Washington D.C. - Just moments after the polls closed in California and while an entire plane worth of overseas service members absentee ballots went down without being counted millions of Americans celebrated the auctioning off of the presidency for a second term, giving us another four years of Big Banker policies.

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Washington D.C. - Just moments after the polls closed in California, and while an entire plane worth of overseas service members absentee ballots went down without being counted, millions of Americans celebrated the auctioning off of the presidency for a second term, giving us another four years of Big Banker policies.

President Obama won his first four years on the backs of lies, lies that the American people continue to embrace despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Other's are blinded by party politics to call him out for his lies, with the media being equally as culpable by covering up, not reporting, or simply going by the official story rather than looking into what they're told to find out if any or none of it is true, as is the case with 'fast and furious,' U.S. drone surveillance, NDAA and many other issues that should have been important to the health of the nation.

Not that Romney was the better choice or that there was a real deference between them, they both had markedly the same policies when it comes to health care, they both intend to illegally attack Iran, and would ultimately keep us in a state of perpetual warfare for as long as the coffers will allow.

So does really matter who won? They're both bought and paid for by the same corporations.

Big foreign national banks have seized our economy, we are now dominated by overgrown defense contractor, private prisons, and big pharma, with seemingly no hope for escape.

It does matter when the puppet in power isn't being called out on the issues he's being paid not to talk about or to move in opposition to the public good on.

Call it campaign finance, call it lobbying, I call it bribery.

Obama did come through with one promise though, he promised us Hope and Change and he delivered he has brought us plenty of change; however, it was not the change we were all hoping for, was it.

He asked for the provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act that allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens, the end to the long held tradition in the country of the Pose Common Totus Act, that prohibited U.S. Military troops from working in conjunction with law enforcement within the boarders of the United States. Even going so far as to create a new command within the Military structure to support this act of treachery.

He has claimed to end the war in Iraq, while in truth he did nothing but meet the demands of the Iraqi government already set in place under Bush, while at the same time bringing us into Libya, Syria, and other so called hotspots that are of no concern to us, nor do they pose a direct threat to us.

Using the very enemy we're told we went into Afghanistan to fight the proxy ground wars against regimes that refuse to play ball with American corporations, I call this not only treachery, but blackmail on an international scale.

Launching more drone strikes around the globe in four years than bush did in eight, killing more innocent civilians, often women and children, then claiming any male over the age of thirteen as enemy combatants whether they are armed or not.

All the while ignoring the growing homeless, joblessness and civil liberty problems at home. He has espoused very eloquently the American stance abroad of allowing free speech to flourish all the while having his police state crush descent at home.

The last so called republic that had a department for Innere Sicherheit was you guessed it Germany during the Nazi period and it was their job to crush descent through the arrest descenters.

Arresting thousands of activist in his first term, hundreds of journalists, beating young and old a like in places like Chicago, New York, while letting the people that have caused this mess of ours to get a free pass, hell the corporations fined us and we paid them handsomely out of the public cauffers.

It seems that the president gets a free pass on everything, the environment, social justice, warmongering, while the American people cheer at the death of their liberty, security and ultimately their country.

The increase in the number of prisoners in the country, increased deportation the increase in so called police actions around the globe, the use of unmanned drones over the U.S., increased wire tapping of activists, the naming of American activist as terrorists, a health care bill that is nearly identical if not identical to the one passed by Romney in Massachusetts.

Although all of these issues have sparked public protests across the country, the media has looked more often than not the other way, refusing to admit that there even is a problem under Obama's dictatorship.

Bush eviscerated the constitution, but Obama continued the shredding process there is not one civil liberty that has gone on unmarred by these two presidents and the American people have let it pass, not with a whimper but with shouts of joy.

Perhaps George Orwell was right in his book on the dystopia, when he called the party the "boot stamping on the face of humanity forever." In fact I will venture to say that he was right about just about everything in '1984' we now have double think, thought crime, and a corporate fascist dictatorship, just as he warned we would, just as many of our former presidents warned we would.

But just like all of our woes we ignored our duty to ourselves and our children, we are failing in our duty to be diligent and educate ourselves.

We know little of the issues because we're lazy, we want to be told what our opinion is, well I for one will not allow others to tell me what to think, I will not tow the party line. I learn two of the most important things a journalist can ever learn in my freshman year, accuracy, accuracy, accuracy, and if you want to know something look it up yourself.

Too bad the rest of America didn't learn that, then there wouldn't be children starving in the streets of America, veterans homeless, people young and old dying of curable diseases, more veterans coming home and killing themselves than died in actual combat, the list of crimes ignored goes on.

We were once a shining light of freedom now we are just another despot state in a world of despotism , we all lose when our only choice is Coke or Pepsi, hell at this point it's not even a choice anymore!

Now we are the land of the corporate wage slave, or the prison, defense, medical industrial complexes consumption slave, which ever you like, we are now week, immobile, and ignorant, while our counter parts in Europe have come alive with passion against their conditions and we remain apathetic to even our own woes much less the global problems we all face at the hands of an out of control empire.

Namely ours!

Authors Website: http://tiny.cc/lawlessmedia

Authors Bio:

Cory Clark is a freelance photojournalist and writer focused on civil and human rights issues, social justice and politics.

He is a regular contributor with Getty Images, AP and AFP.

His work has appeared in, The Guardian, Fortune Magazine, The World Weekly and Glamour Magazine, as well as, on NBC, CNN, BBC, in addition to many other outlets.

He has exhibited his work at The Henry George School, Mug Shots, and Wet Paint Gallery.

Cory is currently working on a photodocumentary book on homelessness, based on his time on the street accompanying homeless folks in DC, New York, and Philadelphia. The book will be augmented with stories about his experiences, those he documented and statistical data, designed to bring the facts about homelessness to the reader in a visceral way that can not be ignored.