Forum Post: 12 reasons why OWS must demand Obama step down immediately

1. He promised the most transparent presidency and has delivered one of the least and most repressive in history.

2. He promised to close Guantanamo Bay within his first year and give those held civil trials, instead GITMO remains open and those held have had not received any due process and are being held indefinitely.

3. He promised his presidency would defend whistleblowers, but in reality he has treated them as criminals, outlaws and prosecuted them without regard, such as Private Manning.

4. He has extended the wiretaps and surveillance programs on the American people.

5. He did not end the war in Afghanistan, instead he sent more Americans to die for a misdirected cause. More Americans Afghanistan died in the first 2.5 years of Obama then in the 7.5 years before him in addition to the countless civilians who have been killed and maimed.

6. He told us the war in Iraq was over, but American troops remain and continue to die.

7. He started an illegal war in the oil rich nation of Libya without consulting the American people, when there was not imminent threat to American and without consulting Congress while at the same time ignoring the thousands of people die in other parts of the world as a result of repressive regimes.

8. He used the US military to cross into Pakistan without informing Pakistan or asking for approval and conducted military operations to assassinate Osama Bin Laden, which could have been considered an act of war against Pakistan. No evidence has been provided that this mission was actually completed as the President refuses to release evidence to the media and public and the “body” was thrown immediately into the ocean.

9. He has used the US military drones to target and assassinate supposed “terrorists” around the world, ignore the rights sovereign nations, that the actions in Yemen and other areas are acts of war.

10. He most recently used the US military drone to assassinate two American citizens, without any legal authority and without due process, based solely on the idea they were “bad guys”.

11. He has now accused Iran of a grade-school level plot to assassinate the Israeli and Saudi ambassadors and is likely gearing for military conflict with that nation.

12. He has accepted money, defended, bailed out and empowered Wall Street & corporations throughout his presidency while at the same time telling America he is behind them in bold face lies.

If Obama has no qualms using the military to illegally engage in military action in other sovereign nations territory, target and kill American citizens without them having been tried or convicted of any crime or given due process, based solely on the administration views that they are “bad guys, who might do bad things”, what is to stop him from using the same tactics against any person or American, anywhere in the world, whenever he decides they are a “threat”? What is to stop him from deciding OWS are “bad people who might do bad things”?

His “support” of OWS has diminished the value of everyone throughout the country protesting. So while he has enriched himself with Wall Street’s money and holds his Nobel Peace Prize for all to see, he continues to be the increasing cause of war and death around the world and he cannot be given ANY support, assistance, money, or effort by the OWS movement and one of the demands MUST be he step down from office immediately!