Phase III – Stealth Is.

From Wired:

Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, even absent charges or a conviction. Obama said, “It’s the right thing to do” to “tighten the grip around folks” who commit crime.

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Obama told Walsh he supported the federal government, as well as the 18 states that have varying laws requiring compulsory DNA sampling of individuals upon an arrest for crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felonies. The data is lodged in state and federal databases, and has fostered as many as 200 arrests nationwide, Walsh said.

The American Civil Liberties Union claims DNA sampling is different from mandatory, upon-arrest fingerprinting that has been standard practice in the United States for decades.

A fingerprint, the group says, reveals nothing more than a person’s identity. But much can be learned from a DNA sample, which codes a person’s family ties, some health risks, and, according to some, can predict a propensity for violence.

The ACLU is suing California to block its voter-approved measure requiring saliva sampling of people picked up on felony charges.”

Sickening on every level…

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Tyranny – it’s here to stay.pat

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Did you know that President-elect Obama:

• voted for every one of President Bush’s Iraq-War funding increases?
• believes Bush’s “surge” in Iraq has “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams” and has proclaimed his “absolute” belief in the “War on Terror”?
• criticized the Iraq War because it is “unwinnable,” not because it is illegal, immoral and has killed one million Iraqis?
• will probably leave 140,000 private contractors (mercenaries) and as many as 60,000 to 80,000 regular US troops in Iraq?
• praised President Bush, Sr., and the 1991 Gulf War saying: “I think that when you look back at his foreign policy, it was a wise foreign policy. In how we executed the Gulf War…. I think George H.W. Bush doesn’t get enough credit for…his foreign policy team and the way that he…prosecuted the Gulf War. That cost us $20 billion dollars. That’s all it cost. It was extremely successful.”
• is willing to bomb Iran and that he won’t rule out a first strike nuclear attack?
• wants to send an additional 10,000 US troops to fight the war in Afghanistan?
• wants to expand the Afghan war with unilateral air strikes to bomb Pakistan?
• supported Israel’s war against Lebanon?
• supports Ballistic Missile Defense?
• favours military expenditures on warplanes that he says “provide the backbone of our ability to extend global power.”
• voted for the Patriot Act II, the Wall Street bailout, building a border wall with Mexico and immunity for corporations that conducted electronic eavesdropping on Americans?
• wants continued sanctions against Cuba?
• called President Chavez an “enemy of the US” and wants sanctions against Venezuela?

The idea that Obama is anti-war is a powerful myth that will impede the peace movement’s ability to mobilize opposition to the inevitable continuation of US militarism and imperialism. President Obama may then prove to be more of an obstacle to peace than a true agent of change moving the US economy away from a world in which corporations seek profit through predatory wars. Obama’s deceitful image as peacemonger will allow him to get away with policies and actions that would not be countenanced for an instant if they had come from the likes of McCain or Bush.  This blindspot for Obama’s pro-war agenda will not only hamper the ability of US peace activists to speak out, organize and protest, it will also help to dampen the efforts of many others around the world.

Under President Obama, the US military budget may well be spending about $2.3 billion a day. The 2008 US military budget is $696 billion. Obama says he will increase military spending and will add 65,000 troops to the Army and 27,000 Marines. Every increase of 1,000 army troops adds about $2 billion per year, while every addition of 1,000 Marines adds $1 billion/year. That means Obama’s proposal could add $157 billion, bringing the total to $857 billion per year, which means about $2.3 billion per day.

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