What concerns people about this executive order is not so much the substance, but the source and the trend.

The order itself does not eliminate screening for criminal background and behavior. It just eliminates it at the initial application. Theoretically, that would open former criminals to have a chance to demonstrate their rehabilitation is on track before they get the inevitable bad opinion based on a prior criminal record.

However, consider the source.

The source is President Obama. Enough said. He is not trustworthy. And, the fact that he issued this order, means there is much more to it than meets the eye. What? We can only guess at this point.

There is an apparent trend here. According to Patriot Update: This follows Obama releasing criminals from our prisons. Sen. Ted Cruz took a stand against a major crime bill before the Senate that set him apart from the politically powerful Koch brothers as well. According to Cliff Kincaid, Cruz stood strongly against the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123) on the grounds that the legislation, which will retroactively reduce the sentences of thousands of federal prison inmates, could lead to the release of violent criminals, some convicted of using weapons while engaged in other crimes. He said the Senate bill would release “illegal aliens with criminal convictions” when a “major crime wave” is already sweeping the nation. Cruz is now being targeted by the Koch brothers for standing against the legislation. Constitutional conservatives don’t want criminals released by these Marxists and they don’t want them in our federal government.

Racial issues? “Given the racial disparities of the American criminal justice system, criminal record based discrimination in the employment context serves as a surrogate for race-based discrimination,” Glenn Martin, a formerly incarcerated activist and President of Just Leadership USA, told ThinkProgress. “President Obama’s steps to ban-the-box means that more qualified job seekers will have the chance to find jobs, support their families, and pay taxes.”

Continue to watch this one play out.