Most of the militarization of society you speak of started under President Bush, not Obama.
Agreed. I have posted the same types of comments on this forum. Of course,
predictably, the powers claimed by Bush have been expanded upon by Obama. Actually your statement is highlighting exactly how powers like this lead to even more gross violations by subsequent Presidents. You're touching on the very thing I'm describing. How far will the next President move the ball? Whoever he or she is, s/he won't be starting from where Bush left us, but from wherever Obama is going to leave us.
Next to no one cried foul then (hmmmm....patriot act, Iraq, etc). Everyone cries about drone strikes, assassinating our citizens, detentions and whatnot. No one would have said shit about offing John Lindh 11 years ago. What about Adam whats his name? Its kind of funny I guess.
Again, you must not have seen my posts, but you're mistaken about "no one" on this forum being critical about the small steps Bush took that laid the groundwork for undermining the Constitution. But again, whatever Bush did, Obama has done more profoundly. For instance (not that this belongs in this thread), take debt; Obama created more debt in 4 years than all of Bush's 8 years combined. That's after he promised to cut Bush's debt in half. In the State of the Union the other day, he promised everyone in the world free pre-school for all their kids, or something crazy like that. Or maybe it was just all 350 million Americans, something equally silly.
Under Bush we wouldn't have a problem killing our enemies, citizen or not, but since we have this black, muslim, non-citizen as our twice elected by the masses president (note my sarcasm), the so called religious right doesnt have the stomach for it anymore.
The matter of killing citizens
without due process is something I find abhorrent. Race or religion has nothing to do with it.
Since I work for this terrible regime that so many of you are apparently planning to overthrow (that will be a fun day or two at work) I can tell you that what the media tells you may give the appearance that my coworkers and I have donned our gestapo uniforms, let me be the first to say that things have became more restrictive, not less for LE.
I don't think you can find a post where I criticize LEOs, except individual cases of stupidity like the LAPD shooting up random trucks, exhibiting horrific fire discipline. Besides that, I don't think any of the 2nd Amendment crowd is known for criticizing LEOs, Federal law enforcement entities, or anyone who serves. The issue is the creation of these giant bureaucratic pseudo-policing organizations that are infiltrating every facet of our lives. And, at the top of the food chain, the guys (in government) who are implementing this are
/were >>on the payroll of the companies that build the machines and sell the equipment.<< Where I come from, that's called a racket.