- I believe the Benghazi and IRS "scandals" were largely the invention of Darrell Issa's active imagination;
- The Affordable Care Act, while not perfect, is a good start toward solving the problems of America's failed experiment with free market solutions for public health;
- Discriminatory voter ID laws such as those passed recently in North Carolina and Texas are un-American and that the federal government take all measures necessary to restore voting rights in those states, up to and including sending federal troops into those states to prevent implementation of racist acts of the state legislatures.
That you would believe that I am on your side. As far as that goes, you would be right.
Perhaps you even agree with me that:
- Mortgage fraud committed by banks against consumers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that we're not talking about prosecuting artificial persons but the actual flesh-and-blood human beings who designed, approved and implemented systemic fraud;
- A large corporate campaign contribution is an implicit bribe and that acts of Congress should reflect that simple fact rather than attempt to draw a distinction where there is none;
- All violations of the Geneva Conventions are also violations of US law and that members of the Bush Junta, including Messrs. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, should therefore be tried in federal court for torture, rendition and willfully launching a war against a sovereign state with fabricated evidence and claims of a casus belli.
I also believe, though apparently you do not, that
- The collection of so-called metadata from private communications companies of the calls made by private American citizens, calls received by private American citizens and the duration of each call is spying and a violation of Fourth Amendment, in and of itself, and that no amount of "reform" in terms of so-called safeguards or oversight can bring it within what the Fourth Amendment will allow;
- If the government feels a need for such information, the Fourth Amendment allows it to take out search warrants naming the specific individuals and items to be searched;
- Several articles of the Bill of Rights collectively disallow secret laws, secret interpretations of any law, secret trials, secret evidence or a gag order so broad as prohibit the subject of an investigation from speaking to his attorney about it.
In other words, I believe that we had a long list of grievances against the Bush Junta that, contrary to implicit or explicit promises made by Senator Obama prior to his election as President in 2008, have not been sufficiently addressed and that, therefore, the American people have legitimate grievances on these same matters with the Obama Administration.
Yes, I am aware of the danger to American democracy posed by those elements the far right wing now in control of the Republican Party. I certainly approve of public pushback by sane people against congressmen serving the interests of what I believe can be called fascism: unbridled corporate greed, not only unopposed by the federal and state governments but assisted by them to include stifling of public dissent against it and the systematic disenfranchisement of voters likely to vote for candidates who oppose it; that this can only exist in the context of a police state that should be opposed by the public with any means necessary to snuff it out. I also believe that a kinder, gentler police state is still a police state and should be resisted by the public through any means necessary. Consequently, domestic spying by the government on the people as a whole, whether as implemented by the Bush Junta or as reformed by the Obama Administration, cannot be reformed; it is unacceptable. It must be dismantled.
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