ON THIS DAY: On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail and industry bills and initiating farm aid.
I celebrated when President Obama was elected. I thought he would be the next FDR.
Instead of a New Deal for a new century, we have an expanded NSA, privacy violations, a country spying on its own people and drones murdering innocent women and children around the world.
Instead of a New Deal recovery program, we have whistleblower heroes renamed as terrorists, who when captured and in prison are treated in ways that violate the Geneva Convention let alone all values of human decency and moral ethics.
From the Huffington Post:
Daniel Ellsberg, the former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers
called Edward Snowden, the man behind the NSA Prism leak, a “hero”
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Is this the New Deal America voted for?
Change?
On this Father’s Day, I think our forefathers, who were called Rebels and seen as terrorists by Britain’s King George, would see our current lack of democracy and violation of personal rights and freedoms as an abomination.
This is not the change, I thought I would see. It is not the FDR-style New Deal most Americans expected. It is a dishonor to our forefathers and the freedoms under which these United States of America were founded.
Reflect on this situation again on George Orwell’s birthday: June 25, 1903. He did forewarn us that big brother is watching…
In this day and age where is he supposed to go if he wants to escape silencing and prosecution?
Most of the US’s allies would give him up in a heartbeat.
I suppose it would be “heroic” just to turn himself in…but how useful would that be to his cause in the long-run? He’d never see the light of day again, and he’d never be able to tell his story.
Guantanamo changed everything.