In the latest indication yet that the Obama Administration has no intention of ever allowing most of the detainees at Guantamao Bay to see the inside of a courtroom, the president is said to be preparing an executive order formalizing their permanent detention without trial.
Even though the primary objection to the Guantamao Bay detention center was the administration’s insistance on holding people there without formal charges or actual trials, one official with the administration insisted that the move to continue doing so was “part of the plan” to close the facility.
Which is an overt lie on a number of fronts, but doubly galling in that the claim comes just days after the House formally banned the closure of the detention center and at least a year and a half after the last time the Obama Administration did anything to indicate they intend to close the facility.
Almost immediately after taking office, President Obama stopped the military tribunals and pledged to see Guantanamo closed in the next 12 months. Some 24 months later, he has not only restarted the tribunals with renewed vigor, but is also now formalizing the detention he came into office so objecting to.
Obama is a pussy who ran scared as soon as the fascist Republicans raised hysterical objections to trials and closing Guantanamo.
Fascists are united, political labels are just that, no difference between a democrat or republican fascist, they all Nazi scum, their ACTIONS prove that time and time again.
The opposition to Guantanamo was Obama in campaign-mode contradistinguishing himself to Bush, cashing in his progressive mealticket. I doubt if he really cares about any of the issues he campaigned on.
Jason Diaz.. did you ever believed that Obama is going to keep his word about anything.., which now you writing this…"In the latest indication yet that the Obama Administration has no intention of ever allowing most of the detainees at Guantamao Bay to see the inside of a courtroom".
He is not a man of his word but rather he is a man of his type of decpetion which encouraged democrats and liberals alike to vote for him.., now even them backing off of whatever he says. This man and his cabinet sinmply can not be trusted.
I can’t take much more of this HOPE and CHANGE!
The impending executive order is more proof that the USG has ceased to be a legitimate government. When such core precepts of our nation's existance as the principle of no punishment without due process, are tossed out the window, how could anyone claim that this is a lawful government?
The one good thing with the Obama presidency: people get to see that it was not "White racist capitalists" who wanted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but the entire political establishment. A Black member of the left-wing faction in the Democrats does exactly the same things as (fake) Texan George Bush, oops. Continued wars for Israel and illegal imprisonments without trial. What do you say now, leftists? They have tried to brush it off by saying Obama is not a real leftist, but that is hard to sell when Obama has been part of leftist organizations all his life, even hanging around with outright left-wing extremists.
I think this is not an issue of ieology at all. The plain facts are, that Americans have become convinced, that special rights for themselves, especially leaders. are a necessary foundation of any social order. And Gaining superior information on possible adversaries are both necessary and essential to keep control in any free society. The opinions MUST be controlled!
Quite a paradox on the ideal of freedom for everyone! Yet that is the excuse, the superior reason for any torture, corrupt agreement, special rights for corporate entities.
But basically this charade remains a mfia-like outfit! You become self-deceiving liars and hypocrites. And since that is a danger for the system too – that it can easily be observed to be based on self-serving lies and posturings – it leads to a more militant enforcement also in the US itself.
This will end in tragedy. Human convictions cannot be falsified. No one with self-respect can carry that line. Nor any one with a true respect for other persons. It is a self-defeating mockery of life. And since this is rather obvious, it should be the most important thing to get any last remnant scum driven out from Washington. Because THEY are the dangers. They are nursing that perverse version of life in society upheld with information, control, and ever-worsening oppression also of home population.
But it is important, it be done with conviction and if possible, peacefully. If not, you might find yourself back and submerged by another outfit.
'Permanent detention without trial'. How utterly unAmerican. Unconstitutional and tyrannical. The United States of America is done. Finito and shamefully so.
Jeez Obama, you suck and you suck large.
"The power of the executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist." – Winston Churchill Nov 21 1943
So habeas corpus was a reaction against the Nazi/Communist Plantagent English kings?
So habeas corpus was devised to deal with the Nazi/Communist Plantagenet English kings?
And to think conservatives feared Obama. LOL!
How's that Hope and Change working for you, America? Every day it sounds more and more like Bait and Switch.
true compassion at its finest.