Federal Europe will be ‘a reality in a few years’, says Jose Manuel Barroso
A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like “political science fiction” today but will soon become reality for all European Union countries whether inside or outside the euro, Jose Manuel Barroso has said.
Federal Europe will be ‘a reality in a few years’, says Jose Manuel Barroso
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Bruno Waterfield By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
3:52PM BST 07 May 2013
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The president of the European Commission has fanned the flames of British debate over EU membership by insisting that fiscal union in the eurozone will lead to “intensified political union” for all 27 member states.

“This is about the economic and monetary union but for the EU as a whole,” he said.

“The commission will, therefore, set out its views and explicit ideas for treaty change in order for them to be debated before the European elections.”

“We want to put all the elements on the table, in a clear and consistent way, even if some of them may sound like political science fiction today. They will be reality in a few years’ time.”

Mr Barroso’s announcement that he will set out plans for a European federation next spring, before elections to the European Parliament in May 2014, will further deepen Conservative divisions over the EU.

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The intervention will add weight to the argument made by Lord Lawson, and other anti-EU Tories, that it is pointless to try and improve Britain’s membership terms when the dynamic, set by the eurozone, is towards a fully-fledged federal Europe.

The commission president’s argument is that as the eurozone adopts federalist structures on fiscal and economic policy, supported by Britain as necessary for financial stability, there will also be a need for political structures that will fundamentally change the way the EU works.

“Further economic integration would transcend the limits of the intergovernmental method of running the EU and the eurozone in particular,” Mr Barroso said.

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Writing in The Times today, Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, has reignited the Tory debate on Europe by calling for exit from the EU because developments in the eurozone have changed Europe’s politifal structures, an argument that mirrors Mr Barroso’s case for a new federal or constitutional treaty.

“The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the EU, and of this country’s relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which – quite rightly – we are not a part,” Lord Lawson wrote.

Proposals for an EU “political union”, with budget policies set in Brussels and an elected president of Europe, will derail David Cameron’s attempts to negotiate a new settlement for Britain, culminating in an “in or out” referendum in 2017.

In stark contrast to the Prime Minister’s call for Britain to regain sovereignty from Brussels, Mr Barroso has called on all European leaders to accept that political union is inevitable in order to confront outright opposition to the EU, such as that from the UK Independence Party.

“This is why I believe the mainstream forces in European politics must seize the initiative, should leave their comfort zone to welcome and embrace this debate, rather than relinquish the momentum to eurosceptic or europhobic forces,” he said.

“If you believe in the democratic resilience of Europe, if you take Europe’s citizens seriously, you have to fight with rational arguments and unwavering convictions – and be convinced, as I am personally, that these will win the debate for us in the end.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10041817/Federal-Europe-will-be-a-reality-in-a-few-years-says-Jose-Manuel-Barroso.html

Federal Europe will be ‘a reality in a few years’, says Jose Manuel Barroso
A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like “political science fiction” today but will soon become reality for all European Union countries whether inside or outside the euro, Jose Manuel Barroso has said.
Federal Europe will be ‘a reality in a few years’, says Jose Manuel Barroso
Photo: AP
Bruno Waterfield By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels
3:52PM BST 07 May 2013
Comments981 Comments
The president of the European Commission has fanned the flames of British debate over EU membership by insisting that fiscal union in the eurozone will lead to “intensified political union” for all 27 member states.

“This is about the economic and monetary union but for the EU as a whole,” he said.

“The commission will, therefore, set out its views and explicit ideas for treaty change in order for them to be debated before the European elections.”

“We want to put all the elements on the table, in a clear and consistent way, even if some of them may sound like political science fiction today. They will be reality in a few years’ time.”

Mr Barroso’s announcement that he will set out plans for a European federation next spring, before elections to the European Parliament in May 2014, will further deepen Conservative divisions over the EU.

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The intervention will add weight to the argument made by Lord Lawson, and other anti-EU Tories, that it is pointless to try and improve Britain’s membership terms when the dynamic, set by the eurozone, is towards a fully-fledged federal Europe.

The commission president’s argument is that as the eurozone adopts federalist structures on fiscal and economic policy, supported by Britain as necessary for financial stability, there will also be a need for political structures that will fundamentally change the way the EU works.

