Before it's too late!

Obama needs to rethink where he is leading the American people in light of the US Constitution

The contrast is getting clearer

Cornel West is right! In a telling interview on Democracy Now the professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary and former professor at Harvard U. outlined his views on Obama and his Administration.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/22/cornel_west_obamas_response_to_trayvon

Here are some of TVP's thoughts spurred on by Prof. West.

Obama may be our first bi-racial president, but his accepted membership in the elite ruling class has dampened his outrage against injustice to people of color.

Even more disheartening our Harvard trained lawyer president continues to label as "legal" the extreme all encompassing government surveillance that violates citizens' privacy making a mockery of the protections guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. A stronger case can be made that a US policy that honors the privacy rights of all people offers greater assurance of citizens' safety than the Administration's draconian spying dragnet directed against US citizens and the people of the world. Fearful distrust of big government and its repressive policing powers that all-encompassing surveillance policies engender foster what terrorists are after - dissatisfaction with western democracy.

Other cruel and inhuman practices of the US are being condoned as "legal" by the Obama Administration, like water-boarding torture, secret CIA extraordinary rendition illegally carried out in friendly countries like Italy, where such a crime has been prosecuted successfully transforming a US CIA base chief into an internationally listed criminal, who was recently arrested at the Costa Rican border by Panama. The Obama administration also continues to allow the US military to run the "School of the Americas'' that continues to train foreign military students how to use immoral and inhumane interrogation tactics and torture all the while using such tactics to identify and kill putative enemies with pilotless drones that also destroy what the military terms collateral damage that it applies to the killing of innocent women and children, all this justified under the rubric that drone attacks "save American lives."

These horrors are not the "American Way" of our better angels but the "American way" of today's gruesome reality that reflects an American past of slavery's inhumanity, of Jim Crow's hypocritical injustices, of military massacres of Native Americans and of America's continuing disregard for ratified treaties and disrespect for the civilized protocols of national sovereignty.

Cornel West's outrage is right on!  West also points out that America's Fourth Estate, endowed with constitutional protected freedom to speak out against injustices frequently succumbs to cowardly fear of losing access to the powerful if it dares to criticize those in power.

MLK's dream has not been realized now 50 years after he shared his noble vision with America. 

Hope, it is said, springs eternal, but America does not have an eternity to get it right. We need to do it before it's too late.