According to Attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama Administration is now looking to modify the Miranda Rights given to certain suspects so as to allow “greater flexibility” in their interrogation.
“Currently the Miranda warnings have only a narrow public safety exception, allowing police to hold off the administration of the warning if there is an imminent threat. It is unclear how far the administration intends to take its “modifications,” but they seem to seek at least the ability to conduct a full interrogation of the suspect before telling him that he isn’t legally obligated to submit to that interrogation.
The issue has been renewed with the arrest of terror suspect Faisal Shahzad, a US citizen accused in the failed Times Square bombing. Sen. John McCain (R – AZ) and others have argued Shahzad should not be given his Miranda Rights at all, and some, including former NYC Mayor Guiliani, say Shahzad should have simply been turned over to the military for interrogation, even though he was a US citizen on US soil and his alleged crimes have nothing specifically to do with the military.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT) takes it even farther, arguing that instead of quibbling over what rights Shahzad has as a US citizen, it is safer to just strip him of his citizenship outright then deal with him as a foreign national. Lieberman actually claimed this was a moderate position, as President Obama has already claimed the right to summarily assassinate US citizens without judicial oversight.
In the face of these calls, the Obama Administration can likely argue for a revision of the Miranda Rights that would greatly expand the President’s power while claiming it too is a moderate or compromise position because it doesn’t go to the extreme lengths some call for.
It is becoming more and more evident, that the slips and mishappenings, lies, torture, civilan deaths, juridical missteps, . is NOT taken up by "responsible" politicians because the government clings to technicalities to avoid it, but because most everybody shares in the obvious guilt of participation and "comfort" from abuse by the weak and ungrown.
I think it could be termed "Imperialistic Social Pedophily", this recurrent abuse of weaker people, the glossing it over with occasional hight talks and handouts (like the pedophile's goosies and slaps on the back, padding of the head., and the overall course of actions, especially blatantly performed from Bush senior and afterwards, but really is a pattern recurring since the 19th century.
The modern blatancy is rather caused by a more scientifically approached control (with spin) over public sentiments. The pedophile has become smarter and better educated. Besides nobody really understands the complex sets of laws and rules regulating the modern society, so it is much easier to avoid High Talk and Speach completely.
If Americans believe they are better off as pedophiles instead of normal grown up people, please let them say so loud and clearly for all the world to learn from and develop into something more human and dignified. But of course the criminal mind does not want to see itself as a one-way crippled reality.
I rather like this ISP idea.
"President Obama has already claimed the right to summarily assassinate US citizens without judicial oversight."
Could you please document this statement?
Thanks
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25165.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti…
"The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday. . . ."
Happy?
is it just me or does lieberman bear a resemblance to Emperor Palpatine?
When will the Nobel Committee ask for its Retarded Prize back?
No need to ask for it back. Simply rename it the George Orwell Peace Prize. War is peace.
And anyone that argues there's a dime's worth of difference between the two parties needs to read the quotes cited in this article. They're all thugs. And they pose a far greater danger to our security than the bumbling Times Square bomber or any cave-dweller in Pakistan.