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Predator Drone Missiles and Political Repression from the ‘Community Organizer’

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The reign of terror, in the form of U.S. predator-drone missiles and bombs reigning down from the skies on the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north Africa, etc., far from diminishing, has been increased ten-fold by a corporate-owned U.S. president, congress, and judiciary that have gone stark raving mad. The everyday ordinary people of this…

February 1, 2012 2 min read Free to read

The reign of terror, in the form of U.S. predator-drone missiles and bombs reigning down from the skies on the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north Africa, etc., far from diminishing, has been increased ten-fold by a corporate-owned U.S. president, congress, and judiciary that have gone stark raving mad. The everyday ordinary people of this nation and planet be damned!

There were those who proclaimed that Barack Obama would, as U.S. president, bring about a �redistribution of wealth;� and indeed he has. Beginning with his trillion dollar criminal �bail out� of the Wall Street robber barons and his quashing of the need and desire for single payer universal health care, etc., he has adroitly overseen the largest de facto transfer of wealth from the 99% of everyday people to the wealthiest 1% of the corporate elite in the history of the United States – all in the cynical name of �hope and change.� Barack Obama oversaw the trillion dollar criminal �bail out� to the corporate elite of the banking, pharmaceutical, and insurance corporations, etc. while offering everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people pathetic, measly, propaganda-serving programs such as �cash for clunkers.� Be assured that now that we have no constitutional rights in this nation that are legally bound to be respected, Obama and his Democrat and Republican corporate accomplices will intensify their attacks against Social Security. Do not be fooled or misled by Obama�s bait and switch rhetoric.

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