police state
 

police state

Written by Stephen Lendman
Date: February 14, 2013
Subject: Police State
America's Deplorable State of the Union
by Stephen Lendman
Obama's annual State of the Union addresses reflect beginning-to-end doublespeak duplicity. Empty rhetoric signals business as usual.
Policy prioritizes corporate empowerment, rewarding rich elites, letting popular needs go begging, funding America's war machine, and cracking down hard on non-believers.
Obama does what his supporters thought impossible. He governs to the right of George Bush. He's beholden to powerful monied interests. They own him. He's their man in Washington. Whatever they want they get.
He mocks rule of law principles. He deplores democratic values. He prioritizes wrong over right. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars on humanity.
He's waging social and economic ones domestically. He's creating unprecedented levels of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, hunger and deprivation.
Ahead of his address, White House blog contributor Macon Phillips called it "just the beginning." Citizen Response will be introduced.
It lets listeners and viewers explain how they're "connected to (issues) and then share (what's on their mind) with friends."
Q and A will follow. Theater will substitute for substance.