Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol VIII (Jan thru Oct 2014)

Thanking GOD for “Un-Guides” – Barack Obama …
(09/01/2014)
In providing a few examples of "False Prophets", I start with a relatively
atypical example -- and yet a very important one. For Mr. Obama is a "False
Prophet" not because of what he says he believes, but rather for what his actions
show him to actually support … He claims to be a reliable fighter for the rights of
the American people -- especially the downtrodden and the less fortunate, and yet
his long string of broken promises in this regard say exactly the opposite; showing
him to be a man who panders instead to big corporations, military manufacturers,
lobbyists and power-brokers.
Yes, it is true that a sizable portion of this patent ineptitude rests squarely
on the shoulders of the stagnant sham that is the American Congress, and yet the
ineffectiveness itself is not what makes Obama a "False Prophet". Rather, it is his
refusal to stand up for the principles of equality & justice & peace that does so.
Granted, due to the irreparably broken state of the American government as
a whole, we cannot expect any President (or any other political "leader" for that
matter) to make any headway on the issues that truly matter. And yet what we
COULD be seeing is a man at the very least willing to publicly & consequently
stand firm on those issues. Consider the following Truths …
*We COULD be seeing a man who uses his executive power to close the
prison in Guantanamo, instead of meekly allowing its egregious human rights
violations to continue ...
*We COULD be seeing a man who demands that all Americans receive
quality healthcare -- insurance company profit losses be damned, instead of caving
in and pushing through a drastically watered-down "Obamacare" plan that still
allows so many to suffer under a health care system that remains one of the least
equitable in the world ...
*We COULD be seeing a man who uses his influence to diminish the
insidious, Orwellian powers of the NSA & the CIA -- to abolish the Patriot Act
even, instead of actively using them to spy on his own constituency and label even
peaceful animal rights activists as "terrorists" (as is currently the case under the still
un-repealed AETA) ...
*And we COULD be seeing a Nobel Peace Prize winner who refuses to
make hollow excuses for actually creating terrorists when his illegitimate dronestrikes
"succeed", and for murdering innocent civilians & children when they
(more often than not) do not.
76