Obama Sells Out Americas Youth and Defenders of Civil Liberties with Eric Holder
November 19, 2008
Living to see the first African-American elected as President of the United States was supposed to feel a lot better. But, its hard to get excited about Barack Obama, who seems to have never met an issue he cant take both sides on, and who has elevated selling out to an art form. Obama is the Magna Cum Laude, Zen master, and Oracle of All Sell Out Knowledge. He has once again affirmed his exalted position as the King of Masquerade when he chose Eric Holder to be his Attorney General and sold out American youth, particularly black youth.
Holder, yet another ex-Clintonite, was Clintons Deputy Attorney General and US Attorney General for the Washington DC area. He is an extreme drug warrior who believes that harsher and longer sentences should be enacted for minor crimes such as marijuana use and prostitution. This, in spite of the mounting evidence that the war on drugs is a failure and has amounted to nothing more than a war on black people, which also appears to be its original intent. He wants harsher sentencing for marijuana, which will impact American youth more than any other demographic, and it will specifically impact African-American youth, who are already targeted to be shuffled off to Americas new plantations, US prisons.
Perhaps this was Clintons, now Obamas plan for getting more Black men employed by major corporations, because once inside of prison, many get hired by some of Americas top corporations. Of course, theyre only paid about 25 cents an hour and they have no benefits, but at least they have a job. I guess thats supposed to be something. Having a job is something that cannot be said for an increasing number of Americans who are not part of this affirmative action program. Some American companies are actually closing up shop, laying off workers, and re-opening in an American prison to take advantage of this bonanza of prisoner/slaves. Funny but Americas new slaves look an awful lot like the old ones.
You are aware that slavery is still legal in America, arent you? If you aren't, be assured that American corporations are.
Holder was part of the Clinton Justice Department that enacted harsh and racially biased laws that exploded America into becoming the greatest prison nation in human history and Bill Clinton into becoming the greatest incarceration president in American history. Clinton ran away from signing legislation that would have addressed the injustice of crack and power cocaine laws. America has more prisoners than all the totalitarian nations we like to look down our noses at. America locks up more prisoners than China, which has 4 times our population.
I wonder how much it costs to be the greatest prison nation in human history?
In 1996, as U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C, Holder petitioned the City Council to enact mandatory minimum sentencing laws and to make marijuana sale offenses a felony, even for first time offenders. He said he wanted to Nip it in the bud. He wanted to turn a misdemeanor into a five-year prison sentence. Holder said in an interview that he is considering not only prosecuting more marijuana cases but also asking the D.C. Council to enact stiffer penalties for the sale and use of marijuana. His policies achieved none of its stated goals.
Obama supporters, particularly the youth, who stood in hours long lines to vote for him thinking him a fresh approach to politics and society have been sold out. If you thought Obama once saying that our prisons are too full with first time offenders or that our prisons are too full of young people was a good reason to support him, youve been sold out.
However, Holders appointment, which will fly through confirmation by the lemming-like Democratic Congress, is not only bad news for Americas youth, its bad news for those who thought Obama was about protecting civil liberties in this country and reversing the atrocities of the Bush Administration. If you didnt get a clue when Obama reversed himself on FISA and the Patriot Act, Eric Holder is your next clue. Holder was part of the team that developed strategies for the re-authorization of the Patriot Act in 2005, and had this to say about opponents of it, "We're dealing with a different world now. Everybody should remember those pictures that we saw on September the 11th. The World Trade Centers aflame, the pictures of the Pentagon, and any time some petty bureaucrat decides that his or her little piece of turf is being invaded, get rid of that person. Those are the kinds of things we have to do." Get rid of those who oppose it. I voted for someone, although not petty by any means, Cynthia McKinney, who certainly opposed it, and the system got rid of her just as he said.
Holder was also involved in Clintons pardoning of Mark Rich, and as a corporate lawyer in private practice after leaving the Clinton team, played a key role in negotiating an agreement with the Justice Department that got Chiquita Brands International executives off the hook for paying protection money to right-wing death squads in Colombia.
Of course many African-Americans will be dancing to the beat of the seeing first black Attorney General and never notice the words theyre dancing to. But those who stand against the attack on civil liberties that emanated from the Bush Administration, and Americas youth, Black, White, Hispanic, and Asian college students, who rallied to Obamas side, have now joined the antiwar crowd and those looking for genuine change as pawns in the mindfuck called Change We Can Believe In.
Everybody dancing .. but the election is over, and its time to listen to the words.
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Both sides of an issue. Brings this story into context, doesn't it?
CrimsonWhite said:I have jumped off of the fence and landed on the GOP side. I feels good to be home. McCain will get my vote in a couple weeks. The few on this board that truly know me, know that I did not come by this decision lightly, nor did I arrive at this decision by mere partisan tactics. I don't care about Wright, Ayers, ACORN, or any other partisan tactic that my beloved GOP has employed during this election cycle. What I do care about is political ideology. McCains idealogy is more closely entwined than mine. I considered overlooking this and voting for Obama until my liberal wife reminded me of something from Obama's '04 Senate campaign.
In '04, I was working for the GOP Senate nominee in the State of Illinois. My candidate had dropped out of the race in due to scandal and the GOP had caucused Alan Keyes to take his place. I was disenchanted and disgruntled and I was curious about Barack Obama. So I attended a rally outside Marion, IL. His message was fantastic. He was articulate, intelligent, charasmatic, and had an ability to transcend his race. A black man speaking to a crowd of white farmers is not a small thing in Southern Illinois. Yet, Obama spoke to the crowd. He connected with them. Especially on the issue of farm subsidies. He railed on for about ten minutes about farmers being the backbone of America and these subsidies were needed to support that backbone and take some weight off of farmers shoulders. Then everybody went crazy and applauded. Two hours later in Carbondale, IL. Seven miles away. Obama spoke to a different kind of crowd. His crowd was now more urbanized. I was at this speech as well, because I was seriously considering volunteering for his campaign. However, he took questions from the crowd and somebody asked him about farm subsidies. He answered this question by telling the crowd that these subsidies were nothing more than welfare for those that don't need it. That the money that goes to farmers to not grow crops needed to be reallocated to those that really need it. I ignored this obvious display of pandering and voted for him anyway. Alan Keyes was simply not going to get my vote.
I believe that Obama is all about change. Hell, I watched his position change in a seven mile roadtrip down Route 13 between Marion and Carbondale. This is why I can't vote for him for President.
