Uncle Tom is Barack

I have no problem whatsoever criticizing Mr. Obama.  I come from a much different perspective than most.  I worked for Harvard attorneys for 20 years, from all over the world, and I know the level of expectation from the best attorneys in America.  There is simply no excuse for not prosecuting these people.  None.  I saw these same attorneys prosecute some of the worst white collar criminals without even blinking. 

The only reason he is backing off is because he kept that ridiculous Secretary of Defense and he's entirely intimidated by the Pentagon.  He has never been in the military, he has no heavy litigation experience, he was never a prosecutor, and he doesn't have the stomach for what it really takes. 

He thought he could be President.  So, let him be President.  He needs to buck up and swallow it.

Interesting perspective presented in your article, but I don't think the unwillingness to prosecute "higher-ups" for crimes against prisoners is anything new or surprising.  If you worked  for a long time with Harvard lawyers and do not know that, then you are like I was.  I also worked with attorneys for many years and believed that there was only one set of laws that applied to everyone.  That is what comes of being raised on slogans like "we the people" and "liberty and justice for all."  One might go through life, as I did for 50 years, believing the slogans without coming face to face with the naked truth. Some of the petitioners who are helping my family beg the USDOJ to please do its job and investigate the secret arrest and wrongful death of my mentally and physically handicapped brother, Larry Neal, discovered the truth about these slogans long before I did.  They ring true as long as they are never tested. 

My family's ordeal trying for nearly six years to get records and accountability after the secret arrest and wrongful death of our weakest member, an American citizen, and the refusal to hold anyone accountable for the abuse of prisoners in American custody are tests that reveal a horrifying truth:  the law is not equally applied, never has been, probably never will be, and moreover, it may never have been intended to do so. See our futile efforts in this article:

New World Order Nullifies Constitutional Rights for Neal Family
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1019414

One attorney I hoped would represent us against The Cochran Firm for defrauding my 80+ year old mom and actually working for the jail behind our back told me plainly that regardless of how good our case was, the laws in America were never intended to hold powerful people responsible to doing right by the powerless.  They are used only in the reverse.  Therefore, this refusal to hold the elite to any ethical standards and possibly subject them to imprisonment as criminals is not an Obama thang - it is the American way, established long before any of us were born. 

Another fallacy in your article seems to be that you think it is racial.  It is not.  Obama's decision would be the same regardless of his race.  While the average citizen is concentrating on race, the real issue in America is the same as in India - justice in America, or the lack thereof, is more a matter of socio-economic class distinctions.  It just so happens that more blacks than whites are omitted from the "protected class" level due to our lack of wealth.  Most of our forefathers never owned slaves to build us great wealth, and while others were free to stake claims to thousands of acres of free land, we were not.  Catch-up with those kinds of economic advantages will never happen, regardless of MLK's mountaintop vision about blacks in the Promised Land.

In bygone years, the truth about unequal justice was tolerated and oftentimes applauded because it applied mainly to ethnic citizens.  Lately, that is changing.  America is broke and the concentration camps are almost ready, so there is less reason to hide the realities about who matters and who does not.

Blessings

This story line, along with the comments are definitely an interesting perspectives.  If you let the worm out of the box to go after the Bush admininstration, how far back do you go with the prosecutions, i.e. the use of hydrogen bombs on Japan, bombings of Dresden, Hamburg during WWII, use of agent orange in Vietnam, the list goes on and on.  I think you get my point.  Personally I don.t think this has to do with race or protection of the elite.  It has more to do with legal opinions rendered on methods of interrogation.  I think we can all agree that torture will, in the long run, not provide good results.  Most likely it will cause the opponent to seek revenge. (nothwithstanding that Al Quaida is already beheading their captives).  Going on a witch hunt at this stage doesn.t make sense to me.  How is waterboarding of one terrorists. a worse act than sending unmanned drones into Pakistan after high value targets and killing numerous civilians, including women and children in the consequential collateral damage, any different?  Just food for thought.

