He’s got our back?

I wrote with some trepidation that President Obama, despite public posturing, would sign the Defense Authorization Bill that includes a clause allowing for indefinite detention of Americans without due process. I played a card there, betting that overall I have a good measure of the man. I assumed that his professed opposition was merely a tactic to prevent real opposition from crystallizing. Obama’s got our back, you see.

Well, that turns out to be correct. Obama not only is not opposed to that provision, but according to Senator Carl Levin, the provision was put in the bill at the insistence of the White House.
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I’ll link this later, but I’ve been visiting an English-language Russian web site, rt.com. Some of the best reporting I’ve seen on the web is going on there.
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This link is troubling. But things must be kept in perspective – the compounds used to house Japanese citizens after Pearl Harbor did not materialize out of thin air. People were rounded up by teams of agents who knew who they were after and where they lived. The iron fist under the velvet glove has been there at least since the turn of the twentieth century, when the first professional use of agitprop to send the nation to war was used. There is nothing new under the sun. The only thing different now with the use of “terrorism” as the new “Hun” or “communist” is that the government is openly changing the laws that shield us rather than quietly ignoring them. And that is nothing more than the product of a frightened and dumbed-down population and a non-existent fourth estate. As any psychologist would note, no one can abuse you without your permission.