It was a happy night for a lot of people yesterday. While I was in bed reading The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, there were people singing and dancing in the streets, car horns honking, crowds screaming, and people running through the halls of my dorm. What was the occasion? Barack Obama winning the election.

So, what does this mean for the future of the United States of America? What are these people partying for? Maybe they should read about the Creature, then they might know.

It was really sad to see so many happy faces, so many smiles, as people waved their hands for more big government, more wars, and less civil liberties.

Here are some of Obama's civil liberties and foreign policy issues:

This one is terrifying to me:

"Strengthen Federal Leadership on Cyber Security":

Obama and Biden want to establish the position of national cyber advisor who will report directly to the president and will be responsible for coordinating federal agency efforts and development of national cyber policy.

They want to create some sort of "Cyber Security Strategy," that will somehow stop terrorists in their tracks of creating new attacks. This inittiative sounds so vague to me, and in fact terribly scary. I don't think that anyone wants internet censorship, or be denied access to various websites, or even more domestic spying. What they are proposing is very scaring, a closing internet society.



Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement: Obama and Biden believe that NAFTA and its potential were oversold to the American people. They will work with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to fix NAFTA so that it works for American workers.

In other words, say hello to the North American Union (which Obama has never talked about, let alone the NAFTA super highway)! Let's all get excited for decreased national sovereignty!

Strengthen NATO: Obama and Biden will rally NATO members to contribute troops to collective security operations, urging them to invest more in reconstruction and stabilization operations, streamlining the decision-making processes, and giving NATO commanders in the field more flexibility.

It is important to note that American citizens did NOT elect any of the world officials in NATO. For those who are not familiar with NATO, it is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Straight from their website, they define themselves as:

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance of 26 countries from North American and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949.

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, NATO has attempted to refocus itself to new challenges and has deployed troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. Doesn't it seem a bit hypocritical that the purpose of post Cold War NATO is to send troops around the world to fight "terrorism," yet Obama claims to want to bring troops home?

Here's what Obama has to say about ending the war and bringing troops home:

Find, Disrupt, and Destroy al Qaeda:

Obama and Biden will responsibly end the war in Iraq and focus on Afghanistan, the refuge for the terrorists who attacked us on September 11. He will send at least two additional combat brigades, more special operations forces, and $1 billion in additional non-military aid to Afghanistan.


Obama's plan also wants a military expansion of 65,000 soldiers. Then, he wants to spend $50 billion a year through 2012 to essentially nation build in 60 countries from "Africa, to Central Asia, to the Pacific Rim."

To sum up his "Homeland Security Fact Sheet," he basically says that him and Biden will continue America's fairly recent tradition of policing the world. They want to police Iran, North Korea, Russia, and who knows what else. It's no different from what we have now.

When will our politicians heed to George Washington's advice that said to "steer cleer of all foreign entanglements." Washington advicated a non-intervention foreign policy, including no nation building, no entangling alliances, and no policing the world. It appears that an Obama administration will do more of the same.