Friday, June 7, 2013

BloggeRhythms 6/7/2013

On Fox News this morning, Brian Kilmeade interviewed Allen West, the former army lieutenant colonel and conservative Florida congressman who now thinks that Eric Holder’s a bigger threat to the U.S. than Al Qaeda. 
 
West referenced Cicero, the ancient Roman known as a philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist, because Cicero believed that open, outright enemies ordinarily identify themselves quite clearly. And therefore strategies and defenses can be devised against them since it’s quite clear as to what to expect. 
 
On the other hand, however, those on the inside are far harder to detect and defeat because they hide their damaging attacks, sneak behind your back, while lying continually all of the while to cover their tracks. Which are precisely things that West believes that  Holder does routinely to undermine the nation in any way he can.
        
Then, a few minutes later, I came across an article by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill of the U.K.’s Guardian via Drudge, saying: “The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.”
 
The reporter’s continue that: “The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats.”
 
And, apparently, this must be true because it irritated one of the administration’s closest allies, the Editorial Board of the New York Times who called the program “President Obama’s Dragnet.”
 
The Board issued it’s displeasure as follows: “[In} disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.”
 
Then they went on to state something I never though I’d ever read on a page in the Times. “The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it.”
 
And then, for me, came the clincher. Because this is one more time where the administration's retained a policy from “W” that’s proven itself to work for them, even though in 2007 the incumbent railed that the surveillance policy of the Bush administration, “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.” But then, they kept and now use that very same technique themselves. 
 
So here gain we have another set of proofs clearly defining the fact that the current administration’s only clear goals are to enhance and preserve its power. However, they haven’t the knowledge, skills or experience required for accomplishment. So, when they’re stuck, which is pretty often, they have to rely on the only proven success they can find…which time after time after time turns out to be “W,” the horrible, incompetent guy they claim to despise.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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