[Peace-discuss] Fw: [OccupyCU] What's that on the wall?

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

The most logical thing for the Obamites
at this point would be to engineer a distraction.

On 07/05/13 11:49, David Johnson wrote:
> The reception / reaction of the parade spectators to the AWARE 
> prossesion at the 4th of July parade today seems to reflect this. No 
> boo's and lots of sporadic and periodic applause along the parade lot.
>
> David J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" 
> <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
> To: <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Cc: <sftalk at yahoogroups.com>; "ocCUpy" <occupyCU at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 5:37 PM
> Subject: [OccupyCU] What's that on the wall?
>
>
>> Opposition to the Obama administration is growing apace, for various 
>> reasons and from various political directions.
>>
>> For all Obama's perhaps overrated rhetorical skills, it does not seem 
>> that they will be able to keep up the fiction that he is not working 
>> principally for a small minority of the population, whose interests 
>> are opposed to those of the rest of us. That should be enough to 
>> bring him down (like Johnson, Nixon, and Carter) before long, or at 
>> least seriously to curtail his military and economic policies. Obama 
>> already recognizes that his murderous campaign against Syria and Iran 
>> is in trouble with the only enemy he fears, the US public. And the 
>> Snowden affair may turn out to be even more damaging to the 
>> administration's war-on-terror pretensions than it may seem.
>>
>> We can look for the growth of the demand for serious economic reform 
>> - a government-arranged job for anyone who wants one (AKA a 
>> guaranteed annual income - pioneered by the Nixon administration and 
>> destroyed by the Democratic party). Also for the growth of the 
>> popular demand for an end to interventionism - bringing the troops 
>> and bases home (pioneered by the Ron Paul campaign and suppressed 
>> only with difficulty by the Republican party).
>>
>> The administration's frenzied use of the oppressive 1917 Espionage 
>> Act (concerned not so much with spying as with repressing criticism 
>> of government war policies, then and now) - more than all other 
>> administrations combined - is a sign of desperation. They're flailing 
>> about, desperate to see that an anti-government movement like that of 
>> 40 years ago does not arise. And that was in good economic times.
>>
>> מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין
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