“Further economic integration would transcend the limits of the intergovernmental method of running the EU and the eurozone in particular,” Mr Barroso said.

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Writing in The Times today, Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, has reignited the Tory debate on Europe by calling for exit from the EU because developments in the eurozone have changed Europe’s politifal structures, an argument that mirrors Mr Barroso’s case for a new federal or constitutional treaty.

“The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the EU, and of this country’s relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which – quite rightly – we are not a part,” Lord Lawson wrote.

Proposals for an EU “political union”, with budget policies set in Brussels and an elected president of Europe, will derail David Cameron’s attempts to negotiate a new settlement for Britain, culminating in an “in or out” referendum in 2017.

In stark contrast to the Prime Minister’s call for Britain to regain sovereignty from Brussels, Mr Barroso has called on all European leaders to accept that political union is inevitable in order to confront outright opposition to the EU, such as that from the UK Independence Party.

“This is why I believe the mainstream forces in European politics must seize the initiative, should leave their comfort zone to welcome and embrace this debate, rather than relinquish the momentum to eurosceptic or europhobic forces,” he said.

“If you believe in the democratic resilience of Europe, if you take Europe’s citizens seriously, you have to fight with rational arguments and unwavering convictions – and be convinced, as I am personally, that these will win the debate for us in the end.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10041817/Federal-Europe-will-be-a-reality-in-a-few-years-says-Jose-Manuel-Barroso.html

The erosion of purchasing power via inflation – Federal Reserve and the permanent portfolio.

Inflation has a subtle and quite way of eroding your purchasing power. The process can unfold slowly and before you know it you suddenly wake up realizing your paycheck no longer stretches so far. This is happening across the US in many ways. Those on very tight budgets, especially those now on food stamps are feeling the pinch of higher food costs. Middle class Americans seeking to send their kids to college realize that it might be difficult to do so without going into deep student debt. Inflation as measured by the CPI understates the real change in purchasing power because our system is flooded with massive levels of debt. Access to debt is viewed as a vector in which you can pretend to have money and spend on things you are unable to afford. Yet debt and wealth are not the same. Inflation is creeping into the system and people are feeling it.

Change in prices

As household incomes have gone flat over the last year, the cost of many items has actually gone up:

change in prices

The fastest rising sector is medical care cost. Do you think this is going to be an issue given the large number of baby boomers now retiring and requiring more medical care? Do you think this is going to put a strain on those Social Security checks indexed to the CPI? Of course it is. Shelter went up by 2.2 percent over the last 12 months largely by the big push in rental prices and because banks are stunting the inventory available on the market. Again, if incomes are stagnant, all this means is more disposable income is now going to these sectors.

Food prices have also gone up by 1.8 percent over the last year and for the 47.7 million Americans on food stamps you can rest assured this is being felt. This is the slow eroding impact inflation has on your purchasing power. Americans feel poorer because they actually are. The Fed is purposely trying to devalue the dollar and create a low wage system where our nationwide debts are cheaply funded by low interest rates. The Fed is selecting winners and losers. This is no shock. Yet the Fed’s balance sheet is still near $ 3 trillion. Will they ever unload these items onto the market?

Fed balance sheet

You’ll notice the large purchases done by the Fed starting in 2008. Not much has changed here. The Fed is the only player in town when it comes to mortgage backed securities. The Fed is keeping rates near zero to keep interest payments low but also to allow banks to unload their inflated assets onto the market at higher prices. Of course the public in order to compete will need to leverage itself with low rate mortgage but pay a much higher sticker price.

We are addicted to debt. That is clear. The Fed is creating a closed feedback loop here where the entire market now depends on its large action to keep rates low. They are now viewed as a permanent player in these sectors. You should not be surprised that the sectors being hit heaviest with price increases are those with maximum debt leverage. Think of housing and college. It comes as no surprise that these sectors see big price volatility. Housing has boomed, busted, and is now moving up again with the Fed keeping rates artificially low. Yet incomes are back to levels last seen in the 1990s. Tuition is rising across the nation in line with access to college debt. The large players in both markets are banks intertwined with the Fed.

