Obama-con's war on California

In the last two months, President of the Banks of America Obama-con has made it clear his number one domestic priority is to go to war against the state of California, largely because it has been the cultural leader in ending Prohibition through its medical marijuana (MMJ) program.  After telling the country in 2009 he had no problem with MMJ as long as dispensaries complied with state law--consistent with an adherence to the 10th Amendment and States' rights--he then did a 180° on his policy and has vowed* a culture war against the state.  Since then, a NY Times editorial reported earlier this month (Nov. 2011) that in order for California to continue to receive federal funding** state regulators had to promise to end their investigation of the state's banks.  Of course, as the editorial points out, without a complete investigation, there is no way to know accurately just how many laws the banks have broken, and continue to break--fradulent lending practices, selling high volatility risk packages, robo-signing (a form of forgery wherein bankers sign someone else's name to loans without even reading them and making a sensible assessment of loan-seekers personal worth***).  My digust with Obama-con has reached a boiling point with his oppositon to Occupy Wall Street, the obvious co-ordinated, nationwide shut down of the protests, punctuated with pepper-spraying of protesters sitting in a park.  Make no mistake:  it is no coincidence the pepper-spraying occured in California and it was a directive that came from the Justice Department.  Obama-con hates Occupy Wall Street, loves the banks, the oil industry (remember his 58 days of silence during the Gulf oil disaster of 2010), and the other uber-rich industries that use government force, not successful free-market competitive strategies, to stay rich and get richer.****

This is Obama-con's America: defend and coddle the banks and Wall Street which brought the nation's and world's economy to the brink of collapse, then attack the one developing industry that could infuse life back into California's--and other states'--economies.  The state of California is broke.  Contrary to the dull-minded Obama-con, a successful economy does not depend on long-entrenched, super wealthy organizations like the banks, but on creating new industries that promote developmental work, like the MMJ industry.  Without new industrial development, there is no way an economy can grow.  The banks of today are merely products of economic creativity in the past: once upon they, just like the automobile and oil industries, did not exist.  The result is Obama-con reinforces his disdain for free market values, making sure the banks can never fail no matter how sloppy, irresponsible, and illegal their operations, while being hell-bent on perpetuating the lies and hysteria over what much of the nation has realized by now is a mostly harmless drug - especially when compared to the legal opiates the pharmaceutical companies hawk that have led to more drug overdose deaths than car accident deaths for the first time in the nation's history - that offer adults much needed pain relief and mood elevation.

If this were the sixties, Obama-con, half-black, would be ordering the beating of blacks.  The pepper-spraying incident at UC-Davis is as revolting as any betrayal of civility and 1st Amendment rights since the Kent State shootings of May 1970.  What good are university campuses if they are not a place for free expression and challenging the status quo?  Why do we need universities to promote ideas and ways of doing things that are already entrenched?  The public should hold Obama-con accountable and demand that he resign.  He is a stooge of the rich and a traitor of the rights of non-priviledged citizens that are the bedrock of this nation's identity.

* [lack of statement does not equal a vow. -ed]
** [funding for what?]
*** [see?  you explain things here]
**** [the other half of MOpod divorces himself from such a direct connection, though not saying that an elastic connection exists]