Obama Continues Attack on Fourth Amendment

William Fisher reports:

If you are a U.S. resident who owns a cell phone, you should care about the outcome of a court case that "could well decide whether the government can use your cell phone to track you - even if it hasn't shown probable cause to believe it will turn up evidence of a crime." 
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Back in 2007, the U.S. government applied for court permission to obtain information about the location of an individual's cell phone, without showing probable cause that tracking the individual would turn up evidence of a crime.

A magistrate judge denied the government's request and a district court upheld that decision in September 2008. The government is appealing the ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals. 
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"The [George W.] Bush administration reduced the Fourth Amendment to nothing more than a Potemkin Village of rights," Boyle said. "It exists on paper alone. And a pusillanimous Congress has gone along with shredding the entirety of the U.S. Bill of Rights."

"Pres. Obama, the former constitutional law professor, is actively defending in court every hideous atrocity that the Bush administration inflicted upon the Bill of Rights, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, international law, and the United States Constitution with the acquiescence and/or approval by Congress," he said.

Read the entire article HERE.

Who is Obama Working For Anyway?

Dave Lindorff has nailed it again! His latest essay contains this gem:

If the Republicans had created and inserted into the Democratic Party a secret candidate designed to trick Democrats into electing him, so that he could then enact Republican policies of robbing from the poor to enrich the rich, expanding the military budget to a level not seen since World War II, putting the nation deeper into a global war against Islam, sabotaging efforts to combat climate change, and further deregulating the financial sector, could they have come up with anything better than Barack Obama?

Read the whole thing at thiscantbehappening.net

Change? Bullshit!

9/11 State of Emergency Renewed

Obama Shelves Plan to Close Corporate Tax Loophole

Trillions for Wall Street While States Suffer

How obvious does it have to get before the sheeple see that Obama serves not the people, but the corporate vampires?

Change my Ass!

For those who thought Obama was going to get us out of Iraq, think again. Today he said, "By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end." Sounds good, doesn't it? Not so good for the 50,000 troops who will be staying. I'm sure they'll feel much better when their mission name is changed from combat to "training, civilian protection and counterterrorism." They'll be just as dead when blown up by an IED, but at least it won't be in a combat role. Hell, let's call them dancers. That sounds even better.

How about Bush's use of "state secrets" to prevent judicial scrutiny of his illegal rendition program and his illegal warrantless wiretapping program? I'm sure many thought Obama would drop that bullshit claim and let the light of justice shine on the deeds of the evil doers. Wrong again. Twice now the Obama administration (which is looking more like an Obushma administration) has asserted state secrets in attempts to shut down lawsuits against those who broke US laws.

Alas, this is about what I expected. Obama can't seriously rock the boat, not if he wants to live to see his little girls grow up.