Inflation is clearly here even as measured by the BLS data. Yet incomes are stagnant suggesting that people are seeing a real measurable decrease in the standard of living. The fiscal cliff is merely another method of funding spending with money we don’t have (more debt). It is part of human nature to want it all as quickly as possible without paying for it. Unfortunately the bill always comes due and many seem perfectly fine with passing the bill to future generations.

The erosion of purchasing power via inflation – Federal Reserve and the permanent portfolio.

Inflation has a subtle and quite way of eroding your purchasing power. The process can unfold slowly and before you know it you suddenly wake up realizing your paycheck no longer stretches so far. This is happening across the US in many ways. Those on very tight budgets, especially those now on food stamps are feeling the pinch of higher food costs. Middle class Americans seeking to send their kids to college realize that it might be difficult to do so without going into deep student debt. Inflation as measured by the CPI understates the real change in purchasing power because our system is flooded with massive levels of debt. Access to debt is viewed as a vector in which you can pretend to have money and spend on things you are unable to afford. Yet debt and wealth are not the same. Inflation is creeping into the system and people are feeling it.

Change in prices

As household incomes have gone flat over the last year, the cost of many items has actually gone up:

change in prices

The fastest rising sector is medical care cost. Do you think this is going to be an issue given the large number of baby boomers now retiring and requiring more medical care? Do you think this is going to put a strain on those Social Security checks indexed to the CPI? Of course it is. Shelter went up by 2.2 percent over the last 12 months largely by the big push in rental prices and because banks are stunting the inventory available on the market. Again, if incomes are stagnant, all this means is more disposable income is now going to these sectors.

Food prices have also gone up by 1.8 percent over the last year and for the 47.7 million Americans on food stamps you can rest assured this is being felt. This is the slow eroding impact inflation has on your purchasing power. Americans feel poorer because they actually are. The Fed is purposely trying to devalue the dollar and create a low wage system where our nationwide debts are cheaply funded by low interest rates. The Fed is selecting winners and losers. This is no shock. Yet the Fed’s balance sheet is still near $ 3 trillion. Will they ever unload these items onto the market?

Fed balance sheet

You’ll notice the large purchases done by the Fed starting in 2008. Not much has changed here. The Fed is the only player in town when it comes to mortgage backed securities. The Fed is keeping rates near zero to keep interest payments low but also to allow banks to unload their inflated assets onto the market at higher prices. Of course the public in order to compete will need to leverage itself with low rate mortgage but pay a much higher sticker price.

We are addicted to debt. That is clear. The Fed is creating a closed feedback loop here where the entire market now depends on its large action to keep rates low. They are now viewed as a permanent player in these sectors. You should not be surprised that the sectors being hit heaviest with price increases are those with maximum debt leverage. Think of housing and college. It comes as no surprise that these sectors see big price volatility. Housing has boomed, busted, and is now moving up again with the Fed keeping rates artificially low. Yet incomes are back to levels last seen in the 1990s. Tuition is rising across the nation in line with access to college debt. The large players in both markets are banks intertwined with the Fed.

Inflation is clearly here even as measured by the BLS data. Yet incomes are stagnant suggesting that people are seeing a real measurable decrease in the standard of living. The fiscal cliff is merely another method of funding spending with money we don’t have (more debt). It is part of human nature to want it all as quickly as possible without paying for it. Unfortunately the bill always comes due and many seem perfectly fine with passing the bill to future generations.

The erosion of purchasing power via inflation – Federal Reserve and the permanent portfolio.

Inflation has a subtle and quite way of eroding your purchasing power. The process can unfold slowly and before you know it you suddenly wake up realizing your paycheck no longer stretches so far. This is happening across the US in many ways. Those on very tight budgets, especially those now on food stamps are feeling the pinch of higher food costs. Middle class Americans seeking to send their kids to college realize that it might be difficult to do so without going into deep student debt. Inflation as measured by the CPI understates the real change in purchasing power because our system is flooded with massive levels of debt. Access to debt is viewed as a vector in which you can pretend to have money and spend on things you are unable to afford. Yet debt and wealth are not the same. Inflation is creeping into the system and people are feeling it.

