over the last several years. Literally unConstitutional, in the case of Hedges et. al. vs Obama, regarding the NDAA section 1021, which Obama signed on New Year's Eve (and has signed into another year of function). It provides for the indefinite detention of US citizens with neither trial nor representation. A judge ruled it unConstitutional and struck it down. Obama sent lawyers and got it reinstated. Reinstating an onConstitutional law, which hacks out sections of the Bill of Rights.
It is equally telling that republicans have zero, zero, zero problem with such things as the NDAA. It's because the two parties are owned by the same money sources and vary only in quantity of negative influence. Obama has continued the neocon/Bush-era 9/11 power grab and added significantly. When Bush did it, we screamed and marched. When Obama did it, we said "stop bashing Obama". Extra-judicial executions of Americans abroad. Drones killing hundreds of children in some five countries at whom we are not at war. Militarization of US police forces, $3 billion a year spent turning the country into a surveillance state (someone is getting VERY rich doing this. Can you say ARMS DEALERS?). He continues to bail out and even protect wall street after they nearly trashed the economy in 2008, and continue to reap amazing bailouts at taxpayer expense. The "recovery" has only been for the rich. The poor have even lost ground since 2008, and now Obama is installing European-style "austerity", which is nothing but another combination of bailout at taxpayer expense plus the added insult of cutting social programs because "there's no money" (which is all going to Wall Street and the military industrial complex and surveillance state).
So far as the Trend, Obama is Bush on steroids, and hasn't even said a word about punishing those war criminals, much less eliminating their very policies.
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