Thursday, January 5, 2012
Law / Terrorism Judge Griffen blasts Obama for signing detention policy
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:45 AM
If you think that smacks of tyranny, you're right.If you think Obama is smart enough to know better than to sign such a measure, you're right.
If you hoped Obama would demonstrate the fortitude to carry out his publicized threat to veto the legislation if this offensive provision wasn't removed, you're badly disappointed.
Count me among the badly disappointed people who know tyranny when we see it.
Count me among the people who take no consolation in Obama's signing statement that his administration won't use the power he signed into law.
This is the kind of foolishness that produced the 1944 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States that upheld the forced detention of U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry based on xenophobic and racist hysteria after Pearl Harbor.
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More proof that Obama is a closet Republican, as if we needed any.
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The trolls will say Judge Griffen is a racist and soft-on-terror for taking the position that Obama should know better than to sign that legislation. What I don't understand is that they say Obama also is a racist and soft-on-terror.
Nah, guys, it's okay, it's like they say: People tend to be responsible with absolute power.
Hang on, I think I got that wrong.
More proof that both parties are bat merde insane, lunatics, an enemy within. Obama takes horrific Bush Cheney Pryor Ross Lieberman era policy and takes it up a notch! This and much much worse is constantly passed in large bipartisan numbers by congress. See the reauthorization vote numbers on the Iraq AUMF, patriot act, Israeli issues to name a few.
If we simply tossed out those in any party who egregiously violating their oath of office... we wouldn't have to debate much else in order to justify turning over 90 plus percent of these congressional and presidential mongrels.
The lunatics are running the asylum... in both parties!
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You hit the nail on the head. The majority from both parties don't give a damn about freedom and to top it off Obama had the chance to stand up and do something about it and he didn't. His veto would have shown the American public what rat bastards we have in Congress but instead Obama, by signing, became the King Rat Bastard.
Obama is a DINO, but McCain would have been worse. Signing this will prove to be the major disappointment in his presidency. Still doesn't mean I want to vote for him come November.
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