June 16, 2013
Dare we not think
the unthinkable?
Recent actions within the
current administration should make us feel very discouraged as we see
more and more evidence of the danger of power at the highest levels.
As I have often quoted Lord Acton, "Power corrupts, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely".
Recent stories detailed
the IRS especially scrutinizing conservative groups applying for
non-profit status...only because of their conservative sounding
names. Clearly, this was political power being directed and exercised
by powerful leaders at the very top of the current administration.
Who really authorized these investigations? We will probably never
know. However, does it seem at all reasonable the most powerful
leader in the world did not know about this until he came across it
in the media?
Then we saw recent reports
about the Justice Department reviewing phone and email records of
Associated Press (AP) reporters. It wasn’t just a few rogue
reporters being monitored, it was dozens. The reasons for such
scrutiny were claims of a terrible threat to national security. One
might believe that story if the reporters targeted had been few in
number. However, dozens of reporters being suspected of plotting
against our national security simply defies imagination! It doesn't
take much of a leap to imagine a blanket investigation of every
individual who has ever said or written anything negative about our
current leadership? Our President denies awareness.
Then looking back a bit
earlier we had the Benghazi affair. I doubt we will ever know the
real reasons our Ambassador to Libya wasn't better protected, or why
more vigorous rescue attempts were not made. The entire truth will
probably never be exposed. What has been proven is some in the
administration participated in covering up or spinning the facts as
they were known. Was that done to help the President before the
election? Our President, as would be expected of most politicians,
denies involvement in any way.
And now we learn from a
CIA/NSA consultant, Edward Snowden, that every American's phone calls
and email records are easily available to our government with no
apparent regard to our Constitutionally promised protection of
privacy by the 4th Amendment.
How much more evidence do
we need to prove our Constitution has become no more than an
inconvenience easily ignored by whomever is currently in
administrative power? It seems we are increasingly seeing executive
orders bypassing Constitutional rule. Most of us have become
comfortable with video surveillance while in public. However, now we
learn any of our communications...written or spoken via technology
is available to those who we must trust to protect our rights to
privacy. How does this make you feel?
This is not an
anti-Democrat or Obama rant. It just happens he is the current holder
of the highest elected office in our nation as these recent events
transpired and were exposed. These kinds of events have happened in
the past under Presidents from both parties. The big difference, of
course, are the giant leaps in technology which allows so much
information to be so easily evaluated and then stored forever!
However, how can so many
events pass any reasonable smell test when the President repeatedly
proclaims he had no knowledge. He is either completely disconnected
from the organization's he is responsible for managing...or???
These recently exposed
events should also cause Americans to wonder about the seldom
discussed massive expansion of the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) originally created by President G. W. Bush. Citizens have
mostly remained spectators silently watching the creation and
expansion of what can only be considered an internal national
military force.
Perhaps our leaders know
our porous borders already have or will allow terrorists and weapons
of mass destruction to enter our country. Maybe they understand how
widespread the threat of home-grown terrorism really is and are
simply trying to develop an adequate policing force to protect us.
Or, perhaps, our leaders
know our nation is inevitably headed for much harder times, and not
knowing how to prevent it, are preparing for civil unrest? Are they
preparing to protect the haves from the have nots? Are they preparing
to fight a rebellion of Americans no longer able to feed their
families?
And worst of all is the
possibility an internal military force such as the DHS could someday
be used by an evil leader to enslave our citizens as history has
shown being done so often in other places.
Is any of this connected
to the administration's strong support for firearms control?
Power has always been
corrupting. Our leaders are proving they have the power and
willingness to investigate anyone they choose, violate constitutional
privacy laws, and, seemingly, lie to our faces.
It's to our own detriment
if we deny the unthinkable?
These are my opinions.
What do you think?
Mike Tower
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