Barack Obama: Fascist
there is no other way to describe someone who believes in “post-acquittal detention:
Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD’s General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are acquitted at their trial. About this assertion of “presidential post-acquittal detention power” — an Orwellian term (and a Kafka-esque concept) that should send shivers down the spine of anyone who cares at all about the most basic liberties — Ackerman wrote, with some understatement, that it “moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective.” Law professor Jonathan Turley was more blunt: “The Obama Administration continues its retention and expansion of abusive Bush policies — now clearly Obama policies on indefinite detention.”
In June, Robert Gibbs was repeatedly asked by ABC News’ Jake Tapper whether accused Terrorists who were given a trial and were acquitted would be released as a result of the acquittal, but Gibbs — amazingly — refused to make that commitment. But this is the first time an Obama official has affirmatively stated that they have the “post-acquittal detention” power (and, to my knowledge, the Bush administration never claimed the power to detain someone even if they were acquitted)….
Whatever else is true, even talking about imprisoning people based on accusations of which they have been exonerated is a truly grotesque perversion of everything that our justice system and Constitution are supposed to guarantee. That’s one of those propositions that ought to be too self-evident to need stating.
J’accuse Barack Obama. Those civil liberties are inalienable rights: they are not yours to suspend or take away. You, sir, are no better than Mussolini or Stalin. And I will fight you and your policies from now on.
July 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
“Those civil liberties are inalienable rights: they are not yours to suspend or take away.”
I’m glad to see you feel that way. I hope you don’t pick and choose which civil liberties to support and which to trash.
SCOTUS has just determined that handguns are, indeed, an individual right as enumerated in the second amendment of the Constitution. A RIGHT. Right to own and to have in your household.
Are you on board with this right as well, or do are some rights…well….not really rights at all?
July 11th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
dude, read my blog, I am a STRONG defender of second amendment rights.
you seem to assume i’m not.