Agorism
04-18-2011, 10:03 PM
No Mistake: Under Obama, U.S. Builds a new Indefinite Detention System
Link (http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/04/18/no-mistake-under-obama-u-s-builds-a-new-indefinite-detention-system/)
With the whole keeping-Guantanamo-around thing, it’s possible to cut President Barack Obama some slack. Sure, he explicitly promised to close Guantanamo when he was running for President back in 2008. But maybe his policy has been a big misunderstanding. It’s noisy in the West Wing; maybe his aides misheard “Stop Guantanamo Gropin’” as “Prop Guantanamo Open” and proceeded from there in the kind of kooky mutual-misunderstanding plot featured on American sitcoms all the time, except that Barack Obama doesn’t have a secret life as a teen pop idol and they usually don’t throw people behind bars forever without trial or constitutional process on Scrubs.
But it’s harder to understand how President Obama could have just stumbled inadvertently into the establishment of an entirely new series of secret jails in which people are being held indefinitely, incommunicado and without charges. I mean, heck, the military has their gulags set up so that the President personally approves the indefinite detention of some of these people. He can’t say he wasn’t aware of all this.
I know, it’s hard to accept that Barack Obama could be turning his back on his promises to the American people. I mean, I personally saw him lifting his chin to gaze over America’s horizon on the campaign trail three years ago. You could see the dawning rays of a new tomorrow reflected in his eyes. They were kind of a mix of orange and goldish. But how could Mr. Obama’s aides have misheard this one? There’s really not much that rhymes with “Open up a new indefinite detention system,” except “Open up that ewe’s intestinal digestive system,” and Barack Obama is not trained as a veterinarian.
Link (http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/04/18/no-mistake-under-obama-u-s-builds-a-new-indefinite-detention-system/)
With the whole keeping-Guantanamo-around thing, it’s possible to cut President Barack Obama some slack. Sure, he explicitly promised to close Guantanamo when he was running for President back in 2008. But maybe his policy has been a big misunderstanding. It’s noisy in the West Wing; maybe his aides misheard “Stop Guantanamo Gropin’” as “Prop Guantanamo Open” and proceeded from there in the kind of kooky mutual-misunderstanding plot featured on American sitcoms all the time, except that Barack Obama doesn’t have a secret life as a teen pop idol and they usually don’t throw people behind bars forever without trial or constitutional process on Scrubs.
But it’s harder to understand how President Obama could have just stumbled inadvertently into the establishment of an entirely new series of secret jails in which people are being held indefinitely, incommunicado and without charges. I mean, heck, the military has their gulags set up so that the President personally approves the indefinite detention of some of these people. He can’t say he wasn’t aware of all this.
I know, it’s hard to accept that Barack Obama could be turning his back on his promises to the American people. I mean, I personally saw him lifting his chin to gaze over America’s horizon on the campaign trail three years ago. You could see the dawning rays of a new tomorrow reflected in his eyes. They were kind of a mix of orange and goldish. But how could Mr. Obama’s aides have misheard this one? There’s really not much that rhymes with “Open up a new indefinite detention system,” except “Open up that ewe’s intestinal digestive system,” and Barack Obama is not trained as a veterinarian.