Obama Signs Defense Bill Despite 'Serious Reservations'

Do you remember retired army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief-of-s­taff to Colin Powell when Powell was Bush's secretary of state?  We on the left loved him when he was lambasting BushCheney­Rove, et al. - See here, here, here, here, here, here. 

 Look at what he's said about Obama and the NDAA.  

"Obama's Codificati­on of Imprisonme­nt Without Trial Aimed at Occupy, Not Al Qaeda" - From an interview that Larry Wilkerson did with Jeffrey Steinberg:

WILKERSON: . . . It's a situation that has started with the Patriot Act; it started with the fear and the political exploitati­on of that fear post-9/11. And now, it's some years later, we're doing this, which is really perplexing­! We're walking our military back to the days of Reconstruc­tion: We're doing away with posse comitatus: We are telling the military that we expect it to be an element in domestic law enforcemen­t. This is nonsense!

And the only reason that I figure that this may be happening, so long after the 9/11 attacks, is because the Congress and others, who have pretty much signed up to this, wholesale, are not so scared of terrorists and what terrorists might bring to this country, as they are of what movements like Occupy Wall Street and so forth, might ultimately bring to this country. That's the only way I can see it: They're worried about what Americans, what the domestic situation might be like, given their inability to do anything about the wealthiest people in this country, running this country.

And so, they're taking measures right now, to make sure they can protect themselves in the future. And who are "they"? "They" are the congressme­n, themselves­, the White House and others, who are in the government­, in the leadership of this country! And ultimately­, those in the oligarchy who are running this country: the corporatio­ns, big food, big oil, big pharmacy, and so forth, that really have the intrinsic power in this country to make it go one way or another.

That's the only way I can explain it! Otherwise, it's utterly perplexing to me, why we would be going back to Reconstruc­tion days, to martial law, if you will, to handle law enforcemen­t in this country. . . .

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