I also post on allvoices.com and there are a bunch of people over there as well.  I had to point out that the Uncle Tom character was also noted by Ralph Nader on U-tube and there are some other references floating around.

Tom is a vague character hard to detect,  I had to use criteria before I was ready to make the call, because calling somebody an Uncle Tom is pretty awful.   That is probably why Harriet Beacher Stowe was so successful in pointing out the neurotic psychological profile.  People are complicated.  

When you step up and offer yourself as President of the United States you are out there asking people to trust you.  People are judged by their actions not their words, and during the election I just heard too many words to make me comfortable.  I've had a long list of criteria going already.  I didn't like the neuroticism and the all-too-neutral position on everything, the carefully constructed speech patterns, the clean crisp lines.

Then we found out it was a machine with a blueprint from it's inception.  I also watch body language and I listen for speech pattern construction.  People who enunciate beyond what is normal and cannot speak spontaneously, are hiding something.  Maybe it's just truth upon truth, or maybe it's things they don't want known.  I didn't like that he wasn't a spontaneous speaker.

I didn't like that he abandoned Rev. Wright.  Rev. Wright didn't do anything that offensive, but Obama took the position that is taken by the neurotic, people who cannot tolerate even hearing anything that isn't 100% pure cream.  I call them the all-too-clean people.  I met one yesterday walking my dog.  She actually stood on the sidewalk and looked down at my dog, then at me, and said "excuse me".  

Most people who are not entirely neurotic say what a cute little dog.  I use my dog as a litmus test and I'm not joking around either.  The way people treat dogs and cats, is a key to their inner personality.  I got a good look at Obama's inner child when the papers ran the photo of his daughter clinging to him while he tried to instruct her how to warm up to the dog hand picked for her by Ted Kennedy.

Obama has been making compromises since the day he was born.  He was not tossed around like American kids who run and get dirty with their friends.  He was raised by a neurotic family that raised him apart.  Obama has no idea who he is, he's never hit the psychiatrists couch, he's never confronted his demons.  He's not a decision maker.  He's not a leader, he's a follower.

Where he becomes an Uncle Tom is where he volunteers to be President of the United States and asks people to put his trust in him, and then fails to represent the one group of people who needed him the most, the victims of outrageous crimes against humanity.  

Great Comment Sharon. I might add I think he is no naive kid....and is either being paid off under the table by Republican Bush cohorts, or has been threatened....not to tread on the lie they built up. I too think it tells much of his character when he dumped Rev. Wright....a guy who told the truth. It befuddles me to think Obama can wear his blinders when it comes to history, and not making ammends for crimes in the past....Going up to AlbertaCowPoke..and his comment about how far back do you go with the prosecutions? I would say that he should concentrate on the present link to his administration....and when that bundle receives its Judicial Justice, then a complete past administrations stamp of review and prosecutorial process would go forward. Many lawyers are afraid to take this on...with the fear that many are dead and have gone to their grave. They fear they will become subjects of mockery, and their careers will be ruined.... Just like what Obama did when he rebuke Rev. Wright. But Rev. Wright's career is blossoming at the moment....while President Obama is sinking, as people see through his facade of  lies, and snowballing friendly guy rhetoric. I know if I was President I would be reminding people of why Truman was wrong, why Eisenhower was wrong, why Kennedy was wrong, why Lyndon Johnson was wrong, why, Richard Nixon was wrong, why Jimmy Carter was wrong in starting the the Iraq Iran war, why Reagan was wrong, why Bush was wrong, and Bill Clinton, and GW Bush have had it all wrong.

He should prove he knows the difference to make change. How can he have a plank for change.....when he says nothing about where we all came from. Rev. Wright is no fool....and his sermons exemplifed what we needed to do to work away from the bad America has been engulfed with all these past years....

