I am in a constant state of disgust when it comes to people who support Mitt Romney and Obama. They both have the same opinions on damn near everything. When it comes to civil rights and the constitution there's no way to tell them apart. As a matter of fact Romney said Obama has been WEAK on all this. How much more tyrannical bullshit has he envisioned?! This administration in particular infuriates me because Obama campaigned and ran his mouth against the Patriot act and other such legislation. He actually called wiretapping and what not under the patriot act an "affront to the Constitution"... then proceeded to make the damn thing permanent, pass the NDAA with indefinite detention and drone half the middle east to death, not close Guantanamo, shred the Constitution and Bill of Rights even further himself, ... blah blah blah need I continue.
I'll say it in plain English. There is NEVER a reason or need to give away any of your rights in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently, to receive one ounce of (perceived) safety. It doesn't work anyway. How badly have we let our rights be trampled on and for what? Have we caught one "terrorist"? Have we stopped one attack that the FBI didn't set up and entrap someone into to justify their own existence and astronomical budget? Are we truly any safer? The constitution was written to protect us from the government, not the other way around. There's a reason the powers that be want it destroyed and it has NOTHING to do with terrorism. OUR GOVERNMENT are the terrorists. We fly drones over the middle east killing, wounding, scaring, and TERRORIZING people every day. Let's just say I believed for one second that the "terrorists" attack us and hate us for our freedom... let's for the sake of argument say that is true. Well then I would have to say they must not hate us anymore because we took care of our freedoms for them. I must say however that the people who attack us in the middle east attack us in the middle east, their countries, because WE are over there terrorizing and killing their families. It's called blowback. We create terrorists with every father we kill, every child we maim, every mother or sister our soldiers rape or disrespect. Put yourself in their shoes. Wouldn't you do the same?
So THIS my friends are the policies that both parties and both mainstream candidates support. Policies that make us less free, make more terrorists, and smash our rights. So for those of you voting for wedge issues like abortion, gay rights, and other such trivial when put in perspective things, ask yourself this... If you don't have basic civil, human rights, then will any of those other things really matter? If we get sucked into another unnecessary, unconstitutional, undeclared, unjustified war, and we either go bankrupt (as if we weren't already) or it escalates to WW3 with nukes and drones pointed at OUR civilians are involved, are these trivial matters going to really matter?
