The administration’s aggressive prosecutions have created “a de facto Official Secrets Act,” Risen said, and the media has been “too timid” in responding. (New York Post, March 25, 2014 by Matthew Burke)
This is an excerpt from a New York Post article in yesterday’s paper. Does anyone else see a problem or two? Has anyone in Washington remembered there is a 1st Amendment, which protects just this sort of thing from happening?
Let me make myself clear, as the President has said over and over again, you sir (the President) are a criminal of the highest order. You claim to take human liberties under the guise of security but in this case you were the only one embarrassed. Only secrets that may cause danger to an agent or operator of the USA should be classified in any way. Yet you feel that everything you do should be understood as best for the nation, well sir (Mr. President) very few people are buying your rhetoric any more. You have lied and cajoled the people until our civil liberties stand at a breaking point. You sir are the problem. You want to destroy the old and create a new regime but we as a people do not want your new regime and we certainly do not want to destroy the old government in favor of socialism or anything that resembles it. As a Professor of the constitution have you ever heard of the rule of law? And do you really think we as a people are that stupid that like sheep we will line up and let you take away 200 + years of liberty and growth because you feel it is right? Have you figured out your precious media is turning against you as you bite the hand that has protected you for so long. You were wrongfully held up as a messiah, when in fact you are just another criminal who takes from the people, fills your own bank account and leaves the office in more turmoil then you found it. I wonder how long it will take for historians to see you as the evil bastard you are? You have reversed yourself in almost every campaign promise which makes you a liar and then you confirmed that statement with the lies told about Obamacare. You have ordered acts of severe neglect or even atrocity (Benghazi, drone attacks against Americans and Egypt) in the name of progress. The Egyptians want to put you on trial as a war criminal, how do you sleep at night? The world is burning sir and you as Nero play your fiddle, in your case a terrible game of golf and your wife takes as many vacations as possible on the citizens dime, probably knowing the game is at an end.
When this terrible moment in history has ended I hope you are looking at it from a jail cell and there is enough left for the good citizens of this country to rebuild the country we dream of and protect. One with a free market and one with ambition, a nation of freedom and civil rights for all even the most despicable of us, so we may all feel safe within the rule of law. A nation that is built on principles and not the blood of innocents of any nation, A nation that sits firmly on the moral high ground recognizing all religions and practicing all religions but not allowing a single one to fall below or climb above the others. A nation that allows us all to share an opinion or thought and allows those to disagree without fear, with luck our future leaders will stand up for the idea of all our civil liberties and voice their opinions about them openly. With care our future leaders will not promote racial divide but the equality of all people, they will not act with malice but restraint and they will not allow those who work for them to act in any other way but honorable.
Hopefully in the near future our soldiers can look with pride upon our leaders and trust that any sacrifice they make will be for a moral reason, one without hate, and one without lies that comes with wisdom. Hopefully these soldiers will know that they will be taken care of when they come home and if they do not come home that their families will be a priority for all the citizens of this country.
Hopefully our leaders will walk upon our streets and say tear down this blight and build new and better buildings and infrastructure. They will see our cities as something we should have pride in and not a means for their reelection.
Hopefully they will see our states as the true heart of this nation and the place that real government belongs and take down all the federal road blocks to making better homes for our children.
Hopefully our future leaders will see us, as human being flawed but trying, strong and weak, rich and poor and hopefully they will continue to listen to all the people for they should have a voice and that voice should be heard.
I have watched as President Clinton made progress in some areas and failed in others and although I am not a democrat I understood the frailty of being human. I watched president Busch deal with an incredible loss of human life and an unconscionable attack on our way of life and our civil liberties and also watched as he (although I believe him to be honorable) attacked those same liberties in the attempt to protect Americans with the Patriot Act. Then the world changed again and President Obama widened the scope of the Patriot Act and turned his eyes toward his own citizens and today our liberties are dying as the constitution is also. Americans are tired and growing poorer and being broken. Another change is coming and it is up to us as citizens to make the proper decisions, not politicians, it is time we started to choose those that will lead us back to greatness and drop all the regulation, all the spying and all the deceit. It is time that each citizen needs to ask themselves what is truly going to fix this nation, a hand out or a clear method of proven growth? It is time to ask ourselves do we wish to see the death of our country or to see it grow into a great nation of liberty and freedom, education and knowledge, security and peace. It is our choice America, us as citizens need to make a choice for we will have to stand by the results.