Obama wants us to TRUST government

On June 7^th (2013), in response to the wide-spread complaints about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic surveillance program, Obama sated: "If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress, and don't trust federal judges, to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."

Well, I DO have a problem Mr. President!

We have a Bill of Rights. Some of those rights, may seem to protect “guilty” people. That is to say, WHY would anyone need to protect themselves from speaking against themselves, if they didn’t do anything wrong; or, be protected from unlawful searches and seizures, if you’ve nothing to hide; or, own firearms, if the government can protect you from any “enemies, foreign and domestic”?

The Bill of Rights, aren’t there to protect “guilty” people. The Bill of Rights, are there to protect ALL people, against a powerful government doing whatever they wanted.  The Bill of Rights are there to protect us from a government that could use such powers to for all kinds of nefarious reasons.

Obama mentioned the trust of “federal judges”. What IF, like in the case of US Attorney General Eric Holder, law enforcement went judge shopping for a judge that would allow them to do most anything they wanted. After all, they’re Cops, right? In the case of the Department of Justice, they went to three judges, before they found one that would rubber-stamp a really pathetic warrant to search the records of a reporter’s phone and emails, as well as those of his parents!

Second to that example, what IF the government, through the massive power to get information from personal files, phones, emails, etc., found something very embarrassing against a federal judge or other official? Could THAT be used to sway someone to go along with things he or she wouldn’t otherwise do? So there’s my take on federal judges, and unbridled trust.

Trust Congress? I don’t think so. They are elected to “represent” us. But how many times have we seen an elected official do things in their own best interest? How many find themselves getting very rich, while “serving the people”? And WHO in their right mind, would dare trust an attorney who would recommend a client sign an unread contract, yet that is exactly what they did on our behalf, with the Obamacare crap! (and how many more unread bills?) An attorney would be fired, if not brought up before the Bar for malpractice!

And then there’s Obama. There is NO WAY in hell I trust him. He lied about the circumstances around the failed DOJ/ATF Fast and Furious gun running operation, where a couple thousand guns went across to Mexico, and they lost track of them. Then to have at least two show up at a murder scene, where Border Agent Brian Terry was killed! Obama said he wasn’t involved in that, but ended up saving Eric Holder’s ass with an “Executive Privedge” order, which if there was no involvement by Obama, then there shouldn’t have been any communication between him and Holder for an EP to apply! He abused his power and authority, and/or HE LIED!

He LIED about the cause of the attack on our Embassy in Benghazi, and what lead to the deaths of four of our people.  He had a re-election coming up, and he lied to protect his imagine. He’s a lying bastard in my opinion!

As for the 2^nd amendment - It isn’t about hunting. It’s about protection, and that protection includes protection from a tyrannical government, which is what our Founding Fathers experienced with King George. It was added because King George, in order to avert the growing dissention, tried to take the weapons from “the people”. Our Founders included, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”, just because of the actions the British army tried to take against the Colonials.  No sir, I will NOT surrender my arms. I firmly believe that a government that would disregard our other “rights” (currently, the 4th amendment), is more than capable of being the tyrannical government our Founders warned against, and try to disarm us of our means to stop an out-of-control government.

Lastly, the Bill of Rights are in place to protect all of us from such a government that would stretch any law they choose, to get the end result they may want, even if they felt that result was in the best interest of the country. We should NEVER blindly trust this, or any, government. “Rights” given up, may be impossible to regain.

As Lord Acton said in 1887, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”