President Obama - Civil Libertarian or Totalitarian Tyrant? Noam Chomsky's weighs in..

http://rt.com/news/obama-torture-change-killing-103/ http://www.redpilldispatch.com The promise to scrap his predecessor's hardliner war-on-terror policies, which helped Barack Obama win presidential election, is apparently off the table. The political reality is that the current administration is doing quite the opposite thing.

Long before he became US president or the winner of a Noble Peace Prize, Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor. During his election campaign he vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor George W. Bush.

Three years later, many civil rights advocates, who once cheered "yes, we can," are finding themselves disillusioned.

"Not only has the Obama administration blocked torture accountability and refused to investigate and prosecute. He has basically maintained indefinite detention. He has revived military commissions. As well he has expanded targeted killings -- they've increased under the Obama administration manifold, and he's even authorized the killing of a US citizen," explains Maria LaHood from the Center for Constitutional Rights.

World-renowned author and scholar Noam Chomsky believes the Obama administration has changed gears and accelerated illegal practices into overdrive.

"There is a shift between Bush's policies and the Obama's on this. Bush's policy was to kidnap people, take them to Guantanamo or Bagram or some other torture chamber and try to extract some information from them. Obama's policy is just to kill them. They're killing them all over the world. And the Bin Laden assassination was a case point," he told RT.

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[g4macdad]

@ELMENDORFX

So you want him to be a tyrant and ignore the retarded Americans? They WANT what he is doing, and they are GETTING what they deserve.

[ELMENDORFX]

obama is the voice and the sight of betrayal, hypocrisy and fascism? The sight of him and the sound of his voice is nauseating to me. This is betrayal to those that voted for him

[Eric28437]

Jesus Christ! Obama can't win! First he's a friggin' Muslim, then when he targets and eliminates known Muslim terrorists, he's anti human rights. Had George W. Bush eliminated these terrorists, he would have been the world's biggest hero. Fuck you Noam Chomsky!

[Indo79nesia]

There is one thing Obama can do which no one president in US would never do (particularly from Republican party), preventing Israel from launching disastrous war. As long Obama as become president there will be no war by Israel.

[nsx1com]

I supported Obama in 2008, but he has failed... and I want him OUT. In fact, today, I believe Obama has become the worst President in modern history... worse that George W. Bush. The Democratic party has so far failed to provide an alternative to Obama... so... My vote will go to whomever has the bast chance to defeat Obama. As bad as you may think the Republican Primary candidates are... NONE OF THEM have killed American citizens... Obama has.