Change in prices

As household incomes have gone flat over the last year, the cost of many items has actually gone up:

change in prices

The fastest rising sector is medical care cost. Do you think this is going to be an issue given the large number of baby boomers now retiring and requiring more medical care? Do you think this is going to put a strain on those Social Security checks indexed to the CPI? Of course it is. Shelter went up by 2.2 percent over the last 12 months largely by the big push in rental prices and because banks are stunting the inventory available on the market. Again, if incomes are stagnant, all this means is more disposable income is now going to these sectors.

Food prices have also gone up by 1.8 percent over the last year and for the 47.7 million Americans on food stamps you can rest assured this is being felt. This is the slow eroding impact inflation has on your purchasing power. Americans feel poorer because they actually are. The Fed is purposely trying to devalue the dollar and create a low wage system where our nationwide debts are cheaply funded by low interest rates. The Fed is selecting winners and losers. This is no shock. Yet the Fed’s balance sheet is still near $ 3 trillion. Will they ever unload these items onto the market?

Fed balance sheet

You’ll notice the large purchases done by the Fed starting in 2008. Not much has changed here. The Fed is the only player in town when it comes to mortgage backed securities. The Fed is keeping rates near zero to keep interest payments low but also to allow banks to unload their inflated assets onto the market at higher prices. Of course the public in order to compete will need to leverage itself with low rate mortgage but pay a much higher sticker price.

We are addicted to debt. That is clear. The Fed is creating a closed feedback loop here where the entire market now depends on its large action to keep rates low. They are now viewed as a permanent player in these sectors. You should not be surprised that the sectors being hit heaviest with price increases are those with maximum debt leverage. Think of housing and college. It comes as no surprise that these sectors see big price volatility. Housing has boomed, busted, and is now moving up again with the Fed keeping rates artificially low. Yet incomes are back to levels last seen in the 1990s. Tuition is rising across the nation in line with access to college debt. The large players in both markets are banks intertwined with the Fed.

Inflation is clearly here even as measured by the BLS data. Yet incomes are stagnant suggesting that people are seeing a real measurable decrease in the standard of living. The fiscal cliff is merely another method of funding spending with money we don’t have (more debt). It is part of human nature to want it all as quickly as possible without paying for it. Unfortunately the bill always comes due and many seem perfectly fine with passing the bill to future generations.

The US Federal Government has now Declared Open & Unrestricted Warfare on America, Americans, & our Children!

http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-us-federal-government-has-now-declared-open-unrestricted-warfare-on-america-americans-our-children/28235/

Posted on December 14, 2012 by US Marine Fighting Tyranny

The 2nd Revolutionary War has begun, and The US Federal Government Has Fired The First Shots, hundreds of them! killing our school children!!

This is only the beginning of the real “Blood Tide”.

We WILL see more acts of horror, treachery and blood that will leave the rational mind numb with confusion and anger, all carried out by the same government and people that brought us 9/11, the US Fed Government.

(Yes, I know Mossad and MI6 was involved,.. but OUR government supplied the E737′s that flew into the Twin Towers, and the AGM that hit the Pentagon).

The viral spread of the TSA onto our highways, byways and street corners, coupled with our government’s execution of innocent Americans, and now SCHOOL CHILDREN means one thing, and one thing only.

THE US FEDERAL GOV’T HAS NOW DECLARED OPEN AND UNRESTRICTED WAR ON AMERICANS!!!!

Please, for GODS SAKE – TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW,.. AND ANYONE YOU DON’T KNOW BUT RUN INTO!!!

THIS IS NOW OPEN WAR BY OUR GOV’T AGAINST AMERICA, AMERICANS, EVEN OUR CHILDREN!

God Help Us, the 2nd Revolution has just begun, and the opening shoots were fired by our GOVERNMENT!

JD – US Marines – The 2nd revolutionary War is upon us – Will you wait until YOUR child is gunned down??!!

Obama Initiates Snitch Network within Federal Government. Change you can believe in!
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/obama-initiates-snitch-network-within-federal-government/27189/

Posted on December 3, 2012 by # 1 NWO Hatr

Before It’s News – by I. M. Citizen

Under cover of the Thanksgiving holiday, Obama issued a short “non-news” memo calling for central planning to develop “effective insider threat programs.”

The stated goal is “to gather, integrate, and centrally analyze and respond to key threat-related information; monitor employee use of classified networks; provide the workforce with insider threat awareness training; and protect the civil liberties and privacy of all personnel.”

