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It is a
simple thing really. We Americans watch
the news to acquire some understanding of minimal what the hot topics are on
everything from local to national happenings and accept the stories as truth. Most of this news is comprised of to-the-point,
quick snippets to fill our informational desires in a short period of time but
when these snippets glaze over the details of those issues that affect our
lives to a greater extent, it is time to hold media accountable for their
delivery of disinformation and our politicians for the false agendas they
propel.
Take as
an example, the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings and Boston Marathon Bombings.
There were indeed tragic events which continue to call into question whether we
here in America
are safe to send our children to school or even whether we can attend a public
event without worrying we will be slaughtered like sheep. Some measure of safety indeed needs to be instituted
to make us safer but when our politicians use these happenings to propel their
own, distorted agenda; it is time to examine what is truly going on.
To many
of us, the Sandy Hook killings now represent a
sad event where innocent children were terrorized and yes, slaughtered by a
mentally disturbed individual. Many were
shocked and sickened by this event and politicians wasted not a second in vowing
to bring an end to the violence by addressing gun control. Sounds like a great idea when viewed in a ten
second news blurb but when taken to the next level of consideration,
politicians put more into their efforts than the news ever reported.
After the
bodies were counted and facts collected, many began calling for stricter gun
laws. President Obama was very verbal in
this argument and has vowed to make America safer. He has used this event to push to the
forefront an agenda to control our Right to Bear Arms and has employed the
media to spread the word of his valiant efforts. When the Gun Control Bill was voted down in Congress, many
shouted "Shame!". The news stations have portrayed Mr. Obama’s
efforts as honorable but upon further examination; they have proven to be far
from that. In fact, our President had already
been in talks with the United Nations for the past few years to limit our Right
to Bear Arms and has seen this as the perfect opportunity to propel his agenda
to limit our rights to defend ourselves as the 2nd Amendment was designed
to guarantee.
For those
of you not fortunate enough to be able to dig deeper past the headlines, on April
2, the United States
had finally convinced 154 nations to approve the Arms Trade Treaty in the U.N. General Assembly. This Treaty does some very useful things like
limiting arms trade to those nations who would use the weapons to kill
innocents and war against other, neighboring regions but as pointed out in the Wall
Street Journal, this treaty also directly attacks our 2nd Amendment
right to bear arms.
The
article; ‘Obama's
United Nations Backdoor to Gun Control‘ states the following:
“…the new treaty … demands domestic regulation
of "small arms and light weapons." The treaty's Article 5 requires
nations to "establish and maintain a national control system,"
including a "national control list." Article 10 requires signatories
"to regulate brokering" of conventional arms. The treaty offers no
guarantee for individual rights, but instead only declares it is
"mindful" of the "legitimate trade and lawful ownership" of
arms for "recreational, cultural, historical, and sporting
activities." Not a word about the right to possess guns for a broader
individual right of self-defense (was mentioned).”
Congress
still retains the right to reject this agreement and thankfully, given the
reaction to the Bill President Obama has introduced recently, they won’t be
standing for any efforts by this President to further erode our Constitutional
Rights.
Now,
before the reader jumps to the conclusion that this is a right wing, gun-nut
supporting article, let it be said that it is not. It is quite simply, a statement against the
deception which has for far too long surrounded initiatives by the past and present
Presidential administrations and their media based, talking heads to fool We
the People. It is time to hold
accountable those news outlets which have been so reluctant to reveal the truth
and recognize what our “representatives” are hatching behind closed doors.
Case in
point: The media has recently shown the defeat of Obama’s Gun Bill being met
with shouts and curses by the families of Sandy Hook
victims and those Americans less knowledgeable about what this Bill really
proposed and have worked tirelessly to depict an insensitive, Republican
controlled Congress serving the gun lobbyists instead of the American citizens. Very few news outlets had actually explained
what was in the Bill before beginning their character destroying onslaught.
As
pointed out by the New
York Times, the Bill has much more in it than the television media is paid
to tell you. Although many of the
initiatives make sense when looked at in a glimpse, the price tag will be extraordinary
and the implications of its content are immeasurably destructive both fiscally
and constitutionally. Many House and
Senate Republicans and Democrats did not vote “yea” for this reason alone.
One of
the sections of the Bill “directs the attorney general to review categories of
individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not
slipping through the cracks” and an executive order which “addresses (sic)
legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, which may prevent states from making information available
to the background check system“, potentially opening up many sycophantic cans
of freedom-quashing worms like eliminating patient-doctor confidentiality and
our very right to privacy.
