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Agorism
03-08-2011, 08:56 PM
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/03/07/obama-approves-indefinite-detention-without-trial/



President Obama today signed an executive order that will formalize the indefinite extralegal detention of terror suspects without charges as a permanent aspect of American life, while announcing that he intends to use this on detainees “who continue to pose a significant threat to national security” but against whom there is insufficient evidence to actually charge them with any crime.

Grubb556
03-08-2011, 09:04 PM
Some people compared Obama to Lincoln.

Indeed. Both have attempted to suspend Habeus Corpus during peacetime.

Vessol
03-08-2011, 09:07 PM
And Liberals still love him.

matt0611
03-08-2011, 09:32 PM
Some people compared Obama to Lincoln.

Indeed. Both have attempted to suspend Habeus Corpus during peacetime.

Obama has said that Lincoln is his most admired President. So he seems to be following in his footsteps.

Inkblots
03-08-2011, 09:45 PM
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. :(

hazek
03-08-2011, 10:01 PM
I would have expected nothing less from him.

FrankRep
03-09-2011, 12:19 AM
http://www.thenewamerican.com/images/stories/AP-11-2010/2624-cs.jpg (http://www.shopjbs.org/index.php/tna/subscriptions/1-year-standard-subscription.html)



Although former President Bush’s spokespeople have vehemently denied that the President ever said he would have endorsed Obama over McCain if he had been asked, Bush’s statement seems in line with what too few partisan Democrats and Republicans are willing to acknowledge: that differences between former President Bush and President Obama are mostly cosmetic.


Bush and Obama: Standards & Similarities (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/5318-bush-and-obama-standards-a-similarities)


Charles Scaliger | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
30 November 2010


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President Bush told British officials in the heat of the 2008 presidential election that “I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me,” according to a November 9 blog entry by Financial Times of London Correspondent Alex Barker. by Thomas R. Eddlem