Orwell’s ‘1984’ in 2013
“The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it.”
“… One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship….”
– George Orwell, “1984″
Welcome to the dystopian world of evolution atheism, of the Age of Obama, of George Orwell’s “1984,” written in 1949, being lived out by over 315 million Americans in 2013.
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old college dropout and contract computer analyst for the National Security Administration has leaked very sensitive information of national concern, which can harm all Americans by putting our safety in jeopardy by alerting America’s enemies of our vulnerabilities. Snowden, in violating his oath of secrecy, was unrepentant: “Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten – and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”
The American people have lost faith in their government due to new daily revelations about how the Obama administration has violated our right to privacy. From the IRS targeting conservative, tea party, Jewish, Christian and patriotic groups to the Department of Justice targeting Fox News and AP journalists for surveillance, from the revelation that the NSA is tracking the telephone calls of most Americans to the public circus of whistleblower Bradley Manning’s trial, which is ongoing.
According to John Whitehead, constitutional scholar and president of the Rutherford Institute, “The America we learned about in school, the one celebrated in songs and poems, the one to which our ancestors flocked in hopes of starting a new life based upon promises of wealth and liberty, is getting harder to find with every passing day.” Whitehead documents in his new book, “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,” that “the American ideal of freedom and civic involvement is being replaced by a technocratic nightmare in which government bureaucrats and their allies in the corporate sector rig the rules of society in order to protect the power and privilege of a select few politicians and businessmen. All the while, the majority of the American people are kept in check via debt, imprisonment and a vast surveillance network which keeps us monitored, controlled and marching in lock step with the government’s dictates.”
We know now that the NSA has been methodically gathering voluminous amounts of information, not about Muslims plotting terrorist acts against Americans using their mosques as cover, but against law-abiding Americans – amounting to 3 billion telephone calls per day placed in the United States via the Verizon network, including telephone numbers, location data, call duration and other distinctive ID characteristics being sent to the NSA for analysis. Based upon a top-secret order handed down by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) in April 2013, Verizon has been forced to hand over its records to the NSA on an “ongoing, daily basis.” While the government maintains that no substantive content of telephone conversations were recorded, many American citizens are rightly concerned about this outrageous unconstitutional breach of our personal privacy.
While scandalous to most Americans, these revelations are an essential part of our tyrannical government in the Age of Obama. Depending on secret orders from government officials and the FISA Courts, which and were created by Congress under 9/11 hysteria, evidecnes seemingly little regard for protecting the rights of We the People. FISA rubber stamps NSA records requests, treating average Americans as enemies of the State while unaccountable government bureaucrats contravene all privacy protections, yet have the temerity to allege that they are in principle functioning within the boundaries of the law.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/orwells-1984-in-2013/#YpILYbE3pULl7Fes.99
Category: Commentary
it is our duty as governmental and military employees to disobey illegal orders, just as Snowden is. He is a hero!
it is our duty as governmental and military employees to disobey illegal orders, just as Snowden is. He is a hero!