Orwell Rises from the Grave, Visits America

Trey Smith

A primary reason for opposing the acquisition of abusive powers and civil liberties erosions is that they virtually always become permanent, vested not only in current leaders one may love and trust but also future officials who seem more menacing and less benign.
~ from Obama Moves to Make the War on Terror Permanent by Glenn Greenwald ~

I'm not going to comment much on yet another superb column by Glenn Greenwald; you should read it for yourself. Suffice it to say that the points he makes should make you shudder. Obama has laid the groundwork for a later tyrant to obliterate completely any vestiges of the Bill of Rights. In those later years -- probably not that far off -- people will ask: How did we get to this point? They will look to this generation as the overriding cause!