In the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the
Arab spring started from Tunisia spread to Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen,
Inspired the glob especially, the protesters in the US by Occupy Wall Street movement,
revolution, or the American Uprising which lead for further occupation
movements in Europe and rest of the world.
“Occupy Wall Street began in mid-September with
a group of 1,000 protestors marching through the streets and has now grown into
a global movement in search of sanity in our political and economic system” The Washington Post
In 1792, a law was passed allowing each of the
states to conduct presidential elections at any point in the 34 days before the
first Wednesday in December. This was the date when the meetings of the
Electors of the U.S. president and vice-president, known as the Electoral
Colleges, were held in each state.
In 1845 the United States Congress chose a
single date for all national elections in all states. The first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November was chosen so that there would never be more than
34 days between Election Day and the first Wednesday in December. Election Day
is held on a Tuesday so that voters will not have to vote or travel on Sunday.
This was an important consideration at the time when the laws were written and
is still so in some Christian communities in the United States.
In 2008 Barack Obama was the first African
American to be elected as president of the United States. This historic event
realizes Martin Luther King Jr’s dreams for a nation where people would
not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Is the US really the dream land and the oasis
of democracy and freedom?
To answer the question, I’ll show some stories
of Obama’s administration against truth tellers and freedom of speech!
Thomas Drake recipient of 2011 Ridenhour prize
for truth telling on June 13th, 2011 is a fifty-four-year-old former government
employee was scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will
face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American
citizen. A former senior executive at the National Security Agency (N.S.A), the
government’s electronic-espionage service, he is accused, in essence, of being
an enemy of the state.
In 2007, the indictment says,
Drake willfully retained top-secret defense documents that he had sworn an oath
to protect, sneaking them out of the intelligence agency’s headquarters, at
Fort Meade, Maryland, and taking them home, for the purpose of “unauthorized
disclosure.” The aim of this scheme, the indictment says, was to leak
government secrets to an unnamed newspaper reporter, who is identifiable as
Siobhan Gorman, of the Baltimore Sun. Gorman wrote a prize-winning series of
articles for the Sun about financial waste, bureaucratic dysfunction, and
dubious legal practices in N.S.A. counterterrorism programs. Drake is also
charged with obstructing justice and lying to federal law-enforcement agents.
If he is convicted on all counts, he could receive a prison term of thirty-five
years.
Drake in the ceremony of
Ridenhour prize said:
“I have already paid a frightfully high price for being a whistleblower,
but worse still lies ahead of me. Although I took an oath to support and defend
the Constitution and faithfully upheld the law of the land of a public service
career spanning more than 20 years, I now stand before you as a criminal
defendant with my own life and liberty very much at stake and a public trial
set to begin on 13 June in Baltimore, Maryland. My case is centered on a
government prosecution bent not on serving justice, but on meting out
retaliation, reprisal and retribution for the purpose of relentlessly punishing
a whistle blower”
“Furthermore, my case is one that sends a most
chilling message to other would-be whistleblowers; not only can you lose your
job, but also your very freedom. Freedom, it is a most precious space. The
essence of being fully free”
“Truth-tellers such as myself are those who are
simply doing their jobs and honoring their oaths to serve their nation under
the law of the land. We are dedicated to the proposition that government
service is of, for, by the people. We emphatically do not serve in order to
manipulate on behalf of the powerful, nor to conceal unlawful, illegal or
embarrassing secrets from the public because truth does matter. Truth may be
inconvenient, it may cause embarrassment. It may threaten the powers that be
and their unlawful activities, but it is still the truth”
Drake ended:
“I have but this one life to
live, and as an American I will not live in silence to cover for the
government’s sins”
Gabriel Schoenfeld of the Hudson
Institute said, "Ironically, Obama has presided over the most draconian
crackdown on leaks in our history—even more so than Nixon."
On May, 2011 the Republican presidential
contender Ron Paul suggested that the United States could assassinate
journalists the same way it targeted Americans with ties to al Qaeda.
The Texas congressman again criticized
President Barack Obama for approving drone strikes in Yemen against a U.S.
citizen who was tracked and executed based on secret intelligence that linked
him to two failed terrorist attacks against the U.S.
An American-born propagandist also died in the
bombing. Escalating his criticism, Paul told a National Press Club luncheon
that if citizens do not protest the deaths, the country will start adding
reporters to its list of threats that must be taken out.
"Can you imagine being put on a list
because you're a threat? What's going to happen when they come to the media?
What if the media becomes a threat? ... This is the way this works. It's
incrementalism" Paul said.
Paul likened the pair to German officials who
carried out the Holocaust but were still given trials.
"All the Nazi criminals were tried. They
were taken to court and then executed," Paul said. "The reason we do
this is because we want to protect the rule of law."
Cops in US put on leave for telling the truth
as Governor Jan Brewer continues to ignore the international attention paid to
Quartzsite, Arizona over $5 million in corruption charges, while the Chief
of Police suspended nine of the city’s 14 police officers with pay, ordering
them not to leave their homes between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm for not to
speak about what’s happening in their town.
