Despicable. Atrocious. Diabolical. Disgusting.
The 2012 NDAA is now law. In a slimy ass move that would make Karl Rove proud, Obama signed the 2012 NDAA into law on New Year’s Fucking Eve, the biggest party night of the year in the United States, when absolutely no one was paying attention. New Year’s Fucking Eve! And he did it from Hawaii, which means that by the time he was driving this abomination through the heart of our Bill of Rights, the eastern half of the nation was already plastered.
This after the American public jammed the White House phones just a week and a half earlier in protest.
This, in turn, after an almost complete media blackout on the issue. Those of us who’ve been following the story have had to do so through independent and overseas media.
Jesus Christ. This is worse even than the PATRIOT Act. That bill was slipped through before anyone knew anything about it. At least they had the decency to be sneaky about it. At least they pretended to care what we thought back then.
2012 NDAA was rammed up our asses in spite of our prior knowledge and vigorous opposition. It is a giant middle finger from Congress and the White House to the American people.
Divide & Conquer
"This thing is hunting us. *All* of us. You know that?"
I guess if ever there was a good time for our government’s corporate overlords to clamp down, it would be now.
In surveilling blog reactions to this pus-filled boil of a legislation, it seems clear that the American people are incapable of coming together for any reason, even their own political and economic interests. Conservatives blame liberals for it; liberals blame conservatives for it; some Obama apologists deny the seriousness of NDAA; Tea Partiers blame the Occupy people; the Occupy people blame the Tea Party conservatives now in Congress.
And no one even slightly progressive will even consider throwing support to Ron Paul, the only candidate willing to stand up to the global vampire squid. Why? Because he said some unsavory things back in the day? I daresay that compared to what 2012 NDAA is poised to unleash against black Americans, Paul’s statements are positively innocent.
If we could pull together, we could behead this monster. But I just don’t see it happening. For 30 years it’s been hammered into our heads that we are each others’ enemies. That there is no common ground at all between those who vote one way, and those who vote another. That your Republican neighbor secretly wants to kill you if you’re a Democrat; that your Democratic neighbor wants to enslave you and steal your property if you’re a Republican. We’re so blinded by this we think OWS and the Tea Partiers want different things. How can a people so divided ever trust one another enough to pull together?
I literally have no hope at all for America’s future. I have long thought that Empire cannot be reformed, it must burn itself out, and only in rebuilding can things be made better. As far as I know, it has never happened otherwise. I guess now it’s our turn.
