Obama Out-Bushes Bush on Preventive Detention

[Joanne98]

Constitutionality aside, Barack Obama's preventive detention proposal is "damn near criminally irresponsible" and "like lighting a match in a room full of gasoline." The United States was founded on the principle that "lesser" or "dangerous" peoples should be "detained" for the good of the nation - on reservations or in slavery. Were it not for "rampant race hatred directed against Arabs and spilling over to all Muslims...there would be no serious discussion of preventive detention in the United States, today." The nation's first Black president is provoking a racial whirlwind.


Obama Out-Bushes Bush on Preventive Detention

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“Calling for preventive detention in the United States is like lighting a match in a room full of gasoline.”
If George Bush had had the gall to propose changing the laws of the United States to allow people to be detained for long periods without even the intention of putting them on trial, progressives across the nation would be howling that the fascist hordes were at the gates. And they would be right. Even the do-nothing, scared-of-nearly-everything Congressional Black Caucus would be up in arms. George Bush and Dick Cheney empowered to imprison people without trial? Progressives everywhere would be justified in crying out against the threat to civilization as we know it. But when Barack Obama last week proposed the very same thing, preventive detention without trial, there was relative silence. People pretended it was just another Wednesday.

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[Ninga]

1. It is so hard to think that is the case, but unfortunately, it looks like it is. Already, I have

written more letters to this White House, than I ever did in the past.

I want to hear from my President, why this is OK. I am not happy.

[natrat]

2. so when the once every 250 year depression gets rolling they dont have any loose ends

yes the silence has sadly reinforced the idea that americans of all stripes are really really stupid

[emulatorloo]

3. blackagendareport.com? Can you tell us more about this source? n/t

[struggle4progress]

9. Black Agenda Report says support McKinney, not Obama

http://brainshrub.com/content/view/89/9/

[Dr.Phool]

4. Nixon's AG John Mitchell was apparently right.

He said this, right before being hauled off to prison for his Watergate felonies.

"This country is going to move so far to the right, you won't be able to recognize it".

More change we can make believe in.

[Wednesdays]

5. K&R

:kick:

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Hey Joanne! Chill!! Remember: This is Obama, not Bush. It's all good!

:sarcasm:

[MasonJar]

7. I am calling them tomorrow, as if it will make any difference.

[struggle4progress]

8. Um ... haven't actually seen a proposal yet, have we?