Obama's inability makes him nothing but a Pop Idol like the Osmonds.... bubble gum and ice cream.... Nothing wrong with that....but he needs to address the real life issues such as showing the world that we can not go on defending America and its criminal past..... There must be applied impeachment of Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, GH Bush, Bill Clinton that failed....over sex...but he killed people, and GW Bush. 

Truman started the chain reaction....the link that said killing innocent people is OK....and that collateral damage has no consequences. This parade of crime is handed down from one generation to the next....and someone needs to stand up there in Washington and proclaim that this will not go on.....and that all the leaders since Truman to Obama.....are held in dishonored esteem....and impeached stamped across their Adminstrational historcal crimes records..

This would be the era of the new America.....when truely America has begun, has become to find its true self and identity. From that moment the Presidental cleansing will take place....and God will shine through to bless our awakening.....

But President Obama has no inner conviction, no sense of the chain reaction of crime that has pulled America down into the cavern of hate and revenge.  Perhaps he can not handle the volumes of information, the volumes of evidence that affect his own character.  He either rebukes the bad, the crimes, the misery, the neglect, the stonewalling or be recognized as one of them.

At this moment I see him as one of them...not to be trusted....nothing but another lie....nothing but; as the author suggests in this article as an Uncle Tom...a stand in... to proclaim America is not a bigoted or corrupt State. I think it is rather late...It took all those years since Lincolns' ending of slavery to have a black President.... makes him more of a laughing stock....to America's historical blunders and incompetence....He needs to face truth...and exemplify its higher educational awareness.

Proud to be an American means to be able to recognize the blunders, and apply the medicine of justice on the record....that would move the crimes from past administrations...from the legitmate history books, into their rightful place in the Criminal History Books. We shall no longer live in the blurr, that doing right is to do wrong. That killing innocent people is a forgotten experience....Yet we place wreaths at Tombs of Unknown soldiers....and honor Vets who slaughtered innocent people....so we could wave flags around a Whitehouse....and proclaim how great we are as a people, and how free we are, while the dead and murdered still lie in their graves from Hiroshima, to Nagasaki, to Korea, to the villagers in Mai Lai..in Vietnam.....and in between to Kuwait, Israel, and the Millions killed in Iraq....from our doing...

No America is not great until we do this..... America is not to be trusted until we do this.....America is still a country that has not been founded....

Rev. Jermano

Dear Mary,

I might add Gerald Ford is also to be included in that list...because he is the guy who screwed up by pardoning a crook...who needed to be prosecuted. What really gets me is a pardon is suppose to be used after a prosecution, not before. How do our incompetant Officials get away with such utter lack of cognizance.

I am quite aware of the things that go on inside the USA. It is a major reason I left...to avoid the.very conceivable threat in becoming a victim as your brother did. . I am quite sorry to hear about your brother....and I really have no idea how to help you. In fact there are thousands of people who are missing people in the USA. And I do not mean to insinuate the people over there or those who lost lives outside the USA. Indeed it is as bad inside the USA. I fully agree...It is another reason why I do not support Capitol Punishment....that is the worse torture of all. I can give you assurance that God knows these things, and he is there to help us in our times of need.

Dear Lord,

Please help Mary Neal. You know Mary my fathers name was Neal. Presently I carry my mothers maiden name...because my father did not like me. He was an abusive alcoholic when I was a youngman being forced to leave home at 14 to take care of myself, because mother had 6 more mouths to feed in that old cold farm house. I do not know if we have a relation or not. In fact I never met my fathers parents or my grandparents on his side of the family. Ironically this is true....that his sister Behula Neal is the mother to the famous Comedian Drew Carey. She married to the Carey family. I met Drew when we were kids...and since then have never met again. My father passed away...and I never knew it until a vase arrived at our door in New York. I really have no idea how my father died as well. His name was Emerson Neal....aka as Whitey Neal. 

God Bless Mary........may the Lord find the answers you seek.

Rev. Jermano