Basically, Obama wants a snitch network inside central planning. He is instructing the heads of departments and agencies to develop a work-place culture “to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security.”

Is this a reminder sent from the supreme ruler to his central planning stooges that they need to tighten up operations, effectively timed for release just as the pretrial of doc-dumper Bradley Manning re-enters the news? Perhaps.

Maybe the snitch-network is related to Benghazi.

But both of these motivations are conveniently placed before you by the propaganda press. And they are both bullshit.

There is only one motivation for this directive.

Think about it. The supreme ruler’s lust for power is well documented. He now knows he has four years to execute whatever perverted plans he and his handlers have in their sick and twisted minds. If they are planning tyrannical things what better way to guarantee cooperation from the Big Brother bureaucrats than to let them know that Big, Big Brother is actually watching them. To consolidate ultimate power you create an environment where no one dare to act. You negate challenges by intimidating your opposition, your supporters and your bureaucrats.

First, it was the tea party movement. Recall? They are hard-Right, bible thumpers that cling to guns. Then he went after all civilians. Americans are selfish and spoiled. They are lazy. So bad are they that we need to issue public apologies. Next, it was ex-military men and women that were labeled as possible threats. Now, if you work within the Executive Branch, it is your co-worker that may be the villain.

The idea behind the memo is to create extreme conformity within a self-policing system. Central planning becomes a system within which everyone is a snitch. A simple four level structure would have bureaucrats monitoring each other. They, in turn, are monitored by department heads. The department heads are monitored by your inner circle. And you monitor your inner circle. Ultimately, the number of layers is subject to the size of your operation.

Within this structure, it is loyalty, or lack thereof, that is monitored, not necessarily productiveness. When human error occurs it analyzed based upon allegiance, not on an individual’s training or competency level. Implemented effectively, workers are more worried about doing their job than what they are doing. It is blind obedience that is valued and enforced.

Information, then, is gathered, processed and passed up the chain of command with no evaluation until it reaches the very top. This allows the supreme ruler and select advisers to determine what is a threat to the government. And because this memo is specifically addressing “internal threats” to the government, then we are actually talking about treason.

So, the Executive Branch snitch-network is actually a framework to allow the supreme ruler to determine what is, or is not, an act of treason. The problem with this is obvious. Central planning becomes an environment dedicated to pleasing the ruler — avoiding at all costs the possibility of being seen as treasonous. It is now about allegiance to the leader, not allegiance to the county. And as we all know, what is good for the supreme ruler is almost guaranteed to be bad for the people.

Even the hard-Left, as close as you can get to Communist propaganda website, the Daily Kos, expressed concern related to this, saying this initiative will silence whistle-blowers.
No fooling?

Now just add the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S.1867) and you will see the big picture.

NDAA 2012 gave the president the authority to grab, indefinitely detain or eliminate Americans if they are deemed a threat to national security. And who makes that determination? The president. NDAA 2012 includes no requirements for evidence, hearings, warrants or trials. The supreme ruler is the judge and jury. If he says you are a threat, off you go. This is awesome if you are the supreme ruler. But if you are a peasant, well, it’s not really that great.
And now his “insider threat” memo, creating a snitch-network culture inside the government, which, mind you, breaks no laws, will eventually allow him to target government workers because he will define treason. If the president says leaking evidence of a government crime is treason, off you go. If he says speaking out against a tyrannical policy is treason, off you go. Again, if you are the supreme ruler this is great. But if you are a stooge in central planning, not so good.

Candidly, you can love Obama or you can hate him but you can not deny NDAA 2012 and an “insider threat program” are deeply troubling developments. Allowing Obama, or any president, the ability to label Americans as treasonous without evidence or courts — based solely upon his definition and at his discretion — is more than a violation of our “innocent until proven guilty” sensibilities. It is, in fact, the most critical element of establishing a dictatorship.
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2012/12/obama-initiates-snitch-network-within-federal-government-2473834.html

Obama Initiates Snitch Network within Federal Government. Change you can believe in!
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/obama-initiates-snitch-network-within-federal-government/27189/

Posted on December 3, 2012 by # 1 NWO Hatr

Before It’s News – by I. M. Citizen

Under cover of the Thanksgiving holiday, Obama issued a short “non-news” memo calling for central planning to develop “effective insider threat programs.”

