Escalating Tyranny in AmericaStephen Lendman Latter day framers today would be called a Wall Street crowd. They included money-lenders, investors, speculators, merchants, politicians, planters, and lawyers. High-mindedness wasnt on their agenda. They wanted America run by people who owned it. They made sure it turned out that way. Wheeler-dealer government is policy. The supreme law of the land is whatever presidents and sitting governments say. Wealth and power alone mattered. Its more than ever true today. Popular interests are entirely excluded. Government of, by, and for the people never existed and doesnt now. Constitutional rhetoric is window dressing. Its self-serving for powerful interests. Theyre accountable to themselves alone. Rule of law principles are null and void. Democracy is illusory. Americas been on a fast track to tyranny for years. Post-9/11, things hardened exponentially. Police state America is real. Duopoly power assures it. Monied interests have full control. Homeland repression is policy. Resisters are threatened. They can be arrested, abused or murdered. Obama appointed himself judge, jury and executioner. Thats how tyranny works. Obamas rogue agenda threatens world peace. Hes waging political, financial, social, and hot wars. He targets humanity. Hes eroding fundamental freedoms. Theyre fast disappearing. So are extrajudicial killing, torture, guilt by accusation, indefinite detention, military tribunal justice, lawless surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, unchecked secrecy, manufactured threats, criminalized peace and social justice advocacy, and compromised academic freedom. The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. Obama nominally heads it. He governs to the right of George Bush. Hes arguably Americas worst ever president. He elevated rogue leadership to a higher level. Hes a war criminal multiple times over. He governs lawlessly for the monied interests that own him. Whatever they want they get. Militancy and anti-progressivism defines his agenda. Hes lawless, belligerent, and pro-war. Hes hard-right, reactionary, and pro-corporate. Hes anti-democratic, anti-dissent, anti-freedom, anti-civil and human rights, anti-environmental sanity, and anti-government of, by and for the people. He spurns fundamental freedoms and social justice. He usurped unbridled power. Hes advancing mass impoverishment, corruption and grand theft at the highest federal and corporate levels. Hes a moral coward. Arguably hes amoral. Hes a serial liar. He broke every major promise made. He represents the worst of rogue leaders. Law Professor Francis Boyle told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners he should be impeached. He urged House Republicans to so. He belongs in prison, not high office. Hes heading America for WW III. If hes not stopped, it looms. Humanity may not survive his second term. No president should have unbridled power. Obama uses his recklessly. No one is safe anywhere. Voltaire once said its dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Its dangerous living in America at the wrong time. Repression targets popular anger. Supporting right over wrong is threatened. Full-blown tyranny is a hairs breath away. International, constitutional, and US statute laws are null and void. Equity, justice, and other democratic values long ago were abandoned. Corporate empowerment and advancing Americas imperium alone matter. Anyone can be targeted for any reason or none at all. They can be indefinitely detained without charge or trial. Baseless suspicions alone matter. Constitutional protections dont apply. Unchecked power is policy. Obama has diktat authority. He has final say. He afforded himself unchecked power. Patriot Act provisions established domestic terrorism. It did so for the first time. It turned lawfulness on its head. Evidence isnt needed. Accusations suffice. US citizens and permanent residents are vulnerable. Theyre unjustly targeted for supporting right over wrong. Theyre guilty if (wrongfully) accused of intimidating or coercing a civilian population, influencing government policy by intimidation or coercion, and/or affecting government conduct by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Sweeping federal powers reflect policy. Obama takes full advantage lawlessly. He targets global justice advocates, freedom-fighters, whistleblowers, civil libertarians, environmental and animal rights activists, unwanted immigrants, and Muslims for political advantage as well as praying to the wrong God. Anything goes replaced constitutional protections. No ones safe anywhere. Doing the right thing is criminalized. Challenging state lawlessness risks arrest or death. Its not hard imagining where this ends. Police state crackdowns escalate. Resistance is called dangerous to national security. Dissent is endangered. So are fundamental freedoms. Theyre fast disappearing. Full-blown tyranny looms. Obamas policies advance it. On August 25, 2011, the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms headlined 2001-2011: A decade of civil libertiess erosion in America. Former Nazi leader Herman Goering was quoted, saying: Professor Gary Orfield co-directs UCLAs Civil Rights Project. In May 2003, he said: He expressed concern about targeting Americas most vulnerable. He said Muslims and Arabs are endangered. Theyre scapegoated in the name of national security. Theyre terrorized for political advantage. US-style fascism is real. Its wrapped in the American flag. Big Business/Big Government/Big Brother rule. Machiavellian ruthlessness is policy. Bipartisan complicity enforces it. Obamas nominally in charge. He usurped unprecedented powers. Police state control is policy. Merriam-Webster calls it: Iron fist harshness targets challengers. Its a short leap to anything goes. Anti-government criticism is endangered. Its criminalized if Washington says so. Obama did what his supporters thought impossible. He exceeded the worst of George Bush. He governs like a tinpot despot. The worst is yet to come. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War.Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/ 