In a seemingly
tandem effort, the recent Boston bombing has created an initiative that goes
much further than merely solving the case of a “terrorist” attack on
Americans. Again, the televised media
has made no attempts to see beyond the hard plastic cover of the story. Between the lines of President Obama’s talks
of protecting Americans, the reality of our government’s solution involves
increasing internet monitoring and street cameras for use in identifying
assailants. These reactive suggestions
sound helpful when described in an informative short on the news but the oncoming
“solutions” will most definitely attack more our Constitutional freedoms, if
there still are such things anymore.
In this
same vain, the issue of stricter monitoring and screening of immigrants has
been heating up even though the accused bombers came here when the lone
survivor of the two was a mere, six years old.
Some have mentioned the older, Tsarnaev had left the country for some
time and returned “radicalized” so the Homeland Security should have been
monitoring his actions since he was from an area known for terrorist
actions. So if we are to understand this
mentality, if you are an immigrant from an area known as terrorist insurgency,
they should be scrutinized and monitored?
Sounds like a back door attempt to get Americans to approve cultural,
religious and yes, racial profiling.
Also
arising in this flurry of paranoid reactions, there has been the suggestion to
improve and increase police, CIA and FBI surveillance of our public streets and
the internet. The help of cameras both
civilian and governmental to identify the brothers Tsarnaev, has spurred
discussions about more surveillance on our streets to bring criminals to
“justice” sooner and many are pointing out that the internet activities of the
brothers and other would be “terrorists” could be the key to avoid another
Boston bombing. Seems we have been down
this road already and most Americans objected this initiative but now, with the
media’s help, we are creeping closer to Orwell’s nightmare.
Many seem
to think surveillance is a good idea.
Afterall, if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t worry. The jury is still out though, on whether
increased surveillance would be helpful in most instances. As pointed out by Heather
Kelly of CNN:
“Boston 's camera network is
smaller than those in London and New York , though that is
likely to change soon. In 2007, Boston
law enforcement had an estimated 55 CCTV cameras set up around the city. Since
then, the city has expanded its surveillance system, though authorities there
are not commenting on the exact scope of the current camera setup.
In fact,
Ms. Kelly goes on to point out that “as reported in 2008, only one crime was
solved for every 1,000 cameras in London ,
according to the city's police”. Given
this information, why would there be such a push for more cameras on American
streets if it has been shown not to decrease crime? It would be nice if Mr. Obama could answer
that question in one of his charismatic, staged Press Conferences.
What is
interesting about the Boston
bombings is how the CIA reportedly knew that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of
the two suspects, was a possible terrorist threat. The Obama administration did nothing to add
him to the watch list, though. This
“oversight” rings of horrific familiarity.
Much like 9/11 and the Bush administrations lack of action against the
attackers who we now know they had knowledge of, some have suggested that the
Marathon bombing may have been stopped if they had listened to Russian
authorities and acted to watch these two young men.
Like
Bush’s using 9/11 to start a twelve year, two trillion dollar conflict, not to
mention the cost of National Security and to our Liberty, the Obama Administration
along with Senate Republicans, has himself begun to use the Boston bombing and the
Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy to institute a heightened surveillance state,
propel Indefinite Detention, support drone deployment domestically and abroad,
take away our 2nd Amendment rights and open the flood gates to allow
a litany of anti-American efforts to pry into our lives in a transparent effort
to watch not just would be terrorists, but each and every one of us.
Each day,
the news is filled with gun violence stories and tales of gun owners and
wannabe terrorists gone wild. Everything
from a crazy man firing an AR-15 in airport terminal to 13 year olds conspiring
to create chaos in their school, we are being inundated with tales of terror to
convince us that an increased police state and a heightened surveillance state
is necessary to protect us. This is what
the slow creep of fascism looks like. It
is also the same propaganda other aspiring Empires have used to fool the people
into the silent surrender of its citizens.
The
writing is on the proverbial wall. We
have already been down this road. We were there in 2002 after 9/11. To fail in recognizing this ploy for what it
is should serve to remind us all of that old adage: “Fool me once, shame on
you; Fool me twice, shame on me” or in the words of those who stood in Capitol
Hill condemning true Patriots standing against the blatant attempts to negate
our Constitutional rights (as if it is what this once great Nation needs more
of); “Shame on Us!”
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