Dear Editor:

I can say only that Thomas Babington Macaulay’s long-ago description of Robert Southey applies perfectly to Barack Obama:

“He conceives that the business of the magistrate is not merely to see that the persons and property of the people are secure from attack, but that he…

It’s increasingly clear that the people that run for president these days are not people that have any connection with the average American whatsoever. The revelation that Romney made $41.3 million over the past 2 years is just sickening. I don’t care what you do, nobody that makes that kind of money can possibly identify with the struggle that the average American deals with just to survive from week to week.

Romney’s not the only one, every single candidate makes ridiculous amounts of money. That, to me, disqualifies them as legitimate representatives of the people. We need to put rules in place that keep people that make more than $100K per year from running for political office, including the president. Anyone who makes more than that has clouded judgement and is only working for personal gain.

misesman:

Statement Introducing Repeal of Sec. 1021 of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

Mr. Speaker: I rise today to introduce a very simple piece of legislation to repeal the infamous Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, quietly signed into law by the president on New Year’s Day.

Section 1021 essentially codifies into law the very dubious claim of presidential authority under the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force to indefinitely detain American citizens without access to legal representation or due process of law. Section 1021 provides for the possibility of the US military acting as a kind of police force on US soil, apprehending terror suspects – including Americans — and whisking them off to an undisclosed location indefinitely. No right to attorney, no right to trial, no day in court.

This is precisely the kind of egregious distortion of justice that Americans have always ridiculed in so many dictatorships overseas. A great man named Solzhenitsyn became the hero of so many of us when he exposed the Soviet Union’s extensive gulag system. Is this really the kind of United States we want to create in the name of fighting terrorism?

Does anyone else find it disturbing that SOPA/PIPA has drawn more protest and attention than this? I guess people are more concerned about being able to share stupid jokes and witty blog posts than they are about being arrested and thrown in jail indefinitely without any due process whatsoever.

oatmeal:

I made an animated GIF about Sopa

http://theoatmeal.com/sopa

Ok, this is pretty funny, yet a very serious issue.

This is what he does whenever anybody talks except himself. Supreme dictator Obamaliar needs to be flushed down the toilet, just like he’s doing to the rest of this country.