The stated goal is “to gather, integrate, and centrally analyze and respond to key threat-related information; monitor employee use of classified networks; provide the workforce with insider threat awareness training; and protect the civil liberties and privacy of all personnel.”

Basically, Obama wants a snitch network inside central planning. He is instructing the heads of departments and agencies to develop a work-place culture “to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security.”

Is this a reminder sent from the supreme ruler to his central planning stooges that they need to tighten up operations, effectively timed for release just as the pretrial of doc-dumper Bradley Manning re-enters the news? Perhaps.

Maybe the snitch-network is related to Benghazi.

But both of these motivations are conveniently placed before you by the propaganda press. And they are both bullshit.

There is only one motivation for this directive.

Think about it. The supreme ruler’s lust for power is well documented. He now knows he has four years to execute whatever perverted plans he and his handlers have in their sick and twisted minds. If they are planning tyrannical things what better way to guarantee cooperation from the Big Brother bureaucrats than to let them know that Big, Big Brother is actually watching them. To consolidate ultimate power you create an environment where no one dare to act. You negate challenges by intimidating your opposition, your supporters and your bureaucrats.

First, it was the tea party movement. Recall? They are hard-Right, bible thumpers that cling to guns. Then he went after all civilians. Americans are selfish and spoiled. They are lazy. So bad are they that we need to issue public apologies. Next, it was ex-military men and women that were labeled as possible threats. Now, if you work within the Executive Branch, it is your co-worker that may be the villain.

The idea behind the memo is to create extreme conformity within a self-policing system. Central planning becomes a system within which everyone is a snitch. A simple four level structure would have bureaucrats monitoring each other. They, in turn, are monitored by department heads. The department heads are monitored by your inner circle. And you monitor your inner circle. Ultimately, the number of layers is subject to the size of your operation.

Within this structure, it is loyalty, or lack thereof, that is monitored, not necessarily productiveness. When human error occurs it analyzed based upon allegiance, not on an individual’s training or competency level. Implemented effectively, workers are more worried about doing their job than what they are doing. It is blind obedience that is valued and enforced.

Information, then, is gathered, processed and passed up the chain of command with no evaluation until it reaches the very top. This allows the supreme ruler and select advisers to determine what is a threat to the government. And because this memo is specifically addressing “internal threats” to the government, then we are actually talking about treason.

So, the Executive Branch snitch-network is actually a framework to allow the supreme ruler to determine what is, or is not, an act of treason. The problem with this is obvious. Central planning becomes an environment dedicated to pleasing the ruler — avoiding at all costs the possibility of being seen as treasonous. It is now about allegiance to the leader, not allegiance to the county. And as we all know, what is good for the supreme ruler is almost guaranteed to be bad for the people.

Even the hard-Left, as close as you can get to Communist propaganda website, the Daily Kos, expressed concern related to this, saying this initiative will silence whistle-blowers.
No fooling?

Now just add the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S.1867) and you will see the big picture.

NDAA 2012 gave the president the authority to grab, indefinitely detain or eliminate Americans if they are deemed a threat to national security. And who makes that determination? The president. NDAA 2012 includes no requirements for evidence, hearings, warrants or trials. The supreme ruler is the judge and jury. If he says you are a threat, off you go. This is awesome if you are the supreme ruler. But if you are a peasant, well, it’s not really that great.
And now his “insider threat” memo, creating a snitch-network culture inside the government, which, mind you, breaks no laws, will eventually allow him to target government workers because he will define treason. If the president says leaking evidence of a government crime is treason, off you go. If he says speaking out against a tyrannical policy is treason, off you go. Again, if you are the supreme ruler this is great. But if you are a stooge in central planning, not so good.

Candidly, you can love Obama or you can hate him but you can not deny NDAA 2012 and an “insider threat program” are deeply troubling developments. Allowing Obama, or any president, the ability to label Americans as treasonous without evidence or courts — based solely upon his definition and at his discretion — is more than a violation of our “innocent until proven guilty” sensibilities. It is, in fact, the most critical element of establishing a dictatorship.
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2012/12/obama-initiates-snitch-network-within-federal-government-2473834.html