Posted on 05/21/2009 8:05:48 AM PDT by markomalley
WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.
The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny national security matters, including his promise to close the detention center at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Human rights advocates are growing deeply uneasy with Mr. Obama’s stance on these issues, especially his recent move to block the release of photographs showing abuse of detainees, and his announcement that he is willing to try terrorism suspects in military commissions — a concept he criticized bitterly as a presidential candidate.
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We shall see.
It will not last 4 years.
Welcome to New Kenya (Africa U.S.A.)
Where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land! /sarcasm & contempt
The hypocrisy is utterly breathtaking.
>>The President has already been shredding the Constitution<<
Yeah......the first Kenyan president.
I asked (via email) a lib friend, one who called Bush a Nazi, if he would stand up and defend me when the Obama Brown Shirts came to get me. I have never received an answer. Which, of course, is the answer.
That is the language the Nazis used. Now they use Arabic, and sometimes English.
You waste your breath.
Not all of them. Many, like the guy they are bringing to NY City for trial, were captured in other countries. Pakistan in that particular case. Also in that case he'd been indicted for a crime committed before 9-11, but still not in the US. (Bombing of embassy in Africa).
But we have to stop treating terrorism as a criminal matter. That's how we got 9-11. They are making war, illegal undeclared war but still war, on us. They need to be treated accordingly. That is, since the war is illegal, and since they do not wage it as part of any country's armed forces, or as uniformed rebel combatants, they are in effect the same as pirates. Motivated by ideology rather than avarice, but pirates none the less. Pirates are subject to detention, summary trial or courts martial, and execution, pretty much on the spot, or as convenient to the capturing military forces.
This needs to be sent to Rush.
Obama following Roosevelt’s example.
He talked about it during the end of the first hour and beginning of the second hour today.
Obama is a real piece of work.
He talks about transparency then plays his cards close to his chest.
He says he dosen’t want to run the banks then runs the banks.
He says he dosen’t want to run the auto industry then takes over the auto industry.
He says he stands for running the country according to the US constitution then shits all over the constitution.
He says he wants to protect the rights of enemy combatants then talks about detainee terrorists as Bush did.
This son of a bitch does not want to be a president he wants to be a dictator and is already turning into a tyrant.
The other thing that upsets me is liberals complaining and being outraged because Cheny was crital of a sitting president. Why wern’t they outraged when carter and Clinton both were crital of Bush when he was in office.
Why does this idiot president say he dosen’t want to live in the past and then immediately starts attacking the former administration? This president is driving this country into debt and despair and most Americans are going along with it.
>>Obama is a Nazi piece of dogsh*t for even considering this
He’s WORSE than any Nazi. At least they loved their country. He is just doing it to consolidate his own power. He’s turning into a Bond villain!
Consider it, hell. He will do it if he is let.
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