America Quick to Celebrate Fallen Solidiers while it Tramples on Rights Won with their Blood

American Television has a constant barrage of touching Media Spots Celebrating the Service and Dedication of those in the Armed Forces. We don’t see the spots of the Veteran sleeping in the alley ways or on the Street corner begging for coin so the eat or self medicate with alcohol and drugs because they can get adequate care when they return home damaged by the unspeakable horrors they became part of to protect the wealth of a Nation that forsakes them. We praise the service and sacrifice of our Troops while our Government tramples the rights and liberties of its citizens. It is tragic thing to watch our reckless and incompetent leaders plummet the Nation into economic ruin and despair when the potential for so much good could come from it. Bahrain is a great example of a Nation desperate for its freedom from Tyranny supported the the USG. The Tyrants in Bahrain provide a safe haven for US ships and it plays a key role in preserving US economic dominance in the Middle East, but but who does that economic dominance serve? Certainly not the Citizens of the United States who the Government considers so great a threat that it much spy on all of their communication and fill the prisons with our sons and daughters. Phlipn, Out.

President Obama: Privacy, free expression for all
By Index on Censorship – 19 December, 2013

Index on Censorship is deeply concerned that neither the report nor the recommendations on the NSA prepared by the White House review panel tackles the worldwide mass surveillance carried out by the United States. Index calls on President Obama to take urgent action to respect the right to freedom of expression and privacy of all the world’s citizens, not just those of the United States.

The report from President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology is a 300-page tome which includes 46 recommendations – from forcing telecommunications firms to store call data for on demand NSA access, to higher level signoff on surveillance of foreign leaders.

Kirsty Hughes, CEO of Index, said:

“These weak recommendations offer no privacy for non-Americans and only scant protection for foreign leaders. The NSA’s surveillance programmes continue to violate human rights on a massive scale. When Barack Obama decides what reforms to implement in January, he should remember that Americans are not the only people who deserve the right to privacy and free speech. ” …more