Franklin's Focus 8/14/10
I and a host of fellow critics have been scolded in extremely harsh 
terms by Obama's mouthpiece, Robert Gibbs. Among other comments, 
Gibbs has suggested that persons such as myself and my ilk 'should be 
drug tested'. He has never come even close to criticizing those of the 
right with such harsh words. In the words of Sam Smith, Gibbs is 
saying '... the left is to be scolded, the right to be coddled.' I 
would put it this way. At bottom, those on the left are bad people, 
and those on the right are good people.
Unfortunately, Obama is hardly ever openly labeled or seen as a closet 
rightwinger. Yet he has surrounded himself with rightwingers in his 
shadow cabinet. The problem that Gibbs and other puppets of the regime 
have is that they become touchy when critics pull back the curtains on 
whom Obama and his cabal really are. It's liking uncovering a latter 
day Wizard of Oz who is nothing but a big fake. You will recall he had 
no wizardry to offer a group of sad and disappointed applicants.
Despite the fact that Obama has kept or even enlarged the legacy of 
Bush, Gibbs bridles at those who have taken note of that blatant 
reality. Guantamo remains. Newly created secret torture camps have 
been scattered abroad. The two Bush Patriot Acts, one hidden in other 
legislation and the other passed by a hawkish Congress, have been 
praised by Obama in private. He has said he believes the PA contains 
many tools that would be useful. Useful for what? He has even 
expressed a wish to enlarge the PA, rather than to eliminate it.
As for the huge concentration camps built by Bush, Obama tactfully 
does not acknowledge their existence. A true lover of democracy and 
freedom would immediately tear them down instead of doing what Obama 
did, i.e the assigning of Blackwater mercenaries to man the camps in 
return for a huge, not published contract. I submit that this is close 
to some early Hitlerian actions. He secretly built huge, hidden 
concentration camps before every launching the Holocaust.
As for the war in Afghanistan, it has been hugely enlarged despite 
promises to shrink American military imperialism. A promise to end 
discrimination against gays in the military has proved to be 
worthless. He has shown a disdain for the doctrine of corpus delicti, 
an attitude that is clearly neofascist. He has given a digitus 
impudicus to this doctrine and shown us he plans to disregard that 
formerly honored protection against arbitrary arrests and imprisonment.
He even claims a right to assassinate American citizens without a 
trial or even declaring the reasons for ordering such murders. He also 
claims the right to arrest and hold anybody by simply declaring them 
to be persons of interest who might be troublemakers. These people 
cannot have attorneys and could actually end up being imprisoned for 
life. It is supposedly something about national security, which has 
always been a useful umbrella term for covering unconstitutional acts.
The truth is that Obama and friends have repeatedly delivered a 
digitus impudicus to the Constitution. When the hawkish Obama was 
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he used his acceptance speech to defend 
his military imperialism and his war against 'evil'. Talk about 
chutzpah. He brashly assumed Bush's mantel and helped to soil that 
prize forever.
What he has done secretly can scarcely be imagined. This is an 
administration that is more secretive than what has been practiced any 
previous GOP presidencies. Having a secret rightwing cabinet goes so 
far to the right, one has to admire the stunning chutzpah of Obama. 
Nixon and friends were rank amateurs compared with Obama. If Obama's 
closet cabinet is not unconstitutional, the Constitution needs some 
fixing.
The shuffling of high military positions in the Middle East was one of 
replacing top brass who were not fanatically devoted to waging latter 
day Christian crusades against the infidels.
Those in the media who have expressed even modest critiques of Obama's 
domestic and foreign policies are now being slammed by the White 
House. That is a welcome turn of events IMHO. There is a crying need 
to draw the obvious lines of battle. The more the Obama White House 
alienates supposedly 'liberal' journalists, the better it will be for 
public discourse.
Among all the revealing and often symbolic actions by Obama, I would 
cite what he has done to destroy a democratic government in Honduras 
and replace it with a dictatorship so as to place a huge military 
presence in Honduras with large military airports and control of a 
huge bay that opens toward Venezuela. The Honduras tale is one of the 
saddest of all.
I find the absence of coverage by our fourth estate to be sickening. 
Honduras IMHO is now a symbol of exactly what the Obama regime really 
is about. Reactions in Latin America suggest that relations between 
those countries and the U.S. have overnight sunk to an extremely low 
level. I suggest that Americans traveling in Latin America today tell 
everybody they are Canadian tourists.
Warmest regards,
Richard
            
         
        
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