Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
In a speech that beggars reason, former constitutional law professor Barrack Obama proposed a new system of “Indefinite Preventative Detention” through which anyone believed likely to commit a crime at some point in the future, U.S. citizen or otherwise, can be locked up forever without charge, trial, jury or appeal. Anyone read Phillip K. Dick’s The Minority Report? Maybe you saw the movie? Remember how well those experiments in “pre-crime” turned out?
This honestly makes me so angry I can hardly type these words. When Bush suspended Habeus Corpus, it was an indefinite suspension. As Obama said in his newspeak-riddled speech, his goal is to codify a new system altogether, one that legalizes indefinite detention. Why? Because he isn’t above the law. Holy shit! I cannot believe I am forced to qualify Bush’s Sherman-like slash-and-burn of our civil liberties as a lesser evil! Damn you, Obama, for making me do that!
I love the fact that we have opened up stem-cell research and no longer fund ostrich-only education, but this is unforgivable. Throw the bastard out!
Vent with me and listen to the wisdom of The Tossers…
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The Tossers - The Ballad of N.A.T.O.
#1 by Kat Williams on June 3, 2009 - 12:58 pm
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What happened to the man I voted for? I told myself with Kerry that I’d never vote for a democrat again. I feel tricked. Walter Benjamin wrote quite eloquently about the rule of law and the ways it can be used to justify violence. I think I’ll take a look at that again. In the meantime, shall I harass Obama on his website’s “e-mail me”? Urgh!
#2 by Patrick T. Lafferty on June 3, 2009 - 3:17 pm
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Kat, we should all be taking advantage of the “email me” option, though I’m afraid the chorus of sameness might drown us out. I’ll have to take a look at Benjamin myself. I’m still just flabbergasted that a con law professor can advocate such rampant disrespect for the document from which he taught. Just goes to show that an academic knowledge of a matter doesn’t indicate an appreciation of it. Thanks for the comment and keep ‘em coming!