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Anti Federalist
03-07-2011, 09:28 PM
Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704871.html?hpid=topnews

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the order vindicated Obama's predecessor. "I commend the Obama Administration for issuing this Executive Order," he said in a statement. "The bottom line is that it affirms the Bush Administration policy that our government has the right to detain dangerous terrorists until the cessation of hostilities."

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Until cessation of hostilities = never.

Indy Vidual
03-07-2011, 09:34 PM
Don't be alarmed, those people are bad. :rolleyes:

Many people like labels: Is this authoritarian or totalitarian?

QueenB4Liberty
03-07-2011, 09:35 PM
Ugh. :(

sailingaway
03-07-2011, 09:40 PM
Rand's response is in here, Mike Lee's too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dgv_7vKIcE&feature=player_embedded

raiha
03-07-2011, 09:44 PM
He's such a sell-out. He might get to stick Gaddafi in it seeing as he's bracing to go to war with his nobel laureate flapping about him in tatters.
Mind you I am a failed libertarian, because i secretly want him (or anyone) to unseat Gaddafi cos i have a thing for the underdog. FAIL!!

TCE
03-07-2011, 09:48 PM
I remember when Gitmo was going to be closed in a year...those were the days.

Brett85
03-07-2011, 09:49 PM
All executive orders are unconstitutional. This is a practice that needs to be ended.

Anti Federalist
03-07-2011, 09:59 PM
I remember when Gitmo was going to be closed in a year...those were the days.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfuqbOEqnU&feature=related

doodle
03-08-2011, 01:05 AM
Michael Moore is about to make a movie on Obama's war mongering and human rights abuses.

Inkblots
03-08-2011, 01:14 AM
I recently remarked to an acquaintance, who is a fairly intelligent guy and pays at least some attention to politics, that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. He challenged me to back up my assertion. I laid out for him how in every substantive way, the policies of the Obama and Bush Administrations are identical: on the Iraq War, on the Afghan War, on the GWOT, on Guantanamo Bay and military commissions, on State Secrets, on Wall Street bailouts, on farm and energy subsidies, on indefinite detention, and in Obama's case, targeted killing of American citizens without recourse of law, and on and on.

He was shocked. But you know what shocked me? He thought Obama had already shut down the internment camps at Guantanamo Bay. In modern America's sound bite news culture, saying you're going to do something is as good as doing it, because no one will notice when you break your promises. :(

Sola_Fide
03-08-2011, 01:22 AM
Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704871.html?hpid=topnews

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the order vindicated Obama's predecessor. "I commend the Obama Administration for issuing this Executive Order," he said in a statement. "The bottom line is that it affirms the Bush Administration policy that our government has the right to detain dangerous terrorists until the cessation of hostilities."

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Until cessation of hostilities = never.


Man, this Peter King guy is off the deep end.... wow...

Inkblots
03-08-2011, 01:23 AM
^
That's a big 10-4, AB.