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Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan (Flush the Constitution!)
NY Slimes (Page A18!!!) ^ | 5/21/2009 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: communist; cwii; detention; dictatorship; fascism; fascist; gitmo; henrybowman; lping; nazi; obamaregime; spartansixdelta; totalitarian; unconstitutional
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To: MestaMachine
But it's late, and I am getting VERY paranoid about this crap.

It is NOT paranoia when it is real.

So, what are American Citizens to believe? Øbama's proven lies or our own eyes?

281 posted on 05/22/2009 4:09:20 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: DonaldC

I would like to share your optimism - on Obama’s ‘four’ years. Given Obama’s proclivities am not so sure it will not be more than four years; or even more than eight or twelve. . .


282 posted on 05/22/2009 5:14:41 AM PDT by cricket ('Don't bow for me . . Obama ' (America's 'sorry' President))
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To: DBrow

With Obama I’d believe anything. He is a flip flop empty suit marxist.


283 posted on 05/22/2009 5:32:54 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: markomalley

Watch for Obama’s Reichstag fire.


284 posted on 05/22/2009 5:50:25 AM PDT by LouD
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To: markomalley

things that make you go hmmm


285 posted on 05/22/2009 6:02:21 AM PDT by davidosborne (Now that we got rid of Specter..Tell the RNC to DE-FUND Colllins & Snowe !!)
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To: markomalley
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

And, in last months memo, his administration identified who those terrorism suspects are.

286 posted on 05/22/2009 6:03:21 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Polarik; seekthetruth; All
Suspend ?Habeas corpus? my ?gluteus maximus!?

My A$$ is right! IMO..there are too many Americans that fall under the Lexicon of Right Wing Extremism profile,for the Failure In
Chief,and His GOON SQUADS to ever enforce the above Legislation. The sooner the better.

287 posted on 05/22/2009 6:06:19 AM PDT by katiekins1 (Obama=DickTater N Chief)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
How is the Constitution being flushed (as you dramatically put in your title) when we are talking about terrorists not U.S. citizens?

Tell me where in the plan a U.S. citizen cannot be considered a terrorist? The two are not mutually exclusive.

288 posted on 05/22/2009 6:45:07 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: markomalley

Remember that Obama defines terrorist as someone who holds conservative views. This jerk is getting scarier every day that passes.


289 posted on 05/22/2009 6:59:04 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: CharacterCounts

Obama is fricked up. If right wing extremists are terrorists will the ACLU and Obama go on retainer for them?


290 posted on 05/22/2009 6:59:22 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Puppage
Preventive detention???

Sounds like the same sort of word play as, “depends on what the meaning of IS...is.”

Or

Compassionate conservatism

or

Enhanced interrogation techniques

Man oh man, these Oligarchs just freakin crack me up.

All the citizens of America want is for our “elected servants” to make it clear as to what they mean, and keep their word.

How did we ever get to the point that our elected representatives became royalty?

291 posted on 05/22/2009 7:06:33 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: markomalley

If Bush had proposed this, the monkeys in the MSM would be shaking their cage doors right off the walls.


292 posted on 05/22/2009 7:13:54 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Certainly the oligarchy, all their puppets and

nephilium cohort army

are but chaff to God’s Words, much less His angel armies.


293 posted on 05/22/2009 8:00:26 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: cricket

The Great Tribulation is slated for 7 years . . . the worst of it for 3.5 years . . .

These are the birth pangs leading up to it.

OThuga is a place holder, stalking horse, forerunner.

And probably considered a fairly expendable one, at that.


294 posted on 05/22/2009 8:02:13 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

If Bush had proposed this, the monkeys in the MSM would be shaking their cage doors right off the walls.

= = = =

INDEED.


295 posted on 05/22/2009 8:03:12 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: markomalley

well this sux, but many freepers are ‘strong on terror’ and supported similar measures when Bush and the Republicans were in control, so ho hum...


296 posted on 05/22/2009 8:41:44 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: Wonder Warthog

“I don’t see a large problem with this as long as it applies to non-citizens. All full Constitutional rights MUST apply to citizens, without exception...”

You should, because it will apply only to citizens.


297 posted on 05/22/2009 8:46:52 AM PDT by monday
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To: huldah1776
His children run away from Him and end up with consequences.

One reason I pray.

298 posted on 05/22/2009 8:52:44 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Jolla
Lord, please do not abandon us. Whatever our iniquities, have mercy on your children.

Have faith. The Lord has not abandoned us. Nothing can be resolved until everything is clear to everyone, and denial is burned away. All you're seeing is things being made clear.

299 posted on 05/22/2009 9:25:37 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: cpdiii
I did not fear that power in his hands but was very much afraid of that power being in the hands of Hillary Clinton or worse. We got the worse.

No, we didn't. There is no worse.

300 posted on 05/22/2009 9:41:00 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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