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Washington Post: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely
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- If Hitler were alive and well, and in charge, none of these things would be happening in the U.S.
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- Barak Hussein OBUSHma!
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- by skyk-2009 June 27, 2009 Oh THIS is rich! A Ditto Head who helped elect the WORST most INCOMPETENT man to ever sit in the White House....
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So you're saying this guy actually helped to elect Obama? Man that's messed up! - Reply to this comment
- Simple question really. Why do we need to create these special courts? Why do they need to be flown off to foreign countries? You would imagine that if we had some evidence to suspect them of being terrorists in the first place that we would then be able to prove more of them guilty.
I just don't understand how so many suspects that were made suspects to begin with would not have any evidence against them that is sufficient to jail them permanently. All other countries that have experienced terrorist attacks have been able to arrest and imprison terrorists without having to resort to eliminating Habeaus Corpus (a basic cherished democratic right to not be imprisoned indefinitely without charges and evidence against you. One of the basic complaints against the British Crown in our Revolutionary War). So why venture into such positions/laws like the Military Commissions Act 2007 of being able to declare ANYONE, american or not, of being an "enemy combatant" without the need for any proof only to detain them indefinitely without charges, in a country where torture may be allowable in certain circumstances (even if after being flown to a foreign prison, or off-coast Navy ship).
Clearly, this is a slippery slope that is not something we should venture into if we want to maintain any semblance of democracy. Misuse of power is easy, and I think after this decade (and after examining history, communism, fascism etc.) we should all know that precisely these shifts in rights can/have lead in the past/ and will lead to a further degradation of democratic rights until one day we will realize that they do not exist anymore, or hardly in the same capacity as they did before. As a matter of fact, these are the very kinds of shifts in rights that have taken place to subvert and destroy democracy. Think when communism/fascism took hold in our history books. In a world where multinationals have more power than national governments. Why do this?
Why do this? WHY DESTROY DEMOCRACY IN ORDER TO "SAVE IT"? Don't you see that this logic is absolutely twisted, and self-defeating? WE ALL NEED TO SAY NO TO THIS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS UNLESS WE WANT TO HAVE THEM LIVE IN SOMETHING APPROACHING 1984. Read it (1984 by George Orwell), it is what the Neo-cons, and some democrats would be happy to have us live through (or something like it anyway). It only takes a shift in this direction each generation; and before you know it we are there. If we want to stop it now, BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, we need to allow ourselves to at least see this possibility; because power does corrupt. And power these days is not very egalitarian or democratic. We can see the consequences of this in our media and our finance sector, and health care sector etc. It can and will only get worse until we all decide on a different path and move there together. - Reply to this comment
- Oh THIS is rich! A Ditto Head who helped elect the WORST most INCOMPETENT man to ever sit in the White House has the lack of intelligence to call people who were ABSOLUTELY right about that WORST President "lemmings"! If that doesn't win him the Ditto of the Year award I don't know what would! ROFLMAO
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- Oh PLEASE! You ditto heads are so simple... Funny, but simple! Now crawl back under your rock and keep praying for failure of your country! LOL
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- Oh, so now it's "preventive detention". How I love the way the msm,oops, state run media, twists and turns a phrase. It's genius, just genius. And, true to form, the lemmings lap it up.
Well, I guess one phrase he droned, he is in "over his pay grade". Guess soros didn't prepare him well enough.
Well, I'm just glad to see that some of the poor, misunderstood, young men are enjoying themselves in Nassau. - Reply to this comment
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- Oh THIS is rich! A Ditto Head who helped elect the WORST most INCOMPETENT man to ever sit in the White House has the lack of intelligence to call people who were ABSOLUTELY right about that WORST President "lemmings"! If that doesn't win him the Ditto of the Year award I don't know what would! ROFLMAO
- Isn't interesting that many of the released are kenyan
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- Barak Hussein OBUSHma!
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- As the Global Corporatist Neocon Nazi Ruling Elites finalize the complete enslavement of the Worlds populations, a few Mouth-Breathing Dullards and 59 IQ Retards will finally understand they were duped and told to hand over all their Rights and Freedoms in the name of "Safety" and "Security" from the evil "Ter'ists", which like good little Sheeple, they gladly did, but by then, it will be much too late to do anything about it......wake up morons, the only "Ter'ists" reside in Washington DC in the Halls of Congress and the White House, and in the Board Rooms of the Federal Reserve and the Bilderburg Corporatist Nazis. They're shutting down the economy, spreading bio-weapons grade manufactured viruses, and they won't stop till 99% of the Worlds population, (that's right, that means you), is dead.
Get your guns and ammo ready Droolers, the War for Individual Freedom and Liberty is almost here......
Death to the Ruling Elites. - Reply to this comment
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
