Obama's Intelligence Agenda: More of the Same from the "Change Administration"

[David Guyatt]

It is not a surprise and is disappointing, but the most important factor here is how the US Public will react - as they were expecting a modicum of real change. If they don't get it - perhaps both the Republican AND the Democratic Party are finished. I will happily dance on both of their graves! I wonder who will be head of the various intelligence agencies, and if he'll change the status of such things as the JFK Records Act et al.; investigate any assassinations etc. I would imagine the man, while intelligent, is not fully up to speed on the Deep Political Cabal [though he does seem to understand how at least MLK was done-in!] and now 'they' are whispering sweet lies and nothings into his ears, and showing him fake (or selected!) documents and intelligence reports in order to move him to their position. He never was in an opposition camp. But all that said, neither was JFK when he took office. People can be changed by events - they can grow and wake-up. We will see. Nothing was ever given by those at the top - it was always won hard-fought by those on the bottom forcing the change. Americans are lazy and have no idea what constitutes participation in a democracy - voting in semi-rigged elections every 4 years certainly doesn't quality.

It would be nice to think that the public will do something abut it Pete, but history tells us that they probably won't and if even they try, their efforts will be most probably be ignored.

I keep boring people with the same message: there is no democracy. It's a myth to keep you slumbering. The law is not fair or impartial. It is written to favour the wealthy and corporations so that they can pick your pockets and plunder our assets with impunity.

Only when enough people wake up to these hardball facts can any change even be possible and even then it would be a remarkable achievement as entrenched power would never give up without a fight -- and theyhold all the aces...