[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8?rel=0]
Not that I expected anything different. But it’s got to be a shock to those who thought him a “Lightworker.”
Thanks to Grumpy Old Fart for pointing to this one in a comment.
Let’s add this one, too – also from a comment by QuadGMoto:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-H8tbcQP4?rel=0]
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!
As Glenn Reynolds notes, all the scandals are about abuse of power:
(I)s it plausible to believe that a government that would abuse the powers of the IRS to attack political enemies, go after journalists who publish unflattering material or scapegoat a filmmaker in the hopes of providing political cover to an election-season claim that al-Qaeda was finished would have any qualms about misusing the massive power of government-run snooping and Big Data? What we’ve seen here is a pattern of abuse. There’s little reason to think that pattern will change, absent a change of administration — and, quite possibly, not even then. Sooner or later, power granted tends to become power abused. Then there’s the risk that information gathered might leak, of course, as recent events demonstrate.
Most Americans generally think that politicians are untrustworthy. So why trust them with so much power? The evidence to date strongly suggests that they aren’t worthy of it.
Let me repeat the GeekWithA.45’s warning again:
We, who studied the shape and form of the machines of freedom and oppression, have looked around us, and are utterly dumbfounded by what we see.
We see first that the machinery of freedom and Liberty is badly broken. Parts that are supposed to govern and limit each other no longer do so with any reliability.
We examine the creaking and groaning structure, and note that critical timbers have been moved from one place to another, that some parts are entirely missing, and others are no longer recognizable under the wadded layers of spit and duct tape. Other, entirely new subsystems, foreign to the original design, have been added on, bolted at awkward angles.
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We know the tools and mechanisms of oppression when we see them. We’ve studied them in depth, and their existence on our shores, in our times, offends us deeply. We can see the stirrings of malevolence, and we take stock of the damage they’ve caused over so much time.
Others pass by without a second look, with no alarm or hue and cry, as if they are blind, as if they don’t understand what they see before their very eyes. We want to shake them, to grasp their heads and turn their faces, shouting, “LOOK! Do you see what this thing is? Do you see how it might be put to use? Do you know what can happen if this thing becomes fully assembled and activated?”
But the President advises, “Don’t listen to those voices.”
And here’s Bill Whittle’s voice on the subject from last year:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgrktRgjBXk?rel=0]