This will be the last political commentary ever posted on my Casino Surveillance News site, because I do not feel that I am any longer safe in emailing a political commentary to my newsletter recipients, and also do not feel that they would be safe in receiving it after this warning. If you have the stomach for it, read the editorial. If you are not interested, quit now.
This site will be my forum for any needed political commentaries. I really don't care if you agree with me or not, but some comments just have to be made.
As an American who understands the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as written and approved by our forefathers and the founders of this country, I am truly frightened by the direction this country has taken, especially the current Democratic Party Congress and the most recently elected President.
Mr. Obama appears to believe that he is in fact a King, not a president, and that his word is law. He is backed up by Congress, which is expanding the power of the federal government to spy on its own people, while failing to guarantee any protections as guaranteed by the first ten amendments. See the story at this link: http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewContent.act?clipid=459986141&mode=cnc&tag=3.5721%3Ficx_id%3DD9E4T02G0
I have seen no greater threat to our protections from the government, as guaranteed by our founders in the Bill of Rights, since the days of Joe McCarthy, back in the 1950s. His Majesty is now issuing so-called Executive Orders in several areas.
He makes what are apparently "casual" comments during so-called town-hall meetings that result in thousands of jobs being eliminated and the leading businesses of cities losing hundreds of millions of dollars, in a time when the economy is hurting and unemployment is higher than any time in the last thirty years. Knowing, as the President, that even his supposedly casual comments will be reported widely in the press, and that they have nothing less than the force of law. Then he goes on to reinforce his comments with Executive Orders.
The current Congress is no better. With expanded powers of observation and surveillance on its own citizens, but lacking any safeguards, Congress has now bypassed the first, fourth, sixth, ninth and tenth Amendments that were a part of the approval process for our Constitution, leaving discretion up to bureaucrats as to who should be watched, wiretapped, and what should be watched for.
Think about it.
Jim Goding
