Darned good thing this isn't a Republican President, the Democrats who support Obama would have a shit fit over it, and my inbox would be jammed with the demands for war crimes trials, impeachment, removal of a Nobel Peace Prize and that we, the only good people in the USA, do something about it.
Scott forwarded message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My hope is that now that the election is over people who supported Obama will make a conscious decision to challenge his policies when he veers off course. Please share this email with people who supported Obama and on lists where he was supported. In the first hours of his second term Obama bombed Yemen with a drone. In his first days he began negotiations with the Congress on the phony fiscal cliff. He has remained silent on cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other austerity cuts and promised not to cut the military during the campaign. They began their 7th Espionage Act prosecution (all president's combined before Obama had three prosecutions). He has cheered Israel on in is massacre of Israel spouting the false narrative of self-defense. The global corporate coup, the Trans Pacific Partnership continues forward as does the Keystone XL Pipeline. In the video below, Glenn Greenwald does an excellent job describing the agenda for the next four years. I hope the email I received below is wrong and this is inaccurate: "Unfortunately the way we voted, because of the way our ego defense mechanisms operate, etc., does impact what we now do and that should be our challenge . . . " So, what do we do? How do we all come together after the election? Will there be a honeymoon for Obama? I hope not. Below is an email I received, I did not write it and do not agree with everything in it, but it presents a view many share. KZ Voting is not that important in a corrupted system---if the choice is only between minute variations of evil in an ongoing systemically-corrupted political charade designed to divide and conquer, and thus to lead the lemmings over the cliff. Whats important, given electoral corruption, is not who you vote or voted for but what we (civil society) now DO! Unfortunately the way we voted, because of the way our ego defense mechanisms operate, etc., does impact what we now do and that should be our challenge, to overcome that blindness and ego-defense. Many progressives and even many peace community members have now come to support war and US military might BECAUSE OF who they voted for. The fact that 85% of all Americans support Obamas drone bombing, that 60% now support the use of torture and that a high percentage support current and future US military interventions (wars of aggression), especially if they can delude themselves that US-NATO-ISRAEL bombing sorties are humanitarian ways of protecting foreign peoples or bringing them democracy, freedom, human rights or womens rights, etc. Every day, I am shocked to discover another person who I used to respect, even some who were formerly icons in the peace movement here when it was Bushs wars we were opposing, now making excuses and rationalizations for Obamas drone bombing, his assassination teams and the new military interventions he, Congress and the Empires neo-con think tank advisors are inciting or planning. I wont name names but its absolutely mind-boggling how this cultivation of blind loyalty partisanship and ego defense mechanism function. Our democracy has just about become a hoax inasmuch as US-NATO-ISRAELs pre-emptive, aggressive militarism has now so fully taken hold of both parties and almost all of the politicians in the U.S. See excerpt from Greenwald pasted below. * * * Glenn Greenwald: "I think Conservatives are actually being pretty principled and commendable even though their views are repulsive in that they were supportive of these policies when it was a Republican president and they didn't change their mindsand start attacking Obama over them. They've stayed supportive. If you look at what any right figure says when asked about drones or assassinations or Guantanamo or indefinite detention or secrecy or an...y of that, they sing Obama's praises. Including people like Dick Cheney, or Michael Hayden the former CIA Director in the Bush years. So they are being totally consistent. "The people who are being inconsistent and unprincipled are progressives, liberals, Democrats who pretended to be -so- outraged by these policies during the Bush years. "And I remember lots of Republicans saying that they were only making these complaints and voicing these grievances for partisan opportunism and it turned out they were totally right because these policies under the Obama administration don't bother the vast bulk of these very same "progressives" who were shrieking about it when there was a Republican president. "In fact many of them have become outright supporters. "So when you combine the principled support of conservatives with the grotesque opportunism of Democrats what you have is a fairly substantial portion of the citizenry who is supportive of these policies and therefore the controversies that were in the Bush years no longer exist." http://youtu.be/p8ILk4XbfLk -- *Shift the Power* *Democratize the Economy Its Our Economy (www.ItsOurEconomy.US)* *Build power and resistance Occupy Washington, DC (www.OccupyWashingtonDC.org) Democratize the Media Clearing the FOG (Forces of Greed) Radio Show http://www.mixcloud.com/ClearingtheFOG/ * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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