Freedom to be oppressed openly…

I'm sorry that I don't have specific links, but I'm getting this story out from Twitter as it's happening. I've just woken up, and the NYPD is at it again, this time gearing up in the middle of the night for an eviction, and THE PRESS IS NOT ALLOWED. So, that's no freedom of speech, and no freedom of press. America is not the land of the free or the home of the brave. It is the land owned by the few, and is the home of the oppressed and the impoverished. The terrorists have so totally won, it's not even funny. They destroyed America and replaced it with this.

I'd often hoped for equality in my time, but I was hoping for myself to have the same freedoms as the rest of y'all. You having your rights stripped and you being brought to my level does not please me or give me any schadenfreude. I'm sick and miserable, and I keep waiting for someone in the president's cabinet to at least acknowledge all the constitutional violations going on.

But why would Obama do that? He's got his. He's in the White House, and he's safe from the riot cops in New York. He doesn't have to deal with any human rights violations, nor even acknowledge that they happen. Why would anyone expect him to care about ANY human beings, when he's been torturing an American soldier for months now? He's big on killing with drones, even if he's murdering innocent people. So asking him to care about American citizens being brutalized by cops for expressing their opinions is flat out impossible at this point.

WikiLeaks? Silenced and dealt with, illegally via coercion of bankers. Bin Laden? Killed in an illegal raid where the cabinet tried to lie about how the final gunfight went down. Manning? Still being tortured without a trial, and will continue to be tortured until they break and confess to whatever crimes Obama wants to say "he's guilty" of. And before you say "Hey, Obama isn't directly responsible for everything," Obama was asked point-blank about Manning, and Obama said, "He's guilty. We know he is." His own cabinet had to backtrack and admit that he "misspoke," but Obama stripped Manning of the right to presumed innocence before a trial. There is not one fundamental human right this man will recognize. And this is the guy we HAVE to re-elect, to prevent even worse people from taking office?

Oh, America, who could have known that all of your principles and beliefs would slip with those two towers? Who could have known that ten years later, you'd have lost everything that you hold dear, all while being told by your government that you need to sacrifice more to the banks and corporations?

EDIT: Here's a link to a story from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15732661