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Thursday, May 21, 2009

The "Monority Report" comes to the U.S.

Just as in the movie "Minority Report" when the Oracle sensed a crime before it was actually committed and dispatched police to make the arrest, the Obama Administration wants to incarcerate you as a preventative measure(even if they cannot prove a crime at the moment of the arrest) Thus is the logic behind Obama's wish to enact preventative incarceration. While he tells the American public that he wants to close GITMO, in private he tells humanitarian groups that he actually wants to expand laws to incarcerate those thought to be a risk even if no hard evidence is found.....this is scary stuff considering the recent report from Homeland Security that states those on the right, soldiers, Christians and pro-lifers are all suspects now in the war on terror.....preventative incarceration can be used to silence opposition of Americans and our rights under a constitution; a document that itself is under attack from the progressive movement. From the New York Times:

President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said....The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny national security matters, including his promise to close the detention center at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Human rights advocates are growing deeply uneasy with Mr. Obama’s stance on these issues, especially his recent move to block the release of photographs showing abuse of detainees, and his announcement that he is willing to try terrorism suspects in military commissions — a concept he criticized bitterly as a presidential candidate.
The two participants, outsiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was intended to be off the record, said they left the meeting dismayed.
They said Mr. Obama told them he was thinking about “the long game” — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents. He raised the issue of preventive detention himself, but made clear that he had not made a decision on it. Several senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders’ accounts. ...He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said. “We’ve known this is on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”


Read Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html?_r=1&ref=politics

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

"preventative incarceration" should only be used for those suffering mental illness. For example we use a form of it for people we think may be suicidal and with the authorization of the shrinks they can be held without consent. That is as far as it should go. Putting "potential" terrorists or trouble-makers as Obama sees it in the same catagory is flat out ridiculous.