The grabbing hand of the law

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Banjo, Nov 3, 2013.

  1. Banjo

    Banjo

  2. People have no idea how bad (criminal) the government has become. The real tragedy is that most people don't even care.

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    http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/25/nixon-has-won-watergate/2019443/

    Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley: “The painful fact is that Barack Obama is the president that Nixon always wanted to be. Four decades ago, Nixon was halted in his determined effort to create an ‘imperial presidency’ with unilateral powers and privileges. In 2013, Obama wields those very same powers openly and without serious opposition. The success of Obama in acquiring the long-denied powers of Nixon is one of his most remarkable, if ignoble, accomplishments...”


    See also: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/14/is-obama-worse-for-press-freedom-than-nixon.html

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    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-10-10-02-45

    REPORT: OBAMA BRINGS CHILLING EFFECT ON JOURNALISM
    BY BRETT ZONGKER
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    "In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press," wrote Downie, now a journalism professor at Arizona State University. "The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate."