King Obama’s “Insider Threat Program” Bears Indicators of a Metaphorically Stalinesque Purge of Government — Done under the Guise of National Security

© 2013 Peter Free

 

 11 July 2013

 

 

There is not much left about President Obama’s kingly reign left to respect

 

Apparently stung by government insider revelations about his Administration’s unconstitutional abuses of federal power, the President implemented the equivalent of a government employee purge in October 2011.

 

According to a believable McClatchy report:

 

 

In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.

 

The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers.

 

Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.

 

Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do “harm to the United States.”

 

© 2013 Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa Taylor, Experts: Obama’s plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work, McClatchy (09 July 2013) (paragraphs split)

 

 

Historical parallels

 

For people familiar with Soviet Union, “red” China, and the German Democratic Republic's (East Germany) histories, the patterns of the Insider Threat Program should be familiar — citizens are being asked to spy on each other, so that Big Brother may prosper in the absence of truth and light.

 

 

Secrecy and the national security guise

 

In pursuing his purge of whistle-blowers, the President is counting on the American public’s fear of terrorism.  Homeland safety allegedly necessitates an unbreakable cloak of secrecy over whatever the King’s Court is doing in America’s name.  What the public does not know purportedly cannot hurt it.

 

The King justifies his persecution of alleged trouble-makers by claiming that their revelations of government excesses is helping America’s (apparently inconceivably stupid) adversaries.

 

 

The collapse of “liberal” mind

 

Political liberals have demonstrated a self-contradictory penchant for forgiving the President his anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian transgressions.  He is, after all, “black and one of us.”

 

It seemingly defeats the liberal mind to recognize that the Declaration of Independence phrase — all men are created equal — explicitly incorporates the possibility that a “black” guy (Obama) can be just as easily corrupted by power as a white one (Bush II).

 

In their perverse blindness, liberals are proving themselves to be just as incorrigibly fact-avoidant, as their overtly anti-democratic Republican political opponents.

 

 

The moral? — When we refuse to see through the King Chameleon’s disguises, we choose a sad destiny

 

The American democracy is being withered away by the public’s tolerance for unwarranted government intrusiveness.  Pun intended.

 

Widespread government secrecy is anti-democratic and anti-humanitarian in its very nature.