pretty good Bullshit radar too).
Hmm. Turns out all it took was a little effort on the oligarchy's part.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Obummer laying the ground work for Pumpkin Fuhrer police state.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
As far as skin color is concerned
doesn't seem to me like he's doing so great on that front either, honestly.
Perhaps he could free Leonard Peltier or do something to stop those thugs in the Dakotas.
Oh, wait. He sort of works for those thugs in the Dakotas...
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
fuck
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Best Bud
VP got some medal or other! Yippee!!
Warm thoughts!!
Best Bud.
America.
proving that the outrage over Trump is false
If Obama and the Dems really cared about Trump's potential abuse of power, they would be rolling back all of those restrictions on our rights and restoring things like habeas corpus and the 4th amendment. Instead, we get this.
What amazes me is that there are still so many people who don't get it, who don't see the amorality and destructiveness of most of Obama's actions. Deporter-in-chief, Droner-in-chief, Warmonger-in chief, Oligarch-in-chief. Torturer, murderer of civilians, and overseer of always-increasing inequality. A nice smile and a good-looking family do not compensate for these actions. But man they are gonna be wealthy once he leaves office!
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
from a FB post by Patrick Lindsey:
January 13 at 11:55pm ·
In case you weren't paying attention...
Republicans now control 31 State Legislatures. This is important because once they control 34, they can freely amend the US Constitution unilaterally without any bipartisan support...
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Reply to: duckpin Reply to: duckpin - That realization...
...that is was a class thing as much as a racial thing, is why the Deep State murdered Dr. King...
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