The police and various law enforcement agencies will use "security" as the pretext to boot out anyone carrying signs protesting the Israeli killing spree in Gaza from the Inaugural events.
Talk about your "hate" and trying to stifle real dialogue discussion and debate in this country and one only has to consider the very narrow-minded and vicious attacks on progressives coming from outfits like "Progressives for Obama," Campaign for America's Future and Move0n.org to the AFL-CIO and Change To Win to the revisionist leadership of the Communist Party, USA who cry tears of joy for Obama but don't shed a tear for the children who are the primary victims of this Israeli rampage and killing spree.
Key to what these security" outfits will be looking for is anyone showing sympathies for the Palestinian people--- victims of this Israeli genocidal campaign--- who are automatically on the "lists" compiled by the FBI and Homeland Security.
These people who, during the election campaign--- fronted for Obama in trying to thwart and wipe out any dialogue discussion and debate on issues ranging from U.S. backing of Israel to single-payer universal health care to issues surrounding the Minimum Wage and the Employee Free Choice Act are now taking the initiative to make sure the American people suffering the affects of poverty and despair of a rotten capitalist system on the skids to oblivion which has put our country squarely on the road to perdition are not heard--- or seen.
Police agencies arrested leafleters at Obama campaign events and tore signs advocating single-payer universal health care from people's hands as the price for admission to Obama campaign rallies will now step up their undemocratic activities as they try to head off a massive anti-imperialist movement in solidarity with the suffering Palestinian people from developing.
The mere suggestion that I was going to bring pictures of the dead and suffering children to those celebrating Obama's election in Cass Lake, Minnesota drew the most venomous response from the organizers who are members and activists with Moveon.org who stated in no uncertain terms that they would not tolerate their "part-tay" being "disrupted" by someone like me sowing "hate" and "division" around an "issue of no local relevancy." Which corresponds to the statements from "security" officials we read below albeit couched in more Madison Avenue language.
Interesting that the Israeli killing spree of the people in Gaza is not a "local issue" even though among those who castigated me for saying that they could bring the food and drinks for their "part-tay" and I would bring the pictures of the death and destruction from the Israeli rampage and killing spree in Gaza went on to say that they were concerned with "local poverty and suffering" and these fools do not even understand that when the United States government spends thirty-billion dollars supporting this Israeli killing machine using their tax-dollars this creates poverty in their own community... and they say the Israeli killing spree is not a local issue so I can come to "part-tay" but don't rain on their fun by showing them what their silence has wrought... with one individual suggesting I would be offended if he voiced his contrary opinion on Gaza even though I have never tried to silence anyone... what this coward is saying is that he is too embarrassed to state his support for Israel while looking at the faces of the Gaza dead... then insinuating he can't express his opinion because I would try to suppress his views!
I think what all of this demonstrates very clearly is that a huge chasm of earthquake proportions has developed between Obama's rhetoric of "hope" and "change" and "yes we can" and the reality of the imperialist depravity of what Barack Obama really represents: a new voice for Wall Street out to hoodwink the American people as the children of Gaza continue to die at the hands of the Israeli butchers and the American people continue to reap poverty wages for their hard work and have their homes foreclosed on to pay health care bills... all of which are local issues, along with the killing in Gaza that has turned into what can only be described as a full-fledged pogrom.
Moveon.org can take its victory celebrations and stick them where the sun doesn't shine... these people are so callous and uncaring that it doesn't even pay to try to talk to them.
For these people in Moveon.org and their associates, they have "won" an election... their candidate, like them, has remained silent concerning the most vicious carnage since Hitler's S.S. storm troopers and fascist thugs marched into Lidice and "retaliated" against the brave heroes during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Like the German people who patronized the bars and "part-tayed" as they turned their heads in indifference (and support) to the injustices being perpetrated in their name; they too did not want to be bothered with the truth... and if bothered, the Hitler youth were brought in to shut people up.
Who says history does not repeat... when people aren't taught or are unwilling to learn.
Yesterday Paris burned... today it is Gaza... and the "security" police took charge.
Today, like "yesterday"... "security" is the pretext for destroying democracy and silencing those who speak out against injustice.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090115/pl_afp/uspoliticsinaugurationobamasecurity_20090115063336
Unprecedented security as Obama set for White House
WASHINGTON (AFP) – An unprecedented security blanket has been draped over the US capital for Barack Obama's inauguration next week, and the threat level to the country's first black president is expected to remain high well beyond his swearing-in.
More than 12,500 active troops and military reservists, thousands of metropolitan police as well as personnel from 57 departments around the nation are descending on Washington to protect against any potential terrorist attack during Tuesday's historic ceremony, according to officials.
With estimates of up to a record two million people attending, the Department of Homeland Security has designated Obama's inauguration a national special security event.
"I think we all have to be concerned about a chemical, biological, radiological potential attack," Major General Richard Rowe, head of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee, said Wednesday.
To counter the threat, officials are putting in place what is likely to be the biggest and most advanced inaugural security operation ever.
The US military will fly air patrols, man surface-to-air weapons systems, ply the Potomac River with gunboats, assess chemical and biological threats, organize large-scale medical support in the event of an attack, and provide visible and undercover on-the-ground security.
But a "perfect storm" of factors is brewing that will require security forces around Obama to be in top form for long after he takes office, according to Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC) which tracks hate groups.
Outside elements include the vicious economic downturn which may fuel hate groups and extremists in the United States, some of whom "are enraged at the ascendancy of a black man to the White House," Potok told AFP.
"It's perfectly obvious that our first black president is faced with some dangers that other presidents would not be," he said, noting that Obama received official protection 18 months before the November 4 election, earlier than any other presidential candidate.
The SPLC says the Secret Service tasked with protecting presidents acknowledges that Obama has received more threats than any incoming chief executive in history.
They include one that came days before the election in which two white supremacists were arrested in Tennessee for plotting to kill him.
Attacks and threats have soared since his victory, ranging from physical attacks and the burning of crosses in their yards to second-graders chanting "assassinate Obama" on an Idaho schoolbus last November. Potok says Obama has been hanged several times in effigy.
A California man was reportedly arrested last week for posting a note on an Internet message board predicting "he (Obama) will have a 50 cal(iber) in the head soon."
The Secret Service does not provide specifics on the new security regime, but it says it is prepared for any contingency.
"We understand the historical significance of his election, and we pay attention to that," Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told AFP. "We look at every single aspect of protection... any factor that you could imagine."
The president's skin color has clearly added to security concerns in the country, where there are more than 200 million legally owned firearms and about 30,000 gun deaths per year, and where four sitting presidents have been assassinated.
Obama spoke on the campaign trail with The New York Times about his life in the security cocoon, saying "I've got the best protection in the world... So stop worrying."
The protection level ramps up come Tuesday, when Obama will start being whisked to and from appointments in the most secure presidential limousine ever, a hulking Cadillac said to be tough enough to withstand a rocket-propelled grenade.
Experts say threats are amplified by an accumulation of outside factors, including the tanking US economy and the simmering immigration issue which has led to a surge in hate-group numbers.
Fred Burton, vice president of counter-terrorism at geo-political intelligence analysis firm Stratfor, cites as an example the Gaza war being waged by US ally Israel.
"A Sirhan Sirhan-type (attacker) could become the needle in the haystack" that eludes federal agents, Burton said, referring to 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin. Sirhan is believed to have acted out of Arab nationalism.
"The problem is, it's one thing if you know that person and you have leads to go after," Burton said. "But you're really challenged when you're out there looking for ghosts."