THE
CRACKDOWN ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS OF OCCUPIERS IN DIFFERENT STATES BY US POLICE:
Occupy Wall Street November 17: Journalists
Arrested, Beaten By Police. Reporters took to Twitter and, in some cases, to
television to spread the word of the heavy hand police were using against them.
It appeared to be a repeat of a similar scene two days earlier, when
journalists were roughed up and arrested as the NYPD forcibly cleared the
Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan.
Lucy Kafanov, a reporter for the RT television
network, said she was hit with a police baton while trying to film the
protests. She told another reporter for her network that she had her press
credentials clearly visible, but was still struck. She also said that she
witnessed another reporter from the IndyMedia network being "slammed
against the wall" and arrested.
November 30, 2011 Hundreds of Arrests In Occupy
L.A., Philadelphia Sweeps; More than 1,400 police in riot gear cleared out the
Occupy Los Angeles protester's encampment across from city hall early Wednesday
morning, resulting in the arrest of over 200 protesters. Similarly, at the
Occupy Philadelphia protests, police arrested more than 50 anti-Wall Street
protesters. The raid on both encampments was relatively peaceful.
Police swooped on Boston’s Dewey Square early
Saturday, evicting hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters and tearing down
their tents. It brought an end to the ten-week occupation of the city centre
space – the longest continual Occupy demonstration in the country.
A dozen police vans lined the streets
surrounding the square, with at least ten prisoner transport vehicles also
lying in wait. As police began throwing tents into dumpsters, demonstrators ran
for the camp, yelling to occupiers 'Wake up! Wake up!'
'If you don't leave the park, you will be
subject to arrest. You are trespassing on Greenway property,' a police officer
said through a megaphone.
'Tell me what democracy looks like. This is
what democracy looks like,' demonstrators chanted back.
About two dozen linked arms and sat down in
protest, preparing to be arrested. ‘They didn’t put up a fight. For the most
part, I must say this operation went very well' Superintendent William
Evans, Boston Police.
In total, 46 arrests were made – 32 men and 14
women – for trespassing, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Occupy Seattle protests at port lead to
skirmish, arrests. Overall, 11 people were arrested during the protests. The
demonstrations were otherwise peaceful, with police mostly monitoring from
the sidelines.
In Los Angeles, hundreds of people marched in the financial district downtown, resulting in 27 arrests. At least 100 Occupy DC protesters marched through the heart of Washington, heading to a rally at a Potomac River bridge to highlight their contention that repairing aging infrastructure would create jobs.
In Los Angeles, hundreds of people marched in the financial district downtown, resulting in 27 arrests. At least 100 Occupy DC protesters marched through the heart of Washington, heading to a rally at a Potomac River bridge to highlight their contention that repairing aging infrastructure would create jobs.
In Portland, Ore., police blocked protesters
from crossing a major bridge to the business district and arrested 25 on
disorderly conduct charges. More than 100 police, some in riot gear, cleared
out a camp in Dallas outside City Hall, citing unsanitary conditions and safety
concerns. Officers arrested 18 for refusing to obey orders to disperse. Police
in Berkeley, Calif., also cleared a protest camp Thursday, arresting two.
In Atlanta, police said they arrested eight
protesters for blocking traffic en route to a rally at the state capitol
building. Philadelphia authorities told protesters they had to vacate a camp
next to City Hall to make way for long-planned plaza renovations.
But the most concentrated action was in New
York, birthplace of the Occupy movement two months ago. Police said they
arrested 177 people as they crowded intersections near the New York Stock
Exchange on Thursday morning. Later, 99 more were arrested as they tried to
block access to the Brooklyn Bridge. Seven officers and 10 protesters were
injured, officials said.
Some police hit and shoved protesters in an
effort to clear the way for workers trying to get to jobs on Wall Street. One
woman pinned to the ground by police was bleeding from her mouth.
There are more information and numbers about
the arrests and the crackdown on peaceful occupiers in the US with fair demands
but I keep it for you to do your own search; just write arrests of occupy Wall
Street in google!
What is weird and illogical are the US citizens
not HUMANS and don’t have rights to be proteceted? The question is for the
Human Rights Organizations whom never stopped speaking about Bahrain’s
government crackdown on shia majority as always describing protesters in
Bahrain while forgetting about the crimes done by the shia majority protesters.
The hypocrisy of Human Rights organizations in
the Bahraini case EXPOSES the real face of these fake organizations. These
organizations are the indirect arms of USA and Europe to put pressures on certain
countries in the world by using media campaigns to influence the global public
opinion and put political pressures on its leaders for more political and
economic gains.
BICI report:
“The Government believed that the domestic
situation reached a point that was threatening the complete breakdown of law
and order, the safety of citizens and the stability of the country, all of
which impacted upon the economic and social condition of the country”
The protesters in Bahrain:
Death to Alkhalifa!
The occupiers:
Say no to fake media
Say no to fake Human Rights Organizations
