{"id":75943,"date":"2011-12-18T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/75943\/lesser-apocalypses\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:31:07","slug":"lesser-apocalypses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/75943\/lesser-apocalypses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesser Of Two Apocalypses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey folks!\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 We\u2019re about to be totally screwed.<\/font><\/p>\n

How many of you have heard of the NDAA?<\/font><\/p>\n

Under this bill<\/a>,\u00a0 as it is currently being passed,\u00a0the government will be given the ability to\u00a0arrest American citizens and detain them indefinitely without a trial.\u00a0 All they have to do is accuse you of aiding terrorists or participating in terrorism.\u00a0 Then they get to hold you in Gitmo, or some other type of hellhole \u201cuntil hostilities subside\u201d.\u00a0 Which means, if you\u2019re waiting\u00a0for the end of The War On Terror, you\u2019ll be in there for life.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a fun fact!\u00a0 Guess who is officially being classified as having ties to terrorism?<\/a> Occupy Wall Street.\u00a0 Yep!\u00a0 Purposefully interfering with the profitability of large corporations and banks is now being called terrorism.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some more fun stuff.\u00a0 Do you remember Barack Obama?\u00a0 Yeah, that cool guy that said a bunch of really neat stuff that inspired so much hope\u00a0back in 2007 and 2008!\u00a0 Well, he originally said he wouldn\u2019t sign off on the NDAA if it allowed for the detention of American citizens.\u00a0 But then he changed his mind and announced that he would be signing it anyway<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Occupy Tampa has just announced that the entire Occupy Movement will campaign against Obama\u2019s reelection<\/a> if he signs this bill into law.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a petition<\/a> if you think Obama\u2019s even listening to us anymore.<\/font><\/p>\n

13 Senators<\/a> voted against this constitutional train wreck.\u00a0 They were:<\/font><\/p>\n

Cardin (D-MD)
\nCoburn (R-OK)
\nCrapo (R-ID)
\nDeMint (R-SC)
\nDurbin (D-IL)
\nFranken (D-MN)
\nHarkin (D-IA)
\nLee (R-UT)
\nMerkley (D-OR)
\nPaul (R-KY)
\nRisch (R-ID)
\nSanders (I-VT)
\nWyden (D-OR)<\/font><\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s no surprise to see Bernie Sanders or Al Franken\u00a0voting against something like this, but did you see Rand Paul in there too?\u00a0 The vote tally against this bill, while being horrifyingly low in number, is surprisingly bipartisan.<\/font><\/p>\n

I really hate to say it, but it looks like we\u2019re screwed.\u00a0 This bill virtually flew through congress and has the Obama administration biting at the bit to sign it into law.\u00a0 It\u2019s times like this that make me wonder if maybe there actually was something to all that BS about FEMA camps.<\/font><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s assume a worst case scenario is in play and look at the the situation regarding our upcoming presidential candidates.\u00a0 If Obama signs this into law, it\u2019s safe to say he doesn\u2019t care about liberty, The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, or Occupy Wall Street.<\/font><\/p>\n

It depresses me, but the only presidential candidate that stands firmly against the NDAA is Ron Paul.\u00a0 Believe me when I tell you it hurts me to see myself typing that.<\/font><\/p>\n

Obama or Ron Paul.\u00a0 A smooth talker\u00a0who is\u00a0showing over and over that he cares nothing whatsoever for preserving our personal liberties against the likes of The Patriot Act or the NDAA.\u00a0 Or a free market oriented bigot that wants to throw sick and old people onto the\u00a0mercy of charities and churches.<\/font><\/p>\n

One one hand, we\u2019ve got\u00a0Obama who won\u2019t aggressively destroy the social safety net, yet he concedes to nearly\u00a0every Republican hostage threat that comes across his desk.\u00a0 He also enthusiastically extended the Patriot Act (TWICE!) and will probably sign off on the NDAA.\u00a0 Oh, and let\u2019s not forget how he authorized drone attacks into multiple sovereign countries and only recently \u201cremoved all troops\u201d from\u00a0Iraq only because they absolutely demanded it.<\/font><\/p>\n

On the other hand, we\u2019ve got Ron Paul.\u00a0\u00a0A racist homophobe that thinks the free market should be able to usurp common human decency and pretty much anything that was accomplished during the Civil Rights Movement.\u00a0 Not only that, he thinks that poor sick and dying people should look to churches and charities for help instead of the federal government.\u00a0 And he wants to privatize (AKA totally destroy)\u00a0our current social safety net.\u00a0 But he wants to\u00a0end all wars immediately and restore all liberty that we\u2019ve lost due to The Patriot Act, The War On Terror, and all that crap.<\/font><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong here.\u00a0 I know that if Ron Paul got his way, I\u2019d probably be dead within a couple months due to absolutely no health care.\u00a0 But it\u2019s getting harder and harder for me to see how Obama has become anything other than a well-spoken and apologetic version of Dubya.<\/font><\/p>\n

Do I choose constitutional liberty and peace, or lip service to progressive ideals that caves every time Republicans list their demands?<\/font><\/p>\n

Do I choose death by lack of health care, or indefinite detention for supporting OWS and subsequent death by Gitmo or worse case scenario, extradition and enhanced interrogation techniques? (for more info see Bradley Manning<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n

I just want a candidate that will give me Hope.\u00a0 Oh yeah\u2026 we had that already.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We’re so totally screwed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}