Glenn Greenwald has a very disturbing article in Salon Online magazine, outlining the President’s claimed authority to kill any American citizen he deems to be a threat to America.
As I’ve said before, welcome to the USSA, comrades.
Posts Tagged ‘obama’
The Killing President
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Pure Evil
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009"The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial."
So states this article in The New York Times by William Glaberson.
I want you to read the sentence a few times over. Mull it over in your mind what is being called for. Grasp the very nature of this insanity and face the ugly, morality bereft purpose it portends.
This proposal is calling for the execution of held individuals, facing no actual charges, without holding a trial, if they confess to anything – even if the confession is taken under torture!
In current US military code, those who face capital charges cannot plead guilty, to prevent just this kind of abuse. Blend this insane proposal of accepting confessions under any circumstance with the compulsion of our government to torture confessions out of people and you have the perfect recipe for driving our culture straight back to the horrid injustice of the Inquisition! The very call for such a thing is purely evil!
I could write a full respective post on this, but I would never surpass the simple strength of this post in Washington’s Blog. I consider it mandatory reading. Follow the links as well
In case all of this is still unclear, follow this scenario. With the current insanity set by the Patriot Acts, the following can occur to anyone, foreign and US citizens alike…
You are arrested under "suspicion of being a terrorist" (no actual charges filed) and are hauled off to some undisclosed military gulag. Since you are considered an "enemy combatant", you will not be given any access to civilian court – you face a military tribunal, assuming they even hold one for you. (They don’t have to, under the current law.) You are denied access to a lawyer, tortured by waterboarding, sleep deprivation, psychological manipulation – under a whole litany of procedures that the CIA and military won’t even talk about, for whatever period of time the government wants to hold you. Indefinitely if they want. If your relatives even know what happened to you, they are not given access to you at any point. During this period of indefinite incarceration, though no actual charges have ever been filed against you and no evidence exists that you were involved in any illicit activity, you confess guilt under torture to some "act of terrorism" which holds a captial penalty. Without ever going to military trial and having never even talked to a lawyer (or anyone else outside of the military prison), the confession under torture is accepted and you are executed for it.
We are on the very brink, people!
If we fall into this hollow facade of "justice", we’ve lost absolutely everything good that this country ever stood for.
Addendum: I’ve reworded a major portion of this post to clarify the difference between military and civil court procedures and the affects of this proposal when blended with current law set by the Patriot Acts and others.
All Hail the USSA
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009I dare any Obama supporter to defend this. Go ahead and try! Let’s hear your rationalizations trying to spin Obama’s new plan as being a “good thing”. Try to defend policy as vile and insufferable to the Constitution as anything Bush managed. Try to defend a policy of indefinite detention of “suspected terrorists”, with no charges filed, no trial at all – just imprisonment on the word of a new “judicial” system outside of the Constitutional judicial system.
The only change this country got with Obama behind the Executive branch, was that he’s a better liar than Bush is. His policies are just as horrid, just as contemptible and just as gut wrenchingly disgusting as anything we saw during the Bush years. Further, Obama’s policies are being added onto the policies Bush established – none of which have been repealed. Wake up, Obamatons – you’ve been had.
Change, my ass!
Casting Pearls Before Swine Flu
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009President Obama is asking congress for $1.5 billion to combat swine flu.
Excuse me, but what’s the damn panic all about? Swine flu is not a “pandemic” with 150 dead world wide. Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million a year and we don’t see a bloody panic over it.
Not only is this an artificially created panic, but it’s not the first time we’ve gone through these scare tactics.
This video shows a couple of commercials run by the government in 1976.
Note that the “outbreak” which prompted the Ford administration scare, infected 200 and killed one in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The CDC is simply cranking up the fear factor on this one.
Addendum, 2009-05-02: according to this article from the Associated Press, “Worldwide, the total confirmed cases numbered more than 650, although officials believe there are many more.”
650 cases of swine flu, out of 6.5 billion people is a pandemic? 1/10,000,000 of the world population is a pandemic? You have got to be kidding me!
Do any of these swine fools in the press, the WHO or the CDC even know what the word “pandemic” means? They’re simply repeating a buzz word because it sounds scary and the more fear they can crank up, the more control the government can impose.
Bear in mind the following when you’re dealing with a member of the Terrified of Their Own Shadow crowd:
“… most U.S. cases have been relatively mild and have not required a doctor’s visit…”
Some “killer disease” this is…
Tax and Spend
Friday, March 13th, 2009As if the recent $787 billion stimulus spending wasn’t enough to make you understand that Obama is farting your great-great-great-great grandschildren’s money away, perhaps the recent, quietly signed, pork laden $410 billion spending bill will wake you up as to how far we’ve been had by our Charlatan in Chief. This bill including billions in earmarks, which Obama previously promised to curb.
Among the most egregious actions of this signing, was President Obama’s “sighing statement” on the act, which he has heavily criticised President Bush for doing.
Different President, same shit.
At least the American public is starting to wake up from the spell of his rhetoric.
