[Peace-discuss] The Nation and Scheer

[Carl G. Estabrook]

> The Obama administration, with broad support among congressional  
> Democrats, has continued and strengthened the police state framework  
> erected under Bush. Obama has refused to prosecute Bush officials  
> who sanctioned torture, reneged on his campaign pledge to close  
> Guantanamo, expanded the use of “state secrets” to suppress legal  
> suits by victims of torture and domestic spying, continued the  
> practice of “extraordinary rendition,” and officially sanctioned and  
> carried out the assassination of US citizens, beginning with the  
> murder of Anwar al-Awlaki earlier this year. His administration has  
> tacitly backed the brutal crackdown on Occupy Wall Street  
> protesters, carried out largely by Democratic mayors.
>
> Scheer’s attempt to present the threat to democratic rights  
> represented by the NDAA as a question of the actions of a future  
> Republican administration makes clear that, for him, a frontal  
> assault on the Bill of Rights is not a splitting matter when it  
> comes to backing Obama and the Democrats. His anger is empty and  
> impotent. Along with the Nation editorial board, he will support  
> Obama’s reelection bid and promote Democratic candidates as the  
> “lesser evil.”
>
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> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/ndaa-d27.shtml
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